Transcripts For KYW CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 20170

Transcripts For KYW CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 20170227



>> pelley: america's long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. the announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttle's last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. here's don dahler. >> two, one, zero, liftoff. lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. they've already put down what's described as a serious deposit. cbs news space expert bill harwood. >> talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. >> reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moon's surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. they'll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for "60 minutes" his friends were dubious. >> i had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. >> pelley: what did they tell you? >> one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. he just didn't want me to lose all my money. >> reporter: in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. still, musk is known for making bold predictions that don't quite come to pass. in 2011 he vowed to put people in space in three years. that has yet to happen. >> elon musk makes no secret of his desire to send humans to mars. this is a major step in that direction. rawfort to that end, musk says these private ends will produce significant revenue from the company and hopes to launch passengers into space once or twice a year. scott, such trips must be licensed by the federal aviation administration. >> pelley: don dahler for us tonight. don, thank you. tonight philadelphia police are hunting for whoever damaged more than 100 headstones at a jewish cemetery on saturday night. there was a similar attack last week in missouri. and today there were 22 bomb threats to jewish centers and schools in 13 states. justice correspondent jeff pegues is looking into this. >> reporter: in cherry hill, new jersey, another jewish community center was evacuated this morning after a threatening call. since the beginning of the year, there have been at least 90 similar phone calls across 30 states and one canadian province. a u.s. official says the calls appear to be coordinated. some may be originating from overseas. they range from individuals phoning in threats to machine-generated or altered calls. >> it is a bomb. report in what's described as one of the telephone threats made on january 18th, the voice appears to be altered. >> i think i told you enough. i must go. >> reporter: last month there were 57 calls. one of them came to the switchboard at the jewish community center in rockville, maryland. >> we're told that there was a bomb in the building. >> reporter: the center's president, michael feinstein, says it was first time they received such a threat. >> this is an example of anti-semitism, and it's a hate crime. >> reporter: the phone threats have targeted jewish community centers in waves from east to west coast. scott, they usually come around late morning when centers are in full use. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. jeff, thank you. there are questions tonight about whether the white house is trying to itfluence congressional investigations of the 2016 presidential election and possible contacts between russia and the trump campaign. our congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. >> what would be the problem of the white house sending me a number of a press person to call? >> reporter: intelligence chair and republican devin nunes is leading the house investigation into possible collusion between trump campaign officials and russian operatives, but he insisted today there was nothing wrong with him and his senate counterpart richard burr making a few calls at the request of trump's aides. >> all it was was a white house communications person passing a number and name of a reporter over, if i would talk to them. >> reporter: but that combined with reports that white house officials made similar requests of the c.i.a. director and f.b.i. officials prompted fresh accusations from democrats about white house tampering. >> we have to do this investigation bipartisan. >> reporter: virginia's mark warner is the top democrat on the intelligence committee. >> we have to not let a white house or any other political interference get in its way, because it's too important. >> reporter: white house press secretary sean spicer would not confirm or deny that c.i.a. director mike pompeo was asked to defend the campaign: >> i'm not going to discuss what we did internally. >> reporter: nunes argued the probe is probably a dead end anyway. >> from what i've been told by many folks is that there's nothing there. >> reporter: is he right that there's no evidence? >> well, first of all, we have not obtained any of the evidence yet. >> reporter: adam schiff is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. >> we can't draw any conclusions, nor should we. we shouldn't be prejudging where the facts lead. >> reporter: schiff added that he is not convinced yet that the f.b.i. will share all the information it gathers with congress. scott, cbs news has learned that it's the f.b.i.'s counterintelligence division that is leading this investigation. >> pelley: nancy cordes on capitol hill. and at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, our chief white house correspondent major garrett. major, we learned some details today of the president's domestic agenda. >> reporter: yes, on the political front, scott, the white