good morning. it is friday, may 12, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump said he planned to fiream jomes cey no matter what. a source tells cbs news there is a crisis in the fbi. there is growing concern about the white house interfering with the russia investigation. an 8-year-old boy takes his own life after police say a bully knocked him unconscious at school. thhoe scol says he fainted but video tells a didn't story. great white sharks over the california coast. a helicopter is overhead telling surfers to get out of the worl

with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> he's a showboat, he's a grandstander, the fbi has been in turmoil. you know a, e know that, everybody knows that. >> president trump says he was going to fire comey regardless. >> that is not only inconsistent, it contradicts in every way what this white house said was the original impetus for the firing of j amescomey. >> this happened at 12:01, 12:02, did he fire him because hee wored a r tie, a blue tie, this shouldn't be a complicated process. >> he said i am not under investigation. >> this is a defense for his actions. >> resist, obstruct, deny, insult, insinuate. >> severe storms and damaging winds are moving overts par of the south into the

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>> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." long before president trump fired james comey, he asked for his personal loyalty. the two had dinner in january soon after the inauguration. comey only told the president he would be honest with him. >> since the first tv interview, president trump calls james comey a showboat. he said the dismissal was his idea and he said russia and the election was on his mind when he let comey go. that contradicts statements inside the white house. >> the acting fbi director andrew mccabe defended comey yesterday. he said it's, quote, highly

in washington with details of the comey white house dinner. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. by that time the fbi was already investigating whether trump campaign associates were coordinating with the russians during the 2016 campaign. >> i had a dinner with him. he wanted to have dinner because he wanted the stay on. >> in an interview with nbc news, president trump detailed his private january conversation with then fbi director james comey. >> that dinner was arranged. i the h asked for the dinner. he wanted the stay on as the fbi head and i said i'll consider, see what happens. but we had a very nice dinner, and at that time he told me, you are not under investigation. >> but law enforcement sources who spoke to comey tell a different story. they say comey was invited to white house where the president trump asked the fbi director if he would pledge his loyalty to

comey declined, instead telling trump he would always be honest. the president twice more pressed comey for loyalty, the third time asking for honest loyalty. for that comey responded, yes, you will have that. >> there's no collusion between me and the campaign and the russians. >> inside fbi headquarters there are growing concerns the white house is trying on get in the way of the bureau's russian investigation, calling it a crisis. one federal law enforcement official tells cbs news, there a whole lot of interfering happening. but sources are telling us agents are pushing ahead with the russian investigation despite the turmoil swirling around them. the white house was floating the idea of president trump coming down to fbi headquarters today, but that idea has been scrapped. we did reach out to the white house on comment of the president's dinner,ut

we have not heard back. >> jeff, thank you so much. in that tv interview, president trump contradicted the white house prediction of how comey was fired. he discussed it with his attorney general and deputy. other officials including the vice president say the department followed the skrus it is department's advice. margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. white house press spokesperson sarah sanders dismissed it as simply symantecs. >> he's a showboat, a grandstander. >> president trump said he had decided to fire former fbi director comey long before deputy attorney general rod rosenstein recommended he do so. >> oh, i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. he made a recommendation.

he's highly respected. very good guy, very smart guy. the democrats like him. the republicans like him. he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> that conflicts with accounts given by vice president mike pence and administrative aides who described rosenstein as the deciding factor. >> president trump made the right decision at the right time, and to accept the recodammention of the deputy attorney general. >> he took the recommendation of rod rosenstein, the attorney general. >> quickly after receiving that recommendation, the president made the decision to let director comey go. >> the president admitted the ongoing fbi probe into his campaign ties to russia was on his mind as he dismissed comey. >> knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump

story. wasn't krched about optics when the day after firing comey, he held an oval office meeting with the russia foreign minister per russia president vladimir putin. >> it was set up and i could have waited but what difference does it make. >> that same day mr. trump also met with the you krachbian foreign minister. an oval office visit only revealed after the pictures were posted on the minister's twitter account. he portrayed both meetings as a peace-making initiative. remember it triggered those u.s. sachksings that now both moscow and many u.s. businesses would like president trump to lift. gayle? >> margaret, thank you. the acting fbi director said many administration talking

