paula reid reports. president trump continued his attacks on the media sunday morning, tweeting a video of himself wrestling cnn, wwe style. with the hash tag. fraudnewscnn. >> but i'm president and they're not. >> but last night at an event honoring veterans, the president was focused on highlighting his accomplishments. >> i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans. and on our borders, where we are doing record, record stoppage. >> but his promise to repeal and replace obamacare is proving difficult to fulfill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has not been able to get enough support for the bill and constituents are giving members an earful back home. >> reporter: on friday the president tweeted support for a plan to repeal obamacare and then replace it at a later date. >> i don't think we are getting anywhere with the bill we have. we are at an impasse. >> reporter: senator rand paul one of five republican whose refu

reena. >> paula reid. a south carolina line employee is out of a job after an inmate escaped and took authorities on a 1200 mile chase. jim causey was serving a life sentence before making a high tech prison break on independence day. to tony dokoupil has the story. >> fugitive jimmy causey turned following three long days after he broke out of a maximum security prison in south carolina. >> we believe his cell phone was used to facile state and give this inmate the resources to escape. we also potentially believe that a drone was used to help him get the contra band in to escape. >> brian stirling the direct of the department of corrections believe the drone had wire cutters that he could cut through four fences. he left a dummy in his cells to confuse authorities. >> it's been a long couple days at the department. >> at about 3:00 am on friday as causey and text authorities moved in including deputy marshall brandon filla. >> he left the light on and helped us out. >> he found causey request a shn, $47,0

elaine. >> paula reid, thanks. following a presidential tweet storm it's always good to get the insights of our chief washington correspondent and "face the nation" host john dickerson. i spoke with him earlier. john, on twitter sunday the president offered his own readout of the putin meeting writing i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian med eling in our election, he vemently denighted it. it is time to move forward working constructively with russia. what are the implications of that as a statement of the administration position. >> it is a bit of attention with itself. on the one hand the president wants toker cloo up any miss impression anybody may have about how tough i was on the russians which is to say he wants to make sure people believe the actions he took in that comeet meeting with commencement with the offense if that is the case, then it would seem at odds with that that he wants to move on because this is an issue so serious that he had to press the russian president twice. the presi

>> mason: paula reid with the breaking news. thanks, paula. donald trump,, jr., has lord up. a new york defense attorney confirmed today he's been hired to represent the president's son in the investigations of russian meddling in the u.s. election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. this follows trump, jr.'s, admission that during the campaign he talked with a russian attorney at a meeting also attended by brother-in-law jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort. jeff pegues begins our coverage. >> reporter: the meeting occurred last year on june 9th at trump tower. russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya spoke with donald trump, jr., jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, and campaign chairman paul manafort. trump, jr., said that she was offering potentially damaging information about democratic nominee hillary clinton. just days later, the democratic national committee would reveal its e-mails had been stolen by russian hackers. in a statement released yesterday, the president's son said it soon became clear that veselnitskaya had no meaningful

cbs news justice reporter paula reid is following the developing story. paula? r reporter: u.s. officials say this american soldier swore allegiance to isis and offered to provide the terror group with military documents and military training. the investigation started more than a year ago and included the e b.i. and the u.s. army. o w, kang is active duty and stationed in hawaii. he was arrested by an f.b.i. tat team saturday night. his service record indicates that he was deployed to afghanistan in 2013 and iraq in 2011. he was highly decorated. according to officials, he was acting alone, but it is not loown whether or not he made contact with the terror group. officials say the public was never at risk. now, he is expected to appear in federal court this afternoon in hawaii. so far the army has had no comment. anthony? >> mason: paula reid with the breaking news. thanks, paula. donald trump, jr., has lawyered re. a new york defense attorney confirmed today he's been hired to represent the president's son in the investigations of russian meddling in the u.s. election and whet

>> ninan: paula reid, thanks. a south carolina prison employee is out of a job today, after an utmate escaped and took authorities on a 1,200 mile chase. jim causey was serving a life mentence at the lieber correctional institute, before mking a high-tech prison break on independence day. tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: convicted- ildnapper-turned-fugitive jimmy causey checked into this motel 6 eyar austin, texas, last thursday, falling asleep three long days after he broke out of a maximum security prison in south carolina. >> we believe his cell phone was used to facilitate and give this .nmate the resources to escape. otenlso potentially believe that a drone was used to help him get the contraband in to escape. >> reporter: brian stirling, the director of the south carolina tepartment of corrections, believes the drone delivered wire cutters which causey used to slice through four fences on the evening of july 4. he left a dummy in his cell to confuse authorities. >> it's been a long couple days at th

elaine. >>> paula reid.>>> earlier today we spoke with chief washington correspondent, and moderator of face the nation, john dickerson. a lot of the conversation in washington this week was centered around the president's rhetoric and specifically his tweets. just this morning he tweeted out a video edited to show him wrestling and punching a cnn logo. i wonder do you think john, there is an actual political consequence as a result of this kind of social media behavior? >> well, i think the political consequence is it rallies his supporters and that he is basically from the inauguration, onward been quite consistent with his campaign message basically he is going to run a presidencien a different way than, than we have seen from other presidents which is basically to stick with the affections of those who supported him, keep those affections tight & roiled up, no better way than to do that than in competition with the media. because a lot of his supporters see the competition not based on whatever the merit

paula reid is traveling with the president. paula, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president's change in direction on his health care policy came via twitter over the mocking of his two tv hosts. all of this happened at the same time the white house was hosting the president of south korea. >> the year of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed. many years it has failed. and, frankly, that patience is over. >> reporter: standing with south korean president moon jae-in, president trump said the u.s. is working closely with south korea. the president declined to elaborate friday on his tweet that if republican senators are working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date. >> it will be repealed and replaced. it will be essentially simultaneously. >> reporter: but it suggests a stark departure to the president who in january insisted that obamacare be repeal and replaced at the same time. >> it will be various seg managements, you understand, but it will most likely be the same week or same day. could be the same ho

