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captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is wednesday, march 29th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." the white house denies accusations it tried to block testimony about russia from former acting attorney general sally yates. we'll talk with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house committee. a car crash killed three storm chasers tracking a live tornado. plus they're many the studio today before they host the country academy music awards. they'll tell us what to expect in vegas sunday night. but we begin this morning's
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"eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> why did you cancel? >> nothing's been canceled. >> it reaches a fever pitch. >> it's very obvious the white house wanted this meeting canceled. >> if they hadn't canceled, she would have testified today. >> we have no problem with her testifyi testifying. plap and simple the report from the "washington post," false. >> coming from sean spicer's mouth. >> if it's coming from sean spicer's mouth, the opposite is probably happening. >> it's spinning really fast. >> oh, my fosh. it's right in front of me. >> tornados, rain and wind and hail hitting texas, arkansas, and louisiana. >> it's going to be another storm maker. >> britain begins its official exit from the european union. >> the first major piece of public diplomacy in a battle that will last two years. >> hillary clinton speaking to businesswomen in san francisco. >> there's no place i'd rather
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be than here with you other than the white house. a storm slammed the queensland coast. >> a plane veered off the runway during a fourrced landing in pe. luckily no one was hurt. >> check this out. i've got news for you. when this guy wants to play through, you let him play through. >> three seconds left. za ga. he gets it in. and they win the game. >> -- and all that matters. >> if the russian president puts russian salad dressing on his salad, that's all the same. >> it's not the same. >> 17th most popular dressing in america. 17th. if he was using it, yes, that would be suspicious. >> wait a second. the president put russian tressing on his salad tonight?
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that's huge news. trump ate a salad? >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." a cbs news poll out this morning finds many americans disagree with the president when he says the trump/russia story is a hoax. 59% say it is very likely or somewhat likely that trump associates had improper communications with russia's government. >> 40% of people in our poll approve of president trump's job performance, and that is nearly unchanged from last month. >> the white house tried to block sally yates from testifying in front of congress. trump fired her. jeff pegues is on capitol hill with the new controversy over sally yates.
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jeff, good morning. >> good morning. the house investigation has been officially stalled, bogged down by finger-pointing. the latest testimony was to be of sally yates who also informed the white house that former national security adviser michael flynn had misled the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador. >> the white house did not respond and took no action that prevented miss yates from testifying. >> they sought to delay former attorney general sally yates from testifying. >> we encouraged them to go aheading but to suggest in any way, shape, or form that we stood in the way of that is 100% false. >> reporter: cbs news has testified. it warns that there is a limit to what she could reveal in her testimony and that she needs to consult with the white house. on the same day she received this letter, the chairman of the
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house intelligence committee congressman devin nunes canceled yates' testimony. >> it gets stranger and stranger and frankly more bizarre every day. >> since it showed intercepted communications, the house intelligence kmietd tee investigation into russian meddling has been in disarray. >> politics get heated but i'm not going to involve myself. >> on tuesday he nationed more questions with whether he was working with the white house while tlaing the investigation while also dismissing calls to step aside. >> are you going to stay as chairman to run h investigation? >> why would i not? >> this is what cover-up behavior looks like. >> eric swoe well who sits on the committee says he expresses doubt about whether he can lead the investigation. >> right now america wants
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transparency and they're getting more and more smoke bombs. >> there was one hearing on russia. no others currently scheduled. the intelligence committee is expected to hold its first meeting tomorrow and a press conference today. >> thank. he is urging tevin nunes to reschedule the open hearing with former acting attorney general sally yates. the congressman joins us from washington. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> do you have any evidence that the white house urnged and took part in the denying of the opportunity for sally yates to testifisome. >> i don't have any particular evidence. the timing certainly raises a lot of questions and the fact that the hearing was canceled abruptly without any explanation causes a lot of us to ask roy's going on here, why aren't we going forward with this hearing. i have to think the hearing we
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had monday of last week in which the director announced they were under investigation for possible coordination with russia and the fact that the directors rebutted the white house claims about illegal wire-tapping by barack obama had something to do with the cancellation of the second open hearing. i think white house probably felt that didn't go well for th them, but it's otherwise hard to understand why the cancellation. i think it has a lot to do with sally yates. >> do you believe the white house is cooperateding with the chairman and therefore robbing this committee of the hearing if. >> he was an important member of the transition team and i think he's maintained that position with the white house and that has caused a lot of questions to be raised about whether he can fairly and impartially lead in this investigation. they called it so seriously into question that he really ought to recuse himself, in particular if
