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beyond what the president says about it, he did say a bit today, and beyond what vladimir putin potentially says in the future about, it do we ever get more information about what was discussed in that meeting one on one? >> well, some democrats are pushing for the interpreter, the american interpreter in that

meeting, to come before capitol hill and testify. the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, says he is looking into that. most republicans feel it is inappropriate. she's not a policy maker. and the state department probably won't allow it. but members do want a lot more details. >> and given a chance today, the white house, sarah sanders did not rule it out. she was given that chance. she said the state department is looking into it. i thought for sure she would say absolutely not. but she didn't. >> interesting. major garrett, nancy cordes, thank you both very much. we will have much more of my interview with the president on "cbs this morning." and here on the "cbs evening news" tomorrow. the president's thoughts about the 2020 election. he is definitely running. which democrat woe like to run against? still ahead here tonight from washington, prosecutors call this woman a russian spy who infiltrated -- tried to infiltrate the u.s. political system. the pilot of a sightseeing plane did not see the mountain until it was too late. and later, yosemite fills with smoke as a wildfire spreads. lilly.

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agent and conspiring to act as an agent of that foreign power. the 29-year-old entered the u.s. on a student visa in 2016 but had visited several times over the past few years. according to court documents, butina allegedly took steps to develop relationships with american politicians in order to advance the interests of the russian federation. photos document her with republican wisconsin governor scott walker and nra chief wayne lapierre. she was also actively involved in the national prayer breakfast and tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. as she began making nor contacts with conservative leaders she landed on the fbi's radar. investigators allege she had an ongoing relationship with a 56-year-old republican operative strictly for business purposes and was likely in contact with russia's fsb intelligence sgs throughout her stay in the u.s. a russian foreign ministry spokeswoman suggested today that butina's arrest is part of an

effort to undermine u.s.-russia relations. ron hosko is a former assistant director of the fbi and says butina was following a russian playbook. >> the nra looks like an ideal organization to come join, be a member, and then come to our convention and perhaps meet and be photographed with important people. this served her purposes very much as well. >> butina was arrested on sunday after the fbi says it saw signs she could be preparing to flee the country. and today a judge ordered her to continue to be held without bail. butina has pleaded not guilty to all charges. jeff? >> correspondent paula reid. paula, thank you. a report just released by the national transportation safety board tells of the harrowing moments before a sightseeing plane crashed in alaska last week. passengers apparently saw the looming danger before the pilot. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: it was a daring of an alaskan mountain.m a sma

investigators now say moments before last tuesday's crash one passenger texted another to ask the pilot to land. the passenger sitting next to the pilot told the ntsb he was "uncomfortable with the worsening weather conditions" shortly before he saw what the pilot misses, "a large mountain loomed directly in front of the airplane." according to the ntsb's preliminary report, as visibility went to zero the pilot, 72-year-old mike hudgins, told investigators he tried to turn around but he became disoriented, thinking he saw a body of water. the plane was equipped with floats and thus could have landed. instead, it crashed. we talked to the coast guard crew that rescued the passengers. >> i was on the side of the aircraft, and back where i sit i couldn't see anything on my side. the visibility was horrible. >> reporter: the report says it appears hudgins tried to avoid the mountain but reacted too late. the ntsb investigation is ongoing. kris van cleave, cbs news,

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in california the wildfire burning west of yosemite is spreading by the hour. it's burned 27 square miles since friday. time-lapse video shows thick smoke spreading over the national park through all trails and campgrounds do remain open tonight. second-quarter 1,800 firefighters from as far away as virginia are battling that fire. it is only 5% contained. google vows today to appeal a ecord antitrust fine in europe, more than $5 billion. the eu says google stifled competition by forcing cell phone makers to use its android operating system to install google's search and browser apps. google insists its system has made phones cheaper. major league baseball today order milwaukee brewers pitcher josh hader to get sensitivity training. as hader was pitching in the all-star game in washington last night, racist and homophobic comments he tweeted years ago resurfaced. one said "i hate gay people." another said "kkk." hader has apologized, saying the tweets date back to when he was

