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including the u.s. the outers say the e.u. is holding britain back with stifling regulations, unelected bureaucracy, and high costs. the opinion polls say the result is too close to call. unless you ask the bookies who are usually right. the betting money says alex donahue is going one way in the omestretch. >> one point we thought, the horse racing term, we might need to use photo finish equipment. we are saying there might be a couple lengths distance. >> staying in the e.u. much stronger bet. >> 100%. >> reporter: so the leave campaign is relying on an
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emotional even nostalgic appeal, a slogan delivered by leave campaigner boris johnson. >> and if we vote leave, and take back control, i believe that this thursday could be our country's independence day. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: but this its about more than britain, it is even more than europe. in this globalized world anything that destabilizes the eu, if that's what happens, could have unsettling effects everywhere. scott. >> mark films on the bank of the thames for us tonight. mark, thank you. >> a $900 million theft of taxpayer money revealed today by the justice department. 300 people were charged with defrauding government health care programs including those for veterans. one of the criminal complaints noted a cbs news investigation. jim axelrod and emily rand are
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following this. >> reporter: alleged that tricare was hit for near three $185 million. custom2h compounded cream for pn and scars were aggressively marketed to the military. tricare paid almost $2 billion for them last year. one of the doctors referenced in the court papers but not charged is dr. paul bolger who wrote us prescriptions for compounded creams we ordered over the internet. without ever performing a physical exam or even talking to us on the phone. when we visited dr. bolger's weight loss clinic in davenport, iowa, last year, he agreed to answer a few questions. doctor how does this square with your training? that you would write a prescription for somebody you had never met? >> no, i am not disagreeing with anything you are saying. not disagreeing with anything you are saying. this is why i changed my practice. >> reporter: you were doing something wrong? >> uh, i couldn't disagree with
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that. yeah, there -- you know i'm not going to make excuses for, for, what i was doing. it's not that i had bad intentions. it was that i was under the mistaken impression that people such as yourself were being spoken with. >> jim axelrod, reporting. following the original report. dr. bolger was fined $10,000 by the iowa board of medicine for wrie writing prescriptions he is under investigation by the pentagon defense criminal investigative service. two large fires are burning in the san gabriel mountains outside los angeles. maryia villareal is there. >> reporter: the two fires have devoured 5,000 acres of land. firefighters are relying on 'round-the-clock air assaults to help them gain more ground. but the biggest challenge for fire crews is the rugged ter
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tata terrain. many are hiking and creating a safety perimeter around communities. record breaking temperatures and windy conditions prompted evacuation of over 850 homes. more than 500 homeowners were allowed to return today. but the crews here are not out of the woods just yet, scott. right now officials are monitoring the winds as well as the hot temperatures, hoping to gain more ground in the next 48 hours before anything picks up again. >> maryia villareal, [siren] come on! ♪ come on. ♪ ♪ p&g. proud sponsor of moms.
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today the big 12, one of the major conferences in college sports, ordered an accounting of how baylor investigated sexual assault allegations. last month university president ken starr was fired after it was found that administrators had looked the other way. mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: at baylor, the baptist student code bans sex on campus. but many female students say what is tolerated is rape. >> i have experienced rape culture on campus. >> reporter: audrey hamlin, a 20-year-old junior says she was sexually assaulted but chose not to report it. now part of a campus support group that counsels other victims. >> reporter: how many women on campus do you know you whaf been sexually assaulted? >> probably about 20.
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>> reporter: three unidentified female students sued baylor claiming they were raped and the school did nothing. one suit called baylor a hunting ground for sexual predators. that case involves this off-campus house. the woman claims she was drugged and raped. lawyer paula elliott represents her. >> at one point the investigator sent her an e-mail that said there were two other women that were sexually assaulted the same evening that she was. >> reporter: federal investigators are looking at 195 colleges and universities, for improperly handling sex assaults on campus. brandon vandenberg, a vanderbilt football player faces 15 years in prison for encouraging the gang rape of his unconscious girlfriend. at stanford, swimmer brock turner got six months for assaulting an unconscious woman. at baylor alone at least able
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football players have faced rape charges or accusations since 2009. in a statement to us, a university spokesman said, we acknowledge our failures in the past. and our aim is to set the highest standards in this area. baylor had a winning football program even with all of these assaults, scott. some powerful alumni this week were pushing to give fired head football coach his team back. >> mark strassmann in waco for us. thank you very much. still ahead -- a daring rescue from the south pole.
