krystal? >> important developments there. thank you so much. to another story that continues to grab headlines both here and abroad. the united states opening up a dialogue with cuba. a country that's been one of our fiercest enemies now for half a century. streets of little havana in miami tell the story. some celebrating a new beginning. >> most of us that have our family members there have, had a hard time trying to visit them, to get in touch with them. and i -- i don't think the embargoes actually worked. so i think hopefully this will bring new change. >> while others typically of the older generation denouncing it as president obama bowing to a brutal dictatorship. >> i think it's a terrible mistake. obama has given in to basically what's an act of terrorism and racketeering. it's a practice of the castro brothers and the dictatorship to do things like extortion, taking hostages, which is what alan gross was. >> cnbc's michelle caruso-cabrera has made her way to cuba. she's in havana for us. >> reporter: it was a muted reaction here in c

krystal? >> i 100% disagree.e see as women is this impossible, perfect ideal after woman on screen. and we get that in catalogs, on the internet, when shopping. when you have a person like jennifer aniston who goes totally bare with no makeup, okay, she is a beautiful person but she is also an attainable person not this ideal. we're not comparing her to something -- >> will it sell in the market, chuck? >> it seems to have in the past, if you think about charlize theron doing the monster. it seems to work for men, too, when guys gain weight, christian bale loses a ton of weight, everybody says, oh, my god, how amazing. none of this is acting, though. >> that's a discipline to it. >> jennifer aniston took her makeup off. come along, people. charlize put on 30 pounds. jennifer aniston taking off makeup and then asking us to celebrate is a at the same time. >> it's a statement on our culture that doing such a thing as going without makeup is a revolutionary thing to do. >> i'm wearing makeup right now and i'm very h

i'm krystal ball. eric holder has offered new guidelines for community policing specifically addressing racial profiling. get on a firsthand look last night at just how high emotions are running. >> i cannot begin to understand -- [ heckling ] >> what we saw there was a genuine expression of concern and involve pment involvement. >> we have heard these calls for change before, but now how best to bridge. let's dig into this with malika and at the table in new york, we're lucky to have dr. maria haberfeld, law forever at jon jay college. welcome to both you. >> thank you. >> i want to started with you, malik, on something the president decided not to do, which is make major changes to the program where local police departments are supplied with military style equipment. i wondered if you could make the case for why local police departments might need that type of weaponry. has there been a specific situation where it's been used and been required? >> what i can tell you, day in and day out, police depar

. >> reporter: well, there are a lot here, krystal. as you mentioned, this is the culmination of a five-year report, 670 pages. in it a few things that jumped out to me, perhaps one number that is really striking, there were about 119 documented cases of enhanced interrogation techniques. at some point folks could be on their feet for up to 180 hours at times. you also have a number, krystal, 26 detainees, they believe in this report, were wrongly held due to what occurred. you see there, waterboarding, slammed into walls. we also learned about black sites in poland and thailand where these sorts of things were going on. and i think perhaps what's most shocking is the degree to which, according to this report, the cia went to not only mislead policymakers but also the way in which certain operatives would try to mislead cia counsel. one specific moment where the senators object to these type of techniques and then the people who briefed them go back to cia counsel and say they had no problem with it, they were okay with it. so, there i

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krystal, i feel like i have lived in this space for decades, right? of people are very passionate and angry about the situation, but i feel like that might be because they are newer to the issue and i feel like having been in this for so long and seen these things happen for so long, i don't know how this leads to change. i want the politicians to pay attention. i want the police departments to pay attention, to see that they are not serving and protecting the american people as well and as carefully as they could. and i understand, it is very difficult to be a police officer. they do the job with a raighteos fear. they should be afraid when they go out. you never know what's going to happen when you stop a stranger and put them in a difficult situation. anything could happen. i feel for them. but i don't see the police -- i don't see the nation now saying, well, now we have to make ail change. they're upset right now because this thing just happened. but are they still going to feel like this six months, 12 months, 18 months down the road as these st

that's my co-host krystal ball. i mean, this crystal ball. perfect.in 2015? well if you're rush limbaugh apparently not much. it means the sony data hack revealed more than just the unfortunate musings from sony executives about race and president obama. it showed one changing the face of james bond from these to this one. that british actor could potentially be 007 sent the right wing radio host into a tizzy. bond is supposed to be scottish after all, and white. what if white characters were cast to play michelle obama and president obama? those are real people and james bond is not real. the handsome actor had this fun take on twitter but could it actually happen? my take is that season y fresh from capitalizing on the bizarre threats that briefly halted the release of the madcap comedy "the interview" which earned $15 million in limited release over the weekend might take the bait. there is a bond film in production starring daniel craig but it wouldn't surprise me if the sony folks make the next bond more obama than biden. sorry, rush. on the poli

