he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
Williams. Good evening. It has already crippled a big company. Its cost a major studio a major motion picture. And its had a terrible cost to privacy. And while the electronic attack on Sony Pictures goes on, federal officials are pointing right at the source. They say the attack was launched from inside north korea. It raises huge questions about vulnerability and national security. And its where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. U. S. Officials tonight say they now believe the attack was launched inside north korea then rooted through computer servers in taiwan to take advantage of faster computer surrogates in the outside world. But theyre still unsure about whether there was outside help in designing the attack. Security analysts say even though north korea has a force of nearly 6,000 people assigned to do cyber attacks, its previous attempts have been primitive. Now they say the nature of the attack and
They dont know yet how far with this. But people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. People in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. And with americans. And so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. Cuba plays a very Important Role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. So it opens a new market for american producers is good for the American Business with the
congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. First of all, were always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. He got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. Thats wonderful news. What is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonderful american pat
Raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a News Conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. Of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. Thank you for joining me today, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im michaela pereira. History is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u. S. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba is also releasing a u. S. Intelligence asset, a spy, whos been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. In Return Washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. That is big in and of itself. It all seems part now of something much, much bigger. President obama will announce major changes in u. S. Policy toward cuba. Officials calling them the most sweeping changes since t
Wont work for a future financial problem and thats an issue that you mentioned is not quite so popular domestically in germany but how about in france itself tell us a little bit more about the situation facing micron at home and whether or not you know his own people support his Reform Agenda as strongly as they did when they elected him. So you have to probably make the difference here between the reforms hes having planned for the european level i would say that most french are in agreement with that that germany should bear more responsibility also financially that the European Union should back away from austerity but of course as you mentioned he has a whole set of problems here that are homemade were going to go for example to one of those many demonstrations we saw in the past thats about to start in an hour or so from the Railroad Workers that are on strike until june not every day but many of those days and those are not the only ones that dont think that the reforms
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