She says he couldnt have been clearer about how he wanted his life to end. He asked me to hand him the bottle and i did. I had the dosing syringe in my hand. He took the cap off and he drank what was remaining in the bottle. Cooper could you have stopped him . I could have, i think. I mean, he did it pretty quickly. But no, i didnt try to stop him. Cooper should terminally ill people be able to end their own lives . Thats our story tonight. Safer this is inside the Washington Monument the moment an earthquake struck washington, d. C. , in 2011. One of the nations most treasured memorials now had to close. It would take a superman to put it back together again. But in fact, it was clark kent in a suit and tie, armed with just a blackberry and a passion for american history. A shorter version of it. Safer he is David Rubenstein, and he spent hundreds of millions of his own fortune to help save the monument and some of the other great symbols of american democracy. Im steve kroft. Im lesl
This scenario in a column written last july. Quote what if it was the Democratic National committee or Hillary Clintons campaign . What if that money flowed from a political entity on the left to a private law firm, to fusion, to a british spook and then to russian sources . Kim joining us now along with wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and Columnist Bill mcgurn. Kim, how did you know . [laughter] good sources. The wall street journal always has good sources. David ill say. But you spelled it out exactly. Was there anything that surprised you in the revelations this week . No. It didnt surprise me other than the fact that now we have a lot of people in the Democratic Party claiming that they didnt know any of this. Somebody had to have arrangedded this. But arranged this. But i think the import of this is that weve had the story or the press has had the story completely backward for the last year. All the allegations have been that it was Donald Trumps camp
Dr. Alexandra ritchie, who this time needs no introduction, i gave her a and then on the far right on my right on this table. Who i have not yet had the pleasure of introducing. Dr. Weinberg is the professor at the university of chapel hill. More than that. He is the dean of world war ii historians not only in United States but globally. Award winning arthur of some to listo numerous exhaustively but we can list some, a global history of world war ii which is the goto for anything, i have a very welcomed thumbed copy which i consult probably on a daily basis. Visions of victory, the hopes of 8 world war ii leaders and germany, hitler and world war ii. In the course of his career, he discovered an unpublished manuscript. Hitlers second book. He edited that work and published it. The first one being mein kampf. The second one dealing more with foreign policy. In 2009, he received the Military Museum and Library Literature award for lifetime achievement. Dr. Weinberg is a National Treasur
State. He was at united arab emirates, where he spoke to troops. He says the u. S. Has carried out 1800 airstrikes against Islamic State since october. Angela merkel says she hoping for talks to be cut,. Angela merkel and other european leaders are holding an emergency summit in brussels today. They want turkey to do more to stop migrants. Nancy reagan is being remembered as the first lady who nurtured the political career of her husband, Ronald Reagan. She died yesterday. The couple met when they were both actors. Illegalaigned against drug use and became a advocate of stem cell research. She died at 94. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world, i am caroline hyde. Matt i quickly want to touch on iron ore. I am looking at the generic contract here, but there are a number of different contracts you could follow. Here we see a 17. 3 jump. There are others where you can chart a 21. 5 jump. Iron ore is all of a sudden rising by
Each one contains nearly a half a ton of whats called rare earth elements, almost all of which come from china. The guidance systems on Weapons Systems and tomahawk cruise missile, any of the smart bombs have rare earths in them. Id be hardpressed to name anything that we consider Worth Building today and Going Forward that would not have a rare earth compound in it. Stahl because of this, because of the monopoly on rare earths, does china threaten our National Security . Unchecked, yes. cheers and applause rose heres something you havent seen before an astrophysicist, on stage, in a soldout auditorium. Neil Degrasse Tyson is re igniting a fascination for the great beyond. Hes succeeded carl sagan as the countrys most captivating scientific communicator. When i was 11, i said, this is so amazing, who wouldnt want to study the universe . Rose what was so amazing . The endless frontier of it all, the vastness of it, the mystery of it. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im lara logan. Im bi