didn t know how we were going to make it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: today, the nation s top law enforcement officer, attorney general jeff sessions, refuted what he called appalling and detestable lies. sessions asked for today s hearing before the senate intelligence committee s investigation of russian tampering in the presidential election. this was the administration s first sworn rebuttal of former f.b.i. director james comey, who testified last week that the president pressured him to drop the investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. president trump called comey a coward and a nut job. today, the attorney general was more measured, even though he declined to answer some of the most revealing questions. we have a team of correspondents covering, beginning with nancy cordes on capitol hill. i mean, what is this? reporter: under oath, the attorney general said he is being smeared by
and on that, the attorney general didn t say much about that. he was not answering the questions. we saw in nancy s piece, the attorney general declining to answer many questions. where does that go from here? he s asserting a privilege the president has not asserted. he s saying the president could stay assert privilege. what would happen is the congress would have to hold him in contempt. there are republicans running congress. they are not likely to do that. but were they to hold him in contempt, the president would have to exert executive privilege, and then the courts would have to work it out. but for now he s not talking much and there are other officials as well. now jeff pegues brings us up to date on the russia investigation. i know nothing but what i ve read in the paper. reporter: attorney general jeff sessions said today he still has not been shown the evidence of russian meddling in last year s election. i ve never received any detailed briefing on h
with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. today, we heard chilling accounts of the terror in an orlando nightclub. the orange county sheriff s office released recordings of frantic calls to 911 on that june night when a gunman opened fire, killing 49 people. it was the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. mark strassmann, who covered the massacre, has the just-released audio. . ( gunfire ) reporter: at 2:03 a.m., 911 callers began reporting a massacre in progress. . let s go! right here! reporter: right after last call, a gunman with a . he s coming in. reporter: this is the first release of 911 recordings from people who were actually inside the club when the massacre began. let s go! reporter: police body camera video shows the chaos as first responders arrived. 911 calls also kept coming, some from relatives of people still trapped inside. as they hid in bathrooms, like those in this cell phone video, they te
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. today, we heard chilling accounts of the terror in an orlando nightclub. the orange county sheriff s office released recordings of frantic calls to 911 on that june night when a gunman opened fire, killing 49 people. it was the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. mark strassmann, who covered the massacre, has the audio. ( gunfire ) reporter: at 2:03 a.m., 911 callers began reporting a massacre in progress. let s go! right here! reporter: right after last semiautomatic rifle roamed through the nightclub. he s coming in. reporter: this is the first release of 911 recordings from people who were actually inside the club when the the massacre began. let s go! let s go! reporter: police body camera video shows the chaos as first responders arrived. 911 calls also kept coming, some from relatives of people still trapped inside. as they hid i
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. today, we heard chilling accounts of the terror in an orlando nightclub. the orange county sheriff s office released recordings of frantic calls to 911 on that june night when a gunman opened fire, killing 49 people. it was the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. mark strassmann, who covered the massacre, has the just-released audio. ( gunfire ) reporter: at 2:03 a.m., 911 callers began reporting a massacre in progress. let s go! right here! reporter: right after last call, a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle roamed through the nightclub. he s coming in. reporter: this is the first release of 911 recordings from people who were actually inside the club when the the massacre began. let s go! let s go! reporter: police body camera video shows the chaos as first responders arrived. 911 calls also kept coming, some from relatives of people