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>> i think the withdrawal to be totally fair with you created huge momentum to create a countermomentum. >> you say you are in better shape now because of the withdrawal? >> i think we have momentum. because we have two things, the withdrawal of the u.s., creates a lot of others to say okay we have to react and do something. impossible to leave the floor to dismantling of the paris agreement. second, a deep wake-up call for the private sector and some to say, wow, so we have to react. if we decide not to move and not to change our way to produce, to invest, to behave, we will be responsible for billions of victims. i don't want to be a leader in such a situation. let's act now. >> he says he is open to renegotiation. >> you know you have more than 180 countries as negotiators. i'm not ready to renegotiate with so many people. sorry around the table. the u.s. did sign the paris agreement. it is extremely aggressive to decide on his own just to leave. and no way to push the others to renegotiate because one decided to leave the floor. sorry to say that. it doesn't fly. >> you think he will change his mind? >> yes, i'm not ready to renegotiate. i am ready to work on him if he decide to come back. >> how often do you speak to president trump? >> as often as we need. past three weeks, three, four phone calls together. it is very, soon as he asks for a call, i call him back. exactly the same on his side. we have a very, free and open discussion. >> you would characterize the relationship as friendly? >> yes, very direct. >> you talked about jerusalem. >> yes, exactly. >> before? >> yes. >> he said what? >> he said that probably he will announce the fact that he wanted to recognize jerusalem as the the capital of israel. >> you told him what? >> i told him i thought that it was a mistake. that such a unilateral decision is not compliant with our international discussions and international rules. and will not facilitate the peace process. >> was that a calm conversation, confrontational conversation? >> always open and direct discussion. you can agree to disagree. which its the case between us on some issues. he told me, the rationale of his decision. i told him for me it is not the right announcement. but at the end of the day, you decide for your own, and he decided for the u.s. i decided for france. >> in your estimation does it threaten the peace process? 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>> yes. >> she was to graduate as a commissioned officer from the elite united states air force academy. >> i was sexually assaulted freshman year and sexual harassment i endured made me leave. >> describe that harassment? >> my perpetrator would follow me on runs. he would tell me he urinated on my car. he was write crude things on my car, like in the fog. he would send me horrible text messages. he would stalk me. ask me where i was going in my little brown dress. >> was he ever reprimanded in any way? >> he was talked to by his commander about a crude text message i received and told that that was unbecoming of an officer. >> whatever happened to that cadet? >> he graduated. >> what happened to you? >> i left. >> these current cadets are risking their careers by speaking to us about their sexual assaults. they requested that we protect their identities. >> there is no understanding in commanders about sexual assault, trauma, effects. >> i was terrified of reporting because i heard of things that happened to people and did happen to me. it is not horror stories, it is slut shaming, victim blaming. >> do you regret reporting the assault? 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>> i believe that they would find enough proof to, you know show he had this misconduct and not fit for office quite frankly. >> the events never happened. never. all of these liars -- >> reporter: mr. trump called the women liars, this was u.s. ambassador, nikki haley on face the nation yesterday. >> how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president? >> women who accuse anyone should be heard. they should be heard and dealt with. >> mr. trump's press secretary brushed off the women today. >> the american people knew this and voted for the president. >> but samantha holvey, a trump accuser says they're not going away. >> i just want us as a country to say, this is not acceptable behavior. period. >> reporter: not from -- >> not from anybody. >> reporter: including the president. >> including the president. especially the president. >> reporter: democratic senators, kirsten gillibrand echoed calls for an investigation. and gillibrand took it a step further calling on the president to resign. jeff. >> jim axelrod, thank you very much. as the we continue off to night from paris -- up next how the kids got game. ♪ finally tonight in basketball, it would be hard to find anyone better at passing the ball than the man you are about to meet. he is winning new fans every day. here is adrianna diaz. >> reporter: michael gibson isn't in the business of bringing people joy. >> i serve legal complaints all over the city of philadelphia. nobody is 100% happy with me. >> reporter: where he is happy at the court -- the basketball court. his passion is the game he played as a boy on the streets of philly. one he says is more than a pastime here, it is a religion. >> there is people out playing basketball every single day. >> reporter: including kids gibson saw last winter when he happened to have a new ball in his car. >> noticed two kids playing with a beat up ball outside on a home made court. >> reporter: he took a picture to remember the moment. >> their smiles were jumping out of the camera. i thought maybe i can do this for a couple more children. >> reporter: naturally posted to facebook and began to collect donations for basketballs. he called it the sixth man project for the five players on the court. he is coming off the bench as the the sixth. you always have a trunk full of balls? >> yes. >> reporter: during work breaks he delivers the unexpected presents to kids. >> how is everybody doing? you like the game of basketball? >> yes! >> reporter: what did you think when the stranger came over giving you've basketballs. >> i was shocked. >> did it make you feel special? >> a lot. >> reporter: mike says these smiles keep him going. he