faith, to come out of that on top. >> announcer: ricky skaggs and kentucky thunder. together for a special time of music, praise, and christmas memories. >> ricky skaggs: please join dr. charles stanley, andy stanley, kentucky thunder, and me for "christmas: a time to celebrate." >> announcer: check your local listings for times and merry christmas from in touch. infrastructure. jeff. >> margaret brennan.

and john dickerson. thank you both very much. >> deputy attorney general, defended special counsel robert mueller before the house you-ear committee. republicans say mueller's investigation of russian election meddling is by yalgsed against president trump. they pin the to text messages from a lead fbi investigator as the proof. justice reporter paula reid joins us now with more on this. paula, first of all, how do the text messages come to light? >> the justice department inspector general found the text messages investigating how they handled matters prior to the campaign. texts between, agent, peter striok, and lisa page strongly criticize donald trump during the campaign. they called him an idiot and prospects of a trump victory terrifying. a top official on the fbi investigation of hillary clinton's use of private e-mail server while secretary of state. after that, strzok and page

joined the investigation. in text messages criticizing donald trump were discovered. special counsel robert mueller removed struck, both he and page are back working at the fbi. >> how do the messages affect the investigation? >> republicans are trying to use the text in an attempt to undermine the credibility of the special counsel's probe. but, deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein the only man who can fire mueller told congress he has seen no reason to remove him. he also noted, that when mueller found out about these text messages he dismissed struck but rosenstein is waiting for the final report from the inspector general before deciding whether he need to take any further action. and that report is expected by april. jeff. >> paula read reporting. thank you very much. tonight another of president trump's political aide is out. omaros. mr. trump famously fired her three times from his tv show the

apprenti apprentice. we are going to go back now to margaret brennan at the white house. margaret there was drama surrounding this? >> there certainly was, jeff. the white house officially says that omorosa resigned. cbs news learned that sunny was fired. chief of staff, john kelly who informed her that january 20th, the anniversary of the inauguration of donald trump as president would be her last day. apparently, according to reporting from my colleague, major garrett, omorosa did not like the terms. tried to appeal and that decision changed went so far to apale to ivanka trump, president's daughter to ask to keep her job. didn't get the answer she wanted. she tried going into the white house residence at which point she tripped the alarms. presumably going to try to speak to the president what we know in tripping the alarms it did anger, chief of staff john kelly

escorted her out of the premesis. the secret service denies any role in having, escorted her out of the building or out of the white house ground. they say that they deactivated her pass allowing her entry here. but we know now the former reality star, turned, office of public liason official is no longer with the administration. >> margaret brennan at the white house. thank you very much. >> that 12 story glass cube is the most expensive u.s. embassy in the world. >> your dad took care of my boy. and bo talked about your dad's courage. >> i'm spartacus. >> guess who is coming to dinner? >> who. >> we'll pea got get together aa few laughs. >> these birds once affected by oil are heading back home. thanks to dawn, rescue workers only trust dawn, because it's tough on grease yet gentle. i am home, i am home, i am home

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philadelphia based architect, james timberlake says the design was inspired by european castles. it even has the its own mote. >> it is not a mote. but, that was what, the moniker put on it at outsaid of the competition. it is a pond. >> well that pond is deep and wide enough to swallow any truck bomb charging toward the building. and that's not the only hidden defense copied from medieval teams. like windsor castle the embassy sits on a hill set back from the street by over 100 feet. it will eventually be planted with tall grasses and water fall disguises a defensive wall. even a hedge will hide steel capable of stopping an eight ton truck. part of the huge expense suz we modern six inch thick glass proof wall. glass manufactured in germany and sent under guard to the u.s. for further construction, then, shipped back to london.

it is beyond doubt one of the most advanced buildings in the world. but even in comparison to other u.s. embassies it carries a hefty price tag. ambassador william moser says that is the price of security. >> when we build an embassy for 50 to 100 year commitment, the nature of the bitzness we are in. >> the star spangled neighbor now just across the river from well known buildings that really have stood the test of time. char charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. coming up here the rock 'n' roll hall of fame class of 2018. ok, let's try this.

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>> senator mccain is at walter reid medical center in maryland tonight. his office says he is being treated for side effects of cancer treatments. >> three florida men charged after a video surfaced showing them dragging a shark to its death behind a speeding boat. they are now charged with two counts of aggravated animal cruelly, a felony. each punishable by five years in prison and $10,000 fine. >> music from the 1980s is well represented in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame class of 2018. announced to day. ♪ living on a prayer >> bon jovi made the cut with dire straits. >> sultans of swing. >> and the cars. >> shake it up ♪ ♪ shake it up >> also entering the hall, the moody blues and nina simon. the induction ceremony is in april. some unforgettable movies

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we are back, we end to night at the movies. >> welcome to the party, pal! >> die hard one of 25 films added to the film registry at library of congress for their contribution to american culture. >> if you build it they will come. >> field of dreams was a story of faith, family, redemption through baseball. >> hot diggity, you're flying. >> dumbo, the disney's elephant taught kids to believe in themselves. ♪ la bamba told the story of ritchie valenz, the rock star killed in the plane crash the day the music died.

