get the information it needs, then destroy it. >> tim cook says, "i'm doing n is for the safety of my customers," meaning so that we have an impregnable phone. i have to ask-- how many people who died on the floor in san bernardino or in paris had iphones in their pockets as they were being killed by the terrorists? they are tim cook's customers, too. bs reporter: today, a senior apple executive told cbs news, but why is apple's cooperation necessary at all? mike morrell is the former number two at the c.i.a. isn't there somebody who currently works for the c.i.a. or the n.s.a. who could do what the government wants apple to do? >> there's been so much advance in the last year, 18 months in the ability to protect information in these kind of devices, that the government has