tim cook defended it in his interview with charlie rose. he wants tech companies to give information. >>> the standoff comes as apple nears an impressive benchmark. sales of the iphone next year will reach 1 billion. the pioneering smartphone is 12 times more powerful than the original mcintosh capturing one image on the device's camera means performing 24 here is part of the interview >> reporter: how important is the iphone to apple. >> it's very important. >> it's very important. >> reporter: come on. it's more than that. revenue. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: that is more than >> it's incredibly important. more! i mean, it is the engine driving the company. company. >> well, those other engines are pretty good too. >> reporter: but 60% of your revenue? >> it's hugely important. >> reporter: you know what they say? watch out for saturation. what do you say? >> as i look at it, there is -- you know, over a billion smartphones sold a year. there is about 2 billion mobile phones sold a year. so there is still a lot more between the billion and

tim cook posted the picture as he congratulated broncos on camera. it made tweets of iphone's camera and suggested cook upgrade his own. clear picture of the picture and congratulate ing von miller and peyton manning. >> peyton manning is now the oldest quarterback to win a super bowl and the first to win 200 games in his career and the only quarterback to start in the super bowl and win lombardi trophies for two different teams. good morning and congratulations. >> charlie, you don't have to keep reminding me about being there. >> what i want to know what are you doing for the defense? are you going to give them all new cars? what? >> well, von miller is going to get a car for being the mvp. but i've been thanking them all year long, charlie. and i've just been very grateful that i don't have to play against those guys. i get to practice against them. they don't get to hit me in practice and it's not full-speed contact. what a great group of guys to play with. we have had a bunch of tough, unfish, resilient guys. our defense has led the way. and i'v

in an online letter, ceo tim cook writes -- the u.s. government has asked us for something we simply do not have. dangerous to create. they have asked us to build a back door to the iphone. in the wrong hands, the software, which does not exist today, would have the potential to unlok any iphone in someone's physical possession. cook previously defended apple's encryption techniques with charlie rose. >> when we design a new service, we try not to collect data so we are not reading your e mail, we are not reading your imessage. if the government laid a subpoena on us to get your imessages we can't provided it. it's encrypted and under key. >> reporter: the access to the iphone could create key information where they were before and after the shooting and who they were correspondenting with. it's encryption and how information is obtained. tech industry with help with encryption issues and say it isn't just affecting national security investigations, but local police are running into encryption roadblocks when it well. charlie? >> thanks

magistrate judge ordered apple to -- apple's ceo tim cook says the tech giant doesn't have the technology and a back door to not only that iphone but millions of devices. the white house defended the department of justice's request for apple to aid in an investigation. the president calls an important national priority. >> they are not asking apple to redesign its product or to create a new back door to one of their products. they are simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device. >> reporter: as the war on terror and the right to privacy collide, cnet's dan ackerman says apple and the fbi have competing and compelling interests. >> apple says if you promise you only use it once it's going to get used again and again and once you create the precedent of giving that access once you're not able to deny at the time next time. >> reporter: google's ceo posted a series of tweets wednesday citing with apple, saying we give law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders, but that is wholly companies to enable hacking of customer devices and data. in the two

jack dorsey tweeted we stand with tim cook and apple and thank him for his leadership and google and facebook expressed some say the company should help fight terrorists like the san bernardino killers and others argue our civil liberties are at risk here. john miller is back at the table. he is, as you know, our former senior correspondent and we like him very much! john miller, welcome back. >> tim cook says further the government suggests this tool could be used once and only once on one phone and not true. once created the technique could be recreated over and over on a number of devices. >> you have to ask tim cook does he protect his own people. for them to develop a technique to get past the pass code lock which is the thing that makes it erase the whole phone after ten false tries, they said you can go in there and do it in your own lab. if you figure out the formula and crack open this phone to the point we can then try codes against it, tear the formula up and toss it in the fireplace and throw it away. trusted engineers is going to run out and tell the hacking world about

