reminder that cnn at the 3:00 p.m. hour a conference between the mayor and the police commissioner. i appreciated having you around. stay tuned for my colleague wolf starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm wolf blitzer. in washington where we are watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. we've got some breaking news from wall street we're watching right now. plunging oil prices are triggering a selloff of the dow jones. there you see the dow jones down more than 300 points. right now alison kosik is joining us from new york. she's got the very latest. allyson, what is going on? why is the market in bad shape at least right now? >> reporter: part of the reason wolf has to do with oil prices. as we watch stocks fall we are watching oil prices in free fall as well. if you look at how oil has been

since july, oil prices have lost half their value since july falling from $100 to even below $50 a barrel today making up a little bit of ground still falling over 4% however. the way wall street sees it this is unsettling when one particular area of the economy is in free fall that leaves a lot of uncertainty. uncertainty about where the bottom is. there's really no sense of where and when oil prices will stop falling this much. now at the same time wall street is uncertain about it and it's unsettling for wall street. for us who use gas to drive in our cars and to use it for our home heating oil, we're really enjoying it. right now the average price for a gallon of regular is at $2.20. that's down from a high of $3.68 over the summer. if you look at gas stations across the country, wolf, almost 40% of the gas stations in the u.s. gas is below $2 a gallon. wolf. >> alison as you know goldman

sachs put out a warning saying professional investors may be unduly bullish. the market has been expecting for a correction because the market has been going up and up. is that what they're bracing for now, a correction? >> most think the market is overdue for a correction. there is some question whether oil prices would be the lynchpin. other things are happening globally that could be the catalyst for a correction. for one you're seeing a slowdown in china. you're seeing a slowdown in europe. that would affect the market more on a longer term basis than let's say oil prices. also greece is one of the wild cards as well. greece is expected to hold a national election at the end of january, and in this upcoming election the worry is that it could be won by a party that's looking to renegotiate the terms of its country's international bailout. that's a wild card in the mix as well wolf.

>> alison kosik, we'll stay in touch with you. the dow jones industrials down 312 points. we'll see what happens. let's move on. let's get the latest in the search for airasia flight 8501. the search has been suspended due to bad weather and darkness. dozens of divers were dropped in the water to look for the wreckage. so far murky conditions strong currents have hampered the efforts. there are reports of a possible break through. a captain told reuters he thinks they found the tail section. that's where the black boxes as they're called are located. that news has not yet been confirmed by cnn. the batteries and the flight data recorders have around 21 days left to power the pingpingers. relatives are being told they're being offered $24,000 as compensation from airasia. 37 bodies have been recovered. 13 of those have been identified. our anna corrinne has more on

the search for the wreckage and the victims of flight 8501. >> reporter: authorities wrapping up the search for airasia 8501 with crews scouring the java sea both in the air and by water. by the afternoon at least three bodies two male and one female pulled from the water and taken to land. severe weather breaking long enough for officials to deploy a total of 57 divers to investigate several large objects detected by sony imagery. the "u.s.s. fort worth" is also assisting using sonar equipment to scan the ocean floor. meanwhile, indonesian authorities extend the massive operation east beyond the so-called most probable area where crews have already retrieved dozens of bodies and located large pieces of debris believed to be from the aircraft. >> the position of where they find the debris is extremely important because of the fact that you can determine whether there was an in flight breakup or if there was a breakup -- the

extent of the breakup once it hit the water. >> reporter: now nine days since the airbus 320 went missing and so far no signals have been detected to help hone in on the critical black boxes. >> the voice recorder in the cockpit tells you what the people are saying. it also records sound. you might hear a bang for instance. you also have this data recorder that's telling you what thrust settings the engine was on. you can really recreate in a great level of detail what was happening with the plane and why it came down. >> reporter: also indonesian officials indicating that yards did not have a permit to fly the route clarifying that the airline was approved to fly the route four days a week which did not include sunday. >> that was cnn's anna corin reporting from the scene for us. let's continue the discussion with our panel of experts. joining us aviation analyst and pilot miles o'brien, peter gomes

and cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. peter, this report from reuters that the tail section, we have not confirmed this, the tail section may have been found, that would be very very significant. >> that would be. it would mean that the black boxes are not far away. it doesn't disturb me that they haven't heard the pingers yet. sometimes they break loose. sometimes they're buried under debris. if you're not directly over them sometimes you can't hear. if they found the tail section, then it is -- >> how close do you have to be to the black boxes and pingers in order to detect them? >> in open ocean on sandy bottom four or five miles. if it's buried for instance in twa we were right over it at 100 feet and we could not hear the pingers. >> what do you make tom, of this notion that the plane was not really authorized to fly on that day? >> i think the only way that's an issue in terms of the crash, wolf is if they weren't authorized because that was a day with crowded skies and they didn't want the extra aircraft in the air at that time and that

may have affected where they were allowed when they asked for permission to climb, that the traffic control said no you can't because other planes are up there. but other than that if it didn't interfere with the flight path or the crowded skies weren't the issue, it's an administrative determination whether they fine the airline, take other action or whether it affects the insurance liability which is another huge issue. >> i don't get it. a plane is not authorized to fly. a commercial -- this is not a piper. this is a major commercial plane that's not authorized to fly on that day but airasia lets it fly? >> this is an incredibly fast growing region for at region. this is trying to meet up with a lot of demand having a hard time filling cockpits. they're running fast and they're running hard trying to -- it's the biggest aviation sector in the world.

have the regulations, have their systems gotten to where they're like the u.s. or europe they're still working on it. >> does that make sense to you? they are a lot more lax? >> i think miles is onto it it shows that there may be the safety infrastructure the behind the cockpit may not being keeping up with the growth of the industry. the plane takes off on sunday i mean and it's not authorized somebody's got to realize that. it means somewhere the paperwork is not being done and nobody cares. >> "the wall street journal" has a report that icing may have played a role in bringing this plane down. you've looked into that? >> we've all been talking about that and it is certainly something that could have occurred. you did have five planes in the general area. we need to hear from those pilots what they were experiencing but it would not surprise us if icing or heavy hail storm came in and caused disruption to the flight but that's only the beginning of it. >> because, you know one thing

that worries me is that the cockpit voice -- whatever conversations were going on between the cockpit and ground control, it stopped like at 36 or 38,000 feet and there were no more conversation right? >> yeah. this is why i think we have to be careful when we talk about icing. what the early reports were and the indication that came out of the region there was that somehow icing caused the engines to flame out, that -- and this is possible if you don't turn on what's called continuous ignition which a pilot would do in that scenario. let's assume that didn't happen or it failed that aircraft is completely viable. >> he can glide for 100 miles, point towards land and communicate with the ground. what peter was talking when hail involved something that covered up a crucial instrumentation to allow you to know air speed. >> when you say catastrophic what does that mean? >> hail breaking the windshield

hail ingesting into the aircraft damaging aerodynamic surfaces like pito tubes measuring air speed being iced over. all of those things being compounded and add turbulence and huge updraft, it's a much more complicated picture than it sounded in the reports. >> the u.s. is involved in this investigation at several different levels right, tom? >> yes. u. u.s.s. warships are in the area. there are thousands of islands that belong to indonesia, 18,000 as a matter of fact and the coast line of borneo is 100 miles from where they're looking. it's not impossible i don't think, that that plane could have k4r50idedglided and crashed and the torrential rains could have suppressed any fire. >> they have recovered, peter,

as you know 30 or 40 bodies already in the water. >> and we haven't seen the full report of on whether some of the bodies were clothed, some not. it would indicate some degree of in flight breakup. my guess is it was in water and it may have broken up. >> we know this investigation only just starting right now. guys thanks very very much. we'll stay on top of it. cnn teams out on the stormy java sea joining search crews tracking down the missing flight 8 a 5 0 8501. the accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev is in court as jury selection gets underway. we'll go live to the courthouse. and north korea's fiery response following the hack at sony pictures. we have more. all of that coming up. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right.

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happening right now, the trial of the boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is underway. it comes more than a year after the attack at the boston marathon that killed three, injured 160 others.

