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Senator Jeff Sessions faces first day of confirmation hearings. All that on the gold coast, a group of tourists have been rescued from a roller coaster. Et rurning to South Carolina to a heros welcome. Xwokt to figure out who was going to win the game because i was watching the big bang theory. For the First Time Since the election, donald truilmp wl host hawsa ne conference. Finally finally donald trump is going to give a new conference, or as he calls it, tweeting out of the mouth. Top intelligence officials like the fbi and cia have presented evidence that russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and Financial Information about donald trump. Apparently the russian report on trump contains everything we already know. In great detail. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. President obama faces questions about a new and potentially explosive issue when he holds a News Conference in a few hours. Sources confirm to cbs news that president obama and mr. Obama received preliminary details of an alleged russian effort to compromise the president elect. Confidential documents may contain damaging information about his business and personal life. None of the details are confirmed to be true. The president elect immediately tweeted in all caps that the story is, quote, fake news, a total political witchhunt. A spokesperson called the claims utter nonsense. What do we know . Good morning. Multiple government and news that an appendix to the classified Intelligence Report on russias efforts to affect the election contain details of uncompromising information that russia has gathered on president elect donald trump. The officials tell cbs news the information came from a former british intelligent officer and was eventually turned over to u. S. Intelligence as well as other government officials last year. U. S. Intelligence is in the process of corroborating the details of what the russians may have, but the officials tell cbs news that the former british investigator and his network are credible. Cbs news has not confirmed what generated the intelligence that he passed along, but because this information is so sensitive, the appendix was not part of the classified report that was disribted to a wider group of people last week. A source tells cbs news it was part of the most classified version of the report. Now, that version would only have been presented to the preside president , the president elect and the goc of eight, which is comprised of the top democrat and republicans in the house and senate and the chair and ranking members of the house and Senate Intelligence committees. Gayle, sources have told cbs news that trump was not verbally briefed on this information last week. A lot to guy guest there. Thank you. Theres a 35page report that was released on line by buzzfeed yesterday that detailed officially damaging and personal financial details by president elect trump. During a past business trip to rushing ya. Cbs news kont confirm the authenticity of the documents, so were not going to report any of those details. But congress is asking questions about why the russians may know about president elect trump. The issue was raised at the nominee hearing for Jeff Sessions and it may come up again when secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson testifies at his confirmation hearing later this morning. Nancy is on capitol hill where top intelligence officials testified again yesterday to a nancy, good morning. Good morning. And i can tell you, gayle, this is a topic that has lawmakers talking quietly among each other for months trying to figure out if these were just rumors or something more. They had a chance to press top intelligence officials about the matter yesterday, but they didnt get far. Were not going to talk about that. At yesterdays Senate Intelligence hearing, fbi director james comey was asked repeatedly for details, but didnt share them. Did you answer senator widens question that there is an investigation under way as to connections between either the political campaigns and the russians . I didnt say one way or another. You didnt say that that was my intelligence, at least. Congress has been trying to get more information out of comey since october. When then democratic leader harry reid sent him this letter. It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between donald trump, his top advisers and the russian government. The newly retired news, my intelligence did not come from intelligence officials. I met with some investigators. And the information they gave me appeared to be very reliable. Do you swear the subject also came up at the confirmation hearing for alabama senator Jeff Sessions who, as attorney general, would be the nations top Law Enforcement officer. Do you know about this or know what compromising personal and Financial Information the russians claim to have . Allegations made about candidates all the time and theyve been made about president elect trump lots of times. Most of them or virtually all of them have been proven to be exaggerated or untrue. Delaware democrat chris can kuntz said the potential implications are huge. If this was true that russians had some type of information on trump and his campaign, that would be unprecedented in american environment that mr. Trump picked for secretary of state will undergo his contermation hearing this morning. And according to his prepared testimony, exxonmobil ceo Rex Tillerson will say, quote, we must be clear eyed about our relationship with russia. Russia today poses a danger, but it is not unpredictable in advancing its own interests. Tillerson is likely to get a lot of questions about his position on russia and mr. Trumps. Charlie. Thanks, nancy. Kellyanne conway, counsel to president elect trump. Can you tell us all the agencies that delivered to the president and to the president elect, did he see the appendix, did he read it and has he reacted to it . I cant comment on that because its an intelligence briefing and i myself have a top secret that is pending, so i was not part of that. I will tell you if youre refein that people are talking about in the media that was somehow meant to tip him off in a 30page unsubstantiated report from the internet, which knot. A report from the Intelligence Community, i would say thats not even fake news, its just fake. So you are saying that everything that is in that appendix is wrong and a fake . No. What im saying is that 35page report has clearly come from the internet. Its rife with misspellings, uncooperate rated and unsubstantiated. And i was very heartened last night to see journalists, even those who were against donald trump pushing back on the publishing of this type of information when we cant confirm to the American People that its actually intelligence information. We know people were chasing these rumors for months and couldnt come up with any verification. Do you know innocent people were dragged through the mud in this 35page nonreport report last night . One of my the trump cooperation said he was in prague. Hes never been to prague. President elect trump saying he never read this had addendum to the report . He has not said that. What i am saying is were talking about that this morning because in addition, you have some news sources going over i think really violating basic journalistic standards. Agreed. Thank you. Thank you for agreeing and thanks to cbs for agreeing, frankly. Going ahead. Releasing 35 pages of something that reads like a grade b spy novel. These are two different things. Did he read the report that was given to him . I cant comment on that. The fact that it was classified and he had an intelligence briefing where you cant comment on whether he read it or not . He reads anything thats given to him. I can tell you that. Therefore, he had read it, if he reads anything thats given to him, then he read it. Charlie, lets not confuse the viewers today that a to refer to the twopage