carbon are the leading contributors to climate warning. mr. trump said all of this is intended to put american miners back to work and major garrett is at the white house. >> i am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy to, reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations. >> reporter: president trump made history of the obama administration's efforts to curb greenhouse gasses. by signing an executive order at the environmental protection agency, mr. trump took the first step toward erasing rules limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and easing restrictions on new coal mines. >> my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. >> reporter: industry workers joined mr. trump for the event. >> you see what it says, right? you're going back the work. >> reporter: coal mining accounts for roughly 50,000 jobs in america, down from its peak of nearly 180,000 in 1985. automation and the availability of natural gas from hydraulic fracturing has made coal production less competitive. >> we're here to announce the single

countries are moving towards renewable energy, coal is dead. people who voted to mr trump who are concerned about jobs, said people who voted to mr trump who are concerned aboutjobs, said even if a deceleration in the process would have an impact on my family. those who are concerned aboutjobs, they should be more concerned the night. today there are ten times more jobs in renewable energy in the united states tha n in renewable energy in the united states than in coal. there are four times renewable energy jobs states than in coal. there are four times renewable energyjobs in oil and gas. the solar industry is increasing by 6% and the job creation in the united states where as oil and is dropping by 18%. a measure like this is actually stealing jobs away from the united states, it is making products and services in the united states high carbon, that do not have a growing market in other countries. it is reducing the export from the united states and reducing job potential. this should be a concern. more detail on these new policies from donald trump, what he is putting in place, his argum

campaign. mr. trump began the morning on twitter defending the attorney general and his first meeting with russia's ambassador to the u.s., saying it was set up by the obama administration, then claimed in his words: "just out: the same russian ambassador that met jeff sessions visited the obama white house 22 times and four times last year alone." the defense of sessions was followed quickly by an extraordinary barrage of accusations against his predecessor, barack obama. offering no evidence, president trump accused president obama of tapping his phones at trump tower during the campaign, claiming: "nothing found. this is mccarthyism!" mr. trump went on to ask: "is it legal for a sitting president to be wire tapping a race for president prior to an election? a new low!" then another, saying: "i'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october, just prior to election!" then, finally: "how low has president obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon/watergate." mr. trump ends the tweet

intelligence. since his inauguration, mr. trump has continually stamped rumors with the seal of the president, including millions of illegal votes for hillary clinton, terror attacks no one knows about, and describing the news media as "a great danger to our country." but today the wiretap claims seem to cross a line. democrats and republicans called for mr. trump to provide evidence. margaret brennan leads our coverage. >> i have recused myself. >> reporter: it began with attorney general jeff sessions' decision thursday to recuse himself from any investigation of russian meddling during the campaign after revelations he spoke twice with russia's ambassador to the u.s. last year. >> mr. president, do you still have confidence in your attorney general? >> total. >> reporter: mr. trump strongly disagreed with the attorney general's decision. that same day, conservative radio host mark levin accused the obama administration of using what he called "police state tactics. >> the incredible scandal is the obama administration was investigating top officials in the trump campaign, maybe e

eventually arrested not far from mr. trump's bedroom window. it was supposed to be a quiet working weekend for the president, but with the reignited debate over health care, and questions swirling around mr. trump's wiring accusations against president obama, things are hardly quiet these days. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: 26-year-old jonathan tran of california appeared in court saturday. the d.c. metropolice report says he claimed to be a friend of the president and that he had an appointment. he was carrying two canlz of mace and admitted to jumping the fence. tran is being held until his next court appearance monday. the secret service says at 11:38 p.m., tran, carrying a backpack, breachedly the perimeter fence between the east wing and the treas department. he was apprehended near the south portico entrance. that entrance leads to the president's private residence. mr. trump was at home at the time, although the secret service says he was not in danger opinion today at a working lunch with cabinet secretaries, mr. trump praised his security team. >> secret service did a