>> guess who's coming to dinner? >> who? >> sydney poitier, joined katharine hepburn for dinner in a break through movie about interracial marriage. >> spartacus broke the hollywood black list. and superman could barack through anything. ♪ titanic and all the other movies designated for preservation are stored by the library in cool, dry conditions, to prevent them from decaying. >> do it. >> come on. >> do it! >> serious business. for even sillier films. >> that is the "overnight news" for thursday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

hi, welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. special election in the deep south is sending political shock waves from coast to coast. democrat jones eked out a victory over roy moore in a senate election in alabama. moore was a controversial candidate before allegations of sexual misconduct with underaged girls. but alabama hadn't sent a democratic senator to congress in a quarter century. the election of jones could loosen the gop grip on power in washington. bourke brk begins our coverage. alabama voters, rolled back political tide yesterday. >> i have always believed that

the people of alabama had more in common than to divide us. doug jones won not because roy moore supporters stayed home. steve flowers is alabama's leading political analyst. >> rural white voters voted heavily. >> for roy moore. >> they were offset by a turnout of have ri kwan american voters. jones won women and younger voters like zoe austin who voted in her first senate race. i wanted to volt on the side of right. to show there its good in the hearts of people of alabama. >> jones was able to energize traditionally weak democratic network here. he was bouyed by millions in outside money and outspent moore on campaign ads by 5:1. >> will we make their abuser a u.s. senator? >> his campaign, says supporters

knocked on 300,000 doors and made more than a million phone calls. jones had multiple campaign appearances a day. while moore shyed away from cameras. dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls. >> there is no right to believe you are a person of the opposite sex. >> flowers says more controversial comments from same-sex marriage to slavery became too much for moderate republicans. >> there were also, upscale suburban, urbane republican whose did not want roy moore, the image he gave in the state of alabama. >> a lot were for doug jones. >> lifelong republicans. >>-up have hey teenage daughter. >> i do. >> how did those allegations weigh in your decision? >> very heavily. majority of my feelings. >> reporter: doug jones could

thank alabama's senior senator, republican richard shelby who said he wrote in someone else because he could not vote for moore. write-ins account ford 2% of the voe. giving jones the advantage. jeff. how is congress reacting to the election of doug jones. nancy cordes took the temperature on capitol hill. >> look forward to having mr. jones here. >> republicans were so relieved today, you would think they picked up a seat. >> strange to say i guess from my side of the aisle. thought it was a great night for america. >> alabamans didn't want some one who dated 14-year-old girls. >> an anger directed at steve bannon for backing roy moore over the more mainstream, gop incumbent. >> this guy does not belong on the national stage. he looks like some disheveled drunk that wandered on to political stage. >> on breitbart radio said he got outhustled at the end. >> got to give a hat tip, the dnc, slipped under the radar did an amazing job of organizing what's my favorite word, ground game. >> thing are looking good. >> jubilant democrats said a win in deep red alabama shows they can pick up seats in arizona,

nevada next fall and retake the senate. bob casey said the gop is on the ropes. >> i do think they have got to examine how a nomination process led to roy moore and nomination of president trump. he was their nominee as well. >> republicans like iowa's dhuk grassley insisted last night's loss had to do with one flawed candidate, nothing more. >> what's main lesson you draw from the loss in alabama? >> oh, pretty clear that you should not be involved with sexual harassment of women. >> republicans are grateful they won't all get tied to roy moore when they run for re-election in 2018. they also avoid a messy ethics investigation, and what could have been the first expulsion of a u.s. senator since the civil war.

jeff. discussing the elect, with john dickerson and mark rhett brennan. margaret brennan. john, your takeaways from last night. >> we don't want to go too far in overreading the result in alabama. one republican put it, today, we don't expect to have anybody accused of assaulting underaged people in the races. major take away for the republicans what kind of candidates will they nominate in nevada and arizona. hard line candidates that thrill the primary audiences or ones that can win in the general election. for democrats the take? away is in the virginia governors race and in this race the president thrilled the democratic base. got them to turn out. if that's true, in 2018, that's great news for democrats. >> margaret, the president did endorse roy moore, but initially backed a different candidate. how is the white house reacting

