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Morning. happy hanukkah and mercury christmas. final state of the union with candy crowley, we will miss her here, starts right now. lame duck? go tell that to president obama who s sounding and acting like a man on a mission. today, our exclusive with the president of the united states on cuba, race, guantanamo bay prison, and north korea s hack attack on sony pictures. you know, i don t think it was an act of war, i think it was an act of cyber vandalism. then a response from the incoming chairman of the senate armed services committee, senator john mccain. it s more than vandalism, it s a new form of warfare. plus brazil, geng rich, the company i like to keep on jeb bush s debut week on the president for campaign trail. this is a special edition of state of the union. ....
numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. that s a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below that in order to associate that with actual job creation. today s report is good news. we need to see it continue in the long term. all right. felecia, thanks so much. let s get to politics now. we begin in iowa. yes, iowa. just when you thought it was a done deal. well, the des moines register is reporting the iowa caucuses were a virtual tie, that rick santorum actually ended up with a 34 vote advantage and that romney did not win. so now we re being told that in about 15 minutes we r ....
Administration will pursue new sanctions against iran. but the republican senator from illinois introduced a bill to sanction the iranian central bank. thank you. and republican senator newt gingrich taking a head on approach to the conroversey from his past. he came under criticism from extra marital affairs to money he earned from insurance giant fannie mae. geng rich told reporters he is ready for the close scutiny. you have been in the public eye so long. who knows. i would never found that interesting. and in an unusual move. gingrich launching a page on his website that tackles and addresses those allegations . it reads . see the attack that is not answered let us know here. and moving along to ....
Get people to go along. but the first thing is to make sure there is a coalition with us and then you figure out what the mission is. that made it a difficult sell. what if one of the coalition partners falters. do we step back. they are not sure about the conviction. talking about the republican s building opposition . we have a tape from newt gingrich talking to greta. exercise a no fly zone this evening and communicate to the libyan military that qaddafi was gone and sooner they switched sides more likely they were to survive. this is the moment to get rid of him and do it and get over it. and this is what former speaker geng rich said on the today show. i would not to intervened and there is a lot of other ways to qaddafi and allice and i would not have use american ....
Though the government is assuring that the evacuations are voluntarily in the expanded area of fukushima. back to you uuma. thank you so much and back in this country. breaking news in the 2012 presidential election from newt gingrich. he is in iowa and that s where we find chave correspondant karl came ron. what is the breaking news? hi, uma, former house speaker geng rich was a speaker in the speaker conference for white house hopefuls . mr. geng rich who plannned to announce a exploratory committee and said he was exploring an exploratory committee has now begun to consider the possibility of essentially foregoing that phase of the campaign, and full-blownn announcing his ....