addendum that thats a very important point. So much is lost in our sound bite Ridden Society where people are theyre not talking about facts and figures in this report. Theyre talking about rumors and unsubstantiated information that we have been able to debunk at the basic level. He is having his News Conference today, kellyanne. And he can be asked about this. He tweeted last night, fake news, a total political witchhunt. Will he address this today . He will. He will dress this today and i expect members in the media will ask followup questions about it. But, you know, the timing here, here we are announcing his First Press Conference as president elect. The russian hacking issue is fading out of view in the news. Why . Because the smoking gun that was promised that somehow there was a nexus between that and the but you have acknowledged that its been around for a while and people have tried to call up and con and were unable to. Can we confirm one more thing . Senator kuntz said if theres cooperation between senator sessions and the russians, it would be a bombshell. Can you say nobody in the campaign had any involvement with the russians before and after and during the campaign . Yes, i can. I was talking to people in michigan, not people in moscow. Thats how we won this election. I dont like a United States senator saying Something Like that. It would be a bombshell and it would be investigated. Its dangerous rhetoric particularly in a time when responsible outlets were chasing it and came up empty handed and decided not to pursue it. Harry reid made an intimation to this report on october 30th and it didnt go anywhere because people couldnt verify it. And its suggested that this dossier could be used to blackmail mr. Trump. N not true. Thats why last night those of us who were with the president elect discussing this, he made the decision to tweet out fake news political witchhunt. I would go further to say its not just fake news, its just fake. So whether hes read it or not, you have seen it and its all untrue. Ive seen the 35 pages and the russian intelligence doesnt have anything that might be possibly used as leverage against the president elect. You have seen it and your saying the stuff that is being talked about is not true, never happened. The it i have seen was a 35page report whose editor immediately took to twitter to say well, its unsubstantiated, unverified, but maybe we should put it out there, anyway. But anybody on the trump team that has seen this and read it item by item is this the two pages, the append appendix. . Those who have received it as part of the intelligence briefing have read it. I was not but the 35 pages should not in any way shape or form be confused with the two pages that did come from the Intelligence Community. 35 pages came from the internet where we see a lot of junk day by day. Thank you, kellyanne. Thank you. Former acting director and Deputy Director of the cia is with us. John dickerson is also at the table. Pike, let me begin with you. What is your understanding about what president elect trump was briefed . So it sounds like he received a twopage document that had outlined allegations of informationing the russians may have on the president elect that could be compromising. And that twopage document was a synopsis of the 35page document that was thats my understanding. And when you read the pages on buzzfeed, what did you make of that dossier . So my reaction was i felt like i was back at cia reading raw Intelligence Reports. Information from a large number of sources. Some of that information rings true, some of it doesnt, much of it is contradictory. And because you dont have an understanding of who the sources are and how the sources acquired this information, when you read the whole thing, you really cant come to any bottom line about exactly whats true and whats not true here. But my theres reference to a former mi6 operative. You would not former British Intelligence operatives, i woul him or is he credible . So, charlie, i dont know him. Its the but you know people who know him. These memos are written professional Intelligence Officer would writeup a report from a source. So they appear to be written by an Intelligence Officer. But, again, i dont know if hes credible. And most important, we dont know who the sources are and how the sources got the information. But, mike, is it common for the president or the president elect to be briefed on something that has not been verified . Is that common . So it is not common. It is uncommon. But in this situation, with material that is potentially so politically explosive, i could see a reason why you would give both the president and the president elect a heads up that its out there and that youre investigating it. But wouldnt you do everything within your power to find out whether it was true or not . You sure would and that would mofl the cia and the fbi. John, were going to have the First Press Conference by president elect trump in about six months. This was larmgly supposed to about how he was going divest from his business empire. How do you think he will ham this today . I think probably deny it all and move on. Whats the most important question, though . On this question, highly critical and in context here, theres an ongoing battle between the president elect and the intelligence agencies. And some people in washington see the release of this and the leaking of this information as a kind of if you know that background of the fight between the two, its a part of that t spat. But donald trump has been highly critical of the intelligence agencies, all of them, with respect to the information they produced regarding russian meddling. Did he find any of it credible . So far, he seems to be dismissing it because its on the internet and you cant really believe what you see on the internet. Two different things, of course. The 35page thing, dismissed it on the internet. Thats absolutely right. And there are standards to be maintained, both in the press and the intelligence agencies. All of this needs to be being investigated by the intelligence agencies. Just being on the internet is not reason enough to repiece it which is a standard that donald trump himself did not follow repeatedly during the campaign. Anything that was on the internet or that he came up with he put out there. Mike, do you assume that the Intelligence Agency that met with the president would have some judgment as to whether some of this was credible because theyre worried about the possibility that the russians may have something on the president elect . So much more work would need to be done. Charlie, i dont know how muches has already been done. The fbi could be investigating did these Campaign Officials actually were they in russia when these documents say they were in russia . The Intelligence Community should be sitting down and getting a much better understanding of the sources and how they acquire the information. So i dont know where they are in that process. But once you do all that, you could get to a point where you could make a judgment about whats accurate here and whats mott. I will say, actions described by russian intelligence and how they operate against americans who visit russia, moscow, st. Petersburg are absolutely right. Audio surveillance, video surveillance, so this is how they operate. This story is not going away, is it, john . No. In part because you have republicans who are no fans of russia and vladimir putin. And are uncomfortable with the president elects relationship in terms of what he says. And why he seems to on be so comfortable with vladimir putin. Thank you so much. Well see you at the press conference. No, hell be here with us. Cbs news will bring you live coverage of president elect trumps press conference. It begins at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. President obama challenges republicans who a new winter storm hits, damaging mudslides and heavy snow. 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