in 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: after nine years behind bars... >> mr. simpson, i do vote to grant parole when eligible. >> mason: o.j. simpson is going free. also tonight, the president blasts his attorney general-- >> he should have told me before he took the job. >> mason: --for recusing himself in the russia investigation. >> i would have picked somebody else. >> mason: the special counsel at ts aim at trump business transactions. >> would that be a breach of yat his actual charge is? >> i would say yeah. i would say yes. >> mason: senator john mccain fights the battle of his life. >> he is yelling at me to buck up, so i'm going to buck up. on: ason: and, a young boy's trip back in time. >> yeah, i think it's crazy. this is the "cbs evening news."

>> mason: this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. it was all very familiar. millions of americans glued to their televisions, waiting to hear the fate of o.j. simpson. but it was two decades later, two decades after simpson was acquitted of murder charges in the trial of the century. today, the question was whether simpson would be granted parole after serving nine years in a nevada prison in an unrelated case, an armed robbery in las vegas. here's john blackstone with the verdict. >> mr. simpson, i do vote to grant parole when eligible, and that will conclude this hearing. >> thank you. >> reporter: his relief was obvious. o.j. simpson, now 70 years old, would soon be free on parole. e it was a serious crime, and there was no excuse for it. >> reporter: the hearing, via ladeo conference, lasted more oman an hour, as commissioners asked simpson how prison had changed him.

>> are you humbled by this incarceration? >> oh, yeah. for sure. >> reporter: while expressing regret, he insisted it was others who decided to bring guns the day in las vegas they robbed two memorabilia dealers of items evedson believed had been stolen from him. >> i am no danger to pull a gun on anybody. you know, i never have in my life. i've never been accused of it in my life. >> reporter: one of the dealers obbed that day, bruce fromong, told the parole board simpson had served enough time. >> this is a good man. he made a mistake. >> he truly is remorseful. >> reporter: simpson's oldest daughter, arnelle. e and we just want him to come home so that we can move forward, for us. quietly. >> i'm not a guy who lived a criminal life. you know, i'm a pretty straight shooter. >> reporter: but hanging over the hearing was the accusation in 1994 that simpson had brutally murdered his ex-wife nicole and her friend ron goldman. >> i've always thought i've been

pretty good with people, and i've basically... it's been a conflict-free life. >> one of the least self-aware .oments that i have ever heard. >> reporter: law professor laurie levinson: >> now, there are a lot of things you might say about o.j. simpson, and you might even say, well, that acquittal was fair. but to say that he's led a conflict-free life? i don't think so. >> reporter: simpson will remain in prison, until at least october 1. he said he wants to return to he wana, where he lived before his nevada conviction, but parole officials in both states icia agree. anthony? >> mason: john blackstone outside the prison in lovelock, nevada. president trump has had a very public falling out with attorney general jeff sessions, the first tmber of the senate to endorse his run for the white house. here's chip reid. >> he's an amazing man. >> reporter: president trump was namorenamored with attorney general jeff sessions. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the presidency of the united states.

of teporter: but not anymore. >> repextraordinarily candid ily caiew with "the new york times," the president gave sessions an angry, public ding fng for recusing himself from the russia investigation. >> reporter: sessions was asked eriny if he's considering resigning. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general, and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> reporter: the president also criticized special counsel robert mueller for accepting the izb as head of the russia tingstigation just one day after interviewing with mr. trump to be f.b.i. director. >> reporter: and he again unleashed his fury at former ab.i. director james comey. in june, comey told congress

truc mr. trump instructed other advisers to leave the oval office, then asked comey to drop the investigation of former setional security adviser michael flynn. but the president told the "times," he did not shoo people out of the room. bo >> reporter: in a long, rambling li interview, the president also reminisced about his recent trip to paris and to napoleon's tomb, and he gave a history lesson about how napoleon and hitler lost major battles against russia, because their armies froze to death. the president seemed fascinated, ningioning it more than once that french president emmanuel macron has a fondness for dolding hands. a white house spokesperson said today that, yes, president trump is disappointed in attorney is dral sessions, but he has not rast confidence in him and has in himn to fire him.

