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Margaret brennan is at the white house with the escalating feud over intelligence. Good morning. Reporter good morning. President obama has ordered a full review of russian interference in the collection by january 20th, the day donald trump takes office. Now the president elect is suggesting the cia is aligned against him. I think its ridiculous. I think its just another exc e excuse. I dont believe it. To the cia, president elect donald trump says he does not believe that russia intervened in the u. S. Election to help him win and said democrats made it up. They have no idea if its russia or china or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. I mean, they have no idea. Why would the cia put out this story that the russians wanted you to win . Im not sure they put it out. I think the democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country. Reporter mr. Trumps comments directly contradict the cias conclusion that russia tried to damage Hillary Clintons campaign by leaking emails hacked from Democratic Party computers. Asked about his mistrust of the intelligence community, mr. Trump said, he doesnt need his daily Intelligence Briefings on threats facing the u. S. I dont have to be told. Im like a smart person. I dont have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Reporter senate lrs russian meddling but a handful of key bipartisan lawmakers do want a congressional investigation. Recent reports of russian interference in our election should alarm every american. Vladimir putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer and a kgw agent. Reporter republican senator john mccain said mr. Trump shouldnt let his friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin get in the way. You cant make this issue partisan. Its too important. A fundamental of a democracy is a free and fair election. Reporter all u. S. Intelligence agencies agree that russia wra lias linked to the hg but unlike the cia they havent concluded it was to benefit donald trump. John bolton in line for a state Department Position has even suggested that the hacking was faked by the obama administration. Gayle . Margaret, thank you very much. Russia is president elect chooses the top diplomat. Exxon mobile Ceo Rex Tillerson has emerged for the leading candidate for secretary of state. He is drawing attention for his close ties to russian president Vladimir Putin and one called him highly professional. This morning, nancy cordes is following the reaction to tillerson in washington. Reporter good morning. Trump aides floated mr. Tillersons name in part to gauge what they would get from their own party. The reaction is mixed and some say tillerson is a proven his friendly relationship is what they dont want in a secretary of state. Rex tillerson . He is a great man. See what happens. Reporter in a Quick Exchange with reporters at the army navy game, the president elect played coy about his top cabinet pick, though in an interview, he praised tillersons credentials as the head of an oil and gas behemoth for nearly a decade. Is much more than a business player. He is in charge of the Largest Company in the world. Reporter its not quite the Largest Company in the world, but exxonmobil has struck big drilling deals with oilrich russia. Tillerson is considered to be one of the american ceos who know Vladimir Putin best. The kremlin even awarded him the order of friendship. A matter of concern to me he has such a close, personal relationship with Vladimir Putin and, obviously, they have done an enormous deals together that that would color his approach to Vladimir Putin and the russian threat. But that is a matter of concern. We will give him his chance. Reporter another republican senator, floridas marco rubio, tweeted being a friend of vladimir is not an attribute i am hoping for from a secretary of state. Picking tillerson to be the americas top diplomat would mean passing over former gop nominee mitt romney but mr. Romneys niece, mcdaniel, to head the Republican National committee and would place Reince Priebus who left the rnc to be mr. Trumps white house chief of staff. Michael morrell is a former acting director and Deputy Director of the cia and supported Hillary Clinton for president and joins us now from washington. Good morning. Good morning, charlie. Help us understand this. What is the difference between the conclusions of the fbi and the cia . So even before the election, charlie, the entire u. S. Intelligence community believed that the russians were interfering in the election. That includes the fbi . That includes the fbi. It wasnt clear at that time the motive. What has changed now this is not official, right . This is all based on leaks. What has changed now, it seems that the cia believes that the intent here was to advantage Hillary Clinton in the election so this is what is different. How did the cia reach that conclusion sgh. . One of the things that caught my attention, charlie, was that the cia believes its a high confidence judgment and the cia doesnt come to a highconfidence judgment just based on circumstantial evidence, so i think they have got more here. I think they have got sources who are actually telling them what the intent was. So how significant is it, mike, especially with you using the phrase highconfidence judgment, that the president elect is publicly disputing the cia . What i think is going on here is that he believes that this is a political judgment. He believes that the cia is a Political Institution and he is going to have to learn that its not. It is a political. It is there to tell him call them like you see them. It is it is the most Important Institution to him in that regard. Its going think about the world in a way that is divorced of politics and divorced of policy. And he is going to have to start understanding that. Its kind of a knock on you, mike, because you were in the cia when that wmd assessment was made. What are your thoughts about that . So i think look. Does the cia get everything right . Absolutely not. Right . Was a rock wmd one of our biggest failures . Yes. But the cia gets most things right. One of the things that most people dont know is that we actually track how well our judgments stand up over time, and when you look at those averages, right, its a fielding percentage, not a batting average. Its very, very high. Cia gets most things right. And donald trump is going to need to understand that. You briefed george w. Bush every day at Intelligence Briefings. We heard donald trump say yesterday, i dont have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day. Briefings are, just the same thing repeated every day . Interestingly, i think i understand where the president elect is coming from. He is seeing the pdb as its written for president obama and after eight years, these pieces written for president obama are very tactical and they assume a significant amount of knowledge on the part of the reader. So if if the briefer is just focusing President Trump on those pieces, then i understand where he is coming from. So what the briefer has to do is use those pieces as a launching point to talk about bigger strategic issues. Interesting. Michael morrell, thank you. Youre welcome. In our next half hour, we will talk to senators Chuck Schumer and john mccain about the cias evidence of russian harking. One of chinas newspapers calls donald Trump Ignorant as a child. They would not be bulliedr the one