Their way back. This is one thing that gets me out of bed on saturdays, gets me motivated. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the job of the White House Press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up the occasional president ial mess. They are not supposed to create any messes for the president. But it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. He was comparing syrias dictator to hitler, and suggested that hitler did not use poison gas on his own people. Holocaust, apparently, was not on spicers mind today, and to make matters worse, this is the jewish holiday passover. Heres nancy cordes. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. Reporter it isnt often that hitler is compared favorably to anyone, but it happened today when the White House Press secretary was condemning syrias Bashar Alassad for gassing his own people. You had a, you know, someone as despicable as hitler, who didnt even sink to the to using c
Latest. Then we look at how Jeff Sessions speaking seeking to limit oversight over troubled police departmtment a and escsce the e war on drugsgs. In recent y years, Law Enforcement as a whole, i thihi, has been unfaiairly maligned and deeds of aacceptable few bad actors. Amy plus, as the Trump Administration an Aircraft Carrier in several warships for the korean peninsula, and issues new warnings to syria, we will look at who profits when the u. S. Goes to war. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is heading to russia today, where hes meeting with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov amid increasing tensions between the u. S. And russia over the ongoing war in syria. Russian president Vladimir Putin will not meet with tillerson a move that points to increasing conflict between the two countries following the u. S. Decision to launch 59 mimissiles at a Syrian Government air base
Latest. Then we look at how Jeff Sessions speaking seeking to limit oversight over troubled police departmtment a and escsce the e war on drugsgs. In recent y years, Law Enforcement as a whole, i thihi, has been unfaiairly maligned and deeds of aacceptable few bad actors. Amy plus, as the Trump Administration an Aircraft Carrier in several warships for the korean peninsula, and issues new warnings to syria, we will look at who profits when the u. S. Goes to war. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is heading to russia today, where hes meeting with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov amid increasing tensions between the u. S. And russia over the ongoing war in syria. Russian president Vladimir Putin will not meet with tillerson a move that points to increasing conflict between the two countries following the u. S. Decision to launch 59 mimissiles at a Syrian Government air base
Important to Pay Attention at work. Early today starts right now. A lot to talk about. Good morning. Im yasmin vossoughian. Im frances rivera. This morning kids will be returning to school after a gunman opened fire leaving three people dead. 53yearold Cedric Anderson walked into North Park Elementary School telling the desk he was dropping something off for his estranged wife, 53yearold teacher karen smith. He entered her special needs class and began firing, killing his wife and wounding two children who were behind her. Police say he then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder suicide. One of the children died at the hospital. The 9yearold is in stable condition. Nearly five hours after the shooting the evacuated children were allowed to reunite with their families who had been waiting outside. Its just like unimaginable. You would never think you would have to go through Something Like this. The fear of not knowing. Last night a candlelight vigil was held for the victims a
Going on for years, but thats exactly what police say. They also tell us it took the mans wife getting her skull fractured for her to sneak here to this hospital, Einstein Medical Center in montgomery. Heres the man arrested, police saying he abused his wife, son, and daughter for six years, beating them each hundreds of times. He is 44yearold joseph myree. Accused of using a long list of items as weapons on his family including sticks, lancets, pvc pipe, shoehorn, and a dog shock color that the daughter said would leave burn marks on her skin. The children were home schooled. It wasnt until the mother had her skull fractured that she snuck out while her husband was sleeping and drove to the hospital for help. Just outraged. To see someone could live like that and that would be their morals in a development with this with kids all around. Its horrific. Reporter coming up in the next hour, well share from you the exact words from the son about the abuse he endured from his father. For n