i talked today to michael morell, former deputy director of the c.i.a. and until recently a cbs news contributor. he suggests the united states should support more aggressive >> when we were in iraq, the iranians were giving weapons to the shia lisha who were killing american soldiers. the iranians were making us pay a price. we need to make the iranians pay a price in syria. we need the make the russians pay a price. here's the other thing i want to do. i want to go after those things that assad sees as his personal power ba i want him to think about this is not going to end well for me. >> rose: you can see more of that interview with michael morell later tonight on my pbs program. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," a day of fun at a water park turns tragic. and later a wedding guest brings fall in love with a new daily fiber. new mirafiber from the makers of miralax. it's the only fiber that supports regularity with dailycomfort fiber. so unlike others, mirafiber is less likely to cause unwanted gas. love your fiber. new mirafiber. my experienc

i switch to michael morell's view for a second. i think that given where we are because i don't think, i think it's possible to squeeze isis down to almost nothing in iraq and syria. but i fear without a resolution to the syrian civil war that other jihadist groups are going to pop up in its place. alness raw which is the al-qaeda group in europe is growing in strength. >> rose: that's derefining itself. >> syrian civil war has to be resolved and you have to be able to convince the russians and iranians it's in their interest. here's quite frankly what i would recommend. i would recommend that we, that -- let me back up a second. the outcome we want is a transition from assad to a government that can represent all the syrian people. but we want to do it without destroying the institutions of the syrian government. >> rose: which is what we did in iraq. >> which is what happened in iraq and what happened on its own in libya. we want to make that trankeeping the syrian military, keeping them in tack as possible as we want to do he. >

michael morel. "the great called war of our time."want to say from this broadcast and this table, we have invited donald trump to come here many, many, many times. we hope he will come. he has an open invitation to sit at this table. and so do people who advise him and would like to write an editorial saying that the worst thing that could happen would be for hillary clinton to be president and that they would like to see donald trump president. this is an important election. we understand what the stakes are for all of us here. there is economic and social discontent in this country and we all need to address it. there are also questions of national security which need to be addressed. those things are political questions as well as questions about the future, about change, and about everything that elections are about. ♪ >> a spokesman says the obama administration wanted the iranians to keep their promises to release american citizens being held in toronto the money was oldest part of a settlement of a military equipment deal with

michael morel.ose, obviously, john brennan. president toldhe me in the oval office that he was given the job to john, he was extraordinarily gracious with me. the day after, there was a routine principals meeting in the situation room. i was still the acting director of the cia so i was representing the cia. and she walked in the room. when the secretary of state walks into the situation room, there are people who want her time come up people who want to ask her all sorts of questions. have five bar conversations with her. that happened, as usual, which he walked in. and she ignore them all. -- ignored them all. she walked over to me and she sat down next to me, and she put her hand on my arm and said, are you ok? there is humanity there that i think the public needs to know. she is tough and decisive but there's an awful lot of humanity there, too. charlie: as you know, that goes to one of the questions most often raised about here, which is not her humanity, but also a sense of trust. how does som

in a statement trump called the nothing more than the failed elite. >>> michael morell in "the new york times" called trump a, quote, threat to national security. i spoke with morell last night on the pbs program. >> now, tell me about why you felt compelled to change where former acting director and deputy director of the cia. a man who gained increasing respect for his voice because of his access to media, to say, i'm going in a different direction? >> two things, i think, brought me to the decision to write the op-ed. one was a growing belief that donald trump, mr. trump, rather, here, that mr. trump would be a threat to our national security as commander in chief. he has said things on the campaign trail that have assisted our adversaries, have assisted vladimir putin and that have assisted isis. the second was, i've known hillary clinton a long time. and i felt some of the perceptions that are out there about her are just not true. so, puttiot reasons together, i decided to speak out. and one of the things, charlie, that struck me as i was going through this, and i was actually wri

a statement trump called the group, quote, nothing more than the failed washington elite. >> michael morelly's "new york times." the former cbs news contributor called trump, quote, a threat to our national security. i spoke with morell last night on my pbs program. so tell me about why you felt compel compell compelled to change where you were, contributor to cbs, on public boards, former acting director and deputy director of the cia, a man who'd gain increasing respect for his voice because of the access to media to say i'm going in a different direction? >> two things, i think, brought me to the decision to write the op-ed. one was a growing belief that donald trump -- mr. trump, i don't want to be disrespectful here, that mr. trump would be a threat to our national security as commander in chief. he has said things on the campaign trail that have assisted our adversaries, that have assisted vladimir putin, that have assisted isis. and then the second was, i've known hillary clinton a long time. and i felt that some of the perceptions that are out there about her are just not true. and

