World in 90 seconds. Its concerning and the details still coming in. The chief of staff says hes doing fine, doing really well. Doctors have a couple of theories about his ailments. President george h. W. Bush hospitalized in houston. At 92 years old, hes the oldest living president. So much tension and discord over the last few days by the reckless and irresponsible tweets by the president elect. I dont like tweeting. I have other things i could be doing, but i get very dishonest media, very dishonest press. Well give a green light to people with all the hacking going on. The president commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning. A lot of the criticism is coming from individuals in the Republican Party who supported a candidate who applauded wikileaks. A tough day of questioning for the education nominee, betsy devos. Do you think if your family had made hundreds of millions in contributions you would be sitting here today. Orlando Police Capture the man responsible for the murder of a police officer. A huge truck swallowed by a massive sinkhole in georgia. Police say the driver was able to hop out. College students were taking part of a Fishing Tournament when their boat malfunctioned. Theyre both okay. A youngster who has a hot hand when it comes to shooting hoops. Four in a row. Scores packs it down to himself and baseballs it right into the net. And all the matters. Josh earnest gave his final briefing, president obama showed up and photo bombed it. A guys name is josh earnest. Somebody speaking on your behalf, a good name to have. Donald trump said if hes sworn in on friday, hell take the weekend off. Hes not going to start until monday. He apparently thinks the president s get saturdays and sundays off. Instead of hail to the chief, its going to be everybodys working for the weekend announcer presented by toyota, lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is on assignment and will join us later from the White House Briefing room. Anthony mason is with us. Good morning. Good to have you here. Our 41st president , george h. W. Bush is hospitalized for the north time in five years. President bush, who is 92 years old, was seen in public less than two weeks ago at a game. The former president was admitted to houston Methodist Hospital on saturday. Chip reid has the latest on mr. Bushs health. Good morning. What are you hearing . Former president george h. W. Bush has been at Methodist Hospital in houston for four days. His spokesman jim mcgrath says hes responding well to treatment after being admitted for shortness of breath. Mr. Bush is the oldest living president and remains in stable condition at the hospital. Mcgrath says they hope to have him discharged soon. As to why we werent updated earlier, he said the family has a right to privacy and didnt want to alarm anyone without assessing the situation. Mr. Bush who suffers from a form of parkinsons was hospitalized in 2014 for seven weeks due to pneumonia. A year later the president broke a bone in his neck after a fall at the family home. Mr. Bush who has been forced to use a wheelchair over the last few years appeared at the hughes tons texans playoff game earlier this month. In december the 41st president celebrated pearl harbor anniversary with former senator bob dole. Now the former president who again is expected to leave the hospital in a couple days had not been planning to head to washington with wife barbara for president elect trumps inauguration on friday. Anthony . Chip reid, thanks very much. We wish the former president well. President obama will leave Office Friday with the most k commutations in white house history. He commuted the sentence of 209 others, most for drug offenses. Former Army Private Chelsea Manning is among those who had their sentences reduced. James e. Cartwright who lied to the fbi in a leak case involving iran was pardoned. Chelsea manning was due for release in the year 2045. A military judge sentenced manning to 35 years in prison for espionage. The former intelligence am lift passed more than 700,000 secret documents to wikileaks. Margaret brennan is at the white house with why the manning decision is so controversial. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The decision to shorten Chelsea Mannings sentence was opposed by the pentagon and angered Many National security officials. Mannings 2010 leak of secret government materials is one of the biggest breaches in u. S. History. Chelsea manning will now be released from the prison barracks at fort lechk worth in may. Manning has already served more than six years and has transitioned to live as a woman. The president s actions probably saved Chelsea Mannings life. Reporter aclu attorney noted his client, who spent long stretches of time in kol tear confinement has twice attempted suicide in the last six months. The reality was, there was no way she was going to survive another 28 years in prison. Reporter the former Army Intelligence analyst, then known as Bradley Manning was convicted of giving secret documents to wikileaks. Manning said, i have never made any excuses for what i did. At the time of the leak, the white house said the disclosures put american lives at risk, but on friday, spokesman josh earnest indicated mannings remorse was persuasive. As Chelsea Manning has acknowledged, the release of the information that she provided to wikileaks was damaging to National Security, but disclosures by Edward Snowden were far more serious and far more dangerous. Reporter both consider themselves whistle blowers when they handed over u. S. Secrets. Unlike manning, Edward