The mayor of a small Texas town recently penned a letter to the community to reveal that she is transgender. Mayor Jess Herbst and her wife, Debbie, join CBSN to discuss what the reception has been like from their town of New Hope. Source

One corrections officer was killed after inmates took hostages at a Delaware prison. CBS News national correspondent Chip Reid joins CBSN with the latest. Source

President Trump is telling his party to “go nuclear” if Senate Democrats continue to try to block confirmation of the rest of his Cabinet. CBS Radio News executive editor and correspondent Steve Dorsey joins CBSN to discuss. Source

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took questions Thursday on President Trump’s reportedly contentious call with Australia’s Prime Minister. Spicer also delved more into the details of the weekend’s deadly raid in Yemen. See the full briefing. Source

Tesla is defending its safety standards after the 2017 Model S fell short of the highest rating in a major crash test study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. DeMarco Morgan reports on what led to the results. Source

The European Union’s president calls the Trump administration a “threat” to Europe, in the same category as Russia, China and radical Islam. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is defending the rollout and enforcement of the president’s temporary travel ban for seven mostly-Muslim countries. Margaret Brennan reports. Source

Legendary litigator David Boies has argued landmark cases in front of the Supreme Court. He represented Al Gore in the case deciding the 2000 presidential election and also fought to overturn California’s gay marriage ban, paving the way for marriage equality. Boies, now chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Source

Judge Neil Gorsuch will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday, meeting senators who will decide his nomination. Gorsuch will need to get past Senate Democrats who are still furious that Republicans blocked Judge Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination for 293 days. Nancy Cordes reports. Source

Federal Judge Neil Gorsuch is President Trump’s pick to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Gorsuch has served on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver for more than 10 years. His outlook as a judge is similar to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Jan Crawford reports on the confirmation fight ahead. Source

Oprah Winfrey is joining “60 Minutes” this fall as a special contributor. In a statement, Winfrey said: “I’m so excited and proud to join forces with this historic news program, which for me represents the bastion of journalistic storytelling.” We are very pleased to welcome her to the CBS family. Source