What history has to say about Senator Ted Stevens

The World

With the case of Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is going to the jury, and a verdict expected any day now, Capitol News Connection’s Todd Zwillich looks into the history of other senators who’ve been in legal trouble while in office.

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