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Military official telling us that three Senior Leaders of the terror group have died. U. S. Strikes in iraq. The dead include a man considered to have been the righthand man in iraq of the isis leader. With more on this, i want to bring in jim sciutto. Tell me more about these three leaders. Weve just been learning this a short time ago. The leaders are described as two top level leader and one mid level. One you mentioned was the deputy in iraq of the leader of isis and the military commander in iraq. He was also killed and in addition to that isis emir for the city of mosul which is the city they took over from iraqi coal a few months ago as they swept through the country. This took place in multiple air strikes over recent weeks but its only now that they were able to confirm conclusively including by monetary communications among isis fighters that these three are now indeed dead. Something of a victory for the air campaign. We know they have been targeting command and control and this is described to me by senior military official as having an effect on command and control but they do know that effect can be short lived. Commanders when they are killed, they are replaced. They would expect the same to happen here. Just so i can correct myself, we are speaking about the leader of isis, yes . That is right. We showed pictures of him a short time ago. Let me follow up with the news about the troop levels. The troop levels that president obama mentioned just yesterday and their role here in this ongoing war. So youll remember that a few weeks ago the president authorized an additional 1,500 u. S. Troops to go to iraq. Yesterday the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, signed their deployment orders for 1,300 of them. They are on their way. Theyll be going there and im told by february of 2015, two months away, less than two months away, 3,000 troops will be on the ground. Thats upper limit in effect of what the president has ordered. Until very recently, all of those american troops, military advisers, folks doing train and assist, they were confined largely to baghdad and to erbil relative pockets of safety in iraq. Now over time theyre going to be more Forward Deployed including some 300 u. S. Troops at a base in Anbar Province outside of baghdad in a province largely controlled by isis. These troops are no longer going to be behind the lines inside the big cities. Over time theyre going to be deployed at a dozen training bases around the country. Not combat troops but much closer to combat. So we have that. I would be remiss if i didnt ask whats happening with north korea. United states set to accuse north korea of cyberterrorism. Were hearing this announcement will come later today blaming hackers working for north korea for the attack on Sony Pictures. U. S. Officials believe the attack was ordered directly by leadership in north korea in retaliation for this comedy, this seth rogen film supposed to come out christmas day, the interview. The crux of this is ultimately ending with assassination of kim jongun coupled with an online threat of a 9 11 style attack. That drove the countrys biggest theater chains and Sony Pictures itself to cancel the movie before it was in theaters and reaction was swift. You had actor rob lowe with a big part in this film tweeting hackers won in utter and complete victory. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich jumping on twitter as well declaring america has lost its first cyberwar and calling this a dangerous precedent. And there are broader implications for the entire business community. President obamas top economic adviser called on companies this morning to invest in cybersecurity. Jim, youre still with me. Are you surprised that north korea was able to make this Major Corporation cave in so quickly if in fact it is north korea . You know, its interesting. Weve been talking about for years and u. S. Officials have been alarmed at the prospect that north korea can build a missile with a range that would hit the u. S. And that they could shrink a Nuclear Device to get on the top of that missile to potentially reach the west coast of the u. S. Thats been a great concern to our knowledge to date they dont have that ability. But yet in this month, north korea was able to carry out an attack on the u. S. Homeland that targets a major american movie studio. It cost that movie studio millions of dollars. And it struck fear in the hearts if not movie goers but Movie Theater owners enough to cancel the airing of this film. Thats a real and successful and consequential cyberattack on u. S. Soil. A cyberterror attack although the white house isnt calling it that. Its the reminder of cyberattacks today and it shows that north korea has greater capability than the u. S. Was aware of. They did not believe they could carry out a solphisticated attak like this. Its something we should not fool ourselves. Its a new era. U. S. Companies have been under attack from Chinese Companies for years. U. S. Businesses, u. S. Governments in cyberattacks. This is a new era. Its very difficult to defend against. We saw that with this attack in recent weeks. Let me talk more about that. Jim sciutto, my thanks. We reached out to a filmmaker who is no stranger to controversy. Michael moore. This is what he told us. I quote him. Before the release of 9 11, both the studio and myself and theaters received numerous threats reminding us not to show it. It goes on to say that none of this deterred us from releasing fahrenheit 9 11. We just hired more security. Will the cyberattack on sony impact other films and other studios . David is the chief film critic of new York Magazine who i get to sit next to now. Its a pleasure meeting you. Thank you so much. Im total fan of your work. So i had heard you were saying you were kicking yourself for turning down the opportunity to see this film last week. I was supposed to see it last week. I was going to the premiere tonight, which i thought would be a lot more fun and i that was bold. I wrote my pr contact yesterday and i said so were still on plus one . And he said no. I believe was his exact quote. Do you think that this is about the threat, which is really what makes this so different from other hacks that remember 9 11 threat to movie goers or is it more about the business . Well, i mean, its about both. Nobody wants first of all, theres a lot of business going on in the holiday movie season and no multiplex is going to want to play the interview if people are not just going to not see the interview but also not see annie and into the woods and selma and other studios big movies. Nobody is going to want to take that risk. Other than that, i dont really know. I love the idea im a punk. I came of age with the punks. I love sticking a middle finger up at mad dictators. You dont approve of this . This is an honorable thing that american pop culture has been doing for 60, 70, 80 years, earlier