1200 people have been summoned to serve on a jury. opening statements set to begin january 26th in a trial prosecutors say could last up to four months. we're also learning that tsarnaev's attorneys tried and failed to reach a plea deal with government prosecutors. evan perez is standing by in new york. deborah fayerick is outside. how long do we expect jury selection to take? >> we can tell you when the prospective jurors enter the courthouse they have to walk by a long line of cameras t. will be no ordinary jury selection or jury trial. the afternoon session did get underway a couple of minutes ago. the prospective jurors sit on one side of a large glass wall members of the media sit on the other side. dzhokhar tsarnaev saunters in. he swings his arm and has a long stride.

he sits at a time flanked by his lawyers on both sides as the judge informs the men and the women who are sitting there that effectively the charges include the deaths of three people along with the murder of an m.i.t. officer. the judge is saying right now there needs to be a news blackout. they're not allowed to look at television radio, anything involving this trial. they can certainly not google any information on the trial either. it's a 100 question sheet they have to fill out. that will be reviewed by lawyers on both sides in order to whittle it down to select 12 jurors along with 6 alternates. that process expected to take three weeks, wolf. the trial itself opening arguments expected at the end of january for what could be a trial that ends around the anniversary of the trial. >> deb, stand by. evan there were serious

discussions underway to get some sort of plea deal to avoid a trial. what do we know about that? why did those negotiations collapse? >> wolf the discussions centered on the possibility of tsarnaev pleading guilty and getting life in prison without parole. in the end they decided not to take the death penalty off the table. wolf as you know judy clark, the famous attorney representing tsarnaev has managed to make plea deals and save the lives of some of the most notorious criminals in history, everybody from the unabomber, ted kaczynski to jerry loughner who pled guilty to shooting gabby giffords the former congresswoman. in this case she failed to be able to make a deal with the government. >> if the government would have accepted the notion of life without the possibility of parole would she, the attorney for tsarnaev would she have

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isis forces. this according to the pentagon. it's happening at the elassad air force base in the anbar province. barbara starr, i take it they're in greater danger as a result of these strikes that are going at the al assad air force base, is that right? >> reporter: wolf this is the concern. this is a sprawling huge base in western iraq but isis knows there are u.s. troops there, 320 of them along with hundreds of iraqi forces. what u.s. officials are now saying very openly is that base is coming under regular rocket and mortar attack from isis. the attacks are not precise. the pentagon's official word is that the attacks are, quote, completely ineffective, but nonetheless there is growing concern because it's happening on a regular basis. there are 320 u.s. troops there and the law of averaging may not be on the side of those u.s.

troops. there is a lot of worry that eventually hopefully not, but eventually one of those troops could suffer injuries. there could be u.s. casualties there. the pentagon not saying at this point whether it has changed security measures there. the troops that are there, 320 u.s. troops they are conducting training advising assisting for iraqi forces trying to get them back in the fight, but the concern, of course is that the fight doesn't come to the doorstep of those u.s. forces. president obama vowing that u.s. forces will not be in a combat role. the concern about these attacks, these rocket and mortar attacks by isis is that combat could come to the u.s. forces. >> i assume there is a contingency plan to evacuate those 320 u.s. troops if necessary. >> reporter: absolutely. there are what the military calls quick reaction forces all across that region ready to move in if any of the u.s. troops at

any of the points in iraq from baghdad to anbar province to the al asaad base there are 170 troops at another base 200 in irbil. there are contingency plans if they do come under fire and it cannot be dealt with to get them out of there but, remember there are a number of u.s. apache helicopters there. these helicopter gun ships are able to move in very closely, push insurgents back if they get too close. that did happen on one occasion in irbil. we are told the insurgents have not come that close again, but the fact is the bottom line is that these attacks by insurgents are happening on a regular basis where several hundred u.s. troops are located. wolf. >> these u.s. troops are relying on iraqi forces for protection, and we know there's not a high reliability given the fact that so many iraqi troops have abandoned their positions over

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. the recent growing tensions between the united states and north korea began with the big screen satire. >> take him out. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> ohhhh. hello, north korea! >> "the interview" continues to have ripple effects on the relationship between the two countries. pyongyang again insisting it is not, again, repeat it is not responsible for the massive cyber attack on sony pictures and denoungs the united states for having sanctions. will ripley has more from

beijing. >> reporter: wolf the north korean government is firing back. one thing that they're focusing on is the international news coverage of the sony hack and the skepticism among some cyber security experts that north korea was even involved in the attack on sony. as we've reported on cnn and others have reported as well some feel that the hack was an inside job and pyongyang pounced on that saying that the u.s. is launching these sanctions as a way to try and validate a shaky case against the north korean government but the white house as you know is standing firm here launching these sanctions saying they have very credible evidence that north korea was involved in the devastating hack on sony pictures and that's why you see the u.s. targeting several different north korean governmental entities and ten different individuals, officials working on behalf of the north korean government outside of the country in places like iran