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he's raising an issue about whether members of the transition team were incidentally collected. he was a member of the team and i think there's a real conflict of interest. so i think it would be in the best interest of the investigation going forward if someone else on the committee were to lead it. but we really need to get this back on track and i think the majority can start out by rescheduling this hearing. we've urged them to to that, but we have yet to hear back. >> congressman, let's talk about the substance, what you wanted to hear from former attorney general sally yates. she was the acting attorney general. she warned the council michael flynn made comments that were perhaps untruthful. what did you want to hear directly from her? >> i certainly wanted to hear the events that led up to michael flynn's firing. what concerns me is according to newspaper accounts she brought information to the white house that indicated that mike flynn had lied about a conversation he
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had with a russian ambassador, and not just about any topic. this was on the subject, at least apparently according to reports of the sanctions president obama imposed on russia to help donald trump, is these obviously a very significant conversation. it led to his firing when it led to the firing and he misled the country. you have a period of time, it looks like some weeks, in which the president was aware michael flynn had lied and he had misrepresented the country and the president did nothing about it. >> do you think the white house counc counsel didn't inform the president? >> i would like to know. i certainly think they did. why didn't the president look into it? only took action with mr. flynn after it was brought out many
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public by the "washington post." that suggests that real crime here was the publication of mr. flynn's lie, not at the fact that the country was misled. and i think those facts were facts the white house did not want to come out in this open hearing and the timing certainly raised a lot of questions about whether the white house preference had a lot to to with changing where this investigation was headed. >> well, congressman schiff, thank you. we're out of time, but we do have more questions for you, so we hope you return in the future. >> sure. president trump is reversing course and say he'll have a health care deal, quote, very quickly. they could reach a bipartisan agreement over a potential future plan. according to the cbs news poll, no one blames anyone. half of the people say the bill failed because it just wasn't popular. margaret brennan is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning. the president appeared newly confident that he'll strike a
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deal with senate leader. last night he told a bipartisan group of 61 senators and their wives he wants to negotiate. >> i have no doubt about that. that's an easy one. i have no doubt it's going to happen. we've all been promising that to the american people, so i think a lot of good things are coming there. >> that's a stunning change from friday when president trump vowed to let the health care bill fail. speaker ryan said tuesday he's not giving up and some lawmakers want him the keep negotiates. in the meantime the white house is testifying new strategies including moving obamacare into a more conservative direction and that option of working with the democrats won't be easy,
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fwail, because there's so much pressure from their own base the resist collaborating with president trump. >> all right, margaret, thank you. the former democratic presidential candidate spoke last night at a businesswomen's conference in san francisco. she called the gop bill disastrous and said those who make decisions that affect other people's lives should put themselves in others' shoes. >> that's what was so maddening about the debate over the health care revisions. i mean, really? take away maternity care? really, take away mental health and substance abuse care? i mean who do these people talk to? do they not have any idea about the necessity and the suffering goes on? >> hillary clinton said the other side never quits so democrats and their supporters will need to keep fighting back. tomorrow norah will have the
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first extended interview since it was pulled from house floor. they'll also discuss the future of the gop agenda. you can see that conversation here tomorrow right here only on "cbs this morning." nearly 50 million people in texas and parts of the southeast face a new threat of severe weather. tornados ripped across parts of texas yesterday. at least 14 were reported. the violent system also brought damaging hail, some almost as big as tennis balls. as the storm movies east, states from plains to the gulf coast are at risk. they could face dangerous conditions today, including the possibility of a tornado. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is the second round of severe weather to blow through texas. just this week last night's storm had straight winds, gusts of more than 70 miles per hour. people are waking up to this, pieces of their roof lying many
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the street, fences blown over and trees split in half. overnight severe storms swept across texas and oklahoma with damaging winds, heavy rain, and pounding hail. on tuesday, tornados tore through the western part of the state. >> tornado on the ground. tornado on the ground. >> more than a dozen twisters were reported, including this one near stanford. >> oh, my gosh. >> that triggered warning sir sirens. >> get over here. let's go inside. >> reporter: further in abilene area, a fubl funnel cloud darkened the zye. 100 miles north three storm chasers died after they collided with a car that ran through a stop sign. a blinding combination of rain and hail created brutal conditions on the road. some hail was large enough to
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smash through car windows. >> my back windshield busted out and got all over my kids and hit my daughter in the back of the head. >> reporter: outside lubbock pellets impaled the ground and semitrucks blew over on the highway. the worst of the storm will blow through arkansas and louisiana today. the people in north texas, they're weaking up in the dark. more than 150,000 people still to not have power and there are more storms in the forecast for this weekend. norah? >> thank you so much. two years of brexit negotiations begins this morning. britain's prime minister is about to trigger her withdrawal from the european union. here's a live look at the house of commons where theresa may is taking questions from lawmakers while delivering her statement on brexit. jonathan vigliotti is outside parliame parliament. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.
