thing that happened today about that we learned from a court filing. late last night after joy reid finished sit income for me in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from mueller s prosecutors that related to the paul manafort case and you probably heard something about this today, big headline out of that filing today was that in addition to the publicly available document that set up the special counsel s office and hired robert mueller and laid out the scope of mueller s investigation, we learned from the court filing there was also subsequent to that public statement establishing the mueller investigation, there was also another bit of instruction. august 2nd last year, another basically sheet of instructions from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to bob mueller s office explaining to him, confirming in writing a list of specific stuff that mueller was cleared to look into as part of his investigation. this is the document. it s just been released as part of th
decisions the president made and decisions congress made during the depths of the great recession and his leadership and their leadership through the last several years and it could play a big role in the 2016 election. getting back to the headline, big headline out of this news conference, the headline being of course that the president thinks sony pictures made a mistake in pulling the release of the film the interview because it made fun of north korean leader kim jong-un. jay carney, how surprised were you by how blunt the president was on this sensitive subject and saying that the u.s. would retaliate although he wasn t going to provide public details. i knew he felt that way. i was extremely glad to hear him say that so bluntly and clearly. i think that it s absolutely the right thing to say. the precedent, the issues here go far beyond the decision to cancel screening of one movie. the implications of this move by the north koreans are profound and we need to react and tak
let s continue on our breaking news. i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the big news today from the president of the united states in his last news conference of the year he addressed a myriad of issues including sony which was the headline. let me quote him precisely. yes, i think they made a mistake yanking the release of the comedy the interview and that hackers are acting under the will of north korea. that was confirmed by the fbi today. and what s more, this attack now has taken this new turn. let me fill you in. overnight, another threat against sony. these hackers sent executives a message that confirmed all this criticism that by pulling the release of the film the
likeability. i think she repaired a lot of those bridges just but doing such a good job. we re at this we could blame rand paul for the start of this. just a few weeks ago we started talking about the 1990s again. but now the news yesterday is a bunch of documents, 33,000 pages of documents from the clinton library document wills be released over the next few weeks, the first batch of 4,000 or so came out yesterday. we were looking through this for any of the big news. you know, the big headline out of this is they thought health care was going to be hard to pass. who knew? there s a couple of quotes about that. shocking. but the other one is there was somebody advised to improve her image by going on the sitcom home improvement. that one never happened. here s a strategy memo when he was setting out to run for senate in new york. this is the middle of 1999.
example, china which is an outright enemy. gregg: we do send them billions of dollars for their training and equipment to go after these cartels. maybe that s the leverage we should exercise. christian white, thanks very much. thanks, gregg. big headline out of new york city today, potentially major setback for the n.y.p.d. after a federal judge rules against the department s controversial stop and frisk policy, saying it violates the civil rights of 10 of thousands of new yorkers. rick leventhal live in the new york city newsroom. with the developments on this jenna? reporter: nypd says the stop and frisk policy has been keeping rork new yorkers safe. a federal judge profoundly disagreed ruling the practice must stop and ordering an independent monitor to oversee changes to the policy. this follows a 10-week class-action lawsuit followed by opponents of nation s largest police department which has a stop and frisk policy, allowing he officers to detain, search, question people w