trump wrote, mccabe in addition to getting awe the money from clinton puppet, he was using allegedly fbi office e-mail to promote her campaign. mr. trump provided no evidence mccabe did that. democrats say the president's attacks are just another attempt to divert attention from special counsel robert mueller's investigation. into the trump campaign's contacts with russia. cbs news has learned that mccabe has decided retire from the fbi by march. white house official, mark short was asked if it is helpful for the president to repeatedly attack top fbi officials. >> i think the president believes the american people have a right to know what happened with that investigation. >> we are told the president is still celebrating passage of the republican tax cut bill. sources with firsthandno

tell cbs news, that he told a group of wealthy people at his exclusive mar a lago resort "you all just got a lot richer." demarco. >> chip reid reporting. chip, thank you. now to the miss america e-mail scandal more former page enlt contestants are speaking out. resignation of the top three executives is a start. a lot more needs to be done. >> your miss america 2012 is -- >> beyond the miss america celebration, seen every year on tv., a scandal is rattling the organization. the shake-up began after the huffington post published parts of leaked e-mails thursday aperg to show a handful of miss america officials ridiculing past winners appearance intelligence and sex lives. in this one, ceo sam haskell laughed when the pageant lead writer referred to former crown

women's genitalia. >> but after dozens of former miss americas published this open letter, calling on the miss america organization leadership to step down, haskell was suspended and resigned along with the organization's president, and chairwoman. >> still have a lot of work to do. we would love your sta part and your encouragement. >> former miss americas like mallory hagan, who haskell called a piece of trash in an e mail are applauding the move. they say more has to be done. >> we have to laser focus on the actual benefits of the miss america organization. >> actor/writer, skate shindell won miss am k was derided by haskell in a leaked e mail. >> where should the organization go from here. >> if we expect the public to believe miss americas are among the brightest, most intelligent, most educate the, most passionate, talented you name it young women in the country then we are to start treating them like every single minute. >> the cbs "over

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>> acts of kindness will be exchanged. they can have an impact on some one else's life and your own. lee cowen shows us why in a story for sunday morning. ♪ hark the herald >> wonderful thing about it is a wonderful life, the final few minutes. with george bailey after a lifetime of doling out kindness, finally gets it all back. in full measure. >> to my big brother george. the richest man in town. >> kindness rarely parades into your living room after all. but it can appear in places you don't really expect. >> all the trees were here. and there was some, in the back. >> for tracy bild, the parking lot of the dairy queen. 30 years ago tonight. off awe my mom loves christmas.

we were very much about christmas. we didn't have money for a christmas tree. that was the reality. >> yes, on that christmas eve here in urbana, ohio, there is no tree, no presents, no money. except for the few joins she and her brother scrounged out of the couch cushions. >> how much did you come up with? >> wasn't much. quarters, dimes. >> probably a dollar. >> nonetheless, they took their meager offering to the only tree lot in town. at the dairy queen. run by a round faced man, nicknamed joe. joe had win a marine. an ohio state trooper. although, pretty stern faced in the photos. on that night. seemed to tracy as soft as new fallen snow. >> you know the thought of my children, guys. go this way.

>> walking a couple miles. >> in hopes of finding on christmas eve, a christmas tree to. take home to their mom. i can imagine that must have touched his heart. >> touched indeed. he not only gave him the tree. he gave them his biggest and best. no questions asked. >> it was about, the magic of christmas. of, human kindness. and, and, somebody doing something for us. we did not expect someone to do. >> not expecting it what makes kindness so special. yet as unexpected as it is. we still crave kindness. which may well be because, researches shows being kind is a natural part of the human condition. >> jen itically, wired to be kindness. our deepest identity. >> david hamilton, a former chemist from scotland. >> it's unhealthy. not being kind, we feel separate, disconnected. unhappy. and some things. >> and, some of it. >> he made a career, lecturing, writing how kindness isn't something we do. or something we feel. it is something our bodies, actually need. >> being kind because it makes you feel warm and connected. changes the internal, biochemistry of your body. >> there is a physical effect. >> physical effect. >> the opposite of strels.