Snowden evaded u. S. Authorities and fled to russia. Just last week wikileaks founder jewel squan assange tweeted he would turn himself in the president obama offered manning clemency. On tuesday the white house insisted there was no quid pro quo. Paul ryan called the president s decision outrageous. Senator john mccain called it a grave mistake and said mannings dishonor will last forever. The white house says to expect more commutations. Meanwhile overnight, russian authorities decided to extend Edward Snowdens residence permit, quote, for another couple years. Cbs poll out this morning shows donald trump will become president on friday with record low approval ratings. Just 32 of americans have a favorable view of the president elect. Thats lower than any president elect cbs news has measured going back to Ronald Reagan back in 1981. 12 points below the next lowest, george w. Bush. More than half of americans have at least some confidence that the president elect will make the right decision on important issues like the economy, trade policy and isis. Mr. Trump was in washington last night for his first inauguration event, a dinner with foreign diplomats. Major garrett is covering the transition. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Inauguration organizers say theyre bracing for crowds in washington in excess of 2 million. Homeland security estimates half as many on the national mall. If president elect donald trump proved anything during the campign, he can certainly draw a crowd. The cabinet is on pace to have fewer nominees confirmed around inauguration than any president since George Herbert walker bush. President elect donald trump defied his own America First brand and spent his first night of inauguration week with nearly 150 foreign ambassadors and dim mats. We have put together a team i think the likes of which has never been assembled before. Reporter the dinner was a gesture of respect for diplomacy, occurring as mr. Trump continued his feud with civil rights leader and congressman john lewis. He got caught in a very bad lie. Reporter lewis failed to mention he boycotted in 2001 with george w. Bush. You dont forget Something Like that. He got caught, and its pretty bad, and its making him look bad frankly. Reporter the president elects harsh words have given dozens of house democra democrats, already dubious about his election, reason to join lewis boycott. As far as other people going, thats okay. We need seats so badly. I hope they give me their tickets. Reporter more than 50 Congressional Democrats will skip the inauguration. This is about standing on principle. Reporter so far not one Senate Democrat has backed the boycott. Ive gone every year whether republican or democrat. Reporter republicans say Inauguration Day is or should be bigger than partisan rivalries. We all need to support our constitution and support that transition of power in our country. Thats how it works. Reporter another democrat who will skip the inauguration is secretary of state in 2004, president ial nominee john kerry who has yet to meet with the nominee set to secede him, rex tillerson. Major garrett, thanks. Four of mr. Trumps cabinet choices are on capitol hill right now for Senate Confirmation hearings. Senators will question epa nominee scott pruitt, health and human secretary nominee tom price and commerce secretary nominee wilbur ross. Our poll shows 39 of americans approval of the president s cabinet nominations. 40 disapprove. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Most of the nominees who have already testified appear to be headed toward an easy confirmation eventually. But democrats are determined to make things more difficult for two nominees who are going before congress right now and who have been in the democratic crosshairs for weeks. Scott pruitt is a professional climate denier. Reporter democrats went to the senate floor last night to slam scott pruitt, mr. Trumps pick to head the i represent vooal protection agency. Someone who denies Climate Change science is in charge of an agency thats really tasked with advancing our National Strategy to address Climate Change. Reporter democrats argue as oklahomas attorney general pruitt was more dedicated to donors than he was to the states environment, suing the epa 14 times seeking to roll back regulations. In his testimony today, pruitt will say that as epa administrator hell advocate for a better and healthier environment but that environmental regulations should not not occur in an economic vacuum. Georgia congressman tom price can also expect tough questions today. Democrats want to know why the nominee for secretary of health and Human Services bought stock in a medical Device Company one week before he introduced a bill that would benefit that company. It may well be that this trade was illegal. Reporter less controversial is mr. Trumps pick for are u. N. Ambassador, South Carolina governor nikki haley. Some democrats are questioning whether she has the right experience. Our adversaries in the United Nations are represented by very seasoned, very capable, very sharpedged diplomats. This is not the model un, this is the real un. Reporter experience came up at the confirmation hearing for betsy devoss last night, trumps choice to be secretary of education but has never worked in a Public School system. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, that you would be sitting here today . I do think that would be a possibility. Ive worked very hard on behalf of parents and children for the last almost 30 years. Reporter devos was asked at one point whether she supports gunfree zones in schools. She was noncommittal saying they might be needed to fend off grizzly bears. Democrats countered that students are more likely to be hurt by fellow classmates with guns than grizzly bears on the prowl. Thats interesting. Thank you, nancy. Dan seener is a political strategist and former Senior Adviser to mitt romney and paul ryan in the 2012 president ial campaign. President obama said yesterday he commuted Chelsea Mannings sentence because she accepted responsibility and expressed remorse. What questions does this raise . Serious questions, particularly where our National SecurityCommunity Came down on it. Presumably he sought the recommendations of them. From what i understand the recommendation was to not go forward with this. Why, when bin ladens compound was raided in afghanistan, at the compound they found documents from the Bradley Manning leak. In other words, bin laden, according to court transcripts, had requested these documents. What were in these documents that bin laden had . Information that our u. S. Forces had on afghan informants, the names of afghan informants, key secrets indispensable to u. S. Army operations in afghanistan that put lives at risk. Suddenly they got into bin ladens hands planning terror attacks in afghanistan. This is why the National Security community is so up in arms that hes being released from prison. The irony that the u. S. Intelligence agency is accusing wikileaks of influencing election ps has been to commute her sentence. The exact time the democrats in the white house, not just wikileaks, but making about donald trump citing of Julian Assange and assange was the vessel through which the manning documents got into terrorist hands. Do you think theres anything more to hear, perhaps that president obama is trying to box president elect trump in about dealing with this kind of information . I dont think so. I think there was a lot of pressure from the organized left, the a clu, other groups, because of transgender issues and mannings suicide attempts. I think thats part of it. The other part of it, it is true in those documents there was information revealed about atrocities in really bad regimes. That said, its not manning selective live released those documents. He released 750,000 documents, some of which affected the u. S. Army. Dan, good to see you. Rumor is youll be joining us on friday. Rumors are true. Theyre not rumors. They are fact. They are facts that i can report. Speaking of the inauguration, cbs news will bring you complete coverage of the president elects inauguration on friday. It begins right here on what show, gayle . Cbs this morning, dans Favorite Television show. Good segue. Vice President Joe Biden this morning has tough words for russian president vladimir putin. He told the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland, that putin is trying to undermine the u. S. And europe. We even saw it in the cyber intrusions against Political Parties and individuals of the United States of america. We should expect further attempts by russia to meddle in the democratic process. It will occur again, i promise you. And again the purpose is clear, to collapse the liberal international order. Putin denies trying to influence the u. S. Election. He called the allegations his country attempted to collect information to blackmail president elect trump, quote, total nonsense. Elizabeth palmer is in moscow. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter good morning. There hasnt been any official reaction to Vice President bidens comments yet. Thats not unusual because the kremlin and its official spokesman dont tweet any official reaction and, in fact, tend to be very cautious. However, yesterday president putin appeared to throw caution to the wind. In a routine News Conference with the leader of mall dove va, president putin called the file of unverified claims of compromising sexual behavior by donald trump a hoax. People who order things like that for political gain, he said, are worst than prostitutes. But then he expanded in perhaps more detail than mr. Trump might have wished on the president elects 2013 trip to moscow as the owner of the Miss Universe pageant. Trump organized beauty contests and socialized with the most beautiful women in the world. I find it hard to believe that he rushed to a hotel to meet with russian girls with loose morals. Although he added we do have the best ones in the world. Finally though, president putin did get around to commenting on the kremlins goal of working with a trump administration. Im sure in the end we will establish normal relation, he said. Responding to the interests of the people of europe, russia and the United States. Of course president putins remarks are getting a lot of play here in russia. In fact, one of the main newspapers suggests that russian prostitutes are thrilled by the compliment paid to them by the president and may designate yesterday as their professional day officially. More seriously, though, theyre also reminding russians that nobody really knows what mr. Trumps Foreign Policy is going to be. All right, elizabeth palmer. We know women with loose morals, a lot in russia says the president. A the mystery of children being snatched away from their father is solved after more than 30 years. Youre watching cbs this morning. Youre watching cbs this morning. Due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. But no matter what path i take, i go for my best. So if theres Something Better than warfarin, ill go for that too. Eliquis. 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