Paris attack; Divided nation - CBS News Brief, Feb. 3, 2017
Paris attack
A man wielding a machete lunged at a French soldier guarding the iconic Louvre art museum in Paris this morning, wounding him slightly before being shot multiple times and taken into police custody. France’s Prime Minister has called it a terrorist attack, seemingly thwarted by the beefed-up security presence in Paris following the deadly attacks of 2015.
Still split
Two weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, the country remains sharply divided along partisan lines. A new CBS News poll finds a large majority of Republicans approves of the job Mr. Trump is doing, and his recent executive order temporarily restricting entry into the U.S. by foreigners and refugees. Democrats disapprove in similar numbers.
Conservative credentials
Republicans are thrilled with Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, with some calling him a “home run” pick for his conservative bona fides. But 27 years ago, President George H.W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominee David Souter was described in the same glowing terms by Republicans, and he turned out to be just the opposite: a reliable liberal vote. Could it happen again?
Dems on Gorsuch
As the showdown over the empty seat on the Supreme Court bench continues, we’re keeping a running tally of whether senators have come out against President Trump’s pick Neil Gorsuch, whether they favor giving him a hearing, or whether they would support a possible filibuster of the nominee rather than allowing a straight up-or-down vote.
Our polling
A new CBS News poll shows Americans are sharply divided about President Trump’s executive order on immigration. It is important to CBS News that our viewers understand how we conduct these surveys, so we asked CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto to take us behind the scenes.
Super Bowl politics
More than 100 million viewers are expected to take in the ads this Sunday during Super Bowl LI, not to mention the brief interruptions for some gridiron action. But this year’s spots could draw extra scrutiny for something not generally associated with football: politics.
Big day off
Pizza Hut President Artie Starrs felt a twinge of guilt last year as he attended the Super Bowl while thousands of his workers toiled away. So the executive instituted a new corporate tradition -- giving away his tickets to the big game in a drawing for some of the company’s best front-line employees.
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