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their ballot for someone they think has a chance to win. >> his advisers argue he does due to the large and growing voters that don't identify with either party. he took over starbucks when it had 11 stores and fewer than 100 employees. today it has nearly 30,000 stores in 78 countries. >> many people are going to ask what does the coffee entrepreneur know about being commander in chief? >> i have a long history of recognizing i'm not the smartest person in the room. that in order to make great decisions about complex problems i have to recruit and attract people who are smarter than me. >> in a sign of how serious he is, schultz announced he's hiring veterans of two successful republican and presidential campaigns but a formal launch isn't expected for a few more months. >> thank you. there is a possible break through in talks to end america's longest war.

negotiators for the u.s. and the taliban agreed in principle on key issues we're told. now u.s. troops will leave afghanistan in return for promises that afghan territory not be used by terrorists. however difficult that may be to fulfill. the u.s. took action after the 9/11 attacks to oust the taliban harboring al qaeda. michael always good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> your thoughts on this frame work deal. >> when president trump announced in august of 2017 that he was leaving troops in afghanistan indefinitely, he explained that he was doing that because if we left, the taliban would take over and allow al qaeda safe haven and they would become a threat again. he was right then and this agreement doesn't change that at all. the taliban will not live up to it. the taliban will not negotiate

in good faith with the afghan government. they want a one party state and they want to rule it and they will allow them safe haven because they have fought together and they're very close. >> yes. >> if this frame work doesn't happen, if there's no framework, what else do you do? >> the president fundamentally has two choices. one choice is to stay for the long-term, just like we had troops in western europe facing the soviet union for a long time. just as we have troops in south korea facing off against north korea. that's one option. the only option is to lead with an understanding of what's going to happen but put u.s. bases nearby where they can reach out and keep al qaeda from beginning strong again. >> no good choices. >> there are no good choices. >> thank you. >> coming up next, new details on the link between blood pressure and dementia and later, hang on tight, we'll show you how this road rage confrontation ended. billions of bacteria,

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maduro out and designated a rival lawmaker as interim president. during that news conference today we noticed a notebook held by john bolton read 5,000 troops to columbia which borders venezuela. we asked for an explanation on that. we are told all options are on the table. the stage is now set for super bowl liii. the l.a. rams and new england patriots arrived in atlanta last night. they're doing interviews this evening. if the rams win their coach would be the youngest to win the super bowl at 33 and if the patriots win, bill belichick would be the oldest to win at 66 and tom brady the oldest at 41. moderator of face the nation every sunday will interview president trump on sunday as part of our coverage of super bowl liii. that's this sunday right here on cbs.

up next, an air force veteran was going to be buried alone.

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today people came from miles around to say fairwell to an american they never met. >> it was bumper to bumper outside a texas cemetery today as more than a thousand strangers put their lives on hold to honor an air force veteran. >> 72-year-old joseph walker died alone but people were determined he would not be layed to rest alone. >> today we're not strangers. today we are family. i don't have a whole lot of information, but it doesn't matter because once upon a time, like a lot of us other vets, he signed a blank check for our nation.

>> a state agency put out this all call for the funeral fearing no one would attend as the veteran had no family or known friends. they neednot have worried. the appeal went viral. a trio of planes performed a fly over. the flag draping his coffin carefully folded and presented in his memory. as the man of whom little is known, just that he served in the air force during vietnam was buried with full military honors. even without loved ones, he would get the send off every service member deserves. in fractured times, the best of america, ensuring no hero is forgotten. cbs news, houston. that is the overnight news for this tuesday, for some of you 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.

this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. one of president trump's oldest friends and closest advisers has a date in court. roger stone's self-described political dirty trickster will be arraigned in washington on a long list of charges that came to light in the on going russia investigation. stone faces up to 45 years in prison but he insists he's innocent and says he will not cop a plea or testify against the president. jeff has his story. >> acting attorney general matt whitaker, the man that oversees the russia investigation says today he has been fully briefed on the probe and the end is in sight. >> the investigation is, i think, close to being completed,

and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> the comments came just days after special counsel robert mueller charged roger stone, the president's friend of 40 years and former campaign adviser with seven counts of lying, obstruction, and witness tampering. >> it's not a bad day. >> stone was confident as he arrived in washington for his arraignme arraignment. >> the only stripes i look good in are pinstripes. >> over the weekend, stone left the door open to working with investigators. >> if there's wrong doing by other people in the campaign that i know about, which i know of none but if there is, i would certainly testifying honestly. >> but in an interview with cbs news stone said he would not flip on president trump. >> i have been very clear about the fact that i cannot and will not implicate the president because i would have to purger myself to do so. >> it alleges he was in contact with trump campaign officials

