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I dont know. Thats why i gave it to the fbi. I dont know if its credible or not, but the information i thought deserved to be delivered to the fbi, the appropriate agency of government. Reporter some republicans, like south carolinas lindsey graham, urged caution. Every american should review these things with skepticism and suspicion. You know, its not up to him to prove what he didnt do. Reporter Senate Intelligence chair richard burr would not say if he had been briefed by the spy agencies about the validity of the claims. Are you troubled by what youve heard so far . Listen, i think we look at a report like this as Opposition Research from an unverified source. Reporter but Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and others in her party said trumps unorthodox stance on russia has led them to suspect some kind of connection long ago. Any of that, whether its financial, whether its personal, whatever it is, whatever it is cannot have an impact on the National Security of the United States of america. Reporter the nations top intelligence officials will be here on capitol hill tomorrow to brief the entire senate on russias attempt to sway the election. But they are sure to be pelted with questions, scott, about what russia may or may not have on the man who is set to be nancy cordes, thanks, nance. Elsewhere at the capitol, russia was the focus of a ninehour Senate Confirmation hearing today for Rex Tillerson, the former ceo of exxonmobil, now the nominee for secretary of state. Heres chip reid. Reporter the toughest grilling of Rex Tillerson today came from a republican, senator marco rubio of florida. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal . I would not use that term. Reporter rubio, a leading critic of russia, graphically described russian bombing in syria. Mr. Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastating campaign thats targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure that has resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. You are still not prepared to say that Vladimir Putin and his military have violated the rules of war and conducted war crimes in aleppo . Those are very, very serious charges to make, and i would want to have much more information before reaching a conclusion. I find it discouraging your inability to cite that, which i think is globally accepted. Reporter rubio has not yet decided whether to support tillerson. If he votes no, that could put the Oil Executives confirmation at risk in the narrowly divided senate. Rubio has previously criticized tillerson, who has known putin for years, for accepting an order of friendship from the russian president , but today tillerson said the two nations will probably never be friends. Our value systems are starkly different. Reporter tillerson also encountered some rough sailing when republican chairman bob corker asked about lobbying against sanctions on russia after it invaded crimea. I never lobbied against the sanctions. To my knowledge exxonmobil never lobbied against the sanctions. Reporter but corker reminded him of this. I think you called me during this time. Reporter and democrat bob menendez said he had hard evidence tillerson was mistaken. I have four different lobbying reports totaling millions of dollars as reqd by the lobbying disclosure act that lists exxonmobils lobbying activities on four specific pieces of legislation authorizing sanctions. Reporter senator menendez also asked tillerson if he and president elect trump have even talked about russia yet. Scott, tillerson said no, to which menendez responded, thats pretty amazing. Chip reid for us tonight. Chip, thank you. Today is the confirmation of senator Jeff Sessions of alabama to become attorney general, there was rare opposition from a fellow senator, democrat cory booker of new jersey. Reporter senator sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requisite of the job, to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights and justice for all of our citizens. In fact, at numerous times in his career, hes demonstrated a hostility toward these convictions. He has worked to frustrate attempts to advance these ideals. Yesterday senator sessions said that he would enforce all civil rights laws if confirmed. Mr. Trump made more news today, saying he will make a Supreme Court nomination within two weeks of taking office. He said he plans to both repeal and replace obamacare at the same time, and hell start that wall at the border before he gets mexico to pay for it. He also revealed his plan for another wall between the white house and his financial empire. Heres julianna goldman. As the president , i could run the trump organization, great, great company, and i could run the country. Id do a very good job. Reporter the president elect has decided he will not sell his assets or place them in a blind trust, as government ethics experts had urged. Instead mr. Trump will move his assets into a trust controlled by his two oldest sons, who will also manage the trump they will not pursue new International Deals and will hire an ethics adviser to oversee new deals in the u. S. They will also not consult with mr. Trump. I hope at the end of eight years ill come back and say, oh, you did a good job, otherwise if they do a bad job, ill say, youre fired. Reporter today walter shaub, the head of the government ethics office, called the plan wholly inadequate. The plan does not meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the past four decades have met. Reporter the arrangement means mr. Trump could have dealings with Foreign Countries where he also has a financial stake. Cbs news has counted at least ten countries, including turkey and united arab emirates, where the president elect has business interests. He needs to sell the business, free himself of conflicts of interests. Reporter richard painter was the ethics lawer for former president george w. Bush. He says mr. Trump coulvi receiving payments. A state run chinese bank is a tenant in trump tower in new york, for example. We need a clean sweep of Foreign Government payments from the business empire. There is no evidence that thats going to happen with respect to any of it other than the hotel. Reporter the president elect will donate to the u. S. Treasury any profits made from Foreign Governments using his hotel, and that includes his new one here in d. C. That leases property from the government. Scott nothing today addresses the fact that as president mr. Trump will be both landlord and tenant. 