when something does get unmask, when you do tell michael morell who u.s.son one is, you do not tell anybody else. there is not this broad distribution of the unmasking chairman nuÑez implied yesterday. it goes to only the person who made the request. here is what is interesting. people in the transition who were receiving intelligence reports, and maybe they see intelligence target talking to u.s. person one or talking about u.s. person one, and they are talking about how to approach the trump administration. if you are the head of the trump transition, you might want to know who u.s. person one or two is. you can ask through your briefer who comes to see you every day. and n.s.a. will make a determination. i am not saying it happened. but it is not impossible some of the unmasking was at the request of the trump transition. charlie: why is this coming forward now? michael: i think there is a political answer to that. and there is a tactical answer. political answer is the president is under fire for claiming that the obama administration surveilled him. c

ambassador and some other russian official talking about michael morell. you can't use the name, you have to say u.s. person, right. and if there is more than one u.s. person it is u.s. person one and u.s. person two. that is the way it debts disseminated. there is an exception to that. and i think what the chairman had might be the exception. the exception, the exception is the most senior u.s. officials. and i think also senior officials in the transition, including the president-elect. the most senior officials don't get masked. so when two foreign officials are talking about, are talking about the u.s. president, that doesn't get masked into u.s. person one or u.s. person two. they just disseminate it with the president of the united staights. or i would bet the president-elect of the united states. i bet you that is what some of chairman nu nz saw. >> do you think that might have been what president trump might have seen that caused him to form the belief that he did that he articulates. >> it's possible right because he was receiving intelligence rep

charlie: michael morell is here. he is one of our nation's leading national security professionals. served as deputy director and twice as acting director. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. michael: it is great to have you back. charlie: let me start with this. house intelligence chair alleges spy agency abuse. g.o.p. lawmaker sparks new battle over trump. g.o.p. leader puts new spin on wiretaps. take me through this. unpack this. i don't think most understand what the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee is saying. michael: charlie, this is complicated. let me start with the punchline, the bottom line. validates the president's claim that he was or he is those who -- or his associates at trump tower were the target of surveillance by the obama administration. it does not even come close to validating. not even close. what did the chairman say to the media and apparently to the president? he said he had a dozen intelligence reports that somebody gave to him. he did not get them officially from one of the agencies. somebody gave them to him and

charlie: michael morell is here. he is one of our nation's leading national security professionals.twice as acting director. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. michael: it is great to have you back. charlie: let me start with this. this is this morning's washington post. house intelligence chair alleges spy agency abuse. wall street journal -- g.o.p. lawmaker sparks new battle over trump spy claimant. g.o.p. leader puts new spin on wiretaps. take me through this. unpack this.

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cbs news senior national security contributor that's michael morell.he former deputy director of the cia join us from washington. good morning to you, michael morell. how unusual is this kind of restriction? and what does it say to you? >> so, it says to me that united states has credible intelligence of a plot to attack an airliner with the larger devices that must now be checked. i think we can take that to the bank. >> but if it's a credible threat, why are the airports being told you have 96 hours to comply? why not make it immediate? >> because it doesn't sound like an imminent threat. it doesn't sound to me like it's specific to one country or one airline. it sounds more like a general plot that we've learned about. a plan to do something significant, but not specific. >> but, michael, the ban is specific in terms of airports and countries. so what does that tell you about the threat? >> so, the fact that it's focused putting explosives into electronic devices and focused on airlines suggests al qaeda. but when you actually look at the countries,

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former acting director michael morell. >> how would you compare this to edward snoed snn. >> this is cia's edward snowden. >> that huge. >> in sense of what they tell adversaries and we'll have to start over to build tools just like we did with snoelden. >>> former director michael haden defended the hacking tools. >> there are people out there you want us to spy on. you want us to have the ability to actually turn on that listening device inside the tv to learn that person's intentions. this is a wonderful capability. you give the intelligence community $53 billion a year. you ought to get something for your money. >> concerning president trump's claims that he was wire tapped by obama, haden said, not possible. >>> the top rupp on the house committee says he's seen no evidence of the president's charges he was wiretapped. today the housing committee is expected to debate on obamacare and the president supports the plan, but there is growing republican backlash. hena daniels is here in new york. hena, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump will meet with house le

