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trump defended his son, saying, "i think many people would have held that meeting." the president also said he only learned of it a couple days ago. the june 2016 meeting was arranged by music promotor robert goldstone on behalf of a russian pop star whose father is a wealthy oligarch with ties to vladimir putin. in video uncovered today by cnn, mr. trump can be seen with all three men in las vegas in 2013. an outside white house adviser described the revelations about trump, jr.'s, meeting as "very bad, a category 5 hurricane." today the president remained out of public view for the third consecutive day and pushed back on twitter against reports he was enraged by television news stories on the investigation. but the revelations keep coming. cbs news has learned that u.s. intelligence picked up electronic intercepts of russian officials discussing presidential candidates, including mr. trump, as far

although a source in 2016 says the conversation pivoted to helping mr. trump's campaign. special counsel robert mueller's investigation, as well as those of two congressional committee, are also looking into whether the trump campaign's digital operation in any way coordinated with russians to target voters with fake news stories. that operation was overseen by the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. california democrat adam schiff on "cbs this morning." >> i'm not saying that that's what took place, but the russians used a whole variety of methed to try to influence not only our elections but elections in europe, and if there was a data an lettic component in this in which there was some level of coordination, that we need the look into. >> mason:>> reporter: the senate judiciary committee will call former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, who attended the russian meeting with trump, jr., to testify. cbs news has

provided some information to congress about that meeting also attended by kushner in recent weeks. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thank you, major. now about that russian lawyer, here's what julianna goldman has found out about her. >> reporter: natalia veselnitskaya says she didn't have any dirt on hillary clinton. the russian government says they don't even know who she is. but like most things kremlin, there's more to that story. veselnitskaya, who speaks no english, represents a wealthy kremlin-connected family in moscow, the katsyvs. they have lobbied hard to overturn u.s. sanctions against russian officials accused of money laundering. the 2012 law enraged russian president vladimir putin so much that he banned americans from adopting russian children. >> she's like the consigliere of a very prominent russian family.

she's not just lawyer, as she's been described. she's a operator. >> reporter: a hedge fundabler bill browder called her a formidable adversary. she said she wouldn't have been in the u.s. lobbying without the kremlin's blessing. >> they don't give out business cards, you're a kremlin lawyer, go to washington and do this. >> reporter: after the meeting last june, veselnitskaya went to washington, organized a screening of a film at the museum, and was in the first row of a congressional hearing on u.s. policy toward russia. last year she also took on former u.s. attorney preet bharara, who had accused denis katsyv of that kremlin-connected family, of money lawbdering. the case was settled after bharara was fired by president trump. veselnitskaya has argued and won more than 300 cases and her clientses include large state-owned and private corporations. >> she's a

for a bunch of crooks back in the russian government. >> reporter: the justice department settled that money laundering case against veselnitskaya's client four months after mr. trump came into office. today house democrats sent a letter asking the attorney general if that kremlin-connected clientd got any special treatment. anthony? >> mason: julianna, thanks. i spoke today with republican congressman trey gowdy of south carolina, chairman of the house oversight committee and a former prosecutor. i asked him what concerns him about donald trump, jr.'s, e-mail. >> potentially there could be four or five different statutes impacted, most of which deal with whether or not you can solicit or receive anything of value from a foreign national, but bob mueller is an expert in criminal law, and i never was. i certainly am not now, so i trust bob mueller to sort all that out. >> reporter: president trump last night praised his son's transparency. are you satisfied with the

>> i think it's always better to self-disclose potentially negative information as opposed to having it revealed by others, but i am not going to stand between a father praising one of his children. i have two of them myself. so i think your viewers are smart enough to judge that for themselves. i would have preferred that we not find this out from "the new york times." >> mason: you talked yesterday about the drip, drip, drip undermining the credibility of this administration. are you in any way losing confidence in this administration? >> i'm in the losing confidence. i think we're missing an increasingly shrinking window of opportunity. we're now in july. we're not talking about infrastructure. we're not talking about tax reform. we're really not even talking about health reform that much. we're talking about comey and obstruction of justice, potential criminality and russia some it's that window of time within which any new administration has a grace period from the voters to do what you ran on.