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want to see what resilience looks like? here is the thai soccer team kick a ball today, acting like any other kids, just days after being rescued from that flooded cave. they left the hospital today and spoke about it for the first time, about their more than two-week ordeal. anna werner was there. >> reporter: it was a warmysrap released from the hospital today, where he spent the past

week with his 11 teammates and coach. the 14-year-old played the role of interpreter for british divers. >> how many of you? >> 13. >> 13? >> reporter: it was the moment they reached the team of young soccer players 2.5 miles inside this thai cave. finally free, adun enjoyed his favorite meal, kentucky fried chicken. >> how does it feel to be back? >> i'm very happy. >> reporter: he and his 11 teammates and their coach appeared on a news conference earlier today, healthy, showing off their soccer skills before taking the stage. adun described the moment the divers found them as magical. their 25-year-old coach, who some parents credit for keeping the boys, aged 11 to 16, alive explained they only planned on exploring the cave for ahour, so they dt bring any od they survived by drinking water dripping from stalactites. several boys said the experience has made them want to become

navy s.e.a.l.s when they grow up, to help others. they also paused for a solemn moment to honor the former thai navy s.e.a.l. who lost his life trying to rescue them. surrounded by friends, adun offered his gratitude. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. >> reporter: anna werner, cbs news, chiang rai, thailand. ♪ >> incredible to see. tomorrow on this broadcast we will have much more of our interview with president trump. he talks about america's future in afghanistan, the 2020 election, and much more. also tomorrow, a cbs news investigation exposes how unscrupulous marketers are preying on opioid addicts. that is a cbs news investigation. that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff glor.

on the broadcast here from washington, d.c., our interview with the president. >> you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> i would say that that is true, yeah. >> what he told putin one on one. >> what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> certainly, as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> and how he responds to the cascade of criticism. >> after helsinki lindsey graham said you showed weakness. >> let me just -- i totally dier. yohave pe s ould hgone up to him and you shad and temi i his. wee ngn the d. now.

we are going to begin with our interview with the president late this afternoon. in our conversation at the white house mr. trump for the first time in public as president blamed vladimir putin directly for meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. the president had drawn a lot of criticism for not doing that on monday, when the two men held a joint news conference in helsinki. yesterday after he returned to washington he did say he accepts the findings of u.s. intelligence that russia interfered, but the questions continued. we worked to get more information on all of this, starting with what the president and putin talked about face to face behind closed doors. you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> yeah, but -- and i've said i have said that numerous times before. and i would say that that is true, yeah. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically.

do you hold him personally responsible? >> well, i wldy, becau jseust he i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. now, look, we're also living in a grown-up world where a strong statement to -- you know, president obama supposedly made a strong statement. nobody heard it. what they did hear is the statement he made to putin's very close friend and that statement was not acceptable. didn't get very much play, relatively speaking, but that statement was not acceptable. but i let him know we can't have this, we're not going to have it, and that's the way it's going to be. >> but he denies it. so if you believe u.s. intelligence agencies, is putin whether or not he's lying. i can only say that i do have confidence in our intelligence

agencies as currently constituted. i think that dan coats is excellent. i think that gina is excellent. i think we have excellent people in the agencies. and when they tell me something, it means a lot. >> coats says the threat is ongoing. do you agree with that? >> well, i'd accept that. he's an expert. this is what he does. he's been doing a very good job. i have tremendous faith in dan coats. and if he says that i would accept that. i will tell you, though, it better not be. it better not be. >> have you talked to coats since you got back? >> yeah, i have, sure. >> what did he say? >> just talked generally speaking. he agrees with the statement you made. and i go along with him. he's a very -- he's a great guy. he's a great patriot. he loves this country. and he's only going to say what he truly believes. and the information that's given to him is that. >> do you think any intelligence

agencies, u.s. intelligence agencies, are out to get you? >> well, certainly in the past it's been terrible. you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look at hayden. you look at comey. you look at mccabe. you look at strzok and his lover, lisa page. you look at other people in the fbi that have been fired, that are no longer there. certainly i can't have any confidence in the past, but i can have a lot of confidence in the present and the future because it's getting to be now where we're putting our people in. but in the past, no, i have no confidence in a guy like brennan. i think he's a total lowlife. i have no confidence in clapper. you know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office, and it was really nice. and then all of a sudden he's gone haywire because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. but no, i certainly don't have

confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. take a look at all of the shenanigans that have gone on. very hard to have confidence in that group. >> on saturday you told us your doctrine is strength and achieving peace through strength. >> right. >> after helsinki lindsey graham said you showed weakness. newt gingrich said it was the most serious mistake of your presidency. >> let me just -- i totally disagree. i think i did great at the news conference. i think it was a strong news conference. you have people that said you should have gone up to him, you should have walked up and started screaming in his face. we're living in the real world. okay? >> who gives you the best advice? when you come back and you read all these stories and you say you don't know what the fuss is all about. who do you talk to? >> i will tell you, i don't know what the fuss is all about. i think we did extremely well. and i think the press makes up the -- look, it's fake news. people understand. i think the press largely makes up a lot of the fuss about a lot of things. i'm not talking about one of it. i'm talking about everything. it's crazy.

