nonlife threatening. and the inauguration is not just for grown-ups, because was the kids included performances by katy perry and usher and the cast of glee. first daughters malia and sasha were also there. secretary of state hillary clinton will testify before congress this week on the september 11th benghazi attack, and the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans were killed in the attack. an independent review found state department procedures at the time were flawed. the hearings are coming in the first week of president obama s second term. the benghazi cop trntroversy is the only issue to dog the president s second term. we will talk to richard goodstein and roger tram is here, and the former communications drirector for rik santorum. let s start with the benghazi investigation here as we talked
looking for frank lautenberg s blessing for the senate run but after the recent twitter showdown he probably won t get that tweeting that the nra s response was out of touch and booker agreed for the background checks to the mentally u.n. fit to which lautenberg responded. let me be clear, nra leadership is out of line and out of touch. nothing they spew should be validated. ouch. and if you ll never guess you ll never guess what president obama recently admitted not only does our fearless leader like the song gang nam-style, he likes to do the word. the president admits he does the dance to get under the skin of both of his daughters malia and sasha. apparently very successful at that and the gangnam style song has hit a major milestone as well. hit more than a billion with a b, a billion hits on youtube. wow.
not just parallel with other people, they are fresh. they are hopeful right now to get a lot of what our families got generations ago. it s a very alive statement about the american dream. it has nothing to do with wanting to have dependency on government, welfare as a long term proposition. i think it really challenged the middle. i think it was hopeful towards the middle. i think the vow was aiming at the base. he was aiming at the other third of the latinos holding out for the republican side. i want to point out that the white house sent out a photo of president obama watching the first lady s speech in the white house. i guess they are in the white house treaty room, apparently. i wouldn t recognize the couch. i don t know. obviously the president there watching the first lady s speech along with their daughters malia and sasha. in terms of the julian castro speech, it would be wrong to not note the parallel in structure describing the immigrant
me, a wii video game for his daughters malia and sasha. i hope they re not watching. in case you re wondering, just dance for the wii. the girls beat me every time on these various dance games. all right. so the president didn t answer a question about whether he would be personally delivering those gifts to hawaii or not. so the number of people filing for unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in more than three years. the number of new applications for benefits was down 4,000 last week to 364,000. this was a decrease the lowest numbers since april 08. a sign that hiring is getting stronger these numbers were a christmas gift because on wall street, stocks went up right after the opening bell. and here s a look at some other stories topping the news now. walmart pulled a batch of baby powder formula from over 3,000 of the stores nationwide after
immigration. we ll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let s go straight to cnn s senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we re hearing it s already happened. why? what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for today to get released. they have been released and they are on their way to the airport. they were attending the american university in cairo and according to the egyptian police, they were involved in attacks on security forces during the demonstrations. of course, their lawyers and their parents deny that they could have done that sort of thing and clearly the fact that the egyptians who shadly s