than that and to me its tragic that were not going to be able to do that in this case. Now, one doesnt necessarily do it when they have nukes and by the way, none of this is to say im talking about our dear leader, kim jongun who is a wise being that descended from on high to make our lives better. This is purely abstract when i talk about mad idiot dictators. Back to the pmiddle finger because theyre not sticking it to him by yanking this film, we saw it with the pyongyang film, does this have other screen writers and studios running scared . Totally. They were running scared. Hollywood has always run scared. There are all sorts of stories of the chinese, which is a huge market for Hollywood Studios now. More and more and more. Its like 75 , 80 of the market will be asia. Theyve already been trimming back a lot of stuff. It might be offensive. In the case of the interview, this is the north korean sticking it to the japanese. Sony is a japanese company. North koreans dont really like the japanese. In any case, the chairman of sony did in fact say can you tone down kim jonguns death. His face was supposed to melt and blood was supposed to explode all over the place and his hair was on fire and they kind of did a compromise cut where there was just flames over his face. But they were always going tone it down for the asian market and then they decided, no, we wont release it in asia. Up until a few days ago, it only had a United States release. Before i let you go final words of wisdom as someone who has covered film for years and years, what do you think . Im broken hearted. I hope it doesnt rebound on the south park guys in which kim jongun gets shot to pieces and when Saddam Hussein was the gay lover of satan. I hope this doesnt have a chill on american political satire. I fear it will and i am dispo despondent about this. Appreciate it. Ahead, Newt Gingrich says america on this story just lost its first cyberwar. Is he right . Do you agree with him and more on secret cyberwarriors. Nearly two of them. We only know this because a defector is speaking to cnn. Hes next. And a climate deal, cuba, immigration, putin in trouble, low gas prices. President obamas agenda on a winning streak just weeks after his party was crushed. Whats next on the list . Youre watching cnns special coverage. Stay here. People with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. If you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. Its a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. Along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. With one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. And, although its not a weightloss or bloodpressure drug, farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower Blood Pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. Do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling or difficulty breathing or swallowing. If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking farxiga and seek medical help right away. Do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. Tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. Farxiga can cause serious side effects, including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, low blood sugar,kidney problems, and increased bad cholesterol. Common side effects include urinary tract infections, changes in urination, and runny nose. Do the walk of life yeah, you do the walk of life need to lower your blood sugar . Ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. This is a north korean government video of a rocket launch. This is the kind of warfare the world has worried north korea would use one day but a defector says north korea has been launching attacks not in the skies but online. U. S. And south korean sources say the sony hack is all part of this. Who are the soldiers on this cyberfro frontline . They are calling themselves bureau 121. This is according to a man that escaped the nation seven years ago and he tells cnn there are 1,800 cyberwarriors placed around the world hacking and attacking north koreas perceived enemies. He says this. The silent war has already begun without a single bullet fired. We turn to peter singer, senior fellow at the new america foundation. Welcome. Thank you for having me. As an expert in all of this in cyberterrorism, do you think it was the appropriate move for sony to yank the interview from theaters . No, it was an utter cave in and the danger is that this changes something that had been basically a hack. Were using phrases like act of war, cyberterrorism, and Everybody Needs to take a chill pill here. This is not the same as an actual act of war. Its as much an act of war as when north korea described making the movie an act of war. Wars involve actual acts of violence. So do terrorism. Including cyberterrorism according to the fbi definition of it. It was a hack. There was lots of embarrassing things that came out about sony but the difference is theres a difference between the ability to steal embarrassing email from a not well protected Computer Network and then the online threat that was made of actual violence, which was basically them saying well create 9 11 style events for any theater in any individual who watches this movie. Theres a different capability between stealing email and causing 18,000 9 11 simultaneously. They say when you look at rhetoric from north korea, its bluster. Then you could argue on sonys behalf, maybe they just didnt want to take a chance. That said, a lot of people agree with you that they totally caved. Let me focus on the present. What should Movie Companies be doing now in reaction to these threats and hacking of Sony Pictures . Today it would be sony. Tomorrow it would be my Parent Company time warner. Who knows who could be next. Thats the problem with the cave. It changes from being a hack that matter to them to now rewarding and inventivizeized attacks on others. We have a combination of needs. Companies need to take cybersecurity seriously but in a different way than sony approached it. This is a company thats been repeatedly hacked going back to at least 2005. The point is, once you get inside the network, you cant have open access to anything and everything theyve been posting everything from confidential emails to Financial Information to scripts. This stuff they shouldnt have gotten the keys to the kingdom when they were on the inside and thats bad cybersecurity and response to it is you can either the british mentality of keep calm and carry on or you can react with hysteria and then fold like a cheap card table. Weve chosen category two. Which of these responses incentivizes more attackers to come after you . The Million Dollar question and problem. Peter singer, thank you so much. Just ahead, president obamas agenda here on a winning streak in the weeks since his party was crushed in the mid terms. Whats next in the final quarter in office and a surprising deal with cuba getting reaction from both sides. Well get