allen and veronica will be right here at 6:00. ♪[ music ] captioni by cbs >> mason: backing his son. the president defends donald trump jr.'s meeting with a lawyer, as the future surfaces with a future president and the men behind it. also the president's choice to head the fbi declares independence. >> no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath during this process and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> : a person of interest is rearrested the mismysterious disappearance of r pennsylvania men. >> breaking away at the bottom of the world. >> is the breaking away of this iceberg cause for alarm? >> and pride of country.

celebrating a lifetime of music. >> if i can get in front of it, i can win it. [♪ singing ] this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. president trump is heading to paris tonight after tweeting that the white house is functioning perfectly. he also said he has little time to watch television, but he apparently saw his son on fox last night. the president said, "don, jr., did a good job in the interview" and was, "open, transparent, and innocent." we begin tonight with major garrett at the white house. in in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little nefferently. >> reporter: donald trump, jr., told fox news he now realizes the meeting with the russian government lawyer looks bad but still wishes it had produced the promised damaging information on hillary clinton. >> it was literally just a waste of 20 minutes, which was a shame.

i reporter: in an interview t day with reuters, president trump defended his son, saying, "i think many people would have held that meeting." the president also said he only learned of it a couple of days ago. the june 2016 meeting was arranged by music promoter rob goldstone on behalf of a russian pop star whose father is a wealthy oligarch with ties to vladimir putin. in video uncovered today by cnn, mr. trump can be seen with all asree men in las vegas in 2013. sideutside white house adviser described the revelations about trump, jr.'s, meeting as "very bad, a category 5 hurricane." today the president remained out of public view for the third consecutive day and pushed back on twitter against reports he was enraged by television news stories on the investigation. but the revelations keep coming. cbs news has learned that u.s. intelligence picked up electronic intercepts of russian officials discussing presidential candidates, including mr. trump, as far back as mid-2015.

although a source familiar with until the spring of 2016 says the conversation pivoted to helping mr. trump's campaign. special counsel robert mueller's investigation, as well as those on two congressional committee, are also looking into whether the trump campaign's digital operation in any way coordinated with russians to target voters with fake news stories. wat operation was overseen by -le president's son-in-law, jared kushner. california democrat adam schiff at "cbs this morning." >> i'm not saying that that's what took place, but the russians used a whole variety of methods to try to influence not hily our elections but elections in europe, and if there was a data analytical component to this in which there was some level of coordination, that we led the look into. >> reporter: the senate judiciary committee will call former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, who attended the russian meeting with trump, jr., to testify. cbs news has confirmed manafort

provided some information to s.ngress about that meeting also attended by kushner in recent weeks. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the e.ite house. thank you, major. now about that russian lawyer, t re's what julianna goldman has found out about her. >> reporter: natalia veselnitskaya says she didn't have any dirt on hillary clinton. the russian government says they don't even know who she is. but like most things kremlin, there's more to that story. veselnitskaya, who speaks no epglish, represents a wealthy kremlin-connected family in moscow, the katsyvs. they have lobbied hard to overturn u.s. sanctions against russian officials accused of money laundering in what's known as the magnitsky act. the 2012 law enraged russian president vladimir putin so much irat he banned americans from adopting russian children. >> she's like the consigliere of a very prominent russian family. she has a wide range of tasks.

she's not just a lawyer, as she's been described. she's an operator. s reporter: a hedge manager bill browder called her a lermidable adversary. she said she wouldn't have been in the u.s. lobbying without the kremlin's blessing. >> they don't give out business cards from the kremlin saying you're a kremlin lawyer, go to washington and do this. >> reporter: after the meeting last june, veselnitskaya went to washington, organized a onreening of a anti-magnitsky film at the museum, and was in the first row of a congressional hearing on u.s. policy toward russia. last year she also took on former u.s. attorney preet ccarara, who had accused denis katsyv of that kremlin-connected family, of money laundering. ede case was settled after s arara was fired by president trump. in court documents, veselnitskaya has argued and won more than 300 cases and her clients include large state- cased and private corporations. >> she's a non-partisan advocate for a bunch of crooks back in