>> krystal, that's a very interesting question. simply because you can get a restraining order. however, there is no one to protect you from immediate violence following that restraining order. the police do come and they do pay special attention to your house. but they are not there 24/7. here you had a marine who when he was doing his deed and he approached his family's residence, he did it just before dawn. very similar to training marines do in field assaults. you know, if someone has made up their mind to commit these acts, they're generally successful. >> we had a situation where we had a marine hiding, running, in a wooded area for quite some time. complicated situation for the police because it's a wooded area. far different from your urban searches. and because you have a marine who's perhaps armed and dangerous. you don't know. talk about the challenges for police searching for someone in that wooded area and someone who is a marine. >> wooded areas change the entire search game. it makes it incredibly difficult. the danger factor for law enforcement and civilians goes

built for business. >>> we're back with the panel, krystal, chris, and alyona.e holiday shopping. i have a question. i want a show of hands here. who is done with their christmas shopping? >> who hasn't started their christmas shopping? >> i've started at least. i'm 3/4 of the way through. >> we have nine shopping days left before christmas. and if you still have work to do, don't worry. so does president obama. here's what he told ryan seacrest today. >> michelle's hard to shop for. she's very fashionable and she looks good. so i'm worried about buying her clothes, because, you know, on christmas day she'll look at it and say, that's really sweet, honey and peck me on the cheek and then i never see her wear whatever i bought. so i've got to rack my brain to see what's a new idea. >> alyona, what's your gift idea for the first lady? >> oh, god, that's tough. i think it's pretty fair to say you shouldn't be buying clothes for the first lady if you're the president. because everything she wears is judged and criticized and scrutinized. the first lady has a lot of

as krystal said, no real accountability is happening out of this report. rachel maddow talked about this last night. >> torture is a crime. and it ought to be seen as a crime. as long as it is documented and admitted to openly in this country, but nobody gets prosecuted for it, well, that weakens the sense in which realistically it is illegal. if nobody's going to prosecute these guys for torture, then at least pardon them so america is on the record naming what they did as criminal. >> greg, if no one is held accountable, then how dou we knw torture won't happen again? >> two things. i think that is the underlying intent of this report. i mean, this has been senator feinstein's main objective from the outset. it wasn't to try to put new pressure on the justice department to, reopen the criminal investigations it closed a couple of years ago. it was to lay down a massive marker for history on these allegations of abuse. and in her floor speech yesterday, to -- she reiterated that point. this is the purpose of this report, is to document this so that it is

krystal? >> absolutely. kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you so much. let's bring in dana milbank, political columnist at "the washington post." thanks for being with us. >> hi, krystal. >> we should have gotten a women for this segment. you'll have to do. >> sorry. you got somebody with a woman's name. how about that? >> i guess that will work. i'm not in a position to make fun of names. as kelly was pointing out, what the president said about sony hack. saying they made a mistake and even contrasting them with boston. what did you make of the president's comments there? >> i was glad de it. he was forceful on that. certainly what i had been wondering about, having made plans to see this film as a matter of protest against north korea. and that's how a lot of americans will be. this seemed to be a revived president knocked doi down by the midterm elections. he had the ease of a man headed to hawaii but he also seemed to be enjoying himself in i a way i haven't seen. looks like eyes ice spoiling for a fight with republicans next year, relishing and look

. >> reporter: last year, the left rear tire blew out on krystal cantu's truck. the vehicle skidded off a texas highway and rolled over. the 25-year-old lost most of her right arm in the crash. >> we knew it was a tire. you could hear the pop. the pop was, like-- it was unbelievably loud. so we knew right off the bat that it was a tire. >> reporter: the tire that caused the crash has since been recalled. most recalled tires never make it off the roads. they are not registered properly, and as a consequence, drivers aren't getting the message. earl wayneer is a national transportation safety board member. the system isn't working. >> we see that only about 15% to 20%, at best, of tires that are marked for recall, ever get actually recalled. and that's a potential safety issue. >> reporter: the other safety issue-- tire aging. tires weaken year by year, and cracks start to appear on the surface. some auto manufacturers recommend they be replaced every six years, regardless of use, while tire manufacturers recommend ten years. they also say the life of a tire is mor

