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enough react, that we might call for say complete recount. >> helen purcell, the elec stop the hackers is to keep the voting machines offline. >> even on our touch screen machines, you have a tape of everything that happens on that machine. that can be verified later. >> u.s. officials accuse the russians of using similar tactics in other countries including ukraine during its 2014 presidential election. scott, while the russians deny
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>> jeff pegues, jeff, thank you. cbs "overnight news" will be
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these men are kurdish fighters, who have joined with the iraqi army and local militiamen to push isis out of mosul. a combined force thought to be more than 20,000 strong. these kurdish fighters are trying to move in that direction and retake the main road to mosul. but isis has lit fires in villages there and there. to try to shield themselves from air strikes. it didn't work.
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isis today and the extremists lost more territory and more fighters. but the battle so far is only on the outskirts of mosul, a handful of farming villages, long emptied of civilians, now an apocalyptic landscape. isis fought back with suicide bombers. one car laden with explosives drove close to where we were standing before it was blown up by an anti-tank missile. >> isis doesn't fight as well it used to. and their morale is down, colonel genergadi told us. that's why they're using more suicide bombers. but a desperate enemy is a dangerous one. and the battle for mosul is just beginning. the u.s. military says there are fewer than 5,000 isis fighters left in mosul. they're preventing a million civilians from leaving. using them as human shields. meanwhile, scott, the roughly 6,000 american troops here are acting in what the u.s. government insists is an
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>> and the fall of mosul not expected for weeks. holly williams reporting from iraq. holly, thank you. today, russia said it will suspend bombing of syrian city of aleppo for eight hours thursday. as a humanitarian gesture. the city of 2 million is a ruin, five years after rebels roads rose against the syrian president. today the european union said russia's bombardment may constitute a war crime. palmer found what each side is willing to do to keep on killing. >> reporter: as day begins in aleppo, so does the battle. syrian soldiers and opposition fighters shoot at each other across a front line that runs right through the city center. soldiers offered to show us where rebels have manufactured one of their signature weapons. so this is -- an ordinary
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sawed in half. it's designed so that explosives would fit in the top part. perhaps shrapnel in the bottom. then reassembled with these make shift fins, which would help to guide it, like a -- very primitive kind of rocket. >> the rockets were launched and aimed sort of through an ordinary piece of steel pipe. the syrian army has home made arms too.li imprecise barrel bombs. as the for precision weapons, there aren't enough well trained soldiers to use them accurately. and so, the battle for aleppo has largely stalled. here on the city's southern edge it has taken the army three months to advance 800 yards to those white buildings. and everywhere on this
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i have no food, no bread, i have nothing. not even a safe place to wait out this grinding war. the fight for control of aleppo, scott, is less a pitched battle and more a ruthless siege which is slowly choking the life out of half of that great city. >> siege of more than five years now. elizabeth palmer reporting for coming up next, a republican party office is fire bombed.
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omar villafranca has the latest. >> reporter: the fire ball charred interior walls, melted political signs and burned a couch down to the springs before going out on its own. no one was in the building at the time. a business next door was spray painted with a swastika and a threat. nazi republicans leave town or else. robin hayes is chairman of the north carolina republican party. >> is this >> not at all. not in any way, shape, form. unprecedented. uncalled for. inexcusable. >> reporter: the incident comes during a tense period in the campaign. and republican offices across the tar heel state are taking extra security precautions. orange county is reliably blue. registered democrats outnumber republicans nearly 3 to 1. both presidential candidates weighed in. hillary clinton condemned the attack calling it horrific and unacceptable.
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animals representing hillary clinton and dems in north carolina just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. north carolina's republican governor, pat mccrory. >> got to make sure we take this extremely seriously. i don't want any retaliation from the other side. the worst thing we could do is -- have this expand into more violence. which is a direct assault on the democratic process. investigators are still looking for clues and have not made any arrests. and scott, in a rare showing of bipartisanship, democrats helped raise $13,000 to rebuild the headquarters. >> thank you very much. we're back in just a moment.
