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Welcome to cbs this morning. In about an hour president elect donald trump will face questions about a new and potentially explosive issue when he holds his first News Conference since july. Sources confirm to cbs news that mr. Trump and president obama received preliminary details of an alleged russian effort to compromise the president elect. Confidential documents may contain damaging information about his business and personal life. None of the details are confirmed to be true. The president elect tweeted this morning intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. One more shot at me. Aimswe living in nazi germany. Juliana goldman is following the story. Good morning. Good morning. Multiple government and intelligence officials tell cbs inte news that an appendix to the classified Intelligence Report on russias efforts to interfere affectu. S. Election contained the eleced details of potentially compromising information that russia has gathered on president elect donald trump. The officials tell cbs news the president eloriginally came from a former British Intelligence officer and was eventually anded over to u. S. Intelligence as wellas other government fficials last year. U. S. Intelligence is in the rocess of corroborating the sians mayf what the russians may have, but the officials tell cbs t thethe former british investigator and his network are credible. Cbs news has not con dpirmd what generated the intelligence that mation id along, but because this information is so f thetive, the appendix was not part of the classified report peoples distributed to a wider news if people last week. A source tells cbs news it was classifthe the most classified version of the report. Oat version would only have been presented to the president , the president elect and the gang t, the prehich is comprised of senatep democrat and republican ranhe house and senate and the chair and ranking members of the shows and Senate Intelligence ommittees. Syle, sources also told cbs news that trump was not verbally briefed on this information last week. Juliana, thank you. Theres a 35page report that was released online by buzzfeed yesterday that details potentially damaging personal and financial dealings by president elect trump during a past business trip to russia. Cbs news cannot confirm the authenticity or origin of this document, so we are not reporting on the details. Congress is asking questions what what the russians may know about president elect trump. The issue was raised at the nomination hearing for Jeff Sessions. It may come up at Rex Tillersons confirmation hearing this morning. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where top intelligence officials testified yesterday to a senate daymittee. Nancy, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. I can tell you, gayle, this is a topic having lawmakers talking quietly for month, trying to for hese w out if these were just rumors or something more. Heyve had a chance to press top intelligence officials about matter the matter yesterday, but they we didnt get far. Were not going to talk about s sen reporter at yesterdays di enate intelligence hearing fbi irector comey was asked repeatedly for details but didnt answer them. Did you answer the question that there is an investigation that way as to connections estigatieither of the political campaigns and the russians . I didnt say one way or another. I didnt nt say that was my intention at y least. To reporter congress has been trying to get more information when theomey since october when then democratic leader harry this ent this letter. Ess expbecome clear that you possession explosive information about close ties and oordination between donald nd the his top advisers and the russian government. The newly retired reid told cbs ligencmy information did not come from Intelligence Co officials. Stmet with some investigators, bd the information they gave me ppeared to be very reliable. The subject also came up at the confirmation hearing for alabama senator Jeff Sessions who, as ttorney general, would be the nations top Law Enforcement yoficer. Do you know about this or know what compromising personal and Financial Information the russians claim to have . A allegations made about candidates all at times and fheyve been made about president elect trump lots of most times, most of them, virtually all of them have been proven to can aggerated and unclear. Ications ae democrat chris coons. If this was true, that russians had compromising trurial on the president elect and there was some cooperation or collusion between his campaign and the russians, that would be unprecedented in american history. Reporter it is in this highly charged environment that mr. Trumps pick for secretary of state. Former exxon mobil Ceo Rex Tillerson is undergoing his confirmation hearing on capitol hill this morning. He is expected to tell lawmakers that he views russia as a danger, but a predictable one. They are going to have a lot of questions. Oney will want a lot more specifics about his views on russia and mr. Trumps. Thanks, nancy. Kellyanne conway is counsel to president elect trump and his