you do something that's positive and they try and make it as negative as possible. not all. and i have to say, this some of the most honorable people i know, some great people, are reporters, journalists, et cetera. but the level of dishonesty in your profession is extremely high. >> but they -- the press covered the substance and the wording of that press conference accurately. and i don't care what they covered. they didn't cover my meeting, the important thing frankly was the meeting that lasted for 2 1/2 hours or almost 2 1/2 hours. and in that meeting we discussed many, many things that were very, very positive for both countries. >> what tangibly emerged from that conversation? what do you feel you achieved? >> i think we achieved a lot. things emerged out that were very important. nuclear proliferation between russia and the united states. that's 90% of the nuclear weapons. protection of israel. he feels good about that. i feel good about that. very good about that. that was a big factor. we talked about north korea.

he said he will help. he agrees with what i'm doing. he thinks i'm doing a great job with respect to north korea. he said he would help. i think he will. let's see what happens. >> how? >> you know, they have a lot of border. they have 25 miles of border right on north korea. so having that assurance i think means quite a bit. there were many other things we talked about. but i thought it was a very good -- it was about 2 1/2 hours. and i thought it was a very good meeting. very good. >> how do you think he can help specifically on north korea? >> well, for one thing at the border. we don't want anything going in. we hope we have a deal. i think we have a deal. there's no russia, to be honest with you. there are no missiles going off. we have our hostages back. no testing. there's no nuclear testing. so we've come a long way in a short period of time. so there is no rush but what there is is something we would like to see the denuclearization of north korea. he feels strongly about it. i feel strongly about it.

and that's good. i was not sure how he was going to react to that, but we had a very good discussion and a long discussion

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome back to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. the national guard is warning of possible new and violent eruptions at hawaii's kilauea volcano. it wants any locals still in the area to be ready toevth in short order. the massive flow of lava continues to reshape the big island as it works its way to the sea. carter evans has the story from pahoa. >> reporter: good morning. the eruption behind me here is what's pushing this massive river of molten lava on an eight-mile journey to the ocean. it is literally changing the outline of the island itself, and it continues to do so every day as lava threatens even more of the coastline. the continuous lava flow has now

covered about 12 1/2 square miles of hawaii's big island. about half the size of manhattan. destroying more than 700 homes and still threatening many more. >> we're here in the mandatory evacuation area. there's an ever-present immediate danger. sulfur dioxide levels, wind shift. the immediate threat from the lava. >> reporter: lava has been pouring into the ocean for more than eight weeks now. this is new coastline. the island has grown by nearly 700 acres, the equivalent of more than 500 football fields. before this new eruption started in early may, a map of hawaii's southeast region looked like this but then lava filled kapoho bay, expanding the coastline farther and farther into the sea. at one point a small island was formed off the coast. scientists think molten lava broke through a harden rock >> is been diffic>> rorter:ichas of a reported 1500 evacuees. a lava field now covers the area

caat used to be his home. he now lives in a makeshift home with limited power. >> are you going to stay? >> i don't know. this is my home. >> reporter: his property like so many others is now covered with black hardened rock, and it's unclear if the state will ever allow them to rebuild. so for hundreds of people here their futures are still uncertain. even once this crisis is over. there is outrage from some victims of last year's las vegas massacre. mgm, which owns the site of the shooting, is actually suing the victims. how is this possible? jericka duncan has the story. >> my first thoughts were we're probably going to die. >> reporter: nine months after the las vegas shooting lisa fine's physical injuries have healed, but her emotional and psychological wounds have not. the hooting last october, fine says mgm's latest

legal maneuver makes her feel sick to her stomach. >> feels like bullets are flying at my head right now. >> reporter: in two federal lawsuits filed against hundreds of shooting victims last week mgm says it cannot be held liable for deaths, injuries, or other damages arising from the shooting. it cites the safety act. the law encourages security firms to develop new anti-terrorism measures. in exchanges companies who use those security firms are immune from claims. mgm says it cannot be sued for the shooting because the security firm it hired for the concert was certified under the safety act. >> this has actually triggered ptsd for a lot of the victims. >> reporter: attorney brian claypool represents more than 75 survivors. he was also at the music festival when gunman stephen paddock opened fire. claypool argues the safety act does not protect mgm. >> they are only immiunized fro liability if there is an act of terrorism. >> reporter: but mgm was

