Emails discussing some of hollywoods biggest stars and even president obama. William la jeunesse from hollywood. Reporter sony pulled a film after no theater would run it this is about all Movies Running on christmas. Other studios were worried about their bottom lines and pressured theaters to drop the interview. Why this is cyberattack is up precedented bringing an industry to its knees. A country, dismissed and they thought they could make a comedy with no comebacks they were wrong. North korea directed the hacking according to the fbi, similar to one in 2013 against south korean banks. The hackers used same networks, malware around master computer in bolivia to route the sony attack. At first experts didnt believe north korea had the capability to protect a network like sony, which protects inlent wall property like any 70 million multinational. They too were wrong. Cyberattack is very serious. Were investigating it. Were taking it seriously. Well be vigilant f we think something is serious and credible well alert the public. But for now my recommendation would be that people go to the movies. Reporter the president said that just before sony pulled the movie which is dead. No release is planned in theaters, the internet or videoondemand. Experts are not sure in north korea had inside help from a sony employee with the hack of the question now, does the u. S. Government publicly condemn the attack and respond without damaging japans improving relations with pongyang. At this point north korea won round one. Maybe the best argue, best revenge some argue, eric is dropping dvds of the movie by balloon over north korea since sources say at wall street journal americas largest digital provider has no interest in putting this movie online. Many are afraid. Many say the u. S. Government must respond but how . Back to you. Eric if you did that north korea may call it an act of war. William la jeunesse. Thank you so much. Heather new fallout from a stunning shift in American Foreign policy one day after president obama announced that the United States will restore full diplomatic relations to cuba after more than 50 years of who is still relations from the communist nation just 90 miles away from south florida. The president is vowing to work with congress to lift an economic embargo been in place for a long time. It is sparking a lot of outrage from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, many of them cubanamericans as reaction pours in from around the world. Doug hackle way live for us at the white house. Hi, there, doug. What does a Republicanled Congress next year planning to do about this . Reporter that is the big question, how will they handle this . Were hearing perhaps from the plans most vocal critic, must be pub marco rubio he plans to block funding for the embassy in havana. Listen up. I intend to use every tool at our disposal in the majority to unravel as many of these changes as possible. And i so not out of any animosity toward the at administration but animosity toward the cuban regime repression of the cuban people. Reporter early indications from the Republican Leadership in both houses there is very little interest in undoing and repealing the embargo which presently exists on cuba. In response to what rubio just had to say and his disparaging remarks, soon to be Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, said, sounds like the correct response to me. House Speaker John Boehner was also incredibly unequivocal in his remarks about this he said quoting in a statement yesterday, relations with the castro regime should not be revisited let alone normalized until the cuban people enjoy freedom and not one second sooner. But this sentiment by no means unanimous. There are a lot of republicans who see money, who see opportunity in this deal. In fact the u. S. Chamber of commerce which spent a lot of money electing republicans in the midterm elections issued a statement telling the Associated Press through its president tom donahue, quote, this will go a long way allowing opportunities for Free Enterprise to flourish. A lot may depend on what raul castro or whoever succeeds him decides to do in giving more freedoms to the cuban people if at all. Right now there is absolutely nothing in this deal which requires him to relinquish his dictatorial control over the cuban people. Heather, back to you. Yes. There are certainly no assurances that Companies Operating down there will be able to appropriately share the profit with their workers because the government may confiscate a whole lot of that. Reporter thats right. Heather Doug Mckelway at the white house. More on this throughout the morning. Eric for a look at political impact restoring ties to cuba, joe trippi, former Howard Dean Campaign manager, ed rollins, former Campaign Manager for reagan bush 1984, former Campaign Chairman for Mike Huckabee for president. Both are fox news contributors. Welcome. Start with you, ed. The Washington Post calls this the Obama Administration bailout of the cast stress. Does this move create free elections in cuba . Is it similar to the fall of berlin wall . Are people free of yoke of castros . Are the secret police no longer jailing and beating protesters . What can the president boast of as single change. Not a single thing. My sense, cubans led by the castros have not had to give up a single thing. They have repressed their people for 60 years. They drove catholic and protestants priests and ministers out of the country in the gypping. They suppressed religious freedoms. People are willing to swim 90 miles, getting boats to get across to escape that country. They did not make one single concession. In fact the chamber of commerce, what have you, want to