Company courts Trump allies for pardons
A company prosecutors likened to a sex cult is courting allies of President Trump for clemency. CBS News investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky has the details.
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A company prosecutors likened to a sex cult is courting allies of President Trump for clemency. CBS News investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky has the details.
President Trump could face legal troubles for his comments prior to the attack at the U.S. Capitol that led to five deaths. Some Republicans are defending him, citing a Supreme Court case that involved a KKK leader. Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins joined CBSN to discuss the potential legal fallout for the president.
President Trump is spending Christmas at Mar-a-Lago in Florida with his family, but he can't escape the turmoil of Washington, where an impeachment trial could begin in the new year. CBS News national correspondent Chip Reid joined CBSN from West Palm Beach with the latest.
With the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump set to begin in the coming days, Republicans remain divided on the subject of calling for witnesses. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to introduce a resolution outlining the details of the trial process on Tuesday. USA Today's D.C. bureau chief Susan Page joins CBSN's Omar Villafranco with a look at the latest developments.
President Trump's legal team concluded opening arguments in the Senate trial yesterday, stressing that president did not commit an impeachable offense. They also addressed reports of new allegations from former national security adviser John Bolton's upcoming book. CBS News political contributor and Republican strategist Terry Sullivan joins CBSN with more on the president's legal strategy.
Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump's legal team, argued the president cannot be impeached if for a quid pro quo, even to help him win reelection, if he thought he was acting in the national interest. "That cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment," Dershowitz said. Watch this portion of the proceedings.
Senators head back to Capitol Hill for the final day of the question-and-answer portion of the impeachment trial amid uncertainty about whether there's enough support for a vote to call witnesses. CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes joins CBSN AM with the latest.
"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."
"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment."
Prince Andrew announced recently that he was withdrawing from royal duties amid renewed attention to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The trial could end as early as this week, or stretch into next month, depending on a range of factors.
Here's a look at where things stand as the impeachment probe finally comes to trial in the Senate
"President Trump has done nothing wrong and is confident that this team will defend him, the voters, and our democracy from this baseless, illegitimate impeachment," the White House said.
New Mexico's commissioner of public lands has turned over 400 pages of Epstein's property records that may contain names of his alleged co-conspirators
Thousands of pages of court documents stem from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims financier Jeffrey Epstein kept her as a teen sex slave
Epstein, charged with child sex trafficking, has surrounded himself with powerful people but not much is known about his life or fortune
Epstein faces federal child sex trafficking charges in New York City, where prosecutors say a raid of his home turned up hundreds of lewd photos
In his first TV interview since Epstein was indicted Monday on child sex trafficking charges, Dershowitz denies the 2008 deal was a bargain
James Patterson lived in the same Palm Beach neighborhood as Epstein, writing on his alleged crimes
The case made national headlines and a book about it by Alan Dershowitz became a bestseller and a movie
Maria Farmer is the latest of more than 30 women who have accused the disgraced financier of sexual abuse
The files on the case, which was settled in 2017, contain more than 1,000 documents, lawyers said during oral arguments, according to the Miami Herald
Epstein is accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls who were lured to his home
Does it seem as if insults and name-calling have taken the place of civil dialogue? It may not just be manners that seem threatened these days; it may be our very notion of democracy
Will a jury get to decide -- what did real estate heir Robert Durst mean when he said he "killed them all"?