captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is monday, december 4th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump attacks his own fbi, calling its reputation the worst in history. fired fbi director james comey is among those hitting back. house and senate work to close the gaps between their two tax bills. this morning we'll look at the perks and special interest. we'll talk with white house budget director mick mulvaney how the overhaul will affect your family. the u.s. and south korea launch a massive air drill this morning in a show of force against north korea. ben tracy fle

squadron to see how they prepare for war. plus, the high school student who fled from home with her high school soccer coach is safe this morning. the family opens up about the emotional reunion. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> you tweet at your own peril. i'd be careful, if i were you, mr. president. >> the tweet sparks controversy in the fbi probe. >> in the case of obstruction of justice. >> the house returning early to reckon the difference between the house and senate tax reform bill, hoping to get the bill to the president's desk by christmas. >> this is going to affect american business, the economy, every for decades. >> it could be the largest corporate deal of the year. >> the united states and south korea

air force drill. >> there's a real grave danger to all nations. >> the kennedy center honors took place. president trump and melania trump became the first presidential couple to escape the gala. >> all that -- >> the pontiac silverdome did not implode. >> you hate it because -- >> you're putting all these women in a category who could care less about your body, you're insecure, you have no confidence, and that is none of this. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> it's going the wrong way. it's really going the wrong way. look at this. he's going the right way. touchdown, chicago. >> the head coach is on the sideline going oh, no, oh, no, get down, get down, oh, wait a minute. oh, yeah. just like we drew it up

chalkboard. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and bianna golodryga. great to have you here. >> thanks for having me. donald trump is lashing out as the fbi moves closer to the white house. he used twitter to attack its credibility. he said this weekend the fbi's reputation is the worst in history. he responded with a quote from his own capitol hill testimony this year. comey tweeted this. i want the american people to know this truth. the fbi is honest, the fbi is strong, and the fbi is and always will be independent. margaret brennan is at the white house with this intensifying feud. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. it is stunning for

enforcement agency, but president trump has been harshly critical of the fbi's handling of the probe of his campaign's activities. >> what has been shown is no collusion. >> president trump insisted over the weekend that his campaign did not coordinate with russia to influence the 2016 election. >> there's been absolutely no collusion. >> his former national security adviser michael flynn had just pleaded guilty to lying the fbi about his russian contacts. the president then unleashed an attack on the fbi saying on twitter, its reputation is in tatters and accused it of a dishonest investigation of hillary clinton. former director james comey testified that the president fired him after the fbi did not honor him after he asked him to stop his request to investigate michael flynn.

account but seemed to suggest he was aware that flynn had lied to the fbi, tweeting saturday, quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. which raises new questions about what the president knew and when. south carolina republican lindsey graham warned the post appeared incriminating. >> you tweet a comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. i'd be careful if i were you, mr. president trump. >> he said in an unusual move it was the president's lawyer john dowd who helped right that tweet. congressman adam schiff said it hurts the president. >> he wanted to protect mike flynn, lying on his behalf, a then you do get very close to a case of obstruction of justice. >> it is rar for the white house to say somebody else wrote the president's tweet, but sources say in this case it was dowd who was the principal wo

sloppy phrasing. bianna, we'll see what's happening here, but the white house is clearly frustrated. this has created more confusion about what the president knew and when. >> strong rebuttal from james comey. margaret, thank you. the agent was reassigned last summer after it was discovered he sent text messages that may have criticized the president. paula reid is outside the district courthouse with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this ajelkt was a top fbi investigator working alongside special counsel robert mueller. peter mursak was reassigned after politically sending text messages to another fbi lawyer lisa page. he was a key player in the investigation of hillary clinton's research. this was such a significant development the special counsel's office issued a statement saying

allegations, it removed peter strzok from the investigation. they're questioning the credibility of the e-mail probe and the ongoing mueller investigation. president trump tweeted over the weekend, now it all starts to make sense. attorney general jeff sessions who has recused himself from the russian investigation has always weighed in. he says he wants to ensure all federal investigations are conducted without bias or favoritism and that he has addressed this with the fbi director. >> all right, paula. thank you so much. house and senate republicans are racing to combine their separate tax reform bills. gop lawmakers will work this week to try to sort out the differences in the two plans. republicans want a finished bill on president trump's desk by christmas. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the hurdles they face and whether they'll be able to wrap a bow around it. >> good morning. house and senate republicans have been working