personal. Ill speak live with singer and actress and her cuban american mother. Stay right here. [ shutter clicks ] hi there [ laughs ] im flo i know im going to get you your rental car. This is so ridiculous. Were going to manage your entire repair process from paperwork to pickup, okay, little tiny baby . Your car is ready, and your repairs are guaranteed for as long as you own it. The Progressive Service center a real place, where we really manage your claim from start to finish. Really. Easy as easy can be bye there is no car because there was no accident. Volvos most advanced accident avoidance systems ever. The future of safety, from the company that has always brought you the future of safety. Give the gift of volvo this season and well give you your first months payment on us. Sea captain theres a narratorstorm cominhe storm narrator that whipped through the turbine which poured. Surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered its price and tipped off the house which used all that energy to stay warm through the storm. Chipmunk theres a bad storm comin narrator the internet of everything is changing how energy works. Is your Network Ready . Female announcer sleep trains ends sunday. E for 3 event its your last chance to get three years interestfree financing on beautyrest black, stearns foster, serta icomfort, even tempurpedic. Plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. But hurry sleep trains interest free for 3 event ends sunday. Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep when democrats took their midterm hit, here we are six weeks later and you have this Historic Deal with cuba. The climate deal. Immigration. Economy on the upswing. Low gas prices and putin is in trouble. This is galvanized the idea that maybe the president isnt done yet. Douglas brinkley, president ial historian, we love talked to doug brinkley. Nice to see you. Thanks for having me on, brooke. So we just ran through the recent wins. How strong is this case that barack obama is in fact turning things around versus the notion that this is merely a blip on the radar and perhaps the notion that we, the media, just create a new narrative . Well, hes really had quite a week, hadnt he . I think one of the things you touched on is after that airliner was shot down by russia and invasion by putin in ukraine, many thought the president didnt do enough. If those economic sanctions are working, thats a big plus for this president and obviously the issue with cuba is a big plus. He has a partner in pope francis. Ronald reagan was a close ally with margaret thatcher. You dont see obama having an International Ally that hes been close to and now pope francis working with the president bodes well for him too. It will depend on what the economy is like in his last day in office is how historians will judge him. Lets go back to the russian point. You were pointing out the adventures in ukraine. Vladimir putin annexed crimea and said deal with it. Putin invaded ukraine and people were saying that putin equals strong and obama equals weak and now putin is bogged down in ukraine. His economy is totally tanking. Is this the notion that obama is wiping the floor with putin or is that a tad overblown . Well, maybe a tad overblown but its looking like this. One of the problems is we live in a fast media age and people want instant gratification and action. If it shows that he had a vigorous response to isolate putin, i dont know what businesses wanted to invest in russia right now. And then he went to china and had a successful trip and surprised everybody with that climate deal. This is a president leaning on the climate issue which may be one of the great ones of his time. Anyone that called him a lame duck president has to admit theyre wrong. Let me quote rush limbaugh. This is what he said. This is what he said after the cuban announcement. This is just a teaser. An appetizer for what is on tap the next two years. President has gone big on neutrality. This is just since the mid terms. What else might we see . A rejection of the Senior Leaders<\/a> of the terror group have died. U. S. Strikes in iraq. The dead include a man considered to have been the righthand man in iraq of the isis leader. With more on this, i want to bring in jim sciutto. Tell me more about these three leaders. Weve just been learning this a short time ago. The leaders are described as two top level leader and one mid level. One you mentioned was the deputy in iraq of the leader of isis and the military commander in iraq. He was also killed and in addition to that isis emir for the city of mosul which is the city they took over from iraqi coal a few months ago as they swept through the country. This took place in multiple air strikes over recent weeks but its only now that they were able to confirm conclusively including by monetary communications among isis fighters that these three are now indeed dead. Something of a victory for the air campaign. We know they have been targeting command and control and this is described to me by senior military official as having an effect on command and control but they do know that effect can be short lived. Commanders when they are killed, they are replaced. They would expect the same to happen here. Just so i can correct myself, we are speaking about the leader of isis, yes . That is right. We showed pictures of him a short time ago. Let me follow up with the news about the troop levels. The troop levels that president obama mentioned just yesterday and their role here in this ongoing war. So youll remember that a few weeks ago the president authorized an additional 1,500 u. S. Troops to go to iraq. Yesterday the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, signed their deployment orders for 1,300 of them. They are on their way. Theyll be going there and im told by february of 2015, two months away, less than two months away, 3,000 troops will be on the ground. Thats upper limit in effect of what the president has ordered. Until very recently, all of those american troops, military advisers, folks doing train and assist, they were confined largely to baghdad and to erbil relative pockets of safety in iraq. Now over time theyre going to be more Forward Deployed<\/a> including some 300 u. S. Troops at a base in Anbar Province<\/a> outside of baghdad in a province largely controlled by isis. These troops are no longer going to be behind the lines inside the big cities. Over time theyre going to be deployed at a dozen training bases around the country. Not combat troops but much closer to combat. So we have that. I would be remiss if i didnt ask whats happening with north korea. United states set to accuse north korea of cyberterrorism. Were hearing this announcement will come later today blaming hackers working for north korea for the attack on Sony Pictures<\/a>. U. S. Officials believe the attack was ordered directly by leadership in north korea in retaliation for this comedy, this seth rogen film supposed to