Statement from the north korean regime. A regime that keeps dee ninyings behind the hacking but a regime that keeps threatening the United States and keeps condemning the movie the interview. Can you believe we are tuk being Cyber Attacks and threats because of a seth rogen movie . What was thought of as a silly, maybe lousy comedy just a few weeks ago has now become a symbol of two of americas greatest values, freedom of expression, and freedom from fear. I want to say that one again. Free codom from fear. It affects every movie studio, every media company, every News Organization in the digital age. In fact, president obama said that this morning and were going to play that sound bite just ahead. So i have a group of guests standing by this morning covering this from every angle. We have mark cuban, larry king, allendan dershowitz and many mo. This new threat was published in english earlier this morning. It says the dprk has clear evidence that the u. S. Administration was deeply in
In deference to jordan and the fact that their pilot was so brutally executed on camera by isis, they allowed jordanian pilots to take the lead. Now, there is some gun camera footage which may be released later today. Not sure what the direct impact of this would be on isis buxt i can tell you this is going to have tremendous impact in the region. Highly symbolic. Its the first time we heard from any of those Coalition Members from the gulf states speak so publicly in condemning isis and pledging to contribute to their defeat and ultimate destruction. Theres a lot of symbolism in the air strikes today if not actual bomb damage. Jim miklaszewski, thanks for that update. Secretary of state john kerry is in ukraine meeting with leaders in announcing a new round of u. S. Humanitarian aid to the tune of 16 million. Theres a bigger step thats on the table right now as well. The president is said to be reconsidering whether to provide lethal aid, arms to ukrainian fighters. Lawmakers on both
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Stormy Weather Coast to coast as tens of millions hit the road for christmas. By christmas eve, most of the lower 48 experiences wind, rain, or snow and the weather channels Reynolds Wolf in times square with the weather for us. How bad will it get . Reporter gray skies but its bright as it happens to be in times square. You can see a lot of people behind me making their way through times square. In terms of numbers, you have up to 330,000 people. On average, they come by here everyday but ill tell you, might see more than that number because people are doing the last minute holiday shopping. With the weather as it is, thats certainly good news because theres some rougher stuff on the way. To the maps we go on the forecast you can expect the next couple of days with this big storm system to work its way across the continent going from west to east. Eventually bringing a combination of rain, sleet and snow for a good third eastern of the country. Mida
Worldshaking news from this week. Cuban American Relations on the road to normalization. The collapse of the russian ruble. The resurgence of the taliban. We have a worldclass panel to talk about it all. But first here is my take. This has been a week where big news has been exploding. We will get to all of it, but let me tell you about the thing that most agitated me this week. The response to the Cyber Attacks on Sony Pictures. Now that u. S. Intelligence Officials Say they believe north korea was behind those attacks, the discussion has finally moved away from emails about Angelina Jolie to the real story, which is far more troubling. One of the nastiest regimes in the world has effectively threatened to launch terror attacks in america if an artistic work were to be shown publicly, and stunningly, almost everyone involved has caved. Imagine that the iranian government had threatened a terror attack on u. S. Soil if, say, a book were about to be released that parodied its supreme le
Saying we are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who work there. Further north koreans attack on sony affirms that cyberthreats pose one of the greatest National Security dangers to the United States. On wednesday, sony decided to pull the premier of the interview after hackers threatened Movie Theaters with 9 11 style attacks. The first question asked was if sony should have cancelled the interviews premier. Sonys a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. The ceo of sony, Michael Lynton said the president and press and public are mistaken as to what happened. We do not own Movie Theaters and cannot determine whether a movie will be played in theaters. The president said meeting north koreas demands is a slippery slope. We cannot have a society in which some