♪ >> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday, march 3rd, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." attorney general jeff sessions agrees to stay out of the investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 election. why the russian ambassador that sessions met during the campaign has been called washington's most dangerous diplomat. cat scan revolutionized medicine now coming to airport checkpoints. first on "cbs this morning," the technology that promises to speed up those tsa security lines. we take you to antarctica where eco tourists are providing much-needed support for climate change scientists facing budget cuts. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds.

>> i performed exactly correctly for an attorney general of the united states. % >> the attorney general recuses himself from the russian investigation. >> lied under oath is grounds for him to resign. >> democrats are going crazy across the board. i believe in his own mind he was being truthful, that the contact he had with the russian ambassador was as senator sessions, not as a campaign operative. >> total. have confidence. u.s. forces conducted a massive series of strikes in yemen. >> as governor mike pence routinely used a private e-mail account for state business and was hacked. >> their principle attack on hillary was because she used a private e-mail. >> just-released video at the center of a civil rights lawsuit alleging a georgia teenager was killed by deputies. >> he was in custody, he wasn't fighting, had no weapons.

he shouldn't be dead. >> snapchat now valued at over $35 million after a hugely successful ipo. >> newly released video shows russian fighter jets buzzing a u.s. navy destroyer in the black sea last month. >> all that -- >> sensational play from the bench. >> that's a great catch. >> you got to be kidding me. >> it goes! what a shot! >> all that matters. >> how are your parents doing? >> thank you for asking. they're doing great. >> i can't help but think maybe he was faking a little so he didn't have to go to the inauguration. >> that wasn't a joke. >> on "cbs this morning." >> trump gave a speech on the deck of the brant new carrier "u.s.s. gerald ford" and difficult bued a new look. >> they just gave me this beautiful jacket and said here, mr. president, let me take this home. >> like grandpa just stepped out

of the changing room at the army surplus store. >> announcer: this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> i thought he looked pretty good in that bomber jacket, stephen colbert. that's a funny joke. welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is off. he was spotted in central park yesterday walking the dog. so he's doing okay. all is right with the world. he's coming back soon. >> there are spotters out there. >> there are spotters. anthony mason is with us. attorney general jeff sessions says he will have no role in the faib investigations of possible ties between the trump campaign and russia's government. the former alabama senator insists his meetings last year were not improper. president trump said in a statement last night, jeff sessions is an honest man. he did not say anything wrong. the president blames the democrats calling it a total

witch hunt. >> the russian foreign minister is also using the word witch hunt. ambassador skak also met before the inauguration with the president's son-in-law and add vieder, jared kushner and future national security adviser michael flynn. jeff pegues has more with what led to the attorney general's move. >> reporter: good morning. the timing of the meetings is important. keep in mind the fbi was tracking russian operatives here in the u.s. because of the expanding investigation into russian cyberattacks on democratic party officials during the 2016 election. >> i have recused myself in matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says he wants no involvement in any investigation related to the trump campaign and denied accusations of collusion with the russians. >> i never had meetings with russian operatives or

intermediaries about the trump campaign. >> the announcement came less than a day after sessions acknowledged having two meetings with russian am bar does sergey kislyak last year, something he did not reveal while under oath at his confirmation hearing. >> i have been called a surrogate as a time or two in that campaign. i did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: the attorney general said on thursday he thought he was telling the truth. >> in retrospect, i should have slowed down and said, but i did meet one russian official a couple times. >> reporter: in february 2016, then senator sessions was among the first lawmakers to endorse candidate trump and he became a top surrogate. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: at an event during the republican national convention in july, he had a conversation with kislyak. then in september, the two met in the alabama senator's capitol

hill office. >> i think i've performed exactly correctly for an attorney general of the united states. >> reporter: last night on fox news, sessions said the russian ambassador initiated that meeting where they discussed ukraine, but not the campaign. >> i don't believe anybody that was in that meeting would have seen or believed i said one thing that was improper or unwise. >> reporter: sergey kislyak is well known in washington for reaching out to u.s. politicians and their surrogates. it was his conversation with mike flynn that ended up getting flynn fired from his job as national security adviser for the president. counterintelligence experts say anyone working at the russian embassy here in washington is viewed by law enforcement with suspicion, viewed as part of the kremlin's spy network. even the russian ambassador. >> jeff pegues, thanks. president trump also backed

his attorney general earlier in the day. he spoke out during his trip to support his plan for a major increase in military spending. the president went to a next generation aircraft carrier to argue the u.s. must show its power to the world. margaret brennan is at the bhous with more. margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. touring the navy's newest ship, president trump took time to say he believes attorney general jeff sessions did nothing wrong. the president is increasingly frustrated by persistent questions about russian contacts with his top aides during the campaign. >> we will give our military the tools you need to prevent war. >> reporter: to make his case for military expansion, president trump went aboard the navy's newest aircraft carrier "the gerald r. ford." at the cost of $13 billion, the most expensive military ship ever built. >> this carrier and the new ships in the ford class will expand the ability of our nation