inaccurate. andrew mccabe took the place of comey yesterday. questions about shakeup in russia dominated the hearing. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. if the president was hoping he would get a friendlier fbi director now that comey was gone, he made it clear the russian investigation will not be dropped. >> director mccabe, welcome to table and into the fray. >> comey's former deputy suddenly at the helm disputed the claim that the rank and file wanted comey gone. >> no, sir, that not accurate. director comey enjoy broad support within the fbi and still does to this day. >> many cabe also kaftd doubt president trump's claim that coy

under investigation. >> i'm not aware of that being a standard practice. >> reporter: as to the white house's recommendation and whether it was a minor probe -- >> is it in relation to all the other work you're doing many. >> sir, we consider it to be a highly significant investigation. >> so far republicans have resisted democratic calls for a special prosecutor. >> how is this not obstruction of justice. >> but the shifting stories from the white house are putting pressure on the gop. >> and if the president has made contra dingtsing statements, that would be up to the president to explain himself. >> on thursday they were invited as the urging of his democratic counterpart chuck schumer. >> this investigation will not die, no matter who wants it to. >> rosenstein was actually here on capitol hill yesterday for a long planned meetingit

leaders of the senate intelligence committee. they're discussing ways to avoid having these two froing investigations now, one at the fbi, one at the senate, from interfering with one another. >> thank you, nancy. gerry seib is with us. good morning. where are we? >> i think the question is can the white house get the story straight on what happened and how it happened and secondly can the fbi be led going forward. >> do you sense from one of the things mccabe said, the acting fbi director said, that the investigation is, he used the word, highly significant, that they that have something going on there that leads them to believe? >> i don't know if

to believe. but he had sought additional resources. that tells you they're seeing something that's worth pursuing. it's not going away. chuck schumer made a good point. >> this idea of a dinner that occurred between the two of them where the president of the united states asked the fbi director for his loyalty and then solicits information about an ongoing investigation. >> well, you know, the letter from the president saying i fired jim comey came out, the stunner after the initial explosion was this line that said he told me three times that i'm not under investigation, which is really not a proper way to conduct this kind of thing. the other strange aspect of that dinner is the implication from what the president said to lester holt, that he had a decision whether to keep jim comey or not. >> normally they do not decide whether to keep em

regardless of the presidential election. that's called into question. >> what do you make of it? on one hand you have the president called him a show bother and grandstander and then many cake says, no, no, no. >> i have three reasons why. first, the president acted on the justice department. he declined chld and then the president said i was going to fire him anyway. >> i think there was a question over the way he handled the hillary clinton e-mail last year. i think the two have gotten conflated. i don't think they're the same thing and i think that's what the acting director said yesterday. >> what is

>> i think that one of the things the white house has done is try to get him out of the predictment he was in and he was an unhappy camper. there was a question on the way he was handled. he did not say in that letter he should be fired and i think rod rosenstein doesn't want to be fingered as the guy who fired him. >> yeah. i think the key people to watch in washington are a small group of moderate and independent senators on the republican side, maybe fewer than ten, whose support, think, is important. lindsey graham, jeff flake. they're republicans in swing states up for reee leejts. how they gauhi

an important thing. the most important thing, what about republicans. >> gerry seib, thank you so much. an american fighter jet flew over. the russia fighter jet came 20 feet alongside them and flew away. they consider the event safe and professional. an o coroner reopened the case of an 8-year-old boy who took his own life. gabriel taye was bullied. jamie yuccas talks about how the school did not tell the mother he was assaulted. >> that assault i

happened two days before the boy took his own life in the bathroom. she said she would turn the case over to the prosecutor's office if it's determined it was the result of a violent death. inside the boy's bathroom on january 24th. he was sent to the nurse's office, then taken home by hiss mother. ha might he was complaining of stomach pains, diagnosed at the hospital with stomach flu. within 48 hours he hanged himself in the bedroom. a homicide detective said the surveillance video captioned bullying. after gabriel fell to the ground many students fell over him, knocked, nudged, and kicked him. >> she's devastated that her son's second to last day was s

painful for him. >> she's representing gabriel's mom. her client was told by the school only that her son had fainted. >> if the school had told mom that your son was assaulted, your son has lost consciousness for over minds, she would have immediately taken him to the hospital and had him examined. >> reporter: cincinnati schools say school administrators followed protocol by calling the school nurse and say they asked his mother to pick him up and take him to hospital to be checked out. parents at the school say the boy's direct has prompted difficult conversation. >> it's tough talking to a 5-year-old about seeing someone every day after school not being there no more and

