An inspiring internet sensation. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley a notorious moscow bank that acts as a front for russian espionage is now part of the investigation into contacts between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. This time it is the president s soninlaw and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner who will be questioned by Senate Investigators about his meeting with the russian veb bank. The bank used to be chaired by russian president Vladimir Putin, and it has funded so many of putins pet projects that it had to be bailed out by the russian government. Already two trump officials, the president S National Security adviser and his former campaign chairman, have been forced to resign over contacts with russia. Major garrett has details on todays revelation involving mr. Trumps soninlaw. Reporter the previously undisclosed meeting took place during the trump transition, before Jared Kushner stepped down as head of his real estate firm. In december, kushne
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Russia. Major garrett has details on todays revelation involving mr. Trumps soninlaw. Reporter the previously undisclosed meeting took place during the trump transition, before Jared Kushner stepped down as head of his real estate firm. In december, kushner sat down with Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kislyak at trump tower, a meeting the trump team had previously confirmed. But afterward kislyak asked kushner to meet the head of a russian bank known as veb, which has deep ties to president Vladimir Putin and russian intelligence agencies. The bank is run by sergey gorkov, who once trained at the russian spync fsb. In 2016, another veb official, used his jock to disguise efforts to recruit u. S. Spice for russia. The veb was sanctioned by the government after the annexation of crimea. I had nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with russia. I have to deals there. I have nothing there. Reporter the president has long denied t
That. Reporter her 2yearold son has been in the hospital a lot these days. Hes covered under the aca, but wynter voted for trump. And although she sees problems with the aca, shes grateful for some of the benefits. Well, the main thing for the aca for me is of course the preexisting conditions, that is huge. I mean, he has two major lifealtering conditions that if i had to go and shop for it, it, i wouldnt be able to afford it. Reporter wynter lives in quakertown, pennsylvania, whose congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick was one of dozens of republicans who planned to vote no on the new Health Care Bill before it got pulled. He opposed the bill because it didnt do enough to address opioid addiction treatment. Pennsylvania has over 700,000 enrolled in Medicaid Expansion and more than 426,000 in the aca marketplace. Had the aca been repealed, the pennsylvania budget and policy center estimated over 1 million pennsylvanians would lose their coverage, like brian kline who was diagnosed with cance
Latinos dropped 25 . Domestic violence reports fell 10 . They start to clam up. They no longer come to court. Reporter California Supreme Court justice says latinos tell her they are now afraid to show up at courthouses. So she wrote a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, accusing agents of stalking undocumented immigrants to make arrests. In our courthouses. I feel like they are being targeted in a way thats unprecedented. Reporter what is your concern if ice agents are in courthouses . Victims arent going to come to court. Witnesses arent going to come to testify against bad guys in violent communities, because theyre afraid theyre going to get arrested in court. Reporter in a statement, ice said, while ice does arrest targets at courthouses, generally, its only after investigating officers have exhausted other options. But in response to ice actions, a proposed bill in california would bar state and local police from aiding federal immigration enforcement, including turning ove
Attorney general Jeff Sessions warned that cities that dont help enforce immigration laws may lose federal grant money. Ben tracy has more about the Trump Administrations efforts and whos being targeted. He stepped out, and he never came back in. Reporter 19yearold Estephanie Ortiz says agents came to her house in pasadena last month looking for someone who did not live there. They arrested her father, carlos ortiz instead. He was in the country illegally but had no criminal record. Why did we open the door . Nobodys going to want to open the door. Everybodys scared. Reporter the Los Angeles Police Department Says aggressive ice enforcement tactics are also having Chilling Effect on latinos report being crimes. Since the beginning of the year, reports of Sexual Assault by latinos dropped 25 . They start to clam up. They no longer come to court. Reporter California Supreme Court justice says latinos tell up at courthouses. So she wrote a letter to attorney general Jeff Sessions, accusin