to all of this today. >> well the president is disappointed but he said a win is a win. and he called doug jones invited him here to the white house. roy moore was preferred candidate. white house officials are frying to distance the president from him, emphasizing they see this as alabama voters rejecting roy moore and not the trump agenda. president trump tweeted himself he always knew roy moore would not win a general election. john, in your estimation what does it mean for the president now? >> the question the president was skilled in the private sector putting his name on thekz and they did well. well, in this race, he tried to do that it didn't help roy moore. remember roy moore ran as a trump like candidate. unapologetic. abrasive. telling truth to, people whether they liked it or not. also the president put hutz support behind the virginia gubernatorial, and the

affordable care act and tax cut endorsed by trump, president trump, they had the trump name on it. they're very unpopular. his skill in the private sector has not translated into the presidency. >> margaret what does this mean for the presidential agenda? >> well the president was frank he said republicans have razor thins margins in congress and this loss makes it harder. >> as the leader of the party i would have liked to have the seat. i want to endorse the people that are running each of will fell you to me it is very, very, just important to get this vote. >> that means the president may now have to reach across the aisle to moderate democrats like doug jones, in order to win votes for his 2018 agenda items including welfare reform, and infrastructure. >> margaret brennan. and john dickerson. thank you both very much. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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this the cbs "overnight news." a small town in the black hills of south dakota was once home to the largest gold mine in north america. but when the gold ran dry, the mining company left. and the town nearly went belly up. but as the jim axelrod reports, the mine and town are being re-engineered for the 21st century. >> the gaming hole in the middle of leed south dakota is a reminder of town's golden age that the mayor just can't ignore. >> when we look at this, this, enormous hole in the ground. what story does that tell us about leed? >> this is what -- this is what you can see, from the mining

activity. for years, the home state gold mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in north america. producing more than 40 million ounces of gold. at its peek it employed, 2,200 people and support aid vibrant community with virtually no one appointed. >> the guys put a little heater on there. >> the city commissioner was a geologist. leed was the economic engine of south dakota. the highest paid salaries in south dakota. we drove all of the economy and the local area. >> about to go to leed. >> the price of gold. >> gold was booming, 44 years ago. >> when cbs news last visit itted the mine in leed. after production cost and declining pries the mine shut down in the early 2000s.

hundred of people lost their jobs. including, luke scott. >> when you heard it was closing, how did you -- process that. >> pretty hard to process that. i mean it was -- it was tough. >> because then you got to, try to find afuts job, you know. but, there -- isn't a lot of jobs for minors in this area. >> another mining town with a shut down mine. >> leed could have taken a dive. but it avoided that fate by, bite, taking a dive. nearly a mile beneath the surface. after suiting up, in clothes, boots, hard hats, we crowded into an elevator like cage. and descended 4,850 feet below the surface. along for the ride. david vardeman and luke scott

got new jobs at the old mine. >> very lucky. fortunate that i get to come back and do what i like to do. i look to be underground. >> here, a new kind of mining is taking place. in the deepest clean room in the world. whereby once again, we changed. >> this time into special sterile suits. and to see where a team of world class scientists, like, cabbot and christopherson is mining for secrets of the universe. it is not enough to just glove up, if you are going to work in here. you have to go through the rubber arms. >> welcome tounrground research. so far under the earth, that all of the radiation and noise from the sun is filtered out. creating a place where researchers can work in an

ultrapure environment. here, christopherson, chemist, grows the purest copper to use in >> in this room, you are wrestling with the most fundamental questions of humanity. >> correct. of why matter exists in the universe. if at the time of the big bang-up had equal amounts of matter and nonmatter they should have annihilated each other. why are we here? >> rather than shrinking, leed is growing. on account of some masterful repurposing. >> the next stage. and underground labs. exploring these concepts. will be conducted here. where we are heading? >> yeah, exactly hauchlt awe over the next decade, a billion dollar international fitzices project will be built, half a mile from christopherson's lab. in another part of the old home state mine.

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for many people a trip to new york at christmas time wouldn't be complete without taking in a broadway show. mo rocca takes us behind the scenes of one of the longest running musicals in town. >> i will take you up to the top of pride rock. >> ascend pride rock on the broadway set of the lion king with thomas schumaker. >> do not bump your head on the sun. you will undersfand why the president and producer of disney theatricals feels like something of a proud papa. >> beautiful. >> isn't this spectacular. >> it is spectacular.

♪ ♪ >> the lion king employs, 11 people now. it has been in eight, nine languages. the lion king, ridge name a blockbuster animated feature. ♪ the circle of life >> has been an even bigger hit on stage. it has the grossed more than all star wars movies scum bind. which is a startling statistic. >> the great kings of the past. >> the story of the lion cub simba goes on a journaly of self discovery before returning to reclaim the throne of his murdered father has ruled over the theatrical landscape for 20 years now. >> and the best new musical of 1998 is, the lion king.