than a month ago that mr. trump said the obamacare repeal was "moving fast." his boasting and tendency to believe conspiracy theories have led to a deficit of credibility, and here's margaret brennan. >> in this journey, i will never lie to you. >> reporter: since the campaign, president trump has presented himself as the last honest man in washington, but a recent quinnipiac poll shows that his unsubstantiated wiretapping claims have been damaging. 60% of voters do in the believe that he is honest, and 39% of republicans do in the believe his allegation that former president obama wiretapped trump tower. it's a claim that the f.b.i., n.s.a., and house intelligence committee chair devin nunes, a republican, have said is false. >> that did not happen. >> reporter: the president has made other allegations without evidence, claiming widespread voter fraud and an his or theically high murder rate. the claims led the conservative-leaning editorial page of the "wall street journal" to warn that mr. trump is causing damage to "his presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exagg

, the speaker of the house put off the vote, at least until tomorrow. mr. trump, whose self-promotion as a negotiator was chronicled in his book "the art of the deal," has so far not had the political skill or capital to move the members of his own party. chip reid begins our coverage. >> reporter: at the white house this morning, president trump got a standing ovation from more than 30 members of the freedom caucus, the most conservative group in the house. white house press secretary sean spicer insisted the health care vote would happen today. >> it's going to pass. that's it. >> reporter: but after congressman justin amash and other freedom caucus members returned to the capitol, the positive tone had disappeared. >> i don't think there can be a vote tonight because they don't have the votes. >> reporter: so what happened? well, the president did agree to the caucus's request to reduce the cost of health care by dropping the obamacare requirement that insurance companies cover essential health services, including hospitalization, maternity care, prescription drugs, and m

garrett at the white house. and in another surprising change of character, mr. trump sent only one tweet from his personal account today, one tweet, two words: thank you. he stuck with his exclamation point, however. on capitol hill, republicans all agree on replacing obamacare. they just don't agree on how. epre's nancy cordes. >> reporter: republicans met today to finalize their obamacare replacement plan after the president laid out the broad strokes last night. >> we should help americans purchase their own coverage through the use of tax credits and expanded health savings accounts. >> reporter: in some ways that resembles obamacare, which helps americans pay for insurance with a combination of income-based tax credits and subsidies. but the tax credits in a recently leaked draft of the g.o.p. plan are based solely on age. the wealthy and the poor get the same amount. >> lower-income people would get significantly less help under these republican tax credits. >> reporter: larry levitt is with the kaiser family foundation, which has been studying the republican proposals. >> so far t

president trump's tax returns. we have justifiable cause, mr. chairman, not only to review simply for tax compliance but also for conflicts between his government position and his business interests. february 1st i wrote you a letter. i didn't go to the press. i didn't have a press conference. i didn't have a press release. i heard no reply. i wrote a simple second letter. on march 2nd. this time it was a bipartisan letter, democrats and republicans. with 165 members in the house of representatives. and multiple republican publiclyf the house called for mr. trump to release his tax turns, including mr. grabela from florida, a member of this committee. they recently published a record from a professor at law at the university of virginia. former chief of staff of joint committee on taxation which is one of the committees under 6103 that can ask for this information. yen wrote about the legal authority of this committee possesses. the 1924 law, the result of conflict of interest concerns about the treasury secretaries andrew melon at that time, an executive branch officials involved in the

has rejected mr trump's claims that president obama ordered a wiretap on his election campaign office. leaders of the french centre—right republican party will meet today to try to resolve the crisis surrounding its presidential candidate, francois fillon. mr fillon says he won't pull out of the race. german politicians have reacted angrily to comments by the turkish president, who accused germany of nazi practices after several towns cancelled political rallies involving turkish ministers. now for the latest financial news, with sally bundock and world business report. a european car colossus in the making. france's peugeot citroen is poised to buy general motors‘ european business, including the opel and vauxhall brands. china's premier cuts the economic growth target for this year. we look at the risks to the world's second—largest economy. welcome to world business report, i'm sally bundock. also in the programme: deutsche bank plans to raise billions of euros in a share sale. details in a moment. general motors is set to announce a deal to sell opel and vauxhall to psa grou

