Nsa leaker Edward Snowden leaves the moscow airport. Snowed beden was issued temporary asylum in russia for a year. Has been holed up at the airport for more than a month. If snowden is allowed to stay in russia, the white house is not going to be happy about this. Ariel castro the cleveland man who held three women captive for a decade will be formerly sentenced today. Castro prepared to apologize League Officials have told the Players Union which players espn reporting Alex Rodriguez is negotiating a lengthy suspension to avoid a lifetime ban. Members of Congress Head to the white house today to voice their concerns about the governments massive Surveillance Program. New information leak, about the nsas ability to monitor pretty much everything you do online. George zimmermans been spending a little time in texas. Pulled over outside of texas while carrying a gun. What a coincidence. Overnight, it became legal in two more states for gay couples to legally tie the knot. It was so powe
Lawsuit now against ted cruz. Carl cameron live in columbia, South Carolina. Trump warned people he would sue cruz. He said it before and said it again yesterday. Whats going to happen here . Hes also predicted democrats would sue him and kept his attack on ted cruz and in trumps mind there by being ineligible to be the United States president and said that he didnt necessarily intend to do the lawsuit himself. Yesterday that changed. Donald trump said that if ted cruz doesnt apologize for some nasty attack adds and some of the assertions cruz made that trump considers to be lies, absent an apology hell personally sue ted cruz and try to prevent him from Going Forward as a political candidate. Its widely regarded in order to wave a lawsuit you have to have some sort of standing. Theres been a number of democrats to put the cases forward. The judges have not been able to determine standing. No one thinks its going to get that far. Most conclude this is another one of trurchs empty threa
Celebratio celebrations. We will tell you what new steps are taken. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Im joe johns. It is friday, december 30th. 4 00 in the morning. Christine and john are off. This morning, we are waiting to see what steps the russians plan to take. Planning to retaliate today for the sanctions president obama just laid down punishing russia for election hacking. The white house announcing measures against four individuals and five entities and expelling dozens of diplomats drawing condemnation from the russian government and the president elect. President elect donald trump downplaying the hack but with a new twist. It is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. In the interest of the country, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community to be updated on the facts of the situation. A top trump aide is dismissing the sanctions and limiting the president elects options. Here is Kellyanne Conway on cnn. These retaliations put forward
Smith. The United Nations Security Council right now kicking off an emergency meeting in response to north koreas first test of an interleague Ballistic Missile, capable of striking alaska. A live look from the u. N. Headquarters here in new york city where u. S. Ambassador nikki haley, representatives from other countries as well, are preparing to speak. Ambassador haley requested the meeting, along with officials from south korea and japan. We will monitor the event and bring it to you live if there are major developments. This comes as President Trump prepares for his first facetoface meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin and second meeting with the chinese president on the sidelines of the g20 summit in germany. China is north koreas biggest ally, and today President Trump tweeted trade between china and north korea grew almost 40 in the first quarter, so much for china working with us, but we had to give it a try. North korean staterun media released video of this weeks mi
Thats all coming up. New polling engaging americans top concerns. Taxes, the environment and immigration were at the top when asked which issues the government should address in 2018. Topping the list is health care. 48 of americans said health care is the top domestic issue. This is up 5 from 2017 and 17 from 2016. At 31 , concerns about taxes also increased by 17 . Resp respondents were asked about President Trumps performance. Less than half said he fulfilled Campaign Promises and democrats say he did not. After the first year in office, 71 of americans say the country is going in the wrong direction. When asked if the country as a whole has been better off since President Trump took office, 52 say we are worse off. 25 saying the country is better off. Rick, what jumps out at you . Startling numbers. Terrible numbers for trump, in particular, if you look at the stock market, the economy and gdp growth and the projected gdp growth, he should be riding high and getting what a normal p