anthony? >> mason: chip reid at the white >>use, thank you, chip. the special counsel is now looking into the trump business n pire, in the investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. wection and whether anyone in d.e trump campaign was involved. mare's julianna goldman. >> reporter: in that "new york times" interview, president iaump had a warning for special counsel robert mueller. investigating his finances and his family's finances would cross a red line. but investigators are already examining the financial dealings of mr. trump and his associates, not limiting themselves to possible collusion with russia in the 2016 election. mr. trump's business ties to russia go back decades. s e special counsel's mandate is broad, and allows him to investigate any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. cbs news has confirmed mueller is also looking into the business dealings of former trump campaign chairman paul

manafort, an investigation initiated by prosecutors in the southern district of new york. >> speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> reporter: the head of the public corruption unit at the southern district, andrew inldstein, recently joined mueller's team. he oversaw the manafort probe. prosecutor andrew weissmann is another team member. his expertise, financial fraud. weissmann helped lead the federal task force that investigated corruption at energy giant enron. with multiple and overlapping probes, from the department of justice to capitol hill, some investigators are also looking into purchases of units in trump properties. the senate intelligence committee is pouring through thousands of pages of financial records, from a unit in the treasury department that fights money laundering. in a "new york times" interview, t e president also said, "it's possible there's a condo or something. i sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from russia buys a condo, who knows."

he also said he doesn't make money from russia. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. we turn now to john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of t ace the nation." john, these are pretty unusual r a prs for a president to make about his attorney general, aren't they? what do you make of them? >> well, what makes these comments so unusual is the president is not criticizing a policy decision an attorney general made. he's making claims about the attorney general's character. he says it was "unfair" that the attorney general didn't tell him that he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. now, the attorney general deals with right and wrong, so questioning his fairness is erfferent than if you were questioning another cabinet official. and the president also didn't liem to believe attorney general sessions' testimony about why he was not immediately forthcoming about his meetings with the russian ambassador. the president said sessions was asked "simple questions" and that his answers "should have been simple answers, but they weren't." c mason: this interview comes as we mark six months now of the trump administration.

tsere do you think this fits in, in the scope of his presidency? >> well, at six months in, hiesident trump in this interview is the same person as candidate donald trump. he is free wheeling, full of hyperbole, there are ayaccuracies, and he's saying exactly what is on his mind, even if it breaks the normal rules. whether those rules are about criticizing an attorney general or criticizing special counsel iceller, even though that criticism could be considered interference in the investigation, which is one of the things the president is being investigated for. and all of this to the "new york times," which the president has criticized regularly. the office has not changed the man. >> mason: john dickerson. thank you very much, john. the treasury department fined exxon-mobil $2 million today for violating u.s. sanctions in 2014 when it signed contracts with a black-listed russian oil executive. rex tillerson was exxon's c.e.o. at the time and called sanctions "ineffective." now-secretary of state tillerson

supports keeping them in place -ttil russia gives back crimea. john mccain, the six-term senator from arizona, 2008 republican presidential candidate, and vietnam war hero, is fighting the biggest battle of his life. the enemy, an aggressive form of brain cancer. here's chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> we're rooting for you, dear friend. >> if anybody is going to beat a disease like this, it's going to e joohn mccain. >> reporter: senator mccain put up with the emotion for about 12 hours. the last straw was this tribute thom his friend, lindsey graham. >> i can't think of anything i've done since 1999, politically, in many ways personally, that was worth doing without john. >> reporter: mccain, recovering in phoenix, intervened. >> he has called me three times is morning. "no more 'woe is me,' lindsey." he is yelling at me to buck up.

>> reporter: "i greatly appreciate the outpouring of support," mccain tweeted. "unfortunately for my sparring llrtners in congress, i'll be back soon." >> lt. commander john mccain. >> reporter: tough talk from man who survived five and a half years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and has spent three decades honing a take-no- prisoners style on capitol hill. >> it's really embarrassing to hear you say something like that. it was a waste of time because ley had no information. it's unfair, it's bizarro. >> reporter: that straight talk has endeared him to both sides. both senators pointed today to this moment in his run against then-senator obama. >> he's an arab. >> no, ma'am, he's a, he's a decent family man. >> he said, i'm feeling good. i may have some chemo to get through. >> reporter: arizona's junior senator jeff flake spoke to mccain last night. john mccain is a tough guy. this is a very tough form of cancer. >> it is. and he knows that. his family certainly knows that.