about wikileaks e-mails. >> the tantalizing question in this indictment is whether it was the president that directed a senior campaign official to be in contact with mr. stone about whether there's going to be more of the russian hacked e-mails from the democratic party. >> today, white house press secretary sarah sanders denied the president's involvement. >> the more this goes on the more and more we see that none of these things have anything to do with the president. >> but there's still a lot for the special counsel to do. obviously, the roger stone case is just beginning although that could be handed off to other doj lawyers. paul manafort still has to be sentenced and robert mueller has to produce his final report. also today we found out that michael cohen, the president's former personal attorney has agreed to testify on capitol hill behind closed doors, next week. >> well, the longest government shutdown in u.s. history is over. but as federal agencies, parks, and museums get up and running,

there's still concerns that the effects and even years. what's more, another possible shutdown is less than three weeks away. nancy has that story. >> hundreds of thousands of federal employees headed back t daunting five week backlog. 5 million pieces of unopened mail at the irs alone, could take a year to catch up. >> what a devastating and pointless exercise this has b n been. $11 billion in lost gdp, 3 plds of which will not be recovered. the hardest hit are private sector entities that will never recoup that income. >> for the month of january, we'll only have four days of billing. >> he runs a business that provides personnel for government agencies. they lost five weeks of pay and

temporarily their health care coverage because he couldn't cover the premiums. >> we have a lot of folks will real chronic illnesses, including my own family members, so it's something that hit everybody. >> and that had never happened to you before? >> never. never had a lapse of insurance. never missed a payroll. >> it could all happen again in three weeks. the president says there will be another shutdown or he'll declare a national emergency if 17 congressional leaders can't strike a deal on border security by mid february. white house press secretary sarah sanders argued today the economy could with stand another shutdown if it had to. >> there is a real problem at our border. it needs to be fixed and the president is going to do what it takes to address it. >> the president himself pegged the chances of a deal at less than 50/50. lawmakers now have three weeks to prove him wrong. the former ceo of starbucks is threatening to up end the

2020 presidential election. he had nothing good to say about either political party and says he's ready to run for president. democrats fear he may split the vote and usher in a second trump administration. as for the president, he says schultz doesn't have the guts to run. ed reports. >> i'll run as a centrist independent, out side of the two party system. >> that announcement on 60 minutes sunday has democrats worried he'll sink their chances in 2020. the 65-year-old billionaire is a long time democrat and an independent candidacy could siphon off votes from the democratic nominee handingd ter >> it would provide donald trump of his best hope of getting reelected. >> michael bloombergtewarned ta independent can win. in the modern era the history of third party or independent candidates is marked by failure.

>> volunteers of all 50 states asked me to run as candidate for president of the united states. >> only independent ross perot in 1992 broke into the double digits arguably costing george h.w. bush the election. >> the u.s. electoral system tends to reward two big parties. often times voters want to cast their ballot for someone they think has a chance to win. >> schultz's advisers argue he does pointing to the voters in places like california and florida that don't identify with either party. he took over starbucks when it had just 11 stores and fewer than 100 employees. today it has nearly 30,000 stores in 78 countries. >> many people are going to ask what does the coffee entrepreneur know about being commander in chief? >> i have a long history of recognizing i'm not the smartest person in the room. that in order to make great decisions about complex problems, i have to recruit and attract people that are smarter

than me. >> in a sign of how serious he is, schultz announced he's hiring veterans of two successful republican and democratic presidential campaigns, but a formal launch isn't expected for a few more months. >> overseas, now, there's signs that the longest war in u.s. history may be coming to a close. u.s. negotiators reached an agreement in principle with the taliban. it would include a u.s. pull out from afghanistan after 17 years. the cbs overnight news will be right back.

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this is the cbs overnight news shlt news. >> florida is cracking down on a group of moving companies accused of defrauding consumers coast-to-coast. they filed chargers in federal court against 14 moving companies. the allegations include damaging property using deceptive marketing tactics and even extortion. >> we looked into a company called spartan ban line after reading through scores of complaints from customers that claim their belongings were held hostage until a cash ransom was paid. many said they had no choice but to pay while others we met are still waiting for their most prized possessions to arrive

walls in her apartment are bear. no pictures of her late husband or children. >> what do your wedding pictures mean to you? >> everything. >> he's gone now. i had nothing to remember him by. the coffee cup he used to use. i kept with it. i don't have any of that. >> she hired them to take her belongings from storage in texas to a one bedroom apartment in maryland. she was quoted around $3,500 which she paid in full, but after they loaded her stuff, she jacked up the price to nearly $12,000. 8 months later, nothing has arrived. in december, the florida attorney general filed a civil suit against spartan van lines which is named as one of 15 aliases the company has used since 2014. the allegations range from usi unskilled, untrained laborers to holding consumers property hostage. >> are they holding your stuff hostage? >> yeah. they want more money.