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it's a nice way of saying filing like any split, leaving the eu won't be pretty. the sun has risen on a breakup many in the uk and throughout europe hoped wouldn't happen, but later ihe the european union is headquartered, the divorce papers will be filed. prime minister theresa may signed the official letter tuesdayle in a statement she said, it's my fierce determination o get the right deal for every single person in this country. later saying that includes eu nationals who have, quote, made this country their home. british news is already counting down the 730 days to separation right to the second. this two-year divorce process could require britain to borough as much as 73 billion dollars. on the line, the relationships and free passage to the 27 other member nations. negotiating between countries will be as complicated and
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historic as it sounds. >> what is full certain is we're getting back full control of our country. when we get things right or get things wrong, we will be in charge. >> reporter: it was narrowly voted on this summer and those who left were tricked. prime minister may has already found a helping hand many the process from president trump who told her the brexit would be wonderful. >> they' evaded the entire firmament of it. >> reporter: two nations may not be enough. the ua hoping they feel the pain, gayle, to send a clear message to other nations who may be thinking about leaving. >> thank you, jonathan vigliotti reporting from london. >> reporter: there is a fair chance an american air strike
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played a role. it's the fullest acceptance of responsibility of the air strike. american officials are also investigating whether isis is to blame. the u.s.-led coalition not doing enough to protect civilians. at least 300 have been killed if mosul since february. a passenger plane skidded off the runway. thick black smoke poured from the jet as crews tried to put out the fire. everyone was able to get off safely. they were trying to get off the airport. they say the fire most likely started when a wing scraped the runway. no one was seriously hurt. are some u.s. charter schools part of a scheme to
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the president's plan could two. >> i'm david begnaud along the border in brownsville, texas. president trump's border wall could run right through this retirement community which sits on the banks of the rio grande. if the wall goes up, more than 400 people could wind up on what is the mexican side of the wall. that story coming up on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by pronamel toothpaste. protect your enamel against the effects of everyday essence. tiss is to make sure that that enamel stays strong and resilient for a lifetime. the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be.
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blue plater this morning, a solomon, work resumes today at mount carmel, in wissonoming where vandals damaged hundred tomb stones. volunteers restored some yesterday, more than $220,000 have been donated to support the clean up work. is there also a $74,000 reward for information on the vandals now lets send it over to kate for a check of the forecast and we may see >> we may see a little bit of susarine bright just yet but it will turn that way with time and more than anything, cloud cover served as aeat from yesterday, so right now we are only in the 40's and a lot of spots, chillie the poconos but our own early morning low is in the 30's. we are off to a mildern rebound
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to 62. i promise these cloud will break for more sunshine. tomorrow looic new storm brings soaking rain, by friday ,. >> katie, thanks very much. we're still talkinab i-95 north, in the delaw has, wr talking about another serious between route 130 and hamilton ramp , 195 westbound is nowell. very slow moving around there, rahel. nex update 7:55. next this morning contractors must submit their proposals this trump's border w.
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colbert. nicely done s good hands. >> i know. good chance.welce back to "cbs morning." the investigation president trump taking action with new executive a bill yesterday that limits restrictions and o production.e oer stories making headline this s president trump is likely to sign a bill that would killionsr the internet. the house followed the senate's measure. it would let internet providers sell information about their customers' browsing habits. the "washington post" reports that wells fargo is going to be setting a class-action lawsuit. so far customers have received just over $3 million in refunds.
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in the new tt agreed the pay $1 million. since gal became public the bank hasillion in fines. california opponent spones taped sandra mer daleiden tried to secretly themselves buying parts parenth blackrock announced yesterday some will be laid off. blackrock handles more than $5 losing clients to rivals. robots. robots iscipickers. >> this is just beginning. >> secretary of state rex
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turkey this morning. he will want to talk about t but the turks want to discuss this man, a turkish religious scholar.ent e accuses him of being behind a bloo bloody coup attend last dens b >> now let's go back toga she has some surprising revelations about his followers in the united states. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. well, the turkish governm fethun terrorist. here in the u.s. he faces aalle. cbs news has learned the fbi is inveat followers skimmed money from u.s. schools and charity tokn t.
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a violent coupempthook turkey last july. hundreds were killed as militar istanbul. but the man the turk eric governmentinciting it has this compound for 17 years. his name is gulen and they run charter schools in the charter schools in operating on more than $2 billion taxpayers' 2010. but there is a scheme by gulen followers in the u.s. to take advantage of thecharr school sy gulen's movement. this man was follower of ade a lah gulen. special demand of
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teachers who work will. a kickbk from their tax- plan. >> they forced you to funder yo? >> they were asking cash. i paid some in check. >> how muslim do you think you paid go the movement? >> more than $20,000 in total. maybe more than$20,000. >> this an i.t. specialist in think you gave? >> 40% of my salary. >> 40% of your based on inform officials at this ohio school illegally million in federal c and a ban s in turkey linked toolrs. the school says it is there's a threat to our be.