china policy. Taiwan and hong kong are seen as part of china. Chinas government is angry that trump is reaching out to taiwans president. The president elect laid out his view over the weekend. I fully understand the one china policy, but i dont know why we have to be bound by a one china policy, unless we make a deal with china. Having to do with other things, including trade. The chinese reported the following. If it is compromised or interrupted, the sound and steady growth of the china u. S. Relationship will be out of question. The u. S. Has maintained this policy since 1979. A massive storm is blasting millions of americans with snow and freezing rain from the great lakes to the northeast. The snow piled up on roads in michigan overnight and made the driving there very dangerous. Cars skidded onto the shoulder inches of snow. This map shows the arctic air swirling over the northeastern tier of the country. Areas in Washington State to maine have new snow on the ground right now. Tony dokoupil is in jamestown, new york, in the middle of the storm. Big stretches of upstate new york are under more than two feet of snow this morning. Sometimes much more than two feet. Take a look at this street sign next to me. Its all contributed to more than 90 crashes in this county alone. Reporter snow and ice buried parts of the midwest and northeast sunday night. Covering cars, coating roads, and sending drivers careening off of them. The thick blanket of powder looked beautiful from the air. But it was a nightmare on the ground. Difficult to clean up and nearly impossible to drive through. One of the worst storms youve dealt with . One of. This just one stops and no break at all. Reporter jeff runs a towing his drivers have been working around the clock. I give them a lot of credit for staying in it. I mean, they are tired, they are wore out. This snowstorm just didnt quit. My people handle over 50 just car crashes. Reporter the county sheriff joe gerashi not unfamiliar to see several crashes after the first major storm. Speed is the major fact in most of the crashes. They go too fast. Reporter icy conditions contributed to this pileup in michigan on interstate 75 and a plane slid off the runway after landing at Detroit Metro airport during the storm. At most airports, the problem was simply getting off the ground. More than 1,200 flights were cancelled at chicagos ohare and midway airports through sunday. Richard watson is worried about his health after getting stuck during the layover. Well, im a little concerned because i am a liver transplant patient and last night was the last dose of that im carrying so i need to get back to washington today. Reporter jamestown may get a break later today with the snow falling, turning to rain. But they have another 15 feet of snow, on average, in a winter before the season is through. Thanks, tony. It is snowing hard in much of new england. This is how it looks right no you in worcester, massachusetts. Danielle niles of wbz is in and over near the New Hampshire border. Danielle, good morning. Reporter charlie, good morning to you. So i have to say just within the last 30 minutes or so, we have made the transition over to rain after a sloppy, just over 2 inches of snow. Not a big storm here in southern new england, but enough to snarl the commute with really poor timing here. Satellite and radar shows the snow across central and northern new england. That rain snow line has been progressing northward here and will continue to do so through the remainder of the day. A lot of this is going to be wrapping up from westtoeast pretty quickly here by morning and afternoon. Snowfall totals areoi most impressive the farther north you head so its been a couple of inches here in southern new england. Some spots seeing 3, 4 inches, 5 by the time its all said and done. 6 more from northern New Hampshire, as much as a foot in the highest terrain of the White Mountains stretching back up to the crown of maine by the time the day is done. After that, its all about the cold. Big blast coming in and big trough that is going to dig down out of central canada and that is going to spread east and what that means for portions of the northern plains, midwest, and here in the northeast, as there will be singledigit temperature readings and windchill values subzero accompanied by snow squalls for friday and saturday. That is cold, danielle. A jury has convicted the man charged with killing former pro Football Player will smith. A new orleans jury found Cardell Hayes guilty of manslaughter last night. Hayes shot the former Saints Player during an april road of manslaughter for wounding smiths wife. David begnaud is outside of the courthouse with reaction to the verdict. Reporter the closing arguments were dramatic. You had a prosecutor who is the daughter of the elected d. A. Yelling because she said the defense was trying to serve the jury some garbage. The defense went so long in their closing argument, some members of the jury were falling asleep. Im talking nodding off and out cold. The jury which had been sequestered about a week came back with a verdict in less than seven hours. Will smiths former coach sean payton rushed home from the teams game in florida sunday to join smiths family in court and he was there when it was announced that Cardell Hayes was guilty. John hayes is fullers attorney. Continue to pray for all of the families. Reporter Surveillance Video appeared to sho smith rearend hayes hummer and drive away. Hayes then followed smith and bumped into his mercedes. Smiths blood alcohol content was nearly three limit. Hayes shot smith eight times in a deadly confrontation that followed and smiths wife wraqul was shot in the leg but survived. He testified that smith punched him and feared he was going to be shot but those claims were never supported by forensic evidence and although the police recovered a loaded gun from smiths suv but no evidence he ever grabbed that gun. Lel legal analyst. You said chip hayes was the best witness for the defense but bad facts. He was the best witness for the defense but his facts were so bad he couldnt overcome them. Mr. Hayes, how did raquel smith get shot . He couldnt answer the statement. Reporter a statement said her heart is full of gratitude. Several of smiths teammates visited the courthouse during the weeklong trial including former saints running back deuce mcallister. No way any party could win. Just because there is a guilty or not guilty verdict doesnt mean it starts over now. She will get up in the morning and her husband is not there and the kids get up in the morning and their father is not there. Reporter interestingly in louisiana, jury doesnt have to be unanimous in order to achieve a verdict and exactly what happened in this case. Ten people were for manslaughter and two for something else. By the way, Cardell Hayes is facing up to 40 years in prison for that manslaughter conviction. It is interesting it does not have to be unanimous, david. Thank you. Your ride for uber might not be over when you think it is. That story is ahead. First, its time to check your local weather. The president elect is on a collision course with top senators over russia. Ahead, republican john mccain and democrat Chuck Schumer respond to mr. Trumps suggestion that cia intelligence is politically motivated. The news is back in the morning right here on cbs this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. 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