to carry out vital missions. >> reporter: but questions as to why trump campaign adviser senator jeff sessions did not disclose meetings with the russian ambassador distracted from the president's tour. >> mr. president do you still have confidence in the attorney general? >> total. >> reporter: as attorney general, sessiontion would oversee all investigations into russia. any collusion or contact with moscow during the campaign has been repeatedly denied by president trump. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. >> reporter: recent revelations led justice department lawyers to decide he should not have any role in the on going probe. >> therefore, i have recused myself -- >> reporter: yet hours earlier the president told reporters he disagreed and said sessions should oversee the investigation. >> when did you first learn sessions spoke to the russian ambassador? did you know during the campaign? when were you aware he spoke to the russian ambassador? >> i wasn't aware at all.

>> do you hi she should have spoken truthfully about -- >> he probably did. >> reporter: the white house says any suggestion of impropriety is politically motivated. senior european officials tell me behind closed doors the trump white house is quietly forming a new russia policy with a more skeptical view as u.s. allies tell them about why spread russian military provocations and continued interference in elections abroad. >> the plot thickens. thank you very much, margaret. cbs news political director and "face the nation" moderator john dickerson joins us from washington. hello, john. >> hello, gayle. >> now that mr. sessions recused himself from this investigation, do you think that's enough for the administration to move forward? >> the best way to move forward is for donald trump to keep following up on the promises he made on the campaign trail, but also for there to stop being situations where you have people connected to the administration

saying things at odds with the truth. you had first michael flynn, the national security adviser, now the attorney general. even though attorney general sessions is of a different order than michael flynn in terms of what he said, the job he's in is one in which forthrightness is the most important part of the job, and that's the problem here, is that he wasn't forthright and he's the one who is supposed to bend over backwards. >> we're looking at a picture on the screen. like a song out of "empire" where we heard the president say no one i know has had contact. we see his son-in-law, the attorney general, former national security adviser and former campaign manager. >> the key here is when the contact took place. there's nothing wrong with jared kushner, a senior adviser to the president, or the national security adviser having contact after the leaks. they were coming in, this is a transition, they meet with the russians. there are people who obviously are at odds with the way that president trump looks at the russians from a national security perspective.

but the contacts after the election are not as big a deal as the contacts before the election. they're still reporting former national security adviser flynn was in contact with the russians during the actual election. that's where the focus of the questioning is in terms of whether anybody in the trump transition -- sorry -- the trump campaign was involved in russian meddling with the election. that's different than contacts after the election took place. >> john, some democrats are calling for a special prosecutor here. do you think with republicans controlling krong there's any chance of that? >> the special prosecutor would have to come from the attorney general, the acting attorney general -- excuse me -- deputy attorney general because jeff sessions recused himself. the only way that seems to me is going to happen is if the pressure comes from republicans on the administration through future disclosures. if there's more that comes out, that suggests this needs to be looked at or if somehow the on going investigation is somehow tainted. i think it's probably still unlike lie, but it's these kinds

of revelations keep rolling out, perhaps the pressure grows. >> president trump was elected by an electorate that wanted change in washington, legislative change, the draining of the swamp. these stories, how much do they distract from, 'em battle a white house from what is a pretty aggressive legislative agenda that they're trying to jump start just this month? >> in terms of the people who voted for him, these stories are an irritant and don't really distract from the white house. when president trump is on an aircraft carrier talking about $54 million in increased spending on defense, perhaps 30 more billion on top of that and goes to talk about school choice today, that's what the people who elected him today see and want. they think of this russian business as a confection of the press. if you continue to have republicans speaking out, that's what changes the politics of this even more because you have people of the president's own team saying, wait, there's something here, more here.

you need to be more forthright. that's what breaks it out of the normal partisan sorting that goes on with this kind of thing. that's when it can become something that really gets in the way of the white house. >> john, thank you very much, i'll see you on sunday "face the nation." he'll be speaking with mark warner and leon panetta. that's sunday right here on cbs. republican leaders say they are close to unveiling a new health care plan. gop senator rand paul say he and other conservative lawmakers have not been allowed to see it. >> thoos are democrat ideas dressed up in republican clothing. this should be done openly in the public, and conservatives who have objection who don't want to volunteer it, should be allowed to see with the bill. >> paul accused fellow republicans of employing secretive tactics. a second night of u.s. air against al qaeda targets in yemen have been confirmed.

