Come along for the ride tonight. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a sunday night. And we do begin this evening with that massive break in the case after that massive manhunt for two convicted killers who escaped from a florida prison. It came to an end outside this motel, just 100 miles from the prison where they were serving life behind bars, and just hours before they were hoping to hitch a ride out of the state. Instead, tonight, theyre now locked up, appearing in court, one at a time. Soon to be sent back to where they started. Authorities saying the elaborate plan that included forged documents to get them out means they most certainly had help. More arrests could be coming, and Abcs Steve Osunsami is in panama city tonight. Reporter police had quietly tracked the two convicted murderers to this panama city motel. And at 5 20 saturday night local time, they had them surrounded. Their bull horns and firearms all aimed at room 227. 34yearold fugitives Charles W
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting from los angeles. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. At this hour is appears russian militaries forces are crossing the border into ukraine. In a region of ukraine known as crimea. Late today, president obama went on National Television to warn russia against a military intervention. Ukraine has been reeling since last week when a popular revolt led the president of ukraine to flee to russia. Crimea used to be part of russia and has long wanted to return. Ukraine says russian attack helicopters and military transports have taken two key airports in crimea. That is what brought the president into the briefing room. It would be a clear violation of russias commitment to respect the independence and sovereignty and borders of ukraine and of international laws. And just days after the world came to russia for the olympic games, it would invite the condemnation of nations around the world and
Hoping he stays on message between now and tuesday . Is the plan to just avoid any mistakes. Yeah anderson. I dont know if it is so much subdue but advisors trying to assure him. Him trying to assure himself he needs to stay on message. They want their final push to be about Hillary Clinton being a corrupt politician. That is the message they want to drive home. They dont want these last couple of days to be about donald trump being a loose canon. That is why you are continuing to see the teleprompters. Why you saw him remind himself the other day on the stump to stick to what his talking points we are. And that is so important when talk about the states like pennsylvania. [inaudible] so he can make a pitch to voters here tonight and try to get them to turn out on november 8th. You have also been speaking to a lot of republicans across battleground states. Are they confident trump can pull out a victory on tuesday . Reporter you would think anyway republican operatives would be overjoy
Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We are following the breaking news in the trump russia investigation. Tonight the white house is dangling the possibility that the president will finally reveal if there are Oval Office Recordings by the end of this week. House investigators have asked the administration to turnover any tapes of mr. Trumps conversations with fired fbi director james comey by friday. They are looking into comeys claim that the president asked him to end his investigation of ousted National Security advisor Michael Flynn. Also tonight, new indications that flynn may have failed to disclose yet another overseas trip related to russia when he replied to renew security last year. They are requesting documents about a trip flynn to the middle east in the summer of 2015 to pursue a joint u. S. Russian Business Venture to develop Nuclear Facilities in saudi arabia. Also breaking this hour, a dramatic new move by democrats to protest the republican secretive process to overh
Launching a probe into fisa abuse. This come after attorney general Jeff Sessions anuprep members and republican members of Congress Demand look into how the agency got warrants on carter page. Heres judge Andrew Napolitano why the fisa process is ripe for abuse. Its standard for spying. Its so much lower than the constitutional standard. Fbi agents knowing they couldnt get a search warrant from ordinary federal judge will go to the fisa court instead under the pretext that its an intelligence warrant because that Court Delivers 99. 9 of all requested search warrants. There isnt a court in the country that has number that high. This is about spying on americans through a court that is used for spying on foreigners when they are here. Lets bring in doug mcelway from washington with more. In addition to willing to approve almost every warrant application. The fisa court is secret. Thats contrary to the ideals of system of justice. Congressional republicans who have not found evidence of