Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today, donald trump detailed millions of dollars that hes donated to veterans charities, which might have been a celebration except he could not conceal his resentment that he had been forced to do it. Reporters have been pressing the presumptive president ial nominee for details of these donations. Its the kind of scrutiny that any candidate faces, but we were reminded today trump is not any candidate. Major garrett was there. I have raised a tremendous amount of money for the vets, almost 6 million. Reporter 5. 6 million to be exact. For the first time donald trump identified the recipients and amounts. Folds of honor foundation, capitol hill 200,000. Foundation for american veterans, 75,000. This is a special night for me. Reporter trump said he raised the money for veterans groups in january while boycotting a debate in iowa. We just cracked 6 million, right, 6 million. Reporter but trump could offer
Stories. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. This is a special night for me. Reporter trump said he raised the money for veterans groups in january while boycotting a debate in iowa. We just cracked 6 million, right, 6 million. Reporter but trump could offer no proof he actually raised that sum, and finally, just last week, he made good on his donationave million dollars. Continued scrutiny led trump to divulge more details today. How personally involved were you in deciding which organization were going to be recipients and how much they got . I wasnt too involved in picking the organization, other than i gave 1 million to the Law Enforcement marine they are fabulous people. They honored me last year at the waldorph astoria. Reporter today donald trump torched reporters who questioned where the money went. The press should be ashamed of themselves. I should never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job. Reporter dont you believe yo
Cnn that they are hoping for a longer Term Agreement beyond just a ceasefire, and that seems to be where the impasse is. Over the past 24 hours, increasingly there are signs that the israelis want to extend the ceasefire beyond friday. However, at least some members of the palestinian delegation is not on board, notably hamas. Of course, they have been doing the fighting in gaza. They have the most at stake. Their position is they didnt stop fighting. They didnt come to cairo to extend the ceasefire. They want to address some of their core demands which, of course, include the lifting of the blockades, the opening of the border. Will they reach some sort of agreement which hamas wants, or will they extend ceasefire . A lot at stake here in the coming hours in kay row. Well see where things go, chris. Reza, thank you very much. Kate . Thanks so much. Meantime, president obama defended israel yesterday slamming hamas militants for their role in the conflict, this as israeli Prime Ministe
Columnist Christine Brennan join us. And the 44th president of the United States of america, barack obama. A kiss and a diss. The narcy campaign against the chair of the Democratic Party, our political roundtable is ready to roll. This is state of the union. We begin account latest pleas for mercy directed at people who appear to have none, still the wife of british hostage alan henning is begging his isis captors to spare his life, and Muslim Leaders in britain have publicly declared that killing henning is not permitted by islamic law. Law, order and even mercy may be on the agenda for World Leaders gathering in new york this week. Does any of this make a difference to terrorists . With me former british Prime Minister tony blair. Mr. Prime minister, thanks for being with us. Pleasure, candy. Let me start with the u. S. Led effort against isis and ask you what you think overall of the plan . The president is absolutely right to take on isis and to build the broadest possible coalitio
Never happened before in the United States, frankly has never happened anywhere outside of africa. The first patient being diagnosed here. Obviously other patients have been here with ebola, theyve been diagnosed elsewhere and came here for treatment. Theres also this idea that theres two sort of big objectives now, this is going to be a test of our Public Health system. How well are they going to be able to take care of this patient, who we hear is in critical condition, but in isolation in dallas and what about all the people over the four days after the person was sick . The contacts . Thats the most important thing. Theyve got to find those contacts, thats how you stop an outbreak. This morning, the doortodoor investigation begins. Health officials, including a crew from the centers for Disease Control, now in dallas, in search of anyone who may have come in contact with the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the United States. The patient admitted to this hospital has tested po