Were going to hear from nikki haley. Lets listen this time i will not hold up pictures. I could. There are many and they are gruesome. Worse are the videos imprinted in our minds that one should ever there v to see. I cold hold up pictures of babies lying dead next to hur mothers and brothers and sisters, toddlers and infants still in diapers. All lying together, dead. Theyre skin is the ashen blue that is now tragically familiar from chemical weapon scenes. Their eyes are open and lifeless. White foam bubbles from their mouths and noses. Pictures of dead syrians who are not soldiers, people who are not armed. People who are the very definition of innocent and nonthreatening. Women and children hiding in basements from a renewed assault by bashar al assad. Families hiding under ground to escape the conventional bombs and artillery, but the basements that syrian families thought would shelter them from conventional bombs were the worst place to be when chemical weapons fell from the sky
This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Tonight we are watching multiple developments at the white house where the president is weighing a response to the latest apparent chemical weapons attack in syria. But we begin here with f. B. I. Raids in new york today at the home and office of the president s personal attorney michael cohen. Here is the president s reaction its a disgraceful situation. Its a total witchhunt. Ive been saying it for a long time. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. Glor justice correspondent jeff pegues has more on todays raids. Reporter Michael Cohens lawyer says the search warrants are part of a referral by the office of the special counsel robert mueller. He called the warrants completely inappropriate and unnecessary. During a search of locations linked to cohen, investigators seized documents and other materials, but it is unclear whether investigators are specifically i
Mueller, himself . Yeah. Fascinating day, gloria borger, appreciate it. More on the president s reaction tonight at the white house. Cnns jim acosta is there. Joins us now. Jim, just if you can just refresh our viewers on what the president said about these fbi raids. Reporter well, anderson, before i do that, i just want to tell you, i just got off the phone with a source familiar with everything thats been going on at the white house today who said that the president did not hear about this as we all heard about this earlier today when the news broke, that according to the source familiar with the situation over here, the president was informed of this raid on Michael Cohens offices by one of his aides earlier on in the day, and that these conversations as to what the president should do and how he should respond, that those conversations have been going on all day long. That we can tell you just some new information coming in to us here at cnn. Now, in terms of what the president sa
To report the fbi also raided Michael Cohens hotel room. Law enforcement officials confirmed that the search of cohens office was not the work of muellers prosecutors. It involves a matter the mueller team came across, claim it did not fall under their mandate, and passed on to the u. S. Attorneys office in new york. Illegal or legal sources familiar with the nature of the search said it involved 130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Cohen said he used his personal funds to pay daniels. President trump told reporters last week he didnt know about the payment. Cohens lawyer confirmed the news today in a statement, saying the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the Privileged Communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part a referral by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. He called the action, t
I could. There are many. They are gruesome. Worse are the videos in our mind that nobody should ever have to see. I could hold up pictures of babies lying dead next to their mothers. Brothers and sisters. Ed ed to toddlers and infants together. Their skin is blue that is tragically familiar from chemical weapons scenes. Their eyes are open and lifeless. White foam bubbles from their mouths and noses. Pictures of dead syrians that are not soldiers, people that are not armed. People who are the very definition of innocent and nonthreatening. Women and children, hiding in basements from a renewed assault by bashar alassad. Families that were hiding underground to escape his conventional bombs and artillery. But the basements that syrian families thought would shelter them from conventional bombs were the worst place to be when chemical weapons fell from the sky. And saturday evening the basements of douhma became their tombs. Dozens are dead that we know of and hundreds are wounded. I cou