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some of the incredibly complex foreign policy, use that is involved with. jeff. >> white house correspondent and modera modd moderator of face the nation. margaret brennan. >> surprise decision by a federal judge in san diego, the judge sided with the president and reject aid challenge to construction of a wall. curiel, the judge, kr trump criticized suggesting mexican heritage made him biased against mr. trump in the trump university fraud case. >> as investigations continue into russianddling. congress was warned by the nsa it could happen again this year. more on that now from jeff pegues. >> we are taking step but not doing enough. >> admiral rogers kicked responsibility for the lack of action upstairs. >> i want to know why the hell not? what's it going to take? >> i'm operational commander, you are asking me a question so

much bigger than me. >> earlier this month. fbi director, chris ray told congress much the same. >> we are taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt -- >> directed by the president? >> not specifically directed by the president. >> more than a year ago the obama administration officially blamed russia for interfering in the 2016 election, exposing what the russians had been up to, was part of a u.s. response, the obama administration launched beginning with public sanctions. president trump sent mixed messages especially about vladamir putin's involvement. >> a believe he feels he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not. i am with our agencies. >> u.s. intelligence officials say the cyberattacks continue, and they expect russian hackers to target computer networks ahead of november's midterm electi elections. michael daniel, cybersecurity kword nay tr for president obama, says the russians have one goal. >> to raise doubt. >> raise doubt. the russians are going to try to

use the tool to, to further their, foreign policy goals. and blunt ours. and undermine, undermine the u.s. >> the state election officials that we have talked to say the guidance from washington has at times been disorganized and underwhole ming. many fear at this point no matter what is done between now and november it to defend against the hackers may be too little too late. jeff. >> jeff pegues, thank you. much more ahead on to night's cbs news, including how israel keeps schoolkids safe. we are here at a high school in tel aviv. this is a very typical scene. an armed guard standing outside the main entrance of the school. this is not by choice, but by law. hey julie, i know today's critical, but i really need...

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find out. >> we are here at a high school in tel aviv. this is a very typical scene, armed guard standing outside the main entrance of the school. this is not by choice, but by law. since 1974, there have been a half dozen terror attacks on israeli schools. we have come here to meet principal, mattie stern. >> how many teachers here? >> 145. >> of them how many are armed with guns? >> none, none. we have at least one security guard, i think it provide us with, everything, we need. this is, the job of the police. and this is the job of the state. every gun owner in israel has to go through training like this. this is a group of security guard at schools. they have to do this every four months. dealing with the weapon. >> look many instructors, ex-military. he says tough background checks make schools safer. in the u.s. there is this perception that in israel everybody has a gun.

its that true or false. false. very false. gun laws in america -- are much more loose, than gun laws in israel. in israel it will take up to three months to get a gun. for starters you have to be over 27. unless you have served in the military. then you must prove that your job requires a gun and get a doctor to seen off. >> epilepsy, loss of conscious there or rhythm disturbances. if i said i have those things, then you cannot have a gun. >> doctors like this one, check for mental illness. >> raise it. the final step is at the gun range. this is israel's version of a driver's test for gun owners. about to find out if i passed. how did i do? >> you did pretty well. 40% of security guards and civilians fail, and need to reapply. and ensuring schools, have the best defense. jonathan vigliatti, cbs news,

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the bloody of experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. but it is increasingly clear to this reporter, that the only rational way out then, will be to negotiate, not as victims, but as an honorable people, who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. that was walter cronkite 50 years ago tonight. 33 days later, president johnson announced he would not run for re-election. years later, cronkite reflected on johnson's decision. >> i dent thion't think our bro

had a principal effect on that. but it was a straw on the back of a lot of indication that he was, that he was unhappy with, with the progress of the war and thought he, ought to, himself, ought to get out. >> 50 years ago tonight. a pre grogram note. a documentary reveals how social media companies are used to target a vulnerable muslim minority in myanmar, streams at 8:00, 7:00 central on the 24 hour news service watch any time at cbsnews.com. up next, the genius behind the album, that changed the beatles and music.

how can it be a ground breaking album sound better now than half a century ago. here is mark phillips, a little help with his friends. ♪ it was 20 years ago today sergeant pepper ♪ >> reporter: it was 50 years ago this month actually that sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band won four grammys including album of the year. ♪ sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band ♪ >> reporter: but the album did more than win award and set sales records, it divided time between the world before sergeant pepper and the world after. ♪ i read the news today oh boy