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John dickerson is here, our cbs news political director and anchor of face the nation. John, mr. Trump is rewriting the relationship with the press. Reporter he is. All president s try to do this. They try to control the message by controlling the press. Donald trump is trying to do it through intimidation, to soften up the stories about him, but hes also seeking to delegitimize the press. That isnt to say hes not complaining about a specific story. Hes saying that there is a battle between himself t press and thats an attempt to basically take the value away from what the press does. Lets have a look at Something Else he said in the News Conference today. Dont be rude. Mr. President elect, can you give us a question. Dont be rude. Dont be rude. No im not going to give you a question. Can you state you are fake news. Go ahead. You know, ive been hearing more and more about fake news. They talk about people that go and say all sorts of things, but i will tell you, some of the Media Outlets that i deal with are fake news, more so than anybody. I could name them, but i wont bother. So does donald trump need the press the way other president s have . You see, hes trying to define all news as fake news. He can also use twitter to get his message out. Usually president s in their attempts to control the press fail because they ultimately need the press to get their message out. He has twitter. He also has a following thats more apt the believe that the press is out to get donald trump. But his Favorability Ratings are about 43 . To get the rest of the country, he needs the validation of the press. To get his message across from something thats not just his own mouth, and thats where usually it breaks down for president s who try and go after the press. To speak to a broader audience. John dickerson, thanks so much. Well see you sunday on face the nation. Still coming up, the largest auto recall in American History expands. New degree ultraclearnt saving black white. Othes. No yellow stains on white clothes. No white marks on black clothes. New degree ultraclear black white. It wont let you down. Honda is recalling another 772,000 vehicles because of defective air bags made by t Japanese Company takata. The recall now involves as many as 69 million air bags in american cars and trucks. The inflators can explode, ejecting metal shrapnel and 11 people have died. The recall list is posted at cbsnews. Com. Today volkswagen pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and will pay the u. S. Government more than 4 billion. Nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles were fraudulently programmed to pass emissions tests that they should have failed. Six vw executives were indicted today. The National Cancer institute has begun a new push to have children vaccinated against hpv. The vaccine can prevent cervical and other cancers, but only about 42 of girls and 28 of boys have been vaccinated. Federal guidelines recommend it for chil a up next, another round of floods and blizzards slams the west. A state usually associated with sunshine and drought is now being hit with waves of blizzards and floods. John blackstone is in california for us, john . Reporter scott, there have been plenty of warnings in california over the last few days, but this flood came without warning. Here in the town of hollister, the fastrising water took residents by surprise. This farming town south of san jose, california, quickly turned into one giant swamp after a nearby creek overflowed. Emergency crews responded to calls overnight from dozens of panicked residents trapped inside their homes. By daybreak ranchers were still leading their animals to dry land. Kevin oneill is the countys Emergency Services manager. The scene here last night was challenging at times. It was dark, a lot of these houses didfe reporter in sonoma county, the Russian River rose once again, reaching nearly 38 feet this afternoon, about six feet above flood level. Firefighters were out in swift boats saving homeowners and stranded drivers from the unrelenting waters. Melba martinelli had to leave her home. Its our home. Its the only one weve got. So were losing our home it looks like right now. Reporter in the sierra nevadas, storms have now dumped more than ten feet of snow, toppling trees, downing power lines, and collapsing a huge chunk of this mountain road. But for some, this extreme weather has provided opportunities for extreme adventure. Even storm clouds can have a silver lining. John blackstone, cbs news, hollister, california. And thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be sure not to miss cbs this morning. From the broadcast cr this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im tony dokoupil. President elect donald trump stepped up to the podium for his first formal News Conference in months. It was billed as a chance for mr. Trump to lay out his plans to separate himself from his Global Business empire, but overshadowing that were reports that russia has obtained compromising personal and Financial Information on mr. Trump. Major garrett has our story. Its all fake news. Its phony stuff. It didnt happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours. It was a group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put that crap together. Reporter with that president elect donald trump emphatically denied the unsubstantiated allegations, including one about his sexual does anyone really believe that story . Im also very much a germaphobe, by the way, believe me. Reporter that raw information was included as an appendix to a classified report detailing russian efforts to tamper with the u. S. Election undermine democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and help mr. Trump. Today for the first time the president elect agreed with that assessment, that russia was responsible for several electionrelated cyber attacks. As far as hacking, i think it was russia, but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people. Reporter but mr. Trump also cited information revealed by the cyber intrusions. Hacking is bad, and it shouldnt be done, but look at the things that were hacked. Look at what was learned from that hacking, that Hillary Clinton got the questions to the debate and didnt report it . Thats a horrible thing. Reporter this morning in response to publication of the unve trump tweeted, intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. Are we living in nazi germany . What were you driving at there . I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out, and thats something that nazi germany would have done and did do. Reporter the president elect also lashed out at a reporter from cnn, the first News Organization to report that the russian hacking assessment included the unverified claims. Your organization is terrible. Youre attacking our News Organization. Can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir. Quiet. Quiet. Mr. President elect shes asking a question. Dont be rude. Reporter mr. Trump declined to say whether he would keep sanctions imposed on russia by president obama. He also said he would work with russian president Vladimir Putin. If putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a russia. Reporter u. S. Investigators are frying to verify what, if any aspects of the allegations related to mr. Trumps conduct can be verified. Russia was also a hot topic at the confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson. Chip reid has that story. Reporter the toughest grilling of Rex Tillerson today came from a republican, senator marco rubio of florida. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal . I would not use that term. Reporter rubio, a leading critic of russia, graphically described russian bombing in syria. Mr. Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastating campaign thats targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure thats resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. You are still not prepared to say that Vladimir Putin and his military have violated the rules of war and conducted war crimes in aleppo . Those are very, very serious charges to make, and i would wao information before reaching a conclusion. I find it discouraging your inability to cite that, which i think is globally accepted. Reporter rubio has not yet decided whether to support tillerson. If he votes no, that could put the Oil Executives confirmation at risk in the narrowly divided senate. Rubio has previously criticized tillerson, who has known putin for years, for accepting an order of friendship from the russian president ,