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>> HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSION' ADHERENCE TO HIS RECUSAL, IN PARTICULAR, WITH REGARD TO HIS INVOLVEMENT IN YOUR FIRING ?>> IF, THE PRESIDENT SAID, I WAS FIRED BECAUSE OF THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION, WHY WAS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL INVOLVED IN THAT CHAIN? I DON'T KNOW .>> Reporter: THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS ADAMANT THAT SESSIONS RECOMMENDED COMEY BE FIRED FOR EFFECTIVENESS OF HIS LEADERSHIP, NOT THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. SCOTT, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS SCHEDULED TO TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL NEXT WEEK .>> Pelley: JEFF PEGUES, THANKS. COMEY ACKNOWLEDGED IN HIS TESTIMONY THAT HE LEAKED HIS NOTES TO THE PRESS ABOUT HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. TRUMP. WELL, TODAY, MR. TRUMP TWEETED, " WOW, COMEY IS A LEAKER ." JOHN DICKERSON IS OUR CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT AND ANCHOR OF " FACE THE NATION ." JOHN, DID COMEY DO ANYTHING WRONG ?>> WELL, IN WASHINGTON THE WORD " LEAK" CAN COVER EVERYTHING FROM PASSING ON HIGHLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION-- WHICH IS ILLEGAL-- TO PASSING ON POLITICALLY INCONVENIENT INFORMATION, WHICH ISN'T. WHAT THE PRESIDENT AND HIS LAWYER ARE TRYING TO DO IS UNDERMINE COMEY'S STATURE BY HOPING THAT WHEN THEY SAY THE WORD " LEAKER" PEOPLE THINK OF THAT DISTASTEFUL CLASS OF PEOPLE LIKE EDWARD SNOWDEN OR CHELSEA MANNING. BUT COMEY DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE DONE ANYTHING ILLEGAL. STILL, IN WASHINGTON, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU HAD PRIVATELY WITH THE PRESIDENT, BUT DIRECTOR COMEY SAID THE DOWN SIDE OF NOT TALKING ABOUT THOSE CONVERSATIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN BREAKING THAT RULE .>> Pelley: NOW, THE PRESIDENT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE FIRED COMEY TO TAKE SOME OF THE PRESSURE OFF THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION, BUT THE PRESIDENT'S PROBLEMS ARE ONLY BEING COMPOUNDED .>> WELL, THIS WEEK, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, HE STARTED, THE PRESIDENT DID, WITH PICKING A FIGHT WITH THE LONDON MAYOR AFTER THE TERROR ATTACK. HE UNDERMINED HIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH WAS PUSHING FOR HIS TRAVEL BAN. THE PRESIDENT HAS CONTRADICTED HIS FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE TEAM ON AMERICAN POLICY TOWARDS THE COUNTRY OF QATAR. AND IN HIS INTERACTIONS WITH JAMES COMEY, WHICH WERE PART OF THE CONVERSATION THIS WEEK, WE SEE A NUMBER OF INSTANCES IN WHICH HE'S BREAKING THE NORMAL RULES. THE PRESIDENCY IS A HARD JOB TO IMPROVISE IN, AND OTHER PEOPLE CAN GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD. AND ALL THESE AUDIBLES THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS CALLED, THEY'VE BEEN AGAINST HIS OWN INTEREST. THE THINGS HE WANTS TO DO AND THE THINGS HE CAMPAIGNED ON, WHAT HAPPENS WITH THESE AUDIBLES IS THEY CATCH HIS STAFF CONSTANTLY IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY HAVE TO PLAY CATCH- UP .