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. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," we'll ask cbs news senior alt fran townsend about the london attack and the response. >>> today's plan to dismantle obamacare is up in the air. cbs news has learned at least 31 house republicans say they'll oppose the deal, enough to scuttle the legislation. conservative house members are expected back at the white house this morning for more negotiations. president trump has been pressing opponents. >> slowly but surely we're getting there and i feel denlts when the vote comes up, we'll have the votes. >> gop leaders have been tweaking the legislation. conservative lawmakers are demanding a repeal of essential health benefits that require insurers to pay for services such asthma ternty care, emergency services and primgs trucks. democrats are crying foul after some said some trump communications may have been scooped up by intelligence officials but as margaret brennan reports devin nunes says this has nothing to do with the president's wiretapping claims. >> they collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump transition. >> reporter

. >> reporter: cbs news contributor fran townsend led the justice department's fisa unit. she believes comey is still rebuilding confidence in the bureau of its handling of the clint private e-mail server investigation. >> i think director comey has learned his lesson from the end of the presidential campaign that his making public statements about investigations has not gone very well, so it's natural that he would seek to have the justice department refute this. >> reporter: the relationship between the intelligence community, including the f.b.i. and the trump white house has been strained. just last month it was the f.b.i. that declined a request from the white house to push back on reports that there were constant contacts between trump associates and russian operatives. the f.b.i. counterintelligence division is investigating those communications. several trump surrogates are under scrutiny, including former national security adviser mike flynn, one-time campaign chairman paul manafort, foreign policy adviser carter page, and adviser roger stone. >> the likelihood th

. >>> fran townsend is a former homeland security adviser to president george w. bush. good morning. >> good morning. >> police say they know who is behind this but are not disclosing. >> that's right. very sensitive, in the first 24 to 48 hours, what they're trying to understand is, now that they know who the individual is who is dead, who was shot by police, they're identifying his associates, looking at things, not only his home, his electronic communications. they'll get ahold of everything they can to try to understand who influenced him. if they're in london, do they pose a threat? i think that's what we're saying play out. >> this is the third vehicle attack in europe over the past year. what's your impression of the connection, if any, there? >> yesterday, the day of the attack was the one-year anniversary of brussels. we've seen the christmas market attack and the nice attack. isis has called for such attacks. they put out a public call and every alienated, unhappy human, right, it's their moment. i think that's what chief rowley is referring to when he says it

. >>> senior analyst fran townsend is a former homeland security adviser for george w. bush. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> lots of questions to ask. let's begin with this. who's behind it? the police say they know but they're not disclosing. >> it's very sinensitive. in the first 24 hours they're identifying his associates, looking at thing, not only his home but his electronic communications. they'll get ahold of everything they can to try to understand who influenced him. that's played out in the recent arrest. >> this is the third attack in the past year. what's their connection if any there? >> yesterday was the one-year anniversary of brussels. we receive the christmas berlin attack and prommed in attack. this is one of those things. they put out a public call and every alienated unhappy human, it's their moment. i think it's what chief rally said when he said it's inspired. >> fran, from a security perspective, what can be done to prevent future vehicle attacks. >> these are the most difficult to prevechblt you see the eiffel tower is now putting up plexigl

. >> reporter: cbs news contributor fran townsend led the justice department's fisa unit.ll rebuilding confidence in the bureau after its handling of the clinton private e-mail server investigation. >> i learned his lesson from the end of the presidential campaign that his making public statements about investigations has not gone very well, so it's natural that he would seek to have the justice department refute this. >> reporter: the relationship between the intelligence community, including the fbi and the trump white house has been strained. just last month it was the fbi that declined a request from the white house to push back on reports that there were constant contacts between trump associates and russian operatives. the fbi counterintelligence division is investigating those communications. several trump associates are under scrutiny, including former national security adviser mike flynn, one-time campaign chairman paul manafort, foreign policy adviser carter page, and adviser roger stone. >> the likelihood that there is a counterintelligence investigation by the