This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from los angeles. Pelley this is our western edition. Few people expect politicians to keep all their campaign promises, but today, in a matter of hours, donald trump reversed himself on three controversial positions that were important to conservative republicans, positions that helped him defeat hillary clinton, including that vow to put her in prison or at least prosecute her. He also reverssed his positions today on Climate Change and torture. But 59 days before mr. Trump becomes the 45th president , heres chip reid. Reporter at trump rallies lock her up was almost a Campaign Mantra donald trump called her crooked hillary and threatened to put her jail. Special prosecutor, here we come, right . Reporter but in a meeting today, at the new york times, where reporters were live tweeting the conversation, mr. Trump said this when asked about prosecuting her, i dont want to hurt the clintons, he said. I really dont. She w
Good day. Im Sheinelle Jones at msnbc World Headquarters in new york at 1 00 eastern. Here is whats happening. Following a civil rights rally in washington, d. C. , with at least 17 civil Rights Groups participating. Hans nichols is there at the march. Hans, explain to us whats happening now and why all of this is really taking place. Reporter hi, good morning, or good afternoon now. It is pouring down rain and the animating principle, the feeling of this rally all day has been about criminal Justice Reform and the immediacy and frankly the velocity with which a Donald Trump Administration is going to hit washington, hit the folks here and the issues they care about. The reverend alsharpton, his group is organizing this, he was speaking earlier. Hes an msnbc contributor and what he said is that the fight will continue. Listen to how he put it. You may switch president s but were going to switch legs and keep on marching. We wont back down. We wont be trumped. Reporter im going to have
Capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. Joe, what you do you think the biggest agenda politically, domestically, in terms of health care . Was it the failure of the plan itself . Yeah, its really hard to ignore what donald trump said in that clip coming in, bragging about having a 484 record with republicans. Thats not how it works and anybody thats ever been in washington for more than a day understands thats not how it works. Thats the tally of somebody who lost. That would be like Hillary Clinton going around saying, and im sure she does to friends, i really won because i got 3 million more votes. Thats not how things are scored in the 2016 election and its certainly not how things are run in thiS Health Care debate. The fact is donald trump did a terrible job selling health care because he didnt really try to sell health care. He abused House Republicans that went out on the line for him earlier in the year and then went out and talked about how mean that plan was and didnt give Sen
Then President Trump left the room pretty abruptly, chose to answer no questions this afternoon despite the fact that there was a suggestion that he might, he usually does. Clearly the white house wants to get out the positive message of the asia trip, understandable, but no doubt behind the scenes they are trying to figure out what to do, if they can do anything, about the roy moore situation. Remember, the senate g. O. P. Advantage is two votes. They need to hold that alabama seat in order to push forward the president s agenda. But right now, moore is up by 6 in 1 poll, we will show you another, and it forces are pretty defiant. Has been with him and probably over 100 different readings and in excess of 10,000 different committees in his presence, and not once not one time have i ever seen him act even remotely inappropriate against any woman. Toward any woman. The allegations that have come out, i hope you understand, it takes time to work through this. We dont have a 20 million bu
Discussions relative to a summit long side by both parties which was scheduled to take place on june 12th in singapore. We were informed the meeting was requested by north korea, but that is irrelevant. I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, i feel it is appropriate at this time to have this longplanned meeting inappropriate, excuse me. I feel its inappropriate at this time to have this longplanned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the singapore summit for the good of both parties but to the detriment of the world will not take place. You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful, i pray to got theyll never have to be used. I felt a wonderful dialogue was building up, but ultimately its only that dialogue that matters. Some day i look very much forward to meeting you. In the meantime, i want to thank you for