former Campaign Manager. Welcome to the program. Thank you, charlie. Can you tell us all the pr reports that the intelligence agencies delivered to the ed to the and to the residentelect, did he see the appendix, did he read it and has reacteded to it . I cant comment on that ave a topf the intelligence briefing. I myself have a top secret no clearance that is pending, so i cant comment on that. If youre referring to the the medi appendix people are ehowing about in the media that was meant to tip him off of a 35page unsubstantiated report unsu aom the internet, which is not a report from the intelligence. Sa s just fakethats not even fake so y thats just fake. Thature saying everything thats in that appendix is wrong fad fake . No. Hat im saying is that 35page report has clearly come from the internet, rife with misspellings, uncooperated, and i was unsubstantiated. I was very heartened last night o see journalists really pushing back on the publication ofthis type of information when we cantcomplete to the American People its confirm ntelligence information. Ation. W people were chasing e rum rumors for months and couldnt come up with any verification. Do you know how many innocent people were dragged through the mud in this report . One of my colleagues, someone at the Trump Corporation was said to be in prague. Hes never been to prague, never een to russia. Praghe president elect trump saying he never read this a addendum to the report . Aidhe has not said that. Shat im saying is were talking about that this morning because in addition you have some news ources going over i think really violating basic journ journalistic standards. Agreed. G thank you for agreeing, and hanks to cbs for agreeing, frankly. Ead g ahead and releasing 35 pages of something that reads like a grade b spy novel. Grade b tainly not an intelligence these are two different things. Id he read the report that was hiven to him . I cant comment on that. The fact is its classified. And he had an intelligence briefing ead it oant comment on whether thatd it or not. Whether he reads anything d read he reads everything givens given to him. I can tell you that. Then hes read it. The v hislets not confuse the viewers that anything in this 35 pages s ant to refer to the twopage erdendum. T. Important point. Very important point. Plemuch is lost in our sound bite Ridden Society where people arent talking about facts and theyr figures. Theyre talking about rumors and unsubstantiated information that we have been able to debunk at the very basic level. He is having his news hiserence today. Today, he can be asked about this. I was go into say, he tweeted ast night, fake news, total political witch hunt. Will he address this today . Ical will. E will address this today. We exhecht him to address this today. I expect, gayle, members of the fola will ask followup questions about it. The timing here smells to high heaven, too. Here is f we are announcing his first hackingnference as in thentelect, the russian mehow thessue is fading out of view. A nex ty . You acknowledge its been while anor a while and people have tried to call up and oonfirm it. And were unable to, and failed. Can we clear up one other thing. Saitor coons says if theres cooperation or collusion between Trumps Campaign and the russians, it would be a bombshell. Can you say nobody from the Trump Campaign had any body in the with the russians invre, during and after the wimpaign . B yes, i can. Ye Campaign Manager when i took over in august, i was talking to people in michigan, not moscow. Wons how we won the election. I dont like a United States senator saying things like that, r sayingit would be a bombshell be aould be investigated. Its very dangerous rhetoric, angerous rly the time when responsible outlets were chasing this story and came up emptyhanded and decided not to pursue it. Harry reid made an intimation to this report on october 30th. I didnt go anywhere people people couldnt verify it. The wall street journal twice suggests this dossier could be used to blackmail mr. Trump . Innot if anything in there is not true. Thats why those of last night with the president elect discussing this, he made the o tweion to tweet out fake news, ewsitical witch hunt. Ituld go out and say its not just fake news, its just fake. D whether hes read it or not seenhat hes seen or not, you have seen it and its all untrue. T ive seen the 35 pages. Havehe russian intelligence doesnt have anything that might be used as leverage against the president elect. Gou have seen it and youre saying the stuff thats being alked about is not true, never happened. The it i have seen is the 35page report that was released by one media outlet whose editor semediately took to twitter to sort of say, well, its unsubstantiated, unverified, anywaywe should mutt it out there any way. Anybody on the trum team that s thisen this and read its tell by item. Is this the two pages . Eceived it a received it as part of the intelligence briefing br have read it. I was not one of those people. The 35 pages should not in any any wa way, shape or form be confused with two pages released by the 35 pages cce community. Ere wges came from the internet where we see a lot