They know how to play this game. They will have been sizing up the administration expertly over the last little while, looking for any opportunity to strengthen those links, hoping that the candidate they clearly favored in the u. S. Election, donald trump, will bring them in from the cold. And the end game, of course, is to get those sanctions lifted. Elizabeth palmer in sochi, Margaret Brennan at the state department. Thank you both. With the house in recess, republican members are hearing from angry constituents at town meetings back home. Most complaints at first were about the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Then the comey story exploded. Heres dean reynolds. Tell the truth tell the truth reporter at one town hall no, answer the last question reporter after another. Open your eyes all right. All right. Reporter Congressional Republicans on recess this week [ boos ]. Have been getting an earful. And now another issue is testing their hearing. I have a question in regards
He didnt share it with us. We were a set of pictures getting a lot of attention shows the president sharing a laugh at the white house yesterday with russias foreign minister, sergey lavrov, and sergey kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Kislyak is a key figure in the investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether there was any collusion with team trump. The photos were russian. No American Press attended. Were joined now by Margaret Brennan at the state department and Elizabeth Palmer in sochi, russia. Margaret, let me start with you. How did this meeting come about . White house Officials Say that last week during a phone call Vladimir Putin personally asked President Trump to meet with his top diplomat sergey lavrov. The meeting in the oval office lasted around 30 minutes, and at trump whether the firing of fbi director comey had any impact, he said none at all. But an invitation into the oval office is an honor, and the fact that President Trump went t
Record. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Washington is bugging out over President Trumps ununstan shated claim this weekend that President Trump bugged his new york office before the election. The president made the accusation early saturday on twitter and followed it up with an official white house statement sunday requesting a congressional investigation. The New York Times reports fbi director james comey is asking the Justice Department to publicly reject mr. Trumps claim. The president is back at the white house after spending the weekend at the socalled winter white house, the maralago resort in palm beach, florida. Errol barnett is there. Reporter President Trump was here in florida 1,000 miles from washington when he launched a series of tweets claiming that former president obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower in new york. No evidence was provided and president obama denied it. So democrats and republicans have been trying to
And an allfemale flight crew claims a world record. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Washington is bugging out over President Trumps unsubstantiated claim this weekend that president obama bugged his new york office before the election. The president made the accusation early saturday and followed it up with an official white house statement sunday requesting a congressional investigation. The New York Times reports fbi director james comey is asking the Justice Department to publicly reject mr. Trumps claim. The president is back at the white house after spending the weekend at the socalled winter white house, the maralago resort in palm beach, florida. Errol barnett is there. Reporter President Trump was here in florida 1,000 miles from washington when he launched a series of tweets claiming that former president obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower in new york. No evidence was provided and president obama denied it. So democrats and
What we need to deal with is evidence, not just statements. At this point, ive seen no evidence of what hes alleged, but ive also not seen collaboration as director dni clapper also said today, that he had not seen evidence of collaboration. But we are in the very early stages of our investigation. And this is why it is so important that we do an in depth, exhaustive, bipartisan, independent investigation, because the American People deserve answers to all of these allegations and counterallegations so that we can get on with the business of this country. The president has said and the white house said theyre not going to talk anymore about his accusations over the weekend. But now that hes put that out there, hes the president of the united states. He has access to this information, even if he might have been going off of a n report. He has access to all of this information. Do you think its important for him now to put forward this evidence in some form to back up his claims because