They are welcoming in 2015 right now. That is the home country for fireworks. Look at them go. New york city will be celebrating 2015 with more than 1 billion people estimated together at times square. Congratulations are in order. We are calling him the Varney Company person of the year. I wish the world was different. I think that is why, once again i am amazed we got this bill through. Anyone can look at the numbers of obamacare. It frontloaded the taxes. If backloaded the spending. If theyve completely on a realistic expectations. Nobody believed it would help reduce the deficits. The thing that gets confusing with me about Jonathan Gruber is he talked about the American Voters. We do not care about uninsured people. Is he talking about us . The only people that got this bill and where the democrats in the house and the senate. They are the only people that care about the poor. They are the only people that care about the uninsured. If they really cared about these people, they rea
Chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. But first, do no harm . We will look at the central role the Health Professionals played in the cia torture program. Ddid doctors violate the nuremberg code banning human experimentation . Then to the 25th anniversary of the u. S. Invasion of panama. Clear this invasion was illegal. It is not debatable. The goals of the United States have been a safeguard the lives of americans, to defend democracy in panama. How in the world do restore that which has never existed . Panama customer been a democracy since we created panama for own purposes in 1903. Thiss did was go down american control and dominance in panama. We will speak with former panamanian diplomat Humberto Brown and latin american historian greg grandin. His latest piece, how the iraq war began in panama. And colonel wilkerson. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New york city mayor bill de blasio
Family of four crashes into a semi truck and gets dragged for 16 miles. It was blinding. We ran into the back of a semi truck and hes not stopping and our car is embedded underneath it. How that family survived this horrific accident and more. Because mornings are always better with friends. Thank you everybody for joining us on this thursday. Were going to start with breaking news. France under attack in the city of london. It is dark. In paris a Police Officer shot dead one day after a massacre targeting journalist at the satirical Newspaper Office. Another person a street sweeper shot, but will survive. There is no indication yesterdays shooting is connected to the attack but it leaves another goesman on the loose. Nearly 300 miles to the east of paris an explosion rocks a restaurant near a mosque. So far no injuries have been reported or we dont know if anything is related. This is news just into fox friends that the two heavily armed muslim terrorists wanted for yesterdays shootin
That starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. We speak to a retired nypd detective about the killings, the recent protests against Police Brutality and policecommunity relations. Then to the hacking of sony films. I dont think it was an act of war, i think it was cybervandalism that was very costly and expensive. We take it very seriously. We will respond proportionately. The United States is accusing north korea of hacking into Sony Pictures prompting sony to withdraw its comedy, the interview, about fictional assassination of north Korean Leader kim jongun. As the u. S. Is now considering putting north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, many cyber experts question if north korea could have pulled off the massive hacking operation. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New york city is grappling with the aftermath of the first targeted killings of Police Officers in y
Well. And historic policy changes with cuba, including lifting of economic sanctions against the communist country. Is now the right time . Our panel will weigh in as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Good morning. Sony pictures now saying that it is actively looking for an alternative way to distribute the movie the interview, other than in theaters. It pulled distribution ahead of its Christmas Day opening following hacked emails and a terror threat. The fbi has linked it to north korea. Congressman peter king is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence and the committee on homeland security. Congressman, we will get to sony in a moment. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. But i want to kick it off, of course, talking about this horrific story breaking here in new york, the executionstyle shooting of two Police Officers yesterday in brooklyn. You made a statement, congressman, about needing to get together as a country and suppo