Difficult guy to work for but much more importantly, he is not a good person. General Michael Flynn given top security position. People in the military loved him and the minute he endorsed donald trump, suddenly, like he is gary busey after the motorcycle accident not senators but house members should be saying something about these people who have been considered for cabinet positions. When you lose the white house to the least popular candidate in the history of america, when you lose the senate, when you new direction for the democratic party. An officer in arizona is on administrative leave after punching a woman in the face. Wildfires are scorching parts of the southeast. The region is parched by extreme drought. We did not let our guard down. Snowfall right now. The physician blizzard the season hit the northern rockies. A hint of snow from parts of the area but the wind i think is they have seized 130e 130 millin fake u. S. Current eye. Peggy whitson is the oldest woman to ever go into space. All that. A polar bear and a dog getting along. They threw caution to the winds and tunneled up in northern canada. Throwing. What a catch. Huge win. My it not be my last. I have somehow continued to miss oktoberfest. What im trying so say is im going to get fixed. On cbs this morning. In order for the australian Prime Minister to get in touch with trump world he had to get the phone number from australian golfer greg norman. He is one of our greatest assets. His nickname is the shark so in order for the Prime Minister president , he had to say, this sounds like a job for the shack. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. We have breaking news. Cbs news has learned who Donald Trumps choice is for attorney general. Alabama senator Jeff Sessions tapped another campaign loyalist to be National Security adviser. Retired threestar general Michael Flynn has a history of criticizing muslims and american intelligence agencies. Major garrett is the first with this original reporting about the trump transition. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Jeff sessions, senator from alabama, the first senator to endorse donald trump has been part of the Trump Campaign and part of the conversations about the Supreme Court and other key justice issues since president elect trump became november 8th election. In his selection as attorney general is a way for trump to signal to conservatives that he is going to take not only issues of immigration very seriously as he said during the campaign, but also issues of the Supreme Court. When trump had a meeting earlier this week about who to select and who to nominate for that vacant position on the Supreme Court the only noncampaign and nonfamily attendee at that meeting was senator sessions. A clear signal he was going to be trumps pick for attorney general and now he, in fact, is. As for the transition, the teams today for transition will start meeting with the state department, pentagon and Justice Department preparing for the january handover. President elect donald trump has chosen retired Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn as his National Security adviser. A job that coordinates military intelligence and diplomatic policy from the white house. Once a top intelligence adviser to generals in iraq, flynn, a lifelong democrat, spent three criticizing the intelligence communitys strategy in afghanistan. He retired in 2014 claiming he was fired as director of the Defense Intelligence agency. For the stand he took on radical islamism. In the recent past, flynn has called islam a cancer and referred to it as a political ideology based on a religion. He told his twitter followers this february that fear of muslims is rational. Lets get off t reporter which is one more time. Islamic extremism. Reporter flynn told charlie in early 2015 that political bill clintons Political Correctness is one reason america cant defeat islamic terrorism. Even in the arab world the arab leaders will call it like it is, so why is it that the United States has such a difficult problem . Reporter in washington thursday, the head of the transition, Vice President elect mike pence, huddled with Top Republicans and democrats like pelosi and Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. This month he moves his transition business to his new jersey golf club. On the docket a sitdown with 2012 nominee mitt romney who has blasted trump in the past. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. Reporter the president elect has yet to emerge from trump tower to make any announcements but he does have his twitter feed handy, spoke to the chairman of Ford Motor Company saying ford will now keep the lincoln plant it planned to move to mexico here in the United States, specifically kentucky. Now in a statement, ford said the president elect and congress will make it possible to keep production of this vehicle here in the u. S. There is one small caveat. Ford had never planned to move the entire factory from kentucky to mexico. Just one of the vehicles it was manufacturing there. According to the united there in place through 2019 another layer to the story. Thank you, major. General Michael Flynn was in the move when trump met with the japanese Prime Minister. After that meeting abe called president elect a trustworthy leader. The meeting lasted 90 minutes longer than expected and it was described as a positive conversation over advertisers to trump tower. It was the president elects first facetoface meeting with a world leader since the