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>> john: i'm john dickerson. president trump is pressing ahead with his plan for trying to end the nearly 3-year-old war in ukraine. at the white house today, he said u.s. and russian officials will be meeting tomorrow in munich, and ukraine is invited to join them. >> maurice: but a spokesperson for president zelenskyy said ukraine does not expect to hold any talks with russia, not right now. he said the united states, europe, and ukraine must all first agree on a common position. >> john: the ukraine war will be the main topic at the opening of the 61st munich security conference, held in a city synonymous with europe's appeasement of hitler at a conference in 1938 in the run-up to world war ii, history some critics are raising to describe president trump's dealings with russian president putin over ukraine. >> maurice: we begin tonight with imtiaz tyab, who has been covering the ukraine war from the start. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: for ukraine, this has always been a war of survival. nearly three years after

russia's full-scale invasion, there have been hundreds of thousands of casualties, and russian forces occupy around 20% of the country's territory. it's a war we have covered from the very beginning. we just had some incoming russian shelling. in may 2022, we came under heavy russian fire in the kherson region. with so much still at stake, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is now in a diplomatic battle over who will negotiate the conflict's end. "i articulate this very clearly to our partners," he said. "any bilateral talks about ukraine that is without us we will not accept." his comments followed u.s. secretary of defense pete hegseth's pointed remarks at the nato headquarters in brussels about kyiv potentially having to make major concessions to moscow, where hegseth was asked if the u.s. was abandoning ukraine. >> there is no betrayal there. there is a recognition that the

whole world and the united states is invested and interested in peace, a negotiated peace. as president trump has said, stopping the killing. >> reporter: ukrainian and european leaders were also worried president trump's decision to host a summit with russian president vladimir putin has also left them out of any potential peace talks. german defense minister boris pistorius warned... >> [speaking german] >> reporter: "the trump administration has already made public concessions to putin before negotiations have even begun." in moscow, the mood was decidedly different. evening news shows were almost gleeful as they praised presidents trump and putin for having agreed to hold the talks. all this while in ukraine, the war raged on. earlier today, the eastern city of kramatorsk was targeted by russian fighter jets. at least one person was killed and five injured, according to first responders.

>> john: and imtiaz tyab joins us now. imtiaz, the secretary of defense says this is not a betrayal of the ukrainians. how are the ukrainians seeing it? >> reporter: well, betrayal is a very strong word, but that really does seem to be what ukrainians are feeling tonight. you know, we were actually on the ground in kyiv when president trump won reelection back in november, and the people we spoke to then said that they believed him when he said that he would end the war, but they also believed that it would be russia that would be ordered to make concessions and not that at best the front lines is- will be frozen, which means the fighting will stop and russia will keep the territory it's already taken, but at worst, this is simply a chance for putin to take a pause, reload, and then restart his war on ukraine. >> maurice: imtiaz, you have reported from ukraine many times before the war and during the war. what are your observations on how the ukrainians have been evolving throughout all of this? >> reporter: look, it's an understatement to say that ukraine is a country forever

changed. so many of their best and brightest have been killed in the fighting, and as you saw in our report, we ourselves have come very close to those front lines, which have seen entire cities razed to the ground, and ukrainians tell us that they know they can rebuild, they know they can heal from the physical wounds, but the enormous toll vladimir putin's war has had on them and their families, well, those internal wounds will be much, much harder to recover from. >> john: imtiaz tyab in london. >> maurice: robert costa has been checking with his white house sources. >> john: and bob, ukraine, as imtiaz just said, feels like it's being cut out of this deal. how does the president see this deal with russia over the ukrainian war? >> reporter: john, maurice, good to be with you. when we would talk to biden administration officials, they would always say when it comes to ukraine, they are abiding by what they would frame as post-world war ii international order, a set of norms when it comes to dealing with american foreign policy. but when i talk to the trump white house, they say those norms, that sense of order when