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served as vice chairman of the joint chiefs admitted he lied to fbi agents investigating leaks of classified information to two journalists. david sanger of "the new york times" and daniel klaidman a at the time a correspondent for "newsweek." sanger revealed the so-called stuxnet cyberattacks conducted against iran's nuclear program. u.s. and israeli intelligence secretly hacked into the computers which ran the centrifuges iran used to enrich uranium causing them to spin out cartwright admitted to providing information classified top secret to sanger and klaidman and then lying to fbi agents. in a statement, he said, it was wrong for me to mislead the fbi his attorney said cartwright was just trying to talk the reporters out of publishing sensitive secrets they already had. the crime carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. cartwright's attorney said the
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scott. >> david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you. folks in oregon and washington state are cleaning up from a weekend storm. thousand lost power. it was a remnant of a pacific typhoon forecast to be much worse. but weakened on the coast. up next, a high school football
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peaks.org. today the head of the international association of chiefs of police apologize ford past mistreatment of people of color by police officers. chief terrence cunningham of wellesley, massachusetts called on police and communities to work toward trus kaepernick is protesting with his refusal to stand for the national anthem. amid the controversy, some high schools are following kaepernick's playbook. and here is carter evans. >> reporter: after years of losses, the garfield bulldogs are on a roll. winning every single game so far this season. in part because they're playing
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for us to do this, i feel look a big change will come. >> reporter: when 49ers quarterback, colin kaepernick chose to not stand for the national anthem, running back, jason wynn was not impressed. >> my first initial thought was why is he doing this and disrespecting america. look over the time, i started to learn about it more. >> reporter: daily team talks turned into action. snow the entire bulldogs team is taking a stand by taking a knee. the team's tight end. >> i just want to seep justice for all people. and like, for people to, to for like the police brutality to stop. >> institutionalized racism. >> they have support from the seattle school district and respect from their head coach, joey thomas. >> these kids are running the show. >> absolutely. i believe in what they're doing. i believe in the mission. >> the team has met with the seattle police department to talk about racial inequality. and they have published a list of concerns on line, including, academic inequality in their own school district.
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the football field doesn't have lights or bleachers. >> if you go up north they will have an engineering program. when you come down here we don't have that. >> why do you think that is? >> where you are located. >> not everyone agrees. the team has been the target of hate messages on social media. >> most of the people who don't caucasian, to be honest. for them they don't really experience like what my other friends on my football team experience. >> it's tough to talk openly about racial inequality. >> end of the day. teenagers want to be heard. they want to feel look they have a voice. >> reporter: and some times all it is takes is a silent gesture to start the conversation. carter evans, cbs news, seattle. that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news. and be sure not to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. the opening shots fired in the long-awaited battle for mosul. u.s. special forces soldiers are directing air strikes as iraqi soldiers and kurdish fighters close the noose around iraq's second large c mosul has been under the control of the islamic state for two years now, and the battle, could spell the end of terror group in iraq. holly williams is on the front line. >> these kurdish fighters are trying to retake the main road into mosul which is in that direction over there. just after dawn this morning, we were with them as they broke through the front line, and then in a column of tanks and armored vehicles moved into this area
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isis now for over two years. the kurds have light arms and artillery, we have seen isis respond this morning with a suicide car bomb that moved through the area and then eventually was blown up. over the last few days, pro-government iraqi forces have moved in position around the outside of mosul they include the iraqi army, kurdish fighters, and militiamen. the u.s. coalition is also involved in this fight. and there are around 6,000 u.s. service members currently here in iraq. over the last few days we have seen video emerging from inside mosul of what appeared to be -- u.s. coalition air strikes. u.s. coalition air strikes inside the city. it is thought there are between 3,000 and 5,000 isis fighters inside mosul and that they have
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themselves. for isis, mosul is really the jewel in the crown of its so-called islamic state. and nobody here is expecting this fight to be quick or easy. holly williams, cbs news, just east of mosul. >> across the border in syria, russia announced an eight-hour humanitarian pause in the assault on neighborhoods in aleppo. the truce said to take effect thursday will allow people to leave if they want. and clear the way for deliveries of food and medicine. the u.n. on the other hand says it need more than eight hours to deliver aid. elizabeth palmer reports from the besieged city. >> reporter: one missile has become a trademark of the opposition fighters in aleppo. it's deadly and home made. in a neighborhood recently recaptured from the rebels by