scenes to reconcile these two bills even before the senate passed its bill early saturday morning and they believe they can get that process done within a week. >> the middle income taxpayers, an overwhelming majority of them will get tax relief. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell insisted melding the two tax bills will not take too much time. >> i'm very optimistic about it. >> he'll be working with house gop leaders like steve scalise, highly motivated to pass a bill by christmas. >> when you look at the dichss, they're not that big. >> there are some key discrepancie discrepancies. the senate bill keeps the current seven tax brackets while the house bill condenses it to four. the senate bill eliminated the individual mandate, a move likely to end up in the final product, and it's unclear what will happen with the medical expense

the senate suspended them tell particularly. susan collins was responsible for that last-minute amendment. >> the amendment i added on helping retirement security for public employees improved the bill. >> changed like those were made in pen just hours before the senate vote early saturday morning. >> this is a taxpayer. >> democrats took to social media to rail against the rushed process. >> can you tell me what that word is? if you can, you've got better eyes than me. >> c corporation, paren, dangerous? that can't be right. >> some of those last-minute revisions surprised the house.

is going to be a very delicate process because they can't do anything that's going to jep died gop votes in the house and particularly in the senate, gayle, where they have just one vote to spare. >> all right. that's not a lot. thank you very much, nancy. the senate tax bill has steps for provisions for special interests. car dealerships would be able to fully deduct car loans thanks to rand paul. and paul ryan suggests parents can pay for 1-12th grade private school tuition with tax-free college savings. >> some of the biggest winners in these bills are pass-through. hay don't pay corporate taxes. instead they file that income on their individual tax return.

the senate's tax bill is a boon for oil and gas firms who would be able to take advantage of the lower tax rates on pass-through businesses. the provision was added by texas senator john cornyn, whose campaign has received more than $1 million from the gas and oil industrial since 2013. >> we're going to find some stinky stuff in here. >> real estate organizations would also benefit. according to tax policy provider seth hannan. >> he's sort of the poster child of the wealthy businessman or wealthy billionaire who's going get a massive windfall from this budget. mick mulvaney defended the measures. >> a lot of the deductions are gone. >> the bill would open up

of the national arctic wildlife drilling proposed by senator lisa murkowski. >> this is good for alaska, but more importantly it's good for the country. >> another amendment spared cruise lines from paying higher taxes. alaska senator dan sullivan said it would help communities and businesses that rely on tourism. >> this is slap/sloppy. i've never seen a bill like this. >> it appears a research and development tax credit was accidentally eliminated. norah, you can expect more surprises as the lawmakers finish the bill that they've already passed. >> thank you. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here with what this means for families. good morning. this is so important. let's talk about how it a

>> we need to understand this is a bill that's very nuanced. it matters not just who you are and how much money you do earn, but how do you earn that money? do you have a pass-through organization or do you live in a state where you're losing your state and local tax deduction. do you have a mortgage? it's a very strange bill that in the packet when we've done tax reform and deductions, i remember it was a much clearer, this is a winner, this is a loser. this is going to take a long time to really understand who wins and who loses. >> the big difference in the two plans. >> the big differences going down, we know that the tax brackets are very important. so in the house plan they have four tax brackets. they maintain that top bracket at 39.6 -- the house plan goes to four brackets and the senate maintains seven brackets and the top bracket goes down. mortgage interest deduction. house plans say you can only deduct up to ha

going to leave it at a million. what we really know is around corporations. in corporations, they both are slashing the corporate rate. it goes from 35% to 20%. >> go ahead. >> e was going to say tax cuts historically are very popular. this one is at 30% approval. why do you think so many americans disapprove of this tax cut? >> i think it's becoming clear that it's very much tilted toward corporations and the wealthiest americans. if you're upper middle class, you could be a loser in this bill and that's very important to put out there and if you're very poor you would be a loser. corporations which have seen great profitability over the last seven years, stockmarkets at all-time highs, it's hard to understand in your belly why did corporations need this tax cut. making a tax code

simpler, plainer, but at a moment where we are right now, second longest bull market in the history of the united states economy, it's hard to reconcile that. >> it still seems very confusing. even the people who pass it are still trying to read it and figure out how they passed it. >> who really wins and who loses? i heard you talking about two losing situations. who are the losers? >> if you're 10% of the earner, you're a huge earner. the tax brackets are going to go down. i think those people win. i think corporations, huge winners. pass-through corporations. that means you have a big law firm with lots of partners. money is going to pass through. they're winners. whether they take the money that they save and repsychet it into the economy and boost the economy substantially, i think that is a huge question yet to be answered. a lot of academics say they don't believe this is a long-term gro

