trying to stay ahead of the game, for these folks and for the president himself the fact that this sony hack and north korea s activities have come to dominate the discussion in a week the president was hoping, i think, for a pivot to his new policy vis-a-vis the castro regime in cuba, i think that it s going to complicate his bid to get out of town a little bit. martha: yeah. you know, i think so far he has not had a very strong response to it. he said, you know, basically he still thinks everybody should go to the movies, but he has not called on these companies to band together to fight this, and it potentially opens the door to a lot more of these situations and also raises the question, chris, how well prepared are we? how well prepared is the government? you hear about the nsa being in sort of everybody s computer, which they would deny, but if they are, they sure don t seem to know what s going on here. well, certainly part of the reason is probably that the insufficiency of o
so you are going to see a rapid fire, this laundry list of issues that the president s going to go through. but the big bomb, i will guarantee you, outside of foreign policy will relate to immigration and what he says and what the questions are. martha: merry christmas. bill: ed henry just tweeted that stirewalt was right, he should be called on. [laughter] bill: seven minutes past. speaking of cuba now, new reaction to the stunning shift in american foreign policy there. people living under dictatorship for 350 years face 50 years. critics are slamming the president for basically giving away the store, they say. all these negotiations with rau wiewl castro. this president has to be the worst negotiator we ve ever had, and he has betrayed betrayed those cubans that have worked so hard and have sacrificed so much for the freedom and liberty of the island. bill: steve harrigan s live in