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took us into the basement of a ruined building. >> this was a factory. everywhere there were piles of parts to build a simple bomb. cooking gas canisters sawed in half were packed with explosives and mounted on crude tailfins. the result isn't pretty, but it is lethal. it is not filled with explosives though, right? the rockets were launched and aimed sort of, through an ordinary piece of steel pipe. the syrian army too has impr now infamous barrel bombs. but put crude weapons in the hand of poorly trained and overstretched fighting forces on both side of this grinding war and here is what you get. devastation on an epic scale. and stalled front lines. here in southern aleppo it has
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months to advance 800 yard to the white buildings over there. and all around, there is misery for the civilians who are trapped in a war they didn't ask for. and now have no power to end. and the fact that no promise of a cease-fire came out of the talks between the u.s. and russia this weekend is a further blow to people who have lost almost everything. >> tomorrow is the third and final presidential debate of the campaign. it is the la c clinton on stage together before heading to the polls. trump continues to grab headlines. whether it is his attitudes and actions toward women, or his charges that the entire election is rigged against him. getting less attention are daily release of hacked clinton e-mails. one revelation include chief of staff cheryl mills. while at state, mills was instrumental in helping a south korean garment maker open a
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the company then became a donor to the clinton foundation. and the chairman invested money in a company mills started after she left the state department. julianna goldman has more. >> reporter: the thousand of hacked e-mails reveal how some closest to hillary clinton worried about the fallout of her use of private e-mail servers while secretary of state. in august 2015, five months after the story, a former adviser wrote to john podesta saying clinton's inability to d communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret, now i fear becoming a character problem. more so than honesty. >> i would think that a speech so great that you got paid so much money for it you would look to share it with the american people. i think she should release the transcript. >> reporter: during the primary, senator bernie sanders railed against clinton for not releasing her paid closed door
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in leaked transcripts of remarks, clinton delivered to goldman sachs employees she had great relations with wall street as senator, suggesting dodd frank reform bill was at least partially created for political reasons. in another speech, clinton said, in order to be a successful political negotiator you need both a public and private position. the e-mails show how her campaign grapp controversial keystone pipeline. >> don't think it is in the best interest to combat climate change. >> two weeks before opposing the keystone pipeline in 2015, clinton had harsh word for environmentalists and said activists should get a life while in a meeting with the building trade union. >> wikileaks just came out with lots of really unbelievable things. >> reporter: the trump campaign seized on the wikileaks dump trying to deflect from sexual assault allegations.
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would probably be talking about the clinton e-mails more. but that doesn't mean that they're effect on voters would be bigger. >> reporter: ucla political science professor says with the now daily release of new e-mails unlikely to influence election results. >> i think everything we are going to learn have learned or might learn tomorrow, from these e-mails, fall into the category of -- what people already clinton. >> the apparent e-mails highlight the number of people surrounding the clinton's vying for influence and also infighting including a scathing criticism of sydney blumenthol from john podesta. tim kaine said we can't assume all e-mails are accurate and the latest indication that russia is trying to destabilize the election. >> cbs news will have live
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donald trump's campaign could have a lasting impact on his businesses. the recent survey by travel weekly found 61% of travel agents have not been recommending trump branded hotels and resorts. as much since the billionaire began his run for president. cbs news travel editor, peter greenburg ut with the fallout from the presidential race. >> the building behind me the newest property in the trump portfolio, trump international hotel, right on pennsylvania avenue. in the historic post office. the one property in the trump business that may be vulnerable. >> we are building on
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post office. >> reporter: donald trump made it clear from day one of his presidential bid he would mix business and politics. >> just opening up on pennsylvania right next to the white house. so if i don't get there one way, i am going to got to pennsylvania avenue another. >> reporter: his new hotel in washington, d.c. just part of trump's travel portfolio include several u.s. hotels, 17 gulf clubs. winery. and hotel management and licensing business that exports the trump name to kpotic locations like panama and hawaii. >> the hotel's managing director. >> enough media attention. over the last, the last 12 months. so he is fantastic for me. >> when mexico sends it people. >> some of trump's comments throughout his campaign have sent shock waves through the hospitality industry. >> they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists.
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offerings from all brochures and web sites. >> one thing is for sure, the trump brand used to be an asset and now a liability. >> celebrity chefs pulled their restaurants from the d.c. hotel. >> just start kissing them. like a magnet. when you are a star they let you do it. >> editor-in-chief of "travel weekly" says the leaked videotape of trump making lewd comments about women might be a tipping point for agents who book hotels. >> travel agents are overwhelmingly women. travel decisions are made overwhelmingly by women. we surveyed our readership recently. and they said that 50% of their clients are proactively saying don't put me in a trump hotel. >> trump paints a different picture.