>> randall stevens the head of at&t promises more jobs. you have them on the record saying they'll have more jobs. >> we'll see where they come up with the jobs. in the next hour mick mulvaney will respond to criticisms of the tax bill only on "cbs this morning." >> only we can say that. only on "cbs this morning." a drugstore giant has announced a deal to buy aetna. the price about $69 billion. jericka done cab is here with a blockbuster deal and what it could mean for consumers nationwide. good morning. >> good morning, gayle. in a joint statement they call it a national evolution. experts say the move could reinvent the way you go to the doctor. for years cvs has been working to become a one-stop shop for health care with not just pharmacies but also walk-in clinics. gi joining forces with insurance

envision their locations becoming something of a community-based medical center that includes space for wellness, clinical and pharmacy services as well as vision, nutrition, medical equipment, and beauty. >> a company like cvs has 10,000 brick and mortar locations. so if you're an aetna customer, you can visit cvs around the corner from where you live. >> they face new competitors which includes amazon which started inching into the health care business. >> that made companies like cvs sit up and take notice. >> still, the merger needs to be approved by anti-trust regulators who recently put the brakes on at&t/time warner merger and

corporation. >> do they end up passing those drug prices on to consumers? that's frankly the question regulators are going to look at when they scrutinize the traction. >> what does it mean for the aisles at the local cvs, experts say it could take years whether they'll take the place of wrapping paper and get well cards. bianna? >> potential game-changer nonetheless. thank you. longtime opera director james levine is suspended this morning over a series of sexual misconduct allegations. he's one of the most world renowned conductors. he's accused of sexually molesting boys from 16 to 19. cbs reached out to levine for comment, but we have yet to hear back. di> a florida teen who

coach is reunited with her parents. >> what was it like when you first saw her? >> it was wonderful. she's just beautiful. just to get to see her and put our arms around her. there's nothing else like it. >> meg oliver sat down with kaitlyn fricaitlyn frisina's moa

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jal you may have noticed a bigger and brighter full moon last night. there's a name for it. astronomers call it a super moon, and this is the only one we'll see in 2017. the phenomenon happens when the moon is full and reaches closest to air. a photo shows a plane taking off. that's very cool. super moon seems to be about 40% larger and 30% brighter. if you missed it last night. you can see another super moon on new year's day or january 31st. >> i noticed that yesterday. i was like, wow, the moon is out in full forc

>> you need your sunglasses with that moon. >> it's nice. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things we think you should know this morning. protesters are expected to meet president trump when he arrives today in utah to announce plans to cut the size of two national monuments. the sprawling bears ears and grand staircase is ka lanty national monuments were created by president barack obama and president clinton. president trump called it a national federal land grab by the government that should have never happened. they say there will not be a shut down but the senate says there will not be any protections for d.r.e.a.m.ers. it ends in march. lawmakers have until the end of this week to approving new government funding. >> and the teams are set for this year's college football playoffs. two semifinal games will be played on new year

number one, clemson plays alabama in the sugar bar, the rematch in the last of two championship games. georgia and oklahoma will meet in the rose bowl. they play on january 8th. big ten champion ohio state has been left out of the conference. it's the first time the team has not had a running, bad for him. a florida teenager is back home after running away with her soccer cool nearly a week ago. she's reunited with her parents in syracuse new york. ryan rodriguez has been arrested. meg oliver has the story. we're glad she's home safe. >> absolutely. good morning to all of you. the last few days have been an emotional roller coaster for the frisina family. they say they're happy to have their daughter back safe in their arms and rodriguez will face consequences for t

>> when you saw her for the first time, what was it like, ward? >> like the wait of the world being lifted off his shoulders. >> reporter: he blamed himself for his daughter's disappearance. he encouraged ryan rodriguez to take the high school soccer coaching job. >> how does it feel? >> it's been difficult. i'm glad to have her back and keep her safe as a father always wanted to do. >> reporter: ward frisina and his wife traveled a thousand miles to be reunited with their daughter in new york. >> how long did you hug her? >> i don't know. till we got to breathe, i think. when you go that long without seeing or talking to her, you don't want to let her go. >> reporter: police say a new york state trooper noticed rodriguez's car with the florida tag. the officer pulled him over in the shopping mall parking lot and ate

incident. frisina was in the passenger seat. >> did she tell you why she left? >> we haven't gotten into all of that yet. we will at some point. right now we're just so thankful and so blessed that she's safe and that we're together again. >> reporter: according to the arrest warrant, the teen's father discovered sexual messages from snapchat after she disappeared that confirmed a possible relationship between his daughter and rodriguez and her mother was told by one of caitlyn's friends rian wanted her to leave the country with him and she didn't know how to get out of it and was afraid he would mess up her life. >> what is the message to parents? >> because you don't know what tomorrow means, hug your babies every day and tell them how much you love them and make sure that they know that they can come to you with anything and that you can work through

