Too wide. And he signaled the white house might be tying his hands. Ive had a number of conversations with the president. And this stage were not able to make the counteroffer. Reporter so senator mcconnell called the Vice President who he served with in the senate for 24 years. The two men spoke several times on sunday. I want em to know im willing to get this done. But i need a dance partner. Reporter democrats want to let the bush era tax cuts expire for Household Income over 250,000 a year. Republican was rather set the cuttoff at around half a Million Dollars or keep the tax cuts in place for everyone. In an interview on nbcs meet the press president obama said the endless wrangling was not the democrats fault. We have been talking to the republicans ever since the election was over. They have had trouble saying yes to a number of repeated offers. At midday democrats suddenly declared that one element of the republican offer was a deal breaker. A proposal to change the way Social
And one hour and 57 minutes. Thats how long it took for arizona to execute double murderer joseph wood after administering the lethal unjection. Well ask woods lawyer was this cruel and unusual punishment . He started gasping. It was several people describe it as looking sort of like a fish, you know, out of water and it was sort of a spasm that would go from his mouth down through his chest to his stomach. And we watched this and it went on for more than an hour and a half. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where we are following the third major Civil Aviation incident in only a week. Airport officials tell nbc news an algerian plane carrying 110 passengers and six crew members is believed to have crashed in northern mali. Algier flight 107 was on its way from burkina faso to algiers. They reported losing contact with the plane about 50 minutes after takeoff. Nbcs tom costello joins me with the latest from our washington newsroom. Bring us to up to date. 110 passengers on boa
At noon today. Nbcs mark potter has the very latest out of miami. Sources have said that alan gross, a 65yearold sub contractor for the usaid has been released on humanitarian grounds. He is being flown to the United States. He has been imprisoned there for five years after being sentenced to 15 years by the cuban government. Gross claimed he was in cuba providing internet equipment to allow the Jewish Community to contact the world in ways that are hard to do in cuba. The cuban government claimed he was involved in activities counter to the cuban government that he was providing military equipment. He was arrested convicted and sentenced to 15 years. The five years in prison have been very tough. He has deteriorated in terms of his health. He is said to be in very poor health. Hes lost a lot of weight. Hes missing teeth. He is in quiet bad shape. Theres been pressure from the u. S. Government to release him and that has happened today on humanitarian grounds. Recently, president obama
Potential disaster. And the natural catastrophes like super storm sandy and the details and alarming new report. It is all happening now. But first. We are now waiting for president obamas final News Conference of the year. We expect the president to take questions on cuba and the sony cyber attack that the fbi initially blamed on north korea and welcome to happening now and i am eric shaun. And im heather in for jenna lee. A live look at the white house where president obama is expected to take reporters questions 30 minutes from now. And thens few hours later, the first family is expected to jet off to hawaii for a christmas vacation. Well start with ed henry. Hello and a dramatic statement from the fbi a short while ago, blaming north korea for the hack attack on sony. What is the president expected to say about this if anything. Reporter there is cuba and first chance to dwelve in to that and what is next there, but the situation with north korea, the fbi statement is pretty strong
I get chill bumps like literally thinking about all the stuff that women are doing. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin this hour with Hillary Clinton. Shes now facing a sharp decline in the polls, falling below the 50 mark for the first time during her campaign. One possible reason, the seemingly never ending scandal involving personal email she used while secretary of state and reports that she wiped her server clean. While clinton is addressing the issue head on, it appears to be testing her patience. My personal emails are my personal business, right . So thats all ki si can say. Did you try to wipe the whole server . I have no idea. You were the official in charge. Did you wipe the server . What, like with a cloth or something . I dont know. You know how it works digitally. I dont know how it works digitally at all. We turned over everything that was work related, every single thing. Nobody talks to m