i am lia gabriel in new york now back to the regularly scheduled program. >> it took just 77 minutes to change the course of our nation forever. the today department 11th, 2001. nearly 3,000 innocent people murdered at the hands of terrorists. in the years that followed our Ñ agencies embarked on a global campaign to keep america safe. this week they came under fire for how they did it. that is where we begin the holiday special on the cia report. i am megyn kelly. we take a hard look at the report produced by democrats that divided the country and endangered american service personnel overseas. arguments for and against so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used by the cia in the fight against al qaeda. first we must start at the beginning. trace gallagher reports from our newsroom. >> let's begin with the/@;kñ pa that everyone including president obama agrees to in the days and months in unprecedented times. there were incredible reports of a second and third wave of the attacks in the midwest. including reports osama bin laden was trying to get a nuclear weapon. they recogn

i am lia gabriel. in for ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you for starting your day with us as always. they release a scathing report in the aftermath of 9-11. they save lives. >> peter, it seems there might be worries terrorists could use this report for propaganda. >> there are more than 6,000 marines abroad on high alert ready to respond from terror threats that stems from the release of this report. some elected officials are especially concerned for cia personnel who may not have participated or known about the harsh details. >> now you have this growing problem and now you have a taste officer who works in a dangerous place in the world who expects the united states will stand with them because we have asked them to do very hard and difficult things to protect america. do we have to turn around and look back and wonder if the united states is going to be with them? >> president obama joins many democrats who believe admitting to america's friends and enemies that methods used for gathering intelligence that methods were harsher h

i am lia gabriel in for ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers.resident obama blasted by his own party by the cia. he holds some of the blame for p controversial interrogation tactics because he is protecting john brennan. >> doug luzader live in washington so are they trying to play both sides of the argument? >> the normally secretive central intelligence agency may not stay quiet much longer. we may hear from john brennan about the allegations meantime one of two psychologists who were together paid some $80 million to design the cia's interrogation program to question the morality of the kurr p rent approach using drones to kill suspected terrorists without ever questioning them. that is a tactic that also led to the death of bystanders. >> to me it seems completely insensible that slapping ksm but sending a hell fire missile into a family's picnic and killing children and children granny and killing everyone is okay for a lot of reasons. one of the reasons is, what about that collateral loss of life and the other one is, in you will yif you k

i am lia gabriel. in for ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers.or starting your day with us as always. they release a scathing report in the aftermath of 9-11. they save lives. >> peter, it seems there might be worries terrorists could use this report for propaganda. >> there are more than 6,000 marines abroad on high alert ready to respond from terror threats that stems from the release of this report. some elected officials are especially concerned for cia personnel who may not have participated or known

. >> i am lia gabrielle. it is 30 minutes after the hour. we start with the fox news lart.reats for any one interviewed at theaters causing sony to cancel big new york premiere. >> seth rogen and james franco cutting their publicity tour. good morning robert. >> good morning. security officials are saying it is unclear how credible the threat was to new york around the premiere. but landmark theaters is taking no chances. it canceled the screening after a menacing note threatening a 9-11 style attack. that note said soon all of the world will see what an awful movie sony entertainment pictures has made. the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september 2001. we recommend you keep yourself distant from the places at that time. that was reportedly written by the guardians of peace group that claimed responsibility for hacking sony pictures the studio behind the interview. they made a decision to opt out of the commitment to show the movie. meanwhile here in l.a. police chief charlie beck spoke out to allay the concerns slated for christmas day release. >> people

. >> i am lia gabrielle in for heather childersled -- ainsley earhardt. >> millions of people aroundhe new year. more than a million of them right here in new york city. hard to belief another year has gone by. with the new year becomes a major chill. maria molina is life already getting the party started with the latest. good morning maria. >> hi good morning heather and leah. good morning to you. happy new year's eve. it is a chilly morning. behind me we have the new year's eve ball. the famous ball. you can see the waterford crystals on it. it is estimated it is 6 tons in weight. a billion people around the world will be tuning in to see the ball drop as we count down for 2015 begins in new york city. you mentioned

i am lia gabriel from new york. >> called out on it.a company e-mail and shoes how arrogant they are. and probably a bunch of yes people around the executives and disrespectful to every african-american and the president in america. to think that it was a stupid party. you are going to meet the president. whether you are conservative or democrat you respect the president. >> it is refreshing to hear a democrat and liberal. i appreciate that you are willing to accept what they did was uncoinsiable. crystal if a conservative said something like this would they be working for sony today? >> they wouldn't at all. the media outrage would say, both mr. ruden and amy pa sca l ha fired. when conservative members of congress say something that they thought was private and what demanded to do? public pressure by the mainstream media to leave audience. i didn't agree with mr. bundy, the rancher and the outrage hurled on for weeks. and what is troubling and i agree with imi ki. you have the first black president in the united states of america whom

i am lia gabriel in new york now back to the regularly scheduled program. >> it took just 77 minutesepartment 11th, 2001. nearly 3,000 innocent people murdered at the hands of terrorists. in the years that followed our Ñ agencies embarked on a global campaign to keep america safe. this week they came under fire for how they did it. that is where we begin the holiday special on the cia report. i am megyn kelly. we take a hard look at the report produced by democrats that divided the country and endangered american service personnel