captioning sponsor ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: letting loose. >> we have to close down our government. we're building that wall. it's time to expose the crooked media deception. they're trying to take away our culture. they're trying to take away our history. how did he get in here? he's supposed to be with a few people outside. very presidential, isn't it? >> mason: also tonight, the debate hillary clinton had with herself. >> do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, "back up, you creep?" >> mason: a new study finds a possible link between dementia and a lack of rem sleep. and, lottery players hope to find their luck in fond du lac. >> there's, like, sacred ground here. this is a big place to buy lottery tickets.

this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. the on-again-off-again presidential teleprompter was off again, and the president went off again on the media, fellow republicans, and anything else that came to mind. at a tuesday night rally in phoenix, the president also defended his charlottesville comments, though he did some careful editing. here's chip reid. >> it's time to expose the crooked media deception. >> reporter: president trump returned to his fiery campaign trail rhetoric last night in phoenix, a sharp contrast to today in reno, where he read from a teleprompter and struck a measured tone before veterans at the american legion convention. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. >> reporter: but in phoenix, he

once again defended remarks he made after a violent white supremacist rally earlier this month. one woman was killed when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. >> here's what i said on saturday: we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. >> reporter: but what he actually said is this: >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence, on many sides-- on many sides. >> reporter: it was the words "on many sides," and his apparent defense of white supremacists three days later-- >> very fine people, on both sides. >> reporter: --that led to widespread backlash. this from house speaker paul ryan: >> i do believe that he messed up in his comments on tuesday when it sounded like a moral equivocation or at the very least, moral ambiguity. >> reporter: and even stronger words from g.o.p. senator bob

corker of tennessee: >> the president has not yet-- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the confidence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> reporter: the president last night blamed the media. >> oh, that's so funny. look back there. the live red lights, they're turning those suckers off fast, i'll tell you. >> reporter: as you can see, cnn and the other cable networks did not stop their live coverage, contrary to what the president said. now, anthony, it would appear that the raucous rally last night in phoenix and the respectful speech here in reno today would have nothing in common, but, in fact, they do have this in common. in both cases, the president found a way to tell core audiences, core supporters, exactly what they wanted to hear. anthony? >> mason: chip reid in reno. thank you, chip. just the night before, mr. trump

stuck to the script as he addressed the nation about afghanistan. james clapper, former director of national intelligence, was struck by the difference between that speech and his performance in phoenix. here was clapper last night with cnn's don lemon. >> it's interesting to contrast last night's teleprompter trump performance versus tonight, which is, of course, the real trump, just as it was in the unglued, impromptu press conference at trump tower. so i just find this extremely disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i-- i really question his ability to... his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out.

>> mason: so what is the president's motivation? chief white house correspondent major garrett has more about that. >> they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. you see that. >> reporter: president trump taunted the news media with accusations of divisiveness that, since charlottesville, republicans, democrats, and business leaders have laid at his feet. mr. trump's deflection and grievance are aimed at keeping the third of the country still on his side energized and angry. the "us against them" strategy targets senate republicans like jeff flake and john mccain, both of whom endured indirect fire from the bully pulpit in phoenix. flake first: >> nobody wants me to talk about him. nobody knows who the hell he is! >> reporter: then mccain. >> we are going to get rid of obamacare. i will never stop. one vote! >> reporter: the president even rattled g.o.p. congressional leaders with this threat:

>> if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> reporter: that sounded all the more bizarre considering the long history of campaign promises about funding for the wall. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan was asked about the shutdown today. >> i don't think a government shutdown is necessary, and i don't think most people want to see a government shutdown. >> but i said, "mitch, get to work and let's get it done." >> reporter: attacking some republicans, including a supposed ally like republican leader mitch mcconnell, is also strategic. the president needs to show his base that he's still committed to populism, despite the firing of chief strategist steve bannon. mcconnell and the president haven't spoken in two weeks, and the senator's aides say the president's erratic rhetoric and g.o.p. bashing threaten the party's entire agenda. the white house and mcconnell tried to paper over this animosity today with separate statements about shared objectives. during his feud with the