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dennis hastert has gone from the people's house to the big house. former speaker reported to prison in minnesota today. to serve 15 months for violating banking laws. he had paid hush money to one of
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the men he abused as boys while hastert was a high school wrestling coach. >> in the line of presidential succession, hastert was once number two. now he is number 47991-424. bad news today for seniors. the government said they'll get a social security cost of living increase next year of just $2.50 a month on average. there was no increase this year. it gets worse though for about 30% of the folks on medicare, the raise will be more than wiped out by premiums going up at least $27. success today in the daring rescue at the bottom uh the world. a ski plane flew nine hours to pick up two workers who had become ill at a research station at the south pole. the plane departed in total % darkness with the temperature at 75 degrees below zero. we're back with more in a moment. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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in less than four years, the 20s will be here again. and just in time. a dance born nearly a century ago is making a comeback among folks in their roaring 20s. here is michelle miller. for these 20 somethings, the lindy hop's turns and triple steps. are a way to reach back into the past. millenials are regulars at this friday night dance party. why do you thin soak many people in your generation are so hip to this dance? >> because it is fun.
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you know, in a technological age we are all on our phones. we are saying, hey, what's up? here you are actually connecting with people. >> reporter: sounds like you are hooked? >> i am hooked, yes. >> reporter: the lindy hop was created in the 1920s in the dance halls of harlem. like the famous sa voice ballroom, the high-flying flips combined with big band jazz orchestras. turned it into a craze made famous in movies like the 1941 lindy hop classic. >> it is a really melting pot dance. it is america. [ indiscernible ] >> mike harbinger organizes the dances for boston swing central. the crowd is normally 200. >> they love the music. the connection. community is fantastic. it's worldwide. >> rock step. triple step. >> reporter: resurgence began a decade ago. m.i.t. has lindy hop social
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clubs which give weekly lesson for beginners. ♪ ain't misbehaving >> it began to fade in the 1950s when jazz moved from ball rooms to lounges. giving band like phil mcgowan a chance to reintroduce the movement to a new generation. >> i think people are waking up to the fact that live muse is is one of the experiences that will never happen again. you can't get it on ayetunes. >> what are nonlindy hoppers missing? >> it is just pure joy. when i dance, i can't help but smile. >> sometimes, history doesn't repeat. it swings. michelle miller, cbs news, cambridge, massachusetts. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news. and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.
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this is the cbs overnight news. hi, welcome to the overnight news. i'm demarco morgan. there were more fighting word on the presidential campaign trail. one day after hillary clinton blasted donald trump's economic policy, the billionaire candidate struck back. he called clinton "a world class liar" and accused her of theft, corruption, and incompa tense. >> hillary clinton and as you know, she most people know, she is a world class liar. just look at her pathetic e-mail service statements or her phony landing. [ applause ] or her phony landing in bosnia
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where she said she was under attack. and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers, a total and, look, this was, this was one of the beauts, total, self serving lie. hillary clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft. she ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund doing favors for oppressive regimes and others and really, many, many others in exchange for cash. pure and simple, folks. pure and simple. [ applause ] when she left she made 21.6 million dollars. giving speeches to wall street banks and other special interests. and in less than two years, secret speeches that she does not want to reveal. under any circumstances. to the public.
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i wonder why. she and bill made $153 million giving speeches to lobbyists, ceos and foreign governments in the years since 2001. they totally own her. and that will never, ever change including if she ever became president god help us. >> republican leaders hope trump's tougher tone against clinton will drum up contributions. trump's fund-raising operation is so far behind the presumptive nominee sent out an e-mail to personally match every dollar that comes in within the 4 hours. up to $2 million. norah o'donnell asked trump about campaign finances on cbs this morning. >> you saw the numbers. hillary clinton and her campaign allies have spent $23 million in eight battleground states on television advertising. the trump campaign has spent zero. >> isn't that impressive?
