Walter reed medical center. President trum top day choosing to spend this mothers day golfing while his aides scramble to defend mounting scandals. Kelly sad letters insensitive comments about senator john mccain continue to make waves and news. Sadler said mccains opposition to the president s pick to be cia director doesnt matter because, hes dying anyway. Thats according to sources with direct knowledge of that remark. Theyre defending sadler. A source familiar says that she said i stand with kelly sadler. And that same report claims that press secretary Sarah Huckabee handers is ha sanders with the leak. They say this is unlikely to be lost on her. Nbcs jeff bennett joins me from the white house with the latest. Jeff, hope me with the strategy here. There is the comment reprehensible as it was. The white house choosing not to engage on that. It was first reported by the news service. Highlighting the naktfact that leak occurred. What are sources telling you about why the white hous
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Do you think gods on loyolas side . Right now, yes. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. We are going to begin tonight suspicious packages were sent to military installations today near the nations capitol. David is at the pentagon with late developments. David. Jeff, suspicious packages, athlete one of them containing materials that tested positive for explosives to a number of military bases in the Washington Area today. The bases include fort mcnair where a package tested positive for black powder and appeared to have a fuse attached. Fort bewar in virginia and joint base where among other things the Defense Intelligence agency is locate. None of the packages detonated although at least one building the National Defense university had to be evacuated. The packages were detected by scanning devices rendered inert and sent to the fbi lab for examination. Jeff. Jeff david martin with the latest on these suspicious packages. Appreciate it. N
To prepare for a potential meeting. The president himself is even sounding optimistic will about himself last night. A lot of people are working on it. Its moves and its moving along pretty well. Well see what happens. Jeff, were seeing a lot of official going to east asia. There were two trips in progress. We have this u. S. Team, for direct talks to salvage this planned meeting with kim jongun form as you mentioned press secretary sanders told me this advance team left for sage apour to work out the logistic. The surprise twohour meeting between north and south korea aimed at keeping this summit on track. It appears theres enough motivation to bring both sides to the table. The main dispute between the u. S. And north korea at this point boils down to how fast kim should give up his weapons and what assurances north korea has already rejected the outright call from john bolton to follow the socalled libya model of quickly giving up its weapons before any assurances. I would underscor