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
a[3gp . Rlkn pelley ni League Baseball and one of its biggest stars moved to a new arena a federal court in new york. Alex rodriguez, third baseman for the new york yankees, filed suit asking the court to throw out his seasonlong suspension for using banned substances. An arbitrator upheld that suspension over the weekend. Rodriguez denies doping, but last night on 60 minutes, his chief accuser told a very different story. Anthony bosch said rodriguez paid him 12,000 a month to administer a program of banned drugs. Jim axelrod begins our coverage. Reporter lawyers for Alex Rodriguez argue Fred Horowitz, baseballs chief arbitrator who heard the case, was biased, ruling in favor of baseball to keep his job. Joe tacopina is a rodriguez attorney. It doesnt take a stretch of the imagination to understand that Fred Horowitz understood that he ruled against major League Baseball in this case would be fired the next day. Reporter the arbitrator said there was clear and convincing evidence rodr
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