future mrs. trump saying it was a great surprise. we are very happy together. the couple wed january 22nd, 2005. >> i think of their wedding as almost a broadway production. >> hundreds attended the star studded reception at the mar a lago country club resort. champagne was served along with a 57-pound grand marnier wedding cake. >> he wanted to sell the broadcast rights to the wedding and melania put her foot down. >> she wore a christian dior gown from france adorned with 1500 crystals. estimated cost is 100 to $200,000. vogue magazine featured her on the cover. they settled in at the three-story manhattan penthouse overlooking fifth avenue. they granted larry king their first post wedding interview on cnn. >> kind of jokingly. >> you are proud of it? >> i'm proud of it, yes, i am. >> that name brought opportunity. the chief executive for aflac chose her to star in this ad, saying she is the bride of the year. then came the questions about motherhood. >> do you want to be a mother? >> yes. we want to have a family. we want to have a baby together. >> you will be an amazing mothe. i

interfered with the election and most of them said it was to help mr. trump. said, "cbs this morning" cohost norah o'donnell talked to the house speaker paul ryan. >> reporter: i was just listening to the senators on the senate intelligence committee, and i know you know the leading anpublican, senator burr, who uru served with. >> sure. >> reporter: and he said, "look, this is so important what's going on." they're investigating. russia was involved in a covert operation. >> absolutely, yes. >> reporter: to interfere in our election. >> they're doing it to other countries now. ma and over in germany and france. >> yes, yes. stch mcconnell, chuck schumer, and nancy pelosi and i sent a s tter to the secretaries of state before the election saying, "heads up. be on the watch-out. something's happening. guard your data." so we all knew this before the election. we all knew russia was trying to meddle with our election, and we already know right now they're trying to do it with other countries. so the-- the-- the world's owperpower, the american government, needs to do everything we possibly can

. >> reporter: about the same time, questions surfaced about mrs. trump's path to citizenship. amp the after the "new york post" published nude photos, appeared to have happened in 1995, though she always said she came to the u.s. as an immigrant. >> came to the united states to new york in 1996. >> the issue was whether or not the visa she had when she first came over to work allowed her to work or simply to visit. >> i followed the law. i followed the law the way it was supposed to be. i never thought here to stay here without papers. i had visa. >> miss trump came with a visa and i recall i signed a visa and that was sometime in 1996. >> you helped arrange, secure, the h1b visa? >> yes. as a model agent i arranged the visa. >> just to be clear, though did she ever work in the u.s. illegally? >> not in my recollection. >> reporter: mrs. trump took to twitter writing, i have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country, period. any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue. >> was that a great introduction? >> reporter: then candidate donald trump p

f'” ”f hours before it was to take effect. the judge sited mr trump's nwnwm’fi-el tens of thousands of people have taken part in protests across brazil the retirement; ' 7 , r,— 5 yahoo accounts in 2014. mgfl'fgr'thg latestfingnfgigt newsi report. but france cauldl plus — into reverse. guzzler make a comeback—?— —— ~ é welcome. i é welcome. also 3:3 welcome. also in programme, the fed raises rates and china follows suit. no action in japan however. we will some that up ina japan however. we will some that up in a moment. we start with the elections in the netherlands — where as you have been hearing, prime minister mark rutte and his liberal party are on course for victory. he's seen off a challenge of geert wilders — who had pledged to take the netherlands out of the european union and ditch the euro. the euro has soared on the news, itjumped as much as 1.3% the biggest rise since last summer. it's been having a tough time of course since the uk's brexit vote. but this is the reaction immediately after the polls began to emerge. the netherlands is not a huge econ

