an inspiring internet sensation. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: a notorious moscow bank that acts as a front for russian espionage is now part of the investigation into contacts between the trump campaign and the russian government. this time it is the president's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner who will be questioned by senate investigators about his meeting with the russian veb bank. the bank used to be chaired by russian president vladimir putin, and it has funded so many of putin's pet projects that it had to be bailed out by the russian government. already two trump officials, the president's national security adviser and his former campaign chairman, have been forced to resign over contacts with russia. major garrett has details on today's revelation involving mr. trump's son-in-law. >> reporter: the previously undisclosed meeting took place during the trump transition, before jared kushner stepped down as head of his real estate firm. in december, kushner sat down with russian ambassador to the u.s. sergey kislyak at trump tower, a meeting the trump team had previously confirmed. but afterward kislyak asked kushner to meet the head of a russian bank known as veb, which has deep ties to president vladimir putin and russian intelligence agencies. the bank is run by sergey gorkov, who once trained at the russian spy agency known as fsb. in 2016, another veb official, used his jock to disguise efforts to recruit u.s. spice for russia. the veb was sanctioned by the government after the annexation of crimea. >> i had nothing to do with it. i have nothing to do with russia. i have to deals there. i have nothing there. >> reporter: the president has long denied ties to russia, but the kushner disclosure moved the russia enquiry even closer to the oval office. white house press secretary sean spicer said kushner acted as a conduit to foreign governments during the transition. >> he met with countless individuals. that was part of his job. that was part of his role. he executed it completely as he was supposed to. >> reporter: so he doesn't believe he owes the american public an explanation? >> for what, doing his job? >> i'm just asking. >> you're acting as though there is something nefarious. >> reporter: virginia's tom democrat on the committee. >> if there is nothing there, the administration should want us to get this right and we'll say nothing there. if there is something there, we'll follow the intel wherever it leads. >> reporter: senator warner told us no decisions have been made about whether kushner's testimony would be given in public or under oath. scott, the senator offered no opinion on white house explanations that kushner's interactions with the russians were routine. >> pelley: major garrett at the white house tonight. major, thank you. well, the spy posing in new york as a veb bank officer, was arrested by the f.b.i. in 2015. he pleaded guilty to spying and was sentenced to 30 months, but we learned today that he is being released this saturday, having served ten months. the house intelligence committee is also investigating russian connections into the trump campaign. today the republican committee chairman revealed that he had a secret meeting on the investigation with a secret source on the white house grounds. we have more about that from jeff pegues. >> reporter: devin nunes, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, said he was at the white house grounds last tuesday to meet a source and look at highly classified information in a secure location. >> i have been working this for a long time with many different sources and needed a place that i could actually finally go because i knew what i was looking for and i could actually get access to what i needed to see. >> reporter: tuesday's visit to the white house complex was the start of several days of unusual meetings and conflicting disclosures. on wednesday nunes revealed to the press that he had seen evidence that the obama administration had intercepted communications involving members of the trump transition team. nunes then returned to the white house to personally brief the president before disclosing the information to members of his own committee. on thursday he was forced to apologize for keeping them in the dark. by friday nunes seemed less certain of his claims. >> it's hard to know where the information came from until you get the reports and have time to go through them and see all the sourcing of the documents. >> reporter: nunes has denied that his source is from the white house. today white house spokesman sean spicer said even he doesn't know where the information came from. >> i can't say 100% that i know anything what he briefed him on. >> so it is possible, as far as you know right now... >> anything's possible. >> okay. >> reporter: democrats say nunes' behavior makes it impossible for him to continue the lead an impartial investigation into russian involvement with trump associates. senator chuck schumer. >> chairman nunes is falling down on the job and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. >> reporter: it is unclear why nunes chose to view the classified information at a secure location white house grounds. there are similar facilities in other government buildings. scott, nunes says that he needed access to a specific computer network that was not available on capitol hill. