girlup.org. >> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. president trump has had a very public falling out with attorney general jeff sessions, the first member of the senate to endorse his run for the white house. here's chip reid. >> he's an amazing man. >> reporter: president trump was once enamored with attorney general jeff sessions. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the presidency of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: but not anymore. in an extraordinarily candid interview with "the new york times," the president gave sessions an angry, public scolding for recusing himself from the russia investigation. >> sessions should have never recused himself. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and i would have picked somebody else. it's extremely unfair-- and that's a mild word-- to the

president. >> reporter: sessions was asked today if he's considering resigning. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general, and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> reporter: the president also criticized special counsel robert mueller for accepting the job as head of the russia investigation just one day after interviewing with mr. trump to be f.b.i. director. >> and what the hell is this all about? you talk about conflicts. he was interviewing for the job. >> reporter: and he again unleashed his fury at former f.b.i. director james comey. in june, comey told congress that mr. trump instructed other advisers to leave the oval office, then asked comey to drop the investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. but the president told the "times," he did not shoo people out of the room. >> i don't remember even talking to him about any of this stuff. his testimony is loaded up with lies.

>> reporter: in a long, rambling interview, the president also reminisced about his recent trip to paris and to napoleon's tomb, and he gave a history lesson about how napoleon and hitler lost major battles against russia, because their armies froze to death. the president seemed fascinated, mentioning it more than once that french president emmanuel macron has a fondness for holding hands. "people don't realize he loves holding my hand," mr. trump said, "and that's good as far as that goes." >> a white house spokesperson said today that, yes, president trump is disappointed in attorney general sessions, but he has not lost confidence in him and has no plan to fire him. anthony? >> mason: chip reid at the white house, thank you, chip. the special counsel is now looking into the trump business empire, in the investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: in that "new york times" interview, president trump had a warning for special counsel robert mueller.

investigating his finances and his family's finances would cross a red line. "i think that's a violation," he said. "this is about russia." but investigators are already examining the financial dealings of mr. trump and his associates, not limiting themselves to possible collusion with russia in the 2016 election. mr. trump's business ties to russia go back decades. the special counsel's mandate is broad, and allows him to investigate any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. cbs news has confirmed mueller is also looking into the business dealings of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, an investigation initiated by prosecutors in the southern district of new york. >> speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. public corruption unit at the southern district, andrew goldstein, recently joined mueller's team. he oversaw the manafort probe. prosecutor andrew weissmann is

another team member. his expertise, financial fraud. weissmann helped lead the federal task force that investigated corruption at energy giant enron. with multiple and overlapping probes, from the department of justice to capitol hill, some investigators are also looking into purchases of units in trump properties. the senate intelligence committee is pouring through thousands of pages of financial records, from a unit in the treasury department that fights money laundering. in a "new york times" interview, the president also said, "it's possible there's a condo or something. i sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from russia buys a condo, who knows." he also said he doesn't make money from russia. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. we turn now to john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." john, these are pretty unusual remarks for a president to make about his attorney general, aren't they? what do you make of them? >> well, what makes these comments so unusual is the president is not criticizing a policy decision an attorney

general made. he's making claims about the attorney general's character. he says it was "unfair" that the attorney general didn't tell him that he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. now, the attorney general deals with right and wrong, so questioning his fairness is different than if you were questioning another cabinet official. and the president also didn't seem to believe attorney general sessions' testimony about why he was not immediately forthcoming about his meetings with the russian ambassador. the president said sessions was asked "simple questions" and that his answers "should have been simple answers, but they weren't." >> mason: this interview comes as we mark six months now of the trump administration. where do you think this fits in, in the scope of his presidency? >> well, at six months in, president trump in this interview is the same person as candidate donald trump. he is free wheeling, full of hyperbole, there are inaccuracies, and he's saying exactly what is on his mind, even if it breaks the normal rules. whether those rules are about criticizing an attorney general

or criticizing special counsel mueller, even though that criticism could be considered interference in the investigation, which is one of the things the president is being investigated for. and all of this to the "new york times," which the president has criticized regularly. the office has not changed the man. >> mason: john dickerson. thank you very much, john. the treasury department fined exxon-mobil $2 million today for violating u.s. sanctions in 2014 when it signed contracts with a black-listed russian oil executive. rex tillerson was exxon's c.e.o. at the time and called sanctions "ineffective." now-secretary of state tillerson supports keeping them in place until russia gives back crimea. and we're back in just a moment.