>> Pelley: JOHN, THANKS. AND WE'LL BE WATCHING AS YOUR GUESTS ON " FACE THE NATION" THIS SUNDAY INCLUDE SENATORS LYNDSEY GRAHAM, CHUCK SCHUMER, AND JAMES LANKFORD. IN ANOTHER IMPORTANT STORY TONIGHT, THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN IS HANGING BY A THREAD. THE PRIME MINISTER CALLED AN EARLY ELECTION, EXPECTING AN EASY VICTORY, BUT SHE BADLY MISREAD THE MOOD OF HER PEOPLE. MARK PHILLIPS IS IN LONDON .>> Reporter: HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THE HAPPY ONE. JEREMY CORBYN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CRUSHED. SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THE GLUM ONE. THERESA MAY, THE OPINION POLLS SAID, WOULD CRUISE TO VICTORY. BUT THEN, THE PEOPLE VOTED .>> I HAVE JUST BEEN TO SEE HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN .>> Reporter: IT WAS A CONTRITE THERESA MAY WHO HAD GONE TO THE PALACE TO TELL THE QUEEN SHE COULD ONLY NOW GOVERN WITH THE HELP OF A SMALL FRINGE PARTY. THE MAJORITY MAY THOUGHT SHE COULD MAKE BIGGER VANISHED. WHAT WENT WRONG? SHE WENT WRONG, STARTING WITH HER CAMPAIGN MANTRA .>> STRONG AND STABLE. STRONG AND STABLE. STRONG AND STABLE LEADERSHIP .>> Reporter: BUT STRONG AND STABLE LOOKED WEAK AND WOBBLY AFTER A SERIES OF POLICY FLIP- FLOPS AND A REFUSAL TO FACE OPPONENTS IN TV DEBATES. INSTEAD, JEREMY CORBYN, AN UNRECONSTRUCTED TAX- AND- SPEND SOCIALIST, A KIND OF BRITISH BERNIE SANDERS, RAN THE MORE DISCIPLINED CAMPAIGN. YES, HE FINISHED SECOND, BUT IT WAS A CLOSE ENOUGH SECOND TO DENY MAY THE MANDATE SHE WANTED .>> THE MANDATE SHE'S GOT IS LOST CONSERVATIVE SEATS, LOST VOTES, LOST SUPPORT, AND LOST CONFIDENCE .>> Reporter: FROM THE OUTSIDE IN IT LOOKS LIKE A BIT OF A MESS .>> IT'S A DOG'S BREAKFAST, IT REALLY IS .>> Reporter: PADDY ASHDOWN USED TO LEAD ONE OF THE PARTIES HERE .>> POOR HER MAJESTY, SHE MUST THINK WHEN SHE SEES ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTER COME THROUGH THE DOOR, SHE THINKS TO HERSELF, LIKE LONDON BUSES, ANOTHER ONE WILL BE ALONG VERY SOON .>> Reporter: THERESA MAY WANTED A STRONG MANDATE FOR THE UPCOMING AND POSSIBLY NASTY DIVORCE NEGOTIATIONS AS BRITAIN PREPARES TO LEAVE THE E. U. INSTEAD, HER POLITICAL SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON A NORTHERN IRISH POLITICAL PARTY WITH AN AGENDA OF ITS OWN. SCOTT, THE TAIL IS NOW WAGGING THE DOG OF BRITISH POLITICS .>> Pelley: MARK PHILLIPS BY THE RIVER THAMES. MARK, THANK YOU. WE SAW ANOTHER EXAMPLE TODAY OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SENDING MIXED MESSAGES IN FOREIGN POLICY. TODAY, SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON CALLED ON ARAB NATIONS TO EASE THEIR BLOCKADE OF QATAR, THE TINY GULF NATION IS ACCUSED BY ITS NEIGHBORS OF FINANCING TERRORISM, BUT IT ALSO HOSTS AMERICA'S LARGEST AIRBASE IN THE REGION WITH ABOUT 10, 000 U. S. TROOPS. BUT AN HOUR AFTER TILLERSON TRIED TO EASE THE TENSIONS, THE PRESIDENT SIDED WITH THE HARD LINERS, ACCUSING QATAR OF FUNDING TERRORISM AT " A VERY HIGH LEVEL ." COMING UP NEXT ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS, HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN OF AN UPTICK IN TICKS. AND LATER STEVE HARTMAN MEETS A YOUNG MAN WHO BLEEDS RED, WHITE, AND BLUE .>> Pelley: THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL IS WARNING OF A PARTICULARLY SEVERE SEASON FOR TICK- BORNE DISEASES. WE ASKED ANNA WERNER TO LOOK INTO THIS .