russia africa and syria. now most of these individuals, in fact seven of them were working in the weapons export business. this is one of the ways that the north korean regime makes its money, by selling weapons to other countries, and by naming these individuals publicly for the first time it makes it a lot more difficult for them to do business and the white house is hinting, wolf that this may be the only first step and the united states may be prepared to take actions sendsing a strong message that these kinds of cyber attacks won't be tolerated. wolf? >> will ripley reporting for us. let's bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. >> they still believe north korea is behind the attacks. takes downie doubt -- >> north korea, despite the cyber experts who claim there's not enough proof of that. >> that's right. what the administration will say, the cyber experts aren't seeing 1/4, 1/10 of what we're

seeing. what are these sanctions designed to do? they go after ten north korean officials who are their money men, they get their money, foreign exchange earnings overseas. that's one thing. three major entities one of which is their kgb, chief intelligence service as well as two others that act very heavily in the arms trade which, as will mentioned, is really how north korea makes its money. big picture wise a calibrated response designed to punish north korea but not provoke a further cycle of retaliation. that's always a sensitivity with north korea. you don't want to go to the stage where north korea say does another missile test or sets off another nuclear test. these are real concerns. 2013 before the state of the un enspeech which is coming up north korea had another test coming up. the administration always has to be concerned about what could happen next. >> and the countries and the region south korea, china, japan are all watching this very closely to see what north korea might do.

they have a lot at stake as well. what's been the reaction in washington especially on capitol hill? >> not surprisingly you'll have folks say this is a good first step but you need to be harder. one is the pryimary democratic voice. robert menendez is soon to be the ranking member of the foreign relations committee. dana bash asked him about it this weekend. here's what he had to say. >> the one thing i disagree with the president on is when he characterized the action here against sony by north korea as an act of vandalism. vandalism is when you break a window. terrorism is when you destroy a building and what happened here is that north korea landed a virtual bomb on sony's parking lot and ultimately had real consequences to it as a company and to many individuals who work there. so i think there has to be a real consequence to this otherwise you'll see it happen again and again. >> one step that he'd like to see is putting north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism

terrorism, which is one of many measures the administration can take. this is the first step. as they said in their announcements of these sanctions, this is just a first step. they were telegraphing there will be more to come. >> north korea is already so sanctioned. >> it's true. administration officials said they are very sanctioned but there are additional sanctions that they can take to cut them off from the dollar denominated trading system. this is a tactic the u.s. has used with some success against russia iran russia and ukraine. there is a nuclear option here excuse the expression where you could target chinese banks that do north korea's international business. that could really hit them to the point where you worry about economic collapse in the regime. that's not a step they've taken so far. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much for that report. lots at stake. we'll get a look at the

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want to get back to some developing news from wall street. plunging oil prices triggering a selloff of the dow jones. take a look at this. you can see the dow jones down right now 292 points. the price of oil dipped below $50 a barrel for a short time

earlier today. analysts say rich stock prices concerns over the global economy are also feeding investors' concerns. we're going to keep watching the markets for you as this day in the united states goes on. for the united states the fight in syria is focused on isis positions and getting moderate opposition forces to align in that fight against the mill tachblts but for those opposition forces there's a much more important fight. the one they've been wagging for several years now. the fight against syria's government and the forces of the syrian government bashar al assad. nick peyton walsh was in the city as the fight reached an important point. >> reporter: in the abandoned mansions of syrian's elite, a fight for the battle of the biggest city is reaching peak. this is just outside aleppo. it's key to the last remaining supply line for rebels into the city. if the regime takes this tens

of thousands of civilians in rebel areas will be besieged. they show our cameraman the regime positions. now they begin with a surprise attack. across open ground these men are young, breathless but in this war's carnage that amounts to experience. so many do not last long. >> translator: these are the farms that the army took the commander says and they took it because arab countries let us down by not giving us weapons. iran is supporting bashar's army. >> reporter: this is a mad dash towards a better equipped regime and then positions by a dirt wall.

shoot now, guys, he says. it looks like the 23 millimeter machine guns won't shoot at us now, they laugh. and then pull back. reminding each other to conserve ammunition. even three years in they still fight with make shift or light weapons. here we only have kalasknovs or grenades light weapons against the weapons of mass destruction that the regime have. we have nothing, only god in the face of the regime and their allies.

