A remix of the iconic album reveals the drama and joy behind john, paul, george, and ringos last recording sessions together. Wow. Its friday, september 27th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, with spies, right . We used to handle it differently than we do now. The president suggests the whistleblower is a traitor. You dont have any reason to accuse them of disloyalty i think the whistleblower did the right thing. The whistleblower alleges the white house tried to cover up the call with the president of ukraine. The defense begins its case this morning in the trial of a former dallas cop charged with murdering her neighbor in his own apartment. One person is dead and three others injured following a black hawk Helicopter Crash at a louisiana base. A flight from new york to los angeles was forced to land in kansas city after an unruly passenger threatened the safety of the aircraft. He said he was going to kill the pilot. He was going to beat people up. A big increase in the number of vaping illnesses in the u. S. There are 805 cases. Another parent sentenced in the nationwide College Admissions scandal steven sempervivo sentenced to four months. Soaking in the last moment playing for seattle. The king and his court one final time. And all that matters the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers put on a great show. Green bay had the chance to tie at the end, but the eagles picked off Aaron Rodgers in the end zone, and philadelphia wins 3427. On cbs this morning. I noticed something during maguires testimony. There could be a game changer. Check this out. During his testimony, look at what kind of water he was drinking here, okay. You see poland s spring. Why wet your whistleblower with Poland Spring . Could it be the fact that poland shares a border with ukraine. Thats right. Now this is watergate right here. [ applause ] [ applau bottled watergate. This mornings eye opener p presented by toyota lets go places. All i can say is happy say is, a long week, dont call it tgif for nothing. Welcome. We begin with this congress is going on recess after an explosive week on capitol hill. But the impeachment inquiry and accusations of a white house coverup are just getting started. President trump is responding by lashing out at democrats and the official who complained about his phone call with ukraines president. He calls the whistleblowers sources, quote, close to a spy. The president s acting director of National Intelligence spent hours answering questions from the house and Senate Intelligence committees yesterday. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Nancy, with Congress Going home for a couple of weeks, what happens to impeachment . Reporter there are several new names, anthony, in this whistleblower report. So congressional investigators are going to be work willing to line up interviews working to line up interviews with them. Democrats see that time at home as very valuable because they want to get the poll numbers for impeachment up. So theyre going to need to make the case directly to their constituents. This whistleblower has given us a roadmap for our investigation. Reporter democrats say this ninepage whistleblower report has handed them their strongest case yet for impeachment. Some hope to vote by the end of this year. At a threehour hearing, acting director of National Intelligence, joseph maguire, calllled the whistleblowers complaint credible. I think the whistleblower did the right thing. I think he familiared the law every step of the way. Reporter the whistleblower describes conversations with more than half a dozen u. S. Officials who were deeply disturbed by the president s foreign phone call in which he sought to pressure the ukrainian leader to investigate former Vice President joe biden. Some republicans were troubled, too. I want to say to the president , this is not okay. That conversation on is not okay. Reporter its what the whistleblower says happened in the days following the call thats rocked capitol hill. Quote, senior white house officials intervened to lock down all records of the phone call, removing a summary of the conversation from the normal computer system, and storing it in a classified system where few people would see it. According to white house officials, this was not the first time. This is a coverup. This is a coverup. Reporter many republicans questioned the whistleblowers claims. I think the most immediate concern i have is its not based on firsthand knowledge. In other words, he says he heard this from other people. Reporter but the republicanled Senate Intelligence committee is now investigating the scandal, too, and grilled maguire behind closed doors on thursday. This will generate nature questions than we asked today. Reporter the identity of this whistleblower is being closely guarded. Even acting i maguire says he doesnt know the persons name n Intelligence Committee are still working to line up an interview with that person. Theyre working through the legal issues, so thats another thing thats going to go on during the twoweek break. Thank you so much. The New York Times is reporting the whistleblower is a cia. Officer who was at one point statione stationed at the white house. Ersla reid covers the white a, what do y on t, what do you make of the president s attacks on this yettobeidentified whistleblower . Y the presiding. Ine the whe president wants to tharmine the whistleblowers credibility. Ith trepeatedly pointed out that this official only knew the details of his call with the heard krainian president because he attacksout it second hand and says this attacks could deter others from coming forward with ith gation of misconduct. Ese hat these guys, democrats, doing to this country is a disgrace. Reporter as he returned to ashington