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relationship with turkey and to followers are a powerful force in public good works but more private political aim. >> we need to investigation thi foremost for what it has attempted to to in turkey, is t do in the united states and whao do so. >> he repeatedly declined to u. >> they say they were thendver their salary back to the >>.ement. forced the nations is absolutel. i would be the first to condemn
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employ the schoolers deny any link t ohimself. but we find nearly all the schools have ties toofnonprofit lead back to associates. and court records show that he had, quote, over seen the establishment of the conglomeration of schools including in the united states. what to you think they're really trying to to? >> they're trying to gain more power and they want to make more mon money. and then after they use the money, to gain more power. >> no his former employers dismissed thegations and denied being an agent for the turk eric government. konkur told us he spoke with lawyers working for the turkish government. >> thank you very much,
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the beautiful cherry blossoms. >> they had said -- >> they survived. >> they said the cold weather killed most of them. >> they look as gorgeous as ever. today is the deadline for contractors to submit fro posals for president trump's border wall. they say it must be 18 to 30 feet high and extend at least six feet underground to block tunnels.
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it should be difficult to climb and aesthetically pleasing on the u.s. side. the first 48 miles will go up along san diego and the rio grand at a cost of nearly a million dollars. david begnaud is in texas where this wall could split a community. david, good morning. >> reporter: gayle, good morning. this golf course in the past has been a runway for people coming here illegally. on the other side is mexico. they would swim across the rio grande, come up on the golf course, and watch this, hide in this cane. now, president trump's new wall may help, however, it would divide 700 americans who liv right here in this community. with more than 300 acres, the river bend report is one of the few areas left in texas without a border fence. many of the retires who live
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here want to keep it that way. >> it's not needed. border patrol is here all the time. they launch their boats at our boat ramp and are here within 30 seconds. >> reporter: they voted for popp but they think the money could be better spent. >> they need updated technology equipment, better cameras, maybe more drones. >> reporter: a treaty defendings everything so when the bush administration built its border fence, they wanted to do it right in the middle of the river bend. >> essentially what it does is splits the resort community in half and you've about got 200 people living on this side and 400 of their friends on what becomes the mexican side of the wall. >> that would mean 70% of the resort including 15 holes on the golf course would albuquerque no man's land between the fence and
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the actually border. >> it's not just a golf course. it's a family business. >> reporter: jargmy barnard is also a trump supporter and the river bend manager. john garrett owned j.p. construction, a ft. worth company with 50 employees. he's submitting his border wall proposal today. >> it's going to create a lot of jobs for unemployed construction workers, veterans, individuals. >> reporter: the trump administration is seeking bids for prototypes with a see-through component and made with concrete or other materials. >> they never talked about all the people who died trying to make it across the united states illegally. i think it will save a lot of lives also. >> reporter: the federal government controls less than a third of the nearly 2,000-mile southern border. the rest belongs to the states, native american tribes or like river bend, is privately owned. the government could come in,
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offer you an amount, if they don't like it, they could seize it through eminent domain. >> yeah. >> you know that. >> i do. >> you're ready for a fight. >> we have already seen a lawyer and will make sure we're paid fairly for it. >> reporter: he said the price tag would be in the millions, but they would never pay that. these folks are middle class retiree, many who have moved up from the north to retire here. and every one of them we spoke to believes this would have a negative effect on them economically. >> tashd, thank you. they're in the weeds on this story. it was nice to have trump voters saying they oppose the wall. it shows hom complicated this story really is. >> i wonder how many other examples are along the wall where it's disrupting, doing more harm than good as david pointed out in this story. >> and also wha health care debate.
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good morning welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's wednesday, march 29th, 2017. he says don't get your hopes up too high. first here's your "eye opener" at 8:00. >> officially bogged down by finger pointing and accusations. >> let's talk about things, perhaps about what you wanted to hear from sally yates. >> i certainly wanted to hear the events that led up to michael flynn's firing when he misled the vice president and the vice president misled the country. >> he appears confident he'll
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negotiations begins this morning. >> it's a nice way of saying filing for divorce, and just like any split, leaving the eu won't be pretty. >> coal miners attended the ceremony where president trump signed an executive order undoing most of barack obama's climate change initiative. the miners said they were really impressed with trump. they said in two months he's dug himself into the biggest hole they've ever seen, and they literally work in hole. >> announcer: this morning it's "eye opener" at 8:00 presents by liberty insurance. i'm charlie rose along with
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gayle king and norah o'donnell. republican committee chairman devin nunes dismisses claims that he's intentionally delaying the investigation. >> former attorney general sally yates was supposed to testify yesterday. she said back in jail michael flynn misled congress about his conference with a u.n. ambassador. >> he says the papers have nothing to do with the russian investigation. the next day nunes briefed president trump on the content of those documents without speaking with his committee. two days later in response to a request from sally yates the justice department told her lawyer that she, quote, needs to consult with the white house about testifying. now, the day she got that letter, yates reached out to the white house were permission to
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testify. the white house never responded, and that very same day, nunes canceled her scheduled hearing. press secretary sean spicer said lack of evidence of a response to the letter is evidence that the white house didn't stop her testimony that to suggest in any way, shape, or form that we stood in the way of that is 100% false. >> this morning the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff told us he wants to hear from yates about the events that led to general flynn's removal. he tweeted yesterday, car companies coming back to the u.s. jobs, jobs, jobs, extra maegs poi exclamation point. last night on the cbs evening nurs, they said it would only bring about 30% of u.s. jobs.
