Welcome, everyone, to the intelligence report. Stocks are bouncing back big time, up 251. Near the highs of the session. This is after the wild session we saw yesterday with the tow at one Point Crossing the 26,000 mark. You know what . It did it again today. Were up above 26,000. Were at highs of the session, up 1 . We got big news from apple. Well explain all of it. Liberal media badgering trumps position at white house briefing. Physician. The reporters were shocked the president is in good health, just shocked. They kept asking me questions, a total of 77 questions to be exact, all in an attempt to get the doctor to Say Something bad about the president and his health. Wait until you hear some of those questions. We got them for you. Break burman is the a the white house with the latest on the looming Government Shutdown. Blakes, is it going to happen . Reporter has to be hammered out by friday night. The trish, the plan thrown out by pub leadership lip there, is shortterm funding
Graduate from college. Like, hes not just a genius. Hes also awesome. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Attorney general rod rosenstein. I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. They because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. So you had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless. Reporter that directly contradicts the process outlined by Vice President pence, counselor kellyanne conway, and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders, who said the president acted tuesday after receiving a memo from rosenstein. And i personally am grateful that we have a president who is willing to provide the kind of decisive and strong leadership to take the recommend aches of the Deputy Attorney general. He acted decisively today. He took the recommendation of his Deputy Attorney general. The Deputy Attorney general made that recommendation. Reporter the president also said he asked comey if
They know how to play this game. They will have been sizing up the administration expertly over the last little while, looking for any opportunity to strengthen those links, hoping that the candidate they clearly favored in the u. S. Election, donald trump, will bring them in from the cold. And the end game, of course, is to get those sanctions lifted. Elizabeth palmer in sochi, Margaret Brennan at the state department. Thank you both. With the house in recess, republican members are hearing from angry constituents at town meetings back home. Most complaints at first were about the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Then the comey story exploded. Heres dean reynolds. Tell the truth tell the truth reporter at one town hall no, answer the last question reporter after another. Open your eyes all right. All right. Reporter Congressional Republicans on recess this week [ boos ]. Have been getting an earful. And now another issue is testing their hearing. I have a question in regards
He didnt share it with us. We were a set of pictures getting a lot of attention shows the president sharing a laugh at the white house yesterday with russias foreign minister, sergey lavrov, and sergey kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Kislyak is a key figure in the investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether there was any collusion with team trump. The photos were russian. No American Press attended. Were joined now by Margaret Brennan at the state department and Elizabeth Palmer in sochi, russia. Margaret, let me start with you. How did this meeting come about . White house Officials Say that last week during a phone call Vladimir Putin personally asked President Trump to meet with his top diplomat sergey lavrov. The meeting in the oval office lasted around 30 minutes, and at trump whether the firing of fbi director comey had any impact, he said none at all. But an invitation into the oval office is an honor, and the fact that President Trump went t
Two teenage girls disappear on a hike in indiana and snapchatted these final photos on the trail before authorities finally found their bodies. Now police and the fbi desperately looking for this man spotted on the trail. Did their social media posts put them at risk . You have to make it Mariah Careys big comeback performing in front of a Live Audience since that new years eve disaster. Were missing some of the vocal but it is what it is. Now singing her new breakup song as she tries to make her triumphant return. Good morning, america. Happy thursday. How about the mariah carey on jimmy kimmel last night. She didnt do an interview. She just let her singing do the talking as they say. That she did. Much more on that ahead. First to that new backlash for President Trump over allegations his campaign was communicating with russian officials before the election. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is going to start us off this morning. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, r