This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Congressman Steve Scalise had a third surgery today as doctors worked to save the life of the thirdranking republican in the house. Scalise is one of four people shot yesterday when a gunman opened fire on republicans practicing for tonights Charity Baseball game against the democrats. Scalise, who is 51, remains in Critical Condition. Our chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes begins our coverage. Hes in some trouble. Reporter President Trump issued a sobering update today after visiting House Majority whip Steve Scalise last night. Hes a great fighter, and hes going to be okay, we hope. Reporter scalise underwent his third surgery today. Rimocrat Cedric Richmond is a close friend and fellow louisianaian. Its no secret that the bullet split up, and that vital organs are were hit. Reporter another victim, lobbyist matt mika, has been upgraded from Critical Condition to serious, but his family wa
Assured President Trump he was not under investigation, officials now say that changed shortly after comeys firing. This comes after the New York Times reported that the president has been considering firing mr. Mueller himself, but someone on his staff waved him off the idea warning this would make a bad situation worse. Well see about that. Yesterday Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein assured members of congress that mr. Muellers investigation would remain independent. Director mueller is going to have a full degree of ipdence that he needs. As long as im in this position, hes not going to be fired without good cause. Thats bad news for trump. For now, Robert Mueller is safe. Im joined by Washington Posts Devlin Barrett, glenn thrush, and ashley parker, White House Reporter for the Washington Post. Thank you all. Let me start with glenn and work across the table here. Lets talk about this. The Washington Post is reporting tonight that the special counsel Robert Mueller is in fact
On a baseball diamond in the state of virginia. Im bill hemmer in for shepard smith. Good afternoon. Amateur video captured audio from the shooting targeting republican lawmakers practicing for a Charity Baseball game in virginia earlier today. What youre about to see is two minutes of unedited video of the scene. This is the first time weve seen and heard this angle. Here it is now for the first time. [gun shots] do we know where hes hat . Hes behind home plate. I assume. People have been calling 911 already. [gun shots]. Hey, is that guy okay out there . The guy shot, is he okay . Anybody talking to him . Stay down, stay down [gun shots]. [gun shots]. [gun shots]. Bill hes behind home plate. That was noah nathan. We assume the guy lived in the area. He was walking his dogs. This happened after 7 00 a. M. Meanwhile, were learning the shooter was a Bernie Sanders reporter that repeatedly slammed President Donald Trump and republicans on social media. Thats all according to investigator
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigationing whether President Trump possibly attempted to obstruct justice. Three top intelligence officials will be interviewed by mueller as early as this week to see what President Trump may have said to them about possibly contradicting the investigation into possible collusion between russians and members of his 2016 campaign team. Lets bring in cnn justice correspondent evan perez. Evan, forget for a moment about what the Washington Post is reporting. What do we know . What is going on . We know that the fbi and the special council are gathering information as part of the investigation. We know theyre going to talk to dan coats, the director of national intelligence. Michael rogers who is the head of the National Security agency as well as the former deputy at the National Security agency. What they want to do is try to gather information to determine whether or not theyre going to launch a fullscale investigation of possible obstruction. Th
Today the action, the ugly service of some agenda ushered the shooter into a disgrace long line of people attacking violence of every strikes. We have been through this before whether it is oklahoma city, or tucson, aerizona. This morning it happened again. It did not just happen. Hes dead. The fbi want your help if you know anything about him which is the only reason we are showing his picture and as well as his name, jameshodgkinson. We are not making this newscast about him. Tonight we are focusing on the survivors and First Responders and everyone else who stepped up in the wake of the mass shooting this morning. Whats going on . Where is this guy . [ continued gunfires ] [ continued gunshots ] you know where hes at . Hes behind the plate. I assume people have been calling 911 already. They better be already. [ continued gunshots ] [ bleep ]. Hey, is that guy okay out there . The guy thats shot, is he okay . Anybody is talking to him . Get down lay down [ continued gunshots ] [ ble