failing to take action to stop the criminal use of his platform. now, the telegram app is encrypted, meaning that governments cannot censor or regulate it. telegram's been criticized for allowing organized crime, terrorists and far right extremists to use the app. speaking to "60 minutes" back in 2016, when asked about isis's use of telegram in the wake of the 2015 paris terror attacks and whether law enforcement should be allowed into the app, durov defended telegram's actions saying, quote, the interesting thing about encryption is it cannot be secured just for some people. telegram said in a statement yesterday that it abides by european union laws including a law passed in 2022 that seeks to stop the flow of disinformation online. telegram says it has nearly a billion users worldwide and

speaking from personal experience i can tell you how widely used telegram has been during the war in ukraine, where it's relied on by president volodymyr zelenskyy and by journalists reporting from the front line. it's also been used by pro-democracy protesters in hong kong, russia and iran. now, durov was born in russia but left the country in 2014 after refusing to shut down anti-government content on a previous app that he started. >> that was holly williams in london. one of former president donald trump's four national security advisers, h.r. mcmaster, has a new memoir out today. it's called "at war with ourselves." and the retired lieutenant general pulls no punches. david martin has more. >> lots of people told me not to do it. people were calling me up who really detested president trump and saying you can't do it, it will sully your reputation. >> reporter: lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster had been a soldier for three decades when donald trump named him his national security adviser just one month

into his administration. >> thank you very much, sir. >> you're going to do a great job. >> reporter: 13 months later trump fired him. >> i got used up, essentially, in the service of donald trump. i was at peace with that. and i was not going to try to keep my job by telling the president what he wanted to hear. >> reporter: now in a book titled "at war with ourselves" mcmaster, a cbs news contributor, describes a white house where everything was much harder than it needed to be. >> none of the friction that i encountered in the white house was completely unprecedented. but it was next level. right? it went to 11. everything was cranked up to a higher level. >> what was your first real business meeting? with the president. >> the first meeting was a presidential daily brief, which is an intelligence briefing that all presidents take. and i have a distinct impression of that meeting of being not very effective for the president. president trump plays to an

audience and it was too big of an audience in the oval office. >> and would the audience play to him? >> the audience would play to him. i describe the environment as an environment of competitive sycophancy. >> did he want advice or did he want flattery? >> the president wanted advice. he also wanted flattery. >> i'd ask whether or not you think i will someday be on mount rushmore. >> he really likes the adulation. in many ways he's kind of addicted to adulation, from his political base, from people around him. >> reporter: mcmaster was happy to serve and eager to reverse what he considered barack obama's weak-kneed foreign policy. >> reporter: i saw actually so many of our policies as in need of disruption. i was grateful for the president's disruptive nature. i saw it as my job to try to help him disrupt what needed to be disrupted. >> reporter: at his first nato summit trump took disruption to a whole new level. unhappy some members weren't spending enough on defense. he made some last-minute changes to his speech. >> what had he written into the speech? >> if countries don't pay their

dues then we're not going to -- we're not going to defend that particular country. >> when did you find out that was in the speech? >> i found out just as we were departing for nato headquarters. >> reporter: as trump's limousine pulled up, there was an awkward delay while a frantic intervention took place in the back seat. >> i convinced a reluctant secretary of state tillerson and secretary of defense mattis to get in the beast, the president's armored car, with me to take him out of that. >> reporter: it was one of the few times the three of them agreed on something. >> what were your relations like with the secretary of state and secretary of defense? >> they were less than harmonious. they were difficult at times. they regarded the president as a danger to u.s. interests, a danger to some of our relationships internationally. >> the secretary of state and the secretary of defense viewed the president of the united states as dangerous? >> yes. he was dangerous in particular