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we turn to michael morell, former acting director and deputy director of the c.i.a. >> the president claiming hat the obama administration surveilled him. >> rose: the f.b.i. director said he'd seen no evidence of that and every other national security official. >> right, so the president is hanging out there it mr. displie right. >> and i think chairman nunes was trying to help him out. he took it to the white house and media and i think he acted inappropriately. i think what he should have done and what practice says he should have done is, number one, he should have gone back to the relevant agency, whether it be the f.b.i. or whether it be the c.i.a. or n.s.a., to go back to the relevant agency and say, i was given these, how do i think about these? are there any more like these? help me understand these. that should have been step one with. step two should have been to take the answer and share it with the entire committee before taking any action of briefing the president, let alone the media. >> rose: you said in the beginning this has nothing to do with whether president obam

charlie: michael morell is here. he is one of our nation's leading national security professionals.s the cia's deputy director and twice as acting director. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome, sir. michael: it is great to have you back. charlie: it is good to be back. let me start with this. house intelligence chair alleges spy agency abuse. wall street journal, g.o.p. la

charlie: michael morell is here. he is one of our nation's leading national security professionals. director and twice as acting director. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. michael: it is great to have you back. charlie: let me start with this. house intelligence chair alleges spy agency abuse. g.o.p. lawmaker sparks new battle over trump. g.o.p. leader puts new spin on wiretaps. take me through this. unpack this.

according to former cia deputy director michael morell, there is credible intelligence of a plot to attackn airliner. >> it doesn't sound imminent like it's specific with regard to one country or one airline. it sounds more like a general plot that we have learned about a plan to, um, to, um, um, do something significant but not specific. >> this new protocol will affect passengers on about 50 daily nonstop flights into our country. at sfo, three emirates flights per day from dubai are affected and a daily nonstop flight from istanbul on turkish airlines. >>> they are the four-legged survivors of the san jose flood. the scramble to protect animals at the happy hollow zoo and the major rebuilding effort ahead. >> california snowpack is 162% of average. by this tomorrow, maybe 163. there is a winter weather advisory in effect for the sierra through tomorrow evening. clouds getting thicker as another storm is on the way actually two. we'll time them out next. forced from their homes by the coyote creek flood last month. the residents of the happy holl >>> new at 6:00, people weren't the only

couple weeks ago said he had seen no evidence of such collusion and then just this past week, michael morelng director of the cia and endorsed hillary clinton said there's no fire here, not a camp fire, not a candle, not even a little spark of any kind of collusion. i think ultimately that matters more to most americans given the nature of the allegations made in the past several months about donald trump and his campaign and some of his associates. >> well, i don't know exactly to whom you're referring in terms of accusations of collusion but certainly if anybody who got that wrong should correct the record if there's no evidence at end of the investigation to suggest it, but what i was asking you about is the evidence-free allegation made by president trump, specifically that president obama had him wiretapped at trump tower. just as a matter of record, you're on the senate intelligence committee, do you know of any evidence to support that allegation? >> jake, not that i've seen or i'm aware of but as with all the other claims related to this matter the senate intelligence committee will

. >> michael morell is a former acting member of the cia. >> systems isn sure people aren't rounding up big churches of material. >> earlier this year u.s. intelligence accused weekend leakes of being a propaganda arm for the russian government after it leaked stolen democratic e-mails. >> wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> then candidate donald trump praised the organization. isis has been using encrypted apps to communicate. after edward snowden leaked classified information in 2013 terrorist groups quickly adapted. >> i saw terrorist groups start communicating in a different way, in way that didn't allow us to collect that intelligence. >> there is nothing in the document suggesting the cia was using the espionage tools against americans. companies like apple and microsoft say they're looking into the report. wikileaks claims the data was handed over by someone within the contractor. gayle? >> very unsettling news. that ichk you very much, jeff pegues. >>> on capitol hill they'll start the plan to replace obamacare. president trump and speaker paul ryan face backlash from their suppo