put more hotels and Beachfront Properties and sell more cigars in america is absurd. What does this stand for . This is a great sign of weakness. President obama began toys her traveling the world apologizing for past Foreign Policy this is one more example of that. Is absolutely wrong and shows great weakness. Eric joe, does this betray american ideals or help us . Doesnt betray americaneyed whys. Ideals. Look at places like vietnam where we lost 50,000 american lives and a lot more recently than 55 years, in the 1960s and 70s, we normalized relations there. We have trade agreements and our embassies are open. This is just a first step. The embassy isnt open yet. Obviously no big steps can happen lifting the trade, lifting the economic sanctions embargo. That has to have the approval of congress. The president cant do that on his own but he can start opening up diplomatic relations in a different way and start to change policy, and he ran in 2008 in florida saying that is exactly what he would do if he was elected president. He won, according exit polls, even in 2012, 49 of the cuban vote to 47, that voted republican. That is usually been a community that votes overwhelmingly republican. So there is a split even in the cuban community, cube man American Community in on this. Eric nix on opened up china. But, ed, he had bonefides being rabid anticommunist over those year. Why wait until few weeks after election where his party got totally repudiated. He lost more house members than any modern president this two terms. Totally repudiated. Governor, at every level. Joe has to admit. Run a few weeks before christmas come out come out without any National Debate and no discussion come out with this . Congress will deal with this severely. I promise you this will be a big debate issue in the next election in florida and elsewhere. And i think to a certain extent if you want to do Something Like this you better go to the American Public explain why you take the biggest critical country on in our own hemisphere who trashed america and american policy for off years and say well give you big favors . Sooner or later because it is absolute bankrupt company, country, they will come to us for supplements and rest of the us dogooders like this president wants to do. Eric talk about this president. The won you worked for, Ronald Reagan called for restoration of democracy, release of political prisoners. Our james rosen is reporting that roberta jacobsen, assistant secretary of state, a long time u. S. Secretary of state and diplomat will lead a delegation to havana next month this is what she wrote in 1986 at Fletcher School of tufts university. Liberation theology differs from traditional catholicism not in desire to improve earthly life rather willingness to overthrow regimes blocking social change. This aspects of liberation theology makes it compatible with revolution. She concludes saying United States often found itself unprepared to integrate this factor into the foreign calculus. Ed, when miss jacobson is talking about liberation theology and in latin america and represents us in ha van that that what does all this mean . It means america looks weak one more time to the world allies. What does it mean talking about sanctions on iran and they know sooner or later well rollover and play dead . What does it mean putting sanctions on russians that bring them to their niece and basically they know we will roll over and play dead without nothing in return . Something giving back to the cuban people, this is absurd process. Eric joe, on the other hand do we want someone who understands expert on liberation theology to represent us . Maybe she could understand them better. Taking something someone wrote 30 years ago in college as part of, i just dont, you know, we dont know if she has changed her views on that or even, i havent read the paper. So im not going to comment on that but look, i think that were better off with our culture exchanging with theirs. That has worked a lot better than isolating a country like cuba and isolating them has not worked at all. Eric all right. That is the debate. That is what we face. Ed and joe, thank you so much. Thank you. Eric of course we want to hear from you. How do you feel about the United States normalizing relations with cuba . We have a live chat that is up and running. Go to foxnews. Com happeningnow. Click on on americas asking, man, oh, man, are they lighting this board up on that issue. Heather certainly on both sides. Pakistani students rallying for support of victims and families after the horrific Taliban Attack that killed 148 people at a school earlier this week. Students who survived that massacre returned to the site today. Some kids carried signs in a rally outside of that school. Imagine what it was like for them to return to that site there . Others came to lay flowers for the victims, most of whom were children. The attack on tuesday was the deadliest slaughter of innocents in pakistans history. Services are being held today across the country. Family and friends of the woman who was killed in that horrible siege in the australian cafe, theyre visiting a makeshift memorial there. Flowers now fill the nearby plaza honoring those victims. The family of katrina dawson, she was a lawyer, a mother of three, they left their own flowers and one heartbreaking note from her daughter read, quote, i love you mom. The cafe manager, tory johnson was also killed after he rushed that gunman. Prime minister tony abbott calls this attack, a horrific wakeup could have been prevented. Authorities are looking into why the gunman was out on bail after a string of other Violent Crimes . Heather the First Court Appearance by the accused Boston