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americans throw away about 80 billion pounds of food every year. restaurants contribute to a lot of that, especially in las vegas, with all those endless buffets. now one hotel group is using high technology to preserve leftover food and put it to good use. john blackstone has the story. >> reporter: the las vegas that most visitors see is glittering and opulent, a city where there seems to be more than enough of everything. especially food. in a lavish banquet room at the aria hotel lunch is being served to 1,300 people atengd a conventi convention. but away from the vegas strip -- >> get ready to open up the doors and feed the masses. >> reporter: the dining room at catholic charities serves those who don't have enough food. >> we serve a free meal to anyone who needs it. >> reporter: deacon tom roberts is ceo. >> there's probably more food consumed in las vegas per capita any other placeth

world. and here we serve 1,000 people every day in this kitchen. the numbers frankly are the leftover food from mgm's las vegas hotels has been used to feed pigs. yal masadiki is vice president of sustainability for mgm resorts. >> a better use is to feed people. >> but there are some challenges to doing that. >> sure. the process to collect surplus banquet food is complicated but we think it's something worth figuring out. >> reporter: complicated because food safety regulations require leftover banquet food to be delivered immediately for safe consumption. but now mgm resorts has found a way to keep their excess food safe for much longer. >> 140. >> reporter: as soon as the banquet is finished, food that has been prepared but not served is transferred and loaded onto a truck from three square, a las vegas food bank. once it arrives there, it's

flash-frozen in a high-tech refrigerator called a blast chiller. and moved to the freezer. the food can be saved for up to three months, sent when needed to places like the catholic charities dining room. >> this program is absolutely going to help reduce food insecurity in this city at scale. >> reporter: sadiki says they hope other las vegas hotels will follow their example. what's in it for mgm? >> well, this program is one that we believe in. one of the things we get out of this program is the ability to tell our major convention clients that we are doing this. >> reporter: they say the program could help divert 1 million pounds of food by 2020 to feed the hungry. when life turned bad for andy u hustack a few months ago he arrived at the dining room with $6 in his pocket. >> were you hungry then? >> oh, boy, was i. i hadn't eaten in two days. never been hungry in my life. i came in here, i got a hot meal, i got a bunk, i got a

shower. excuse me. but the next day i got involved in their program. and as they say, the rest is history. >> reporter: what isn't needed in a hotel banquet room can help change lives when it's served to someone who does need it. >> there you go. >> reporter: john blackstone, las vegas. the biggest explosion in food production is taking place offshore, and we don't mean fishing. some tasty flavors of seaweed are now being grown commercially. lesley stahl has the story for 60 minutes. >> welcome aboard. >> thank you. >> reporter: it's not often you get a ride to visit a farm on a boat. >> here we go. >> reporter: but we were on board with brin smith, the nation's leading advocate for a whole new type of farming. ocean farming. we joined him on a cold day in december, the time of year he heads out to his version of fields to plant his staple crop, a type of seaweed called sugar

kelp. >> here it is. >> this is the farm? i can't see anything. >> the whole idea is it's down under the water. the white buoy, that's the edges of the farm. >> reporter: and the black ones? >> black buoys are holding up a horizontal rope below the surface. so it's rows. kind of rows of crops. this is the seed. >> reporter: he showed us what looked like a tube covered in fuzz. is that kelp? >> yeah, these are the baby plants. they're about two millimeters. and these are going to grow to 15, 18 feet by the spring. it's one of the fastest-growing plants on earth. >> reporter: and unlike all those plants that grow in earth, seaweed doesn't need fertilizer or fresh water. it's what's called a zero input crop. >> so now we're just going to unravel it. >> reporter: just attach the string it grows on to rope and suspend it eight feet underwater. >> and that's it, huh? >> that's it. >> reporter: in five or six months that fuzz will look like this. this was some of hast t righto