that we may be missing this window of opportunity legislatively. >> mason: what would you say to the administration at this point? >> you should get everyone in a room, and from the moment you watch either dr. she zhivago toe point you had a shot of liquor with a guy in a furry hat, you need to disclose every contact you have ever had with russia. we're not going to have any more of these disclosures coming out on the front page of the newspaper. go ahead and tell the special counsel every connection you've had. get this behind us before labor day. i think that's possible, but we got to be the ones disclosing. this we can't have it uncovered by an investigative reporter. >> mason: continuingman gowdy, thank you very much for being with us. >> yes, sir, thank you. >> mason: the president said the russia investigation was on his mind when he decided to fire f.b.i. director james comey. today the senate judiciary committee opened hearings on

comey. christopher wray. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point during this process, an i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> reporter: christopher wray told senators today he's been assured he won't face the kind of presidential pressure his predecessor outlined in a series of memos. >> if the president asks you to do something unrawfl or unethical, what do you say? >> first, i would try the talk him out of it. if that failed, i would resign. >> reporter: christopher wray says he met with president trump twice last month. >> i went into both meetings listening very carefully to make sure that i didn't hear something that would make me uncomfortable. >> reporter: wray headed the justice department's criminal division before entering private practice. he was new jersey governor chris christie's personal lawyer during the bridgegate scandal. but he is seen by both s

a straight shooter. >> i did not consider director mueller to be on a witch-hunt. >> reporter: and he didn't shy away today from contradicting the president. >> you don't think director comey has been a nut job, right? >> that's never been my experience. >> reporter: wray did try to avoid the new controversy surrounding donald trump, jr. >> i'm not in a position to speak to it. >> reporter: graham wouldn't have it. >> you're going to be the director of f.b.i. here's what i want you to tell every politician. if you get a call from somebody suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the f.b.i. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state is the kind of thing the f.b.i. would want to know. >> reporter: wray is poised for easy confirmation, but even republicans acknowledge today that tob

is currently strewn with landmines, as utah's orrin hatch put it, anthony, wray's going to have an interesting life over next couple years, but he's not sure it's going to be a very nice life. >> mason: sure. is nancy cordes on capitol hill, thanks, nancy. a number of police officers in austin, texas, have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past week. the department suspects the gas was leaking inside their s.u.v.s. transportation correspondent kris van cleve has reported on this problem and says it may not be limited to police vehicles. >> i hit the road twice, and i suddenly get sick. >> reporter: newly released dash cam a video from march appears to show sergeant zachary lahood sickened by what his department says is carbon monoxide seeping into his police cruiser. >> i remember swerving to what i thought was a bus, i was going to hit a bus or maybe it was a garbage truck. i think it was a bus. >> reporter: lahood, a

13-year police veteran remains on medical leave and is now suing ford. >> i'm lucky to be alive, i believe, that and i'm lucky i didn't kill somebody else and their family. >> reporter: in just the last week, six more austin officers have been treated for carbon monoxide. the department has now taken 37 ford explorers out of service. assistant police chief troy gay. >> we believe it is something that we do need to take immediate action. >> reporter: in february, cbs news identified more than 450 complaints involving 2011 to 2017 model year ford explorers, not just police units. federal regulators acknowledge that number has grown and are investigating. ford has known about it since at least 2012. a company representative later acknowledged in a deposition, "it appears to be a design issue that may allow exhaust, which contains carbon monoxide, to seep in likely through unsealed seems in the rear of the s.u.v." this video shows the newport beach, california, police cruiser bribe mcdowell was driving slaming into a tree.

half a dozen officers in california, texas, and louisiana suing ford over allegations of carbon monoxide exposure. >> mason: kris van cleve reporting from washington. ford says it's investigated and not found any carbon monoxide issues with the design of its police interceptors, noting departments sometimes modify the cruisers. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," a person of interest is rearrested as the mystery of four missing pennsylvania men deepens.