a cry of the faithful amid the loneliest, most vital fight. they take gabriel to another front line near the airport, another regime strong hold in aleppo. >> you see that building there? >> yes. >> the army building. 50 meters. i think from this point, 50. the other point there, 15. >> reporter: this is their day-to-day existence, cat and mouse amid the rubble of their old world. a stalemate that has swallowed serious commercial hub for two years now. they fire at the regime. that crack is them returning fire with heavier weapons.

we're shown the firing position through which they can see their enemy. our guide has moved back. i'm hit. the bullet exploded near my face. now i'm covered in fragments. the wounds are superficial though. >> that exclusive report from our nick payton walsh joining us from beirut. nic, these opposition fighters correct me if i'm wrong, they're almost primarily or exclusively interested in doing damage to the bashar al assad regime in da damascus. isis is secondary? >> reporter: to a point. it's within a long exhausting grueling fight.

isis has become the more existential threat because if you talked to many of them you hear gabriel shayem. when you talk to them they know if they don't beat or push isis back or hold them away from the areas they control, then their fight against the regime is for nothing really because they'll end up with a radicalized version of islam. it's a very messy fight. the fight you saw is that battle is ongoing as we speak. the rebels seem to have the upper hand but if they lose the key hill to the regime then the regime potentially can cut off 300,000 civilians trapped in rebel held areas. the regime could begin a well tried strategy of in fact starving out those who oppose it wolf. >> so the fight for aleppo really as you point out, it's at a critical critical stage, life and death stage for hundreds of

thousands of people right? >> reporter: to a degree it's been in this sort of strange sense of stasis for so long. so many dead. so many civilians murdered by the barrel bombs dropped often unskrim nanltly dropped. there is a tactical changing point if they manage to take the key hill that governs the supply route in and out. if the regime do take it, rebels seem to have the upper hand for the first time in months in the last 48 hours, if the regime pushes back which it looks like they'll do all they can do that leaves hundreds of thousands of civilians managing to live in rebel held areas, despite all of that bombing, it leaves them facing a massive humanitarian catastrophe. >> that amazing report. i know you'll have a lot more coming up throughout this week. nick thanks very much. coming up new york city police officers once again turn their backs on the mayor of new york bill de blasio despite a

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great anger and frustration. i thought going into this second funeral that things were getting to a more even kiel and that the two sides were talking. now i'm not so sure. i spoke to one retired nypd officer who told me why beat cops today are so angry at this administration. >> i do not blame the mayor, what i stated and what i have stated in the past and continue to state is that the mayor through his irresponsible rhetoric he has responsibility to know that rhetoric has consequences. in this case the consequences were deadly. his res tore rick his tacit approval of the anti-police brigade emboldened a coward empowered a coward like him to get up here and assassinate two of new york's finest sitting in a radio car on a sunny saturday afternoon. >> >>. >> reporter: he had a lengthy 2, 2 1/2 hour discussion between the two funerals.

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welcome back. let's get to some politics now. here in the united states, the return of the united states congress they get back to work tomorrow. one of the first order of business is the re-election of house speaker john boehner but two republicans are already challenging boehner, congressman louis gohmert and representative yoho. let's discuss what's going on. joining us is our chief political analyst and our political reporter. gloria any chance that borne will not be the next speaker of the house? >> no. i don't think there is. this is mildly embarrassing for him. he faced it the last time around. i think he's got a win

convincingly. i presume he will. what this does show you is the divide in the republican party over how to proceed. do you proceed with an ideological agenda or proceed in a way to get things done heading in to 2016 presidential election. in john boehner and mitch mcconnell you got two prague naturalists and some want to take an ideological stand. >> you've got an excellent article on cnn.com on hillary clinton gender politics. you really frame it beautifully and i recommend it highly to all of our viewers out there. but tell us how she has evolved on this issue, let's say in the past year alone? >> well i mean we've all been watching the tea leaves to see what kind of message might be hillary clinton's 2016 message. back in the '90s when she was

