Schieffer good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im bob schieffer. We are beginning tonight with the fires running wild in the west, because there are so many of them now and they are threatening hundreds of homes. Right now, 19,000 firefighters are fighting 50 major fires in ten western states. In idaho alone, they burned more than 450 square miles, and with lightning in the forecast tonight, it could get worse. In california, a wildfire outside Yosemite National park tripled in size overnight. It now covers more than 84 square miles. So far, firefighters have contained only 2 of it. Teresa garcia is there. Reporter stands of cedar and pine exploded as the flames jumped from treetop to treetop, moving faster than the crew fighting them. U. S. Forest Service Officer lee bentley. Weve got a monster on our hands. This fire is making its own weather. Its going every which direction. This is one of the worst ive ever been on, and ive been doing it quite a few years. Reporter the fire threatens
Show you something that shows ever part of our times or how people are getting used to this. The london markets which you think would have gone off and our own markets barely budging. So whether that is a sign that were kind of used to it or this wasnt worse than it could have been, anyones guess. Even in london, throughout europe, stocks barely budged. I say that not to obsess on money but these life and death issues, some captured on cell phones like this one shortly after the attack, were remarkably calm in these events. Again, could be a tragic commentary a year after the belgium attacks that took out 32. Maybe again, we are used to it. Ben hall in london with the latest. This has brought the center of london to a standstill. Ambulances, sirens going on. This is an attack on parliament. After the attacker went down the bridge, mowed down pedestrians on the sidewalks, he went to the one main entrances to the house of parliament and got inside before stabbing a Police Officer and sho
Seeking criminal charges against the russian individuals who carried out the hacking and leaking of the private information as part of the Putin Campaign to meddle in the 2016 elections and purportedly to help trumps candidacy according to those familiar with the matter. P does that case include any americans . Does it include wikileaks or putin. U. S. Intelligence said he directed at takz attacks. But this does show the Mueller Investigation is moving quickly. Remember it was just two weeks ago that mueller indicted the russians that were behind the revealing and sprawling and Sophisticated Campaign to disrupt the election via social media as a way to support trump. Campaign chief Paul Manafort was hit with more charges. Rick gates also flipped at that time. And dont forget yesterday we learned that mueller team is asking questions about whether the president himself was aware of the democratic emails being stolen before anybody else knew and whether he was involved or at least knew o
Up shop and ship jobs overseas to avoid european tariffs imposed as part of the president s trade war. Made in america. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump is now suggesting that immigrants crossing illegally into the u. S. Should not get due process, writing in a tweet today that hiring many thousands of judges and going through a long and complicated Legal Process is not the way to go. Well always be dysfunctional. People must be stopped at the border and told they cannot come into the u. S. Illegally. This contradicts constitutional protections and provisions and ted cruzs proposed republican legislation to hire more border judges. Joining me now are my guests, welcome to you both. Kristen, set the stage, the president s tweets and what hes been saying, ramping up the opposition to due process for immigrants, which is, according to the constitution, are under constitutional protections. Its a remarkable escalation, with President Trump saying t
And dominic chu. The president today is not indicating hes looking to concede on that in any way. Youre right about that, hallie. And the chief trade and economic advisers are, in fact, defending his trade war with china. We should point out President Trump himself, as you well know, put off the next round of tariffs until middecember which seems to be implicit acknowledgment that the tariffs might create a dragging effect on the economy. But the view from the white house about fears of impending recession, seems to be there is nothing to see here. We saw this yesterday. The president publicly saying he sees no fears of a recession on the horizon. The president and Top White House officials doing level best to project optimism. Here is sound from the president from larry kudlow and Peter Navarro in quick succession. Take a look at this. I dont think were having a recession. Were doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich. Ive gave a tremendous tax cut. They are loaded up with mone