come out christmas day, the interview. The crux of this is ultimately ending with assassination of kim jongun coupled with an online threat of a 9 11 style attack. That drove the countrys biggest theater chains and Sony Pictures<\/a> itself to cancel the movie before it was in theaters and reaction was swift. You had actor rob lowe with a big part in this film tweeting hackers won in utter and complete victory. Former House Speaker<\/a> Newt Gingrich<\/a> jumping on twitter as well declaring america has lost its first cyberwar and calling this a dangerous precedent. And there are broader implications for the entire business community. President obamas top economic adviser called on companies this morning to invest in cybersecurity. Jim, youre still with me. Are you surprised that north korea was able to make this Major Corporation<\/a> cave in so quickly if in fact it is north korea . You know, its interesting. Weve been talking about for years and u. S. Officials have been alarmed at the prospect that north korea can build a missile with a range that would hit the u. S. And that they could shrink a Nuclear Device<\/a> to get on the top of that missile to potentially reach the west coast of the u. S. Thats been a great concern to our knowledge to date they dont have that ability. But yet in this month, north korea was able to carry out an attack on the u. S. Homeland that targets a major american movie studio. It cost that movie studio millions of dollars. And it struck fear in the hearts if not movie goers but Movie Theater<\/a> owners enough to cancel the airing of this film. Thats a real and successful and consequential cyberattack on u. S. Soil. A cyberterror attack although the white house isnt calling it that. Its the reminder of cyberattacks today and it shows that north korea has greater capability than the u. S. Was aware of. They did not believe they could carry out a solphisticated attak like this. Its something we should not fool ourselves. Its a new era. U. S. Companies have been under attack from Chinese Companies<\/a> for years. U. S. Businesses, u. S. Governments in cyberattacks. This is a new era. Its very difficult to defend against. We saw that with this attack in recent weeks. Let me talk more about that. Jim sciutto, my thanks. We reached out to a filmmaker who is no stranger to controversy. Michael moore. This is what he told us. I quote him. Before the release of 9 11, both the studio and myself and theaters received numerous threats reminding us not to show it. It goes on to say that none of this deterred us from releasing fahrenheit 9 11. We just hired more security. Will the cyberattack on sony impact other films and other studios . David is the chief film critic of new York Magazine<\/a> who i get to sit next to now. Its a pleasure meeting you. Thank you so much. Im total fan of your work. So i had heard you were saying you were kicking yourself for turning down the opportunity to see this film last week. I was supposed to see it last week. I was going to the premiere tonight, which i thought would be a lot more fun and i that was bold. I wrote my pr contact yesterday and i said so were still on plus one . And he said no. I believe was his exact quote. Do you think that this is about the threat, which is really what makes this so different from other hacks that remember 9 11 threat to movie goers or is it more about the business . Well, i mean, its about both. Nobody wants first of all, theres a lot of business going on in the holiday movie season and no multiplex is going to want to play the interview if people are not just going to not see the interview but also not see annie and into the woods and selma and other studios big movies. Nobody is going to want to take that risk. Other than that, i dont really know. I love the idea im a punk. I came of age with the punks. I love sticking a middle finger up at mad dictators. You dont approve of this . This is an honorable thing that american pop culture has been doing for 60, 70, 80 years, earlier than that and to me its tragic that were not going to be able to do that in this case. Now, one doesnt necessarily do it when they have nukes and by the way, none of this is to say im talking about our dear leader, kim jongun who is a wise being that descended from on high to make our lives better. This is purely abstract when i talk about mad idiot dictators. Back to the pmiddle finger because theyre not sticking it to him by yanking this film, we saw it with the pyongyang film, does this have other screen writers and studios running scared . Totally. They were running scared. Hollywood has always run scared. There are all sorts of stories of the chinese, which is a huge market for Hollywood Studios<\/a> now. More and more and more. Its like 75 , 80 of the market will be asia. Theyve already been trimming back a lot of stuff. It might be offensive. In the case of the interview, this is the north korean sticking it to the japanese. Sony is a japanese company. North koreans dont really like the japanese. In any case, the chairman of sony did in fact say can you tone down kim jonguns death. His face was supposed to melt and blood was supposed to explode all over the place and his hair was on fire and they kind of did a compromise cut where there was just flames over his face. But they were always going tone it down for the asian market and then they decided, no, we wont release it in asia. Up until a few days ago, it only had a United States<\/a> release. Before i let you go final words of wisdom as someone who has covered film for years and years, what do you think . Im broken hearted. I hope it doesnt rebound on the south park guys in which kim jongun gets shot to pieces and when Saddam Hussein<\/a> was the gay lover of satan. I hope this doesnt have a chill on american political satire. I fear it will and i am dispo despondent about this. Appreciate it. Ahead, Newt Gingrich<\/a> says america on this story just lost its first cyberwar. Is he right . Do you agree with him and more on secret cyberwarriors. Nearly two of them. We only know this because a defector is speaking to cnn. Hes next. And a climate deal, cuba, immigration, putin in trouble, low gas prices. President obamas agenda on a winning streak just weeks after his party was crushed. Whats next on the list . Youre watching cnns special coverage. Stay here. People with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. If you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. Its a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. Along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. With one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. And, although its not a weightloss or bloodpressure drug, farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower Blood Pressure<\/a> when used with certain diabetes medicines. Do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling or difficulty breathing or swallowing. If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking farxiga and seek medical help right away. Do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. Tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. Farxiga can cause serious side effects, including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, low blood sugar,kidney problems, and increased bad cholesterol. Common side effects include urinary tract infections, changes in urination, and runny nose. Do the walk of life yeah, you do the walk of life need to lower your blood sugar . Ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. This is a north korean government video of a rocket launch. This is the kind of warfare the world has worried north korea would use one day but a defector says north korea has been launching attacks not in the skies but online. U. S. And south korean sources say the sony hack is all part of this. Who are the soldiers on this cyberfro frontline . They are calling themselves bureau 121. This is according to a man that escaped the nation seven years ago and he tells cnn there are 1,800 cyberwarriors placed around the world hacking and attacking north koreas perceived enemies. He says this. The silent war has already begun without a single bullet fired. We turn to peter singer, senior fellow at the new america foundation. Welcome. Thank you for having me. As an expert in all of this in cyberterrorism, do you think it was the appropriate move for sony to yank the interview from theaters . No, it was an utter cave in and the danger is that this changes something that had been basically a hack. Were using phrases like act of war, cyberterrorism, and Everybody Needs<\/a> to take a chill pill here. This is not the same as an actual act of war. Its as much an act of war as when north korea described making the movie an act of war. Wars involve actual acts of violence. So do terrorism. Including cyberterrorism according to the fbi definition of it. It was a hack. There was lots of embarrassing things that came out about sony but the difference is theres a difference between the ability to steal embarrassing email from a not well protected Computer Network<\/a> and then the online threat that was made of actual violence, which was basically them saying well create 9 11 style events for any theater in any individual who watches this movie. Theres a different capability between stealing email and causing 18,000 9 11 simultaneously. They say when you look at rhetoric from north korea, its bluster. Then you could argue on sonys behalf, maybe they just didnt want to take a chance. That said, a lot of people agree with you that they totally caved. Let me focus on the present. What should Movie Companies<\/a> be doing now in reaction to these threats and hacking of Sony Pictures<\/a> . Today it would be sony. Tomorrow it would be my Parent Company<\/a> time warner. Who knows who could be next. Thats the problem with the cave. It changes from being a hack that matter to them to now rewarding and inventivizeized attacks on others. We have a combination of needs. Companies need to take cybersecurity seriously but in a different way than sony approached it. This is a company thats been repeatedly hacked going back to at least 2005. The point is, once you get inside the network, you cant have open access to anything and everything theyve been posting everything from confidential emails to Financial Information<\/a> to scripts. This stuff they shouldnt have gotten the keys to the kingdom when they were on the inside and thats bad cybersecurity and response to it is you can either the british mentality of keep calm and carry on or you can react with hysteria and then fold like a cheap card table. Weve chosen category two. Which of these responses incentivizes more attackers to come after you . The Million Dollar<\/a> question and problem. Peter singer, thank you so much. Just ahead, president obamas agenda here on a winning streak in the weeks since his party was crushed in the mid terms. Whats next in the final quarter in office and a surprising deal with cuba getting reaction from both sides. Well get personal. Ill speak live with singer and actress and her cuban american mother. Stay right here. [ shutter clicks ] hi there [ laughs ] im flo i know im going to get you your rental car. This is so ridiculous. Were going to manage your entire repair process from paperwork to pickup, okay, little tiny baby . Your car is ready, and your repairs are guaranteed for as long as you own it. The Progressive Service<\/a> center a real place, where we really manage your claim from start to finish. Really. Easy as easy can be bye there is no car because there was no accident. Volvos most advanced accident avoidance systems ever. The future of safety, from the company that has always brought you the future of safety. Give the gift of volvo this season and well give you your first months payment on us. Sea captain theres a narratorstorm cominhe storm narrator that whipped through the turbine which poured. Surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered its price and tipped off the house which used all that energy to stay warm through the storm. Chipmunk theres a bad storm comin narrator the internet of everything is changing how energy works. Is your Network Ready<\/a> . Female announcer sleep trains ends sunday. E for 3 event its your last chance to get three years interestfree financing on beautyrest black, stearns foster, serta icomfort, even tempurpedic. Plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. But hurry sleep trains interest free for 3 event ends sunday. Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep when democrats took their midterm hit, here we are six weeks later and you have this Historic Deal<\/a> with cuba. The climate deal. Immigration. Economy on the upswing. Low gas prices and putin is in trouble. This is galvanized the idea that maybe the president isnt done yet. Douglas brinkley, president ial historian, we love talked to doug brinkley. Nice to see you. Thanks for having me on, brooke. So we just ran through the recent wins. How strong is this case that barack obama is in fact turning things around versus the notion that this is merely a blip on the radar and perhaps the notion that we, the media, just create a new narrative . Well, hes really had quite a week, hadnt he . I think one of the things you touched on is after that airliner was shot down by russia and invasion by putin in ukraine, many thought the president didnt do enough. If those economic sanctions are working, thats a big plus for this president and obviously the issue with cuba is a big plus. He has a partner in pope francis. Ronald reagan was a close ally with margaret thatcher. You dont see obama having an International Ally<\/a> that hes been close to and now pope francis working with the president bodes well for him too. It will depend on what the economy is like in his last day in office is how historians will judge him. Lets go back to the russian point. You were pointing out the adventures in