This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. President obama said tonight russia has no excuse for massing troops on the border of ukraine, and no excuse for lending covert support to militias causing what he calls chaos there. Ukraine is trying desperately tonight to put down an uprising in the eastern parent of the country. Just weeks another russia snatched ukraines crimea peninsula. This afternoon, the president spoke to chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett at a Community College in pennsylvania, where mr. Obama had Just Announced grants for job training programs. Major. Job training programs. Major. Reporter scott, the president told me russia is operating from a position of weakness, and thats why he said it has resorted to outlandish rhetoric and propaganda the world hasnt seen since the era of the soviet union. Mr. President , on ukraine, is Vladimir Putin provoke a civil war there and will you and western leaders le
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