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searching for the missing four young men. >> we are going to find something for sure. i have no doubt of that, no doubt of that. >> reporter: buck's county district attorney matthew weintraub believes foul play may have played a role. >> we have not yet recovered any human remains that i can report, but we have recovered several important pieces of evidence. >> reporter: this home belongs to the family of 20-year-old cosmo dinardo, who investigators say is a person of interest. dinardo was arrested today. it is the second time this week. prosecutors sade far doe tried to sell a car owned by 21-year-old tom meo, one of the missing men. authorities say meo, a diabetic, left his insulin kit in the vehicle. >> we allege that cosmo dinardo attempted to sell meo's vehicle for $500 to a friend whose identity we know but are protecting in the court documents for potential safety. >> reporter: officials have not said if all of the men knew

dinardo listed jimi patrick as a friend on facebook. patrick was first to go missing last wednesday. two days later tom meo, mark stir jis, and dean finocchiaro also vanished. sturgis and meo worked together. nicholas salgaro is friends with both. he never heard him mention dinardo's name. walter marcinowski is a friend of jimi patrick. >> we're scared. we want to know something. >> reporter: dinardo was arraigned in court this afternoon and is being held at the buck's county jail tonight. anthony, his bond has been set at $5 million cash. >> mason: demarco morgan, thank you, demarco. coming up, a trillion ton iceberg breaks off antarctica. why scientists are not alarmed.

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icebergs has broken away from a tremendous ice sheet in antarctica. alarming has the sounds, scientists are urging everyone to chill. here's debora patta. >> reporter: it's been hanging on by a thread for months. but finally a giant chunk of ice the size of delaware has snapped off. at more than 2,200 square miles, the massive fracture certainly looks dramatic, but scientists are not pressing the panic button just yet. if the fracturing of this ice berg cause for alarm? >> at the moment, i would categorically say no. >> reporter: glaciologist david vaughan says, no but it could be a problem long-term. >> the question is whether this is the beginning of a retreat of this ice shelf that may eventually be linked to climate change. >> reporter: an ice shelf is a permanent floating s o

attached to land. an iceberg will snap off every few decades, but the ice shelf usually grows again as it gains new ice from land. the warmer temperatures have seen some ice shelves retreat to such a point that they are unable to regenerate. scientists will now be able to determine if this is one such case. >> reporter: we will take sediment samples beneath the ice shelf and it will tell us how often this type of event has concerned in the past. >> reporter: of more immediate concern, without a shelf to hold it back, the glacial ice will flow into sea and contribute the driving sea levels up more quickly than predicted for this century. debora patta, cbs news, london. >> mason: up next, the artist who broke country music's color barrier. ♪ kiss an angel good morning

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>> mason: we end tonight with the pride of country music, charley pride. nearly 70 years after he bought his first guitar from sears and roebuck, the trailblazing artist was honored last night with a special grammy. ♪ let me take you back home. with a song i used to do ♪ >> reporter: he's been performing for more than 50 years, but charley pride doesn't mind picking up another accolade. >> i just received a lifetime achievement award last nights. they said, "we're going the mail it to you." i said, "no, i'm taking it with me." >> reporter: how did it feel? >> wonderful. >> reporter: the singer has charted

but growing up in sledge, mississippi, one of 11 children of a sharecropping family, pride dreamed of playing baseball. >> when i saw jackie robinson go to the major league, i said, boy, i was picking cotton beside my dad, i said, here's my way out of these cotton fields. >> reporter: he spent a decade in the negro and minor leagues until 1966 when he was signed to rca records, but the label wasn't sure how to sell its first black country artist. ♪ so just between you and me >> my trouble was getting booked by promotors. >> reporter: how did you solve that problem? >> well, here's what i did... >> reporter: pride would walk on stage with a disarming opening line. >> i said, ladies and gentlemen, i realize it's a little unique me coming out here in a country music show wearing this perm unanimous tan. >> reporter: that one little statement did it? >> that's the way it's been for 50 something years. if i can get in front of them, i can win the w

>> charley pride! >> reporter: in 1967 he made his debut at the grand old opry and is one of only three black artists to be made a member. ♪ all i have to offer you is me ♪ biggest single i ever had right here. >> reporter: in 1971, this million-selling smash. ♪ you've got to kiss an angel good morning ♪ made him one of country's biggest crossover stars. at 83, he has a new album out and still plays some 40 dates a year. >> my fans think i'm singing better now than i ever did, so the lord has blessed me really well. >> mason: only elvis pressley sold more records on the rca label. the remarkable charley pride. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. good night.

are we too consumed with russia? what do you think? >> were going to start off talking about the weather. dangerously hot. tomorrow is even higher. >> it's pretty toasty. we are used to the yellow weather alert on monday, now we have a heat advisory in effect tomorrow