american forces carried out more than 20 strikes yesterday against the militant group. they targeted al qaeda positions, weapons systems and equipment in remote areas. at least seven militants were reportedly killed. it's the largest operation in yemen since a january raid that left a navy s.e.a.l. dead along with dozen of yemenis. a high-speed police chase ended in the death of a teenager. nicholas dikes ma led sheriff's deputies in harris county, georgia, on a dangerous ten-mile chase in 2015. when the deputies stopped his truck, they repeatedly tasered him and dragged him to the ground. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. mark strassmann is in hamilton, georgia, with how his family pushed for release of the dash came video. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. nicholas made two mistakes back in august of 2015. he used meth and he ran from police. his parents say none of that

justifies what happened next, and they want you to watch this video so it never happens again. >> [ bleep ]. >> after a roughly ten-mile chase, harris county sheriff's deputies approached nicholas dikes tra's struck. deputies smashed his window, tased him, pulled him from the truck, threw him to the ground and cussed him. you can see one deputy putting his knee on the back of his neck for roughly 40 seconds. a few minutes later they noticed the teenager had stopped moving. >> hey. >> is he alive? >> deputies originally responded to a call about a man sleeping in his truck. when they woke him right away, he took off. once they caught him and subdued him and he stopped breathing, deputies didn't start cpr until nearly ten minutes later. >> it is heartbreaking to imagine what happened. >> nicholas's mom tammy can't

bring herself to watch the video. >> you feel as though your son was executed? >> yes. >> because? >> because i think that they were really rough with him. i think they were brutal to him. >> nicholas's autopsy report listed three causes of death. use of the stun gun and compression to the neck and torso. it also says the third cause was methamphetamine intoxication. >> he made a mistake by running. he made a mistake by taking meth that may have influenced his judgment. but last time i checked, that's not a capital offense. >> i know he shouldn't have run. i understand that, but it really wasn't their place to end his life. >> the family has filed a civil suit against the harris county sheriff's office. we reached out to them for comment. they did not respond. the county's district attorney's office says the death is under investigation, and for that

reason, they can't comment either. anthony? >> mark, thanks. the founders of the company behind snap chap are billionaires on paper. snap, inc. led by evan spiegel and bobby murphy made the wall street debut, they closed at $24.48 a share. snap shares up again this morning. joe schlessinger is here with other numbers that some analysts don't like. jill, good morning. >> good morning. >> one of the numbers they probably don't like is the fact that this company lost half a billion dollars last year. >> yes. >> how is it so popular in ipo? >> i think it has a lot to do with the 158 million daily active users. you've got all those eyeballs and younger eyeballs, what advertisers really like. if you're on investor what you're saying is, i know they lost half a billion dlaft lars year, but they will figure out a way to monetize all those users.

this is going to be a hit. what's really fascinating about it is, there had not been a lot of tech i p. os in the last couple years. so this really pushed through, oversubscribed. everyone wanted a piece of the action. >> if you're a billionaire on paper, how long before you're a billionaire in the bank? >> that depends on how long it takes them to convert this. they have aggressive objectives for the company. when you look at the offering documents and they say, hey, we want to build up our revenue and they've got ambitions. again, the devil is in the details. is this facebook or is this twitter? remember facebook went public -- >> worked out really well. >> twitter not so much. >> not so much. facebook up five-fold. it's amazing to look at it. if you look at a chart of facebook, it tanked on the first year and climbed back up. five-fold. twitter, similar kind of concept here. twitter went public, lots of fanfare, but then it's down by about two-thirds from its ipo

value. so we don't know which way this is going to go. >> facebook did that with a lot of mobile advertising which is the bulk of their profit. does snap have a platform that can support mobile advertising? >> well, it's unclear right now. and i think part of what they have been doing and one of the reasons they've been losing money is investing in those platforms. so we'll see if they can make it. it's exciting. as my mother would say, why couldn't you fall in love with somebody like that, those founders. they seem like very nice boys. >> and you're very taken. >> yes. >> thank you, jill. always good to see you. new security scanners could speed up airport screening by 50%. first on "cbs this morning," we look at the 3d technology that may end the need to take things out of your ,,

the russian ambassador at the center of the jeff sessions controversy has been described as washington's most dangerous

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♪ a big controversy. attorney general jeff sessions is in trouble because he was caught lying under oath about contacting the russians during the elections. when asked if the allegations were true, sessions said abc utilitily nyet. >> i can't believe jeff sessions lied to america, especially after this country spent so many years buying his cookies. >> genuinely this could be a case of international espionage. sessions says he met with the russians, but he also says he didn't tell them anything. it's actually inspired a brand new jason bourne movie. it's called "do you think we were born yesterday." >> that's a look at how some of

the late night folks handled today's top story, attorney general jeff sessions recusing himself in the investigation between the trump campaign and russia's government. time to show you some of this morning's other headlines. "new york times" says top advisers to president trump are split over the paris agreement on climate change. during his campaign mr. trump promised to cancel the international deal to curb global warming. chief strategist bannon wants the u.s. to fill out. rex tillerson and ivanka trump want to stick to the agreement to avoid any diplomatic backlash. the hill reports on two new members of the trump cabinet. retired neurosurgeon ben carson was sworn in yesterday as the secretary of housing and urban development and former texas governor, rick perry, was sworn in as energy secretary. vice president mike pence administered the oath of office. "the chicago tribune"s

