Hero of World War Two and of the civil rights movement. As david martin will report in our cover story. Aircraft carriers are usually named for american president s, a tradition that is about to be overturned. What was your personal reaction . I was overwhelmed. Its a reminder too that heroism is in no way limited by race, by gender, by background, by rank or rating. The enlisted sailor who will receive an honor for very few americans. Ahead on sunday morning. Rocca our sunday profile this morning is of laura dern. The Hollywood Star whose current success has inspired her fans to coin a brand new word, as well hear from tracy smith. I will not not be rich. Big little lies actress laura dern is in so many great roles these days. Theyre calling it, the dernaissance. What do you think of the term the dernaissance . I mean, it sounds fantastic. Laura dern on a roll later on sunday morning. Rocca reaching out is a story from lee cowan, all about a promising approach to preventing troubled p
Global tugofwar. Critical tests. A spacecraft explodes minutes after launch. Why Todays Mission was a success. And a world war ii veteran finally gets the recognition he earned at 103 years old. Gods been good. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im omar villafranca. The countdown has begun to the Historic Senate trial of President Trump. It begins tomorrow morning. House managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. Senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. Ben tracy starts us off from the white house. Well be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. Reporter senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding in just weeks whether or not President Trump remains in office. Republicans dont have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but they are confident the president will be acquit
A tantrum after 16yearold Greta Thunberg was named person of the year. We all knew he wanted to be person of the year, we all know it bothered him. But he showed uncharacteristic resfrap restraint. He was on Good Behavior. Sadly, that Good Behavior lasted just under 24 hours, because this morning, at 7 22 a. M. , he wrote, so ridiculous, greta must work on her anger management problem then go to a good oldfashioned movie with a friend. Chill, greta, chill, says the sweaty old man whos mad at a magazine because they didnt put him on the cover of it. And the fact that Greta Thunberg is a teenager, im old enough to remember a time when everyone at the white house had a fullblown hissy fit because a witness at trumps impeachment hearing the gaul ll to say the word bar. This kid is very good. Right after trump tweeted, she changed her twitter bio to a teenager working on her anger management problem, currently chilling and watching a movie with a friend. [cheers and applause] trump hasnt be
Aaron is a native of michigan not far from lansing, did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington, d. C. And moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. Book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book, published by harvard, titled calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. Just again published in 2018. Aaron, lsu is a great place for him. Aaron is a self proclaimed foody so has lots of places to select from in new orleans but today well talk about his book, which has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formerly the museum of the confederacy, now the American Civil War museum in richmond. Lets welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] prof. Sheehandean good morning. Thank you all. I will start by saying happy fathers day to everyone in the audience. Its a weird thing to spend sunday morning talking about violence, but
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common