first lady she was a polarizing figure among women. 7008 she struggled to find a balance about how to talk about that issue. she wanted to be the candidate of strength and competence when she was running against barack obama. but this year you've seen her sort of much more comfortable in her own skin talking about her own personal journey as a young career woman, some of her biggest laugh lines are about her hair and scrunchies. she's trying to frame this message potentially for 2016 that these issues she's been working on like equal pay, and, you know, other issues that were thought of as women's issues are really family issues that really have a lot to do with how well the economy does and we may see her transitioning that as part of her big message in 2016. certainly not all it but part it. >> i think there's an irony here because back in the 2008 election you remember this she ran on her lifetime of

experience. as opposed to talking about being a woman. now she actually has more experience i mean you know, one would argue she's the most experienced presidential candidate we've had in a very long time and instead of running on that experience she's running partly on the fact that she's a woman who can relate to the experiences of women. i think there needs to be a way to kind of find that mid-point because, you know there's a danger and we saw this in the colorado senate race for example, there's a danger in going overboard on the whole woman thing, right? >> absolutely. >> i think hillary clinton talking about being a grandmother a lot is not as important to me as hillary clinton talking about being secretary of state. >> that's right. >> let me talk about another candidate out there. hillary clinton i assume will run for the democratic presidential nomination. mike huckabee announced saturday night he's giving up his position his show at fox news in order to think about running

for president of the united states. take a look at this poll. this is from december 18th december 21 cnn/orc poll that we have among republicans. bush 23%. that's jeb bush, chris christie 13%, dr. ben carson 7%. mike huckabee is there with rand paul at 6%. but, among republicans in iowa gloria as you well know he does very very well. >> he does very well. he won there once before. but he's got raise an awful lot of money, wolf and what you're seeing shape up in this race is that you have evangelical conservatives like rick santorum and mike huckabee who are running against each other should huckabee zito run which may make it a bit easier for the so-called moderate more mainstream republican candidates to get some traction like chris christie or jeb bush because this could crowd the field in iowa.

>> what do you think? do you think if there's competition for the evangelical - vote in iowa you got mike huckabee you got rick santo rum, a few who are that opens the door potentially for a jeb bush which we saw, by the way, jeb bush's brother, george w. bush did well in iowa in part because of that phenomenon. >> right. you know there will be sort of these kind of two lanes with the more mainstream republican candidate running and then the one who appeals nor the evangelical vote and depending on how that splits it really could provide a path for someone like jeb even though he will potentially have a lot of problems with those social conservative especially in places like iowa. >> right. >> let's talk about chris christie for a second. he's the new jersey governor yet he was at the dallas cowboys game in the box with the dallas cowboys owner jerry jones. there he is. the cowboys won that game. he's thrilled. he gives a big hug to jerry

jones and everybody else in that box. what's going on here? this is the new jersey governor -- i believe there are two teams that play in new jersey every weekend that's the new york jets and new york giants. they play in new jersey even though they are called new york. what's going here >> he's a lifetime cowboys fan. he looks like he's 3 years old there, hugging the owner of the team. i think the problem -- his brother got on social media saying get a life if you're complaining about the new jersey governor being a cowboys fan. i think the problem is is that he's in the owner's box and not down like everybody else who would be cheering fan and those are problems that mitt romney had, right? so maybe that's the optics he done want. >> what do you think? >> i mean christie has tried to own this cowboys issue. it makes us political advisors nervous but he made it like this badge of authenticity. he won't change his sports team

just because it's not -- just because it's politically expedient. i think there were all kinds of debate all over twitter yesterday about whether he lost more primary votes than michigan or wisconsin. we'll see how this plays out. but, it could be fun for a while. >> and democratic opposition research group has filed a freedom of information request about his expenses and who paid for him, you know to go to the game. it does get a bit ridiculous. >> he's going up against hillary clinton on that too, travel expenses. >> all right, guys thank you very much. quick thought the funeral for the information late new york governor mario cuomo tomorrow. i covered him. and he was wonderful man. always very nice to me. i want to express my personal condolences to the entire cuomo family especially our colleague chris cuomo and the governor of new york andrew cuomo, the

entire cuomo family. thanks very much for joining us. ♪ all right here we go. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks so much for being here with me on this monday. we have some breaking news from the pentagon. the pentagon confirming moments ago that u.s. troops in iraq are under quote-unquote regular attack by isis. now keep in mind as we've been covering this now for months and months these u.s. troops these advisors not troops in any kind of combat roles. that said of course in the wake of what we're