Marathon bomber in a very long time. Well tell you about the drama in federal court when the lone surviving suspect went before a judge and what this means for the families of the bombing victims. Plus a tv weatherman becomes a victim of a violent crime. What happened and the latest on the suspect. Then massive blimps could be launched high in the air above the United States. Why it is now the subject of some very serious debate. All of that is coming up. Two weeks later. Look, credit karma are you talking to websites again . This website says free credit scores. Oh, credit karma yeah its actually free. Look, you dont have to put in your credit card information. Whew credit karma. Really. Free. Heather some crime stories were following at this hour. A former justice of the peace accused of killing a district attorneys wife and two others in a revenge plot is sentenced to death in texas. The Eric Williams was convicted of the 2013 murder of cynthia mcclellan. He has also been charged but not yet tried for the murders of d. A. Mike mcclellan and prosecutor mark haff. They are looking for a gunman that shot a meet roll bit of multiple times in the tv station parking lot. Patrick crawford exchanged words with the suspect before that man pulled out a handgun and started shooting. Crawford is recovering from surgery. Oregon authorities looking for suspect they are calling armed and dangerous. Look at this man. Neil panchow allegedly tossed four pipe bombs in a chase outside of portland. He took off in a silver honda civic. None of the bombs detonated. Eric the alleged Boston Marathon bomber is in court for the First Time Since he was charged with carrying out those two deadly bombings we remember at the finish line last year. 20yearold, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is appearing before a federal judge for the very last time before his trial begins next month. It was been a yearandahalf since his last court appearance. It left three people dead and injured more than off other,. Molly line with the very latest on this mornings hearing. Hi, molly. Reporter hi, eric. Dzhokhar tsarnaev returned to court for First Time Since his initial appearance in july of 2013. Accused Boston Marathon bomber was in handcuffs with a black sweater and white shirt. He has a scraggly beard around the hair is longer than it was in earlier photos. Uncuffed and seated next to his legal team and appearing thinner and pailer than he has been 11 months ago when we saw him. He fidgeted throughout the brief final hearing and said yes, sir, when asked by the judge whether he was kept uptodate. They will argue about whether they hear about tsarnaevs upbringing and history. A woman stood up and yelled in russian shorting her support for tsarnaev. Later outside of court she is the mower in law of Ibragim Todashev a friend of tsarnaev. He was killed in florida allegedly by fbi agent after egg trying to attack that agent. That has little bearing on this trial. The target for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is beginning january 5th. That is when jury selection is slated to get underway. Eric. Eric thank you, molly. Coming up in the next hour of happening now, our second one, well have a legal panel breaks down the court hear egg and what we can expect at the tsarnaevs trial. Heather a car barrels through a red light, hitting a group of churchgoers, leaving a Christmas Pageant. Plus, whether or not you agree with us, its a new day coming for relations between the United States and communist china. Why a lot of other nations including venezuela are keeping a close eye on how this all goes down. When you run a business, you cant settle for slow. Thats why i always choose the fastest intern. The fastest printer. The fastest lunch. Turkey club. The fastest pencil sharpener. The fastest elevator. The fastest speed dial. The Fastest Office plant. So why wouldnt i choose the fastest wifi . I would. Switch to comcast business and get the fastest wifi with the most coverage. Comcast business. Built for business. Eric well the joy of a Christmas Pageant turns to horror. Three people were killed and several critically injured after a car plowed through a group of people outside of a church in southern california. They just left a christmas performance in redondo beach. The group was crossing the street when police say a woman ran a red lie, barreled right into the crosswalk and hit that crowd. They say the driver just kept on going and eventually stopped by hiking another car. She was arrested on suspicion of dui. Ive instructed secretary kerry to begin discussions with cuba to reestablish diplomatic relations that have been severed since january of knitter 61. Going forward the United States will reestablish an embassy in havana and highranking officials will visit cuba. Where we can advance shared interests we will. Well that was president obama looking forward to a renewed relationship with cuba after more than 50 years. What will this mean for the United States and the cuban people . Lets talk to someone who knows this region very well, the former ambassador to venezuela, otto riesch. He served assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere and president george w. Bushs special envoy for initiatives in the western hemisphere. Good morning to you, sir. Other than winning the freedom of alan grows, what did the United States get out of this . Practically nothing. I think this is one of the worst negotiated agreements that this country has ever undertaken. We got nothing. You also say we are abandoning u. S. Principles. Explain. Well the United States always supported democracy and democratic dissidents around the world. What president obama has done embrace addict tate to