. >> reporter: when president obama created the plan mr. trump is reversing, mr. obama emphasized the need to tackle rising global temperatures. >> no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations. >> reporter: but president trump once called climate change a hoax, and scott pruitt recently denied a direct link between carbon dioxide and global warming. >> i would not agree it's a contributor to the global warming we see. >> reporter: in 2016, more than 20 states complained it exceeded federal law. mr. trump urges all federal agency to suspend or revise any rule believed to limit production. >>> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. >>> a >>> after the president's announcements today, the governors of california and new york said they would continue to impose state loss limiting carbon in the atmosphere. 20% of americans live in one of those states. and john blackstone met one of them, a climate scientist who sent mr. trump a warning. >> reporter: ben santor has believed that temperatures rising and glaciers melting, climate change denial would melt away. he'

phone — in the first contact between the pair since mr trump took office injanuary. let's go to the state department we re let's go to the state department were our correspondent is following events. we have heard from the palestinians on this but has the white house said anything about this visit? only to confirm that it is going to happen and i suppose we could have expected it would have happened at some point because mr trump has talked about wanting to be able to facilitate a middle east peace deal and in order to do that it would have to take into consideration the palestinian views at some point. palestinians have been very concerned by his stance so far. he came into office promising to be the most pro—israel us president ever and mr netanyahu the prime minister of israel is one of the first foreign visitors to the white house. since then mr trump has taken positions that seem to favour the right wing in israel. he has been ambivalent about a two state solution. he has chosen as his ambassador somebody on the far right of the political spectrum, as well as one of his key a

tapped during the campaign on orders from president obama. mr. trump has not taken a question from reporters in the five days since he called the wiretapping a fact and called mr. obama a bad or sick guy. the f.b.i. has been investigating contacts between the trump campaign and russian operatives. u.s. intelligence has concluded that russia did medal in the presidential election. but one top u.s. official told us so far there is no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. f.b.i. director james comey repudiated mr. trump's wiretapping charge, and mr. trump's staff has been struggling to fill his silence. margaret brennan pressed the question with white house spokesman sean spicer. >> is the president the target of a counterintelligence investigation? >> i think that's what we need to find out. the president has made clear he has no interest in russia, and yet a lot of these stories that come out with respect the that are frankly fake. >> he doesn't mow whether or not... >> i think that's one of the issues we have asked the senate and house to look into. >>

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leaked. the white house said publishing the return is illegal but acknowledged mr. trump made more than $150 million that year. the president refused to release his tax returns during the campaign, breaking a long tradition. hena daniels is here in new york. hena, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump will meet with auto executives in detroit today before holding a rally in nashville. the events come just a day after mr. trump confirmed details of a tax return he filed with his wife melania. >> what i have here is a copy of dona donald's tax returns. mosts before msnbc host rachel maddow revealed the documents on air. >> the first amendment gives us the right to publish this return. >> in a statement monday night it shows mr. trump paid $30 million in income. a tax rate of 25% adding that it's totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. msnbc said it received two pages from journalist david kchlt johnston who received a copy of the return in his mail bakraoui from an unknown source. >> it's entirely possible donald sent this to me. >> it comes as james co

. jeff, thank you. well, that russia investigation and mr. trump's false claim that his phones were tapped are eroding his credibility on capitol hill. just as he faces one of the biggest votes of his presidency. today, capitalists on wall street worried about how much political capital he has. the dow was off more than 237 points, the biggest drop of the year on concerns that the obamacare replacement won't pass, and mr. trump's tax cuts could be threatened next. today, the president tried to convince skeptical members of the health care vote is scheduled for thursday, the outcome still uncertain. margaret brennan is following this. >this. >> we had a great meeting and i think we're going to get a winner vote. >> reporter: on capitol hill, president trump tried to unite conservatives behind the newly revised republican health care plan. >> they're going to be adjustments made but i think we'll get the vote on thursday. >> reporter: mr. trump warned members of his own party they could lose their seats and possibly their majority if they vote no. speaker paul ryan: >> we made a promi

from his campaign promise to repeal and reblase obamacare. mr. trump outlining his goals for a new health care system during last night's address. he wants to keep coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, the key there. and calling for a guaranteed transition for americans insured through exchanges. he also wants to help americans purchase their own insurance exclusively through unmandated government plans. and he said bringing down costs is critical. >> action is not a choice. it is a necessity. so, i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from his imploding obamacare disaster. with reforms that expands choice, increase access, lower costs and at the same time provide better health care. the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance. and that is what we are going to do. >> later today, republicans will try to get on the same page on obamacare, when house leaders brief their senate counterparts on repeal plans at a meeting called by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. a