reports years of federal scrutiny led to raids at the heavy equipment maker caterpillar, warrants issued in the company headquarters in peoria, illinois. caterpillar says the search may be related to a tax investigation of an overseas subsidiary that dodged the company for eight years. the "wall street journal" reports human error, a typo caused an hours-long outage of amazon's web services this week. those cloud services have more than a billion users. companies say the outage cost them $150 million in lost business. researchers say the websites of 54 of the internet's top 100 retailers were slowed down by more than 20%. >> something so small can cause something so big, that's very scary. politico takes a closer look at the russian ambassador. the center of the controversy surrounding jeff sessions. sessions failed to disclose two meetings with sergei kislyak during his confirmation

hearings. the fbi is investigating whether people associated with the trum campaign colluded. russia's foreign minister called the scandal a witch hunt. jan crawford has more. >> reporter: counterintelligence agencies are always suspicious of russian officials here in the u.s. there is routine surveillance. kislyak has been on the fbi's radar for some time. now he's at the center of controversy involving the trump administration's contacts with russia. >> it's not my first time in the states and i lived here in the cold war. >> for nearly a decade sergey kislyak has been russia's link to washington. >> in a way he's a man behind enemy lines were politico's michael crowley describes kislyak as russia's most dangerous diplomat. >> at a time when putin is one of the great villains, his job

primarily is to gather information and report back to moscow. >> reporter: over the years he's met with senators and top officials. in recent months with then u.s. senator jeff sessions who said thursday he did not meet with the ambassador as a trump campaign surrogate. kislyak did speak with several members of the trump administration including the president's son-in-law and close adviser jared kushner. a senior white house official confirmed kushner and general mike flynn briefly spoke with the ambassador at trump tower in december, a meeting which the white house described as an inconsequential hello, came around the time kushner and flynn melt with dozens of other diplomats. flynn stepped down last month as national security adviser after failing to disclose to then vice president elect pence the entire truth about phone calls he had with kislyak before the election. on thursday night former trump campaign adviser carter page said he also had contact with

the ambassador when he spoke at the republican national convention. >> i'm not going to deny i talked with him. >> you did talk to him? >> i will say i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. >> you have trump officials who have been shown to have given inaccurate accounts of their contacts with the russian ambassador. really no one is saying it's inherently unacceptable they had these contacts or conversations. why were they giving accounts that just don't square up with the facts? >> reporter: no, kislyak has met with numerous lawmakers including senior democrats, and not every appearance is a red flag. he was spotted earlier in the week at president trump's speech to congress. the house sergeant at arms invites the entire diplomatic core. they set aside about 100 seats just for diplomats. >> jan crawford at the russian embassy, thank you. no doubt an effort going on within the white house and top

advisers to see if there's any other meetings that need to be disclosed. >> a long time since a russian ambassador has been in the spotlight like this one. >> you were a correspondent in moscow, weren't you? >> yeah, i was. veteran diplomats like this who speak english as well as he did in those days were quite suspicious. so the suspicion is understood. white house senior adviser kellyanne conway is opening up about the pressures of working in the male-dominated world of politics. i recently spoke with her and her family in their new jersey home. she explained how she gave up money, privacy and time with her family to take a plum job in the white house. i asked whether she ever considered making a political run of her own. >> it's not just the fire in your belly anybody. you have to have the bile in your throat. this is why i think many women don't run for office. >> bile in your throat. >> yes, just to swallow so much, that the country looks at you through this negative lens and corruption and cronyism and lying and you want money and

you're motivated by power. >> so she's to run for office, she says. but we'll talk about some of the controversy she has faced in the white house in her role. what she's actually doing in the white house and her husband is being mentioned as the choice for solicitor general, the administration's top lawyer. he's very quiet and camera shy. we talked to him a little bit. >> i'm very interested to see. you very seldom see anything about her life. she's a mother of four children, an accomplishment there, young children still. she's married, successful. i'm very interested to see what she's like. >> there's lots of interesting things we discussed. you have to tune in on sunday. >> what does she think about the saturd"saturday night live" impressions. they have a new show this week. >> we talk about those. we do talk about those, about whether they went too far. >> all right. >> you can see my full interview kellyanne conway on cbs sunday