lex. Mr. Trumps daughter ivank already attended the meeting with abe and drew new attention for possible roles for the trump family members in the new administration. Our nancy cordes asked paul ryan yesterday on government rules on hiring relatives and how that affect the president elects soninlaw. Reporter based on your nepotism rules, do you believe that Jared Kushner should be able to take a job at the white house . I have really no comment about what job he should or should not take. Look. Campaign and, obviously, a brilliant young man who donald trump trusts so i will leave it up to the Trump Transition Team what role he plays. Reporter im asking what your understanding of the nepotism rules is . I dont have an understanding of how they work. Reporter the law goes back 50 years and prohibits public officials, including the president , to appoint rlfts into the agency. It is unclear if the white house is considered an agency and whether foregoing a salary is way to circumvent the laws. Allows rlfelatives to be employ temporarily. Hence, the lawyers are getting busy. In our next half hour, we are going to take a closer look at Jared Kushner and the role he might play in his fatherinlaws administration. The u. S. Is at odds with allied jordan over his official explanation for the deaths of three u. S. Service members. And Matthew Lewellen were killed earlier this month in an apparent terrorist attack. Now one father is speaking out about his sons death. David martin is at the pentagon with the changing accounts of the attack. David, good morning. Reporter good morning. The three soldiers were working for the cia in jordan, training syrian rebels. We spoke to the father of one of them who of the attack gave him an account which differs greatly from the storytold by the jordanian government. Jim moriarty says his son Sergeant James moriarty was supposed to be home this week following his third tour of duty in jordan. There is nothing that has happened to me in 70 years that prepared me to to listen, to talking about my son being dead. Moriartys body arrived home, other american soldiers were killed, appeared to show a deliberate terrorist attack. Not as was first believed a tragic accident. I havent gotten a straight answer yet. Reporter u. S. Officials say the Security Camera video shows several american vehicles stopped in broad daylight at the entrance to the Jordanian Air field where the green berets were based. The first was allowed to pass through the gate. But then a guard suddenly opened fire on the second vehicle. Killing both americans inside. The americans in the third and fourth vehicles jumped out and started returning fire. The jordanian guard shot and killed one of them before he was wounded by the other. Moriarty says his son was in that last shootout. The killer clearly knew that he had these four americans caught by surprise. Reporter jordanian officials originally blame the americans said in a statement there is absolutely no credible evidence they did not follow proper procedures. The jordanian government lied to our government. They know what happened. Though know who this guy is. They owe us an explanation. Who was it that murdered my son and why . Reporter the father says the survivors described the shooter as wearing body armor and yielding an ak47 against the pistols and not wearing any body armor. The fbi has not yet questioned the shooter because he remains in a medically induced coma. Questions still remain. David, thank you. Rescue workers say new air strikes in Northern Syria this morning killed Seven Members of the same family. Syrian Civil Defense crews pulled a 6yearold boy out of a destroyed building yesterday. He was trapped for hours. Four hours, in fact, after air attacks on his rebelheld rescuers say the mothers boy was one of three People Killed in that air strike. President obama just left germany after the european leg of his final trip abroad in office. He is now flying on to south america. In berlin the president met with key allies to discuss security and economic challenges. He also reassured european leaders concerned about the transition of power here in the United States. Margaret brennan is in berlin covering the president s trip. Margaret, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, throughout this president obama has tried to strike a cautiously upbeat tone about what Donald Trumps election means for global security. But its clear there are some cracks in that optimism. Americas top european allies are all asking president obama what to expect from the next leader of the free world. Donald trumps selection of controversial top advisers has of what mr. Obama has described as national crudism. I wonder if youve advised your successor to be extra mindful of what you see as very worrisome trends particularly when making his own potentially powerful staff picks . What i said to him was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or action during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country. Reporter european leaders also fear that president elect, whom Syrias Bashar Al Assad has called an ally, will do little to stop the brutal violence in syria. President obama admitted that he has been unsuccessful. In these final weeks of your presidency, do you believe you have any leverage to stop Bashar Al Assad and Vladimir Putin from continuing to bomb aleppo . To would be naive for me to suggest there is going to be a sudden, 180degree turn. To be a recognition by russia and a willingness to pressure assad. You