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good morning from the studi headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm>>the chairman of the house committee denies he's delaying year's russian meddling into the elections but d canceled many hearings and he a the investigation. the fbi and the senate are conducting their gcaaign. hena daniels is here. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. they plan tote the committees on the meddling. this as the house intelligence come under scrutiny. politics was going to be so much fun. >> president trump hosted senators and their spouses at the w h lawmakers in senate intelligence committee gear up to interview

witnesses into its russia my pe would be someone we'd like to talk to. i have not discussed it with the chairman. >> yates, the formerattorn aey was set to testify tuesday before the house panel investigating possible lichksn and russia. in a letter obtained by the cbss the what she could reveal in her testimony. yates followed one the white f same day nunes canceled the hearing. >> we have no problem with her testifying. to suggestion in awahat we stooy of that is 100% false. >> the controversy 'long with nunes's secret meeting on white house groujds last week only added to democratic belief that nunes cannot lead imptial investigation. >> h is what coverup looks stil

step down. >> are you going to stay? >> why wouldnot. >> while house speaker ryan is standing by nunes, at l house republican senator walter jones is now demanding he recus independent commission to probe russian interference in election. meanwhile a russian billionairen and pan manafort said testify. the senate intelligence committee is the first public meeting some stooim tomorrow. >> thank you, hena danielss. ahead this morning on "cbs this morning." he's going to be called upon. the latest proposal calls for cuts of 18 billion dollars in domestics programsoall with president wants to build. the cuts would come frommecal r

subsidies for the infrastructure and community grants but these are just proposals. come up with a plan to prevent the government from shutting down. environmental groups and others are predent trump's executive order undoing president obama's efforts on greenhouse gases. by eliminatine restrictions the president said he's creating jobs. >> i'm taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel job killing regulations. >> president trump made hiftd of the obama administration's efforts to curb greenhouse gases by sign an executive order at the environmental protection agency, mr. trump took the first step of erasing fuels from carbon de-oaks i'd emissions

from coal power plants. >> my plan is to putting an end. >> you know what that says? you're going to back to work. >> coal mining amounts to 50,000 jobsamerica down from its peak of nearly 180,000 in 1985. automation and the ability of natural gas from fracking has made it less competitive. >> we're here to announce the single most important step america has ever taken in the fight against global climate change. >> mr. obama to tackle rising global temperatures. >> no challengseuture and futur ge onlled climate change a hoax and scott pruitt recentlynk beten c

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our top stories this morning, severe weather including tornados, powerful wind and hail is hitting parts of texas, arkansas, and louisiana. at least 14 tornados were reported in texas yesterday, but so far there are no reports of nunes, chairman oficant damage. the house intelligence committee denies he's holding up the investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 election. but nunes canceled several hearings including one where the former acting attorney general sally yates testify. a climate scientist who sent president trump a warning about rising temperatures is forecasting a bleak future against global warming. john blackstone spoke with him. >> reporter: climate scientist

ben santer has long believed with temperatures rising and glaciers melting, climate change denial would melt away. >> boy, how naive were he. >> reporter: now he's faced with a new president raising old doubts. >> a lot of it's a hoax, a hoax. >> imagine you spend your entire life trying to do one thing and then someone comes along and says everything you've done is a hoax or a conspiracy or is worthless. what do you do with that? >> reporter: in the 1990s, santer became one of the first scientists to analyze all of the climate data and reach what at the time was a startling conclusion. >> the balance of it suggests influence on global climate, and like it or not, i was the guy who carried the can for that finding. >> reporter: santer wrote an open letter to president trump urging him not to listen to ignorant voices.

he said science has argue again and again that they're wrong. >> these zombie arguments take a life of their own once they're out there. they keep on coming back and you can't slay them. that's the frustration. the alternative facts. this is not a hoax. it matters to every american. >> reporter: now climate change funding is on the federal chopping block. >> what happens to those scientists? what happens to you? >> if the funding goes away, it will be difficult for me to do my job. >> reporter: difficult, he says, but not impossible, since much of his research at livermore laboratory is covered by grants. what worries him more, he says, is a new climate of intimidation. >> there's been a statement get with the program or get out. if the program is to advance ignorance, then i'm not with the program. >> reporter: santer would prefer to let the science speak for itself, but now he's speaking up as other scientists are beginning to do. on april 22nd, not so coincid t

coincidently architect day, thousands of scientists are expecting to join a watch on washington. john blackstone, cbs news, frangs. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the first woman running the vatican museum takes us on a special tour of vatican city's iconic art. plus, nearly a year after prince's death, we'll talk with a close friend of the pop star who was among those who found him dead, and that's only on "cbs this morning." that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

a manhunt is continuing this morning after a shooting causes a lock down at a local school, we will tell butt key piece of evidence that officers have found, while looking for that shooter. also, it is sentencing day two former aid to governor christie will learn their faith faith after their convictions in the bridge gate trial how long they could spend behind bars. in the house it approves a bill to change how your on line browsing information is handled, we will let you know will be able to get that information in the bill, that is heading to the president's desk, once it gets signed. it is wednesday march 29th, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. lets check weather and traffic with katie and meisha. it doesn't feel