>> IT SWELLED UP. IT GOT REALLY NASTY AND I LUCKILY DID GET THE CLASSIC BULL'S EYE RASH AROUND IT .>> Reporter: LINDSEY MEARS WAS BITTEN BY A TICK AND EVENTUALLY DIAGNOSED WITH LYME DISEASE. IT'S THE MOST COMMON TICK- BORNE DISEASE IN THE COUNTRY, AND IT'S ON THE RISE .>> WE'VE SEEN THE NUMBER OF CASES TRIPLE IN THE UNITED STATES .>> Reporter: DR. CHRISTOPHER BRADEN IS AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST WITH THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL .>> WELL, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT WE-- YOU KNOW, IS ESSENTIALLY AN EPIDEMIC OF LYME DISEASE THAT HAS OCCURRED OVER PAST TWO DECADES .>> Reporter: THE C. D. C. SAYS SINCE 2001 THAT EPIDEMIC HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 95 % OF LYME DISEASE CASES REPORTED IN 2015 CAME FROM THESE 14 STATES, BUT THE TICKS THAT CARRY THIS DISEASE ARE SPREADING. AND THERE ARE OTHER TICK- BORNE DISEASE WATCH OUT FOR THIS SUMMER, LIKE THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF THIS TWO- YEAR- OLD GIRL IN INDIANAPOLIS OVER THE WEEKEND .>> SO EVEN IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF AREAS WHERE LYME DISEASE IS PREVALENT, THERE MAY BE THESE OTHER TYPES OF INFECTIONS THAT COULD OCCUR, SO WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, IT'S IMPORTANT TO PREVENT TICK BITES AND BE EVALUATED IF YOU THINK THAT THERE'S BEEN AN INFECTION .>> Reporter: LYME DISEASE CAN BE DIFFICULT TO DIAGNOSE. SYMPTOMS CAN RESEMBLE OTHER ILLNESSES AND CAN INCLUDE FEVER, ACHES, AND PAINS, FATIGUE, AND A RASH. THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT A TICK- BORNE ILLNESS, AND, SCOTT, WE'VE LISTED THEM ON THE WEBSITE AT cbsnews. com .>> Pelley: ANNA WERNER, THANKS VERY MUCH. COMING UP, TESTIMONY BILL COSBY GAVE A DECADE AGO WAS USED AGAINST HIM TODAY IN COURT .>> Pelley: TODAY, THE PROSECUTION RESTED ITS CASE IN BILL COSBY'S SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL. JERICKA DUNCAN IS AT THE COURTHOUSE .>> Reporter: AS BILL COSBY ARRIVED IN COURT, PROSECUTORS FOR A SECOND DAY USED THE 79- YEAR- OLD'S OWN WORDS. THE PROSECUTION CITED DEPOSITIONS THAT COSBY GAVE IN 2005 AND 2006. HE WAS ASKED SEVERAL TIMES IF HE EVER GAVE QUAALUDES, A HYPNOTIC DRUG TO MORE THAN ONE WOMAN. HE ANSWERED YES. COSBY ADMITTED TO GETTING AT LEAST SEVEN PRESCRIPTIONS FOR QUAALUDES IN THE 70s AND AT ONE POINT SAID, " THERE WAS A TIME WHEN QUAALUDES WAS THE DRUG YOUNG PEOPLE PARTIED WITH. I WANTED TO HAVE THEM JUST IN CASE ." COSBY SAID HE GAVE CONSTAND, THE WOMAN HE'S CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING, A PILL AND A HALF OF BENADRYL TO RELAX BUT SAYS HE DIDN'T TELL HER WHAT IT WAS. COSBY SAYS HE FONDLED CONSTAND AFTER SHE TOOK THE PILLS. SHE DIDN'T TELL HIM TO STOP. EARLIER THIS WEEK, CONSTAND TESTIFIED COSBY GAVE HER THREE BLUE PILLS AND WITHIN A HALF HOUR OF TAKING THEM SHE SAID SHE HAD BLURRED VISION, HER BODY WENT LIMP, AND SHE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE. DURING A PHONE CALL WITH CONSTAND, COSBY SAID, " I APOLOGIZED TWICE BECAUSE I'M THINKING THIS IS A DIRTY OLD MAN WITH A YOUNG GIRL ." THE DEFENSE WILL START CALLING ITS WITNESSES ON MONDAY. SCOTT, A SPOKESMAN FOR BILL COSBY SAYS THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THE COMEDIAN MAY TESTIFY AFTER ALL .