This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Its unclear exactly how many people have been detained at u. S. Airports this weekend or how many released. But this is certain President Trumps travel and immigration crackdown on people from seven muslim majority countries has caused chaos and confusion, and sparked intense protests. The aclu says 4,000 attorneys are working in shifts at the airports to get people released. An iranian born green card holder says he was detained after getting off a cruiseship in ft. Lauderdale. Kenneth craig begins our coverage. Reporter at airports across the country, International Travelers detained by authorities received a warm welcome as they stepped onto u. S. Soil. For some, there were tears, like this iraqi woman who was reunited with her son. A u. S. Army ranger after hours of uncertainty at jfk. Ir i was born in tehran. They were asking for further information about that. Reporter their release comes after fede
Bringing in more women and men to make sure everybody stays safe. Mireya, thanks. About a thousand people demonstrated outside the white house sunday. The demonstration was organizeded by a group called peace for iran. Inside the president had a busy sunday talking to world leaders, and defending his travel ban. Errol barnett is there. Its not a muslim ban, but its working out nicely. You see it at the airports and all over. Reporter defending his controversial immigration crackdown, President Trump said saturday it is something that should have been in place for a long time. Sunday, the president s chief of staff said this firm stance helped trump win the white house. He was elected president and in many respects because people knew that he was going to be tough on immigration from countries that harbor terrorists. Its of concern, this reorganization. Reporter senator john mccain weighed in on another of President Trumps weekend actions. Assigning chief strategist and former Breitbart
Both houses of congress have identified as being countries that harbor and train terrorists. They were asked questions. The vast majority of all those people were released. About a couple dozen people remain for further questioning. And my suspicion is those people will move on, as long as theyre not dangerous. And if perhaps a couple of them will be further detained because its determined that theyre dangerous for this country. So this was a promise that President Trump had made, and its a promise that hes going to keep. And hes not willing to be wrong on this subject. So what im trying to explain is that if youre a person that has a green card for whatever reason from yemen, and youre coming back and forth to yemen into jfk, i think its reasonable to expect that a customs and Border Patrol agent is going to have a few more questions for you to wonder why in the world you keep coming back and forth from yemen. Maybe its no big deal. There are that, for example,ha filter down to our cu
Quijano good evening. Scott is on assignment. Im elaine quijano. If the 2016 president ial election has become a reality show, the latest episode played out today on live television. At the very moment Donald Trumpy was denying hes a serial abuser of women, another woman was accusing him of sexuallyr w assaulting her. That brings the number of accusers to six. Major garrett now on the daytime drama. Reporter the split screen said it all on one, summer zervos, a 2006 contestant on Donald Trumps apprentice tv o show teared up as she alleged trump sexually assaulted her at a Los Angeles Hotel in 2007. And he came to me and startem kissing me open mouthed as hen was pulling me towards him. I pushed his chest, put space between us, and i said, come on, man, get real. He repeated my words back to me, get real as he began thrusting his speaking, trump thrashed against the accusations. Its one big, ugly lie. Its one big fix. Reporter trump branded zervos and the five other women who this week
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Quijano good evening. Scott is on assignment. Im elaine quijano. If the 2016 president ial election has become a surreality show, the latest episode played out today on live television. At the very moment donald trump was denying hes a serial abuser of women, another woman was accusing him of sexually assaulting her. That brings the number of accusers to six. Major garrett now on drama. Reporter the split screen said it all on one, summer zervos, a 2006 contestant on Donald Trumps apprentice tv show teerd up as she alleged trump sexually assaulted her at a Los Angeles Hotel in 2007. And he came to me and started kissing me open mouthed as he was pulling me towards him. I pushed his chest, put space between us, and i said, come on, man, get real. He repeated my words back to me, genitals. Reporter while zervos was speaking, trump thrashed against the accusations. Its one big, ugly lie. Its one, big fix. Reporter trump branded zervos and th