>> rodriguez faces a felony charge in florida of interfering with child custody and he could face additional federal charges for taking frisina across state lines. officials say if there are no local charges filed in new york, they expect rodriguez to be extradited to florida this week. the family has a lot to process. >> i'm so happy she's safe and sound, but as a mother there's a part of me that wants to strangle her. but her mom said a very good thing. tell your kids no matter what it is, you can tell us what it is. my heart ached for her when she said, please call us and let us know you're all right. >> they'll go to counseling if they have to. >> did she goali le willingly? >> it appears she did. >> thank goodness her friend came forward. surveillance video shows a

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these are u.s. air force stealth fighters preparing for takeoff in south korea on a deadly serious training mission this morning. six of those f-22 raptors are taking part in a large joint air drill with south korea. the show of force follows north korea's test of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. it's called an exercise on all-out provocation. lindseyra

military should take the military out of harm's way. >> given the provocation of north korea rng i walkts them to stop sending dependents. i think it's now time to start moving american dependents out of south korea. >> ben tracy flew with an air force squod ron to participate in the training. he's with us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the military exercises now under way involve 2,000 aircraft and 10,000 personnel. we flew with the 35th fighter wing to see how they're preparing for the increasing threat from north korea. i flew in the back seat of major richa richa richard smeeding in a fighter jet. he goes by the code name punch. seconds into our flight, he

we climbed 13,000 feet at nearly 500 miles per hour. >> all right. give us a roll. wow. >> that's one way to take off. >> reporter: soon we are soaring right up the face of a massive snowcapped mountain. minutes later just barely above the surface of a lake. >> pull up, pull up. >> how many feet off the ground are we? >> just over 100. >> you are ruining every roller-coaster ride in my fut e future. >> reporter: but this is not a joy ride. for pilots like punch, this is a serious training mission. flying low helps him prepare for actual combat conditions in which he would try to avoid detection. >> what does this replicate in terms of combat firing. >> if there's any barrier, ths

target me, much let shoot me. >> there are 44. and in a war with north korea, they would likely be the first plane sent in to take out enemy radar at north korea's air defenses. if needed and if called on, we're ready, and we're ready to go right now, 100%. >> reporter: colonel scott jobe is commander of the fighter ring. he said the missiles have lead them to increase the number and complexity of their training exercises. >> to make sure we're ready to prepare and respond to any sort of testing. >> that readying means pilots like punch are spending a lot of time on the ground making sure their f-16s are ready for action and once in the air, that they're ready for a mission. >> what's the mission today? >> we're doing a simulated strike mission. >> in this scenario our plane flies low over the water until he spots the tar

we then pop up in the air and simulate dropping a bomb on an enemy port where weapons or cargo may be located. everyone we talked to on the base said they hope diplomacy works and it doesn't come into military conflict with north korea. they say if it does, they're ready. as punch confidently told me in terms of north korea, we can handle that problem. norah? >> i have no doubt they can. ben tracy, nice flying up there. great job. appreciate it. up next, a look at this morning's other headlines including billy bush on the infamous acce"access hollywood" video. speak up this morning, he says, yes, it was president trump.

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good morning. it's monday, december 4th 20rks 17. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead, white house budget director mick mulvaney on the things the president must have in the gop tax bill. it's only in an interview on cbs. plus, the first birth from a transplanted uterus. the pros and cons for other women. first here's your "eye opener" at 8:00. as the russian investigation moves closer to the white house, he said the fbi's reputation is the worst in history. >> it's stunning for any american president to publicly rebuke the law enforcement agency. >> pet

>> even before the senate passed its bill. >> some of its biggest winners are businesses that passed the income on to their owners dwhoenlt pay corporate taxes. >> it's a big huge change in the tax code is around corporations, and corporations, they both are slashing the corporate rate. it goes from 35% to 20%. the two companies calls this a natural evolution as they seek to put the consumer at the head of the health care delivery system. >> cbs is honoring comedian carol burnett. >> you've been in our lives for so long because you're more than care burnette. you're a space in which a huge amount of love happens. >> jim -- -- it's so sweet. i mean heai

