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Desirable consequences for low prices of oil . Good morning, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. On capitol hill the senate will convene a rare saturday session, on the ajen done 40 votes on nominations and an early potential sunday vote to move forward on the funding bill. It all started late last night when conservative republicans led by senator ted cruz wanted to use to stall the bill. Cruz criticized Republican Leadership. When you say as a commitment we will fight and we will sto...

Lot of folks who work very hard after 9 11 to keep us safe during a very hazardous situation, a time when people were unsure what was taking place, but what was also strue that we took some steps that are contrary to who we are, contrary to our values. As i said before, constitute torture, in my mind, and thats not who we are. Good morning, it is wednesday, december 10th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have Mike Barnacle, White House Correspondent for the white house carole lee, nbc n...

Lets begin this hour in washington with our chief washington correspondent, host of the lead jake tapper. I dont know where to begin. If you want to begin with the wallings, near drownings, the techniques, or do we begin with the fact that the cia according to this report totally misled congress and the president of the United States . You choose. Well, theres a lot to chew on this report. Basically, there are 20 conclusions from senator feinstein, the democrats on the intelligence committee, an...

The reports claims the cia repeatedly under reported the number of people it detained and subjected to those techniques. And that the agency misled congress and the white house about the effectiveness and extent of the program. Meantime, two leading senators from both sides of the aisle speaking out in support of the report and denouncing the cias techniques. History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. I...

Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The Senate Intelligence committee laid it all out for the world to see an accounting of the c. I. A. s extreme interrogation of terror suspects after 9 11. Today, the panel, controlled by democrats, released the results of a sixyear investigation that found the agency misled the president and congress. The report concluded that better intelligence could have been obtained...

Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news. An unusual joint warning by the fbi and the department of Homeland Security. Theyre telling Law Enforcement agencies nationwide to be on alert right now for a possible terrorist response to the Senate Report on cia interrogation. That report released today. The blistering document five years in the making details interrogation techniques adopted after the 9 11 terror attacks that are described as cruel, inhumane and ...

Urbeale. 9 00 local time. A little sophistication there. A couple points about it. One, theres a lot of talk about isis being on the defensive but in the last week three major offensive actions by them. One in the north. One in the anwar province. While its well defended by Kurdish Forces it shows the fighting can get very close to the u. S. Personnel. And i also want to ask you about the new evidence in the last month terror attacks in paris. Texts between Amedy Coulibaly and the kouachi brothe...

Soil. Were awaiting a conference with Police Commissioner bill bratton in. Three new yorkers accused of trying to join the vicious terror group, isis. According to the Court Documents released a short time ago, one of the suspects said the plan was to travel today, to hijack a plane and deliver it to isis. One suspect even offered to kill president obama if isis ordered him to do so. And yet another suspect was arrested just this morning at new yorks jfk airport trying to board a flight to turke...

Martin luther king jr. Moments ago Homeland Security jeh johnson laid a wreath at memorial in washington, d. C. The irony of today is that mrs. Kings dream of a National Holiday for her husband has become a reality. Dr. Kings dream of a world at peace with itself has not. In 2015 hatred violence and poverty still enhabit our nation and our planet. The good news is that there are many angels among us who also inhabit this planet and inspire us all to do better. Vice President Biden will deliver r...

Lucky. Powerful punch still left in this winter storm and where its headed next. Plus terror in tripoli. A deadly attack on a highend hotel. Now, new reports that isis is taking credit. Is the terror group taunting the nations trying to eradicate it . And chilling details emerge about what wept on behind the doors of the Treatment Center where joan rivers spent her final moments. Now the estate is filing suit. Its all happening now. And we begin this hour with the terrorists of isis driven out o...