CBS Evening News - 2017-11-17

Name: CBS Evening News - 2017-11-17
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[0:04] Is the White House a glass house?

[0:09] The president blasts Al Franken's sexual

[0:11] misconduct, but what about his own past?

[0:14] >> Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing

[0:16] and the president hasn't.

[0:19] >> Jesse Jackson reveals the health battle

[0:21] he's facing.

[0:23] And Steve Hartman

[0:25] >> hit paydirt, literally.

[0:27] >> With a history-making show and tell.

[0:30] >> I found three pencils and eraser stuck

[0:33] to Play-Doh.

[0:34] >> Wow.

[0:35] >> No, I seriously did.

[0:40] >> This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:44] Good evening. I'm Anthony Mason.

[0:46] President Trump has tiptoed around

[0:48] Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore,

[0:50] but today he dove tweet first into the

[0:53] Al Franken sexual assault case,

[0:55] attacking the Democratic senator from

[0:57] Minnesota on Twitter. That had reporters

[1:00] asking whether sexual misconduct

[1:02] allegations against Mr. Trump should be

[1:05] investigated as well. His spokeswoman

[1:07] responded, "Senator Franken has admitted

[1:10] wrongdoing. The president hasn't."

[1:12] That's where we begin tonight with Chief

[1:14] White House correspondent Major Garrett.

[1:18] >> Mr. President, do you believe Roy

[1:20] Moore's accusers?

[1:21] >> President Trump has repeatedly declined

[1:23] to answer questions about Alabama Senate

[1:26] candidate Roy Moore, but on Twitter he

[1:28] was full of outrage over allegations of

[1:30] sexual harassment by Democratic Senator

[1:33] Al Franken. "The Al Franken Stein

[1:36] picture is really bad," the president

[1:38] wrote, referring to this 2006

[1:40] photograph. It shows Franken appearing

[1:42] to grope Leeann Tweeden on a military

[1:45] airplane during a USO tour. Franken has

[1:48] apologized, but the president wondered,

[1:51] "Where do h