to what they thought an effective foreign policy should be. >> reporter: mcmaster never considered trump dangerous, but the president's affinity for autocrats made him uneasy. >> president trump sees in authoritarian leaders the qualities he wants other people to see in him. >> reporter: vladimir putin in particular. >> he would appeal to the president's, you know, desire for flattery. he would appeal to the president's skepticism about long-term military commitments abroad. >> could putin play trump? >> he knew really what trump's predilections were. one of my roles was to alert him to that, to say mr. president, this guy is the best liar in the world. >> reporter: but when it came to listening to his own advisers, mcmaster writes, trump could be reflexively contrarian. >> oh, my gosh. so if you bring the president a course of action and say everybody agrees, whatever you do don't do this thing, he's going to do it just to spite everybody. >> reporter: with venezuela's anti-american regime cracking

down on protesters, trump walked out to meet the press with mcmaster, u.n. ambassador nikki haley, and secretary of state rex tillerson. >> rex tillerson says to him, hey, mr. president, whatever you do don't say we're planning any military options for venezuela. >> we have many options for venezuela. and by the way, i'm not going to rule out a military option. >> reporter: tillerson lasted just over a year before he was fired. >> why do so many of the senior people who worked for donald trump end up being either fired or quitting? >> you get used up in that environment, right? president trump does enjoy kind of pitting people against each other and that creates a lot of angst in people. >> was he just plain nasty? >> at times he could be nasty. especially when he's tired. especially when he's grumpy. especially when he feels beleaguered. there were a couple of times nobody wanted to be around him. i'm like the last guy, i have to be with him, right? i would get in the car and he

would just unload on me. >> reporter: the end came after trump's phone call with turkey's president erdogan, which got off to a bad start when mcmaster tried to prep him. >> what did he have against preparation? >> well, he found it to be tedious, you know, and he had great confidence in his own instincts. so why am i prepping for this? >> reporter: mcmaster decided to quit, but trump fired him first. and at a private farewell ceremony told his family make sure he only writes nice things about me. the trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment about mcmaster's book. >> it's a fun, fun learning environment for all of us. >> reporter: mcmaster retreated to the ivory tower of the hoover institution at stanford university, where he writes and teaches. and where he watched the events of january 6th. >> we're in! >> he encouraged an attack, you know, on the first branch of government.

>> they broke the glass? everybody stay down! get down! >> and an attack on the peaceful transition of power. and i think that that was an abandonment of his responsibilities to the constitution. >> is he fit to hold office? >> that's the judgment the american people have to make. i don't want to tell people how to vote. >> will he be getting your vote? >> i'm not going to ever tell anybody my vote. >> reporter: but he will tell you what he experienced in the first trump administration. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> reporter: and what that might mean for a second. >> history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. i think it does, you know, foreshadow what wemight expect in a second trump administration as well. >> that was david martin with h.r. mcmaster. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right "cbs news roundup" will be right back. (peaceful music) - time to get up, sweetie! (kissing) - [child voiceover] most people might not think much about all the little things you do every day,

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director of ab organization called extra food, will collects groceries from supermarkets in san francisco that would otherwise head to the landfill and delivers them to local non-profits and pantries. >> we just pop this off and give you an idea. more prepared ready to eat meals. meals that need a little bit more love and care before they're ready for your plate. all sorts of good stuff. >> thank you. >> reporter: about a third of u.s. food supply goes uneaten. when it rots in landfills it produces methane gas. california now requires all supermarkets to give away food that is still fit to eat rather than throw it away. but according to will some companies are still dragging their feet. >> i don't think anybody or any business likes food waste. at the same time there also has to be effective enforcement on the back end. >> we're still in the education phase. >> reporter: alexa keltie is the zero waste coordinator at san francisco's environment department.