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>> do you need to fight back? >> sit in impressive. we are even. she is spending $23 million. i get no credit for that. when i spent less money than any one else and won the primaries. like in new hampshire, i spent $1 million. and a certain opponent spent $8 million. i won in a landslide. nobody said, gee he did it without spending the money. that's called good business practices. and, i don't know how you can spend, you know, by the way, we are raising quite a bit of money. raising it for the party the i would rather spend my own money. to me it is simpler. you don't need to spend $1.2 billion. she will spend $300 million a month. because you are talking like four months. and i just -- you know, i talk to my people all the time. i say why do you have to spend $1 billion. doesn't make sense? >> she has $42 million in the bank. you have $1 million in the bank. >> me, meaning they raised. >> that's from a filing. in all fairness that took into
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account one day. i don't want to devote the rest of my life to raising money from people. when she raises this money. every time she raises money she is making deals. they're saying could i be the ambassador to this? could i do that?business is tak care of. give me a break. ought money she is raising. i was one of the biggest donors. i gave a lot of money to the pare. gave a lot of money to everybody. i was a big donor. i understand the system better than anybody. she is getting tremendous amounts of money from wall street. she will take care of wall street. tremendous amounts of money from lot of people she will take care of those people. part of my campaign is that, you know, this money is being spent and she is making deals for the money. >> she said your economic policies would create a trump recession. >> no, we are going to create an absolute unbelievable country. we are going to put people back to work again. we are not going to allow countries to steal our businesses. >> the current plan that you put forward independent, economic
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analysts have looked at it. said it would add -- $30 trillion to the deficit. you are going to reduce taxes. not going to cut entitlements. there are questions. >> bring back jobs, businesses, a lot of people come into the country. going to have people coming to our country. >> how? how do you do that? >> companies are leaving the united states, corporate inversion. leaving the united states. $5 trillion can't get the money back. can't bring it in. no mechanism to bring it in. the tax is so high. i've will bring tremendous amounts of money, tremendous jobs, tremendous companies. yes the tax is going to be cut from the highest tax nation anywhere in the world to a fairly low tax. not the lowest in the world. to a fairly low tax. >> hillary clinton called you the king of debt? >> she didn't call me. i called myself the king of debt. i am great with debt. nobody knows debt better than me. i made a fortune using debt. if things don't work out.
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renegotiate the debt. a smart thing. >> how do you renegotiate the debt? >> you go back, the economy crashed. i will give you back half the i like debt for me. i don't like it for the country. i like it for my company. not for the country. for the country we have $19 trillion in debt. it is going to be soon, $21 trillion. not billion. $21 trillion in debt. i will tell you we are sitting on a time bomb. and hillary clinton doesn't have a clue. and president obama has pretty much doubled the debt since he has been in office. and some body is going to pay a big price. we have to start chopping the debt down. >> janet yell spin, you know, chairwoman of the federal reserve blasted you for saying it u.s. could load up on debt and then make a deal with creditors if the economy soured. she said there would be very severe consequences itch an elected president tried to renegotiate the nation's debt. >> i wouldn't renegotiate
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debt. >> other people like me, very big people, in the world of business, they do that. could be a good time to borrow. and, and pay off debt. borrow debt. make longer term debt. >> there is no doubt you have broken all the rules in this race. but was, i think when people are looking back and seeing this time in the campaign. barack obama heavily outpent mitt romney. >> they're different than me. >> in the campaign. >> george w. bush, heavily outspent john kerry. you said, history doesn't matter. >> nice to be funded. when i get funded. i have to go and ask for money. when i ask them for money they want favors. everybody wants favors. hillary clinton is giving a lot of favors. she is going to be owned by wall street. going to be owned by the banks. be owned by a lot of different groups. where she wouldn't be raising the money. i don't like doing that. i would rather, say it like it is. and, like it is, is that, i don't want to spend a lot of
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in addition to blasting hillary clinton as a liar, thief, corrupt, incompetent. donald trump is questioning her religion. here is trump in a closed door meeting of evangelical leaders in new york. >> she has been in the public eye for years and years. yet there is no, nothing out there. it is like nothing out there. it is going to be an extension of obama and it will be worse. with obama you had your guard up. with hillary you don't. it is going to be worse. >> norah o'donnell asked trump about these comments. >> you met with evangelical leaders here in new york. and you questioned hillary clinton's commitment to her faith. her christianity. you said we don't know anything about hillary. >> the question was asked of me what do you think? i said i know nothing about it.
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not saying that in a negative way. i just don't know anything about her faith. i wouldn't question her faith. some body asked me. i said i don't know anything about it. we can make that into a headline that's what the press does. the fact is i don't know anything about her faith. >> after the meeting with evangelical leaders eight of them including tony perkins held a press conference. they were asked if they would endorse you? none of them said that they are endorsing you. is that a concern? >> no, but tony perkins is a cruz guy. and you know, 100% cruz. >> ted cruz. >> he is not for me. but i think, hey, look they had the largest gathering they have ever had. i have had tremendous support. franklin graham was there and many other people are there. >> do you need evangelical support? >> i need evangelical. i will get evangelical. i beat cruz, you report as well as any body in the world. i will get evangelical support. i didn't know about anybody.