>> really. there is a hormone that its troe -- that is produced every time we do something kind. it is the can iness hormone. >> one thing it does. it softens the walls of the arteries. almost. funny. like, like a, as you become softer towards people, so you softer on the inside actually. softens the walls of the arteries. when that happens. the heart doesn't have to push as hard to get the blood through. blood pressure drops. >> you can get that healthy effect by doing nothing more than offering a smile. so doesn't have to be some, some, some grand gesture. right? >> it's, it is the consistency of doing small things that thatter more than doing one grand gesture. >> elizabeth higgins clark and her feeian stay found that out. >> when i gave -- >> when they set out to do one

small act of kindness every day. for an entire year. >> what was the reaction? >> well, a lot of our friend made fun of us. >> correct. a lot of our friend made fun of us. >> hoping to inspire others they posted their efforts on social media under the #keepamka kind. they filled expired parking meters with coins. sent pizzas to sheriff's departments. >> little built here. little bite.

strangers. >> construction workers. >> construction workers. crossing guards. >> ups drivers. >> anyone we could think of. >> when they ran out of their idea. >> the day we visit they'd were making care packages for the homeless. they found, after 365 days of doing small acts like this that kindness was like a muscle. if it went unused it would atrophy, the urge to be kind would go away. >> once you keep going. keep going. keep going. build it up. an, and, it changes. >> like a workout. >> the it is. the more you do it. the more comfortable you are. the better you are at it. >> which would seem to suggest the earlier you start being kind the better. >> my job is to figure a we to go into a school and make kindness cool. >> of and be brave! >> yeah!

kind? >> yes. >> everybody say change the world. >> brian williams the founder of think kindness. the program he deviled up for schools to teach kids no kind act is too smault. >> i want to make sure i get to know you guys. >> super is important that we start kids early to strain them. see, look. every day you have hand opportunity to make a difference in the world. but of it is up to you, whether you will take action. >> of at the elementary in reno, nevada. awe off the person next to you. >> you can change the world. >> you can change the world. >> person behind you you. can change the world. >> he was recruiting what heel calls, do good deeds. writing the teacher you are awesome. keep if the up. delivering that kind message. no one ever notices or that any the idea. >> when we see the acts of kindness. liinforces our fwref.

people are awesome. we can all band together and make a difference. >> he works with of students at the nearby middle school where messages of kindness, respect, and are everywhere you turn. >> they organize campaign thalts students say have changed the school's culture. >> make comments and stuff. >> that simple to be kind. >> not something you tar going to go into classroom ate month. and the whole school its kind. it is going to take convincing for the kids who don't want to do it. nobody needs to convince tracy about kindness. and every christmas tree. remind her. she comes to visit him, thoug he is long gone now. his name was gerald woodruff pitch the way. she kept in touch with judd any kids. >> hi. >> how are you.

awe off i know. >> iffage in all of the christmass that have come and gone. >> just want to thank you for your dad. >> yet here they were. decade later. talking about an act of kindness, their dad had done. >> one act of kindness. how it grows. you never know. >> never, thank you. never. just, he loved people. and just, just, wemt right in and helped. yeah. ♪ ♪ >> which gets us back to george bailey. that hollywood ending did prove one thing -- kindness begets kindness. >> atta boy, clarence. ♪ ♪ >> did you think about doing kind things a lot. no, i don't need to do that. stupid.

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steve goodman would like to play one of his songs for you. >> you have no idea how much he would look to play one of his songs for you. >> it's not the piano's fault. you know how to do this. it is the thing in my brain. >> i play something else. >> 3 years ago, steve was diagnosed with alzheimers. he had to give up his job as software designer. as we first reported a few months ago his wife joanie says the cruelest part is the toll it has taken on the music he composed. >> losing the songs, would be, like losing him. >> steve and joanie have been married 47 years. along the way steve composed more than two dozen songs. mostly for her.

he never wrote them down. >> when his memory started failing. and song started fading. there was no we to get them back. until, a family friend. professional pianist offered to launch a rescue mission. >> if he can play through it. even in pieces, i can learn it. >> and so for the past two years, they only has been reconstruction compositions, note by note. >> downbeat. >> yes, one downbeat. we are rolling. of course they're recording the songs never to be lost again. >> i realize there was a part of him that wasn't going to fade away. >> but this may be the best part. with naomi's help. steve was able to write a new song.

although he now forgets conversations and cannot add single digit numbers. somehow is his mind dreamed up this. after the story they first aired. the cd was discovered by billboard. screen writers want to make hey movie. probably the biggest thrill, the repertory singers, performed his song, melancholy, florida. alzheimers steals a lot. this scored one for the beauty left behind. steve hartman in portland, oregon. >> the cbs yoifrz will be right back. we end with a unique christmas story. a california family and their

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it's monday, december 25th, 2017. merry christmas. this is the "cbs morning news." ♪ >> pope francis uses this christmas to remember those forced to flee their homes. it will be a white christmas for millions in the northeast. the snow comes at a cost, difficult travel conditions. president trump attends midnight mass after taking a shot at the fbi's director. good morning fm