Sen. Tim Scott on politics, race and Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Fifty-two-year-old South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is the only African-American elected to the U.S. Senate from the Deep South in more than a century, and the only African-American Senator who is a Republican. Martha Teichner visits the North Charleston neighborhood where
A very special lobbyist – CBS News Watch CBS News Thirty-one-year-old Kayla McKeon may be Washington’s most unlikely powerbroker. As a lobbyist – the only registered lobbyist with Down Syndrome – Kayla roams the Capitol, advocating for the National Down Syndrome Society. Steve Hartman reports. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent personnel cuts in the Pentagon office responsible for weapons testing has halted all work and cleared the way for potential layoffs at the Pentagon-funded think tank that supports it, the Institute for Defense Analyses, or IDA. In a letter obtained by CBS News, the institute’s president, retired Air
Remembering 1968: Battle at the Chicago Democratic convention – CBS News Watch CBS News NPR’s Scott Simon looks back at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where violence on the streets reflected the division within the party during their nominating convention for president. Simon talks with Bill Daley, son of Chicago Mayor Richard
John McCain memorial: Remembering a political friend, foe and father – CBS News Watch CBS News At the National Cathedral in Washington Saturday, mourners from across the political spectrum gathered to pay tribute to Arizona Senator John McCain, who died August 25 at age 81. Speaking at his memorial were his daughter, Meghan McCain, and
John Kerry: America needs to move in “a better direction” – CBS News Watch CBS News At 74 the Vietnam veteran who became an anti-war protester, senator and secretary of state continues, as he says, to “invest in citizenship.” “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan interviews John Kerry, who has penned a new memoir, “Every
Preview: John Kerry on a possible 2020 White House run – CBS News Watch CBS News In this preview of an interview to air on “Sunday Morning” September 2, former senator and Secretary of State John Kerry talks with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan about the current political climate, what Democrats might need to do to