donated balls to this program to the delight of the 8th graders. >> may me feel like there was faith in the world. wasn't all bad team. >> hope it will spread to other areas of their life. maybe they will realize other people out there willing to do that for them. >> reporter: he has given out more than 800 balls in over a year. one man, giving kids a shot on the courts where he got his. adrianna diaz, cbs news. >> i'm jeff glor reporting tonight from paris. thank you for watching. good night. a recent polls show a tightening race. president trump is supporting moore who repeatedly denied allegations of sexual misconduct. republicans hold a slim two-seat majority in the senate. alabama has not sent a democrat to the senate in 25 years. manuel bojorquez is in montgomery. >> reporter: roy moore holds a slight edge over doug jones. most say too close to call. with the election 24 hours away, campaigns are focusing on one thing. turnout. >> when you think you can't knock on another door. knock or one more door. >> reporter: with hours until voters head to the polls in alabama, volunteers for doug jones are scrambling to rally support. do you think anyone is undecided? 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>> my perpetrator would follow me on runs. he would tell me he urinated on my car. he would write crude things on my car like in the fog. he would sent me horrible text messages. he would stalk me. ask me where i was going in my little brown dress. >> was he ever reprimanded in any way? >> he was talked to by his commander about a crude text message that i received and was told that its unbecoming of an officer. >> what happened to that cadet? >> he graduated. >> what happened to you? >> i left. >> hilldermeier said she was sexually assaulted by two cadets. she admits they were all drinking underaged. she says they begin to harass her. she filed a report about the assault. but told us agents based at academy with the air force office of special investigations had already made up their mind. >> they would attack me. they would say things like, these guys have every reason to tell the truth. you have every reason to lie. and, um, they would just, they made me feel like it was my fault that this had happened to me. like, yes, i was drinking underaged, and i shouldn't have been doing that. >> so were they? >> they were. but it was my fault that i got sexually assaulted. >> how are cadets treated when they go public? >> it is typically negative. >> teresa beasley air force academy top official on sexual assault response for ten years. >> there are negative things said on anonymous social media, they're ostracized frequently by squad mates. usually word spread fast and gets out who is the victim. they will have name plates taken off the room thrown on the ground. people won't sit with them at lunch. >> how are they treated by their commanders? >> depend on the commander. some commanders will begin retaliating as well. >> reporter: why current cadets are risking their careers by speaking to us about their sexual assaults? >> he held me, held me down while he, while he was assaulted me. i am at some house. i don't know where i am. and he is raping me. and then he i can't, i can't fight him off, i can't do anything. and i was going to take it to my grave. >> reporter: they requested we protect their identities. >> there is no understanding in the commanders about sexual assault, the trauma, the effects, they don't know. they don't realize that when i am depressed in my bed not because, oh, i don't want to go to class today. i was terrified of reporting because i heard of things that happened to people. and it did happen to me. so it is not horror stories, it is slut shaming, it is victim blaming, it is rumors your career on the line. i have never wanted this. all i ever wanted to do in my life was serve my country. and be one of the best officers that i could be. >> the most unfortunate thing. you go there because you want to protect your country. and they, they don't protect you. >> do you regret reporting the assault? 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>> yeah. >> who is it? >> donald sutherland may not look like the guy next door. >> i am an investigator. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped him from carving out one of the longest lasting, unconventional careers in the film business. he played leading men. >> the whole of life is nothing but an accident, what happens to you. >> and all manner of misfits. he turned up in army field hospitals. >> scratch my nose. >> there. little higher, please. >> english country estates. >> i could not have parted with you, to anyone less worthy. >> reporter: and toniest corners of upper manhattan. >> money. >> this is the 75th year of the hunger games. >> reporter: he had a particular soft spot for bad guys. >> did your mother make these? >> reporter: and over the years he played a lot of them. >> don't lie! you promised. >> reporter: a lot of the roles you take on are not always sympathetic? >> they're not sympathetic to you, but they are to me. >> they are? >> sometimes -- >> pyromaniac in backdraft? 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>> no, but you have regret. >> if there is a slight sadness about sutherland it may be because his childhood in canada wasn't easy. he survived polio as a toddler and spent fourth grade at home with rheumatic fever. he was an awkward kid, tall with big ears at school they called him dumbo. at 16 he had a question for his mother. >> i went to her, and i said, "mother, am i good looking?" and my mother, looked at me and went -- "your face has character, donald." and i went and hid in my room for at least a day. >> did what she say stay with you? >> not really, just, just for -- just for 65, 66 years. it's not easy, andersen. it is not easy to know that you are an ugly man in a business like i'm in. >> do you think of yourself as an ugly man? >> unattractive, a gentler way of putting it. >> reporter: his insecurities didn't stop him from acting in plays in college. in the early 1960s he started picking up work in television and b movies. like "castle of the living dead." you would be forgiven if you never heard of it. that is him playing part of the soldier and witch in the same scene. >> you all right? 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