>> reporter: mccain has experience battling cancer. he had four melanomas removed between 1993 and 2002. and anthony, we're told that it was lindsey graham who noticed that mccain seemed run down lately and urged him to go get checked. >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. thank you, nancy. joining us now, our chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook. jon, what exactly is the senator up against here? >> reporter: anthony, the hooblem is that glioblastoma is or tally rough tumor to treat, hd what happens is, even though you think you're taking out the tumor and it look like you have, avcroscopically, it's already spread to other parts of the brain, so it tends to come back. and, in fact, the median survival is only about 15 months. 10% of people live five years or longer. this is the same cancer that killed senator ted kennedy. >> mason: so what are the treatment options for the senator, then? >> reporter: well, he had surgery. then he's going to get chemotherapy and radiation. but after this there are exciting new possibilities, one redresses the fact that cancer tends to hide from the immune system.

it kind of cloaks itself in a check of invisibility, and the idea is to strip away that cloak. and at duke university, they're taking inactivateed polio virus eed injecting it directly into the cancer to stimulate the immune system to come and kill ome they're having some really reteresting results from that. >> mason: so i've heard that getting medicine into the brain can be very difficult, though. >> reporter: that's exactly right. it's called the blood-brain barrier. ri's hard for drugs to get in. nnd one really interesting approach is to use nanoparticles. tiu put the medication inside those and you use it to sneak into the brain, and then it gets released and hopefully will fight the cancer. but at the end of the day, this is a tough cancer. tainsenator is certainly in for a big fight, and we need a ton more research. >> mason: all right. dr. jon lapook, thank you. late today, the minneapolis he fce chief spoke for the first time about the fatal police shooting of a yoga instructor from australia. al ochief was critical of the officer's actions. jamie yuccas is in minneapolis. jamie? ic reporter: minneapolis police

chief janee harteau, anthony, started with a very strong chatement saying justine damond did not have to die. justine damond was shot to death nd minneapolis police officer mohamed noor, when she walked up to the squad car at one point, after dialing 911 twice, thinking that she was reporting a supposed rape behind her home. now, chief harteau said she talked to justine damond's fiancée, don, just this morning, and he expressed to her that people are now scared to call to1. she said the department does need to regain the community's trust at this point, and she erso reassured her family that she will do everything in her eower to make sure justice is served for justine. the officer and his partner, matthew harrity, did not have their body cameras rolling at the time. thd this is an important piece for many in this community, wondering why that happened. the chief said that she understands that, and she will look into it, and hopes to make changes there. officer noor has not given a statement at this point to investigators in the independent investigation, anthony. and we did learn, the police

chief spoke for the first time foday because she was on a backpacking trip until yesterday. >> mason: jamie yuccas with breaking news in minneapolis. thank you. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," it's full speed ahead for self-driving cars, but federal laws are lagging behind. and later, a young boy's ancient discovery. steve was born to move. over the course of 9 days he walks 26.2 miles, that's a marathon.

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solid lines, because they're easier for self-driving cars to see. but what's not ready are the rules. tott keogh from audi: >> i think we need definitions. we need the government and the states to set laws that are all united and unified around this, to beere needs to be a little bit less p.t. barnum-ism, where everyone is throwing around bare terms. >> reporter: right now, only 23 states and the district of columbia have laws on the books regarding self-driving cars. >> as this technology gets out on the road, we want to make sure that it is safe, that is truly is ready for prime time. >> the concept behind this bill is to try to make, create some certainty, some clarity, so some know what those rules are going to be. >> reporter: that could happen that coming days. republican senator john thune lad democrat gary peters plan to present rare bipartisan legislation setting standards for safety, cyber security, and guidelines to determine accident liability if no one is driving. f you feel real deadline pressure to get this done? im it's only matter of time. and that horizon is coming very quickly at us,

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