So now well go to chief congression Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. What happened yesterday was truly shocking. Reporter Senate Democrats accused the president today of courting a constitutional crisis. He feels the dragnet tightening on the russia investigation, i believe thats why he let comey go. Reporter they argued there is now just one solution. We need an independent, special prosecutor. There has to be an independent special prosecutor. If were going to get to the bottom of it, we need a special prosecutor. Reporter but Mitch Mcconnell said that would impede the russia investigations that are already under way. He accused the other side of shedding crocodile tears for comey. Our democratic colleagues complaining about t a fbi director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized. Reporter democrats do have a history of slamming comey over the handling of the clinton investigation. The fbi director has no credibility. Reporter but bob casey argues, its the ti
Else to look out for you. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley, reporting tonight from manchester, pelley we are just outside the arena where the terror struck on monday night. Memorials have been growing larger by the hour. All day long people, young and old left flowers and messages. The death toll stands at 22. At last report, 64 of the 119 wounded were still in the hospital. 20 of them in critical condition. Isis claimed responsibility for the attack carried out by a 22 year old suicide bomber, a british citizen of libyan desent. He had traveled recently to libya and investigators believe perhaps syria as well. When police raided the mans apartment they found no evidence that the bomb was made there. And that lead to a dragnet and multiple arrests today. Mark fill lips begins our coverage. Rtd two days of raids and at least six arrests later including the bombers brother and police here have changed their mind that this attack was the work of o
We thought we were just on the periphery of a much bigger explosion. I just went, my babies, my babies are in there. And then out, this little girl is staggering towards me with all her long blond hair all burnt, her face coming out of her mouth. Big gash on her shoulder. Kim half carried and we half dragged her to the foyer doors and initially laid her down. Blood was coming out. She was choking on the flood. What did you see . Horror, absolute horror. Injured people, dead people. Body parts. Parts of people. Blood, so much blood. Literally puddles of blood mixed with ash. The only thing i saw was the remnants of the suicide bomber. Basically the bottom half of the body in the middle of the corridor. And then my phone was ringing. It was there, and i reached out with one hand, and i saw it was tammy, my daughter tamala, and i answered, i was relieved. Anyway, im holding the phone, and im going tamala, tamala, youre okay, youre okay, darling. Shes going yeah, mom. I said, wheres sasha,
No. I cant get to sleep at night. But when i have, as soon as i wake up, its just there, the carnage, because the whole hour that we were stuck there, all i could see was either dead bodies. Body parts, blood and injured people. Injured people. And hearing them crying out. Whatever the terrorists do, every hurt just makes us stronger. Thats what it does. The 14 Year Old Girl the dicks cared for has now endured more than ten hours of surgeries. We mentioned that seven parents were killed. Two of them were husband and wife. Their two children are now orphans. We have learned that the fbi investigation of Hillary Clintons emails may have been influenced by a document that turned out to be a fake, possibly from the russians. Heres jewel anna goldman. Reporter sources say they obtained the document in the spring of 2016. It cited an email that then loretta lifrps assured Hillary Clinton that she wouldnt let the email probe go too far. It was possibly a part of fake russian intelligence and
Todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We need to get to the bottom of what was going on. There needs to be an investigation answing of the obvious questions that are arising. The Trump Administration defends Jared Kushner. Theres a lot of different ways to communicate. I dont see any big issue here. North korea has test fired another shortrange Ballistic Missile. It landed in the sea of japan. They seem to be in this position where north korea is continuing to test these missiles, frankly defying the rest of the world to do anything about it. German chancellor Angela Merkel says its time for europe to become selfreliant and stop depending on traditional allies. British police made arrests in the han chester terror investigation. The operation is full tilt. Iraqi forces begin a final push to drive isis out of mosul. The destruction is everywhere. Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against isis. What keeps you awake at night . Nothing. I keep other people awake a