Trump Team Resumes Defense As Bolton Bombshell Spurs Calls For Witnesses
Updated at 8:57 p.m. ET As President Trump's legal team presses the case for acquittal, they have repeatedly made two main points: the charges against Trump do not meet the constitution's criteria for impeachment. And if the president is impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, it will set a "dangerous" precedent. "You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo," said one of Trump's lawyers, Alan Dershowitz,...
6 Decades Later, This Atomic Vet Is Finishing His Music Education
Hank Bolden is an 83-year-old undergraduate at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. He is also an atomic vet — one of thousands of soldiers exposed to secret nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War. Bolden is one of only a few African-Americans still here to tell the story. In 1955, Bolden was in his late teens and stationed in California. One day he was told he'd been chosen to participate in a special military exercise. "I had no idea what I was selected for," he said. Bolden was...
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