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mr. trump, there's a lot you don't understand, but i never thought one of those things would be show business. don't you know? i've been trying for a year to get you to say my name? and you were very restrained, admirably restrained, but now you did it. >> something tells me we haven't seen the last of the conversation between the two of them. just yesterday the president released a tweet referring back to rosie. you know how long that's gone back. let it go, let it go. welcome back to

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i've been wanting talk with you. macy's says it will close more than 100 stores. what does this signal? >> it's a bloodbath. normally i use moderated words. >> bloodbath is not a moderating word. >> when you think about the fact we've been in an economic expansion, wages are up, prioil low, this should be manna from heaven for retail and it's not. >> what's the problem? >> amazon? >> no, it's not just amazon. amazon gets a lot of the reputation but when you think of it, they're representing 45% of sales. everything we beer, nearly half is being bought through amazon. however, 85% of retail sales are still occurring in stores. most of us are walking into a store to buy things. part of

the fact that malls were overbuilt. from 1970 to 2017 malls were built at twice the rate of u.s. population growth. >> i like going to the mall. i think we need to let that go. but there are some retailers doing okay. all retailers are not doing great. >> that's correct. there are some doing substantial where they have a real niche and discounters are doing well. >> one? >> one is ulta. i mean beauty, they're hitting the cover off the ball. ulta's stock is up 17% this year largely driven by the fact they have a huge rewards program. 20 million people participate in their loyalty program. 20 million. >> mary dylan. >> >> mary dylan. yes, she's fantastic. >> it's so

ex-per rehn chal. there has to be a reason to go to the store. >> one is youtube. there's a lot of these demonstration videos on how to put on makeup and people are going in and buying them. >> what about walmart? >> walmart is actually doing better because their online has really picked up. they bought jet.com and that's actually working so walmart has been a story. they're doing okay. their stock has done okay. >> thanks, mellody. >> now you know when you apply lipstick, you can go to youtube. >> gayle and i can give you a quick tutorial. >> you're welcome. >> you can do your own video. >> that too. somebody help me. a new poll finds support for the poll. 21% approve of the fw op plan passed by the house. that is no surprise to some republicans. republican lawrs

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anger over the p plan to repeal and replace obamacare. on wednesday representative tom macarthur hosted a heated town hall in new jersey that lasted a marathon five hours and didn't simmer down. >> folks, you get to ask the questions and i get to -- >> in marshalltown, iowa, angst over health care shared another. >> will you support the investigation into trump and campaign's purported ties to russia? >> not at the current time. >> the firing of former fbi director james comey had fired up this crowd at congressman rod blum's town hall. >> if trump were guilty of something, would he fire the fbi director? that would be a pretty dumb move. i get it. you hate t

supporters at the town hall say comey and russia did not bother them. >> the investigation is done by the guys in the field. one guy, even if it's the head guy, it doesn't make a difference whether or not that investigation goes forward or not. >> reporter: now, adding to the anxiety the republicans may be feeling is new polling out now which suggests a clear majority of americans find fault with the president's decision to fire the head of the fbi. gayle? >> dean, thank you. an unusual trigger of smart sightings triggers warnings. carter evans is live. you can get news of the day, our podcast originals on itunes and apple's podcast app. you are watching "cbs this morning." we thank yu for that. we'll be right balk. wondering, what if?

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it's friday, may 12th, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." trump faces questions over the firing of the fbi director. and a comparison to nixon. first your "eye opener" at 8:00. >> they're pushing ahead with the russian investigation despite the turmoil around them. >> white house sara sanders dismisses these inconsistencies as simply semantics. >> andrew mccabe shattered those hopes yesterday. >> so where are we? >> we're

look. ini thk the big question at the moment is can the white house get its story straight on what happened and why it happened? >> charlie now you know when you need the apply lipstick, you can look on youtube. >> you can get a tutorial. >> i hold fbi director james comey in the highest regard. director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi and still does to this day. >> wow. broad support. i don't think i've ever liked any co-worker as much as he likes comey. i don't think my mom liked me as much as comey. my mom would given me support, but not broad support. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah

president donald trump is defending his white house team and their differing versions of what led to the firing of james comey. moments ago the president tweeted this, quote, as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. the president says the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired fbi director james comey. white house officials said the decision was not tied to the probe. they also said that the president acting on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general. in an nbc news interview, the president told a different story. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> the fbi director first