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just grabbing the wheel. >> reporter: this fall, students at the university of michigan will be hopping on this driverless bus across campus. carmakers are promising mass market, fully self-driving vehicles by 2021, and tech companies like uber and google could deploy them much sooner. california is already readying its roads, replacing raised lane markers with six-inch-thick solid lines, because they're easier for self-driving cars to see. but what's not ready are the rules. scott keogh from audi: >> i think we need definitions. we need the government and the states to set laws that are all united and unified around this, and there needs to be a little bit less p.t. barnum-ism, where everyone is throwing around these terms. >> reporter: right now, only 23 states and the district of columbia have laws on the books regarding self-driving cars. >> as this technology gets out on the road, we want to make sure that it is safe, that is truly is ready for prime time. >> the concept behind this bill is to try to make, create some certainty, some clarity, so people know what those rules are going to be.

>> reporter: that could happen in the coming days. republican senator john thune and democrat gary peters plan to present rare bipartisan legislation setting standards for safety, cyber security, and guidelines to determine accident liability if no one is driving. do you feel real deadline pressure to get this done? >> it's only a matter of time. and that horizon is coming very quickly at us, and i think we have to be prepared for that. >> hopefully we can all get around the fact that this is incredibly exciting technology that will save literally tens of thousands of lives. >> reporter: and they believe it will do that because self-driving cars should eliminate one of the leading factors in crashes: human error. anthony? >> mason: kris van cleave in washington, thanks. and when we come back, a dusty old bag sells for an astronomical price.

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were exhumed today and will be tested to determine if he had an daughter. pilar abel, now 61 years old, claims she was conceived when her mother had an affair with dali. abel is a fortune teller, and if d.n.a. proves her story, she could inherit a fortune, a quarter of dali's near-half billion dollar estate. on this 48th anniversary of the first moon walk, a lawyer from illinois saw her bank account take one giant leap. a bag containing moon dust collected by neil armstrong sold at auction for $1.8 million. the buyer was not identified. the seller, nancy carlson, purchased the bag for less than $1,000 at a government auction. up next, an out-of-this-world discovery here on earth, and the young boy who made it.

>> mason: finally tonight, it was quite a trip for a young boy. it took him back in time, about a million years. here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: for the last few months, jude sparks has been learning some uncommon things--

uncommon for ten-year-olds, anyway. >> how to tell a stegamastadon from a mammoth, how to tell tusk from bone, and... that's about it. >> reporter: jude has been working at an excavation site near his home in new mexico, digging up the fossilized remains of a prehistoric elephant ancestor called the stegamastadon. even more uncommon for a ten-year-old? jude discovered it. he and his family were out for a walk last november when he tripped and came face-to-face with what he thought was a cow skeleton. >> the only part of the jaw i saw was the two teeth, this part of the bone and that part of the bone. >> reporter: he called for his mom, michelle, to take a look. >> it was very unusual. we knew it was something. the coloring was different. it wasn't what you usually see. >> reporter: it looked old? >> it looked old, yes. >> reporter: so they called a

professor at new mexico state, who confirmed it was a million years old. experts then started to excavate, with jude helping. so far they've got the skull, jaw, and tusks. >> this little boy will be able to show off to his friends, or even his own children when he's older, and say, look what i found. >> reporter: but this ten-year-old budding paleontologist isn't done yet. >> riding our bikes, and i just keep looking on the ground to see if i can find another something. >> reporter: not after what he found tripping over ancient history. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some you have the news continues for others check back later for the morning shows and of course "cbs this morning" for the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason thanks for watching.

>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to overnight news, i'm michelle miller. the juice will soon be loose after nine years behind bars for an armed robbery o.j. simpson has been granted parole. >> mr. simpson i do vote to grant parole when eligible and that will conclude this hearing. >> thank you. >> his relief was obvious. o.j. simpson, now 70 years old, would soon be free on parole. >> it was a serious crime, and there was no excuse for it. >> reporter: the hearing, via video conference, lasted more than an hour, as commissioners asked simpson how prison had changed him. >> are you humbled by this incarceration?