, outside of mr mr. sadr's relationship with the trump organization, are you aware the u.s. government knew of him because of a $40 million stock fraud case prosecuted bit u.s. government? >> same answer. >>. >> director, what a u.s. person having multiple trademarks in addition to the other relationships that i just described be a red flag for a counterintelligence investigation, if those trademarks were in russia? >> multiple trademarks? >> yeah, registering trademarks in a foreign adversary's country. >> i don'ten what to make of that. >> were you aware donald trump had six trademarks in ruche? russia? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> were you aware trump tried to market his trump vodka brand in russia? >> same answer. >> were you aware donald trump ran miss universe 2013 out of moscow? >> same answer. >> are you aware donald trump jr. said on a number of occasions that russian money is pouring into the trump organization and there's a disproportionate cross-section of the company's revenue coming from the same organization? >> same answer. >> hypothetically speaking would a

by ford to invest in michigan. car companies coming back to the u.s., mr. trump wrote. but who deserves the credit? dean reynolds found out. >> reporter: the white house drumroll began early. big announcement by ford today, read a tweet by the president. car companies coming back to the u.s. jobs, jobs, jobs. it happened three weeks after mr. trump met with auto industry executives, as press secretary sean spicer was quick to point out. >> this is jobs news under the president. >> reporter: but the automaker says the billion-dollar investment is about plant modernization. and new production jobs come to agent 130. the new investment was actually agreed to during the 2015 labor negotiations, when barack obama was president. so, is this announcement by ford big news? >> they're big investment. but they're big dollars that we have known about by and large. >> reporter: she is for the automotive research. >> we've seen finalizing announcements that have been previously made. >> reporter: after seven years of solid growth, production jobs in the u.s. auto industry have reached a pea

style. but mr. trump offers no evidence as proof. also tonight, ms-13, the street gang accused of recent attacks in several cities, including a satanic murder. >> ms-13 has been meting out its own version of the death penalty. >> ninan: isis suspected of a horrifying chemical attack overseas. and, a winter of devastating storms leaves a group of california monks stranded. >> we sort of feel, in some way, like we're a modern version of "gilligan's island." this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. this is our western edition. before most americans awoke saturday, president trump was on twitter posting explosive wiretapping accusations against president obama. mr. trump claims he recently learned mr. obama ordered what trump describes as a watergate- style wiretap on trump tower in new york. he says it happened just before the election. mr. trump offered no evidence, and an obama spokesman issued a quick denial. it comes amid growing controversy over the trump administration's possible russian ties. the president is spending the weekend at his mar-a-la

election. and in indonesia, mr trump has signed a deal to build two resorts with a billionaire, worth about $1 billion in total. the bbc‘s karishma vaswani went to indonesia to ask mr trump's business partner about their relationship. do you know who donald trump is? no, because i'm from indonesia. he is a president...of america. meet indonesia's donald trump. hary tanoesoedibjo is one of indonesia's richest men. in 2015 he signed a billion—dollar deal to build a trump tower in west java and the first trump resort in bali. you know, i know eric trump, i know ivanka, you know, and then i met with donjunior and then when we signed the agreement then the father came up, you know, come out and then we signed the agreement together. just a few months after the deal was signed, donald trump announced he was running for president of the united states. it is a normal business relationship — i have to underline this. and until today it is also a business relationship. the father sends — you know, he is president of the united states, he's not involved in the business — so i physicall