him in january during a white house dinner he was not under investigation. sources say during the dinner comey asked him to pledge his loyalty. comey replied he would be honest. a white house spokeswoman said we don't believe this to be an accurate account. it's loyalty to our country and its great people. >> sources tell cbs news the fbi has growing concerns that the white house is trying to get in the way of the russian investigation. one federal law enforcement official says there is a whole lot of interfering happening. that source told cbs news, this is a crisis. >> acting fbi director andrew mccabe is defejding comey from criticism. sara huckabee sanders told us yesterday that comey lost support inside the fbi. >> i can tell you they hold director comey in absolute highest regard. i have the highest respect

his considerable abilities and his grinteity, and it has been the greatest privilege and honor of my professional life to work with him. i can confidently tell you that the majority, vast majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. >> mccabe did say some current and former agents were frustrated by comey's actions in investigation of clinton's e-mail server. >> the firing of james comey has been compared this week to the actions of our 37th president mr. nixon. >> mr. trump is first president since richard nixon to fire a law enforcement official in investigation of the white house. >> do you agree with the sentiment this was a nixonian move? >> if there was an obstruction, it's

sfloo bob schieffer is with us from washington. bob, let me first say it's really good to see you from washington on satellite this morning. >> well, thank you very much, gayle. >> just hearing your voice. bob, is this a fair comparison? >> there are many parallels watergate. i have to tell you i think all the way back to the kennedy assassination to draw parallels, i was there, as you know. i have always felt that if lee harvey oswald had been put on trial, a lot of these con spearcy theories circulating today would have been put at rest then. it is absolutely imperative that donald trump find a way to reassure the american people that these questions about russia are not true, if that is his version. he's got to lay it all out and not find ways to tweet it out

news media. he's got to show some proof, reason to believe that these things are not true. frankly, unless he is diebl this, this is going to dog his presidency for the rest of his term. look at what's happened in washington right now. it's come to a complete stop while the country and washington tries to digest the firing of james comey. putting this to rest not going to be helped by firing the guy who was doing the investigation. sending these people out to explain the inexplicable is not going to help. he's making fools of his own staff. the white house appears to be in chaos. it is the original amateur hour as we look at it from the outside. he's got a lot of work to do, and so far what he has done has not helped in my view. >> well, he released a tweet this morning saying it's not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium w

accuracy. >> well, that would go into the understatement hall of fame, wouldn't it. i've got to go with him on that one. >> okay. >> i mean look at what happened the other night when all this news broke. you had officials of the white house holding news conferences out in the shrubbery outside the white house. you had people running around. it looks like some sort of a train wreck unfolding. nobody seemed o know what was going on. then the white house officials come out and give one explanation and the president blows him out of the water and says it's an entirely different thing. i think they've o tot get their stories straight. i think what has to happen, the president has to go to congress, open the books. he has to say, ask me any question you want. i'll give you any document you want. i want to put this thing to rest. so far that's not happening. but what we're seeing now

incompetence at the very highest level. this cannot sustain it. it's not good for him. it's not good for the country. >> so should he appoint a special prosecutor? >> i think he should get together with people in koj and figure out how to put this thing to rest. but it's going o take more than just tweets saying i didn't do anything wrong. he's got to show some people proof of what happened here and what h is all about. >> we have, bob, conflicting accounts about what was said at a dinner now between the president and the fbi director where the president reportedly demanded loyalty and the former fbi director said he would giving him honesty. honesty versus loyalty. now, the white house is disputing that account. >> norah, this is look something out of a godfather movie. this isn't the way you

someone who's heading an investigation into your own administration? that borders on obstruction of justice. i don't think we're there yet, but this is totally improper and out of place to even be holding a conversation like that. >> they even differed over whom invited whom. >> that's right. >> i mean there are many, many questions here and, you know, this interview yesterday with lester holt was stunning, some of the disclosers that came out there. calling comey a showboat. >> grandstander, yeah. >> donald trump called somebody a showboat? >> great to see you, bob. >> could you be available every single day to come on? >> to stir things up? >> stir things up. thank you so much about bob. >> thanks, norah. and in just that couple of minutes, the president has tweeted again and we'll bring it