they are tim cook's customers too. >> reporter: a senior executive told cbs news, the following. why is apple's cooperation necessary at all? mike morello is the former number two at the cia. isn't there somebody who currently works for the cia or the n sa who could do what the government wants apple to do? advance in the last year, 18 months in the ability to protect information and these kind of devices, that the government has simply fallen behind in its capabilities. >> reporter: the next chapter in the legal battle in this case will unfold march 22nd, when a judge will hear arguments from both sides in a federal court in california. >>> parts of the plains of the midwest are cleaning up from the damage from strong winds. 60-mile-per-hour winds battered chicago on friday and causing debris to fly off of a building. two downtown office buildings were evacuated and cars and trucks were damageded but no injuries were reported. >>> high winds and temperatures fueled grass fires cross parts of oklahoma where 80 square miles burned. residents were asked to evacuate their homes and

tim cook says complying with the order would set a dangerous precedent. >> secretary kerry says a cease-fire in syria is closer than ever. bombings yesterday in damascus nd it killed up to 150 people. elizabeth palmer is on a rare trip inside the syrian capital at the scene of one of the attacks. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing just a few yards from where one of those massive car bombs went off. and the definite station is the front of the buildings blown clean off. the people who lived in those apartments, the shopkeepers who had their businesses on the ground floor, they are all dead. isis was never party to cease-fire but this proves their commitment to total war. however, the other players in this war, this conflict, do say they are ready for some kind of a truce. president assad said he was ready it over the weekend and the opposition says they are going to try too. but the devil, as always, is in the details. when would it start? who would participate? who would monitor it? in northern syria, the syrian army, backed by russian planes, are conducting a h

would you do the same thing that tim cook has done? >> i think they're saying, hey, as a society we think this discussion of safeguards is important. i don't disagree with that. >> nobody disagrees with that. >> at the end of the day we want a government that has this ability and we trust it to use that on our behalf. >> max legend who you and i both know and admire. this is what i'm trying to get you to say one side or the other. apple should offer the fbi the offer them a master key. >> yeah, that would solve this particular case. >> in our next hour we'll talk to apple's lawyer, former united states solicitor general ted olson and find out why one of the country's most respected legal names is defending the tech giant. that's ahead. >> he didn't want to seem to give a specific answer to that. >> no, he was not but he wanted to see it go through the process first. >> i heard that. you asked it very directly. >> and numerous times. >> a couple of times. >> i like him a lot. >> yeah. he likes you too. >>> republican senators will meet

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fundamentally supporting tim cook in what he is trying to do. this is ultimately a question of drawing the line in the sand and it's a brand-new set of problems. fbi or law enforcement asking a company to write code to survey its customers is unprecedented and what tim cook is trying to do is bring it into the public debate all the way to congress, all the way to the supreme court. and have a clear set of laws created because there isn't anything on the books today. so i think that is profound lie important. >> you've heard the case that the fbi director said on capitol hill yesterday. the code the judge has directed apple to write works on only this phone. the wild and working on my phone or your phone experts tell me is not the real thing. is that argument -- >> i think it runs on this particular iphone but by extension, it's true that they can write code that works on any other iphone, yours for example or my laptop or your laptop. if there is ultimately a law is a thas says that is okay, tim cook is saying we need to hear it and stated to th

cook said no. cbs news justice report paula reed is following the case closely. this case is making headlines for weeks now. where do we stand as of today? >> we currently in a standoff. this case here is a case of a generation. this will answer what we have all been asking -- how far does tech have to go to accommodate law enforcement and how far does it get them in the cases? the laws are outdated and people are waiting for this case that hopefully will answer these questions. >> the phone in question here is the property of farook's former employer. could they not just demand that apple open it? >> they tried and it does make it easier that the individual in question is deceased because that takes away some of the privacy protects that would have existed but apple refused to do what they are asking here. they are asking apple to write signature security protections so they can run an unlimited number of passwords without the fear that feature that erases all of your data if you do up to ten inco