thursday, president resident hed out at democrats and suggested their whistleblower investigation will they can they cant do any work. Theyre frozen, the democrats they know. To lose the election. They know. Rs for the reporter lawyers for the whistleblower said in a statement their client fears reprisal. At a private event thursday, President Trump blasted an filedigence officer who filed the complaint as a traitor, even suggesting capital punishment. Used tonow what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, with spies and treason, right, we used to handle it differently. Reporter the controversy has brought new scrutiny the role of the president s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. He is mentioned over 30 times in the complaint which cites meetings he had with several ukrainian officials. Those meetings have raised questions about whether its appropriate for the president s personal attorney to con official state business conduct official state business. Thursday, giuliani cited Text Messages as evidence he did so at the direction of the state department. Theyre all over me, you know, asking me to do it. I was happy to do it. Joe biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine. Reporter President Trump thursday continued his unsubstantiated attacks against the former Vice President claiming biden pressured ukraine to fire a top prosecutor in 2016 who was investig for. On thursday, that prosecutor told the Washington Post from the perspective of ukrainian legislation, hunter biden did not violate anything. And as more of the president s cabinet becomes implicated in the scandal, the state department acknowledges it facilitated a meeting between giuliani and ukranian officials. Secretary of state mike pompeo insists officials acted appropriately. Senior National Security contributor and former acting cia director, michael morrell, also joins us at the table. There is so much to discuss. Where to begin . Lets start with the cia analyst who said he went to cia first. Cia says they then went to the ciae house following policy. What policy is that . Ci i know of no policy that would require the cia to take wh olicy iistleblower complaint to knowhite house. You were surprised to hear whistlebl yes. Es. Policy that i know of would knosince this is a potentially a crime, the cia would have to tially to the department of justice but not to the white house, not to the place where ofe crime occurred, right. I think the cia has some explaining to do. Right. T does it suggest to you, does it suggests to me that people are protecting their proteonship with the white h the wand thats the most important thing on their mind ere, rather than getting to the o them of what happened. Paula, the department of just legationdeclined to look into the allegations in the whistleblowers complaint. Does big barrs behavior on this thie any red flags for you . Absolutely. Quee are a lot of questions generale attorney generals role. E dismissed the allegations githout conducting a preliminary investigation. He played a central role in stigatio allegations from getting to congress. Bloc ress. He has denied that the d thadent asked him to reach out asked himrainian president , the krainiant the president invoked his name in this call multiple times, it suggests that the itsident believes he has an heorney general who will help im, protect him and defend him. End thing that he believed repeatedly he expressed that he believed he was missing in former attorney general jeff sessions. The whistleblower says the ranscript of the phone call was the a different computer f the ph is that unusual . What what is that system . So the system that the thatleblower is talking about is in the intelligence directorate, the national is Security Council staff for the most sensitive information. It is where cia covert action information is kept. Ffis summary of the conversation omes nowhere close to needing acte that system. Why would they want it there . The whistleblower says to it. Whyhat do you make of the leblowerts comments when he talked about using the word spy to describe people talking to the whistleblower . Hat did you make of that . Did youd like a notsoveiled itreat. The whistleblower to me is a hero. They had the integrity to say i he whistle having wrong. Ving wrotheres wrongdoing here, i think i need report it. Eed rep a hero because they went through the right channel. They could have gone to a journalist and leaked it. They didnt. Idnt. Id the right thing. Ro. S a hero. The president is wrong. T does it matter to you that he whistleblower allegedly has political bias against the tresident . Does that muddy the waters to you at all . I think at some point the whistleblower needs to come ndfore congress and let the d letry see and let the country hear from the whistleblower and let both sides of congress ask he whistleblower questions. It ill that put his identity oorry, will that put him or her at risk . It will, but ithink if oure going to try the tleblowet, right, on these charges in congress, the whistleblower has to come publi paula, paula, do you see that happening next for the lower . Eblower . As mike said, this went th through the right channels. They to prot the right thing. The whistleblower system is securied to protect people from oraliation, losing their security clearance or their job. Based on comments y ou the whistleblowers attorney wor their client is extremely concerned about retaliation. And now were worried that there maybe be a chilling effect. The whistleblower has been called an agent. Call what makes you so sure . When i read the complaint, the complaint reads to me like a highquality piece of cia analysis. Ow youy its structured, short paragraphs, bullets. The precision of language,ng ouo dond you edned it. This