This is a caucus at a middle school in des moines, where democrats are making their president ial preferences known on the republican size, cbs news estimates that donald trump is the leader in an early threeway race with marco rubio and ted cruz nipping at his heels. Now for the democrats, Hillary Clinton has the early lead over challenger Bernie Sanders. Keep in mind, it iss very early in the counting, and these are estimates that are based in part on questions we asked voters as they entered the caucuses. We have a team of correspondents covering the caucuses tonight. First well go to Major Garrett with the republicans. Major. Reporter scott, indications are from across the statue a very high republican voter turnout. There were long lines seen in ancoony, a fastgrowing suburb north of des moines, and a survey taken indicated 43 describe themselves as angry with the federal government. 37 of those said they came to caucus on behalf of donald trump, far more than did so on behalf of
Reporter six days after taking office, President Donald Trump is facing his first diplomatic assistantostandoff. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Reporter thats not how mexico sees it. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto said he was cancelling the meeting alerting the white house in a message op twitter. Trump learned about it making his way to philadelphia, his first trip aboard air force one, presenting his agenda to Congressional Republicans who are skeptical of how to pay for a border wall. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. Reporter the firestorm between the two leaders has been escalating since their first meeting in august. We did discuss the wall. We didnt discuss payment of the wall. Ta will be for a later date. Reporter that date has now arrived. Paying for the wall is at the heart of
Administration. The second in three days. This time its the president s pick to run the labor department. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuels on capitol hill tonight with the breaking details. Good evening very late today and a poster announced he was withdrawing from consideration to be the next secretary of labor, saying i am honored to have been considered by resident donald trump to lead the department of labor and put americas workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity. The democrats alone could not stop the puzder nomination. A Senior Source says a dozen republican senators expressed reservations or concerns about puzder. This senior capitol hill sources Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell conveyed the message of the white house but im told mcconnell did not push for withdrawal but noted in conversations with the white house that they had a serious numbers problem with the puzder nomination. Four Senate Republicans initially expressed reservations thi
Administration. The second in three days. This time its the president s pick to run the labor department. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuels on capitol hill tonight with the breaking details. Good evening very late today and a poster announced he was withdrawing from consideration to be the next secretary of labor, saying i am honored to have been considered by resident donald trump to lead the department of labor and put americas workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity. The democrats alone could not stop the puzder nomination. A Senior Source says a dozen republican senators expressed reservations or concerns about puzder. This senior capitol hill sources Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell conveyed the message of the white house but im told mcconnell did not push for withdrawal but noted in conversations with the white house that they had a serious numbers problem with the puzder nomination. Four Senate Republicans initially expressed reservations thi
Richard nixon resigned from office. The white house was in turmoil, the Nixon Administration was reeling from the monthslong watergate scandal. He was on his way out the door. Nixons defense secretary was worried about what might happen if the president decided to subvert the constitution to stay in power even as everything around him was falling apart. By using the power of the presidency to call up the military, or god forbid if he tried to authorize the use of Nuclear Weapons without consulting anyone first. The story as told to a wire years earlier was that nixons defense secretary overwhelmed by the possibility tried to prevent anything like that from happening by going behind his back to the chairman of the i didnt want to be chiefs of staff. If essence, the defense secretary asked the chairman of the joint chiefs for a commitment that neither he nor any of the other chiefs would respond to an order from the white house calling for the use of military force without immediately in