>> hard to remember how audacious and to some preposterous the idea of bringing it to the stage once seemed. >> i thought it was going to be an impossible tax. how there a going to make the animals look real. i thought they were going to use like baseball mascots and stuff like that. this is going to be really cheesy. >> but when opening night came, sir elton john, who cope wrote the music, says he was at a loss for words. >> when i saw it my mouth was like. i had goose bumps the whole time. just astounding. >> sir elton, tom schumaker, and, well, everyone, agreed. that it is a director jewel -- jewel young peop julie tamar elevated the material and deepened meanings as it went from two die mentions

to three. i thought if i am going to take what is an animated film and put it on stage. i must do what theater does best. >> this is one of the dancing lions. >> which meant drawing on the years sunny had spent studying puppetry in indonesia and japan. >> look at that. look at the head. heap e keep going. >> got the four legs. >> wonderful. >> bow, attacks. uh up ano no detail was too small, who also designed the costumes. so when tie think about mufasa, i thought that mane, first thing would be the circle. >> to make sure the broadway show was more authentically african. she called on composer and singer. in exile from apartheid south

africa, he wrote new music for the stage, and was feept chured in the original cast. >> the journey of simba, became my sorry. i have all experiences into adulthood. i leave south africa, vulnerable kid, become an adult. experience a professional life. ♪ into the water >> he co-wrote the song "he lives in you." when simba realizes that while his father mufasa may no longer run the savannah. he isn't really gone. ♪ ♪ >> that stong which i didn't write its one of the most magical songs. when you lose somebody special. i have lost a lot of special people in my life. they stay with you've. ♪ the circle of life >> each this long into the run, the show sells out virtually

every performance. why do you think it keeps running like this? >> i think there is something deep inside of what the lion king says. it opens with circle of life. we have heard it a million of times. there will be a time after you. >> a message that hilt home for julie tamor, the very night the show opened. >> on opening night my father didn't show up. my mother came. she sat dub next to me. there was an emteam seat. i said where is mel. called him by his first name. she said don't worry. it is going to be okay. i go what are you talking abow, what are you talking about. it goes on, on, on. we are having this discussion. my father went into the hospital. and my father never got to seep it. this is the 20th anniversary of that time as well. of the, loss of my dad. >> over the years, tamor has

overseen each production of the show. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm jalen harris from memphis, tennessee. >> i will be playing the role of young simba. >> we were there for the first meefting of the n-- meeting of the newest tour. when impromptu, members of the cast stood up to steing, what else? the circle of life. >> we listen to the word. we think about our lives here. and the idea that -- that spirit of, a person you love does not disappear, complete leap. that you must carry it on. as different as we mate be, our life experiences as human beings are exactly the same. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and thipsz the pure of

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most people have one white t-shirt in the dresser drawer. maybe more. is it modern and is it fashion? questions on display at new york's museum of modern art. vladamir duthiers took a tour. >> this is my favorite. >> one of the most painful corners to install actually. >> she has spent more than a decade collecting, and curating, 111 items for the first fashion exhibit at new york's museum of modern art in over 70 years. the exhibit begins with chanel's little black dress and interpretations that followed. >> the little black dress has been in evolution. now it is funny we could wear that 1920s chanel dress today

and lack perfect. perfectly. why the boxer briefs, bieber wears today. resemble those made famous by mark wahlberg in the 1990s. calvin klein's timeless tighty whities on display here next to the wonder bra. >> we tend to think of fashion as the outer skin that we project on to the world. by which we express ourselves, but there its so much underneath. that, helps us achieve, that kind of affect. and, underwear has so much impact that it becomes fashion unto itself. ♪ sunny >> call the it formal wear of underwear. white t-shirt send this exhibit as symbol of status. >> use to representative power. today the guy with the three piece suit may be the bodyguard. the guy with the white t-shirt its the ceo. ♪ ♪ >> the collection include

familiar fashion staples populariz popularized. the pant suit. platform shoes. yoga pants. each piece remting a new york city perspective. this corner as it but be yellon. and were elts worn by the black panthers. >> beaker jacket. >> yes, i own a similar leather jacket which is to say one person's uniform of nonconformity could beep another's effort to later for fall and style. let you guess which one i am. there are items intended to move you. >> hoody is one. >> approaching the solo redhoody near the center of the chibd can do that. >> the garment makes you feel protected and inviz but. until its latest tragic reincarnation in, a symbol of, injustice. of racial injustice with the killing of trayvon martin martin t it is here because it is -- a political symbol, but also because it is a great, great

garment and great exam paul of american design. that's the "overnight news" captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, december 14th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a kentucky lawmaker facing sexual assault allegations died in an parent suicide. and -- >> i have never groped, inappropriately exposed myself, or coerced any colleague in the workplace ever in my 30-year career. >> pbs pulls "the tavis smiley show" off the air, but the host is vowing to fight back.