In an effort to ease tensions. He inspired a generation of musics with songs and political activism, this morning fans remember pete seeger the father of American Folk Music. S that s th s thats that flsh flush thank you for waking up with us and im tomorrow place draden and we begin with president obama who is preparing for his fifth state of the Union Tonight and its different and he has to address with sub par Approval Ratings and increasing doubt that the country is improving under his watch and according to an abc news poll the Approval Rating is just 46 and the lowest going in a state of a Union Address. Most americans remain sour on the economy and the direction the country is going in and the state of american politics over all. During the address the president will try to turn the publics attention to his key initiatives and include Early Childhood education and minimum wage and Affordable Care act and lisa joining us from washington and the president as you know, lisa comes i
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. This is our western edition. President obama says it is time to turn the page on more than a decade of war. He laid out his plan today for bringing americas longest war to a conclusion. The u. S. Combat mission in afghanistan will end at the end of this year. And the last u. S. Troops will come home two years later, before he leaves office. President george w. Bush ordered the invasion of afghanistan after the 9 11 attacks to oust the taliban, who had given al qaeda a base of operations. More than 2,100 americans were killed in the war, more than 19,000 wounded. Major garrett has more now on the road ahead in afghanistan. Major. Reporter this, norah, is the endgame. No more u. S. Military combat operations after this year, and then a twoyear mission of Training Afghan forces and assisting in counterterrorism operations. All this carried out by a fo
Such hand wringing, finger pointing, to receive a guarantee that we will move to address this. If were anything during this process, a strategy to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration is something the American People didnt understand. Sandra john roberts is live on the north lawn this morning with a lot going on. Always a lot going on here, sandra, thats why its the white house. The president will spend much of today preparing for his trip to davos, switzerland. He has a speech to the gathering on friday. The president waking up this morning with daca very much on his mind tweeting nobody knows for sure that the republicans and democrats will be able to reach a deal on daca by february 8th but everyone will be trying with a big additional focus put on military strength and Border Security. The dems have learned that a shutdown is not the answer. The president s legislative Affairs Director marc short will be going to capitol hill today to continue negotiations
The government after a threeday shutdown. Good morning to you. Im jon scott. Melissa im melissa francis. The president praising a big win for republicans after congress voted for a stopgap funding bill but it is a different picture on the other side of the aisle with democrats blasting Chuck Schumer for agreeing to the deal. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders saying that democrats had no choice but to compromise. Democrats realized that the position that they had taken frankly was indefensible and that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting Border Patrol agents, funding Vulnerable Children through the chip program. These were things that they didnt disagree with. Melissa this could be only a ceasefire in the shutdown battle with a new fight looming over Immigration Reform. John roberts is live on the north lawn. Good morning, melissa. Start with a headline here and it is a headline because we just learned about it. Not that it just happened. Fox news has con
Stay clear. We begin tonight with the brandnew details into why President Trump called off the irk rannian strikes at the last month and if we can expect a response this weekend,. A lot of questions to answer. And 11 00 p. M. , here in d. C. But sun up on the straight, a strike tonight is unlikely. But the white house says stay tuned over the weekend. Our Jillian Turner report that this white house is maintaining the option of military action against iran ought at all times. Emphasis on at all times. President President Trump says he called off the strike, a u. S. Missile strike in the minutes before the launch last night, because the potential iranian casualties. Shay shot down an unmand drone, plane, whatever you want to call it and here we are, sit withing 150 dead people that would have taken place, probably within a half an hour, after i said go ahead. And i didnt like t. I didnt think it was proportionate. Initial reports indicate the u. S. Strikes would have targeted the radar a