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cbs news is remembering one of our own. legendary correspondent phil jones. he died over the weekend at his home in florida. he was 87. jericka duncan looks back on his life and his decades-long career. >> reporter: jones joined cbs in 1969, covering the war in vietnam to the bitter end. >> and that is it. the choppers with the last

american ground combat troops. for the grunts the vietnam war is all over. >> reporter: but jones was best known for reporting on the political battles in washington, covering watergate. >> there's the president waving goodbye. >> reporter: the ford white house. >> can you give us any idea -- >> oh! >> reporter: and capitol hill, including the impeachment of then president bill clinton. >> along with all the controversies and scandals i've also covered some real giants at this capitol. elected officials who were as fiercely partisan as they come, but at the end of the day it was always country first, political party last. >> reporter: jones was tenacious, once riding a mule through burma in pursuit of a drug kingpin for a "48 hours" report. when jones retired in 2001, colleague eric enberg summed up the impact. >> every lying, conniving,

thieving, sniveling politician in washington is going to sleep boater with you gone. >> i'm phil jones, cbs news, washington. >> our condolences go out to his son paul and daughter pam. as our colleague ward sloan put it, jones believed it was his job to poke his finger in the eyes of power and ask the hard question. it's a legacy we all aim to carry on here at cbs news. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you the news continues. for others tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center here in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul.

♪ hello and thanks so much for staeg up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." former president donald trump ramps up his schedule, hoping to take the steam out of the harris campaign, and he's threatening to pull out of the next debate. hawaii dodges a zrekt hit from one hurricane but braces for another as extreme weather rocks western u.s. states. and ukraine is slammed by the largest russian air assault of the war. former president donald trump is back on the campaign trail hoping to regain momentum over vice president kamala harris following her boost from last week's democratic national convention. harris's campaign says it raised

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massachusetts senator elizabeth warren was on the campaign trail for the harris-walz ticket in the battleground state of wisconsin. >> there is one and only one way to protect access to abortion, and that is to elect kamala harris as president. >> reporter: fresh off the democratic national convention, the vice president has begun preparing for the september 10th debate against trump. on monday the former president suggested he might skip the debate over disagreements with the host network. >> why am i doing it? let's do it with another network. i want to do it. >> reporter: the harris campaign is demanding the two candidates' mics be hot throughout the debate, unlike the previous debate between trump and president biden, which featured a mute button when either candidate was not speaking. >> we agreed to the same rules. i don't know. doesn't matter to me. i'd rather have it probably un. >> reporter: with 71 days to go before election day harris is looking to build on her convention momentum, embarking on a bus tour in the critical

swing state of georgia wednesday. skyler henry, cbs news, washington. extreme weather conditions across the western u.s. driven by climate change are now creating havoc for millions of americans. from dangerous flooding in arizona to a hurricane in hawaii and a killer landslide in alaska, it's a dangerous week for many. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has this report. >> reporter: a devastating and deadly landslide in the picturesque alaskan village of ketchikan, triggered by heavy rain. >> it crossed over about three different roads in the community and took out several homes including pushing some homes into other homes. > reporter: mayor rodney dial says one person died and three were injured as the wall of mud and debris ripped through neighborhoods. the slide occurred late sunday afternoon. concern is growing another one could be imminent. >> what are the odds of that potentially happening based on what you're seeing?

>> we're concerned that the ground has been weakened in that area and it has significantly increased the chances that we could get an additional slide. >> reporter: some lifelong residents in ketchikan say this is unprecedented. the mountains have always held in a community that often receives more than 12 feet of rain a year. >> this is one of the rainiest spots on earth. so for us to have an actual landslide is just -- it's very, very rare. >> reporter: meanwhile, in arizona a monsoon sparked flash flooding in grand canyon national park. more than 100 people, many of them hikers, were trapped near havasupe falls. the national guard deployed a blackhawk chopper to rescue the stranded. one hiker, 33-year-old chenoa nickerson, was swept away. her body was found in the raging colorado river. and in hawaii tropical storm hone has moved on but left behind torrential rainfall and flooding. parts of hawaii have seen their third wettest day in the past 75

years. thousands lost power. >> all these storms share one thing in common. climate change is making them more extreme. meanwhile, the pacific, hawaii bracing for another hurricane. expected to weaken before it makes landfall later this week. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. turning overseas now to ukraine, where authorities have issued air raid alerts across the country early tuesday morning after kyiv detected russian bombers taking off from western russia. on monday russian forces launched the largest air assault of the war against ukraine, targeting the country's power grid and water plants. the deadly barrage of missiles and drones killed at least four people and injured dozens more according to ukrainian officials. cbs's ian lee has just returned from near the front lines. >> reporter: russia unleashed a day of terror across ukraine. residents of kyiv hunkered down in the city's subway as more