ukraine. Vladimir putin annexed crimea and said deal with it. Putin invaded ukraine and people were saying that putin equals strong and obama equals weak and now putin is bogged down in ukraine. His economy is totally tanking. Is this the notion that obama is wiping the floor with putin or is that a tad overblown . Well, maybe a tad overblown but its looking like this. One of the problems is we live in a fast media age and people want instant gratification and action. If it shows that he had a vigorous response to isolate putin, i dont know what businesses wanted to invest in russia right now. And then he went to china and had a successful trip and surprised everybody with that climate deal. This is a president leaning on the climate issue which may be one of the great ones of his time. Anyone that called him a lame duck president has to admit theyre wrong. Let me quote rush limbaugh. This is what he said. This is what he said after the cuban announcement. This is just a teaser. An appetizer for what is on tap the next two years. President has gone big on neutrality. This is just since the mid terms. What else might we see . A rejection of the Keystone Pipeline<\/a> if that ever comes to his desk, there will be a veto. He may become an environmental hero for doing it because its one of the big issues of our time. Youll see him trying to reach out in foreign awars travffairsg and cutting deals where he can. Hell sign things to a big National Monuments<\/a> in the west. Just last week he put bristol bay in alaska offlimits for development. Youll see his environmental record with climate and here at home being upgraded on his list of priorities. Douglas brinkley, always a pleasure. Thank you so much. Thank you. Speaking of cuba, rum, cigars anyone . Not so fast. Restrictions, yes, they are eased between the u. S. And cuba but what does this trade do between the two countries . Thats a tad trickier and maybe a thing or two to say about that hear from a recording artist and actress when she joins me next. Half past the power. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Lets talk about the trade embargo against cuba. Its cost the country dearly over the decades but now the relationship between the two countries is changing so what impact could that have on cuban economy . Alison kosik joins me with more. Lets get back on a two shot. Let me show you the cover of new york post. President obama smoking a cuban. Its about the cigars. First, if were talking about easing a restriction, what does that mean for both cuba and u. S. Economies . You make a good point. Potential is big not just for cuba but for the u. S. As well. Since this embargo has been in place with cuba, billions of dollars have been left on the table. Let me break that down for you. The u. S. Economy each year misses out on 1. 2 billion. Cuba says its economy misses out on 700 million every year. Heres the thing. The u. S. And cuba have had a trade relationship before. Before the embargo. Before the cuban revolution. Cuba got nearly 70 of its good from the u. S. And from u. S. Exports. It was the seventh biggest market. Rice and beans is a good example. The u. S. Wound up exporting before the embargo of course, right, beans, other commodities and they could import the rice. Thats potential thats there. 400,000 tons of rice. Thats just one example. So you have that example. Then you have the question that everybody is tweeting me about, which is not only when can i go to cuba but cigars and rum. So when will we see immediate impacts . Not sure. Here are the three top areas where you can see changes real fast. The first one is money flow into cuba. Right now americans often send their relatives in cuba to friends in cuba money. Before these restrictions were lifted, they could only send 500 every three months. Now thats been raised to 2,000 every three months. Thats good news for those living in cuba because guess where that money will go . The travel industry is huge because now categories under which you can travel, theyve sort of gained in numbers. Now you have a better chance of actually traveling to cuba even though you cant call up and book your next flight there. And if you can get there, and if you get your hands on an authentic cuban cigar as i have gotten from a friend who got these from portugal, now if you get these in cuba, same thing with liquor. You can get up to 100 worth of liquor and cuban cigars you dont have to stash them in suitcases anymore or smuggle them out. Let them know this is up to 100 worth. Not to sell of course but to enjoy. Im a cigar girl so thank you very much. Hope my mother is not watching. Thank you very much. Now this you know her and love her music. Christina milian. Its had a huge impact for christina milian. Her mom immigrated from cuba when she was 5 years of age. For christina, the president s announcement yesterday hits especially close to home. We checked out her instagram. This is what she wrote. Today is a day that im so grateful and proud to witness in my lifetime. Proud of our president barack obama and excited that i can finally experience the land of which my mom and dad and ancestors come from. Cuba is no longer an urban legend. Were finally going to visit cuba and so will our children. She joins me now live. Christina and her mom. Christina is starring in an upcoming show. Ladies, wonderful to see you. Thank you. Were excited. Im feeling this from you two. Across the country here. Christina, all your life you have heard these stories about cuba. What have you in all of these years, what have you imagined a trip to cuba would be like . Oh, man. First off, i hear about the people and how warm they are and how great the food is and how welcoming they are. Of course the sand, the beach, i mean to know that you come from an island thats so beautiful and that the people are just exactly what your family is like but to never be able to actually have the opportunity to actually just explore it and find out for yourself. That was always the thing, mom, when can we go . No, you cant do that. You were ittybitty. Do you remember any of that . No, not really. I do hear stories of people that do visit and its just a Beautiful Island<\/a> and its my motherland. Im excited. This is something great. A great opportunity to finally be able to bring my children and grandkids. My sisters and my dad, everybody was really excited yesterday. The first phone call i got in the morning when i woke up. I barely got my eyes open. Wait, what . It was great news. My dad was crying. My sisters. Just to know this channels to different generations and especially my grandmother who is still alive, there are people in our family that they feel so blessed to witness this in our time. So i feel blessed to show this to my own daughter. This will be amazing. You mentioned word generation. Thats my next question. We talked to a reporter in south florida, its a difference like this generational shift in how people here in the states perhaps feel