and make everybody happy. howard, laurie, we ll pick up this conversation again, because it is not going away anytime soon. thanks for joining us. 7:00 here. we re following a whole lot of news. let s get right to it. to viewers in the united states and around the world, you are watching new day and we are following breaking news out of paris here. one week to the day of the paris attacks, another attack going on right now in mali. armed gunmen taking on and laying siege to a hotel there. at least 150, maybe more, people held inside of this radisson in mali s capital. we have global coverage with cnn david mckenzie live in johannesburg. david, the latest? reporter: well, the latest is in fact some good news, chris, in this ongoing hostage situation in the capital of mali. the state media is reporting that 80 people have been released or rescued by special
oil refinery was back in the iraqi government s hands. i would be very cautious on that, based on a statement made by the iraqi government in the last several days. they have made a stub nub of statements in the battle they were still in control of tall live far, turned out they weren t. that may be wishful thinkinging on the part of iraqi security forces, iraqi government. we simply don t know who s in full control of the oil refinery up in bay jie. we know the entire area sunder control of isis forces and they have been laying siege to that oil refinery. it s the largest oil refinery up in the north. it would be a major blow to this regime and certainly, they are trying to contradict a number of local reports from the area, saying that that refinery is actually in the hands of isis at this point. so we are going to have to wait and see exact lib who s in control of that but we have not seen large-scale victories on the part of iraqi forces. certainly, we have known over the last 24 h
consider the cnn correspondent, referring to the mobs outside the u.s. embass necairo as, quote, hooligans, or secretary of state hillary clinton s dedicated campaign to stick to the canard that the benghazi murders were committed by, quote, a maul, savage group. didn t they say that about the bolsheviks and the nazis and didn t the egyptians vote to elect the muslim brotherhood? laying siege to u.s. diplomatic missions is a time-honored strategy, saigon, 1968. sanz 93, nairobi, 1998 among many others. but the gold standard was set in nine 79 with the occupation of our embass netehran. islamic terrorist who is called themselves students held 53 american hostages for more than a year and emboldened the cause and set the stage for their stated march to islamist
he talked about the oil laying siege, assaulting our shores. what could be more important on the president s schedule than sitting down with the people who are in charge of plugging the hole, who are in charge of the cleanup, who are in charge of the claims, and dealing with them on that. so it is a legitimate question. and we have to go. but i also wonder how much bp might stick up for the rest of the industry, to a search extent when it comes to the moratorium, because, you know, it behooves them, i would think, to have the others out there to continue these operations, and to stress the importance of their industry on the whole. we ll see, and there is the shot of them going in the door, of the white house, chris, thank you so much, good to talk to you this morning. always a pleasure. martha: we ll watch on fox news sunday. bill: makes a great point. and people across this gulf coast, now glued to their television last night, and the restaurants and the bars and the fishing hubs