Hello, everyone. Im fredericka whitfield. Congressional candidates are out in force right now bolstered by big name supporters like Hillary Clinton and chris christie. And the clock is ticking. Polls open in less than 48 hours. And the vote could change the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. Republicans need just six seats to win a majority and three of the seats are considered sure wins. That leaves just three competitive races for the gop to win, to take control of the u. S. Senate. Cnns Political Team is covering all the critical races. Joining me from massachusetts, david gergan, former advisers to president s nixon, ford and clinton. And our senior Political Correspondent Brianna Kieler in New Hampshire. Well start with mark and david, i want to start with brand new polls that bode well for the gop in three key southern states. Nbc maris poll shows republicans making gains in georgia, kentucky and louisiana. Heres the picture in georgia. David purdue leading democrat Michelle N
With a congressman, a bipartisan effort with montel. And it became very agonizing. Because there was a delay on the part of the judge who i think in the end made the right decision based on humanitarian ground to proceed with the release. But we were working the phones. We were working not pressuring the but diplomacy with the Mexican Government. The state department helped. But it was a combined effort. I want to visit the sergeant last week at his prison. I told him i thought the release was imminent. But i think it was a combination of factors and the recognition that the Mexican Government was not pressured. But they made the right, correct judicial decision which is based on ptsd which they dont have much experience with in mexico that they made this release. You talked about diplomacy governor richardson. Prosecute president obama never spoke about this case and that was really a thorn in the side of his supporters. The highest who ever weighed in was secretary of state john cary
We want to begin with breaking news as were learning world powers may be one step closer to striking a dealing on irons controversial nuclear program. Efforts are being made to close the, quote, serious gaps still remaining. Thrive nic what were hearing is your secretary of state is going to have in about an hours time his fourth trilateral meeting. This will be the fourth time they have had such a meeting. Last night lasted for two hours. Secretary of state kerry made earlier with the german foreigneforeign minister and there he told reporters there are gaps but we hope they are closing them. This is what he said. Were working hard. We hope were making careful progress. But we have big gaps. We still have some serious gaps, which were working to close. The good thing is the p 5 plus one are united and working in concert. And were simply going to not say anything subsequent about the discussions while they are going on. But a lot of serious work is going on by a lot of people. As secre
Thank you for keeping us company. Always good to see you. It is 10 00 on the east coast. 7 00 out west. You are in cnn news room. New developments out of the iraq. Americas top general is on a surprise visit meeting with the iraqs Prime Minister seen on left. And u. S. Troops and commanders. The Prime Minister said the troops are part of a Strategic Plan for the liberation of the entire iraqi territory and were going to achieve this goal. Live from Southern Turkey right now. Give us your take on what general dempsey is hoping to achieve with this very surprising visit. Reporter well he at the very least wants to get as best he can an on the ground, boots on the ground, his own that would be, assessment as to what the situation really is. The Prime Minister ears office just put out a statement talking about this meeting not giving a lot of details but saying they were speaking about the Iraqi Security forces successes and what was going to be needed moving forward. What is especially cr
Come in an email to journalists. Under the title merry christmas. The email reads, we are preparing for you a christmas gift. The gift will be larger quantities of data, and it will be more interesting. The gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put Sony Pictures into the worst state. We dont know what might be coming, but what we learned so far is when seeing the different documents that have been put onlun by these hackers is that they access a wide range of material from sony. You know, emails from top executives, budgets, salaries, all of that offer content. Not to mention in some cases forthcoming films and scripts and things like that. Maybe they are saving what they think is some of the most damaging content for christmas. This is all anyone has been talking about. Its just amazing. You have to wonder about the executives at the center of this. How this is going to impact their future. We do have to wonder about amy pascal and these other executives. What i hear from s