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>> job support. you saw what happened with exxon where they just announced a massive jobs program. charter communications has just committed to investing $25 billion and is committed further to hiring 20,000 american workers over the next four years. since my ee lerkz, ford, fiat chrysler, general motors, sprint, softbank, lougheed, intel, walmart, and many others have announced that they will invest billions and billions of dollars in the united states and will create tens of thousands of new american jobs. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> does the president appear to be taking credit for jobs, jobs, jobs? >> he deserves some credit but this is a classic case in trump
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world where more credit is being given than is probably due. they think a deregulatory viernts which the trump administration is going to create is encouraging them to envest more money, but the white house is creating more jobs anyway. they were committed by and large as part of a 2015 auto deal. what's happening is they're framing decisions they were going to make anyway or had already made as a response to the trump administration's arrival and the white house is gobbling that up and taking credit for it. so there's some truth in there but not as much as you're led to believe. >> there's a story that they're now going to use robots.
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therefore they were waiting on it. >> you know, i think that's the bigger story we have within the story. there's been a lot of debate about how much job loss comes from trade, how much job loss comes from unfair competition abroad. but the real job killer in america in a lot of ways, particularly that is automation. worker fwos away. and that's happening across the manufacturing sector. that blackrock story is seeping into other seng tors as well. i think automation and its effect on em 34r0i789 is probably the real story here. doesn't gets a much attention because the political debate is about more trade. we're going to be seeing questions about what do workers do with automation, not when met co-or china is the problem. >> it's good to hear the president talking up jobs. presidents want to do that and american reese sponlds to that. the question is whether he can deliver on those. yesterday there was a ruling.
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he talked about putting coal miners back to work. but there's a founder and executive of murray energy, which is the largest privately held coal miner who said he told trump directly i suggest he temper his expectations. he can't bring them back. >> i happen to know some lawmakers, republican lawmakers from coal states are telling him the same thing. pull back the rhetoric a little bit because you have to temper the promises. you know, it is true that the coal action will give reprieve to some coal-fired power plants and i talked to some people in west virginia a couple of weeks ago who said there are some work being called back to work as a result of h, but the long-term trends are still long-term trends. the cost of fracking is going up. so industry is moving on a long-term path away from coal. that's not going to stop. there's going to be short term
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change. he's what the president needs the keep in mind as it engages in this rhetoric about saving coal jobs. >> the fromth has been known to use his twitter when he hears companies are going to take their jobs out of the country. do you think that affects decisions they make? >> i do think it does. i think they ask themselves to we want to be put in a position for which we're still attached. on the other hand, if we're going to make a decision that the kwhous hikes, to we not want to get credit for it? >> i think it ee affecting it in the margins but you have to distinguish that from long-term trends and things that were going to happen anyway. >> already. gerald seib. always good to have you with us.
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♪ >> that's prince singing "1999." that was one of his most famous songs. after a year of his death, many questions remain. they wonder how he 'required the opioid pills that killed him. only on "cbs this morning" jamie yuccas spoke with one of prince's perso confidantes when his body was found at the purple paisley estate outside of minneapolis. good morning, jamie. >> good morning. johnson was a drummer and his best man at his wedding. he's still mourning the loss of his friend and he's finding ways to celebrate his life. do you get chills sometimes when you walk around door you feel energy? >> i've been here 30 years. i mean it's energy.
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not necessarily chills but energy. >> reporter: few people know paisley park, prince's creative sanctuary better than kirk johnson. it's where the music legend lived, performed, and passed. people have so many questions about prince's last days kirk has a vault right here. it's never going to be unlocked. >> is that because prince was so private private? >> i respect him and what his privacy was. >> he didn't want to talk about the past, wanting instead to honor his legacy. johnson who spent decades playing drums showed us various skpiblts around paisley park. >> you know, he played a lot in this room. >> reporter: including a rarely seen convert venue, a tribute to his 2007 super bowl performance.
