The former federal prosecutor cited shifting priorities after a family health scare for his withdrawal, which comes less than a month after his entry into the race.

By not submitting to a press interview in the month since becoming the Democratic choice for president, Kamala Harris set the stakes high for her talk with CNN's Dana Bash.

It almost didn't seem to matter that CNN's Dana Bash and Jake Tapper were on stage for the much-awaited presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

John F. Bash, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, resigned from his position. “I tendered formal letters of resignation to both the President and the Attorney General this morning,” Bash wrote in a statement. “John has made significant contributions to the Department of Justice, including his service on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Sofer was a counselor to Barr and worked in the Western District of Texas office for 12 years. It covers 68 counties — with offices in Alpine, Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, San Antonio, and Waco — and serves about 6.5 million Texans.