i think. it will be a late night! i will call you at like two in the morning. i will be up. thank you john. the president is back in washington after a day of fundraising to boost his 2020 reelection bid in florida last night the president speaking at the gridiron dinner training humor jabs with lawmakers and the media. but he also touched on syrian topics including opening the door with talks of north korea. the rogue regime not responding to that possibility. ellison barber is live in washington with details. hello.north korea is threatening to counter the us if the us holds joint military exercises with south korea. that is according to a new report in reuters for the military exercises are set to take place in april. the president did not talk about the exercises during his speech at the gridiron dinner but he did talk about talking with north korea. he told the room north korea recently reached out and wanted to talk and transport to court
consultants, tons of political advisers and never understood the temperature in the room. donald trump had the innate ability to understand what the american people were feeling, what the tone was they wanted in the campaign. you kansas forcan t force him tt out of the white house. you don t want him bored with it you want him to be himself. but you don t want him tweeting everything about things that are going to cause us international incidents or cause challenges in the united states. well, no one says it was going to be easy. for the record, i love the tweets. don t we all? official white house statements. okay john and wendy nice to see you. time for a quick break here. president trump has repeatedly pointed to china as the solution to the north korean threat but beijing is pushing
votes needed to advance an amended bill. joining us now from the capitol is john stanton, washington bureau chief, okay john, do we have a deal when this comes to the floor for a vote in about an hour or so? yeah it looks like they have the final votes for it. it should be about 217-218, which is a minimum number of votes, essentially 250 or 60 depending on how many come along with speaker boehner and part of his leadership team. and it looks likes nancy pelosi will be able to deliver, did a fairly good job of selling this to progressives in particular who had a lot of complaints about provisions in the bill. so it looks like they will have a pretty strong showing. you know john the conservative analyst charles
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening, scott s on assignment, i m norah o donnell. until today, few people outside of missouri had ever heard of todd akin, the republican candidate for senate there. but akin s remarks about rape have put him and the abortion issue in the national spotlight. reblicans and democrats alike including mitt romney and president obama have condemned his comments. and members of akin s own party are pressuring him to drop out as they battle to win back control of the senate. wyatt andrews begins our coverage. reporter: todd akin s comments have been called insulting, wildly offensive and just plain wrong. and that s the reaction from republicans. the question he faced was simple: should abortion be legal in the case of rape? from what i understand from doctors, that s really rare. if it s a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. repor
at the zoo tonight with the story. john? we found there is no surveillance camera inside the monkey exhibit so they are working on a lot of tough situations tonight. there is increased security, though, at the zoo here and as you mention, the rae ward has increased to 5000 dollars. thanks to a private donor. there are about l 20 squirrel monkey at the zoo. 17-year-old monkey named banana sam is not one of them. some time overnight zoo officials say 1 or 2 people cut a chain on an outside fence and then climbed staircase on top of the exhibit and took banana sam. workers discovered the theft when they got to work at 8:00 o clock this morning. zoo officials are worried because banana sam is old. he needs a very specialized diet and he s probably petrified that he s not a familiar setting right now. police are trying to come up with a motive. that the time we don t know what the motive is. it could be it could be an animal rights group for all we know. it could be someone wh