the russian government. >> reporter: the justice department settled that money laundering case against veselnitskaya's client four months after mr. trump came into office. seday house democrats sent a ertter asking the attorney general if that kremlin- connected client got any special treatment. anthony? >> mason: julianna, thanks. n spoke today with republican congressman trey gowdy of south carolina, chairman of the house itersight committee and a former prosecutor. i asked him what concerns him about donald trump, jr.'s, emails. >> potentially there could be four or five different statutes depacted, most of which deal with whether or not you can not solicit or receive anything of value from a foreign national, but bob mueller is an expert in criminal law, and i never was. i certainly am not now, so i trust bob mueller to sort all that out. ht reporter: president trump last night praised his son's thansparency. are you satisfied with the nkansparency?

>> i think it's always better to self-disclose potentially negative information as opposed to having it revealed by others, but i am not going to stand between a father praising one of his children. i have two of them myself. so i think your viewers are smart enough to judge that for themselves. i would have preferred that we not find this out from "the new york times." >> mason: you talked yesterday about the drip, drip, drip undermining the credibility of yois administration. are you in any way losing confidence in this administration? >> i'm not losing confidence. opthink we're missing an increasingly shrinking window of opportunity. we're now in july. in're not talking about infrastructure. we're not talking about tax reform. we're really not even talking about health reform that much. we're talking about comey and obstruction of justice, and potential criminality and russia so it's that window of time within which any new administration has a grace niriod from the voters to do what you ran on.

so that's my real frustration is tat we may be missing this itndow of opportunity legislatively. >> mason: what would you say to the administration at this point? >> you should get everyone in a room, and from the moment you watch either dr. zhivago or read brothers karamazov, to the point you had a shot of liquor with a guy in a furry hat, you need to disclose every contact you have aver had with russia. we're not going to have any more of these disclosures coming out on the front page of the newspaper. go ahead and tell the special counsel every connection you've had. get this behind us before labor day. i think that's possible, but we got to be the ones disclosing er.s, we can't have it uncovered by an investigative reporter. >> mason: congressman gowdy, thank you very much for being with us. >> yes, sir, thank you. >> mason: the president said the russia investigation was on his mind when he decided to fire f.b.i. director james comey. today the senate judiciary committee opened hearings on mr. trump's nominee to succeed comey.

christopher wray. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on o pitol hill. >> no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point k ring this process, an i sure >> heck didn't offer one. >> reporter: christopher wray told senators today he's been assured he won't face the kind of presidential pressure his predecessor outlined in a series of memos. >> if the president asks you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first, i would try the talk him out of it. and if that failed, i would .esign. >> reporter: wray says he met with president trump and top aides twice last month. >> i went into both meetings listening very carefully to make sure that i didn't hear something that would make me uncomfortable. ad reporter: wray headed the rtstice department's criminal division before entering private practice. he was new jersey governor chris christie's personal lawyer during the bridgegate scandal. but he is seen by both sides as

restraight shooter. >> i did not consider director dieller to be on a witch-hunt. >> reporter: and he didn't shy away today from contradicting the president. >> you don't think director comey is a nut job, right? >> that's never been my experience with him. >> reporter: wray did try to avoid the new controversy surrounding donald trump, jr. >> i'm not in a position to speak to it. >> reporter: south carolina's lindsey graham wouldn't have it. >> you're going to be the director of f.b.i., pal. here's what i want you to tell every politician. if you get a call from somebody ouggesting that a foreign svernment wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the f.b.i. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state is the kind of thing the f.b.i. would want to know. >> reporter: wray is poised for easy confirmation, but even republicans acknowledged today that the job of f.b.i. director is currently strewn with