to me that's being a hostage. >> we called three highly rated moving companies and used the list of furniture for a comparison. the estimates came in between 6 and $8,000. well below the 12,000 demanded by spartan van line. in an e-mail, the company said if she doesn't pay, her belongings will be sent to auction. >> there's no reason for this other than people trying to make money. >> her misery is echoed across the country. angry customers are still waiting for items in illinois. >> when i said, no, i will not give you cash, i will give you the money order, the man never showed up. >> that's extortion. >> yes. >> in florida, she caved and paid an extra 7,000 to reclaim her furniture. >> you sobs. finally. >> and when amanda peterson's stuff arrived in arizona, items were damaged beyond repair.

>> this is how they delivered my expensive tv back to me. >> you consider them bandits? >> absolutely. >> the pennsylvania senator passed a bill to crack down on scam movers. he said the underground market is hurting legitimate businesses. >> we kept getting complaints about consumers that are being ripped off. something would be broken in the move. some old artifact from great grandma and of course they found out that while they thought they had hired real legitimate movers they had hired bandits. >> legitimate business owners are also being targeted. josh hall owns a florida moving company called spartan van lines. he says movers are using his company name. >> definite impact on the business. >> paul estimates business is down 50% because of the negative reviews generated by the other sp spartan van lines. a company that says they're

located outside of philadelphia. >> their hub with a fleet of trucks was located here at this address, but when we arrived, we were told all they have here is a mailbox. >> over 1,000 miles away, we tracked down the company owner. he refused to talk on camera, but denied all accusations of fraud. >> in her empty department, she is still recovering from surgery. >> this is your retirement. >> yeah. >> no personal belongings, no furniture, no clothes. >> no. this is it. obviously i can't work anymore. >> are you depressed? >> very. it's just horrible what this company has done to people. and i'm not the only one. >> a book by former new jersey governor chriss sale today. it's called let me finish. trump, the kushners, ban nnon, w

jersey, and the power of in your face politics. he went from the vice presidential short list to being fired from the transition team two days after the election. in christie's word the president is surrounded by a revolving door of deeply flawed individuals, amateurs, graffitiers, weaklings and convicted and unconvicted felons. >> let me ask you about one of those members, roger stone. you were a former u.s. attorney. roger stone is complaining about the way he was being treated, that predawn raid. is that out of the ordinary? >> yes. it is. my wife asked me, would you have done that? and i said the only way i would have ever done that as u.s. attorney is if we knew that he had a gun. so if someone has a gun and you're indicting them you worry about them killing themselves and harming others. when i found out that roger stone did not have a gun, i think it was over the top for

them to do that. he's not a flight risk. how could roger stone get out of the country. >> roger stone has told him that, in fact, the fbi came in and seized electronic devices, multiple cell phones that he had. could that have been the purpose of this raid? >> you can do that, but you don't need to bring guys with ar-15s and jackets as if they're going to get shot. when i saw them coming in with all the protective gear, it signalled to me, well they must know there are weapons, inside -- >> then what do you think? >> i think they were trying to intimidate them and i think it's the wrong thing for prosecutors to do. i think mr. mueller made a mistake in authorizing that. because you're going to be criticized and rightfully so if you're a prosecutor using those means as a means of intimidation. if you're using it as a way to protect fbi agents that's completely appropriate and i have done it. >> as a former law enforcement official it's interesting for you to side against robert mueller. >> i have supported roger

mueller all alone and when you're wrong, you're wrong. >> he said he was treated fairly and professional. >> yeah. i wouldn't expect different. but when you get a pound on your door at 6:00 a.m. in the dark and you see a bunch of fbi agents with jackets on and semiautomatic weapons. to take somebody out that lied to congress. >> president trump came into office saying i have a special ability because of my business experience to run people in shipshape, what you describe here is a total mess. >> what i try to do in the book is to let people know the truth. unlike some of these other books that gossip and give these back room kind of stories. i was in all of these rooms and helping to prepare this guy for the presidency and prepare the s not been spoken enough about is that that transition got thrown at 140 people. not me. 140 people worked on that transition from may until november and steve bannon and

jared kushner and rick deerborn made the decision for the president to throw that out and they told him we'll handle it and that turned out to be a mistake and i think even the pr