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom tonight. today attorney general jeff sessions warned that cities that don't help enforce immigration laws may lose federal grant money. ben tracy has more about the trump administration's enforcement efforts and who is being targeted. >> he stepped out and he never came back in. >> reporter: 19-year-old estefany ortiz says immigration and customs enforcement agents came to her house in pasadena last month looking for someone who did not live there. they arrested her father, carlos ortiz, instead. he was in the country illegally but had no criminal record. >> why did we open the door? nobody's going to want to open the door. everyone is scared. >> reporter: the los angeles police department says aggressive ice enforcement tactics are also having a chilling effect on latinos reporting crimes. since the beginning of the year, reports of sexual assault by latinos dropped 25%. domestic violence reports fell 10%. >> they start the clam up. they no longer come to court. >> reporter: california supreme court justice tani cantil-sakauye says lawyers are telling her latinos are now afraid to show up at courthouses, so she wrote a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, accusing federal agents of stalking undocumented immigrants in our courthouses to make arrests. >> those are strong words. >> i feel that the courthouses are being targeted by ice for arrests in a way that's unprecedented. >> reporter: what is your concern if ice agents are in courthouses? >> victims aren't going to come to court. witnesses aren't going to come to testify against bad guys in violent communities because they're afraid that they're going to get arrested in court. >> reporter: in a statement, ice said, "while ice does arrest targets at courthouse, generally it's only after investigating officers have exhausted other options." but in response to ice actions, a proposed bill in california would bar state and local police from aiding federal immigration enforcement, including turning over criminals when they're released from jail. l.a. county sheriff jim mcdonnell says that's a bad idea. >> by not allowing them access to the jails, the likelihood is they're going to go into the communities looking for the individual, and they're not going to limit themselves to that individual. >> reporter: and to give you an idea of just how much federal money is now at stake here, san francisco and new york could lose nearly $25 billion combined, scott, if the trump white house follows through and cuts off funding for sanctuary cities. >> pelley: ben tracy for us tonight. ben, thank you. the president's failure to repeal and replace the affordable care act, at least on his first try, has been a disappointment to many who support mr. trump, but it is a relief to the folks who depend on obamacare. don dahler has been looking into that. >> reporter: jennifer winters' two-year-old son is in the hospital a lot these days. he is covered under the aca, but winter voted for donald trump. >> i'm a republican. i stayed true to my party and our principles. >> reporter: although she sees problems with the aca, she's grateful for some of the benefits. >> the main thing for the aca for me is, of course, the preexisting condition. that is huge. i mean, he has two major life-altering conditions that if i had to go and shop for it, i wouldn't be able to afford it. >> reporter: winter lives in quakertown, pennsylvania. congressman brian fits pallet rick was one of dozens who planned to vote no on the new health care bill before it got pulled. a moderate republican, fitzpatrick opposed the bill because it didn't do enough to address opioid addiction treatment. pennsylvania has over 700,000 enrolled in medicaid expansion and more than 426,000 in the aca marketplace. had the aca been repealed, the pennsylvania budget and policy center estimated over one million pennsylvanians would lose their coverage, like brian kline, who was diagnosed with cancer last year. >> the aca saved my life and saved me from medical bankruptcy. >> reporter: kline is a democrat who voted for clint, but he and winter have one thing in common, their message to congress on health care: >> stop fighting. stop arguing. stop folding your arms and being, i'm a democrat, i'm a republican. come together. that's why we elected you. >> reporter: scott, both winter and kline say they want the democrats to cooperate with the president in order to make the problems with obamacare better. >> pelley: don dahler, thanks. today the white house condemned the mass arrests in moscow during rallies against vladimir putin's government. the protests were organized by one of putin's fiercest political opponents. and elizabeth palmer is following this. >> reporter: united in angser, russians from across the country marched to protest against official corruption. in moscow, it was the biggest demonstration since the anti-kremlin rallies of 2012. but without a permit, authorities called the gathering illegal and soon the police had moved in. hundreds were arrested. including alexander navalny, an opposition leader and ferocious critic of president putin and his famously corrupt administration. earlier this month navalny released a video alleging that russia's prime minister had amassed a fortune in mash shun, yachts and vineyards, all through corrupt deals. the video went viral. and here's the reaction. 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