>> oh, yeah. for sure. >> reporter: while expressing regret, he insisted it was others who decided to bring guns the day in las vegas they robbed two memorabilia dealers of items simpson believed had been stolen from him. >> i am no danger to pull a gun on anybody. you know, i never have in my life. i've never been accused of it in my life. >> reporter: one of the dealers robbed that day, bruce fromong, told the parole board simpson had served enough time. >> this is a good man. he made a mistake. >> he truly is remorseful. >> reporter: simpson's oldest daughter, arnelle. >> and we just want him to come home so that we can move forward, for us. quietly. >> i'm not a guy who lived a criminal life. you know, i'm a pretty straight shooter. >> reporter: but hanging over the hearing was the accusation in 1994 that simpson had brutally murdered his ex-wife nicole and her friend ron goldman. >> i've always thought i've been pretty good with people, and i've basically... it's been a

conflict-free life. >> one of the least self-aware moments that i have ever heard. >> reporter: law professor laurie levinson: >> now, there are a lot of things you might say about o.j. simpson, and you might even say, well, that acquittal was fair. but to say that he's led a conflict-free life? i don't think so. >> reporter: simpson will remain in prison, until at least october 1. he said he wants to return to florida, where he lived before his nevada conviction, but parole officials in both states must agree. president trump marks six months in office with an eye brow raising interview with the new york times, blasting attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey and special counsel robert mueller. and he warned out of his family finances. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the president of the united states.

>> not any more in an extraordinary candid interview with the new york times the president gave sessions an angry public lick scolding for recusing himself from the russia investigation. >> sessions should have never recused himself if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and he would have picked someone else. it is extremely unfair, and that's a mild word-- to the president. >> reporter: sessions was asked today if he's considering resigning. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general, and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> reporter: the president also criticized special counsel robert mueller for accepting the job as head of the russia investigation just one day after interviewing with mr. trump to be f.b.i. director. >> and whatthe hell is this all about? you talk about conflicts. he was interviewing for the job. >> reporter: and he again unleashed his fury at former f.b.i. director james comey. in june, comey told congress

that mr. trump instructed other advisers to leave the oval office, then asked comey to drop the investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. but the president told the "times," he did not shoo people out of the room. >> i don't remember even talking to him about any of this stuff. his testimony is loaded up with lies. >> reporter: in a long, rambling interview, the president also reminisced about his recent trip to paris and to napoleon's tomb, and he gave a history lesson about how napoleon and hitler lost major battles against russia, because their armies froze to death. the president seemed fascinated, in that interview president trump had a warning for robert mueller investigating his finances and family finances would cross a red line, i think that's a violation, this is about russia, but they are already looking at financing,

and his associates. not limiting themselves with russia goes back decades. special counsel may arrive in the investigation and paul manafort investigation in the initiated by prosecutors in the southern district of new york. >> speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> reporter: the head of the public corruption unit at the southern district, andrew goldstein, recently joined mueller's team. he oversaw the manafort probe. prosecutor andrew weissmann is another team member. his expertise, financial fraud. weissmann helped lead the federal task force that investigated corruption at energy giant enron. with multiple and overlapping probes, from the department of justice to capitol hill, some investigators are also looking into purchases of units in trump

properties. the senate intelligence committee is pouring through thousands of pages of financial records, from a unit in the treasury department that fights money laundering. hopes, prayers and tributes pouring in for arizona senator john mccain who has been diagnosed with a form of brain cancer. nancy cordes has the details. >> we're routing for you, dear friend. >> if anybody's going to beat a disease like this it's going to be john mccain. >> senator mccain put up with strong emotions for twelve hours. the last straw with this from from his friend, lindsey graham. >> i can't think of anything i've done since 1999, politically, in many ways personally, that was worth doing without john. >> reporter: mccain, recovering in phoenix, intervened. >> he has called me three times this morning. "no more 'woe is me,' lindsey." he is yelling at me to buck up. >> reporter: "i greatly

appreciate the outpouring of support," mccain tweeted. "unfortunately for my sparring partners in congress, i'll be back soon." >> lt. commander john mccain. >> reporter: tough talk from man who survived five and a half years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and has spent three decades honing a take-no-prisoners style on capitol hill. >> it's really embarrassing to hear you say something like that. it was a waste of time because they had no information. it's unfair, it's bizarro. >> reporter: that straight talk has endeared him to both sides. many senators pointed today to this moment in his run against then-senator obama. >> he's an arab. >> no, ma'am, he's a, he's a decent family man. >> he said, i'm feeling good. i may have some chemo to get through. >> reporter: arizona's junior senator jeff flake spoke to mccain last night. john mccain is a tough guy. this is a very tough form of cancer. >> it is. and he knows that. his family certainly knows that. the cbs overnight news will be right back. stains happen...