house and top republican leaders trying to put some muscle back behind the now-stalled effort to repeal and replace obamacare. now, details are sparse, but the goal is for both the house and senate to act by mid-may to create a new transitional health insurance marketplace, one with no individual coverage mandate, fewer regulations, more tax credits, fewer tax subsidies. as the president said today, it's all very complicated business. the president will also ask congress for $54 billion in additional defense spending in this budget year, and at the same time, scott, ask congress to cut that same amount, $54 billion, from domestic programs and foreign aid. >> pelley: the president said who knew health care was so complicated. major garrett, thank you. cbs news will bring you president trump's first address to a joint session of congress tomorrow evening. our live coverage begins at 9:00 eastern time. the white house said today that the military is conducting three investigations of an anti-terrorism raid one month ago in yemen. navy seal ryan owens was killed along with a dozen civilians. other americans were wounded and a u.s. aircraft was lost. well, now, owens' father is demanding answers and jan crawford is following that. >> his family was there, incredible family, loved him so much, so devastated. >> reporter: president trump earlier this month described meeting the family of navy seal ryan owens when his body was returned to the u.s. but owens' father bill declined a meeting with his son's commander-in-chief. in an interview with the "miami herald," he said, "i didn't want to make a scene about it, but my conscience wouldn't let me talk to him. he asked, why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn't even barely a week into his administration." under the cover of night on january 28th, seal team 6 became pinned down outside the al qaeda compound. they were forced to call in a helicopter gunship to silence the fire. 14 al qaeda operatives and at least 15 civilians were killed in the firefight. owens also was killed in a $72 million evac air crash landed. >> the timing was linked to a broader offensive we're pursuing in yemen. >> reporter: david martin was told preparation for the operation was thorough. the raid was monitored in real-time. >> some people have called this success. some people have called it a failure. what would you call it. >> again, the object was to go in and collect intelts. we accomplished that. from that perspective it was successful. i certainly understand how the family would look at this in a different light. >> reporter: now, white house press secretary sean spicer said the pentagon is conducting a review of the bat until yemen, which is standard whenever a mission results in losses of life. and scott, spicer also offered his condolences to the owens' family on behalf of the president. >> pelley: jan crawford, thanks. terrorism is one reason the secret service is tailing the president's children, but when his adult children are running global businesses, the taxpayers' bill runs high. anna werner has looked into that. >> reporter: by wednesday eric trump will have gone to four countries on trump company business since january 1st, each with secret service agents in tow. in early january it was a trip to uruguay for a glitzy party to promote a new property with a reported $100,000 in hotel bills for secret service and other u.s. government personnel. then just a few weeks after the inauguration, he flew to the dominican republic, but not before secret service agents reportedly went for a routine advanced planning trip. within weeks eric and his brother donald, jr., flew to dubai for the gala opening of another trump property. and tomorrow night it's vancouver's turn, a new trump hotel that will be the city's second largest skyscraper. both brothers are expected to attend. and their secret service protection goes with them. the secret service won't say how much all those trips cost the agency, but taxpayers are footing the bill. the law requires protection for the president and vice president and their immediate families, but secret service coverage for adult children is optional. they could decline it. ronald reagan's son ron reagan eventually did just that. >> the taxpayers are stuck. >> reporter: washington university law professor kathleen clark teachings oneth knicks government. >> the bottom line on how much it is costing the taxpayers, absolutely is something that i believe the public and congress has the right to know. >> reporter: we asked the trump organization if they expect the president's sons to keep up their pace of international travel, and whether eric or donald, jr., have considered reimbursing for the cost of secret service protection on their business trips, but we got no response. scott, the secret service told us it has effectively adapted to the unique challenges of each administration. >> pelley: anna werner, thanks. today the japanese company takata pleaded guilty to fraud charges for concealing a defect in its air bags that caused some of those air bags to explode. takata also agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal penalties. at least 11 deaths are linked to the air bag, which led to the largest recall in automotive history, 42 million vehicles. coming up next on the "cbs evening news." account'ntants take the blame fa screwup at the oscar, and "moonlight" gives hope to inner "moonlight" gives hope to inner city kids in the sunshine state. dayquil liquid gels don't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. if you 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