Yet, another block buster allegation against bill cosby and another report casts even more doubt on Rolling Stones campus rape story. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. The government is facing prospect of a shutdown at midnight if lawmakers in congress cannot pass a bill to fund the government. Both backing a massive 1. 1 trillion spending bill known as the cromnibus. House Speaker John Boehner backs a bill. But senator Elizabeth Warren and House Democratic leader have come out against the bill, revolting over a provision designed to weaken dodd frank wall street in a moment nations. In the house being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for an aploep rations bill. This is a ransom. This is blackmail. You dont get a bill unless wall street gets its taxpayer cough rang. The president himself started making phone calls to try to persuade lawmakers to vote for the bill. Then, just hours ago, democrats held a caucus meeting. Theyve been joined by white house chief of
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelly this is our western edition. Today fired f. B. I. Director james comey previewed the testimony he will give the Senate Intelligence committee tomorrow in its investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether anyone in the Trump Campaign was involved. The committee released comeys Opening Statement today, in which he says the president pressured him to drop the f. B. I. Investigation of mr. Trumps former National Security adviser. Comey says mr. Trump described the f. B. I. s russia investigation as a cloud and asked comey what comey could do to lift it. The testimony, based on comeys notes, also confirms the president s statement that he was not under investigation. Chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes begins our coverage. Reporter comeys sevenpage Opening Statement describes his conversations with the president in detail. Seven days after the inauguration, comey says, the president invited me to dinner.
President trump commented for the first time about his meeting with putin in germany. Trump did not refute putins repeated deniadenials. Trump tweeted, it is time to move forward. Some in the Republican Party are outraged. To forgive and forget when it comes to putin is a cyber attack, and thats what hes doing. Yes, its time to move forward, but there has to be a price to pay. Why in. Because otherwise he will be encouraged to repeat his actions. It is important for us to have discussions on substantive issues, i think the president handled it brilliantly. Trumps proposal to work with russia on forming a Cyber Security unit. This is like the guy who robbed your house proposing to work on burglary. Lets talk about what the president has been saying about his meeting with president putin via twitter. I want to bring in alina jones. I can tell you that the president has spent several hours at his National Golf club in sterling, virginia. He returned here a short while ago. We do know that
A combative President Trump unleashing an extraordinary stream of criticism on allies at the nato summit in brussels slamming them over defense spending and singling out germany which he called, and im quoting him now, a captive to russia. A senior yushian diplomat said the performance beyond belief and here in washington members of congress expressing shock and concern. Well talk about that and much more with congressman schiff, the top democrat in the House Intelligence Committee and our correspondents and specialists standing by. First, lets go straight to brussels. White house correspondent jim acosta is on the scene. Jim . Reporter wolf, this is exactly what u. S. Allies feared this week. President trump ripping into the Nato Alliance just before meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. President asking what good is nato as he describes germany as a captive of russia with the dependency on russian oil and gas and sounds as if hes saying hes not the one with a russia problem.
Election. One of the most stunning parts of the indictment is the timeline. According to the indictment, while the spear fishing operation against the dnc, the d triple c and Clinton Campaign chairman john podesta began in march of 2016. On page 7 of this indictment, it reads that russian operatives attempted to access email accounts used by Hillary Clintons personal office for the first time on july 27, 2016. That date is significant because it happens to be the same day that donald trump said this. I will tell you this, russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Meanwhile the white house says the putin summit is still on. Even as democrats demand trump cancel. If he and his team are not willing to make the subject of this indictment of russian interference a top priority in the meeting, then the meeting should be canceled. I wouldnt trust what he says there. Maybe theyre plotti