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news". the death and custody of chinese noble laureate lu z has turned the spotlight on response to any form of dissent other artist ai weiwei continues to antagonize the government but he's doing it from the united states. >> they thought your intention was to convert state power. >> which is true. >> you want to bring down the chinese government. >> not bring down. i don't have the power to bring it down. >> but you want it to change? >> yes of course. >> those are dangerous words in china where after decades of modernization the government has

little tolerance for dissent. but that's never bothered ai weiwei. this is the work he's most famous for. a port rate of china's dictator, in which he gives finger to other symbols of power around the world. >> just like this. >> are we creating a new ai weiwei as we stand here. >> so easy. everybody can do it. >> easy? certainly not subtle. maybe a little silly. but the chinese authorities took them very seriously, they thought it was subversive. >> why was the regime frightened of art. >> because art is about freedom. >> they're afraid of freedom. >> yes. >> are you an artist or activist? >> i think an artist and an activist is the sme thing.

as artist you always happen to be a activist. >> you have to be political to be a good artist? >> i think every art, if it is relevant, is political. >> that's the purpose of his life. >> evan is a writer for the new yorker who spent years in beijing and chronicled ai weiwei's confrontation with authorities calling him entrepreneur of provocation. >> what's that mean? >> no matter what he's doing he's figuring out a way not to cooperate with the prevailing wisdom or people in charge. this can make a lot of people angry. >> what's wrong with the way things are. >> in china you're constantly told the world is so much better than 30 years ago when chinese people were literally starving and you should be satisfied. and what this artist is saying

absolutely not you should demand more. >> it's not good enough to be rich. >> exactly, you need to be free as well. >> in 2008 ai weiwei's one-man rebellion turned into a war with the chinese government after a massive earthquake shook the province killing almost 90,000 people including several thousand children. many of whom were crushed in poorly built government schools. it was a national trauma. and the authorities tried to put a lid on the public's anger by covering up the number of children who died. >> it was a state secret how many children died in these schools. >> yeah they always use that as some kind of excuse not for telling, not to give you the correct numbers. >> he assembled a team of activists to interview the parents. many of whom had lost their only child.

he called it a citizen's investigation. china had never seen anything like it. >> you were trying to get to the truth. why did that make the chinese government so angry? >> control the information. prevent the truth is most efficient tactics for creating terror in the societies for the rulers. >> he gathered the names of more than 5,000 dead children and published a list on the internet shaming his government and across china people took notice. >> it was a challenge to the government's authority. >> and they couldn't accept it. it was an act of radical transparency. nobody had ever done that before and they didn't immediately know how to respond. they'd never encountered a person like ai weiwei. >> what were they worried he might do? >> inspire people to do and live the way that he did.

>> the chinese authorities responded brutally. ai weiwei says police beat him up and he later had to be hospitalized. doctors discovered bleeding in his brain which he says could have killed him. he documented it all on social media. his followers around the world infuriating the government. and escalating the confrontation. >> he weaponized social media. he figured out a country that controls information carefully that seizing the tools of the information distribution, is a very powerful thing to do. >> what did the chinese government think about that. >> that he was a very dangerous person. >> ai weiwei was groomed to be a d disdent since childhood his father was a poet denounced as a tater and sent to the edge of the desert where he watched his father's humiliation as he was forced to clean public toilets.

>> you were an outsider from the beginning. >> yes i'm a natural outsider, i've always been pushed out. but that also give me a very special angle to look at it in a sense. >> it made you an independent thinker. >> it made me an individual and i always have to make my judgment independently because the main stream will never accept somebody like me. >> ai weiwei got out of china at the first opportunity moving to new york in the early 1980s. he was intoxicated by the city. chronicled everything in pictures and drawing inspiration from american masters like andy warhol and stringing together a living doing odd jobs and street art. >> and you were drawing portraits of people second hand portraits of people and selling them for how much? >> $15. >> some of his work sells for millions. >> you once said once you

experience freedom it stays in your heart. is that true? >> yeah it's true. i think it's true, you taste the most important and you will never forget it, yeah. >> after a decade in the u.s. he moved back to china and set up a studio in beijing breaking new ground and challenging old sensibilities with provocative art like this piece he photographed himself destroying a 2,000-year-old urn, he wants to shatter the communist party's official version of history. >> you smashed a priceless urn. >> it's not priceless. >> for a lot of china he's people it is priceless part of their history. >> for me to smash it is a valuable act.