>> did you see carol burnett? >> she's a treasure for all of us. i'm gayle king with norah o'donnell and bianna golodryga. she'll be with us all week at the take. >> if you'll take me. it's only monday. >> so far so good. the president criticized the fbi this weekend on twitter. he said comey's leadership left, quote, its reputation in tatters and the worst in history. mr. trump also renewed his attack on the done honest clinton investigation after learning that special counsel robert mueller reassigned an agent who may have sent anti-trump text messages. >> comey responded with a quote from his june testimony saying this. the fbi is honest. the fbi is strong. and the fbi is and also will be independent. >> the tweets came after former national security adviser michael flynn pleed

lying the fbi. the president seemed to acknowledge in another weekend tweet that he knew flynn lied in february. the tweet said, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vch and the fbi. sources close to the white house tell cbs news the lawyer john dowd helped write that tweet. sources say it's a case of sloppy wording. congressional republicans are pushing to get president trump the tax bill he wants by christmas. the house votes today to send its version to the conference committee in the senate. they need to work out big differences between the two plans. senate republicans approved their plans early saturday morning. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. there is no greater priority for house and senate republicans that getting this tax bill through, and so they say it's only going to take them about a week to iron out these differences. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has already been huddling with house republican leaders how to

republicans have to come together to seize what he call as once-in-a-generation opportunity. that means it's going to have to make compromises on a number of features. the house plan has four while the senate has seven. the senate plan would let individual rate cuts expire in 2025. both bills would raise the bar for who would pay the estate tax, but the house would eventually repeal the tax while the senate would not. senators also added a last-minute provision to their bill to keep the alternative minimum tax which lessens the tax breaks while the house bill would repeal the tax. they've got a lot of work ahead of them. as they work to iron out the differences, they also have to keep an eye on the end of the week when they need to cut a deal to fund the government rucause that funding is set to

>> nancy, thank you. white house budget director mick mulvaney joins us from washington. good morning to you, mr. mulvaney. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you very much for having me. congress is working it out between the house and senate bill. can you tell us what we're seeing now? >> sure, what we wanted to see from the beginning, two fundamental principles from the white house. it will be simpler for them to pay and number two this corporate tax rate will come down. it looks like both the house and senate bills that have now passed preserve those two very important principles so the next step is to work out the details. the house has some things the senate doesn't have and vice versa. this is about the ordinary course of passing law. they're still on goal for getting this done by christmas. >> let me ask you this. does the president favor seven rates or four rates? >> we favor whatever can pass. we'd like a simpler code,

rates doesn't really change the simplicity of the code for ordinary folks thiefrm certainly going to turn to the back of the booklet and fill out their taxes. it's going to be very simple. so as between the four or five rates that were in the house bill, the six or seven in the house bill is really indifferent. >> it seems the president doesn't mind what's in the bill. he just wants a bill. >> no. he wants a bill that preserves our principles. no, no. it's a bill for the sake of passing a bill. we need the substance but those two principles what what would be driving it. >> let me ask you about one of the principles. during the campaign he called it, quote, a weight around everyone in the country is. this a concern that it's going to add $1 trillion

>> keep in mind the debt is a function of two different things, the amount of revenues into the government and the at of revenues out. so revenues and spending. we need this tax bill to grow the economy. a healthy american economy where everybody works, folks make more money, actually generates more money. >> both bills appeal it. last week republican senator chuck grassley told t"the des moines register" i think it recognizes the people investing as opposed to those investing every darn penny they have whether it's on booze, women, or spending. is that the view of 99% of the households? >> i'm not sure where it comes from. we do not think dying should invite the irs into your light. right now when you pass

we don't believe that's right. we do believe long term in taxing the assets that families have collected over the generations. we don't think it should be at the point of death. >> that's something the cbo said would leave 13 million americans without sneerns. is the president okay with that? >> think about that for a second. so what the cbo is telling you as soon as you don't have to buy something, you're not going to. is that necessarily a bad thing? do we want to have some law on the books? this goes back to tunlds lying health care and the fact that democrats have pitched health care as a tax. so it's entirely promote to deal with now. should the government be forcing you to buy something you don't want to buy? we're absolutely comfortable with that. the house had done it previously in a separate bill. we're looking forward to that being part of the final legislation. >> so both bills have a cut for the corporate tax rate down to 20%. the president said he could go up to

