Shipping problem with ups and fedex. Ups said a shorter shipping period, bad weather and people waiting for last minute to buy online overloaded the system. One driver says it was the worst christmas ever for deliveries. Most Companies Say the delayed packages should arrive by tomorrow. Same sex marriages is headed back to court. After another court denied their request to stop same sex weddings in the state. Those are the headlines. Back for a full run down of the news, im tony harris, consider this is up next. Blockbuster details on the benghazi attack, a new book has the untold story. Consider this who knew what when, and the fascinating story of a normal teen turned extremist, who turned as an difficult to fight back against jihaddists. Why america should be fighting back against antiterror efforts. Is the face of alcoholism female . Welcome to christmas edition of consider this. We will talk to the authors of some of the years most intrigginintriguing books. We begin with benghazi
Orders is blamed for the presents missing under the tree. Wall mort and amazon are offering customers gift guards. Power people are working to restore power after storms knocked out electricity several days ago. Utility Companies Say they are making progress, but snow and strong winds are slowing down repairs. Consider this is next, and you can get the latest online at aljazeera. Com. Blockbuster details on the benghazi attack, a new book has the untold story. Consider this who knew what when, and the fascinating story of a normal teen turned extremist, who turned as an difficult to fight back against jihaddists. Why america should be fighting back against antiterror efforts. Is the face of alcoholism female . Welcome to christmas edition of consider this. We will talk to the authors of some of the years most intrigginintriguing books. We begin with benghazi. December 11th of 2012, dozens much heavily armed militants attacked the u. S. Mission, in what had begun to be an increasingly l
Year and a great 2013. My colleague wolf blitzer and the situation room up now. Deb, thanks very much. Happening now how we solve this thing, then theyve got another thing coming. Thats not the way a president should lead. This is, these are draconian effects. A fever pitch here in washington with only eight hours left before the country tumbles over that socalled fiscal cliff. Were live with the very latest. Also, cries of outrage from americans across the country. What the impasse means for Small Business owners, and whos to blame. And a blood clot lands Hillary Clinton in the hospital this new years eve. Our dr. Gupta tells us just how serious this condition could be. We want to welcome viewers from the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were now less than eight hours away from what could be a dire moment for the United States economy, if president obama and the congress cant agree on a deal to keep the country from plunging over that f
Administrations initial response to the attack and undermine its critic . Coming up, ill have exclusive interviews with the journalists who broke the interviews in the times and one of the republicans in congress who claimed there was indeed a coverup. Also, some of the key questions in 2014. Will obama care survive in its present form . And how much does the u. S. Have influence around the globe . And how much in exile for Edward Snowden . First the developments in the benghazi story. Joining me here in washington on our set is nbc chief News Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. And from vermont, New York Times cairo bureau chief. David, thank you for being here. It changes the narrative, it changes the report on benghazi, and let me lay out the context of what you conclude. Months of investigation, you write, by the New York Times centered on extensive interviews with libyans in benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence tha
Perpetrators, and its just obvious from them and the people around them, theyre purely local people. Their pasts are known, their records are known, when they were in prison, who they hung out with in prison, who their associations are. There is just no chance that this was an al qaeda attack if, by al qaeda, you mean the organization founded by bin laden. Ive tried to understand some of the statements coming out of congress blaming al qaeda for this, and the only way they make sense to me is if youre using the term al qaeda a little differently. If youre using the term al qaeda to describe even a local group of islamist militants who may dislike democracy or have a grudge against the United States, if youre going to call anybody like that al qaeda, then okay. Certainly there were some antiwestern islamist militants involved in this attack. But to me thats a semantic difference and not a useful way of answering the original question, which is, did the group founded by Osama Bin Laden l