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All that. President obamas swan song on the daily show. Its important for me to recharge. I think its important for me to reflect. Its important for me to get back in my wifes good graces. And all that matters. Bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for an investigation president ial election. Oh, great. Theres nothing more reassuring than the words, dont worry, congress will do something. Theyre on it on cbs this morning. Wisconsin has finished its recount by donald trump beating Hillary Clinton by 152 more im not saying russia had anything to do with that. Heres a photo of putin earlier today. This mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. President elect donald trump said exxonmobile chairman and ceo will be his secretary of state. Mr. Trump announced this morning that he will nominate Rex Tillerson as the countrys next top diplomat. The decision ends a very public search process. Tillerson could face a confirmation fight because of his ties to russian president Vladimir Putin. The president elect said that tillerson is one of the truly great Business Leaders of the world. Mr. Trump has also decided that former Texas Governor rick perry will be his secretary of energy. Nancy cordes is watching the transition for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Tillerson has spent four decades at exxonmobile. He has vast experience doing business with foreign governments including russia. And that has already been met with some criticism from those inside and outside his party. At age 64 Rex Tillerson has headed the Worlds Largest publicly traded oil company for nearly a decade. Last year he was ranked number 25 on forbes list of the most powerful people. Under tillersons leadership exxonmobile struck a deal with russia in 2011 to begin drilling for oil in the arctic but the project was halted three years later by western sanctions after russia invaded crimea. Im going to comply with the sanctions. Theres not any conversation otherwise about that. Tillerson said earlier this year that his relationships with foreign governments including russias are strictly business. Im not here to represent the United States governments interests. Im not here to defend it nor am i here to criticize it. Thats not what i do. Im a businessman. But if confirmed as secretary of state, tillerson will be americas top diplomat representing u. S. Foreign policy interests and will need to navigate his 15 year history with Vladimir Putin. I have a very close relationship with him. I dont agree with everything hes doing. Reporter putin awarded tillerson a russian order of friendship in 2013. That same year tillerson spoke to charlie rose about how he handles international negotiations. You have to look at the head of the state of that country eyeball to eyeball and say to them, im going to make this commitment. Now im counting on you to meet your commitments. Reporter for secretary of energy mr. Trump has settled on former Texas Governor rick perry. The twotime candidate once proposed eliminating the department. The third agency of government i would do away with education, the commerce. Commerce. And, lets see, i cant the third one i cant. Sorry. Oops. Reporter with those two positions filled, mr. Trump is now pretty close to completing his cabinet. The president elect hasnt held an official press Conference Since he was a dant back in july. Late yesterday he postponed his highly anticipated press conference set for this thursday where he was slated to explain how hes going to handle potential business conflicts. The lawyers need more time to work out the details. Hell hold that press conference early in january. Thank you very much, nancy. Margaret brennan is at the white house with a closer look at the nominee for secretary of state and how his background could reshape diplomacy. Margaret, good morning. Reporter good morning. Rex tillerson would be the first secretary of state to take this job without any government experience. If confirmed hell be americas chief diplomat. He does have deep relationships with saudi arabia and russia. Those countries feel very comfortable with him. Arab diplomats tell me that they hope hes going to push back against irans expansion into the middle east and not tear up the nuclear deal. European allies have been urging the same. Theyve been flying here privately urging the trump team to keep that International Climate change accord. Keep in mind exxonmobile has recognized Climate Change is a Real Security threat. Is tillerson going to break from trump and keep it . One of the Big Questions i have been hearing from american diplomats is just how does trump want to position the u. S. In the long term . Will Rex Tillerson be a transactional secretary of state or strategic one . Is he simply cutting deals or positioning america for something more we havent heard trump articulate. What we do know is tillerson is going to have to really smooth out some of these rough edges left by trumps tough talk particularly on trade with beijing. China is needed to help counter that north Korean Nuclear threat. Theres a question. Will tillerson actually follow through in striking a deal with Vladimir Putin. Is he willing to cut a deal with an accused war criminal at the expense of upholding American Values like human rights . So a lot of concern on those fronts and what we know is that whoever is his number two, perhaps john bolton is going to have to help him navigate a very deep bureaucracy at the state department. Thank you, margaret, from the white house. Cbs news has learned the u. S. Is likely to impose sanctions on the leaders of russias largest Intelligence Agency. Were told that the u. S. Has high confidence that russias main intelligence conductor conducted the hacking to try and help donald trump. Congressional leaders supporting investigations while the president elect rejects the cias findings. Jeff spoke to experts whos seen evidence. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Some of the evidence stretches back at least six months. Private investigators who have been consulting u. S. Intelligence officials says this is Information Warfare and a staple of russian tactics to influence elections. Late monday night president obama explained on the daily show with trevor noah why he asked for a review before leaving office. The reason that i have called for a review is really to gather all of the threads of the investigations, the intelligence work that has been done. Reporter the u. S. Intelligence is confident its the gru main Intelligence Agency. They gained information but it never became public. Stolen private emails, Campaign Information and Opposition Research from the Democratic Campaign was leaked to wikileaks and other sites even after being exposed the hackers didnt stop. This is pretty bold. This is pretty braze zen in a lot of ways. Reporter adam myers works for crowd strike, the Cyber Security firm that investigated the hack and that works closely with u. S. Intelligence. The actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. Reporter more to Hillary Clinton . Yes. Reporter they used information before by leaking embarrassing or sensitive documents, most notably during the 2014 elections in ukraine. The strategy is part of what some believe is a russian playbook to sew confusion and uncertainty. On capitol hill there is a ground swell of bipartisan support for a probe. We ought to have a joint investigation, house and Senate Intelligence committees to look into this. Top democrat adam siff is calling for sanctions. The