Castros open alliance with the soviet union, through all the decades since, the United States and the regime in havana are now opening diplomatic relations. We will have a fullfledged u. S. Embassy and an ambassador in havana. For those americans able to visit cuba, they can bring home a good number of that countrys cigars, something whose prohibition has been a symbol of hostility. It all happened as part of an exchange of prisoners, especially the release of alan gross who handed here in washington earlier today. The declaration by president obama at noon that he acting within his authority is opening formal ties between the two countries is yet another step by this democratic president , following his executive order on immigration and his continuing push for a deal with iran to assert his philosophy before leaving office. It is hard to imagine a conservative republican doing anything of the kind. Heres president obama making history. Ive instructed secretary kerry to immediately be
Embassy and an ambassador in havana. For those americans able to visit cuba, they can bring home a good number of that countrys cigars, something whose prohibition has been a symbol of hostility. It all happened as part of an exchange of prisoners, especially the release of alan gross who handed here in washington earlier today. The declaration by president obama at noon that he acting within his authority is opening formal ties between the two countries is yet another step by this democratic president , following his executive order on immigration and his continuing push for a deal with iran to assert his philosophy before leaving office. It is hard to imagine a conservative republican doing anything of the kind. Heres president obama making history. Ive instructed secretary kerry to immediately begin discussions with cuba to reestablish diplomatic relations that have been severed since january of 1961. Going forward, the United States will reblesh an embassy in havana and high rankin
responsibility for the attacks calls itself the guardians of peace. they say it was retaliation over the release of sony s comedy, the interview. the group threatened a 9/11 style attack on movie theaters around the country, promming sony to actually pull the plug on the movie now. the film s release date won t happen december 25th. nbc s bob woodrum is our investigative reporter. these threats, is it the same group knicks believes that basically hacked and then issued this threat, don t go to the movies and watch this thing? it seems to be coming from the same source. the u.s. government has been using the most sense i have the means to determine who was behind this. and the u.s. government assessment that was made essentially from what i can understand today is that in the
but they believe the individuals behind writ acting on orders from the north kreenl. the group that has claimed responsibility for the attacks calls itself the guardians of peace. they say it was retaliation over the release of sony s comedy, the interview. the group threatened a 9/11 style attack on movie theaters around the country, promming sony to actually pull the plug on the movie now. the film s release date won t happen december 25th. nbc s bob woodrum is our investigative reporter. these threats, is it the same group knicks believes that basically hacked and then issued this threat, don t go to the movies and watch this thing? it seems to be coming from the same source. the u.s. government has been using the most sense i have the means to determine who was behind this. and the u.s. government assessment that was made essentially from what i can
condemnation, and then the north koreans follow through with an even more provocative event. and there was fear last weekend in the discussions i had with u.s. officials that that third stage after condemnation could be another nuclear test, north korea has not tested a nuclear weapon since 2009, so that would be a major issue for both the united states and a number of other countries including china, who was very upset with the north korea plans to launch this satellite. bob woodrum droining us, thank you, bob. richard engel is joining us by phone, are you with us? yes, i can here you. there is a great deal of confusion here. nothing like we expected. the north korean government brought in about 100 reporters. we were supposed to be here to