it comes to foreign policymaking, out the window. it's not "the art of the deal," it's "the pursuit of the deal," and at this point, those close to president trump say any deal that's going to be cut is likely going to come down to president trump and president putin, not necessarily what president zelenskyy wants. >> maurice: okay, bob, we want to turn to another topic here right now. the case of new york city's mayor, eric adams. three federal prosecutors, including the u.s. attorney in manhattan, have now resigned in protest after the justice department ordered them to drop criminal charges against the mayor. adams had been indicted for bribery, fraud, and soliciting contributions from foreign nationals, and the former head prosecutor in manhattan, bob, alleges the mayor's team was pushing for what amounted to a quid pro quo here. what is the claim, and how might that be appealing to donald trump? >> reporter: well, let's step back here. when we talk about the justice department these days, we're really talking about president trump's enforcer. the acting deputy attorney general, a man named emil bove.

i sat behind him for weeks in manhattan's criminal court when then-former president trump was facing a trial. he's as close as anyone to president trump, and he is trying to root out prosecutions, people he views as unhelpful prosecutors from the justice department, and it's rattling that institution tonight, with people resigning at the sdny, including the top prosecutor in the adams case, who alleges that there was a quid pro quo on the table, in the sense that mayor adams has said he wouldn't be able to cooperate with the trump administration unless these charges were dropped, but emil bove has said that's not right, and he is going to investigate those who have resigned. >> maurice: okay, robert costa in d.c. tonight, thank you. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. the governor of louisiana signed an extradition warrant for a new york doctor. she allegedly sent abortion pills into louisiana, where abortion is banned. new york's governor is refusing to extradite the doctor. tomorrow, "cbs weekend news" anchor jericka duncan will bring

you the first tv interview with the prosecutor in the case. >> maurice: state police in oregon say dozens of cars and trucks got into multiple crashes on a slippery stretch of i-84 east of portland. much of the west coast is getting hit by snow and rain. lonnie quinn will be here shortly with your forecast. >> john: and the fbi is joining the investigation into an apparent car attack in munich, germany, that injured at least 30 people. the suspect is an afghan asylum-seeker. no word yet on a motive. >> maurice: president trump ramped up his global trade war today, introducing a plan to increase tariffs on foreign goods to match the tax rates that other countries put on american goods. >> john: "money watch" correspondent kelly o'grady visited a manufacturer in pittsburgh to see the impact of the president's plan. >> we are literally making product from everybody from your mad scientists that's drawing something up on the back of a bar napkin to spacex. >> reporter: mark beichner is the cofounder and coo of accutrex products.

>> how has the machine been running? has it been good? >> it's been running great. >> reporter: a contract manufacturer in canonsburg, pennsylvania. the company makes all kinds of custom metal parts for industries from mining to defense. how long has this business been in your family? >> 45 years. we started in november o 1980 with a handful of people, and we have grown to about 214. >> reporter: a big draw for tariffs is they could incentivize domestic manufacturing. if companies in the u.s. are required to pay an import tax, they may decide to make those products here to save money. beichner says it could be a boon for the u.s. manufacturing industry. how will tariffs impact your business? >> overall, it's going to be a positive impact for us if they go through. we've got a lot of customers coming to us from canada, for example, that are buying product from canada and bringing it into the united states that are already coming to us to look for it to be sourced locally. >> reporter: looming tariffs could also bring new challenges.

president trump is threatening import taxes on aluminum and steel, a key material in manufacturing. those tariffs could raise costs. >> this particular cabinet is manufactured from 5052 aluminum. there's not a lot of domestic sources for us here. so that's going to drive us abroad. we may go back to our customers and tell them that we're not able to find it, or the price is going to be -- need to be raised on a particular product. >> reporter: how are you going to navigate your clients needing to pay more to reshore some of that production capability here in the u.s.? >> we'll start to purchase a little bit more in an economy of scale where we buy more raw material bringing in for larger runs, maybe keep it on the shelf to try and offset some of that cost. >> maurice: and kelly o'grady joins us now. so mr. beichner here sees the tariffs increasing business and prices at the same time. so, how do you see that playing out for the larger economy? >> reporter: well, he is such an excellent case study for that central tension.

