Authors at the q a button at the bottom right of the screen. Kent will ask your questions. Before i opportunity it over to kent and jeffrey i want to remind you but a couple of other Virtual Events were involved in alert this week. This wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Our partners the marcus Jewish Community sir . Atlanta are presenting a free event with coverage kevin quan if his latest novel, sex and vanity, and this friday at 7 00 p. M. Is Bell Wilkerson will discuss her latest best seller with jon mecham. Thank you so much for your purchase tonight. Join us for this event and for your continued support during these extraordinary times. Now ill turn i over to Kent Alexander and jeffrey toobin. Thank you. Jeff, this book was fantastic. Im so looking forward to talking with you but it. Innovate going to get into more of an entry duke of you because i think people know you really well, but had you written this book five years ago, i would have said it was a thriller, paymentturner, a pageturne
Welcome to another one of our exclusive event tonight featuring a Jeffrey Toobin bestselling author of true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump. He will be discussing his book tonight with former u. S. Attorney Kent Alexander. Buster he joined Jeffrey Toobinn and the rank of offers of combustible readers with his book the suspect in olympic park bombing, the fbi, the media and richard tool the man caught in the middle. You are invited to be part of the conversation as well. Please type in your question at the bottom right of your screen and keyboard answer questions after hes finished with his. Before i turn it over i want to remind you about a couple of other events that we are involved in later this week. Wednesday 8 p. M. Hour Community Center of atlanta are presenting an event with kevin kwan with his latest novel and this friday at 7 p. M. , Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss her bestseller with another Pulitzer Prize winner jon meacham presented by the atlan
Great deal of this because it is the first republican senator to say im not sure Mitch Mcconnell is handling it right. Not that the president should be convicted, but maybe we should not be working quite so closely with the white house. Is this significant . Kevin it is. Senator murkowski voted against the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh. The question is whether senator murkowski can bring on other republicans to try to get on board during the rule package that leader mcconnell has to advance in the senate by a simple majority. Rules for the trial. It is not so much whether michalski and others will vote to convict President Trump, that is unlikely. It is more about the rules. Nancy pelosi has not sent over the articles of impeachment because she wants to have people like Mick Mulvaney and john bolton testify in the senate, something Mitch Mcconnell has said is a nonstarter. Right now what you are seeing from senator murkowski is in a centrist state like alaska she is trying to sugge
T captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelly today fired f. B. I. Director james comey previewed the testimony he will give the Senate Intelligence committee tomorrow in its investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether anyone in the Trump Campaign was involved. The comea released comeys Opening Statement today, in which he says the president pressured him to drop the f. B. I. Investigation of mr. Trumps former National Security adviser. Comey says mr. Trump described the f. B. I. s russia investigation as a cloud and asked comey what comey could do to lift it. The testimony, based on comeys notes, also confirms the president s statement that he was not under investigation. Chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes begins our coverage. Reporter comeys sevenpage Opening Statement describes his conversations with the president in detail. Seven days after the inauguration, comey says, the president invited me to dinner. It
His Opening Statement. In his very first meeting they talked about loyalty and whether comey wanted to stay in the job. That relationship between performance and staying in the job kept going throughout. Comey didnt do what the president wanted, was fired. So what he thought was implicit actually came to pass. What does congress do about this . Well, they are where it will end up if it ends up anywhere. The president cant be prosecuted, the law says, what will congress do . What will the republicans do . Theyre four square in support of the president still. Whats the standard . During the campaign, republicans and donald trump said it was outrageous that bill clinton met with the attorney general investigating his wifes server. They thought it was obstruction. If that was obstruction, whats the new standard now . The president s popularity rating isnt very high, and that undercuts his support in congress. It does, although its still pretty high with republicans who will vote in the off