abby and krystal are at home and hopefully bundled up on the couch because it's downright baltic outside. 95% of the country facing below normal temperatures and expected to be that way come midnight. there may even be snow in the forecast for las vegas, which is where we find weather channel's mike seidel with your forecast. mike? >> reporter: good afternoon, michael. from the strip here in vegas where we had our first flakes in almost four years fall this morning. it is cold. 34 degrees. windchills have been running 20 to 25. a city that usually sees highs in the mid to upper 50s in late december, early january. today it will only top out about 40 or so. another day to layer up here new year's eve in vegas. the wind has been gusty, too. northwest wind and that's why the windchill has been down sustained 15 18 miles an hour. am mccarron, 15 to 15 miles an hour. they've only had one inch of snow four times in the past 30 years. it's fairly rare to get sk lating snow. last time was six years ago. chilly weather at midnight here. they'll shut down the strip, a good portion of it at 5 p.m.

i'm krystal ball. community policing specifically addressing racial profiling. get on a firsthand look last night at just how high emotions are running. >> i cannot begin to understand -- [ heckling ] >> what we saw there was a genuine expression of concern and involve pment involvement. >> we hav

i'm krystal ball. come on air, the first family is packing their suitcases for hawaii, but in an effort to make sure he wasn't carrying any extra baggage, president obama held his annual year end news conference. it was actually on the shorter side. it lasted only about an hour. the topics ranged from the sony hacking to the deal with cuba to gas prices. >> as a country, we have a right to be proud of everything we've accomplished. more jobs. more people insured. a growing economy. shinging deficits. bustling industry. booming energy. pick any metrics you want and america's resurgence is real. i've never been persuaded by this argument that if it weren't for the executive actions they would would have been more productive. there's no evidence of that. sony's a corporation. it suffered significant damage. yes, i think they made a mistake. i'm being absolutely sincere when i say, i want to work with this new congress to get things done. there is very little impact, nominal impact, on u.s. gas prices, wha

i'm krystal ball and we have it is 500-page summary but the whole report is still klay classified.terrogation techniques. >> detainees were subjected to the more aggressive techniques immediately, stripped naked, diapered, physically struck and put in various painful stress positions for long periods of time. they were deprived of sleep for days. in one case, up to 180 hours. >> the committee says these techniques were ineffective but the two subcontractored psychologists who designed the techniques, they were paid $80 million by the federal government. the other big sticking point in this report claims the cia lied to congress about what they were doing. >> in all of these cases, other cia officers acknowledged internally, they acknowledged internally, that information the cia had provided was wrong. >> now, keep in mind, there were 17 congressional briefings for

krystal? >> thank you for that.stion many americans are asking themselves today is how could we possibly stop something like this from potentially happening here? after all, it is impossible to protect every coffee house or public space. we got a statement from the chair of the house committee on homeland security, congressman mike mccall. he said what we've witnessed in sydney should be a call to action and all our allies who have been threatened by violent extremists. the united states must wage a robust effort here at home to combat violent islamist extremism by working with local communities to intervene when we see signs of it, fighting against online islamist propaganda and providing ways to stop individuals lured into jihadi cool subculture before they act. how do we keep them from resorting to these horrific means? >> i would start off by saying it's a multi-tiered approach. you would look at possible communities where individuals could be lured into the magnetic appeal of groups like isis or perhaps other o

i'm krystal ball. come on the air today, ashton carter, a long-time pentagon insider is one senate confirmation away from being one of the most powerful military men in the free world. >> with a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years, as public servant, as an adviser, as a scholar, ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders. >> and i accepted the offer because of the deep respect and abiding love that stephanie and i have for our men and women in uniform. >> carter would have run the u.s. military, but he's never served on the battlefield. he's an academic, a physicist, actually, but he's no stranger to the pentagon. he served in leadership twice, most recently in 2013. most importantly to the president, ashton carter looks to be a team player. it's a different story from outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel who had a contentious relationship with the commander in chief. in a move that surprised many, hagel didn't even show up at the carter announ

krystal, we were talking about this. over 30 states are organic dm s demonstrations. of course, in the media, we are partly to blame, clearly f we're going to be cleefr about our analysis. but most of them weren't covered as much as the fires. so, i wonder as we look at these moments not only as individual cases, but as moments where the country talks to itself about its policing. something the president talked about, something even conservatives talked about, something bill o'reilly said the other day. of course, people are protesting, bill o'reilly said, because that's how you change things. >> i think that's absolutely right. the significance and substance of those protests, peaceful protests, has been encouraging. there have been specific demands, things like body cameras which we have been talking about today. eugene o'donnell, who we had on earlier, former nypd officer, said something really interesting. it's not so much a policy change we need. we need change in the police departments. there needs to be a cultural shift in the way that police officers are valui