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♪ >> the tsa found a record number of firearms at airport screening checkpoints in a single day. officers discovered 21 firearms in carry-on bags nationwide last ur that broke the previous record of 18 set in 2014. the news comes as the tsa expects to screen the highest number of travellers in a decade during the spring break travel

period. around 62 million people are expected to go through airport security this month alone. >> to help speed things up, the tsa is considering new scanners for carry-on bags. these machines produce 3d images similar to ct scans. kris van cleave got a preview you'll see first only on "cbs this morning" and joins us from reagan national airport outside washington, d.c. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the technology at checkpoints like this one can be up to a decade old. the idea of x-raying a bag goes back way longer than that. the future could land technology that changed the gaemt when it came to medicine. it would allow screeners to see into your bags the way they can't right now, and that could really speed up the line. >> you called this game changing. why? >> because there's nothing else like it at a security checkpoint right now. >> here is why. can you spot the knife hidden in this bag. >> that's why tsa asks you to

remove your laptop, to are this reason. but using your finger, manipulate it around and there it is. >> suddenly that knife is impossible to miss with new 3d ct technology, providing side by side images on a touch screen that can zoom and spin a bag for a true 360-degree view. >> vice president at analogic, one of about five companies developing ct scanners for airport checkpoints. >> the ct machines to people means radiation. i don't want to get radiated on my way to my flight. >> these produce the same amount of radiation to the system that's at the checkpoint now. there's no difference, and we use all kinds of radiation shielding inside the machine to make sure there's no leakage. >> reporter: the machines can detect explosives in laptops, liquids and gels which means the days to have to take things out of your bags could be number.

>> it's taken data sets and using algorithms to give us the information we need to determine whether or not it's explosive material or innocent. >> look what it does to this densely packed carry-on. >> that's the bag packed with clothes. it looks empty. >> right. >> the clearer picture should reduce the need for secondary bag checks. when paired with automated lanes being tested at airports, analogic believes the scanners should increase productivity at checkpoints by as much as 50%. >> a much faster process for passengers. it's going to make travel fun again. >> you might be the only person in america that described the screening process as making travel fun again. >> it is a major stress point for passengers today. >> passenger patience wore thin last year as security wait times stretched for hours. safety has also been a concern. a 2015 internal review revealed tsa officers failed to

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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is aren't you glad it's friday, march 3rd, 2017? welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including a new installment of the climate diary series, why scientists in antarctica say they're counting on tourists to help them do their work. first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. president trump took time to say he believes that jeff sessions did nothing wrong. the fbi, along with the house of the intelligence community was tracking russian operatives here in the u.s. >> now that mr. sessions has recused himself, do you think that's enough for the administration to move forward? >> the best way to move forward

and put this behind them is to stop having situations where people in the administration are saying things that are at odds with the truth. he ran from the police but his parents say none of that justifies what happened next. does snap have a platform that can support mobile advertising? >> it's unclear right now. we'll see if they can make it. it's exciting. and as my mother would say, why couldn't you fall in love with somebody like that, those founders? they're very nice boys. accountants at pricewaterhousecooper who botched the oscars have received death threats. death threat! the fbi tried to investigate but the accountants handed them the wrong hate mail and, uh, it's a problem. i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason. charlie is off. president trump is giving full support to his attorney general, who says he will not take part in any investigation of the 2016

campaign. including russian interference of the elections. jeff sessions' announcement came a day after the news that he did not disclose meetings with russia's u.s. ambassador during his confirmation hearing. the two men spoke twice last year, once during the republican national convention and once in september. sessions says that meeting focused on international matters. >> we talked about a number of issues. one of them was the ukraine. and we had a disagreement over that. ukrainian ambassador had been in to my office for a meeting the day before. i don't recall any discussion of the campaign, in any significant way. it was, in no way some sort of coordinating of an effort of doing anything improper. and i don't believe anybody that was in that meeting would have seen or believed i said one thing that was improper or unwise. >> sessions said he should have told the committee that he met

with the ambassador but says criticism is unfair. more than 100 democrats have called for him to resign. president trump last night said jeff sessions is an honest man. he could have stated his more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional. the statement also accused democrats of, quote, a total witch hunt. >> reporter ed o'keefe is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> it was your paper that first disclosed these meetings that the attorney general had with the russians ambassador. now we have a series of top advisers to president trump who have met with the russian ambassador. if there was nothing improper or nefarious about these meetings, why, perhaps, the effort to conceal them? >> that's what we want to know, frankly. you would think if they want to move on to changing the health care laws, revamping the tax system, getting a supreme court nominee confirmed with no problems they would try to get through this as quickly as possible. instead it's been dripping, dripping, dripping every single day of this administration.