>> reporter: it was an album performed by a different kind of band. a musical act that had become a victim of its own success. >> if we can't develop where no one can hear us. for us to perform is, it's difficult. so, we are trying to get better. with things like recording. they deliberately pulled themselves out of beatle mania. >> the son of george martin, the legendary beatles producer that took sergeant pepper to places pop music had never been. >> did they know at the time that they had changed rock history? >> not sure if it was deliberate. but they wanted to do different things all of the time. the conscious decision was we don't want to be bored by what we are doing. not how can we change the face of music. >> 1957, sergeant pepper was number one. out of every window, came sergeant pepper. >> d.j., author, and walking pop music encyclopedia.

>> though most people acclaimed it. richard goldstein, panned it. >> hated it. >> did i get it wrong? i think so. what i didn't peck up was where it was leading music. that decision to take music and blast, all of the framework, that pop music had been encased in, like a very tight girdle, and just, let it flow freely, was incredibly influential. on the counter cowl chur and history of music. >> big enough for the chord. >> reporter: nothing flowed more freely than the album's final chord. which giles martin remixed along with the rest of the album. and which 50 years later, surprise, surprise has also shot how to number one. >> there is so much more in the new one. so much more. like its final chord, sergeant pepper goes on forever.

♪ sergeant pepper's >> mark phillips, cbs news, london. ♪ ♪ welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. the worst kept secret in washington out of the bag. president trump plans to run for re-election in 2020. mr. trump began holding campaign style gatherings within weeks of taking office. he named a campaign chairman. the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, top campaign adviser in the last election is losing some of his access to top secret material. margaret brennan explains. >> reporter: mr. trump ignored questions, effectively shutting off his access to information if

disclosed could be damaging to national security. as an adviser to the president, kushner had been granted interim access to such materials while the fbi completed his background check. the report was delayed after kushner had to refile his paperwork three times, because of undisclosed contacts with foreign nationals. one of those encounters was a june 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. a meeting that is now being examined by special counsel, robert mueller. >> valued member of the team. heave will continue to do the important work he has been doing since he started in the administration. >> kushner's portfolio include key foreign policy items like mideast peace. and trade negotiations with mexico. >> general kelly. >> on friday, president trump said he left the decision on kushner's security clearance up to the chief of staff, john kelly. >> general kelly will make the call. i won't make the call. i will let the general who is right here, make that call. but, jared's doing some very important things for our

country. kelly put new clearance rules in place after the disclosure that former staff secretary rob porter had obtained an interim security clearance despite his fbi background check that had revealed domestic abuse allegations by two ex-wives. a spokesperson for kushner told cbs news, that "those involved in the process again have confirmed there are dozens of people at mr. kushner's level whose process is delayed." the president himself on friday blamed some of that on complex financial transactions, and, a broken system. but as to his ongoing role as an adviser to the president, multiple administration officials have raised concerns that, kushner may be naive or even easily manipulated because he doesn't have experience on some of the incredibly complex foreign policier use that he is involved with. >> expected to be an emotional day at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida, the scene of the latest mass shooting.

>> reporter: today a parkland father, andrew pollack appealed directly to state lawmakers. >> i want to be the last father of a murdered kid, that's ever in this country. that's it. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter meadow pollack was killed at stoneman douglas high school. carlos rodriguez, will join 3,000 students returning to classes tomorrow for the first time in two weeks. >> just this morning at this time tomorrow i will be in school. that hit me, so, yeah, it's, it's going to be a process. >> when they arrive they went have a clear view of building 12. the crime scene, it is now obscured by a fence plastered with posters, showing support. >> going become to our there mall lives is going to, definitely going to be hard for

me. >> the last time, 17-year-old rodriguez was at school, he captured students running to take cover. >> the last time you were at school was when the shooting happened. how do you feel now going back? >> not going to be the same hall ways. not going to the same smiles, definitely, going to be rough just to be in school and just to, just to know that, that is a place where 17 people died. >> they will be greeted by principal ty thompson who made a promise to his students. >> eagles, i promise you i will hug each and every one of you, as many times as you need, and i will hold you as long as you need me too for all 3,300 of you. >> tomorrow will be a half day with extra security on campus. there will be, counselors on campus, there will be, extra security on campus does that make you feel safer? >> yeah, not really. with all of the security and all the guards and everything, i think it is going to make it harder for us to heal. >> reporter: grief counselors in every classroom that is missing