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here on cbs. the new england patriots and los angeles rams will square off in atlanta. between now and sunday about a million people are expected to flock to the atl. many will be greeted by an outdoor art project called off the wall. dana jacobson takes a look. >> the atlanta native said she was the kid that always drew on her parents' walls. today she is putting the finishing touches on an entire building's wall in her hometown. >> the connection of arts and civil rights marry together beautifully. >> her mural is an homage to the neighborhood once considered the most prosperous african american community in the early 20th century. it's one of the more than 2 dozen murals around the city expected to be completed by next week to greet the more than 100,000 visitors for super bowl liii. >> what do you hope they take away from it? >> how amazing atlanta is. the contribution that it's given to this nation, and how can they

contribute moving forward. >> her panorama is steps from many civil rights landmarks. the martin luther king jr. memorial site which includes his boyhood home and the baptist church where he preached. roads bearing the names of pioneering politicians like andrew young jr., a u.s. congressman, u.n. ambassador and atlanta major. >> when you see your mural there, do you ever get used to it? >> i never get used to it. >> congressman lewis represented atlanta since 1977. 14 years after he organized and addressed the march on washington. >> we must say wake up america. wake up. >> 12 years after he was beaten for leading protestors across the bridge in selma, alabama. he received the president medal of freedom in 2011 and the following year he was honored with his mural. he says he's excited to have

some company. >> a peaceful art such as a mural cannot only tell the story, but it can inspire others to learn, to find a way to make a contribution toward creating a better atlanta, a better georgia, and a better world. >> i love that it is a girl flexing and that that's not what you would necessarily expect. >> artists are great story tellers in that way. they surprise us. >> chris appleton is the executive director of wander root. the organization that launched the project. they appear throughout atlanta from commuter train stations to store fronts. they depict civil rights and social justice themes past and present, created with community input by 11 artists from across the country, including an undocumented dreamer living in atlanta and baltimore muralist earnest shaw whose atlanta strong just outside mercedes benz stadium will greet fans on super bowl sunday.

>> people may say it's the super bowl, why are we looking at something that has to do with social justice? >> it's certainly the super bowl and the nfl have an important role to play in addressing social justice issues in our country. i think we have seen that conversation continue to play out. but also, when these kinds of big events, galvanizing moments. >> you also have eye balls. >> it takes that to make change. >> the stories of women and their work in resistance and activism and service. >> her visionary for justice on atlanta's west side pays tribute to ruby doors smith robinson. >> she was a young activist during the civil rights movement. she was the backbone of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. >> art is supposed to spark conversation. is that what these murals are doing? >> oh my goodness. i say art is the heart beat of

humanity. it's the place where we're all equal and if we can give each other the chance to fully,

a new documentary on the life and times of the late singer michael jackson has his family up in arms. the film leaving neverland has details of allegations of child molestation against the king of pop. the jackson family called it a public lynching and insists the singer is 100% innocent. no clips of the film have been made public but some critics say it's so devastating, you'll never listen to michael jackson the same way again. ♪ >> michael jackson has long been considered a pop music pow powerhouse, but the documentary leaving neverland claims the late singer used his fame to repeatedly prey upon young boys.

>> judging by the faces of people that walked out of the screening, it was a heavy mood and something people would be thinking about a lot. >> in the four hour film, they detail how they became friends with jackson at 7 and 10 years old. the men provide compelling allegations against jackson saying he sexually abused them for years at his neverland ranch. >> allegations of oral sex, being forced to touch jackson, jackson touching them and progressingly more aggressive behavior as they got into their teenage years. >> he was cleared of child molestation charges involving another boy in 2005. he denied the charges on 60 minutes. >> i'm not going to do anything sexual to a child. it's not where my heart is. i would slit my wrists first. >> he even testified on the singers behalf. now says he felt pressure to keep the abuse a secret. >> every time we were together it happened. there was no night that went by

that i was with him that he didn't sexually abuse me. >> in a statement the jackson estate called the documentary the kind of tabloid character assassination michael jackson endured in life and now in death. it says the films director intentionally avoided interviewing numerous people who have stated that he treated children with respect. a publicist for the documentary says they were not paid. tmz captured this video of their standing ovation. >> my greatest hope is to just raise awareness for parents, for teachers, for business leaders, anybody responsible for children to shine for them. >> leaving neverland is four hours long. it will premiere on hbo in march. that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course cbs this

morning. from the broadcast center in new rk city. it's tuesday, january 29th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." the mercury is dropping, arctic air invades the midwest bringing life-threatening subzero temperatures not seen in nearly a quarter century. heading to court, former trump adviser roger stone facing charges of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering. and countdown to super bowl liii.