Politics week in review
CBSN political contributor Michael Graham discusses the week's top political headlines, including the tax plan, spending bill and President Trump's calls for bipartisanship heading into 2018.
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CBSN political contributor Michael Graham discusses the week's top political headlines, including the tax plan, spending bill and President Trump's calls for bipartisanship heading into 2018.
Now that President Trump has signed the massive tax overhaul bill, he has plans to keep the momentum going. Next on his agenda: Overhauling our nation's "failing infrastructure." But Democrats say they'll fight him on that. Chip Reid reports.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says senior administration officials deny a New York Times report that claims the president said Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS” and that immigrants from Nigeria won’t want to return to their “huts.”
Man charged in Christmas terror plot; Baking away the blues
The Secret Service held its first ever live drill on White House grounds early Friday morning. In an exclusive interview with CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett, Secret Service Director Randolph Alles talked about the importance of training for real-time scenarios.
Molly Hooper, CBSN political contributor and congressional reporter for The Hill, discusses the recently signed tax overhaul plan, the spending bill to avert a government shutdown, and the impact they could have on the 2018 midterm elections.
The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to condemn President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports.
Vice President Mike Pence, on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, said that the Trump administration is "fully cooperating" with the special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He made the remarks during an interview with Brennan.
Dan Senor, Republican strategist and former adviser to House Speaker Paul Ryan, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the Republicans' legislative victory and how this instance differed from the failed GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare.
President Trump says tax reform is a Christmas gift for America. He brought congressional Republicans to the White House to celebrate passing the GOP measure. It will cut taxes for most tax papers next year, but corporations and the wealthy will get the biggest benefits. Major Garrett reports.
Republicans change course on the spending bill that would keep the government open; the tax bill victory lap
Mr. Trump was joined by GOP leaders at the White House Wednesday to celebrate the passage of a tax bill that overhauls the U.S. tax system. Watch their remarks here.
President Trump spoke at the White House Wednesday afternoon after the Republican-controlled Congress passed a sweeping tax overhaul bill. The Senate passed the bill in the early hours of Wednesday and the House voted to pass the legislation Wednesday afternoon.
The Trump administration is officially blaming North Korea for the massive WannaCry cyberattack, which affected hospitals, businesses and banks worldwide earlier this year. CBS News White House and senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan goes through the latest with CBSN.
Trump administration officials say the U.S. and key allies have concluded that North Korea was behind the WannaCry cyberattack that crippled computer systems around the world last spring. They gave a briefing on the case at the White House Tuesday. See their full remarks here.
National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster joins "CBS This Morning" from the White House to discuss nuclear threats from North Korea, as well as President Trump's latest national security strategy where he calls Russia and China "revisionist powers" that must be confronted.
The White House blames North Korea for a worldwide "WannaCry" cyberattack earlier this year that cost billions of dollars. This comes as North Korea rejects Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's offer of talks. Margaret Brennan reports.
President Trump outlines National Security Strategy and avoids mentioning climate change as a threat.
President Trump said he would not fire special counsel Robert Mueller, even as a lawyer for Mr. Trump's transition team says Mueller wrongly obtained their emails. CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett takes a look at the issues for CBSN.
In his national security address today, President Trump of a "new era of competition" with China and Russia. If this marks a return to a Cold War mindset, it's worth noting the U.S. is falling behind in one of the coldest places on earth. Carter Evans reports on U.S.-Russia tensions in the Arctic.
Few obstacles stand in the way for a Republican victory on taxes. Chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes has the details.
head of anticipated votes on the GOP tax bill in the House and Senate next week, President Trump said Saturday that "everybody's going to benefit." He spoke on the White House South Lawn before departing for Camp David for the weekend.
President Trump fielded a few questions from reporters as he was leaving for the FBI Academy Friday. He said he doesn't want to talk about pardons "yet" for Michael Flynn and he also said he thought Roy Moore should concede in the Alabama senate race. Watch his remarks.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders brought in pecan pies for the White House press corps, putting an end to what Twitter has deemed "#PieGate" and her running joke with reporter April Ryan of the American Urban Radio Network.
Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist well-known for his coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, joins "CBS This Morning" from Washington to discuss the latest political news.