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thought everybody in the room. we had over 1,000 people. they expected 100. ended up being over 1,000. i think most of that room, you could have a couple grandstanders like tony perkins. but i think most of the room -- i don't think, i know, almost, 95% of the room is in favor of donald trump. if you look at the numbers i get with evangelicals. we have tremendous response from, from the evangelical community. and -- i won the election, i won the primaries, largely based on the support of evangelicals. >> i watched a rally that you did in arizona in march. you said ivanka and melania begged you to be presidential. >> they said please act a little more presidential. i said i can't until i finish my victory. i will act presidential. >> what sort of advice were they giving you that they were begging you to be more presidential? >> i understand. they love the country.
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they think i am doing very well. they are very proud and all of that. but i only kid myself doing well if i win. of a lot of people said does it matter if he wins or loses what he has done has never been done before. where i am now. i said it does matter. if i don't win, i don't consider it a great achievement. i ral eally do. this country has tremendous potential. we're being ripped off. tremendous potential. if we use the potential. we will be stronger, bigger, belter than ever before. you watch. >> you didn't answer my question. >> well, they would like me to be more presidential. i think people would probably leave the stadiums. i fill up these massive stadiums. it is easy to be presidential. it's much hard tire do what i do. you know, the other day, norah, we had thousand of people lined up forever trying to get into a packed convention center. nobody has ever seen anything like it. they had helicopters covering. now, if i stand up there and i do a teleprompter speech like
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hillary does, the line would be no line and there would be three people sitting in the front row. you know, but being presidential, for me is much easier than, than what i have to do to energize the people in the party. so they get out and vote in november. i think we have energized a lot of people. you see it. with all of the false stories i get. that i am essentially tide in this. i think we are going to do very well the i am going to be very presidential when it is the right time. >> a gun range owner and two friend call the in a tunnel to new york city with an arsenal of weapons say the search of their vehicle was illegal. weapons were discovered in a routine traffic stop. defense lawyers want the evidence thrown out on facebook they claimed they were going to brooklyn to rescue a young girl. don dahler reports from the new jersey side of the holland tunnel where the arrest went down. >> the investigation is still under way. but authorities have ruled out terrorism in this particular case. one of the suspects taken into
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custody, john kramsey has a back ground that reveals a personal story of loss that may have been what preceded this ill-advised rescue attempt. >> reporter: the port authority police stopped this hard to miss vehicle early tuesday morning. on the new jersey side of the holland tunnel. >> here is the situation where you have a cracked windshield on a car. the police officer pulls the car over. sees a loaded magazine on the floor of the car. and that's probable cause. starts the whole investigation. >> reporter: search inside the colorful truck revealed a small arsenal including multiple handguns, one assault rifle, body armor, knives, night vision goggles and multiple round of ammunition. >> large majority of weapons were loaded. >> police say the group claims they were traveling from pennsylvania to new york to rescue a teenager being held against her will. one of the people arrested includes 50-year-old john kramsey owner of higher ground tactical, a gun range in pennsylvania. >> hyperground tactical,
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shooting, training instruction. something of an anti-drug advocate after his 20-year-old daughter, alexandria reportedly died from an overdose of heroin back in february. he helped start this facebook page, enough is enough. and posted this message to facebook shortly before he was arrested. going to a hotel to extract a 16-year-old girl. adding, her friend died of another heroin overdosech i am bringing her out of new york today and anybody else in that hotel that wants to go home too. a friend of kramsey, michael nickasure believes the death of his daughter prompted this vigilante act. >> ever since his daughter died. i think it was one of those things where he wishes he could have done something to save her. now that she is gone, he, feels this guilt in his heart that he need to help other people. >> cbs station here in new york says that the 16-year-old girl
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muslim background fostered a hatred of homosexuals. now there is evidence, mateen himself was gay. here is david begnaud. >> the closest we were able to get to pulse nightclub. a tarp meant to give a privacy to the club. a canvas for mourners. every day a new nugget of information. today a gay man who said he had an affair with mateen. but we are going to start with how the shooter got into the club. >> reporter: on the night of the deadly massacre, cbs news learned omar mateen arrived at the gay nightclub receiving what is described as a wristband. he left and returned two hours later. questions about why he chose to target pulse nightclub remain. a law enforcement official says mateen was a frequent user of online dating sites looking for relationships with men and women. cbs news has also learned that both men and women have contacted the fbi claiming to have had a relationship with mateen. on tuesday, attorney general loretta lynch visited orlando.