president, mcconnell has touched base either with mike pence or new chief of staff john kelly. through all of this, the president's historically low approval ratings remain stuck in the mid-30s. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house, thanks. joining us now, anthony salvanto, director of elections and surveys here at cbs news. anthony, last night the president continued to criticize fellow republicans. why does he feel confident that his base will stay with him if he does that? >> yeah, anthony, if you take a look at the polling across the sum of what they've done, you can't paint all of his supporters with the same brush. he has a core base, about half of his total support, inside those numbers. and they feel more attached to him than they do to the party. they vote republican, but they consider themselves trump supporters first and foremost. it's a really personal connection. they feel like he's fighting for their culture and their way of life. well, they haven't been very much inclined to listen to anything the republican party leaders have to say. if anything, they take any

criticism of him personally on themselves, they say, and it's only made their support firmer. >> mason: interesting. he has faced pushback from republican senators over charlottesville and over his threat last night to shut down the government if he doesn't get funding for the wall. if this gets in the way of his legislative agenda, will that affect his supporters? >> well, here's where you look at the other half of his supporters, whom we called the more conditional supporters. they want policy outcomes from this president. now, they still back him, but they feel like he has to deliver in congress with legislation. they want the tax cut, for example, and while most republicans did approve of how he described the events in charlottesville, it wasn't the same as the numbers he's gotten for things like handling the economy. so these folks are much more transactional, and the question will be: at what point might they run out of patience if he can't deliver on that policy agenda? >> mason: anthony salvanto, thanks. >> thank you. >> mason: at least 35 members of president trump's advisory councils have now resigned in protest over his comments about

charlottesville. among them, thea lee, former deputy chief of staff of the afl-cio, who was a member of mr. trump's manufacturing council. she also served on councils for his three most recent predecessors. thea lee joins us now. what was it about charlottesville that made you quit this council? >> well, it was that final trump tower press conference on tuesday afternoon that was so... unhinged, and i think it was the fact that after watching those horrific events in charlottesville and seeing a person actually lose their life and to have nazis marching on the streets with torches and chanting anti-semitic and racist slogans, it didn't seem like asking too much that the president of the united states should show the same revulsion. and the president's reaction was so inappropriate, so inadequate, so painful, that it just felt that any kind of association with the president, with the

administration at that point was no longer possible. >> mason: you've written that it became clear that this is not a normal administration and the usual rules do not apply. what do you mean by that? >> i have served on a lot of advisory committees for previous presidents, and i've never considered that serving on an advisory committee was the same thing as endorsing a president, and so it had never seemed before that i had to make that kind of a calculation, that it was necessary to distance myself an additional space. >> mason: thea lee, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you, anthony. thanks for having me. >> mason: mr. trump did his best to get under hillary clinton's skin during the debates last year. now, clinton reveals how successful he was in her new book, "what happened." it's published by simon & schuster, a division of cbs. a portion of the audio version recorded by clinton was released today. here's julianna goldman. >> no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces.

>> reporter: it was the second presidential debate, and in hillary clinton's telling of the story, donald trump loomed behind her, breathing down her neck. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. >> reporter: only two days earlier the campaign was rocked by the release of a tape in which mr. trump bragged about sexual assault. now, they were on a small stage together. >> my skin crawled. it was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, "well? what would you do? do you stay calm, keep smiling, and carry on, as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? or do you turn, look him in the eye, and say loudly and clearly, 'back up, you creep. get away from me.'" >> reporter: clinton has second thoughts about not choosing option b. >> maybe i have over-learned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while. >> reporter: clinton has kept a

relatively low profile since last november, and in another excerpt, she wrote about the disappointment of what she called her painful loss. >> i knew that millions of people were counting on me, and i couldn't bear the idea of letting them down, but i did. i couldn't get the job done. >> reporter: the excerpts allude to russia's interference in the election. clinton has also said she'll address mistakes like her private email server in the book, which she's calling the most personal book she's ever written. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks very much. the commander of the navy's seventh fleet was relieved of duty today following two deadly collisions in four months. late sunday night the u.s.s. "john s. mccain" collided with an oil tanker off singapore. ten sailors are feared dead. here's david martin. >> reporter: divers went back below decks on the "mccain" for a second day of searching for remains of sailors trapped in flooded sleeping compartments. this time they took the equipment needed to cut bodies