of junk day by day. You. Ank you, kelly ann. Former Deputy Director of actcia Michael Morrell is with ectorom washington. He supported Hillary Clinton for andinghe nation moderator john dicker sorn is son is at the ta. Mike, what is your understanding tbout what president elect trump was briefed . It sound like he received a formatge document that outlined allegations of information the thaians may have on the president elect that could be compromising. Asd that twopage document was a sin synopsis of the 35page document published on buzzfeed. Thats my understanding. When you read the pages on buzzfeed, what did you make of r . At dossier . Back at, my reaction was i felt like i was back at cia reading formattelligence reports, information from a large number of sources. Inforf that information rings true. Ome off it doesnt. Much of it is contradictory. Nd because you dont have an esderstanding of who the sources mationd how the sources ak kwierpd the information, when you read the whole thing, you really cant come to any bottom line about exactly whats true d whats not true here. Mike, theres reference to a would mi6 operative, former fitish intelligence operatives. You would know former british inte intelligence operatives, i assume. O you know him and is he credible . Charlie, i dont know him. You know people who know him. These memos are written as a onal isional Intelligence Officer would write up a report earm a source. Hey appear to be written by an Intelligence Officer. But again, i dont know if hes wedible, and most important, we dont know who the sources are ion. How the sources got the information. Mike, is it common for the president or the president elect to be briefed on something that rified . Been verified . Is that common . It is not common. Its uncommon. But in this situation with material that is potentially so i ctically explosive, i could see a reason why you would give presidhe president and the president elect a headsup that it ous out there and that youre investigating it. O wouldnt you do everything within your power to find out whether it was true or not . You sure would. That would involve the cia and the fbi. John, were going to have the First Press Conference by ect trumtelect trump in about six months. This was largely supposed to be about how he was going to divest from his Business Empire. How do you think hell handle this. A version of the tweet. Th deny it all and say its all fake and move on. Wha whats the most important question though . Ighly this question hes been nd iny critical. Ne thing to context, theres an the ing battle between the president elect and the e theligence agencies. Of thieople see the leaking of nd of formation as a kind of backou know that background of the fight between the two, its a part of that spat. But donald trump has been highly umptical of the intelligence ical of , all of them. And the intelligence they have produced with respect to russian resp meddling. When he was given this annex, did he find any of it credible. Trump so far seems to be it becang it because its on andinternet and you cant internet. Hat you see on the internet. Two different things, the 35page thing, dismiss it on the cour net. Rnet, thats absolutely ight. There are standards to be and the ed both in the press and this ngence agencies. Inveof this wants to be investigated and apparently is ncies. Igated by the intelligence agencies. Just being on the internet is no standaron enough to repeat it which is a standard donald trump did not follow repeatedly during that waaign. Withing on the internet or he came up with, he put out there. Ence ae, do you assume the sidentigence agencies that met with the president would have some judgment as to whether some of this is credible because theyre worried about the possibility that the russians may have something on the president elect . Oremuch more work would need to be done. To charlie, i dont know how much has already been done. Be fbi could be investigating, did these Campaign Officials actually, were they in russia ayen these documents say they were in russia. The Intelligence Community ce commue sitting down with this british mi6 operative and ttting a better understanding of the source of this and how pry acquired the information. Yount know where they are in that process. Tha you do all of that, you whereget to a point where you could make a judgment about ands accurate here and whats not. I will say, charlie, that the telligs described by russian intelligence and how they operate against americans who visit russia, moscow, st. Ght. Rsburg, are absolutely right. Audi audio surveillance, video surveillance. This is how they operate. , this story is not going away, it it, john . No. In part because you have in fanslicans who are no fans of russians and Vladimir Putin who putilooking into a series of issues. Ms ofcomfortable with the president elects relationship ms terms of what he says. Right, and why he seems to be so comfortable with Vladimir Putin. Thank you very much. Well see you at the press conference. No, hell be here with us. Major garrett will be at the press conference. Well bring you live coverage of at press conference at 8 00 pacific right here on cbs.