This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im maurice dubois. This is our western edition. This was the biggest day of Hillary Clintons president ial campaign since she locked up the democratic nomination. The f. B. I. Recommended she not be charged with a crime in the email scandal, though director james comey was sharply critical of her. And just hours later, president obama hit the trail with clinton for the first time to sing her praises. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Reporter the f. B. I. Director called clintons email arrangement extremely careless but said she did not obstruct justice and was not motivated by disloyalty to the u. S. , factors in previous prosecutions. In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these factors. Reporter st
Heres what he said a short time ago after the memos were made public. Im sure the special counsel is considering my recollections of these events. These would be to show that i wrote it down at the time to bolster the credibility of my recollection. Lets bring in chris stewart, a member of the house intel committee. Give us the take. It shows me that director comey was dishonest with the president from the beginning. Laura how so . He should have said, mr. President , we have this piece of political garbage that was funded by the dnc and Hillary Clinton, pay no attention to it and if anyone brings it up well refute it. He said it was salacious and unverified. Instead. What he said to the president is the russians are reporting. He knew that this wasnt some formal document the russian intelligence had created and put together. It was put together by Hillary Clinton and the dnc who used a Foreign Agent and second and third hand information from unidentified russians. And by the way, he i
Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Ray heading to the white house to speak with the president after he demanded via twitter the Justice Department investigate whether the fbi or doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign. And henry has the latest tonight. We just learned House Republicans are about to turn up the heat more. Mark meadows, jim jordan and other prominent lawmakers, house resolutions spelling out 12 pages of what they call massive misconduct at the fbi and Justice Department at the end of the obama administration, a resolution does not have the power of law but they hope to use it to build new momentum for a Second Special counsel to the name to investigate how the russia collusion probe started. The pres. Had the meeting at the white house, sally yates claims the president is waging an all out assault on democracy by pressuring the Justice Department, in a visit to cia headquarters to swear in gina haspel the president praised the courage of hous
The Supreme Court, runaway judges are striking fresh blows against the trump agenda. Plus, is california senator Kamala Harris the female obama in waiting for 2020 . We are going to debate that with someone who ran in her california circle and knows her well. How President Trump plans to use America First to make a big splash at tomorrows nato summit. First, kavanaugh, democrats, and dinosaurs. That is the focus of tonights angle. Watching the reaction of democrats to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the high court is likely to give you ulcers. Their anger and unhinged rants are one part dystopian drama, one part plain old sour grapes. Kavanaugh, a federal judge who has occupied the bench for over a dozen years and written hundreds of decisions, is a man who is really scary because he coaches his daughters Basketball Team and volunteers in soup kitchens. Now hes being derided as a total monster because of how he might rule on abortion, obamacare, and gun rights. Actress Julianne Mo
And at the left melts down over Brett Kavanaughs nomination to the Supreme Court, runaway judges are striking fresh blows against the trump agenda. Plus, is california senator Kamala Harris the female obama in waiting . We are going to debate that with someone who ran in her california circle and knows her well. How President Trump plans to use America First to make a big splash at tomorrows nato summit. First, kavanaugh, democrats, and dinosaurs. That is the focus of tonights angle. Watching the reaction of democrats to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the high court is likely to give you ulcers. Their anger and unhinged rants are one part dystopian drama, one part plain old sour grapes. Kavanaugh, a federal judge was occupied the bench for over a dozen years and written hundreds of decisions, is a man who was really scary because he coaches his daughters Basketball Team and volunteers in soup kitchens. Now hes being derided as a total monster because of how he might rule on abort