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>> we tell folks, you know, bring stuff with you. >> reporter: and the notes and cards left outside paisley park are now on display inside. this phenom was known for his relentless vigor and demanding performances. >> did that eventually wear him out? >> well, i mean, you know, you get tired after a while. >> reporter: it's that dancing that reportedly prompted prince to turn to painkillers. prince nelson died from an accidental overtoews of fenlts knoll, a type of opiate. >> was he hurting? >> i don't know. we danced a lot. i feel the effects of dancing. you know, your joints get hurt. >> and he was very vigorous at that. >> yeah. he was a nonstopper. he did what he did until the last possible moment. he was an entertainer. that's what entertainers do.
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they just go. >> reporter: johnson was on a fateful flight with prince when they made an emergency landing in illinois. he was given a shot of on out. a week later johnson was among those who discovering prince dead inside an elevator. was there anything you wish you had done personally to stop his drug use? >> oh, my goodness. next. >> you don't feel like people enabled him? >> next. >> opioid addiction is such a big topic of conversation. >> next. >> in this country. do you feel something could be -- >> johnson is in an ongoing police investigation into prince's death. his final days remain a mystery. even family members who demanled justice when he spoke to me last june. >> is the family mad at anybody? >> yeah, we're mad. yeah, we're mad.
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somebody had to know that he was suffering like that. and to me if you loved him enough, you would have think and you would have thought. >> while the investigation continues preparations are under way for a four-day celebration of his life. >> there are a number of people who say they should nltd be opening paisley park, you know, they're profiting off of prince's death. >> i mean that's normal. but it's supposed to be open for the world. he wants everyone to see what he's created. >> the sheriff's office in minnesota is working with the u.s. drug enforcement agency the determine where prince got the open outs that opiates that killed him. the investigation is ongoing. >> i can appreciate that members in his inner circle don't want to say anything about his life. i don't understand the laughter. was that nervous laughter? that seems odd to me. >> i think that was nervous
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laughter. he was very close to prince, had known him for a very long time. he kept saying prince is very private, u want to keep that frierchlt he didn't want to talk about anything strong do with prince's last days but i think it was nervous laughter. >> really interesting. >> people still have a lot of questions, jamie. >> yep. all right, for the first time in history, a woman is running the vatican's museum. meet the first female director and learn how she plans to bring in more visitors without crowding out the art. and up next, the first sign of action on the eagle cam at the national arboretum in washington. look at this. new little eaglets are on the way. yes. and the big event is streaming worldwide. you're watching "cbs this morning." daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. shake up your routine with a completely new way to clean.
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watching the bald eagle is news. watch one f the eggs slowly hatch. the first crack happened yesterday. the new eaglets should be out of the shell tomorrow. tomorrow their famous parents mr. president and first lady have been watching over the two eggs since they were laid in february. watch the livestream. go to our website. cbsthismorning.com. country music starks luke bryan and dierks bentley are here. you're getting ready for the what? what you don't want to do is lay an egg. >> no. >> what's your plan? >> not to lay an egg.
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>> not to good morning i'm rahel solomon it is sentencing day for two former aid to new jersey governor chris christie convicted for their rolls in the bridge gate scandal. bridget kelly and bill about a roane write convicted on conspiracy and other charges for closing lanes on the george washington bridge. officials say it was pay back for north jersey mayor who refused to endorse chris christie for reelection. now lets send it over to katie for a check of the forecast, and tracking some sun. >> we are. looking outside window on the broadcast certainty and think otherwise. very cloudy, right but you can see even a this shot there are breaks of blue skies trying to best to pierce through that included cover and bring us sunshine. i promise included will continue to thin. wind is noticeable, thinks your sustain wind at 21 miles
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an hour, 46 degrees makes it feel like 30's. not necessarily a very warm day, it is still chilly at lee at on set with any wind factored in but we will see more and more sunshine. tomorrow beautiful as well. by friday, well, break umbrella out again, a pretty soggy one to round out the week, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much. we are looking outside at an accident i-95 north near commodore barry bridge blocking two left lanes. you can see how slow, fire truck, and then see flashing lights. we will have a lot of gaper delays as well. also, head up 195 westbound has reopened at route 130, but left lane is still blocked and slow moving around that accident. now not to mention we have construction as well 95 north ramp to broad street is closed between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., rahel, back over to you. our next update 8:55. ahead this morning dirks bentley and luke brian as they
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♪ there are mountains in our way ♪ >> yes, there are. >> but we climb a stair every day. ♪ love lifts us up where we belong ♪ that's actress kristen bell performing the '80s hit up where we belong with james corden. welcome back to "cbs this morning." welcome to the table. were you guying looking for ideas how to open your show? >> he's so good.