>> if you buy that, the art world certainly did, look what it did in these urns paying tribute to his idol andy warhol. by 2010 new commissions were rolling in and his work was more ambitious, not all of it was political. he cast giant animal heads in bronze and sent them on tour around the world. he hired 1600 artistsans to hand craft porcelain sunflower seeds then carpeted a floor of a giant atrium in london with a hundred million of them. it captivated the public and helped turn ai weiwei into an art scene superstar. >> you're the darling of the art world. >> i'm darling of art world, i don't really care.

>> you don't care? >> no i don't really care. they can just forget about me. i don't care. >> but they're not forgetting about you. >> well that's their problem they should learn how to forget about me. >> the chinese government wanted everyone to forget about him, blocking his name on the internet in china and making it impossible to search for him. that didn't stop ai weiwei for needling relentlessly he decorated with lanterns and fashioned marbles. he got his own camera man filming those filming him ridiculeding the state in way no one in china ever did. >> in a way people learned, i'm going to wave my head all over

the place. you'll have to deal with it. >> he was making the he chinese government look ridiculous. >> yeah he was mocking it. the chinese government is many things but it's not possessed with an abundance sense of umpiror. >> you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. overnight news be right back. ♪ ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ here's pepto bismol! ah. ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ daughter: uh oh. irreplaceable monkey protection. detergent alone doesn't kill bacteria, but adding new lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria with 0% bleach. lysol. what it takes to protect. hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. saved me huh. i should take a closer look at geico... (dog panting)

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nasa scientists continue to plan for a manned mission to he mars but working to protect the er earth from possibility of catastrophic asteroid strike. dana jacobson has the story. >> since one of the biggest asteroids struck earth nearly 65 million years ago our planet has been unarmed. until now. on the front line, nasa's planetary defense team newest technological advancement, the double asteroid redirection test otherwise known as dart, mission, to knock asteroids off course to earth striking them as a speed nine times faster than a bullet. nasa plans on testing it on 202. it on the moon of asteroid dydimus.

with plans for impact of 2022. >> we're doing a demonstration on the moon of an asteroid because we can change its orbit much more easily and measure the change we make much more easily. >> small meteors hit earth daily breaking up in the upper atmosphere mostly going unnoticed but several have been caught shooting across the sky. the damage they cause isn't just the stuff of fiction. in 1908 an asteroid flattened hundreds of square miles in of forest in siberia. and in 2013 a meteor about 65 feet wide exploded over russia injuring about 1500 people and damaging thousands of buildings. >> there are no threatening asteroid that's we know of but the way that probability works we don't think we're due but it's not the sort of thing that you can really predict like that.

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police across the country are battling the scourge of porch pirates. thieves that rob packages from your front stoop. >> mounted security cameras could catch the criminal but that doesn't always happen that's why police are putting gps trackers inside so they can find the thief and arrest him. >> in pittsburgh, houston, and los angeles, these alleged porch pirates are quick and brazen. in campbell, california, home owner security cameras caught this man approaching his porch before making off with his delivery. >> it's one of those things you don't want to go through. >> that motivated him to work with local police department who now uses his porch to drop off bait packages hoping to allure criminals, they pack a common item with a gps device and keep

it under wraps so criminals don't know what to look for. >> a lot of time thieves are opening the box before they leave to make sure it's something they want. >> so they are getting picky. >> they are getting picky. >> the programs have been success in several cities across the country in southern california arcadia police say more than 100 suspected thieves have taken the bait and after concerns after a high speed chase and swarming a movie theater to make arrest. some say should be regulated by court warrant. >> citizens should be concerned about unfettered access to tracking technologies. >> another concern some departments deliberately putting higher priced items in the bait packages which could result in felony conviction. >> bumping up the value could

raise concerns from the point of fairness and due process. >> there are criticals out there that will say you are trying to trap these thieves into a bigger crime s that what's happening here? >> this is about us identifying a trend that's happening not only in campbell but throughout the country and it's really a way for us to work throughout the community. >> it's a sentiment shared by many home owners. >> i'm all for the program. should feel safe and comfortable in your home and in your neighborhood. >> to avoid thieves you should have packages delivered to your work or neighbor's home. and ring doorbells that could deter thieves all together. >> that's the overnight news for this friday. for some the news continues for others check back for the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast city here in new york city i'm michelle miller.

captioning funded by cbs it's friday, july 21st, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a strong earthquake rocks turkey and greece, leaving at least two people dead and hundreds injured. a fast moving wildfire is blazing its way through central california destroying dozens of homes by air and on the ground. thousands of firefighters are trying to gain control. and, mr. simpson, i do vote to grant parole when eligible, and that will conclude this hearing. >> thank you. >> o.j. simpson is getting his freedom back.