out of the mangled wreckage. after one still-unidentified body was pulled from the open water, the navy expanded its search to look for more sailors who might have been washed out of the gaping hole a tanker punched in the "mccain's" hull. having lost two ships, the "mccain" and the "fitzgerald," to deadly collisions, the commander of the pacific fleet, admiral scott swift, said he no longer had confidence in vice admiral joseph aucoin, commander of the seventh fleet, and relieved him effective immediately. ships in the seventh fleet and the rest of the world are now in a safety stand down to review basic seamanship, one of several steps senior naval officers felt aucoin should have ordered in june after the "fitzgerald" collision. a string of accidents in the seventh fleet dates back to january, when the guided-missile cruiser "antietam" ran aground in tokyo bay. it was blamed on captain joseph carrigan who was relieved of his command, but the investigation

also found substandard performance from multiple crew members. the house cleaning in the seventh fleet may not be over. lower-rank admiral commanders are responsible for monitoring conditions aboard individual ships like the "mccain" and "fitzgerald," and may have failed to spot accidents waiting to happen. anthony? >> mason: david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you, david. the texas gulf coast is bracing for harvey, a tropical depression that is expected to strengthen before making landfall late friday. a hurricane watch is up from port mansfield to galveston island. harvey could bring a dangerous storm surge and as much as 20 inches of rain. police in the dutch city of rotterdam today canceled a concert by an american band, allah-las, after getting a terror threat. they later arrested the driver of a van with spanish license plates and several gas canisters. it's not clear if there is a connection to the concert threat.

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eight hours, as your sleep cycle repeats. in this study, as the amount of rem sleep declined, the risk of dementia increased. >> mason: so what might sleep have to do with dementia, john? >> reporter: anthony, this study was done in people over the age of 60, and there is increasing evidence that toxins accumulate in the brain during the day. as you're awake. and what happens at night, or whenever you sleep, is that those toxins get cleaned out, something of a garbage cong and these include things like amyloids, that are linked to alzheimer's. now, we don't know when during the sleep cycle it occurs, but it's very exciting research. >> mason: so jon, does this mean sleep deprivation can actually cause dementia? >> reporter: we don't know that yet, but this is very exciting because we know that the changes that occur in the brains of people with alzheimer's occur decades before they get symptoms. so maybe testing somebody for problems with sleep can be almost kind of a screening test in some people. and imagine if you could diagnose alzheimer's or a risk of dementia sooner rather than later? that would be very big.

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white supremacists and counterprotesters. a man tried to remove one of the covers, but later gave up. meanwhile, what can only be described as a head scratcher-- espn says play-by-play man robert lee won't work the university of virginia's football opener in charlottesville next month "because of the coincidence in his name." lee, who is asian american, will work another game. up next, the land o'luck. ♪

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field.. but is it free speech.. or hate speech? the bay area sounds . kpix 5 news begins with a permit granted for a weekend rally at crissy field but is it free speech or hate speech? the bay area sounds off in our exclusive poll. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> i'm ken bastida. the national park service said that it had no choice but to honor the free speech rights of the "patriot prayer" group. the bay area leaders worry the rally on saturday will attract extremists. the public has a different take. we asked, are people today too quick to label something as bigoted or racist? a clear majority of the bay area 63% of you said yes!! phil matier put that question to city leaders today. phil. >> reporter: that's right, ken. you know, this is crissy field. and this is where the latest debate over free speech and

hate speech is going to be ground zero for over the weekend. but at city hall, they have already made up their minds. let's listen to the mayor. [ chanting ] >> these people are hate-filled messages are coming into our city to wreak havoc. >> reporter: san francisco mayor ed lee is not alone. about every elected san francisco official who spoke out about the crissy field says the "patriot prayer" group is a hate group. >> we are talking about people who are racist, white supremist and nationalists and people who don't degree we should be a sanctuary city, people who don't agree with inclusiveness. >> reporter: mark farrell called the crissy field demonstrators nazis. "patriot prayer" leader joey gibson himself a japanese- american says it's not so! >> it's an idea about promoting freedom and love, peace, free speech, courage. it's basically an attempt to try to change the culture. >> reporter: as for the 63% of those