than 200 drones and missiles targeted critical civilian infrastructure according to president volodymyr zelenskyy. "it was one of the heaviest strikes, a combined one," he says. russia's main target was ukraine's power grid. one missile missed, but another hit a dam providing electricity to kyiv. its destruction would flood the capital, putting millions at risk. there are now reports of widespread power outages. the barrage also destroyed homes like igor's. "there's nothing left," he says. "it was razed to the ground." the attack is seen as retaliation for ukraine's offensive in russia's kursk region. last week cbs news visited near the border. we saw vital supplies flowing into russia to support the incursion. ukraine's top general says his forces advanced about two more

miles, while seizing two more villages. but in eastern ukraine russian forces grind forward. the reuters news agency announced one of their safety advisers was killed and two journalists injured when a missile hit their hotel in the city of kramatorsk. but russia's main focus is on the strategic town of pokrovsk. kyiv says it's reinforcing that front to deny moscow the prize. ian lee, cbs news, london. a federal judge in texas temporarily blocked new protections allowing some immigrants a path to citizenship. 16 states have now challenged the policy permitting spouses of u.s. citizens who meet certain criteria to apply for green cards. president joe biden launched the program back in june. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup," israel and hezbollah trade deadly exchanges of rocket and artillery fire. does this mean war in the region? we'll explain. i debate all day, it's what i do.

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hezbollah attack. shortly afterwards the powerful iranian-backed group launched over 300 rockets and drones at israeli military sites in retaliation for israel's assassination of a senior hezbollah commander in beirut one month ago. and while each side suffered in some casualties it was a dramatic but contained escalation which stopped short of a much-feared all-out war. with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah declaring the strikes a success. nasrallah going even further, saying "people can breathe a sigh of relief." but as the bitter rivals step back from the brink, the war on gaza rages on. over the weekend more than 200 palestinians were killed in a series of israeli strikes across the devastated territory, forcing people to evacuate from one of the few hospitals still functioning. as families overcome with grief mourned the loss of even more

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knowles gave a breeding lobster, one that couldn't be kept, a fish to eat. now he has to or deal with the wrath of fans. >> i just did it for a funny joke one day. and now it's game over. like i shot myself in the foot because i can't let one of these go -- >> you can't. >> no. the comments don't let me live it down. make sure she's got a good grip. and you can let her go. nice. there she goes. she's got it too. >> reporter: a lot of people now believe they know a lot about lobstering. >> nobody from the inside of the culture i guess had shared it. so i think it was just -- it was just a fruit tree ripe for p picking i guess. >> reporter: while trapping crustaceans still brings in most of his income, brands are now clamoring to partner with knowles. >> go pick it up today. i promise you won't regret it. my promo code. >> reporter: and it's no longer a one-man show. his friend jeremy helps him create content.

>> we'll just stay wide. and then we can cut. >> reporter: i became part of one of his future videos after sharing i've always boiled lobsters. >> you don't need to boil lobsters. >> really? because that's how i -- >> steam them. >> steam them? >> steam them. >> i've been boiling them for about 15 minutes. >> try steaming them next time and compare. at least that's how we do it up here. nobody boils them up here. to humor you we are going to boil one and we're going to steam one. we'll do a blind taste test to see if we can tell the difference. >> those are the steamers, huh? >> these are the steamers. >> yeah. >> yum. >> reporter: could we tell the difference? don't play this game with a pro. >> i'm saying that's boiled. >> that's steamed. >> i hate to hurt your feelings but the lobster guru was right. >> i could tell in the tail. the tail was tougher when it was boiled. i could tell plain as day. >> reporter: from anonymity to social media stardom jacob knowles giving fans a loo

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