joins me now live by phone mrs haller cosco welcome to r.t. havea spoken to your son recently what was his reaction to the latest news. i took to him. in august when he was in prison actually i came to see him when he was in jail so we don't know about his response. they are allowed to make phone calls once a week. with them and that is on saturdays. so i can't learn about his response before saturday actually. did the president decision come as a surprise to you. can't say that came totally as a big surprise for me. totally out of the blue because i don't know anything about this nothing no no details. why do you think it's only now that decided to seek a presidential pardon and to do what you can you. ok let me so we have some technical and problems i believe why do you think it's only now that me why you decided to seek a presidential candidate over and admit his guilt but you wonder if this is just you know presumably i don't you know if he asked for the pardon this is the first time a learnt about it. do you buy putin's claim that his dec

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president made two calls, one to democratic senator jack reid and the second to republican senator dean haller and the president called the two senators to show support for their proposal to extend jobless benefits for another three months. the president went on to say he is pleased that they are working in a bipartisan fashion to address the manner, which the president said could be damaging to the u.s. economy. the president said it could hurt the economic growth of the united states and hurt job creation, because we are talking about 1.3 million americans who today are seeing the federal jobless benefits cut. states like california, illinois, new york, could be among those that are hit the hardest. before the president did come out to hawaii to start his presidential vacation, he held his last presidential press conference of the year, and said ending the jobless benefits is not the right thing to do. >> i think we are a better country than that. we don't abandon each other when times are tough. keep in mind unemployment insurance only goes folks actively looking for work. a mum who needs t

senator dean haller will extend the benefits. the short-term extension allows time for a 1-year extension. when you look at dean heller. it's a state where unemployment is the highest at the moment. if you have republicans, there's some chance of a short-term extension, and a young-term extension an a question mark. sounds like several republicans are opposed to extending unemployment benefits, but they don'tant the fight at the beginning of the year. >> they don't. we came off on a good-faith ifrt, and they were trying to -- effort, and they were wanting to try to extend the bipartisanship into the new year and talked about how it might set the stage for reform. it may be attached to the broader debt-ceiling. the president won't com promise. the republicans may try to negotiate saying you give us some spending cuts, we'll give you unemployment benefits for another year. i don't think the white house or democrats will engage in that hostage taked -- situation. maybe it will have to come through somewhere else. saying the savings

made two phone calls, one to democratic senator jack reid and another to republican senator dean haller. the president called them to show support for a proposal they put forward to extend the jobless benefits for three months, but we are in a holding pattern until congress is back in session. >> since you are in hawaii, how will that state be impacted by all this? >> hawaii actually has one of the lower unemployment rates compared to the rest of the country. numbers released in december for unemployment rates shows a rate of 4.4%, among the lower as it compares to the mainland. i had a chance to speak to a representative from hawaii's department of labour, and he said they have 2200 throughout the state receiving federal unemployment assistance. they are among 1.3 million americans cut off today. 2200 people does not sound like a lot. it's 2200 too many in the state of hawaii. finding the much-needed benefits cut off. >> jennifer london live for us in honolulu with the president. >> antarctica's harsh weather. a stalled rescue of a cruise sh ship. it has been stuck in ice, 100 miles ea