cannot purchase peoples consent through killing them. Reporter and president obama urged europe to keep pressure on russia through financial sanctions. Norah, he will cross paths with Vladimir Putin this weekend at the asia pacific summit in peru. We will be watching. Margaret brennan in berlin, thank you. The storm is pushing warm weather out of the Northern Plains this morning. Blizzard warnings are up in the dakotas and minnesota. Heavy snow and ice made driving dangerous on a major highway west of denver. Interstate 70 was closed in hours in both directions after a crash involving 20 vehicles and semi trucks. Two people were hurt and forecasters say minnesota could get up to a foot of snow today. Temperatures will drop more than 30 degrees in some areas from northeast by sunday night. Wow. Arizona Police Officer is on administrative leave after disturbing video surfaced showing him punching a woman. Flagstaff police say the recording shows the officer striking the woman in the face ae as he tried to arrest her. The officer believed she had outstanding warrants. But as carter evans shows us, that was not the case. You cannot harass me until i know that i have a reporter cell phone video capture wednesday shows flagstaff Police Officer jeff bonar striking Marisa Morris outside of her boyfriends home in arizona while attempting an arrest. Hey you cant hit a girl like that. Reporter bonar has been with the Department Three years was assisting another officer with an eviction when he noticed morris on the property. Youre going to get extra charges i still dont have a warrant. Place for her at that time. He yelled at me that i had a warrant. I said, no, i do not. He brutally attacked me pretty much. Reporter morris did hold two failure to appear warrant for dui and resisting arrest but they were resolved before wednesdays incident. Officer bonar was wearing a body camera but according to his own Police Report he turned it off before approaching morris. We owe marisa, her family, the flagst officers in the department a full and complete investigation. Reporter also in his report, bonar says morris appeared to be on a stimulant drug and resisted arrest kneeing him in the groin and legs several times. In the report, bonar also acknowledged striking morris in the head several times. I know what happened because i have to live it every day. I have to feel it. Pretty embarrassing, actually. It makes me feel like nothing. Reporter for cbs this new york city officials are expected to address Security Issues around trump tower. Secret Service Agents in new York City Police are working on how to protect the building and the people inside. Michelle miller is outside of trump tower with a look at the complex plans. Good morning, michelle. Reporter good morning. Well, what a difference a week makes. When i was here right after the tower, here on fifth avenue, was lined with a row of heavy duty sanitation trucks filled with sand. That presence has been tapped down considerably. Im not slur if you can see the Police Standing outside, but they are armed and ready. While they are there, it hasnt prevented the public from acting this building. To get upstairs to the starbucks, no indication in any of those stores if they will be those ground level floors may be adorned with glassproof glass soon. New yorks scenic fifth avenue was becoming an obstacle course. How many days have you been dealing with this . Well, i guess since the election. Reporter the security effort to protect the president elects trump tower home doesnt stop with the barricades, checkpoints and officers outside. The entire skyscraper is posted with secret Service Law Enforcement officials come up with a longterm plan to protect the building located on richie fifth avenue. According to a former secret Service Agent the security will focus on his office 26th floor and the office he lives in with his family. The pent house will be replaced with bullet proof glass. The elevators below the office and residence will be locked off and key coded and only certain the perimeter of trump tower is restricted and background checks will be run on building staff and potentially some residents, officers will also face increased pressure with the approaching holidays. More than 5 Million People will visit new york this year between that have gone a thanksgiving and new years. Have you ever seen anything like this before in terms of the barricades . No, crowded. Reporter bomb sniffing dogs could also be used in the garage below trump tower. The u. S. Secret service is keeping their options open on whether to increase those restrictions. Norah . Michelle, thank you so much. I think we can say there is going to be changes in your hood, charlie. Exactly have your i. D. At all times indeed. Its packed i can imagine. A recent discovery raises new concerns about the potential donald trump counted on ivanka trumps husband for advice during the campaign. Will Jared Kushner now head to the white house . Ahead an inside look at the white house for the man who may become the most powerful soninlaw in president ial history. The news is back in the morning right here on cbs this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by kohls. This weekend at kohls then hurry home to cozy up for a family movie night. At kohls, friends and family save a little more with an extra 20 off so you can give a little more this holiday. Kohls. After brushing, and restores tooth enamel. Its an easy way to give listerine . Total care to the total family. Listerine . Total