landmines, as utah's orrin hatch put it, anthony, wray's going to have an interesting life over next couple of years, but he's not sure it's going to be a very poce life. au mason: sure is. nancy cordes on capitol hill, thanks, nancy. a number of police officers in austin, texas, have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past week. the department suspects the gas was leaking inside their s.u.v.s. transportation correspondent kris van cleave has reported on ais problem and says it may not be limited to police vehicles. >> reporter: newly released dash camera video from march appears to show sergeant zachary lahood sickened by what his department says is carbon monoxide seeping into his police cruiser. >> i remember swerving to what i thought was a bus, i was going to hit a bus or maybe it was a garbage truck. i think it was a bus. ce reporter: lahood, a 13-year police veteran remains on

medical leave and is now suing ford. >> i'm lucky to be alive, i believe that, and i'm lucky i didn't kill somebody else and their family that night. >> reporter: in just the last week, six more austin officers have been treated for carbon n noxide exposure. the department has now taken 37 ford explorers out of service. assistant police chief troy gay. >> we believe it is something that we do need to take immediate action. >> reporter: in february, cbs news identified more than 450 complaints involving 2011 to 2017 model year ford explorers, not just police units. federal regulators acknowledge that number has grown and are avestigating. ford has known about it since at least 2012. a company representative later acknowledged in a deposition, "it appears to be a design issue llat may allow exhaust, which n ntains carbon monoxide, to seep in likely through unsealed seams in the rear of the s.u.v." this video shows the newport beach, california, police cruiser bryan mcdowell was t iving slamming into a tree.

mcdowell is one of at least one of a half a dozen officers in california, texas, and louisiana suing ford over allegations of carbon monoxide exposure. ford says it's investigated and not found any carbon monoxide issues with the design of its police interceptors, noting departments sometimes modify the ouisers. >> mason: kris van cleave reporting from washington. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," a person of fterest is rearrested as the mystery of four missing pennsylvania men deepens. four missing pennsylvania men deepens. ♪

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foarching for the missing four young men. >> we are going to find something for sure. i have no doubt of that, no doubt of that. ty reporter: buck's county westrict attorney matthew weintraub believes foul play may have played a role. >> we have not yet recovered any human remains that i can report, ret we have recovered several important pieces of evidence. >> reporter: this home belongs to the family of 20-year-old asmo dinardo, who investigators say is a person of interest. dinardo was arrested today. it is the second time this week. prosecutors said dinardo tried to sell a car owned by 21-year- old tom meo, one of the missing men. authorities say meo, a diabetic, left his insulin kit in the vehicle. s we allege that cosmo dinardo attempted to sell meo's vehicle for $500 to a friend whose identity we know but are protecting in the court documents for potential safety. >> reporter: officials have not said if all of the men knew each other. imnardo listed jimi patrick, a

loyola university freshman, as a friend on facebook. patrick was first to go missing last wednesday. two days later tom meo, mark okurgis, and dean finocchiaro also vanished. sturgis and meo worked together. nicholas salgaro is friends with both. he never heard them mention dinardo's name. >> i hope that they're okay. >> reporter: walter marcinowski is a friend of jimi patrick. >> we're scared. we want to know something. ne reporter: dinardo was arraigned in court this afternoon and is being held at the buck's county jail tonight. anthony, his bond has been set at $5 million cash. >> mason: demarco morgan, thank you, demarco. coming up, a trillion ton iceberg breaks off antarctica. why scientists are not alarmed. trillion ton iceberg breaks off antarctica. why scientists are not alarmed.

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>> mason: >> mason: breaking news now from the bottom of the planet.

one of the world's largest icebergs has broken away from a tremendous ice sheet in antarctica. alarming as that sounds, scientists are urging everyone to chill. here's debora patta. >> reporter: it's been hanging a by a thread for months. but finally a giant chunk of ice the size of delaware has snapped off. at more than 2,200 square miles, the massive fracture certainly looks dramatic, but scientists are not pressing the panic button just yet. if the fracturing of this iceberg cause for alarm? >> at the moment, i would categorically say no. >> reporter: glaciologist david vaughan says, it's all part of housekeeping in the antarctic, but it could be a problem long- term. >> the question is whether this is the beginning of a retreat of this ice shelf that may eventually be linked to climate change. >> reporter: an ice shelf is a ourmanent floating sheet of ice