was a welltrained analyst. Im kind of proud of them. Do you know who it is, mr. Former cia, you wouldnt say the whistleblowers fo scription of the phone call ers d out to be deadon right. Turn mike morrell, thank you. Mike and paula, thank you, too. Paula,y before House Speaker nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiinquiry, allary clinton told cbs this morning the president s actions need to be investigated. You live through an is mornient as lived through e presidchment as first lady in the clinton administration. What is your view today on inton adrumps prospects for impeachment . Well, my view is that given this latest revelation which is such a blatant effort to use his president ial position to advanc youre a republican, when the president of the United States has taken an oath to protect and th efend the constitution uses his position to in effect extort a Foreign Government for his own o intical purposes, i think that is very much what the founder worried about in high crimes and misdemeanors. The former secretary of state who lost the 2016 president ial nlection revealed why she does not think President Trump will misd atereelected. She and her daughter chelsea also discussed their new book. You can watch the full interview ed. S weekend on cbs sunday morning. In the next hour, well hear from jay sekulow, ahead on cbs this morning. A soldier is dead and three others are injured after an army Helicopter Crashed in louisiana. The uh60 black hawk went down in a Training Area at fort polk, 125 miles northwest of baton rouge. Members members were on a use ofn to medevac a soldier with a heatrelated injury. About 8,000 soldiers are tationed at the base. The cause of this crash is under natioigation. A big jump in cases of lung llnesses tied to vaping adds rw urgency to the nationwide Public Health crisis. The cdc confirms 12 deaths in ten states, but that number is likely to rise as new reported cases are confirmed. The agencys data illustrates the sudden and dramatic increase nowases from 380 about two cdcks ago to 805 now in nearly every state. The cdc says if you switch from cigarettes to vaping, do not go back to cigarettes. But many Health Experts say people should avoid vaping entirely until more is known about the illnesses. Ailing head of uber is responding to a scathing report about the ridehailing companys passenger safety protocols. Repu passengerngton post reported h dnesday that agents in ubers special Investigations Unit are repor thated to put the companys reputation ahead of passenger safety. Kris van cleave spoke with ubers ceo and joins us now. Acts did he have to say . Reporter good morning. S policeves that that article is vesed on hearsay. Uber says that it used old facts s. D that the companys policies and procedures have evolved, particularly in the last few ara s. Ubewe spoke with Dara Khosrowshahi shortly after uber etyeiled a number of new Safety Measures we first reported here on cbs this morning. An optional verification system will require drivers to get a pin code from their riders before a trip can start. G the the other features uber introduced, an inapp function allowing riders to text 911 in duresof an emergency. The Company Hopes the procedures joseprevent the type of mistake Police BelieveSamantha Joseph mistakde when she appeared to mistake a car for the uber in march. He was later found murdered. About the post article, ubers the ays if a victim of Sexual Assault wants to report the attack to police, uber makes it, quote, very easy to do so. So we have done everything that that we can. Weve been advised by law enforcement. E have been advised by victim advocacy groups to make sure that when something does happen rst. Espond in a way thats victim centric, thats victim first. Reporter what do you say to these reports and to folks who have either sued you or have suffered a Sexual Assault that wasntke the response wasnt there . I say that that report nt clantally was based on hearsay. Were not perfect. I wouldnt claim to be perfect, we but i believe that were significantly better than we were last year, and next year, darn it, were going to be better. Uber executives insist if they get a report about an alleged Sexual Assault against a river, the driver is immediately removed from the there. Three is no threestrikes policy theber, they say. Senator Richard Blumenthal has sent letters to rideshare xecutives expressing concern saying the Industry Needs to do ng the ind gayle . All right. Thank you so much. Passengers on a crosscountry Alaska Airlines ight arere safe after a bizarre incident all captured on video forced an emergency landing. Youre wrong. Erenleait he whileathrm while the uple bathroom up there is empty emptyng. Witnesses say the passenger crewd with the flight crew about why he could not use the firstclass bathroom. Room. Ilot diverted the new york to los angeles flight to kansas city, missouri. To l ached rline disputes earlier reports that the man approached or attempted to enter the cockpit. Crew mrs andade a, quote, reaten verbal threat to harm the plane. The man was restrained and taken into custody after the plane landed. Its unclear if he faces charges. I understand the sentiment, eyyou cant threaten the crew. Our eye on america is g insidnside one of the main theects behind the nationwide ehind tidemic. Ahead, dea agents take us to the ead, lines in one of our biggest cities to see how drug eals actually go down. First, 7 1. T starto the day along flow. Sp temps are cooler they hadding through the afternoon with eventual clearing below average temps in concord and livermore. 76 in san hoe say. 70 in oakland and 67 for san francisco. And thanks to the sea breeze kicking in. Much cooler through the weekend. And into early next week. We have much more ahead. In thei