senators who want to do that. they could help more middle-class families. is that something where there could be negotiation? >> sure. weed like 15% to begin with. we'd love that 20%. if it takes a smaller change in there to get this across the finish line, we're willing to work on the details with both the house and the senate. keep in mind it's not just us. they have to negotiate with the house as well. >> all right. mick mulvaney, thanks so much for joining us. >> have a great morning. >> this week president trump could become the first president to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. the president is also considered moving the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv to jerusalem. in a rare public appearance, jared kushner who leads the middle east peace effort says his father-in-law has not made up his mind yet. >> you're still looking at a lot of different facts and when he makes his decision, he'll be the one to want to tell you, not

i think there's a lot of instances between israelis and palestinians. i think there's not a lot of trust between the leadership, and i think that's what we've really been working on. >> seth doane is in jerusalem, the city at the heart of the palestinian/israeli conflict. good morning. >> good morning from a market where both mix here in jerusalem's owed city. this is a city claimed at the rightful capital by both sides. for the most part other countries have stayed out of the way keeping their embassies in tel aviv and allowing the final status of it to be determined in peace talks between palestinians and israelis. but that could end today. the president trump must sign a waver that it must sign every six months to keep the embassy in tel aviv, and some trump officials warn that it could help the peace process gain

the word from washington is that this week we could see a sort of half step from president trump with the president making a statement recognizing the capital of israel but does not yet move the embassy. palestinian leaders warn that could jeopardize the peace talks and also warning of violence, and across the region, diplomatic posts have been put on alert and high concert. norah? >> really interesting. seth doane in jerusalem. thank you so much. a texas woman who thought she'd never have a baby is now the mother of a newborn. ahead, how a uterus transplant could help thousands of women like

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for the first time in the u.s. a woman has given birth to a baby through a transplanted uterus. it was part of a clinical trial. eight other babies have been born to women with transplants all in sweden. tens of thousands of women in this country might be candidates in this country for surgery and our dr. tara narula is with us. such exciting news and so much hope for families, mothers in particular who are suffering and hoping to have babies. how does this actually work? >> it's fascinated. the lead research calls it a beautiful moment of love and hope. there's essentially several phases. first a mother who wants to have a baby in this way, they would take the eggs, they would be removed, fertilized and froze as part of ivs. the woman would receive a uterus from a donor from someone deceased. injected with drugs and be

menstrual cycle months later, that aisle implant the embryos and if she should become pregnant, she'll be followed carefully with ob-gyns. >> it's not permanent. >> it's not. it's meant to be temporary, to allow her to have one or at most two children at which point the uterus is then removed so she doesn't have to stay on the immune oh-suppress end drugs that come with risks like cancers and risks and toxicity. >> we don't know the whom had the baby but the donor is a 32-year-old nurse. >> who had two of her own kids. >> who would be eligible? >> those who have uterine infertility who are born with or don't have a uterus or it becomes nonfunctional. most conditions occur in one out of 4,000 women where they're not born with a

could help up to 50,000 who for example had a hysterectomy for ebb dough me trow oh sis, fibroids or cancer or complications from tin irritable childbirth. >> as promising as it i it's a serious procedure. what are the side effects or danger? >> for the donor, it's a surgery. it's more complicated than an initial hysterectomy. it takes longer. they have to tease out the blood vessels. for the woman she has an implantation and then removal. some say why not surrogacy or adoption. there are definitely women with where that's limited by ethical or cultural restraints. these are remarkable steps. >> it's time for a uterine transplant to work. >> and improves quality of life. >> what a gift.

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this was a sure thing. they had a pizza night. it was the idea of the italian astronaut who had them bring in the ingredients on the flight. one thing's for sure, it's easier to toss the pizza. the pizza was unexpectedly delicious. that one looks good. there was another one that looked kind of cardboardy. >> that one was very tasty. >> what does your husband think of it? >> he throws pizza wherever it is. one of the greatest foods ever,

>> i agree. welcome back to "cbs this morning." let's stop as we always do at this time in the green room. here's the question, guys. one of these guys is a best-selling author, the other is a new "cbs evening news" anchor, dada da, jeff glor. drum roll, please. looking forward to your debut tonight, jeff. first he's going to join us at the table. and dan brown. tan, you've got another page turner. i can't wait for you to come. thank you, both. this morning let's take a look at this morning's headlines. the flu season is prompting visitor restrictions at mississippi medical center. mississippi and louisiana have the highest flu levels in the week before thanksgiving. patient asset the hospital will be allowed two healthy visitors at the time. visitors risk spreading the flu to people who are vulnerable. >> our partners at cnet say omg, texting is 25 years old. can you believe that? the first text sate merry chris.