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we could -- >> we did a thing with him last year that was pretty good. >> but you're hosting on sunday. so you have to have a knockout open as you know. >> we're going to work on it probably tomorrow. >> tomorrow? that's earlier than last year. >> saturday. >> get real. >> country music, keep it real. >> i can't wait for sunday. >> we're going to continue our conversation. but first we're going to take a look at the paper. the "financial times" reports that exxonmobil urges the trump administration not to quit the treaty. president trump began rolling back obama regulations on fossil fuels yesterday. he made a campaign promise to pull the united states out of the treaty yoo the new york teams reports that usa hockey and the national women's team have settled their paytas putte. the players had threatened to boycott the upcoming
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championships. they can now earn up to $70,000 a year including olympic pay. this ooh's a search for a giant gold coin stolen from berlin. they're afraid it could be melted down. it's more than 20 pounds. police noticed it sunday.bulletproof case wheel barrow to steal the lukbryan and dierks bentley are both nominates this year. they have 35 ac nominations between them. the pair have combined 32 number number one stage as bums. co-hosts for the second t las vegas on night.
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>> you mustething right. >> is it the chemistry between ? >> dirks has a of hiory. we've been on the same record label for many ye lot together. >> toured a lot together back i years of our career. >> before we weree you were mar? >> exactly. >> i was married two years mar. before we were married is the way you said they'll use that against us. >> but you guys have been prepared for months for this, right? >> y we've been -- e-mail chains and
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we've actually -- i mean we've cbs guys and the guys that >> what are those cbs guys like when you have >> they come in with briefcases. >> they come into town andeesta buy them a lot of food and a lot of wine and a lot of drinks and at the very end we talk about work. >> i had this gold coin that was worth $200,000 and they went and melted it down. >> guys, when you watched that debacle at the oscars and they got it wrong, was there a part of you that said we've got to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen or do you say, there's no way that could happen to us. >> i can't imagine. last year when we started from the top, it's live. things happen. we try to involved some of our buddies in the crowd last year. >> we ha a series of like six country music artists that were supposed to have a speaking role
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in the audience, and last year they only -- >> someone jumped their gun a little bit, so we were kind of flying by the seat of our pants. >> when we realized -- it wasn't one of the artists. it was a camera guy who missed his cue because there's a lot of moving parts. dirks and i were like, okay, this is changing on the fly. >> that's the beauty of live. roll with the punches. >> yeah, i know. but errflies. >> that's why we have a backstage bar set up to level it out. >> you both perform in the show, right? >> right. >> two or three? >> i've got a couple of performances. >> i've got three. >> you have three? >> i have three. >> you have three? >> i have three. >> so what's the big question going into this? >> the big question going into this. >> yeah. >> with me, it's always -- with me, i always like to look at the list of the new performers that are getting -- the new young country artists that are getting
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their first chance, and i always like -- >> merrill morris. >> and dirks has a song out with cole license dale. a plug for cole. it's his first performance. it's always fun to see how they handle it. when you're a country artist and you get these big tell vin award moments, it's a big thing for your career. >> you remember yours. >> oh, gosh. >> what do you remember about that? >> i remember a panic attack. yeah. i just remember, you know, huge amounts of anxiety. oh, yeah. there we go. but we people i'm high fiving. >> i remember 28 seconds to perform and we were playing
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tracks. my drummer carried his snare drum out on stage and was pretending to pay drums. we're all faking. there's tim mcgraw and faith hill looking back at us. i remember thinking, oh, my gosh. >> oh, wow. look at you. >> kenny chesney standing up. >> what's so cool is your speaking voice is kind of like your singing voice. >> i hoped. >> for many it's not. >> you can't hide that. >> the accent is very thick. >> gomer pyle all the way. >> it's probably going to be a very big night for keith urban. >> yeah. keith, i look at -- dirks and i, we kind of look at each other about his career and how he's always -- >> he's the best. >> he's the complete package. >> he's the best, i think. >> he's just so -- >> playing the guitar. >> playing the fwi tar and singing. he's a great entertainment. that beach body.