a student who passed away. the principal here received advice from the principal at columbine suggested changing the sound of the fire alarm less likely to trigger students memories from the day. after gunman nikolas cruz began firing in the first and second floors of the freshman building he continued to make his way up where investigators believe he planned on using a third floor stairwell as vantage pin the to shoot at students. sources say cruz attempted to create a sniper's nest by shooting out a glass window firing 16 rounds into the glass. however, the hurricane-proof glass appeared to stopped it from shattering. as terrified students ran from the school. investigators believe cruz tried to reload. after changing magazine clips clips his gun may have jammed. with more than 180 rounds of ammunition left, cruz allegedly then put down his weapon and left the building blending in with other students.

cbs news is also learning images of swastikas were found on the ammunition magazines used by the suspected shooter, nikolas cruz. overseas the civil war in syria is in its seventh year. bloodshed shows no signs of stopping. seth doane reports from the front line. this neighborhood in damascus is not far from eastern ghouta where syrian forces have been brutally bombing the rebels for the past ten days. the rebels fired back with mortars their main weapon. one tore into the second floor of his house.

they hit my home, made my family afraid. those people are terrorists. today a brief lull in the fighting supposedly to let humanitarian aid into eastern ghouta, the back was quiet too. hit by a mortar. >> translator: in one moment they were a family. father, mother and son. now their son is dead. yeah. >> reporter: his son died. elias khouli was 4. you are a doctor, you think you would be immune to some of this. >> i think this war is very bad for all the syria. not only for us. pain by civilians on both side of the conflict. tonight, jeff, hearing

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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." on line video games, e sports have grown into a multibillion indust industry. kids are getting paid to play professionally. more than 50 colleges are fielding varsity e sports teams. vladamir duthier picked up a controller. >> at the arena in boston. fans got to their feet to root for their favorite team. though the athletes never left their seats. competitors are gamers, vying for a $1 million prize. the game, counter strike,

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e sports. super mario, nintendo in their mind. well, how hard can that be? game have come so far from that genesis moment. right, truly are sports. >> a harvard business graduate who always enjoyed gaming. but needed a little help. >> i had an experience where i was playing on a very, very amateur, storm team, all of my friends. at some point my friends took me aside. we love you. you are fun to spend time with. but like, you suck at this game. like you are so bad at the game. weave will kick you off the team. finally said to myself. i will go get a coach. when i learned, you know, fencing in college. i got a fencing coach. i was like assumed this will exist. and, it just didn't. >> you know, i found somebody willing to do it for money. within the first five minutes. i knew it need to be a business. >> the business became an online

platform that pairs coaches with gamers who want to level up. >> when the lesson is ready to start. the lesson software will drop you and the coach together. lessons start at $10 an hour. celebrity coaches can charge hundreds per session. >> if there are parents watching this. they say, i can see myself spending a lot of money for a hockey coach, or professional tennis lessons or fencing lessons. >> yes, yeah. >> i dent know spending for my kid to have a gaming coach. >> there are tons of college scholarships for video games. just like you might pay for a basketball coach. or a football coach. for your son or daughter. because, you believe that that is going to, you know help them excel, you know, academically in the future. games have that same, path now. >> joe would agree. he is a sophomore at becker college in worcester massachusetts studying game development. he has the had dreams of turning his hobby into a career since he

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50 years after the beatles changed the face of rock 'n' roll, the record itself is undergoing transformation. well a remix. but why would anyone tamper with the legendary recording, here is mark phillips. right from the first stylus hitting vinyl, and into the instrumental run-in to the first track you knew the world would never be the same.

it was 20 years ago today, sergeant pepper taught the band to play ♪ >> reporter: it was 50 years ago this month actually that sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band won four grammys including album of the year. ♪ sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band ♪ >> reporter: but the album did more than win award and set sales records, it divided time between the world before sergeant pepper and the world after. ♪ i read the news today oh boy >> reporter: it was an album performed by a different kind of band. a musical act that had become a victim of its own success. >> performed by a different kind

of band. >> there hasn't been this much excitement at the london airport. >> a band that couldn't hear itself think let alone play over the screaming of its fans. >> good evening. >> a band as paul explained that had to retreat to the recording studio, to find itself again. >> performance for us. it's gone downhill, performance. because we can't develop where no one can hear us, you know what i mean? for us to perform is, it's difficult. so, we are trying to get better. with things like recording. they deliberately pulled themselves out of beatle mania. >> the son of george martin, the legendary beatles producer that took sergeant pepper to places