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reaction to the chefs pulling out of his hotel. he was asked about the impact the presidential bid has the had on his business. >> i don't think it has had much. one example where it has been very positive, in florida, mar-a-lago, the manager said it is the best year we ever had at mar-a-lago. what do you attribute this to? >> the campaign. >> forbes editor, says revenues at trump golf courses were all up in the last year. t has been mixed. >> some of his partners in the middleeast, licensing deals with, you can imagine are not happy with some of his comments. on the flip side we tacked to some partners in places like the philippines who say, there is more notoriety in, we can bring in more people. they're very excited about it. >> all of this, woodwork, molding. >> reporter: the stakes are high at the hotel in washington, d.c. the trump family and partners
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post office. >> this is a very special suite. >> into a 263-room luxury hotel. trump organization has $200 million lease for the building with the u.s. government. it runs for 60 years. of all the rumors, corporations or travel companies that are booking away from you guys. have you seen that at all? >> no, the numbers have been what i have ever seen in the trump hotel. it is going back to business. >> what you are telling me in the hotel business, business trumps politic thousands. >> business trumps politics. >> or, maybe not. industry insiders tell me that trump won the bid from the government because he substantially overpaid for the deal. and competitors like hilton and marriott dropped out. in fact, marriott told cbs that they actually crunched the numbers and determined based on the trump deal they couldn't figuree out how anybody could make a profit on this. cbs news did reach out to the
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we received none. one final piece of irony here, sure they didn't plan it. right next to the trump hotel on pennsylvania avenue, headquarters of the internal revenue service. >> nearly two weeks after hurricane matthew battered haiti killing 1,000 people and destroying thousand more homes and businesses, the nation is still a wreck. united nations aid convoys now travel under armed guard after several trucks were hijacked. and two warehouses were looted. the storm washed out roads and bridges and destroyed power and communications systems. there is little food or drinkable water. the people in some areas are getting desperate. vladamir duthier takes us there. >> we spent the last week in haiti covering aftermath of hurricane matthew. almost seven years ago i was here. less than 24 hours after the nation was rocked by an earthquake in 2010. i have been back several times since. always because of a tragedy. this time was no different. the capital port-au-prince was spared. towns on the island southern coast, jeremy were leveled. when we arrived in jeremy it
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homes were wiped out. and so many were killed. all the roofs of in the country side are made of tin. no way tin is going to sustain in the face of 145 mile an hour wind. they have been sleeping outdoors. >> this woman told me they have nothing left. >> translator: they don't have anything. they don't have water. they don't have food. jeff jenti showed us what was left of his home. >> this is the bedroom. >> celese elasae has three children. she wonders if they will survive the aftermath. >> bread fruit. all they have to eat right now. everybody is giving me their names. i think they feel by giving me their names. we won't forget them. >> the next day we took a helicopter to port-au-pima. from the air looked like it was
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absolutely vulnerable. they don't have water. they don't have hey house. they don't have clothes. they can't find food to eat. they have problems with everything. now the big fear is cholera. the last outbreak killed 10,000. jeff daniel aliguere with doctors without borders. >> treated 100 people. so far not one person has died. almost seven years ago i was here. this is where tens of thousand of quake victims were unceremoniously buried in mass graves. on this sacred, hallowed ground, there is an overturned port-a-potties, breaks my heart to steep what we are seeing here. everybody should be ashamed. as we were leaving, we met some kids sitting on a sun-baked rocky soil. he wants few be a journalist.
