The way in should be that much more awkward, first state of the union in a republican led congress. He has been touring the country previewing this speech which should ship on Global Security and cuba relations and the big one, the economy. I think what the president is saying the middle class economics we pursued since 2009 have gotten us to where we are. Theres still yet work to be done and hell talk about it tonight. Dennis mcdonough confident the newly popularity has everything to do with economics and not plummeting gas prices. Kristen, whats at stake with this particular state of the union this year . Reporter well a lot is at stake. White house officials hope this will help frame the debate with the republicanled congress. As you pointed out, president obama has been criss crossing the country and unveiling policies hes going to talk about tonight ahead of time the strategy not only to frame the debate with congress but also allow the speech to be more about the story telling as
Democracy movement. And later, the incredible story of a hawaiian fisherman rescued after 12 days at sea in a sailboat. I was out of water and i hydrated on fish. It wasnt a sushi bar, but thats how i hydrated. Hear how the coast guard finally tracked him down. Well have those stories in a moment. But governments across the globe are condemning the u. S. After the release of a Senate Report on cia interrogation tactics. The report detailed brutal acts of torture. It now government and the cia on the defensive. Reporter today, key allies are speaking out. Torture is wrong. Torture is always wrong. Afghanistans new president , furious at the cia report, calling it shocking. Translator this is really painful. The report indicates that some of our countrymen who were tortured have been totally innocent. Reporter condemnation from around the globe, even as the white house insists making the secret activities public was the right thing to do. The president did decide that the benefit of rele
The fbi says they still do not know who did it, but the sony studios hacking has produced more drama than their film. So what alist actress was written off in an internal email as a minimally talented spoiled brat . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Fallout from the torture report and first well go to the money lead and the markets which have just closed, free falling. The dow down more than 250 points today. Lets go to allisison kosik. Shes live at the stock exchange. Allison, this is three days in a row that stocks have slipped. Whats going on . Guess who you can blame . You can blame oil prices. In fact, oil getting crushed, closing below 61 is a barrel and closing down Energy Stocks and taking the rest of the market with it. A couple of reports that came out sparked the selloff and not only with oil, and the latest Weekly Oil Report showing us a surprise jump in u. S. Crude supplies and opecs monthly report came out tod
At the Tactics Police use against minorities as one lawmaker visits the site of eric garners death and meets his mother. He joins us live this hour and well talk about their emotional exchange. Hollywood cyber attack. We have new details of the unprecedented breakin that revealed personal and embarrassing information about some of hollywoods biggest stars. Sources tell cnn there is a new clue pointing directly to north korea and the kim jongun regime. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news this hour and sources telling cnn a notorious terrorist bombmaker initially thought to have been killed in a u. S. Airstrike is, in fact, alive. That news comes hours after the release of a new isis video containing new horrors and brutality and as militant websites are now calling for retaliation in the wake of the Senate Report detailing cia interrogation of terror suspects. Were covering all of this and a lot more this hour with our
Im no one special. She certainly is. A humble reaction from the youngest ever noble laureate. She speaks to cnn. First worldwide reaction is pouring in after the u. S. Senate release of the cia interrogation tactics. Many nations condemning the u. S. For the cias use of torture. Whats interesting is some western allies are toning down their criticism slightly. On a trip to turkey can, britains Prime Minister spelled out what the cia for years ignored. Torture is always wrong. Those of us who want to see a safer, more secure world, who want to see this extremism defeated, we wont succeed if we lose our moral authority. Reporter what cameron did not spell out that britain itself may have been come police it is in the cia torture program. A previous government led by tony blair say kuzed of helping to send terror suspects to libya in 2004 knowing they would be tortured. He is accuse of helping his allies run a island. The court of human rights said that poland allowed them to torture susp