pop music had never been. >> did they know at the time that they had changed rock history? the idea that lucy in the zie for diamonds was code for lsd. one of the stories that won't die. the song was based on a drawing done by john's son. >> did they know at the type that they had changed rock history. >> not sure if it was deliberate. but they wanted to do different things all of the time. the conscious decision was we don't want to be bored by what we are doing. how can you get this sound? how did we do this? the conscious decision, we don't want to be bored by what we are doing. not how can we change the face of music. >> when i was 64? >> that is what they did. and giles martin who has become a very successful music producer himself has done a highly praised remix of the album at

the surviving beatles' request. ♪ many years from now comparing the old and new versions, can be a little 50 years on fun. 50 years later the remix has topped the album charts. ♪ what would you think if i sang out of tune would you stand up and walk out on me ♪ lend me your ears and i'm sing you a song ♪ >> look turning back the hands of time, 50 years. it actually, brings me back to places, that i cannot remember. but, but i prefer them. >> okay. yeah. >> nostalgia aside, part of sergeant pepper's enduring apeel may be as much about when it was as what it was.

>> i think people look back now on the summer of love, 1967, the summer when sergeant pepper was number one. and out of every window came sergeant pepper. it was unbelieve bum. everybody was doing the same thing at the same time. they had to hear this record. >> paul gambicini is d.j., author, and walking pop music encyclopedia. the beatles could do no wrong. everything they touched. turned to gold. explain it in terms of talent. it had cultural momentum. the amusing thing is, that although, most people acclaimed it. the moment of its release. >> did i get it wrong? >> richard goldstein recants. >> what i didn't pick up where it was leading music. that decision to take music and

blast all the framework, pop music had been encased in. like a tight girdle and let it flow was influential on the counter culture and on the whole history of music. >> nothing flowed more freely, than that endless final chord. >> would you look to switch? buttons, old and new. old and new. >> getting to play with the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll history doesn't happen often. ♪ >> there is just so much more in the new one. so much more. >> and like its final cord, sergeant pepper it seems goes on forever. ♪ ♪ ♪ sergeant pepper's lenly hearts club band ♪

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pop star demi lovato, kicked off her tour inviting students on stage, and suffers from bipolar and wants to make sure the kids in parkland area get mental health support they need. mireya villarreal has the story. ♪ i got all the >> demi lovato hit a personal note in front of 7,000 fans at the debut night of her tell me you love me tour. ♪ ♪ opening up about her own struggles with depression and addiction. ♪ i got all these daddy issues >> i want to share my journey with people and my story so it can open people's mind and see there is nothing wrong with you just because you have a mental illness. >> the grammy nominated singer

songwriter battled bipolar, mike bair was instrumental in her recovery. >> i will forever be in debt to him for coming into my life and providing me with a place that was safe and believing in me. >> now business partners they use the concert tours to inspire others suffering from mental illness to seek help. >> a lot of demi's muse ak lose her healing. it's how do you turn sadness or, or just a tragic situation into inspiration. and empowerment. >> reporter: moved by the images of the florida school shooting, lovato personally reached out to some students on social media concerned about their mental health after living through the tragedy. >> seeing something that disturbing is just painful to watch, and my heart goes out to them. >> on february 14th, one of the worst mass shootings in american history took place.

these students were in the school that day. please welcome them to the stage. >> she invited survivors to her concert last night to share their stories. there has been talk about obviously wanting to use this shooting for gun reform. but you think this is an opportunity to talk about mental health? >> it has the nothing to do with politic thousands. it is about healing. and, it was how can we help, these, these students heal from what they have been through. the students that came here today, and shared their stories, are so incredibly brave, and courageous, and they, they really are warriors in my eyes. ♪ i'm a survivor in more ways than you know. >> while she continues her own journey of healing. the pop star is committed to fighting the stigma attached to mental illness. one performance at a time. ♪ so ashamed so confused but i'm not broken ♪ >> for cbs this morning, mireya

villarreal, san diego. that's the "overnight news" for wednesday. from the c captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, february 28th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." emotional return. this morning students head back to class at marjory stoneman douglas high school in florida two weeks after a shooting rampage that left 17 students and teachers dead. >> eagles, i promise you, i will hug each and every one of you as many times as you need, and i will hold you as long as you need me to for all 3,300 o