and, meanwhile, while all of that has been happening, all of that secrecy and drama and stuff you wouldn t believe if it was in a book, meanwhile, at the same time, we are told now that president obama s participating in daily meetings with intelligence, diplomatic, law enforcement and military officials on another super-secret issue of national security intrigue. this one concerns north korea. the government had concluded that north korea was behind the attacks on sony pictures recently. and the attacks, the hacking attacks, have basically been a cross between a celebrity gossip story and a particularly dramatic business story. sony had their computer networks hacked. they had all of their proprietary information posted on line, including really lurid,
reporter, they can turn off the lights at the new york times headquarters. this could escalate. sony is just the first, unless the obama administration imposes costs on north korea and china as well. these hackers were probably in the city in china, and clearly this is implication of beijing in north korea s hacking attacks. maybe you could have hackers that don t like a certain kind of movie or actor or actress, say we don t want that actor working, who knows what can happen. it is such a weird thing that we are entering the slippery slope is getting more and more slippery. more and more difficult to determine what we re going to do. i just lost my english, guys. i went into spanish thought. gordon, joe, thank you very much for being with me. thank you. look at the big board at the stock exchange. the dow is sorg, up almost 250 points. the s&p 500, nasdaq in crazy
taking steps to normalize relations. they plan to open embassies in one another s capitals. barack obama says he ll leez long-standing trade restricts and both exchanging prisoners. 90 minutes from now vladimir putin will hold his annual news conference. we ll cover it live on cnn international. he s expected to face questions on their struggling economy. the ruble has been in free fall but stabilized wednesday after moscow unveiled a package to help banks. the u.s. is pointing the finger at north korea for hacking attacks at sony pictures. a group called guardians of peace is accused of leaking personal information. more recently they threatened anyone who goes to see the interview that prompted sony to cancel the film s christmas day release. back now to our stop story. it took everyone by surprise but
united states and all around the world. oous aide worker alan gross is back in the u.s. after spending the past five years in a cuban prison. he was jailed for allegedly trying to bring the internet to cuban dissidents. his release is part of a plan by the u.s. and cuba to slowly begin to normalize relations after 50 years of cold war tensions. the u.s. released three cubans, part of a group originally known as the cuban five. they were arrested in miami in 1998. convicted in 2001 for spying for cuba, an unnamed u.s. intelligence agent was also freed by havana. and the u.s. is now pointing the finger at north korea for hacking attacks on sony pick kmurps pictures. a group called guardians of peace is accused of leaking e-mails. most recently, the lacquers threatened anyone who goes to see sony s new movie the interview and that prompted sony to cancel the film s christmas day release.
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