about cuba. Do you think that its reflective of this newer generation and perhaps more of an acceptance . Yes, i believe so. We need a change. The thing is that it hasnt happened in 50 years. The older people are, like, it has to be set a certain way. Young generation are optimistic. A dream come true while were alive at least from my generation that came from cuba. You still have cousins back home, right . I do. What is life like for them . Has it improved in recent years . What are they telling you . No, it hasnt. My relatives whenever they can send money and whoever has an opportunity to visit because of the relatives that are there, they go and they are improve ris improverished so it would be helpful for everyone over there. A step forward. You mentioned your daughter. Im curious, as a mother, how do you plan to explain and help impart your human heritage to violet . Well, violet is very, very much shes a cubanita. We are very, very rooted in our background. Everything from the foods to she speaks spanish, we speak spanish at home. She understands that shes a young latina and as she grows up, we speak the spanish. We speak the language. I now feel a step closer and i can bring her to the country. Now shell really know where she comes from. It was always a big question for me. I would have to read books or ask questions and hear Great Stories<\/a> from my grandparents and mom so to explore it myself will be incredible and for violet. Thats even better. Thank you both for joining me. I appreciate it. Thank you. Just ahead, the tragedy inside of a school where taliban militants killed dozens and dozens of innocent children. Cnn has now gone inside of this school to see the horrifying scene, empty hallways, bullets. Well take you there. Before we show you the next story, i want to let you know that out of the gate this is not appropriate for children. This is very, very graphic. Were talking about the loss of way too many young, innocent lives. Pakistan is in mourning and now were getting a heartbreaking look inside the school where the Pakistani Taliban<\/a> slaughtered more than 130 kids. The blood stained floor in the computer lab where sons and daughters of pakistans military were sprayed with bullets. Shoes abandoned in the schools auditorium. Students and teachers ran in horror from rounds and rounds of gunfire. A pair of bloody glasses found behind. Our Senior International<\/a> correspondent Nic Robertson<\/a> took that chilling tour and shows us how gunman breached the schools wall. Reporter this is where the taliban got into the school. They cut the barbed wire and another team got in just down here and then they took off toward the main buildings. They burst into here, the main auditorium and split into two teams. There was 400 children here taking classes. They shot me as soon as they came in. I was shot in my shoulder. People who came had no sense of humanity in them. So many of the children afraid and trying to hide underneath these benches. The class was going on. A brigadier was giving lesson in first aid. The dummy, operators, left where he fell. And this is when things get really bad. The army says the children fled for the door over here and here. A hundred of them were gunned down as they were trying to escape. Cold blooded murder. Everywhere you walk here blood splatters all over the ground. The taliban not satisfied with killing downstairs and they come up here to the computer lab and one look inside this room and you can see immediately whats happened. Children gunned down whether they were just typing at their computers. Classroom after classroom a pair of glasses sitting here. Childs pencils and pens laying on the floor. Torn pieces of school work. This child was writing in his lessons and here on the board where the teacher would have been standing, bullet holes and the place where the teacher fell and this is where the final showdown took place here. One of the attackers blowing up his suicide vest here. Shrapnel marks the wall. Marks from all of the ball bearing inside the suicide vest and over here, rubble on the floor and another suicide bomber has blown himself up. Chaos, devastation, the Principals Office<\/a> down here. Shes killed. And right at the end of the corridor, the last suicide bomber blows himself up. The Deputy Principal<\/a> hides in there. She survives. And this here is whats left of the last attacker. Nic robertson is live now in islamabad. Nic, my stomach is churning over the pictures we just saw and you saw it with your own very eyes. I dont even know what to ask you. Your impressions and what people have said to you . Reporter there is a huge sense of anger and frustration. We saw that outside the school. There were families there who live in the neighborhood. They were protesting against the government. They said they were shouting, we want more protection from the taliban. Theyre afraid. Theyre concerned. Weve been inside and seen whats left. The aftermath there. Its harrowing. You cant walk through there without thinking about all of those parents, all of those Army Officers<\/a> whose children went to the school and now are without their children, they are grieving. This is their job to protect the country but they couldnt even save their own children a few miles from where they live for most of them. So when you walk through there, those are the impressions that you have. You are seeing where all of this carnage happened and you realize its a big scale and you realize this is horrible but you have in your mind these poor families who are out there suffering and of course the general population who wants the government to do something about this. This school could be any school. It could be any School Across<\/a> this country. Thats what has people here worried, brooke. I hate showing the pictures. We have to show the pictures to show the true realty and horror there in pakistan. Nic robertson, thank you. Well be right back. In this accident. Because there was no accident. Volvos most advanced accident avoidance systems ever. The future of safety, from the company that has always brought you the future of safety. Give the gift of volvo this season and well give you your first months payment on us. The getaway vehicle for all the confidence you need. Td ameritrade. You got this. 