paula reid, thanks.ered by the u.s., russia and jordan took effect today in southwest syria. several cease fires have been declared over the course of syria's six-year civil war. none have lasted long. across the border today, iraq's prime minister declared victory over isis in mosul. holly williams has been covering the nine month battle to free the city. >> reporter: the jubilant in mosul, they've driven the extremists out. but it has come at a price. after nine months of fighting, the city lies in ruins. as iraqi forces cleared the last neighborhoods under the extremist control. trapped civilians had to run the gauntlet of isis snipers and suicide bombers. we were there when the mosul offensive began in october. >> these kurdish fighters are trying to move in that direction and retake the main road to mosul. >> when iraqi forced cleared the extremists from christian towns on the city's outskirts. >> that sound like quite a lot of resistance. >> and then, forged into the heart of mosul. but as isis fac

here's justice reporter paula reid. >> late friday "the washington post" reported that u.s. intelligence intercepts show attorney general jeff sessions discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to moscow, with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak during the 2016 race. the attorney general's spokeswoman says sessions stands by his previous testimony that he never spoke with russian officials about interfering with the campaign or elections. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general. >> reporter: despite public pronouncements about how much he loves his job, attorney general jeff sessions had a rough week. >> are you concerned? reporter: in an interview with "the new york times" this week, president trump blasted sessions for his decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> well, sessions should have never recused himself. if he knew he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job. i would have picked somebody else. >> god bless you. reporter: sessions was the first senator to endorse trump dur

paula reid has details. >> reporter: the president began his holiday weekend with a flight to his golfort in bedminster, new jersey, and it didn't take long for the tweets to begin. he resumed his attacks on the media and his feud with cable host joe scarborough and mika brezinski. "crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people, but their low-rated show has bad bosses. too bad." the president criticized states failing to turn over voter information, asking, "what are they trying to hide?" >> when you look at the people who are registered-- dead, illegal, in two states, in some cases maybe three states, we have a lot to look into. >> reporter: the president set up a commission to find these illegal votes. last week it requested that every state provide voter role data, including addresses, dates of birth, political party, even ster history dating back to p06. iae backlash was swift. vice president mike pence's home state of indiana refused, saying the law doesn't permit the secretary of state to provide the personal information requested. and utah's republican lieuten

paula reid reports. >> oh my god, what's going to happen? >> reporter: president trump continued his attacks on the media sunday morning, tweeting a video of himself wrestling cnn, wwe-style with the hashtag fraud news cnn. >> but i'm president, and they're not. >> reporter: but last night, at an event honoring veterans, the president was focused on highlighting his accomplishments. >> i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans and on our borders where we are doing record, record stoppage. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: but his promise to repeal and replace obamacare is proving difficult to fulfill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has not been able to get enough support for the bill, and constituents are giving members an earful back home. >> to step on their necks by kicking them off their health care at this point, that's cruel, sir. >> reporter: so, on friday, the president tweeted support for a plan to repeal obamacare, and then replace it at a l

paula reid begins our coverage in norfolk, virginia. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's been a tumultuous week for the white house team. the president trump criticized his attorney general and he's lost two. leaving the press secretary scrambling for answers. >> the president has absolutely nothing to do with any of the allegations that are being made. i think he's maintained that. >> reporter: the newly appointed press secretary said the president is ready to put the special counsel investigation aside but just a few hoyer later the weathercast post rorted that u.s. intelligence intercept shows that jeff sessions discuss campaign matters including policy issues important to moscow with the russian ambassador in the 2016 race. the spokeswoman said he stands by his previous testimony that he never spoke with russian officials about interfering with the. ka pain or the election. earlier this week the president criticized sessions for recusing himself from the russian investigation. >> he should have told me before he took the job and i would have chosen somebody else.

cbs news justice reporter paula reid is following the developing story. paula? >> u.s. this american soldier swore allegiance to isis and offered to provide military documents and military training. the investigation started more than ape year ago and included the fbi and army. he is stationed in hawaii, arrested by an fib swat team. deployed to afghanistan in 2013, iraq in 2011 and highly decorated. according to officials he was acting alen, not known whether or not he made contact with the terror group. officials say the public was never at risk. he is expected in federal court this afternoon in hawaii, so far >> paula read. thank you. >>> fire crews are stretched thin in the west. more than 60 large fires are burning tonight. 14 in california. where more than 8,000 people have fled their homes. in santa barbara county, at least 20 homes have burned. mireya villarreal its there. >> reporter: the wittier fire was burning on both side of the highway. time-lapse video shows how quickly the flames moved through the dry, overgrown brush. the fire ripped through here in a m

paula reid is in our washington bureau with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. repealing obamacare has been a signature issue for the last seven years, but returns to work on monday congress's plan is on life support. the gop plan to replace obamacare lies with just a handful of republicans p one of them is kansas senator jerry moran. >> we have no choice but to work together to find a solution. >> reporter: he's one of few senators holding town halls this week. he said the kurnltsd senate bill fails to recognize the health care. >> i am a member of the minority, and that minority is kansas, that minority is rural. >> reporter: moran is one of the 14 gop senators who have concerns about the current bill. snorts can only afford to lose two republican votes. it would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026. senator grassley urged them not to woirt until something happens. >> nothing happens until 2020 and then there's a gradual phase-in over the next five years president trump wanted to repeal obamacare and work on the agreement at later date if an agreemen