owners use texting. estimates say more than 561 billion text messages were sent worldwide in june 2014. americans send and receive five times as many texts than phone calls. wow, wow. >> i was like what does that stand for. oh. it spells a word. >> i'm a little witty this morning. "business insider"s say walmart and amazon are locked in a bitter war and than the risk of becoming clones. they both launched their in-home delivery program at about the same time and they beekt offer free two-day shipping. >> portland's oregonian said one more blockbuster is biting the deft. it's one of only ten blockbusters open worldwide. three of them are in oregon. in its heyday,

9,000 stores. in 1989, a new blockbuster opened every 17 hours. >> and all-prorob gronkowski is apologizing for a nasty hit. he dove into white from behind after an intersection, driving his arm into the back of white's helmet. he was dazed and evaluated for a concussion. gronkowski got a 15-yard penalty. new england ended up winning, 151 23-3. >> we like gronk but that's another nice. >> it may have been accidental. >> you always see the best in people. no accident. >> okay. >> you will see a familiar face tonight. anchoring news jeff glor is taking over the broadcast. jeff is now sharing some of his

tonight's launch. >> reporter: with nasa we went up in an f-18 to 49,000 feet. >> so we were inverted, went down, and came back up? >> yep. >> to try to create a sonic boom that's quieter than a normal sonic boom. i did not throw up. i got all kinds of training that thank goodness i never had to use. >> reporter: the longest an outsider has lasted inside the chamber is 45 minutes. so we let him lock me in. do people worry about the gators and the snakes? now that the shark is on the lift, now the scientists are to work. >> the shark tagging story was a confluence of science and adventure, never mind the drama of how it all came to be. that was out of a movie. >> nothing made

having a baby. >> has anything made you happier in. >> snow. >> nothing. >> no. >> one of the best parts of the interview process is searching as we go on. >> what does he have on? >> this is an eeg. >> we're looking at what seems to be one body but it's actually two brains. >> yes. >> if you were standing on the corner 25 years ago and you see that kid pull that gun out, what do you say to him? >> it's not worth it. >> i'll tell you what's worth it, jeff glor sitting in that chair on cbs news, jeff glor, congratulations number one. i have no doubt you are ready. i am curious how you're feeling. i get a kick watching walter cronkite's mat but you're going sit in the chair that -- you're holding the job wall that walter cronkite once had. >> yeah. some nerves are good. >> yeah. >> when i did stories for "60 minutes sports" i worked with one of walter's guys of the '70s and

learn a lot from him and tried to pull as much knowledge as i could. the roots run very deep. >> i found it interesting you reached out to other anchors. >> i spoke to all of them at this point who's had this job in the past, this job or others, and all of them have been extraordinarily generous with their time. >> what did you want to know? >> what i should be looking out for, what i should not be looking out for, what i should do. all of them have had different pieces of advice to sort of round all that out. i have to -- it's just been -- that's been one of the true joyce for me in this process is hearing from them and how they can help. >> what stories can we look forward to in the first week? >> well, the president will be in utah talking about national monuments today. we're going to be dealing with that as well. tonight we're going to talk about an 11-year-old girl who came up with a lead test after the flint water crisis. you'll hear more about that tonight and in the day

weeks to come. >> we've all followed your amazing career and anchoring chops and reporting chops. you're more than qualified. everyone on social media know how you are as a family man your beautiful wife and your two children. how do they feel? >> they could care less. we took them by the white house briefing room yesterday, jack and victoria, and i said, for like 11 1/2 minutes can you cooperate and not yell and scream for like ten minutes of your life, and it lasted like 30 seconds. >> how are you going to balance it all. >> good question. how do you do it? >> it's a different seg management. >> that's tough. that was one of the pieces of advice that i got is you have to find that off switch every once in a while. you have to carve out -- you certainly have to carve out the time for family and then for yourself when you have those moments.

trick. >> they may not understand the big deal of the job because you said when it was first announced you spent the night changing a diaper and reading a book. let's hope that never changed. >> let's hope it does not preclude me from doing that. >> did you watch "cbs evening news,"? >> i did after watching the local news from buffalo. >> congrats. we're vieted for your you. >> thank you. >> you can see the cbs evening news about ten hours from now tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern. dan brown has authored and sold more than 200 million bills. ahead his newest book yt