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murder cases in texas has been unsolved for more than 40 years. a gunman ended the home of pris silva davidson in august of 1976 and shot four people. two were killed including davis's 12-year-old daughter. focus began to focus on her husband colin davis. maureen maherh wit how money makes all the difference in the case. >> this is a case that involves wealth, sex, vengeance, murder. christy jack is a former prosecutor turned defense attorney. she grew up blocks from the scene of the crime. the 1976 shootings at the mansion belonging to oil millionaire colin davis and his flamboyant wife priscilla. >> priscilla was 5'2", feisty little bond, big hair and packed a texas

that little frame. >> after several years of marriage, they broke up. priscilla wanted $50 million and had her husband barred from the mansion. colin was furious. >> he's writing the checks. >> he's writing the checks. he can't get in the house. >> reporter: one august night priscilla and her boyfriend, a former college basketball player named stan farr came home with friends and walked into an ambush. a gunman in black opened fire. priscilla was shot in the chest. sam farr was next. when it was over. sam farr was dead and priscilla and her friend were wounded and in the basement was the body of her 12-year-old daughter from another murder. >> the theory is that colin committed all of these crimes because of

his hatred of miss sylla was so intense he was going to kill her and anyone else who stood in the way would be collateral damage. >> there's something the d.a.'s office had nonanticipated. colin ice wealth affected the case starting the night of his arrest. >> you could begin to see the special treatment already start. after all, you're talking about the death of a child. but in collin dave's case, there was the fact they let him get dressed. they didn't even put on handcuffs. >> his net worth was about $500 million. i don't think we can

underestimate what his we89 had on public opinion. >> maureen maher is with us. how did it affect it? >> he was able to buy an expensive defense team. he hired what was then a p.r. team to go out and put out good publicity. here's a man who killed a 12-year-old child and people were asked hum for his autograph. >> richard haynes died recently, i read that recently. where's colin davis? >> he lives in a modest home in ft. worth. he's leading a very different life than he was 20 years ago. >> really fascinating. maureen, thank you so much. >> maureen's special is part of a double feature tomorrow that starts at 9:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.

her story airs at 10:00 right here. >> we were trying to figure out what the title would be. one of the world's busiest airports will move airlines instead of passengers. we'll go inside as they reshape l.a.x. plus "tuesdays with maury," remember that book?

today is moving day at los angeles international airport. they're used to seeing 220,000 people take off or land on nearly 2,000 flights every day. but tonight many airlines will move. l.a.x. will begin one of the largest 2er78 nall swaps at a national airport. three are locating overnight. three have already moved. kris van cleave is there live. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the signs are up and everyone hopes they're reading it. everything has to go. the new airlines, they're already starting to move in. they realize it could be confusing for delta. the airline could be operating out of four different terminals. >> the question is on the morning of may 13th, will you

l.a.x.? >> reporter: chances are it won'twith where you left it. hi've got to do it in the roughly five hours between when the last flight arrives and the first one in the morning starts boarding. six other airlines have already moved. it's a race against time that took nine months of planning. chris will sheets is the director of operations. >> it's largely complex. we're una aware of any airport that's tried something this massive, move 2g 1 airlines over course of 21 days. it's essentially the same as moving the airport. >> reporter: delta is footing the bill for the entire move. they'll move to roomier digs part of the $1.9 billion renovation project. haat was 1963 when l.a.x. han e

day. today passenger traffic is ten times that. the airport is now in the middle of a $14 billion project to meet increasing demand. they're upgrading terminals, adding gates and connectingarities with a light rail system. >> we know it will be a painful few years but when we're done, this is going to be one heck of an airport. >> the airmen will move 220 workers nightly with ten trucks moving everything carriers use including gates, ticket counters, 300 officers and computers. >> we're not expecting everything go perfectly but in the end we want everything to be in place and we want our passengers to feel like they're glad that we did this and we didn't have any major problems. >> bottom line, you'll want to get here extraarily and there will be hundreds o volunteers on

gayle? >> focus on the end game.