i mean, tariffs, they are supposed to protect domestic industries, and we are already seeing clients of beichner see increased demand, he is seeing that come to him, but tariffs also potentially raise prices for the businesses that make those products, and then for us, the consumers. and i go back in history, what happened under the first trump administration? we saw similar aluminum and steel tariffs, and there are a number of analyses that show the manufacturing industry actually hired less people because of those increased costs. this time around, the economic landscape is different. the tariff plan is different. so whether it's net negatie or net positive, it's going to depend on the industry, the extent of the tariff, and the length. >> maurice: to be continued. kelly o'grady, thanks so much. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with the weather. >> maurice: and we'll have these stories, as well. >> i'm major garrett. we revisit two americans who met on a summer rafting trip and to their surprise found a way around rough political waters. that's tonight's "eye on america."

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america healthy again. >> the maha movement is bringing us back to healthy foods that come directly from nature and not processed foods that have gone through so many steps to get to our table. >> reporter: cho is a democrat. she lives in new jersey. >> it's not a political issue. it's an issue of do you want your kids to get the best food or not? do you want your kid to have the best environment to live in? >> reporter: kennedy has pledged to address america's chronic diseases, poor diets, and environmental toxins, but as recently as 2023, he repeated a debunked claim saying, "i do believe that autism does come from vaccines." multiple studies have shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. like cho, theresa warner is also a maha mother of three, who's conscientious about the food she serves her family. she, too, supports kennedy. that's her in the middle. but she's a republican. what is it about rfk jr.

that resonates most with you? >> i think one of the things is certainly his attention to this culture of chronic disease and the chronic disease epidemic that's happening to our kids. and the other thing is upholding our parental rights and freedoms which is so, so important. >> reporter: warner did not have her kids vaccinated. cho did. but both agree parents should have the right to decide. the american academy of pediatrics says vaccines are safe and effective. >> so many of the moms that support bobby may not agree on everything, but what i do know, that as maha moms, we can agree on is that he wants to see our kids healthier. >> john: and elaine quijano joins us now. so, elaine, kennedy is in the saddle. he's got the job, and the maha movement is already saying we would like to see what, what, and what? >> elaine: so at a news conference today, leaders of the maha movement said while they see today as a real victory, they hope that kennedy will use his power and use his position to highlight issues

they think the government has insufficiently studied in the past, things like food additives and vaccine safety. they also said they are going to be pushing legislation and keeping track of which members of congress actually support that legislation. >> maurice: okay. elaine quijano, thanks so much. >> john: heavy rain in the west is raising fears of mudslides in southern california, especially in areas stripped bare by wildfires. >> maurice: lonnie quinn joins us now with the details. lonnie? >> guys, it's all due to the atmospheric river. it is set up right now. it is pumping moisture into southern california. they have already picked up over 2 inches of rain today. they're going to probably double that by the time they finish with this event tomorrow and then that whole system pushes to the east. keep in mind, the burn-scarred areas over the last 11 months, they picked up 1.5 inches of rain. it's 4 to 6 inches in a two-day period. that storm makes its way into chicago. by the time we get to say later tomorrow and then it keeps going maybe 3 inches of snow for chicago. it gets to the northeast, it is snow on saturday, very snowy saturday,

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>> reporter: rodney? >> i had, of course, a completely opposite reaction. i think i actually stopped watching tv about 9:00 on election night. and i began to feel frightened. >> reporter: lance and rodney are like many americans. they struggle with profound differences over what this time and its political direction mean. >> let's all just cheer for him. cheer for him for a couple of months and see what i think is going to be a great four years. >> reporter: how does it make you feel to hear this kind of enthusiasm from someone you can befriend and have befriended? >> i feel as though it's, i'm sorry to say this, a bit misguided. i'm very much frightened that we won't have a democracy in four years. that what we will see is a movement towards fascism, a movement towards increased support for white supremacy. and this is terrifying. >> reporter: lance, when you hear rodney say heavyweight words like fascism,

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good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. it is 7:00, atmospheric river, another one dealing another tough blow leaving many homeowners across the bay area nervous. >> we are always worried ant things like mud slide. >> just trying to do anything in

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