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how god will survive. how did that happen? >> i group up in a very religious household. my mom was an organist a and i grew up very religious and my dad was a mathematician. it's kind of a personal journey to reconcile the two. >> my husband was a theology major and now a restauranteur. he loves the book. one thing you talk about is artificial ill ten jens. you defrl into it. it's not only a thriller but you delve into the mind. >> a.i. is something that fascinates me deeply because scientists can't agree on whether it's going to save us or kill us. lot of scientists believe we're on the verge of solving

yet a lot of scientists feel it's so powerful it will destroy us. it reminds us our species hat never created technology we have never weapon niced and it would be naive to think it will be any different. >> jeff are right. the character winston is so good i had to keep flipping back, are we sure he's not a human? what is the message you're trying to send to us there. after a while -- it scares me a little bit that the guy was so, so, so clear to me that i thought i knew him. >> sure. the thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn and the way a.i. learns is to look at human culture. everything we do is digitized. all of our books, podcasts, youtube e-mails. it's possible for computers to read all that and learn how huma

the question is our culture the best role model for a new consciousness and new intellect. if it learns to be like we are, it's going learn a lot of compassion, but it could also learn a lot of self-centered evil. >> throughout all of your books, location has almost become another character. that take place in europe, this particular one in spain. what goes into your location choice ander er p and what does it add to your book? >> first of all, i'm not going to lie. the most fun is where do i go. the opening scene takes place at the guggenheim, the spectacular museum. these are places that excite me personally and makes it very easy to excite a reader about it if i'm enthusiastic. the funny thing about the googenheim is he's class i cyst. he knows about renaissance art. i wanted to

mainly modern art mainly because i didn't have these. it was hill larry yaus seeing a wheelbarrow with jell-o. i remember walking through with a curatocurator, a giant canvas white with two red dots in the corner. i said, hey, i could have done that. and he said, but you didn't. it's more about the idea than the artifact itself. >> where are you trying to take us in the book itself, dan. nearly every chapter end on a cliffhanger and then the next chap tell begins in four, three, two, one. where are you taking us? everything is explained. >> i worked very hard to make sure there are no loose ends and all the twists and turns are explained. you know, at the core, i'm trying to entertain, make sure you do turn the

have fun reading these books. but there's a second level where i want to inform about things that are interesting to me and a lot of these things i learn as i go, modern art, the pull marian church, artificial intelligence. my goal is you can't stop turning the pages but at the end of the book, you say, wow, i now i'm curious about the following 37 topics and i need to go read more books. >> you said something to me. in religion, we're always looking up. and with the era of the iphone, we're always looking down. >> that was fascinating and understanding that technology is changing the way we interact as humans. when i grew up, my miracles were the virgin birth, the resurrection. nowadays you talk to most kids about the resurrection and it doesn't really register. their miracles are whatever snapchat can do this week or the ios can do and it's funny. we were talking earlier

given everybody with an iphone an international publishing deal in standly. a platform. it used to be that there was a vetting process to information that rose to the surface. you're in the news, you understand that. >> there's no filters. >> no filters. >> people are walking down the street looking at their phones during this interview. dan, thanks again. "origin" is on sale now. you can find more on our apple's itunes and podcast app. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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well, good monday morning to you. i'm markette sheppard. >> i'm kristen berset harris. so good to be here with you and i hope you had a wonderful weekend. it's a beautiful day out yesterday. we had a pretty incredible night. >> yeah it was kind of busy last night. i was at kennedy center honors. the 0th annual -- 0th annual event -- hoeth annual -- 40th annual event and kristin last night made history in a lot of the different ways, it celebrated great american artists there you see gloria estefan on the screen. lionel richie was there. ll cool j my favorite. >> the ladies love cool j. >> the first rapper in history to receive the kennedy center honors. legendary tv producer norman leer was there. 95 years old. walking the red carpet. >> is that julie andrews? >> she was there. there goes norman with his signature hoot and then a protege

carmen de lalelladad was there. she actually talked about loving all the artists and you think of a ballerina and dancer and actress like her but everybody was so in sync. somebody who was noticeably absent from the event which is why it made history was the president and first lady. the white house usually hosts a reception right before the stars walk the red carpet. this year, norman leer said uh- huh. i am not having anything to do with the trump white house. and then days later trump canceled the reception. so there was all of this brouhaha before the event. rex tillerson ended up hosting them at the state department last night. and one thing that everybody agreed on was that it was about the art. not about the controversial politics. take a look. >> they have brought joy to our live, they have enriched american culture, and they are celebrated around the world. >> it's