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says, you're not just my mom. you're my best friend. >> that's really sweet. >> that's really sweet. but the first one said, i'm going to start calling you linda. happy mother's day. mom, you taught me everything i know. all right? again, these are really good cards. but the first drafts, not so much. the first one says dad taught me how to siphon gas. happy mother's day, we may be far apart, but a part of you is always with me. but the first draft said

mother's day. i'm slowly turning into you and it creeps me out when i look in a mirror. >> that's so true. >> i think those who have their mothers are so lucky. charlie and i don't have ours. when you have your mom, nobody cares more about you. >> so true. >> don't forget your mom on this mother's day. >> you know, many people cry out in times of danger for their mom. >> it's almost the older you get, the more important it becomes. >> so true. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> right now time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. they're investigating the uberless driver program. google's parent company alphabet allegedly plotted with google to steal 14,000 documents. the judge also temporarily blocked part of uber's program that benefits t

hair potter story. j.k. rowling wrote a sequel. burglars in birmingham took it last month. she urged fans not to buy it. police are asking for the public's health not to buy it. >> i'm finally reading the harry potter books. >> william used to love them, but not for me. steve harvey is not sorry for telling his staff they should not approach or talk to him. the talk show host is defending the memo he send to them. >> i was trying to find a way that i could just get more me time, time for me. i'm a 60-year-old man and i could not find a way to walk from the stage to my dressing room. >> a tv columnist published a memo of his production crew being moved from c

angeles. one of the lines in the memo, do not stand outside my door unless you have an appointment. i told him, i do not have an apointment but i'm standing outside your door. charlie, norah, and i would like you to come to the table. i like him. message received. "tuesdays with morrie." >> he's sold more than 15 million copies of the book in 56 languages. >> i just can't accept it. i don't want you to die. i guess i flunked the course, huh? death ends a life,

relationship. >> author mitch albom is jing us now. welcome. i forgot. jack lemmon. >> yeah. he was remarcable. that was really his last film basically. >> what is it that so resonates with people about this book? >> i think most people in their life have had a teacher, and so that's sort of their morrie. i have people open their wallets to me and show me a picture of their grandfather and say, this is my mmorrie. i think a lot of people are loft like i was at that age, i'm going 1,000 miles an hour and nothing seems relatable. >> it's so interesting your book continues to thrive today, 15 million sold so far and still selling but in the beginning nobody paid any attention to you, sports writer, you. >> yeah. actually we got rejected in so many places when we landed. it was haunting. they said, you ear

writer, nobody wants to read it. what's your pitch? >> i said i'm spending time with a dying professor. mainly i wanted to pay his medical bills. he had horrible debt. i tried to help pay it off by writing a book. had i not done it i would have given up. i kept pushing. h was one publisher before he died. they agreed to print it. they print 20d,000 copies. i thought i would have them many my trunk the rest of my life. >> was it an instant bestseller in. >> no. it was the old days where somebody would read it, hand it to somebody, hand it to somebody. and then one day a nice woman named oprah winfrey had me come on her show for five minutes. >> that changed it?

>> younger children too. >> i'm astounded. children taught around the world and japan, i was trying to understand how it relates to it. morrie said to me -- i wasn't the only one who wut visit him. people tried to cheer him up. he would flip it and cheer them up. i said, why would you do that. he said why would i take from people who want to give me sympathy. it's a profound statement. i think it rhymes. i think a lot of people relate to it. including young people. they actually understand if you give out more, you get more. >> you said once again it happened to you. you adopted a little girl from haiti. you said years later,'s happened to me. i watched someone die. >> yeah. that was sort of iraning. apparently 20 years almos

month i rekekded with morrie. very have an orphan age in haiti with 45 girls. i brought her up to do surgeries and bring her back. she ended up living with us for two years. we went around the world to save her. she passed away two weeks ago. >> you say you never felt so alive, michigan. >> i thought that was aring. trying to team her all of a sudden, trying to keep her aliven, you realize the time you have left. morrie said keep a little bird on your shoulder and ask it every day, is today the day i die. be prepared for it to say one day, yes, it is. are you ready? thinking is today the last day,'s what my wife and i did with chica every day. >> you have nine

>> in detroit, yeah, and the orphanage in haiti, which i go to every month, which is something morrie kind of taught me. he used to teach me. he said what do you do for your charities i said checks, write checks. he said anybody can write checks. >> that's why living is giving. very sorry about your little girl. >> 20th anniversary of "tuesdays with morrie" is on sale. mt. everest, climbing the highest mountain have reached a major milestone. >> i'm adrian ballinger. >> and i'm cory richards. >> we're on our way to 26,000 feet while attempting to climb mt. everest without extra oxygen.