>> what are the key questions? >> what exactly he was discussing with the russian ambassador at the convention and in september with his private meeting. part of the reason is he was part of the member of the senate arms committee. he might have met regularly with defense officials, military officials but why an ambassador? that's reserved for members of the foreign relations and intelligence committees. given that everything was going on in the reports surfacing about russian interference at the time, that's what's concerning. we in the press and certainly others want to know why else were people talking to them during the campaign? during the transition, that makes sense. they were reaching out to foreign governments and entities at that point. during the campaign, especially around that time when he was a prominent surrogate, one wonders what was going on. >> you talk about mr. sessions, was it a lie, ed, or just omission? >> yesterday he seemed to suggest it's an omission. that's why these questions continue to sit there unanswered. what were they discussing, why did he feel the need, especially

when so many other senators said they had no contact at all that year with the russian ambassador. >> several other republicans are breaking ranks and saying -- >> that said everything. he may have been getting legal advice through the justice department that he had to recuse himself. the senator that introduced him to the committee formally, key swing states and vulnerable republican members of the house who may face tough re-elections because of the president's unpopularity came out quickly. >> promise to repeal and replace obamacare by march, tax reform by august. what are some of the signs that that may happen or they may hit roadblocks? >> members of both parties are run tri-ing to find copies of the actual reform plan. >> even republican. >> exactly. they don't have it yet. part of the reason they don't have it, they just finished confirming most of the cabinet. the senate can't do anything else but confirm these people. the other is because they can't figure out the detail.

>> the tom price plan largely that he put forward when he was in the house. >> 40 very conservative republicans, members of the freedom caucus, raising concerns about his price or it doesn't go far enough to totally revamp the law. if those 40 are making trouble while democrats don't want to do anything to change the law, it could get stuck. >> how far away from this are they, ed? >> from health care reform? >> yes. >> i would be surprised if it got done before memorial day, honestly. it stretches into the summer at least. then you begin tax reform somewhat concurrently. this will take a little while. >> ed o'keefe, always good to have you at the table. >> good to see you guys. george w. bush is back in the spotlight after keeping a low profile during the obama administration. a new book that pays tribute to military veterans and is not shy about making pointed comments about the current political scene. vlad duthiers is here.

good morning. >> good morning. he has tried to avoid the public spotlight but 2017 is a new year, donald trump is the new president and 43 has reluctantly been drawn back in. former president bush has been busy lately, balancing his way through a publicity tour for his new book. >> you're closer to her than barack? >> uh -- let's put it this way. he has never given me a hug that way. >> yeah. >> but questions about the current administration are hard to avoid for a former president. >> i love humor. >> right, sure. >> the best humor is when you make fun of yourself. >> well, tell that to the president. >> especially in today's polarized, political climate. >> politics, you know, my whole view is i don't think it serves the nation or the office of president to have a former president criticize his successors. >> thank you, mr. president. >> only days earlier on national tv, bush advocated for a free

press. >> it's important. >> some construed as a dig to president trump. >> i'm asked the question, do i believe in free press. the answer is absolutely. i answered that question. of course, the headlines were bush criticizes trump. therefore i need to say there should be a free and independent press but it ought to be accurate. >> in the latest issue of "people" magazine, he criticized the current political discourse as pretty ugly adding, i don't like the racism and i don't like the name calling and i don't like the people feeling alienated. but for the former president, who stayed clear of politics for the better part of a decade he offer this had warning. >> there's isolationism in our country and i would argue that's dangerous to our national security and doesn't befit the character of the country. >> in the book president bush

has been promoting is a collection of his oil paintings, which honor military veterans. the net proceeds will be used to help post 9/11 veterans and their families. >> ellen gave him a poncho. >> because of the video of him during the inauguration. >> with a big sign this end up. >> very funny, too. >> sense of humor. so well respected. >> you know, he didn't want his hair to fly away. we can all relate to that. not really. >> thank you, vlad. yes, we're aware, you don't have hair. >> yes, i am. thank you. >> you're welcome. antarctica could be considered a working vacation. >> they call this place paradise bay, antarctica. i'm mark phillips and this is the place where tourism meets science. coming up on "cbs this morning." >> this is the

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many scientists are worried about the future of the viernltsal protection agency. the trump administration wants to cut the epa's budget by around 25%. that proposal includes a significant reduction of staff as well, but as mark phillips discovered on a recent trip to antarctica for his climate diary series, a new funding project is giving scientists hope. tourists are paying for a trip of a lifetime along with researchers who are tagging alo along. >> reporter: ready for more than your average holiday, coming to antarctica as a tourist can be a truly shocking experience.

it's a trip for the intrepid and not just because they can do this. it's a full immersion expense in so many ways. the operators don't call these cruises. they call them expeditions. and that's not just the way of adding to the romance of falling in the food steps of the great explorers, of seeing things off the beaten track. it's because these trips also involve science. >> they take time-lapse pictures. >> reporter: like the research he's doing. this documentary of the ever increasing speed of the glacial ice flo probably wouldn't happen if the tourists didn't come ha here you get this hybrid mix where people are paying big bucks to come down as a tourist trip but it also helps the kind