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It will take a year for sony to go through and sort through all of the details that were stolen. In fact, the sweep was so enormous, people who havent worked for sony for years and years have been impacted here, including, according to my next guest, this gentleman, ireporter david worked for sony as a project supervisor. Hes in l. A. Thanks for coming on. A pleasure to be here. So i guess i should greet you by saying im sorry. How did you even learn how did you even learn that your information had been stolen . And its such a violent, intimate way. It is. I learned it through the news media, hearing about the initial hack and then on facebook i worked for sony from 1997 to about 2003 and she hooked me up into this Facebook Group<\/a> for exemployees that were impacted. I thought i would be in the clear because i had worked for them for so long ago but it turns out that my name was found within some of the documents. I dont want to say what i was what information they have out there. I want to be vague about that. Im lucky in a lot of ways compared to other employees, or especially current employees and recently exemployees because some of the people have had much more data stolen than mine. Ive read on this Facebook Group<\/a> that im a part of where other people who used to be employees are you know, have had their Social Security<\/a> numbers and addresses found on black market sites and their childrens information as well on black market sites. I find a little bit of irony and realizing its your electronic information out there that was hacked and then we all turn to the internet and to facebook to then try to get help, you know. Thats my aside. But here you have now this lawsuit. Im sure you heard about this. Two former sony employees, you know, filing suit against sony for not better protecting their data, their information. Are you in that camp . I mean, does your blame does the onus fall on sony . Thats a good question, you know, i think to who is to blame ultimately are the people who did the hacking. Theres no reason to attack a movie studio over a feature film. Its a bit of a parity, silliness, it shouldnt be that kind of thing. And if for some reason they are doing it for different reasons, they are the ones ultimately responsible. As far as the lawsuits, i havent made up my mind which way i am going on all of that. Im waiting to see how the next few weeks pan out and i dont really have much of an opinion outside of some people are feeling like they need to have help for years to come im going to have to deal with this and other people are going to have to deal with it more so for the next several years. Were not talking about the information that apparently is out there now but when you say years, what do you mean . Well, when you put something out on the internet, its out there forever, theoretically. And the thing that i think is most disturbing about the hack is not just the hackers that have done this and they have been malicious, they have left the information out there for other hackers to pick up. When it comes to Identity Theft<\/a> and peoples identities being stolen and used, either maliciously or just to hurt their financial records, people getting fake credit cards and things like that, thats going to go on for years. Theres thousands of employees that were impacted by this. Not to mention, you know, theoretically well find out once the federal investigators start delving into the information of what was actually taken, how it impacts other industries and other companies that worked with sony. So it may even be bigger than just the former and current employees. Its frightening. Its tough to wrap your head around it. David, thank you for sharing your own personal story and good luck. Thank you. Uhhuh. Defiant, at times angry, petulant president Vladimir Putin<\/a> says the rest of the country is the blame for his countrys problems. Erin burnett joins me live, next. Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> held his annual News Conference<\/a> today. His country is in crisis mode. The price of oil, which it relies on a lot, is failing and while he was speaking for three hours, leaders of the eu banned investment in crimea. To my right is erin burnett. So good to see you. Good to see you. Listen, you have traveled the world. You were in russia when it tanked during the last crisis. People were rushing out and buying things with cash. Putin says the economy is going to get better. Its out of his control. Ultimately, thats the reality. He as a dictator and strong man is unable to admit but its out of his control. You have Oil Prices Dropping<\/a> and the ruble which is affecting regular people. We saw this when i was there. At the time, people were running into Car Dealerships<\/a> and get all of their money in cash. This plunge in the currency is a story theyve seen before. When something happens and all of a sudden they want to spend it. They were buying hummers for cash, at the dealerships we were at. I called gm today and they have increased prices 10 to 20 on cars in the past couple of weeks. So if you were going to buy a 20,000 car, a week later, its 24,000 cars. You can see why youd attack all of your savings and buy whatever asset you could, even though cars depreciate in value, thats why they want that asset. Youre seeing that happen with iphones, with cars, with everything. Its incredible. How much have these sanctions worked . So they have worked. Putin hasnt decided on whether hes going to run for reelection, which is really incredible. A lot of people said it was impossible for him to be able to do that and its also impossible for people with absolute power to give it up. Hes been in power since the spring of 2000. I heard a man say to me, he definitely wont be reelected, was his point of view, and maybe hell even be gone before that, implying some kind of a coup. Obviously people dont think that. There is question about his stability, whether he can keep people satisfied. When you have prices rising so quickly, peoples quality of life and confidence in their leadership, thats the biggest risk hes got. You mentioned oil. Uhhuh. On top of everything else, the plunge in oil prices, how much is that really hurting them . You would think it would be killing them because thats the biggest asset that russia has. And it is hurting them. No question about it. As the currency has dropped more, its helped this problem a little bit. Why . Oil, no matter where you buy, is priced in dollars. Its a big benefit that this country has. Youre russia, selling your oil to the rest of the world in dollars. In dollars. So youre getting in dollars. Not rubles. Those dollars now, as the rubles are plunging, are getting you more and more rubles. Now its getting you more rubles. You have a little bit more money. A plunge in the ruble has cushioned the countries a little bit but i want to emphasize the broader issue that they are facing with inflation is much more significant. Interesting conversation on your show tonight at 7 00, erin burnett outfront. Im brooke baldwin. Lets go to jake tapper here in new york. The lead starts right now. This is much more about two actors and a stoner flick. This could be the future of warfare. Im jake tapper. This is the lead. The world lead. Some are saying it was a cowardly act to yank the movie from theaters. Some are saying the u. S. Just lost the first cyber war. Now that the feds appear to be pointing the finger at hackers tied to north korea, how will the white house respond . They arent just a few guys in basements who likely broke into sony. 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