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pretty squally up here. >> two snapchatting climbers have reached a new milestone many their latest attempt to summit mt. everest together. adrian ballinger and cory richards posted this earlier t

they're documenting everything on snapchat. this is the first time they're trying to climb without supplemental oxygen. last year only cory made it to the summit. adrian had to turn around when he was only 1,200 feet away. dana jacobson has more. >> reporter: good morning. they had two goals in mind. the first, to make sure adrian reaches the summit and the second to capture that moment on snapchat. mt. everest looms overhead and adrian balon jer and scory richards skirt an altitude known as the jet set. >> it's hard. >> reporter: they weeched north col. this is the closest they'll get

>> our bodies don't love us very well. >> reporter: they plan to ascend without such mental oxygen. training during day is rigorous. customized diets combat the altitude sickness. their heart rates and oxygen levels are meticulously monitored as they mooi move higher upham it's a herculean effort. it's estimated that nearly pun people have died attempts to scale everest. last month swiss climber ueli steck fell to his death in the same area cory and 5idian have been training. >> his legacy will be huge. it always will be. e oom not sure shoes shoes can be filled. >> they're amply

low oxygen. >> unfortunately a.b. had to turn around a little bit earlier. it's up me to hold it down. >> only cory made it to the top. with just 1,200 feet to go, his dream fell short. >> nothing was working right. i wasn't eating well, dehydrated, and i was cold. >> the paper expects to climb the summit together and share it with thousands atop of world. >> a reminder thattet's worth it, that all values are in the right place, we do it for the right reason and we do it. >> last year he spent juftz three minutes but his cell phone battery died, if you remember. this time they plan on bringing extra power so their snapchat foul others

good news, nine sherpas laid down equipment. >> they looked really great and healthy at that point. >> we hope it for that reason too. they thought it might be a problem for his life and his partner. you sacramento ta slin. you want to see him a chime this. >> yes. >> next we'll look alt what mattered this

well, that does it for us. as we leave you, let's take a look back at all that matter this week. and happy mother's day to all those mothers. have a great weekend. >> why did you fire director comey? >> he wasn't doing a good job,

he wasn't doing a good job. >> it stunned the fbi. >> i think it's important to call out what the russians were doing with our election. >> this move created an alarm on capitol hill. >> any talk about the question of need for a special prosecutor, will's none now. >> they fired sally yates and now they've fired director comey, very man leading the investigat ion. ay>> h called him out against the hiring of michael flynn. >> the state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser come promiedsing it. t>> i seems like a daily string of fis tticuffsfisticuffses. >> the fraternity brothers didn't have much to say as they rushed in and out of the courthouse. >> president trump may have congratulated

>> how will the firing of jachls comey affect the u.s./russian relations many? >> reporter: don't be angry with me. we had nothing to do with it. ♪ >> i like standing when you're tall. >> i like charlie rose and i like chocolate. >> who read the paper. >> norah read the paper, which is the point of this story. ♪ >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> ms. bruckheimer and i had a brief relationship when she was a much younger woman. >> you did? >> i'm aed by of a cad and a womanizer. >> one of his

i haven't slept with a woman over 30 since i was 14, so he's a big cad. >> people can lie but they can be really, really honest through going. >> and the body parts men search for most, e'll leave it to your imagination. >> your feet? >> shg li >> she's like that. >> do you have a little song? everybody makes up a song. >> when i'm changing her diaper. ♪ somebody's got a stinky bobby hello her name is luna and she made a poopie ♪ >> all that -- >> how would you describe what happened with that record? >> lightning in the bottle stuff. >> -- and all that matters. what would you make charlie rose? >> he's a southern boy. >> anything he desires. >> you know what he really likes? southern chicken. >> we'll have dinner tonight if you make fried chicken. >> do you

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we have a full house. >> good morning. we are your hosts of this special edition of great day washington. we have two very special guests. for we get to that i want to tell you you can meet our moms from the mother's makeover sweepstakes. welcome to great day. >> it's probably andrea. >> it's out of love. congratulations. are you excited? >> did you watch the show every day did you ever think you would be aghast wax >> know. >> how about when you are being raised,

special enough to get something out of this? it's easy to be humble. all that work you put into being moms. >> your son nominated you to be on the show. and your mom and nominated you. are you nervous about what you're getting into? we are throwing it into a whirlwind, getting a makeover, a whole new look and putting you on tv. >> it's different because i should've probably nominated her. and then you want to tell me to go listen to whatever they want? >> how about you? i am just happy to be here because like i said i watch the show every day and it's