of work that you do. >> yeah, it is a formula that i would like to see continue. >> reporter: it may have to. with an administration of climate change skeptics in washington, the science that gets done on these trips might not otherwise happen. >> you can clearly see this big trend of increasing temperatures that's been happening. >> reporter: ken taylor is one of the em nenltd scientists whose work has provided essential data on the earth's climate history and he says the writing about funding cuts has been on the wall since day 1. >> we've already gotting indication from our funding agency that we should anticipate budget cuts. >> you should anticipate budget cuts. >> it didn't take very long after the election for that to come down. >> reporter: when the research is government funded the money doesn't go far enough. john durbin is a noaa efficiency

expert and checks on the whales. but there's no way he and poly fernbeck couldn't get here if they didn't get a ride from the tour operators who see, bringing actual scientists along as part of the appeal to their customers. >> it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars if you were to charter a research vessel. it's a wonderful relationship that we have. >> a relationship that has to continue if the work is to go on. >> this is the seventh year in a row we've conducted research on the ship. we've studied animals. to understand them and take opportunities with them, it takes multiple years. >> reporter: the tourists for all the fun they're having are effectively underwriting the sciencelet part of the substantial ticket prices for adventures like this goes to covering the cost of the work that's being done on board and not only don't the tourists seem

to mind, they think it's a good idea. many like laurie fye from austin came here for more than the thrills. they came out of a sense of commitment to the environmental cause. >> i really think it's a shame that the science is in the cross hairs of politics because it t take much to can see assists we are having a detrimental on the ollectively world. >> reporter: they come here for the experience, and they leave with even more than memories. they leave with knowledge. the scientists on board give the tourists a sense of purpose, and if it weren't for the tourists, the scientists wouldn't be here. it's a marriage made in heaven. mark phillips, "cbs this morning," antarctica. >> absolutely beautiful. >> i'm not a fan of the cold but i would like to do that. i haven't seen a penguin in person. >> we could get you up there? >> i would actually do that.

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onlooker traffic at 20 miles per hour. slow traffic on northbound 880 in oakland. lighter at the bay bridge toll plaza. thank you, roqui. good morning, everyone. sfo 35-minute delays on some arriving flights. it's cloudy there and will be mostly cloudy by the evening commute everywhere. we're 38 degrees in santa rosa, 40s the peninsula bay and inland of the here's futurecast. you notice today the clouds continue to thicken. then we watch for rain beginning in the north bay right there. it will occur in the morning hours and dance around the north bay before slicing across the bay area. 6:00, 7:00 in the evening hours. by 9 p.m., almost out of the morgan hill area. spotty scattered showers for your sunday. ,,,,,,,,

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it has lost its cool factor. what are we going to do about that? >> it's still on the comeback trail. >> it's been coming back for a while, john. >> yeah. i had to settle the company down first. we were having sales problems with the handset, it was important to make sure we, a, have a very strong, financial foundation and then, b, invest in the future that matters. and then, c, slowly get the handset back into the picture. >> right. >> so, anyway, that's kind of the plan. and it's too long of a conversation here. >> but you're unveiling a new smart phone. you've unveiled a new smart phone but are outsourcing the hardware now. >> we managed, provide all the software, all the security for the phones. all the interface that you're used to and a lot of new stuff that we will still do and provide, we manage that. we have other people building hardwares, free license fees so

far and we'll probably have a lot. it gets to kind of focus on the internet of things where each device, whether it's a washer, dryer, whatever it might be, telephones, they all have better software. we want to get to every single one of them. >> what does a blackberry have that an apple iphone or samsung does not? >> better batteries. >> yeah. on the hardware side, better batteries, no keyboards. and e-mail. a lot of you grew up without e-mail on the interface. but most importantly it's about security. we are the most secure infrastructure software. >> are there certain government agencies or ceo types that are only using blackberry for that secure reason? >> obviously, former president obama uses a blackberry. >> does he still have his? >> i'm sorry?

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time, i've been advocating about diversity and in our industry fashion and beauty is always considered a size 2 or 0, i wanted to change the dialogue and be part of this movement where no matter what size they are, as a designer i celebrate essence of a woman around her shape and size. so i've been wanting to do that. and there were a few incidents that happened, you know. one of them was during one of my trunk shows i've gone to. and when i met all these women that come, a curvier woman who had come there. and she wanted to try the collection. and she was hesitant. and i was also on the diversity panel of models and everyone is talking about race and everything. and then one of the women said what about plus size? they said oh, we'll get to you. that kind of got to me. >> we'll get to you. >> yeah. that kind of really bothered me. i thought if i really -- my

thing has been again about incluson. if i want to make any change, have a conversation of change, it needs to start with inclusion. >> candice, the attitude of we'll get to you. you tell us about how hard it has been in the past to find fashion. >> yes. they've been getting to us for about a decade. >> where would you have to go? >> well, you're kind of, sort of shuttered away on your computer, really. up until recently, that was -- >> even in place of stores? >> when you had the opportunity to shop in a store, that also was sort of a dirty little secret and it would be hiding in the back of a floor it didn't belong on. you know, one time i walked through the homewares. >> home goods. >> mattresses, night stands in order to get to a collection of, let's say, five racks that were disorganized and that was all you had offered to you. >> given how big the audience is for this -- >> it's shocking.