russians are not our friends. Reporter while Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell casts russia as a foe. I think we ought to cast all of these on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. Reporter so far president elect trump has not acknowledged russian involvement in the hacks. The Russian ForeignMinistry Says this is all part of the turf war between u. S. Security agencies. Charlie . Thanks, jeff. Face the nation moderator John Dickerson is in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie. How did the president come to this decision about Rex Tillerson and in the end does Rex Tillerson have ideas about how the United States should strategically look at the world . Reporter well, i think he has ideas. The question is do those ideas sync up with what president elect trump has. There are some people who believe the relationship with russia and the United States is in as bad a place as it has been since the early 1960s, but the world is different than the 1960s. The United States is in a conflict position with russia in some places watching what its doing with baltic nations but also needs russia to counter balance a growing china. The complexity will be a fascinating case to figure out where donald trump begins and ends and where his secretary of state begins and ends. In terms of the choice, it looks like donald trump wanted somebody who was like what he said in the campaign. A ceo who made deals. Somebody who had a strong sense of himself, would be able to do americas bidding overseas and i think also donald trump really did want mitt romney for a while and just couldnt get over the obstacles. Do you expect a difficult confirmation process . You have senators rubio, lindsey graham, john mccain have all raised concerns about his ties to russia. I think you will see a difficult process in part because theyll be trying to figure out what exactly donald trump believes about russia and then where the secretary of state or the incoming or the named secretary of state, what he thinks about russia. As john mccain said on sunday on face the nation, its sort of the first question is what do you think of Vladimir Putin. John mccain thinks hes a murderer and thug. John mccain has been very generous in his treatment of Vladimir Putin. Unless you can get the first question right, all of the policy decisions you make after that could be wrong. Cant you think of somebody as a murderer and thug and understand theyre the leader of a country and you have to deal with them and therefore you want to bring qualities that will enable you to assess him better . Absolutely. Thats the argument democrats made for dealing with countries that republicans didnt want to talk to. Ronald regan dealt with russians and his eyes were wide open. The question is whether you operate with someone who is a murderer or thug from a position of strength or in a supine position that lets them do their bidding. Thats not important just in terms of what russia wants but all the other nations that will react if they think the United States is not in the game in terms of checking russian power. President elect trump said he would hold a conference on thursday. Hes postponed that press conference saying that the lawyers are just not ready. What are the implications . Reporter well, the implications is that this big question still is out there. If its so complex that the lawyers just arent ready, then it seems that it puts more focus on those tax returns. In other words, whats the real picture of Donald Trumps interests and how will those intersect with his presidency . Theres no way to know. Its apparently quite complicated. Theres no way to know unless you look at the actual underlying documents. Theres no evidence that the the moment that donald trump is hastening to release those returns so whatever promises he made and theres a new one about his sons will run the company, they wouldnt get in any new deals, thats a big step. It really doesnt mean anything unless they really start to show their work, show and have some transparency. How likely do you think it is, john, that well ever see the tax returns . I well, you know, based on the promises that were made during the campaign and the ones that werent fulfilled on the tax returns, youd have to be skeptical, but its really only until its kind of all laid out there for the American People that people can be certain that the conflicts that there have been so much talk about are really taken care of. John dickerson, good to see you. Thanks so much. Parts of the country are waking up to more dangerously cold temperatures. Arctic air is bringing bitter conditions to the Northern Plains and upper midwest. It feels like minus 20 degrees in bismarck, north dakota. In minneapolis it feels like 17 below. Jamie yukus is in mound, minnesota. Good morning. Reporter good morning. I am currently walking across a very frozen dutch lake here in minnesota, but a year ago at this time i could have been swimming across. The lake was open. Thats because this region last year didnt see temperatures dip below zero until january 9th. What a difference a year makes because this week youre going to see temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below average. Now that happened because all of this fluffy snow came on in, created a big problem in terms of travel for much of the country once it hit here and then moved east. Accidents and airport delays and that type of thing. Behind it is that very, very, very frigid cold air. More snow could be on the way. This is the first of many winter storm systems to come. Theres another one brewing in the northwest right now. That region set to get hit with the snowstorm that will impact here later on this week. Well continue to see those very frigid temperatures here and moving east for much of the country. Thats what were talking about right now. Thank you very much, jamie. Drivers are dealing with heavy snow in indiana this morning. Heres a scene near gary. Meteorologist megan bare rows of our chicago station wbbm is tracking the cold air and the new storm that jamie mentioned seconds ago. Good morning, megan. Good morning. Some muchneeded rain and mountain snow to parts of california begins to move on shore late tonight and into the day on wednesday. This storm system then may move from the pacific all the way through to the atlantic over the course of the next few days running into a very cold air mass as it does so. For much of the midwest and east it will spell possible accumulating snow. Arctic air mass is settling in. Look at the wind chill numbers. Wind chills from 25 to 35 degrees below zero. Stretching on off to montana this morning. High temperature of 17. Even colder tomorrow. 8, minneapolis. Balmy 65 in los angeles. Charlie . Thank you so much. Syrias army says it is ready to take over the last holdout in eastern aleppo. The pro Government Forces reportedly kill at least 82 civilians since october. The red cross says thousands of other civilians says nowhere safe to run. They say there are 12,000 people have been killed in six years of civil war. Retaking aleppo would be the biggest victory yet. A bomb threat against an airliner forced a major Security Response at new yorks jfk. Lufthansa was diverted to jfk after the airline got a call saying a bomb was on board. All 530 passengers and crew members were evacuated. They searched the plane and found nothing specific. 8 million blades are being recalled in food processors. The voluntary recall shows some sold from july of 1996 through december of 2015. 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