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he wants few be a doctor. engineer. they're full of hope. i would look to share in their hope, but i have been back here too many times. vladamir duthier, cbs news, port-au-prince, haiti. extraordinary starts here. new k-y intense. a stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. ugh, it's only lunchtime and my cold medicines' wearing off. i'm dragging. yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. or, take mucinex. one pill fights congestion for 12 hours. no thank you very much, she's gonna stick with the short-term stuff. 12 hours? guess i won't be seeing you for a while. is that a bisque? i just lost my appetite. why take medicines that only last 4 hours,
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already number one on itunes. anthony mason has their story. ? ? >> reporter: kings of leon caught fire behind their hit "sex on fire" in 2008. a family band. three brothers, caleb, nathan on drums, jared on base and their cousin matthew on lead guitar. where did your love of music first come from? >> our dad was a traveling minister. church music was a huge part of mine and caleb's lives, we were the oldest. >> reporter: nathan and caleb moved to nashville to become songwriters were signed to a reporting deal in 2002. they wanted to name themselves for their grandfather. leon, the label had a different
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>> they wanted us to be called the fallwell brothers. >> reporter: you put your foot down, no way? >> no we are going to be kings of leon. they said that's the worst band name ever. you are sabotaging your career. >> we dropped it. >> reporter: the label wanted them to work with professional musicians. instead they brought in then 15-year-old jared, and 17-year-old matthew. they were look do they play? we just bought jared a bass today. he's learning. they said what about matthew? i said well he played a song over the phone from mississippi. sounded pretty good. >> reporter: the kings of leon grew up quickly. >> jared and matt became men like on the road. >> nathan still tries to order for us at dinner and stuff like
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did that change the balance of the band? >> we started pretty early on. things would come to a vote. i still don't like that. >> reporter: you don't like votes? >> no. >> reporter: the band broke first in britain where their third album "because of the times" climbed to number one and kids started mimicking their look. >> i went into a bar, one night, and -- someone came up to me what are you a kings of leon wannabe? i was like, yeah. yes, i am. >> yeah, it was crazy. we would leave london, having played sou like -- getting recognized at the airport. and then we would get home and our mom would be there to pick us up. ? someone like you ? >> reporter: their fourth album would break them worldwide. only by the night sold more than 8 million copies. success brought greater pressure and some fans accused them of selling out. >> even though you try not to
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you start to hear it. and it starts to kind of -- weigh on you a little bit. in 2011, caleb notoriously walked off stage in the middle of a concert and didn't come back. the kings canceled the rest of their u.s. tour. mentally where were you? >> ready for a break. >> exhausted. >> unemployed. >> frazzled. >> we hadn't done that, i don't think we would be talking about our seventh album right now, you know. ? the walls come down ? >> reporter: is it easier to get through that when you guys a >> family. it is a double-edged sword. like, you fight a lot ears. but you get over it a lot easier too. ? when the walls come down ? ? when the walls come down ? >> reporter: and the music press is already calling this the kings' comeback year. >> i think we might have lost sight of why we wanted to be in the band in the first place.
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lawmakers in new jersey are considering a measure to end the annual black bear hunt after the apparent killing of a beloved neighborhood bear. pedal was famous for walking around town on his hind legs like a bear in the cartoon. he hasn't been seen since the bow and arrow hunt ended this weekend. witnesses say pe w fish and wildlife workers said a dead bear that looked like pedals was brought into a weigh in station. >> reporter: pedals was a frequent visitor to the neighborhood for years but quickly gained a devoted following well beyond new jersey.
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crushed. >> looks like he is missing the front paw. >> reporter: for years pedals the bear became some of what a celebrity in northern new jersey. >> a bipedal bear. >> reporter: walking on two feet apparently because of injuries to both front paws. he would be seen roaming the new jersey suburbs. over the weekend fans were disturbed to hear about the bear's reported death on a facebook page devoted to the animal. >> to the immediate area, he was look a mascot, you know, they loved him. >> reporter: lisa rose rublack first broke the news on social media. it? >> we made a lot of friend. hunting buddies of ours. friends and one one is line with the bear. and he told us. told us that we saw him. so it was enough, we believe him. >> reporter: wildlife officials have not confirmed pedal's death. announcement on the fan page, that was taken down after the comment section became combative. was snuff -- was enough to draw national attention.
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lion, pedals' apparent killing has been met with outrage.ime i makes me sick to my stomach. it is horrible. >> reporter: why? >> because an innocent bear, minding his business. searching for food. >> reporter: more than 500 bears were killed during new jersey's recent black bear hunt. a tool the department of environmental protection says is necessary in controlling the state's bear population. ti doesn't care if he is alive or dead or thinks that it would be funny to kill an icon.not. >> fans of pedals raised more than $20,000 to build a special enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary. wildlife officials tell us they will release photos of an injured bear that was killed early this week. but without any dna samples it may be impossible to know that the bear was in fact pedals.
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? it's tuesday, october 18th, 2016. this is "cbs morning news." >> we're enterprise that has turned our government into a vehicle for the clints' personal profit at your expense. but it gets worse. >> donald trump is pouncing on newly released fbi records. he said it proves quid pro quo when hillary clinton was secretary of state. and while he's stumping, clinton is preparing for the third and final presidential debate. and a retired u.s. general

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