farm this 20-acre plot of water in 2012 from the state of connecticut. his was the first commercial seaweed farm in the state. now there are nine, with a half dozen more in the works. >> we hope in 10, 20 years there are thousands of farmers doing this. we think it's the future, time to move out in the ocean, and luckily we can do it the right way. >> reporter: smith spent most of his life working the oceans in what he now considers the wrong way, on industrial fishing boats, going after lobster, tuna, and cod. >> we were tearing up whole ecosystems were our trawls, fishing in illegal waters, and just really chasing fewer and fewer fish further and further out to sea. >> and you didn't think about the idea that you were depleting. >> yeah, no. boundless. >> reporter: boundless and bountiful. >> the sense of meaning of helping feed my country, you

know, fishermen, there are some jobs, coal workers, farm workers, i think steel workers and fishermen where they're jobs that are soul filling. they're jobs that we write and sing songs about. and i just -- i wanted that life, and i still do. >> reporter: but that life was increasingly in peril. cod stocks crashed due to overfishing, and after smith reinvented himself cultivating oysters in long island sound, hurricanes irene and sandy hit, destroying his crop two years in a row. >> brin was really on the verge of bankruptcy. >> reporter: searching for a new career on the water, he sought advice from charlie yarish, a professor of marine biology whose lab at the university of connecticut studies some of the thousands of different types of seaweed. >> but there's only 20 globally that are actually farmed. >> they're not all edible? >> no, they're not all edible. some of them actually are quite toxic.

we have now only -- >> reporter: it was yarish who suggested smith consider sugar kelp, a local seaweed that gets planted after hurricane season is over, has a mild taste, and can also be used as animal feed and fertilizer. seaweed for you was the light bulb. >> yeah. >> the eureka moment. >> we can create jobs here. we can protect and improve the environment. we don't have to make this choice. >> that looks nice. >> reporter: smith now operates one of the largest seaweed hatcheries in the country with tanks full of developing kelp spores and a processing room that comes alive in spring when he and his team bring in the harvest and get it ready for sale. blanched in 170-degree water kelp turns a vivid green and can then be sold fresh or frozen, sometimes in the form of noodles. smith's customers include google for their cafeteria, yale

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a 4-year-old superhero in alabama is giving everyone in town a lesson in caring. steve hartman found this story on the road. >> reporter: he's faster than a speeding stroller, more adorable than a wet kitten, and able to get a stranger's attention with a single courtesy. >> excuse me. >> reporter: this is america's latest superhero. >> don't forget. >> reporter: and the only superhero with the power to feed the homeless. now, why do you do that? >> you know, it's just the right thing to do. >> is it? >> yes. >> you want honey? >> reporter: by day austin peerine is a mild-mannered 4-year-old from birmingham, alabama. but about once a week he turns into his alter ego. >> would you like a sandwich?

>> reporter: a superhero set on feeding as many homeless people as possible. >> thank you. >> what's the superhero name? >> president austin. >> president austin. >> reporter: president austin? >> that's his idea of what the president is supposed to do. i was like, buddy, you have no idea. but hey, i'm going along with it. >> reporter: t.j. says this all began when they were watching a tv show about pandas. it showed a mama panda abandoning a baby. t.j. told his son the cub was now homeless. >> he says, what's homeless? i said, well, it's when you don't have a home and sometimes you don't have mom or dad around. >> i can tell what the follow-up question's going to be. >> yeah. are people homeless? >> when i was a 4-year-old i didn't care about helping people. >> i did. >> i see. >> reporter: once austin learned some people are homeless and some are even hungry, he launched this caped crusade. told his mom and dad that he wanted all his allowance and money they would spend on toys -- >> there you go. >> reporter: -- to go toward chicken sandwiches instead.

>> thank you, baby. >> you're welcome. don't forget to -- >> reporter: after he gives out each sandwich he gives each person that same bit of advice. >> don't forget to show love. >> reporter: don't forget to show love, he tells them. and most do. immediately. >> well, thank you. >> it warms my heart to see him. >> it'll warm anyone's heart. >> yeah, he really did. >> reporter: raymont boss says this kid gives him hope. >> that's where it starts. >> don't forget to show love. >> reporter: everyone who meets austin leaves with hope. which is why with any luck someday president austin won't be a superhero anymore. >> feeding the homeless is the highlight of my life. >> reporter: he'll just be a president. >> all right. come on, awn. >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road, in birmingham, alabama. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. and for others you can check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course

"cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm demarco morgan. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, july 19th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump takes a tougher tone on russia, telling cbs news as what he said to vladimir putin about meddling in u.s. elections. >> i let him know we can't have this, we're not going to have it, and that's the way it's going to be. >> i saw something next to me and i felt pain. i looked and i saw a fin.