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from the microphone began to groan. i need to address one more point. reporter: mind the audience s skepticism, the moderator asked, stem toward the attitude donald trump had to women in the past, seeming to go to the video about groping women. i certainly heard the criticism from the media. and that s been perpetuated, but i know from personal experience. reporter: president trump had also championed women s rights, his daughter said. german chancellor angela merkle had welcomed ivanka trump here. at least, says joseph braumle, that was the plan. i think that was a smart move by our chancellor. she made it clear, we want to have contact and maybe if it takes two women to contain a radical man, so be it. reporter: ivanka trump later downplayed the incident, saying politics is politics. but scott, the first daughter s first foray onto the international stage had its rough moments. mark phillips at the brand brandenburg gate. president trump is strengtheni ....
after a sneak attack by the taliban on an afghan military base that killed at least 140 afghan soldiers. military vehicles drove taliban fighters dressed in afghan army uniforms past checkpoints. survivors said the militants then opened fire on unarmed afghan soldiers returning from a mosque. mattis called the attack barbaric. the taliban also claimed responsibility for another attack at camp chapman that houses cia and special operations forces. in 2009, seven cia officers were killed in a suicide bomb attack. there were to american casualties this time. the taliban now control about 40% of the country. the u.s. sent 300 marines to hellman province this month. general nicholson said he may need a few more,000 troops. despite a resurgent taliban, the u.s. military targeted isis militants two weeks ago, driving a 22,000-pound bomb on a series of tunnels. there s been no confirmation of isis deaths. defense sent msecretary mattis said 2017 is going to be another tough yea ....
reporter: kevin learner could in the believe what he was witnessing suspect firing several shots at a delaware state trooper, all playing out in the parking lot of this wawa in the 1600 block of pull as ski highway just afternoon. i was right here watching the shot, and you know, that is horrific. reporter: other two who work at strip mall were witnesses like brady, too shaken to she her face. i just can t concentrate right nowy saw him fall. it is something i didn t want to see, like, i saw him fall. reporter: witnesses say uniformed trooper had some kind of an exchange with two suspects in this burgundy car before the shots were fired. police gathered evidence from an extensive amount of bullet casings, all of the while those used to coming to this wawa, can t seem to shake this image. i didn t know what to think , i actually thought to myself, five minutes earlier down this road i would have been in that wawa. so, it was just, there is no respect for poli ....
oscar-winning director of silence of the lambs. i ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. this is the cbs evening captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: today the trump administration rushed out a plan for historic tax cuts high on hyperbole with only a dal almost of detail. the list of aspirations looked more like an attempt to beat the 100-day mark in the trump presidency rather than a serious proposal to reform the tax code. on paper everyone is in for a break, personal income taxes, corporate taxes, savings for the rich and the dead, but nothing on how to implement it or pay for it. far from legislation, the president s bullet points today were loaded into a starting gun that signals the beginning of a race of lobbyists and special interests to rewrite america s 70,000-page tax code. here s major garrett on the opening lap. great plan. reporter: president trump s plan calls for big corporate ....
,$8d rw another important story that we re watching tonight is the deteriorating situation in afghanistan. 9,000 u.s. troops are on the ground, trying to help the afghan army hold back a resurgent taliban, but the job is getting tougher by the day, thanks in part to moscow. charlie daggetta has this. reporter: u.s. defense secretary jim mattis arrived as the country crumbled deeper into chaos. the russians are complyisupplyi taliban with weapons. his top general john nicholson made it more clear. that. reporter: the visit comes after a sneak attack by the taliban on an afghan military base that killed at least 140 afghan soldiers. military vehicles drove taliban uniforms past checkpoints. survivors said the militants then opened fire oni unarmed afghan soldiers returning from a mosque. they called the attack barbaric. the taliban also claimed responsibility for another attack at camp chapman that houses cia and special operations forces. in 2009, seven u.s. offic ....