attached to land. an iceberg will snap off every .ew decades, but the ice shelf utually grows again as it gains new ice from land. the warmer temperatures have seen some ice shelves retreat to such a point that they are unable to regenerate. scientists will now be able to e termine if this is one such case. >> reporter: we will take sediment samples from beneath the ice shelf and it will tell us how often this type of event els concerned in the past. o reporter: of more immediate hencern, without a shelf to hold it back, the glacial ice behind it will flow into sea and contribute the driving sea sevels up more quickly than predicted for this century. debora patta, cbs news, london. >> mason: up next, the artist who broke country music's color barrier. ♪ kiss an angel good morning an angel good morning ♪

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>> mason: we end tonight with the pride of country music, charley pride. nearly 70 years after he bought his first guitar from sears and roebuck, the trailblazing artist was honored last night with a special grammy. ♪ let me take you back home. with a song i used to do ♪ >> reporter: he's been performing for more than 50 years, but charley pride doesn't mind picking up another accolade. >> i just received a lifetime lhievement award last night. they said, "we're going the mail it to you." i said, "no, i'm taking it with me." >> reporter: how did it feel? >> wonderful. >> reporter: the singer has charted 29 number-one hits. but growing up in sledge,

mississippi, one of 11 children of a sharecropping family, pride dreamed of playing baseball. ja when i saw jackie robinson go to the major league, i said, boy, i was picking cotton beside my dad, i said, here's my way out of these cotton fields. >> reporter: he spent a decade in the negro and minor leagues until 1966 when he was signed to rca records, but the label wasn't sure how to sell its first black country artist. ♪ so just between you and me >> my trouble was getting booked by promoters. >> reporter: how did you solve that problem? >> well, here's what i did... >> reporter: pride would walk on stage with a disarming opening line. >> i said, ladies and gentlemen, i realize it's a little unique me coming out here in a country s sic show wearing this permanent tan. >> reporter: that one little statement did it? >> that's the way it's been for ep something years. if i can get in front of them, i can win them with these pipes.

>> charley pride! >> reporter: in 1967 he made his debut at the grand old opry and is one of only three black artists to be made a member. ♪ all i have to offer you is me ♪ biggest single i ever had right here. >> reporter: in 1971, this million-selling smash. ♪ you've got to kiss an angel good morning ♪ >> reporter: made him one of country's biggest crossover stars. some3, he has a new album out and still plays some 40 dates a year. er my fans think i'm singing astter now than i ever did, so the lord has blessed me really well. >> mason: only elvis presley cold more records on the rca abel. the remarkable charley pride. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

a federal judge says he won't like kpix 5 news at 6 begins with what could be a victory for sanctuary cities. a federal judge says he won't likely allow president trump to cut off funding as punishment. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> i'm allen martin. new at 6:00, bay area cities squaring off with the trump administration in federal court. the white house wanted the judge to lift a block on its executive order punishing sanctuary cities. but kpix 5's melissa caen was in the courtroom and says the judge wasn't buying it, was he, melissa? >> reporter: that's right, allen! today, the judge made it pretty clear that he would continue to block the president's executive order that would put in jeopardy federal funding some or all of it for sanctuary cities. >> we think the argument went well. >> reporter: it looked like another win today for sanctuary cities. several local governments had sued to stop president trump's executive order aimed at punishing sanctuary cities.

>> as you know, i'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. they breed crime. there's a lot of problems. if we have to, we'll defund. >> reporter: the president's january 25th order would deny some or all federal funds to the sanctuary cities. san francisco, santa clara county, and the city of richmond sued to stop the order from taking effect. >> we brought this lawsuit because san francisco is not going to be bullied by president trump. >> reporter: the federal judge agreed to block the executive ordination wide. but a few weeks later the attorney general issued a memo clarifying some parts of the executive order and today, the white house asked the court to throw out the case because the memo had fixed the problem. >> the attorney general doesn't have the power to rewrite the executive order. that's what would be needed. >> reporter: she argued the case on behalf of san francisco. when the white house lawyer told the judge that san francisco is not being targeted by the executive order, she had a pretty ea