In the past hour, President Trump has blocked the release of a classified memo that rebutted claims that there was anti trump bias in the fbis russia investigation. The white house said the memo, written by democratic congressmen, couldnt be released because it contained classified material. Lets go now to our north america correspondent peter bowes for more. I had some very Smart Questions to ask about with redacted information and why this was going to appear as double standards but apparently the democrats are now saying Something Else . They are saying they will consider some reductions and actually it isnt a huge surprise. I think we have been half expecting that this would happen, certainly over the last few days, the signs we re over the last few days, the signs were that the white house would probably come back and say that out of security considerations, it was not able to release the document which, as you have already said, is essentially a reduction, is essentially a reduct
Of a classified memo that rebutted claims there was anti trump bias in the fbis investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. The white house said it couldnt be released because it contained classified material. Our correspondent peter bowes has more on the plan to redact the memo in order to get it published. Well, the democrats are saying that they will consider some reductions and actually, that isnt a huge surprise. I think we had been half expecting that this would happen. Certainly over the last few days, the signs were that the white house would probably come back and say that out of security considerations, it wasnt able to release this document which, as you have already said, is essentially a reduction is essentially a rebuttal of the very controversial document that we saw last week from the republicans, that essentially accused the fbi of being biased against donald trump. And if these redactions can be got through, do you think the president will ag
To bbc world news. President trump has praised a former white house staff member who quit this week amid allegations he abused two former wives. Mr trump said rob porter maintained his innocence and had done a good job. Our north america editor jon sopel has more. He was the clean cut, chisel george, harvard law educated rising star of this white house, in charge of controlling the flow of paper across the president s desk but after three days of confusion and chaos he has quit and missed a swell of Domestic Abuse allegations but today the president seemed to be more concerned about rob porter than his victims. A tough time to him. He did a very good job in the white house are we happy has a i walked president e5553; §§ee§§§e§§§§§f statement the president e5553; §§ee§§§e§§§§§f statement the saint seiezfl tzefiegffifi ein car 5. 22554 £2154 wishes him luck, he has so much he wishes him luck, he has so much talent. That is like saying that a cts talent. That is l
Alfonsi good evening. Scott is on assignment for 60 minutes. Im sharyn alfonsi. The white house today announced a surge of spending to deal with the surge of illegal immigration. Just since october, the u. S. Has picked up 52,000 unaccompanied children crossing into the United States from mexico. Most are from central america. The u. S. Will spend 93 million to, among other things, repatriatate them and help Central American countries fight the violence that is driving young people here. Anna werner begins our coverage. Reporter Border Patrol officials in texas Rio Grande Valley catch as many as 1400 Illegal Immigrants crossing every day. The white house now plans to speed up processing by bringing in more immigration judges, moving more quickly to deport those not eligible for asylum, and expanding detention space. The white house blames the surge of border controllings on what it calls a deliberate Misinformation Campaign by Central American smugglers. Raul ortiz is a deputy chief Bo
This is the cbs evening schieffer good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im Bob Schieffer. The state department issued a travel alert today for americans, mostly for those traveling in the middle east and north africa, and 21 american diplomatic posts in that part of the world, including iraq, egypt, afghanistan, and libya, will be closed on sunday. So far, the government hasnt said much except that it is all connected to al qaeda. But our National Security correspondent david martin has learned new details about why the government is taking this so seriously. The threat comes from yemen, where the group known as al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has emerged as the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. The intelligence does not reveal where an attack might occur. Analysts believe yemen is the most likely place, but warn it could be anywhere in the arc of mostly muslim countries stretching from north africa to south asia. The threat goes beyond u. S. Inn stlaigzs to include t