>> Pelley: JERICKA DUNCAN, THANK YOU. TODAY, COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND GLENN CAMPBELL RELEASED WHAT'S BILLED AS HIS FAREWELL ALBUM TITLED " ADIOS ."�� AND THE MEMORIES �� >> Reporter: CAMPBELL, NOW 81, IS IN THE LATE STAGES OF ALZHEIMER'S. HE NO LONGER PLAYS THE GUITAR, BUT HIS GOLDEN TENOR VOICE IS STILL AS STURDY AS ARKANSAS OAK ." ON THE ROAD" WITH STEVE HARTMAN IS NEXT. FOR ONE YOUNG MAN, EVERY DAY IS FLAG DAY .>> Pelley: FINALLY TONIGHT, THERE'S NO MINIMUM AGE FOR BECOMING A PATRIOT. HERE'S STEVE HARTMAN " ON THE ROAD .">> Reporter: YOUNG BOYS AREN'TEASILY APPALLED. BUT 11- YEAR- OLD PRESTON SHARP SURE KNOWS THE FEELING .>> YEAH, I WAS REALLY SURPRISED .>> Reporter: AND DISAPPOINTED .>> YEAH, REALLY DISAPPOINTED, YEAH .>> Reporter: HAD YOU SEEN HIM LIKE THAT BEFORE ?>> NOT THIS ANGRY AND PASSIONATE .>> Reporter: PRESTON'S MOM, APRIL, SAYS WHAT UPSET HER SON SO WAS VISITING HIS GRANDPA'S GRAVE IN REDDING, CALIFORNIA, AND REALIZING NOT EVERY VETERAN IN THE CEMETERY HAD A FLAG. APRIL SAYS EVEN HOURS LATER, HE WAS STILL HARPING ON IT .>> I WAS LIKE, " SON, IF YOU'RE GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR LET IT GO ." AND HE'S LIKE, " WELL, I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MOM .">> Reporter: NEXT THING SHE KNEW, PRESTON WAS TAKING ODD JOBS AND SOLICITING DONATIONS TO BUY FLAGS AND FLOWERS FOR EVERY VETERAN IN HIS GRANDPA'S CEMETERY. AND WHEN THAT CEMETERY WAS COVERED, HE MOVED ON TO ANOTHER. AND THEN ANOTHER. AND HERE WE ARE, TWO YEARS AND 23, 000 GRAVES LATER, AND HE DOES THIS EVERY WEEK, RAIN OR SHINE, ESPECIALLY RAIN. WHY ?>> LIKE, THEY WERE OUT THERE IN THE RAIN DOING THEIR JOB PROTECTING US .>> Reporter: PRESTON SAYS COMING OUT HERE IN THE RAIN OR IN THIS CASE, 100- DEGREE HEAT, IS THE LEAST HE CAN DO .>> THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE, MICHAEL .>> Reporter: HIS DEVOTION REALLY IS ENORMOUS .>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, SAMUEL .>> Reporter: AND CONTAGIOUS .>> THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT TODAY .>> Reporter: NOW WHEN WORD GETS OUT THAT PRESTON WILL BE AT A CEMETERY, A LOT OF FOLKS FEEL COMPELLED TO JOIN IN .>> IT'S JUST AMAZING .>> Reporter: PEOPLE LIKE VIETNAM VETERAN FRED LOVELAND .>> WHAT HE'S DOING BRINGS THEM OUT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT A YOUNG MAN IN THIS COUNTRY IS DOING WHAT HE DOES .>> Reporter: IT IS A MOVEMENT OF YOUNG AND OLD .>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, LOUIS .>> Reporter: OF THOSE WHO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY, AND OF THOSE WHO ARE SO GRATEFUL THEY DID .>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, ALAN .>> Reporter: ALL LEAD BY THIS PIED PIPER OF PATRIOTISM WHO SAW AN INJUSTICE AND DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. NEXT WEDNESDAY IS FLAG DAY, BUT FOR PRESTON SHARP, IT'S JUST ANOTHER ONE OF 365 CHANCES TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT .>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE NORMAN .>> Reporter: STEVE HARTMAN, " ON THE ROAD ," IN REDDING, CALIFORNIA .>> Pelley: AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, PRESTON. THAT'S THE CBS EVENING NEWS TONIGHT. FOR ALL OF US AT CBS NEWS ALL AROUND THE WORLD, I'M SCOTT PELLEY. AND I'LL SEE YOU SUNDAY ON " 60 MINUTES ." GOOD NIGHT.