and michael morell says that donald trump has positions in russian interest. >> reporter: he's released a written statement saying morell is a pawn of president >> jon, i want to ask you about that fbi director called her answers truthful. but he said, today secretary clinton was asked if he mischaracterized her words. >> i've acknowledged repeatedly that using two was a mistake. and i take responsibility for that. >> so, does that clear things up? >> reporter: it really doesn't, tom. she said she may have short-circuited her previous answer, but again repeated that comey said her statements were truthful, while he directly said something different. >> thank you. olympic games are set to begin. but the city is on alert after brazil's own troubles broke through. peaceful protests with police having to move in. here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, police in riot gear firing smoke grenades and tear gas into a crowd protesting the lavish spending on the games instead of social services. medical those hit with the gas. at least two detained. we were there before it just turned violent.

now, michael morell ?does? endorse clinton... doing so in a new york times op-ed. op-ed.republicans are also at odds over how to treat donald trump after his attacks on a gold star family. "he does need to apologize, he'd be better just to move on, just as hillary clinton would be better to apologize for her statement with regard to the emails and move on." former reagan advisor frank lavin says he plans on voting for hillary clinton unless trump makes policy changes. house speaker newt gingrich is happy trump endorsed paul ryan and john mccain... though he admitted it's something trump should have done in the first place. 3 here in wisconsin, there are just two days before primaries. today, milwaukee mayor tom barrett addressed a federal court's ruling surrounding wisconsin's election laws,in the process, he slammed state lawmakers. "the reasons that these challenges have been successful, i think, is because the federal courts, far more than the state legislatures and republican governors, are paying heed to the constitution, and the requirements of the constituti

. >> dubois: clinton was endorsed bay by michael morell, the former number two at the sky. he said clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief and will keep the nation safe. as for trump, morell said he is not only unqualified for the job but he may well pose a threat t. for cbs news. anthony salvanto is our cbs news director of elections, and, anthony, big shift here in the polling numbers. what's behind it? >> well, you know, we've actually seen the numbers move away from donald trump over the the course of the week. we had in ourllclinton up seven monday. some suggestion over the course of the week that lead got even bigg. on the democratic side, hillary clonsolidated her basets better with liberals than on the republican side, donald trump is so he still has some work to do to match her with their bases. >> dubois: now, those are national numbers. we know the election is all about the states. bagstates shog us? >> right. we identify 11 decide this election, places like wisconsin. what we have seen over the last week is in those places, too, the polls are starti

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he isn't naming any other women he's considering hillary clinton is today former cia director michael morel announced his pro- hillary he is pro- hillary and a new york times op-ed that was published today he said trump made" a threat to our national security morel says he is registered as neither a democrat or a republican and has always been private about his preference for president until now and a new fox news poll is out that shows how likable the presidential candidates are or both candidates are in trouble 55 percent of registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton and 63 percent have an unfavorable opinion of donald trump. >> the candidates are setting their sights on colorado both hillary clinton and donald trump is incompetent that they can win the state how both campaigns are focusing their attention on colorado. >> in the battleground state of colorado the ground war getting people registered to vote. >> picking a met with real and augmented retail politics the campaign workers at playing pok?mon go to register potential voters the mac and that using other att

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." >> and jon karl joins and jon, michael morell says that donald trump has taken policy positions consistent with russian interests. any response from the trump campaign? >> reporter: he's released a written statement saying morell is a pawn of president obama. >> jon, i want to ask you about something hillary clinton said, breaking her silence on the e-mails. she recently said that fbi director called her answers to the fbi and public truthful. but that's not what he said. >> director comey said my answers were truthful. that's the bottom line here. i've acknowledged repeatedly that using two e-mail accounts was a mistake. and i take responsibility for that. >> so, jon, does that clear things up? >> reporter: it really doesn't, tom. she said she may have short-circuited her previous answer, but again repeated that comey said her statements were truthful, when in fact he directly went against what she said about her e-mails, at least in public. >> thank you. olympic games are set to begin. but the city is on alert after brazil's own troubles broke through. peaceful protests with police havin

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