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and his guitar playing. >> yeah. if you've ever -- >> he's hands down, the best. >> keith is on our label. every year our label does a private event where all the artists come in and play for everybody that works at the label, and keith has done it for years. until you just sit in a room with him and a guitar and watch, i mean we pride ourselves on being pretty good guitar players, but when you're around keith and you see like -- it's almost like there's 15 people playing the guitar, and it's truly one of the -- i mean it's a sight to behold. >> it's a little like seeing dear evan handsome. >> how's your pinterest going? >> she called me out on this. we talked about that. i have inadvertently gotten
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hooked on pinterest. >> i am too. >> i want this fishing cabinet. >> floral wallpaper for his fishing cabinet. >> it's a trap. you start to look for a cabin on a little fishing place and you start seeing frames with fish and then you see like the billy big mouth bass and it takes you down this road and i'm look, oh, my gosh. >> sunday night. i've got -- i'm running. low on the decorating fund. >> so glad to have you guys here. looking forward to the 52nd academy of country music awards. and they will air what night, gayle? >> sunday night. >> right here on -- >> -- cbs. >> that's right. our buildup continues torkt with keith urban. he receives seven nominations. he has two big fans aet the
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table. he shares with jan crawford how music helped him overcome stage fright as a little boy. >> i was a bit shy. i was lost without my guitar. it was the linus blanket for me. it was something i could hide behind. i'm a little uncomfortable on stage taking it away. >> can't tell when he's up there. >> he talks about moving from his native australia. ahead, the museum's first female director shares special attention she's receive and her efforts to help millions of
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a woman is running the museum at the vatican for the first time in history. she's one of the first major directors at a major museum like the metropolitan museum of art and the louvre. she took seth doane on a private tour while she takes the attention and focus off herself. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. she was not expected to be promoted to director, but says it's a privilege to oversee a collection here at the vatican
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newseums which will take your breath away. the vatican museums are so packed with treasures it can be hard to know where to look. there's one gallery of maps, rafael's transfiguratiotransfig roughly 2,000-year-old first object museum when it was conceived in the early 1500s, or this. >> it's the icon of roman times. >> reporter: she has a degree in art history and studied this famed statue of emperor augus s augustus. now as director, she's in charge of it. some of the greatest artwork in the world is in your care. >> yes. i feel the weight of that. >> the weight of that responsibility. >> exactly. >> reporter: in its collection it holds a mind-boggling 2,000
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pieces of art. only about 10% is on display. finding a stunning place to sit and chat is no problem. >> what a room in which to do an interview. >> it's a special place. it's something that gives you peace. >> reporter: a to-year veteran of the vatican said she was surprised when pope francis announced in december she would become the museum's director. this merry of three was also surprised by all of the attention paid to her gender. >> i made a joke of that. everyone keeps asking how do you feel? how do you feel as a woman. >> i feel this as a person. >> the vatican is a male-dominated division. >> i never felt this committed to be a woman. >> she shrugs off any special attention.
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she's got works to do. >> in the last two months of 2017 we had 70,000 people more than last year. >> reporter: the museum attracting more than 6 million visitors a year. >> we're going against flow here. >> but it's a balance trying to attract more visitors while not diluting the experience. on the day we visited, she estimated crowd size. >> 19,000 people, 20,000 people today. is that typical? is that a lot? >> it's a lot for this time of the year. >> she plans to hire more guards so they can be open for longer hours while the sistine chapel part of the museum is often full. we found plenty of space around other masterpieces including the nile. yata is working to get guides to encourage visitors to stop at lesser known spots. there's also an issue with keeping so much art on display and in good shape.
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it takes a team of more than 150 people to work on constant restoration. >> if you do make annual and daily presser evacuation, you really do not need much restoration. >> what struck us is there's so much it fills not just public spaces but private passageways. >> even a small side room by the elevator, he's spectacular art. >> exactly. >> reporter: yes, near this back elevator, floor entine famous for his work with glazed taea t rah tear terra-cotta. >> your desk. >> it's part of this collection, yes. >> a picture of her boss sits over her shoulder. it's a reminder that this is part of a greater mission. she believes art can act as a spiritual ambassador.
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>> of course, i'm catholic and i to believe that art takes places. >> next month they'll have some displayed in china. that's an effort to build spiritual bridges in a place where there are significant restrictions on traditional miss missionary work. norah? >> wow. >> that's down there in vatican city. >> don't you like the way you phrase art as a spiritual ambassador. >> it never gets old going to the vatican. we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning."
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good morning, i'm jim donovan. work continues in the wissonoming mount carmel jewish cemetery where vandals damage 100 tomb stones last month. volunteers were restoring 25 of the headstones yesterday, and the jewish federation reports more than $220,000 was donated to support the clean up and repair work. is there also a $74,000 reward for any information on the vandals. lets turn to katie for today's weather. >> well, right now we are off to a cool start although technically above average. we have northwesterly wind that will make it feel chillier anytime, but technically off to milder then average start in the mid up to ker 40's across the region. we are starting to see breaks in the cloud cover over philadelphia, you already have , bright blue sky and sunshine in some of the
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northern counties. it hasn't brightened up yet give it time it will. sixty-two the high. we have 56 tomorrow with sunshine yet again low humidity, light wind, nice day but new storm is already here by friday, and that will bring in the need for all of to us break out our umbrellas, lingering showers into saturday morning but overall a decent weekend, as skies brighten up. meisha. >> it would be so great to see that sun again. thanks, katie. we are looking outside at a shaky camera but we have an accident route 30 bypass eastbound past route 100 block ago this left lane. almost looks like everything is stopped right now, so give yourself extra time there indeed. also, another accident 95 north near commodore barry bridge, two left lanes are still blocked it is a snail's crawl as you move through that area. ninety-five north near commodore barry bridge but i wanted to give you update 195 westbound at route 130 hamilton township new jersey, that has, finally been since been cleared. jim, over to you.
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