Benghazi. What do you think . Weve heard a lot of talk with the president s phone call with one of the widows of the fallen. Amid all of that, a number of questions including questions that you and i talked about previously about what exactly were the American Service personnel doing in niger to begin with. Thats what general dunford will address right now. Theyre all in our thoughts and prayers. Today is the 1983 anniversary of the beirut bombing. I want the families to know we will never forget them. After speaking with secretary mattis, i decided to address you because theres been a lot of speculation. Theres been speculation that we have not been forthcoming. I want to clarify to you to what we know to date and what we hope to find out. Secretary mattis would be here but as many of you know, hes in asia. Our soldiers are operating in niger to defeat violent extremism in west africa. This is part of a global strategy. As weve seen many times, groups like isis and alquaida pose a thr
Start doing some irish dance move and i just run right by him. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. N. M Anthony Mason. The sniping between President Trump and some members of his own party has now escalated into open warfare. Eoday the president went to capitol hill to have lunch with republican senators, but two of them issued stark warnings about the president s ability to lead. Arizona republican jeff flake announced he wont run next year so he can freely speak out against mr. Trump, calling him a threat to democracy. Nancy cordes has more on this extraordinary day. None of this is normal. Reporter arizonas jeff flake stood on the senate floor, his voice quivering as he called the president indecent, reckless, and undignified. So, when the next generation asks us, why didnt you do something, why didnt you speak up, what are we going to say . Mr. President , i rise today to say enough. Reporter the breadth of his condemnation was matched
A bold lunatic over his feet and south korea last week that the north. Mr. Trump responding on twitter. Quote marley to gently insult me back on the old one i would never call him short and fat . Oh well, i expect so hard to be his friend. Maybe something that will happen. White house correspondent john roberts traveling with the president and his wife in the philippines where it is early on monday morning. What time is it there . Fax good morning to you. It is just 5 00 a. M. Which dissension started to come up very soon here. The first day of the conference in terms of meetings. There was an Opening Ceremony last night. President got some bilateral meetings, not with members of the fruit, with other nations that are here. Scalia, Prime Minister of india and also a bilateral meeting with the president of the philippines. A very controversial figure, his ministration is claimed to personally kill a number of people at his own hand including repletion is less by that he stabbed death wh
To save his fellow soldiers during the vietnam wear. Retired captain gary rose spent two decades in the u. S. Army. It was his bravery in september of 1970 during a mission that earned him the most recognition. At the time he was Sergeant Rose. His unit was deep in Enemy Territory in laos. He repeatedly ran into the line of fire to provide medical treatment to dozens of troops. He used his own body to shield americans from harm. On the final day of the mission, Sergeant Rose was in a helicopter that crashed. Instead of focusing on his injuries, he pulled the crew and members of his unit from the burning wreckage. During the fourday mission, three men died. Rose is credited with treating between 60 and 70 others. For more on his extraordinary story, Kristin Fisher is live in washington. Hi, kristin. Hi, shep. The other incredible part of his story, he was injured two days before that helicopter crash. He was firing at the enemy with one hand and dragging a wounded soldier with the other
It was where we were doing this. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The highestranking u. S. Military officer took questions today on the deadly ambush in the african nation of niger 19 days ago. But he had few answers on what went wrong in what was supposed to be a lowrisk operation. Four american soldiers were killed, and among the Unanswered Questions why it took two days to recover one of the fallen geericans. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. The perception is the department of defense has not ten forth coming. O reporter the chairman of the onint chiefs of staff tried to dispel that perception today. The assessment was that contact with the enemy was unlikely. Ro reporter general Joseph Dunford said the group of u. S. Soldiers and 30 nigerians had had been on a reconnaissance patrol 85 kilometers from nigers capital city. They came under attack from approximately 50 enemy using small arms fired, rocket propelled gr