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>> i cannot tell you definitively that we will narrow it down to one motivation. people often act out of more than one motivation. this was clearly an act of terror and act of hate. >> reporter: during an interview with univision, one man whose appearance was altered to hide his identity claimed he had a sixable relationship for two months with mateen. univision say investigators have questioned the man but cbs news was unable to independently confirm the account. still members of the muslim community are shocked over mateen's pledge to isis. >> i came forward. >> he met mateen ten years ago and worshipped at the same mosque in fort pierce, florida, their families often socialized when mateen expressed admiration for al-alwaki, malik reported him in 2014. investigators did not turn up anything. >> i look at my children's future in the country. we came here for a better opportunity. not here to harm anybody.
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we contribute to society. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed the shooter omar mateen prior to the massacre bought plane tickets for himself, his wife and child to fly to the west coast after the shooting. that's prompted people to ask if he intended for the massacre to beas horrific as it was. why buy a ticket? >> baylor and fired football coach are accused of turning their backs on sexual assault victims. another federal lawsuit has been filed. mark strassmann has the details from baylor campus in waco texas. >> reporter: baylor, is a hunting ground for sexual predators, according to this latest lawsuit. lawyers representing a former baylor university student identified as jane doe say she was drugged. abducted and raped at a party in pfebruary 2015. it happened here at this off-campus housing known as the rugby house. the alleged assailant was not a member of the rugby team but was a baylor student.
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paula elliott is the woman's lawyer. >> a young man came out. and he grabbed her. and threw her over his shoulder. one of the rugby players said are you taking that home? he said, yes. she week up the next morning with con dam wrdom wraerpppers . >> the university initially attempted to help identify the attacker and told the woman there were two additional reported victims with similar experiences at the rugby house. but after more than five weeks, the lawsuit claims, school investigators stopped all correspondence. >> they seemed to have gone into radio silence mode. i find it unfathomable that they knew that this activity was occurring and they, at the rugby house, and they just didn't take any action on it. >> a month after a scathing
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independent review and examined the school's rinse to sexual assault cases involving the football team and found it wholly inadequate. as a result, baylor fired head football coach, aert briles and demoted kenneth starr from his job as president, and resigned as chancellor. jazmine hernandez raped by a baylor football player, later convicted of sexual assault, also sued the school back in march. >> i think even more tragic the university has been aware of all these instances and had the opportunity to do the right thing. and yet they choose time and time and time again to dupt wrong thing. >> reporter: baylor says its goal is to do the right thing to make its campus community feel safe in a statement to cbs news, a university spokesperson said, we acknowledge our failures in the past, and we have already taken steps to ensure we are in compliance with title 9, the jean clery act, the violence
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successful artists taylor swift and paul mccartney wrote to congress asking for help against youtube. they say the site is cutting into their profits. and they want it stopped. anthony mason has the story. ♪ now we have bad blood >> reporter: the reason for bad blood with youtube isn't artist uploads of official videos, it's other whose use copy right music in unapproved, underscoring a sad looking ben affleck with the sound of silence. ♪ and the vision that was planted in my brain ♪ >> reporter: more than 180 artists from taylor swift to paul mccartney to lady gaga signed an open letter to congress asking for change, "the
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existing laws threaten the continued viability of songwriters and recording artists to survive from creation of music." enacted in 1998, digital millennium copy right act gives services like you tube a safe harbor from copy right infringement liabilities as long as they move quickly to remove protected content. artists say services like youtube are overprotect add lug major tech companies to grow and generate huge profits while artists earnings continue to diminish. musician trent resner went further saying youtube is built on the backs of free stolen content. >> artists are making drastically less money off bigger hits. >> irving asoff, managed the eagles to christina aguillera is spearheading the effort. >> this is the next generations
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and waves of people that will try to make a living off music. >> reporter: youtube argues it notifies record companies when copyrighted music is uploaded they can order it removed. companies choose to leave more than 95% of the unauthorized content online and pocket licensing fees. in a statement to cbs news, youtube says fan uploaded content accounts for roughly 50% of the music industry's you tube revenue. the company says it paid out $3 billion to the music industry. ♪ sunset here's my number so call me baby ♪ >> reporter: insiders say the is in the interest of the web and music industry to find a compromise. >> i believe youtube absolutely wants this to work. the artists and youtube alike. they want it to work. all the eyeballs are there. every side wants to see this happen. >> reporter: that is the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, you can check back ilt with us later for the morning news and cbs this morning.
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from the broadcast center here in new york city. i'm demarco morgan. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, june 23rd, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." >> the time for patience is long gone. >> breaking overnight, congressional democrats take a stand on gun control by sitting down. a historic sit-in stretches into the early hours with a dustup erupting on the house floor. her decision spread death, destruction, and terrorism everywhere she touched. >> donald trump takes his turn trashing hillary clinton in his latest speech. this morning, a look at his

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