No match for a sea of samaritans. This is this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The russia investigation the president calls fake has just become a very real problem for his son. Today donald trump, jr. , released an exchange of emails in which he accepts what is purported to be an offer of help from the russian government in his Fathers Campaign against Hillary Clinton. A russian lawyer was to deliver dirt on clinton in june of last year at that trump tower meeting we first learned about last weekend. It involved trump, jr. , brotherinlaw Jared Kushner, and Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. We have extensive coverage tonight, including Major Garrett on team trumps changing stories, nancy cordes with the political fallout, and Julianna Goldman on the legal implications. But we begin with jeff pegues, who is following the email trail. Reporter the first email on june 3rd was blunt. Music publicist Robert Goldstone wrote donald trump, jr. , that a russian off
Effort the president took in iraq to the level of doctrine. We will have to see how history treats this issue over time. I think it was a reaction to the circumstances that arose after 9 11, possibly some legacy issues from having bush 41 deal with iraq as well. Examples where mr. Obama felt very comfortable carrying on the policies that his predecessor had bequeathed him. Thank you. [applause] prof. Eisenberg i am hoping that they will finally find a microphone i can use. As a professor, i want to welcome director goss and ambassador negroponte for coming here today, and expressing willingness to come here and talk about the issues. I do not think it has been openly acknowledged here, but the reality is that those members very few members of the administration have been willing to come here and talk about these issues. I really appreciate your presence here. Some of you may have forgotten dean firestones introduction. And case there is any confusion, i want to make it clear that i am
Denver, colorado. We spoke with professors, authors and graduate students about their research. This interview is about 20 minutes. We are with professor Vernon Burton of Clemson University and peyton mccrary, George Washington University Law School Lecturer and former department of justices story. You are fresh off your panel on historians as Expert Witnesses. When our historians used as Expert Witnesses, professor burton . Vernon in our case, we have done mainly Voting Rights work. Goes back a number of years but historians were used quite a bit now in a lot of different kinds of litigation. Explaining circumstances. Looking at intent. Environmentalfrom concerns to medical issues. Tobacco. Company. Suits. Think, they me, i could almost be used anywhere to help put things into perspective for what is the Voting Rights, sort of law canon we think of, explaining the totality of circumstances of why a law is passed. Host you spent 26 years with the Justice Department. When did you become
Historians about their research. We are with professor Vernon Burton of Clemson University and Peyton Mccrary, George Washington University Law School Lecturer and former department of justice historian. You are fresh off your panel on historians as Expert Witnesses. When our historians used as Expert Witnesses, professor burton . Vernon in our case, we have done mainly Voting Rights work. Goes back a number of years but historians were used quite a bit now in a lot of different kinds of litigation. Explaining circumstances. Looking at intent. So everything from Environmental Concerns to medical issues. Tobacco. Company. Suits. So, its for me, i think, they could almost be used anywhere to help put things into perspective for what is the Voting Rights, sort of law canon we think of, explaining the totality of circumstances of why a law is passed. Host you spent 26 years with the Justice Department. When did you become being used as an Expert Witness . Peyton i first got involved as an
Maudlin. Really kind of depressing, right . Has the feeling of the war. Early on, there was people who are wanting to fight. Now people are sick of it. This has been building up over time. Charles ok. That is a good point. They have been fighting for over three years and it is wearing on people in there is cash people. There is some much death. So much loss and destruction and people are getting tired of it. And wariness is gaining momentum in the summer and fall of 1864. And we begin to see during the election year, the campaigning starts in the summer and we begin to see the democrats step up their attacks on the lincoln administration. We see them come back, and the other says, boldly returning from canada. What are they going to exploit . What are they going to focus on in the election . I think they are going to focus on sort of the emancipation aspect of it. They are trying to get the more conservative republicans on their side in terms of saying, hey, we do not want to this eman