White house is pushing back against reports it tried to block the former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying. Stick with the report in the Washington Post is 100 false. The letters they publish on their website all back up everything i just read. All the letters are available on their website. Letters obtained show march 14, the cochairs of the House Intelligence Committee invited sally yates to testify today on russian cyber activities. Potential links between russia and individuals associated with political campaigns and related leaks of classified information. When yates attorney contacted the Justice Department, the department wrote the president owns the privileges and that yates needs to consult with the white house her attorney reached out, writing if i did not receive a response by monday, march 27, i will conclude the white house does not exert executive privilege over these matters. The white house did not respond. The hearing that yates was invited to today d
White house is pushing back against reports it tried to block the former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying. Stick with the report in the Washington Post is 100 false. The letters they publish on their website all back up everything i just read. All the letters are available on their website. Letters obtained show march 14, the cochairs of the House Intelligence Committee invited sally yates to testify today on russian cyber activities. Potential links between russia and individuals associated with political campaigns and related leaks of classified information. When yates attorney contacted the Justice Department, the department wrote the president owns the privileges and that yates needs to consult with the white house her attorney reached out, writing if i did not receive a response by monday, march 27, i will conclude the white house does not exert executive privilege over these matters. The white house did not respond. The hearing that yates was invited to today d
Its awesome. Reporter awesome. This is the cbs evening news mason good evening, im anthony mason. This is our western edition. We begin with the heartbreaking story of otto warmbier, the university of virginia student who was held by north korea for nearly a year and a half. His family announced that warmbier died today less than a week after the North Koreans sent him home to ohio in a coma. President trump put out a statement saying, the United States once again condemns the brutality of the north korean regime as we mourn its latest victim. Heres michelle miller. Reporter ottos parents fred and Cindy Warmbier released a statement saying their son had completed his journey home, going on to say, unfortunately the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today. The comatose 22yearold College Student was flown back to the u. S. Last tuesday. Two days later, Fred Warmbier
Refused. Mark sandys appearance followed that explosive day of testimony that saw top u. S. Diplomats support accusations that the president not only knew about but orchestrated communications with others in another country to hurt his political rivals. The former ambassador to ukraine testified. Something happened during the former ambassadors testimony yesterday, something unprecedented. President trump tweeted a personal and professional attack on the ambassador while she was speaking to the house intelligence committee. The proceedings were interrupted to address this attack, which ambassador Marie Yovanovitch described as intimidating. The president later said he was just exercising his right to free speech. Lauren fox joins us now from capitol hill. Lauren, lets talk more about what happened there today. Mark sandy, he was there to talk about what he knows about that 400 million aid package to ukraine that was frozen over the summer. What did he say . What do you know about his t
Heardgunshots, lets go. Lets run. We ran through the field. As Law Enforcement headed into saugus, students and staff could be seen rushing out evacuating the school in a now familiar singlefile image. Right to cnns Stephanie Elam in los angeles just southwest of Santa Clarita. What do we know about the victims at this point . Reporter one thing we are learning from a statement put out from the School District where Saugus High School is, they put out a press release and in it said in there that several of the students had been taken to the hospital. So that points to the idea that the people in these hospitals we know right now, there is one female has died at henry Mayo Hospital in valencia, california, and be two males in critical, one male in Good Condition there and another hospital holy providence in mission hills. They were students and they were speakingwhat this implies is all of the people shot may have been saints based and what were seeing from the School District and the s