>> $20 billion industry. >> why don't retailers reach out more aggressively? why do you have to push back so hard? >> that's what we're trying to change. it's changing the conversation. it's also changing the visual. it's changing their perception of what they perceived a curvy or plus-sized woman to look like or to even desire in the past when it comes to fashion. so, there are a lot of misconceptions about her. therefore, they didn't really know maybe how to serve her. >> misconceptions like? >> she's not fashionable. she doesn't care about having quality fashion. she's not going to stay in this body forever. this is temporary. which means she doesn't want to spend money on fashion. >> the conversation, as i mentioned earlier, it's about size two. and it's very one dimensional idea, you know. >> what's the reaction from the fashion community to you? >> you know, it's been mixed. i have got a great support for a certain section of them. one of the reasons when i talked

to lane bryant i wanted to have an elevated conversation. so, we chose the best photographer and told the story through vogue. that's heightest fashion. i wanted to do that. i wanted this woman to know that i see her, that she matters to me. >> you just said the number. $20 billion. >> and growing. >> in 2016 is the women's plus size apparel, increase of over 17% since 2013. nike also just launched a plus-sized line. what does this signal? if you want to be at the top of the fashion industry, you've got to serve this market. it's a growing market. >> absolutely. absolutely. and now more than ever, you know. for me, you know, in the world we live in where the other is happening so much it's time we get together. >> it can't happen in fashion. you can't make things for women and exclude -- >> two-thirds.

>> a huge group of them. >> you look good and, mayy i say, norah and i are wearing prabal. >> thank you very, very much. >> you're welcome so much. i love it. we'll take a look,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

tomorrow on "cbs this morning: saturday," we'll take you to the kitchen at every table. enjoying healthy food at a low price. see how it's transforming people who eat in neighborhoods where they need it the most. >> that does it for us. as we leave you, let's take a look back at all that mattered this week. sending you love, charlie rose. have a good weekend. the president of the united states. >> president trump seemed sobered by these first 40 days in office, didn't he? >> think of the marvels we can achieve if we simply set free

the dreams of our people. >> the president suspended this overseas raid that killed owens. >> ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. >> how did that tribute come about? >> what we have in president trump is someone who has broad shoulders and he's got a big heart. >> the fbi was tracking russian operatives here. >> i never had meetings with russian operatives. >> one of these tornados leveling several homes along this street. >> it sounded look a freight train like they always say. >> bill paxton had a heart condition and suffered a stroke. >> an eclipse known as a ring of fire, very weird treat. >> have you ever thought that you could run for president and actually be elected? >> i thought, oh, gee, i toejts have the experience, i don't know enough, and now i'm thinking, oh.

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>> it really did. >> look at nicole kidman applauding in this video. you know the old phrase, ladies and gentlemen, put your wrists together. >> you've got to admit, that's kind of funny. i never noticed how she claps. >> that's a seal clap. >> i never noticed. >> we can -- >> good morning. >> we can figure out good morning. >> "beauty & the beast" will feature disney's first openly gay character. lefou will be in a small but significant role. >> the casino make nate of las vegas, steve wynn. >> i thought we were going to explore our sexuality. >> are you prepared? that song was the discovery of many things, driving a car,

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real estate experts say the number of home buyers paying cash in santa clara county has dropped six percent in four years.. and th h a good morning. i'm michelle griego. the number of home buyers paying cash in santa clara county has dropped 6% in four years and that's partly to do with a crackdown by china on money leaving china. it's good news for bay area buyers who can't pay cash. an east oakland hotel is accused of violating state labor laws and the city's minimum wage ordinance. the city has filed suit against quality inn which is an affiliate of choice hotels. it says the owner refused to pay overtime or offer sick leaves to several housekeepers. >> the widow of the orlando nightclub shooter will remain in jail for now. her request for bail was put on hold. she is accused of helping her husband omar mateen scout locations before the attack

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happy friday. let's talk about the traffic alert in palo alto. southbound 101 at embarcadero road, there's a dump truck hit

the overpass causing major damage. so the two left lanes are closed crews are on scene and for your alternate because there is a 7 to 8-mile backup out there all the way to whipple, take westbound 92 in san mateo to southbound 280 for an alternate to get into the south bay. and expect slowdowns on northbound 101 as well into the south bay conditions slow throughout 101, 280 and 87. and if you are heading across thespan of the bay bridge, "friday light." good morning. our live weather camera this time around, we have shades of gray. and so low clouds now across the bay. you can see the "salesforce" building going up. temperatures are in the 40s except for san jose, starting out at 51 degrees now. later today 60s. so 50s, 60s, a mild day. rain saturday into sunday. ,,,,,,,,

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