back to michelle kosinski and this discussion over ukraine.he president's reluctance to get militarily there. we talked about yemen and ukraine and there is libya, afghanistan, syria and speaks to a larger reluctance on this president. >> right. >> reporter: but i think the president was consistent in what he said. remember, this question comes up every time there is an additional round of sack sanctions by the u.s. and its european partners and then something else escalates there. the question of is this enough? russia, obviously, isn't changing its behavior. what the white house keeps saying is we know that. not as if russia is going to listen about you they keep isolating itself further and talking about the economy going to pot and foreign investment tearing out of the country as fast as it can. that is the stance the white house takes. the president said it here and this was in relationship to both yemen and russia, it's not as if we are going to send in troops every time something like this happens. the alternative to sanctions and worki

michelle kosinski for us in new delhi. following the president's trip. nks michelle. >>> the prosecution and defense in the aaron hernandez murder trial expected to choose the final 12 jurors and 6 alternates today. the opening statements are scheduled tuesday. john and i doubt that will happen. a lot of snow coming to the northeast. the former nfl star is charged in the death of odin lloyd. hernandez has pleaded not guilty. he faces murder charges in a separate case where he is accused of killing two men he met in a boston nightclub in 2012. >>> the federal trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev will not start today because of the delay in jury selection. prosecutors will seek the death penalty. the judge has been questioning prospective jurors at lengths about their feelings on the death penalty. there is not strong death penalty sentiment there. tsarnaev is charge in the 2013 marathon attack that killed three people and injured more than 260 others. >>> 20 minutes after the hour. seahawks star richard sherman is sounding off now on deflate-gate. that as his team a

we have cnn's michelle kosinski with more. >> reporter: he is cutting it short by a few hours.ahal yet again. i think he can check off some things on the list that were accomplishments. what is interesting, there were goals and a broad range of topics that the u.s. wanted to discuss with india and try to make progress and breakdown barriers that caused impasses in the past. nothing has really been signed and completed on the dotted line. the big take aways are commitment to more investment here and commitment to breaking down barriers of trade and renewal of the defense agreement to lead to sharing and military technology. civil nuclear agreement. meaning that u.s. companies now will have some more freedom to invest and build nuclear reactors in india. the u.s. would love that investment and india needs more power. on the environment. the u.s. china agreement, the u.s. hasn't gotten india to burn back old fossil fuels. it did get india to agree to expand clean energy. especially solar and wind. a couple of big topics they say they made some breakthrough understandings on. we ca

we have michelle kosinski with more. >> reporter: in strongly worded statements the president called the attack horrific and evil and cowardly. they are monitoring it and offering france whatever assistance it might need. what we are not hearing from the white house or national security team any detail on what the white house might have known about any of these suspects. anything about any chatter that may have been going on in the background. it is just too early for them to weigh in on that detail. also they did not want to get detail on the kind of assistance that the u.s. is offering. several times we heard from the homeland security secretary jeh johnson. he would say the u.s. is doing a number of things to help france. the fbi was combing through databases to help the french gather information and look for connections and they did say that top security officials are in open communication with their french counterparts. we also heard from the white house press secretary saying he knew of no specific threat or credible information to indicate that any similar attacks are being pl

cnn's michelle kosinski is at the white house. been made of this argument. it's really been sort of sweeping headlines especially around the internet. david cameron would love for google and instagram and snapchat to share more information from authorities when they try to investigate terror. in britain he can ask entities to do that and by law there they need to comply. if an american company even though it has people online in britain were to do that that would violate u.s. law. the british are now wanting to talk to president obama about what maybe could be done about this especially as regards encryption. it's very easy to make an argument for privacy in this case but the fbi agrees with david cameron to some extent and they have this very compelling quote this week that said well if you're going to go along with that argument should we make a car trunk that can never, ever be opened by a police officer during the course of an investigation or how about somebody's apartment. those are private spaces too. but sometimes the argum

our white house correspondent michelle kosinski has latest from the white house.e talk about the issues. the changes here are more symbolic and important than anything. >> reporter: i lost what you said there for a minute john. did you say is this more symbolic or concrete? >> big changes between the united states and india in terms of the relationship. >> reporter: right. i mean that is what they have been looking for. they have been looking for this for a long time. it has been difficult with past administrations here in india. there has been progress but things would stall. there were some tensions. remember the expulsion of the indian diplomat two years ago about not paying her nanny enough. things would stand out in the way. with the election of prime minister modi in india and the relationship he has been building with president obama, both sides have said they wanted to see not just incremental changes changes, but transformational changes with the countries. india called it an obvious natural partnership. india in the past hasn't been that strong about goi

we've got white house correspondent michelle kosinski with us now.istoric deal with china as it relates to greenhouse gases and climate change. there is one to be discussed with a deal in india. do we expect it to be as bold as the deal with china. >> reporter: the obama administration would like it to be that bold. the announcement with china was a big deal for the administration the reduction of gases over the next 20 and more years, that they would be having emissions emissions. things like that. but keep in mind that environmentalists in this country and around the world criticized the deal saying it didn't go far enough and that didn't hold china responsible enough. so it's unclear if there is an agreement here what that would entail or would it go even farther. on the nuclear deal it's big news today in india. made media here is reporting that a deal with india has been finalized and that there are two points to it. first of all, the india would relax its liability requirements that is really prevented the u.s. and other countries from building

michelle kosinski cnn, the white house. >>> all right.the president has been busy getting ready for tuesday night's state of the union speech. the administration in fact posted this picture on the white house instagram account of him and his main speechwriter working on the address. theron johnson was the -- and adam goodman, a gop community indications strategist. good to see both of you. often the state of the union, it is great theater. it's really the popcorn moment i believe, where everyone crowds around the camera but too is the fascinating walk of the president into the chamber, and usually republicans, democrats leaning over trying to touch the president. we see it here with george w. bush and here with president obama, but i wonder now we're talking about a republican-controlled congress. might the tone by different? or do you believe that a message will still be sent theron to the nation that everyone gets along and is excited about the president being here? >> this is an excellent opportunity for the american people. this is th

let's bring in michelle kosinski at the white house. what are you hearing?rter: we expect coming from the british side this is what's been announced already. the u.s. and britain will take part in these war games involving cyberterror. simulated attacks on things like wall street bank of england, possibly infrastructure. this will be simulated and they want to check out what the communication would be between the two countries, how they share information, taking a look at the response afterwards. so cyberterrorism is a big deal. we all know that. we'll see two countries share more in how they plan and try to prevent it. also other topics are on the agenda. everything from britain wanting the u.s. to release one of its citizens from guantanamo bay detention center and ebola is another topic. of course the war on terror and its various forms is really going to be the focus, john. >> with so many arrests happening now not just in france but also in belgium with people moving around from madrid to bulgaria to turkey this entire continent where i am michelle is c

let me bring in michelle kosinski who we normally talk about the president with. in paris two years ago you interviewed this magazine charlie hebdo, stephane charbonnier and he was defiant in the face of multiple threats. >> right. we heard him say recently in an interview. he said i don't have a wife. i don't have kids i don't each have a car or mortgage. i would rather die standing up than live kneeling down. that really encapsulates his attitude and back in 2012 there were violent protests going on in other parts of the world. through the middle east there were embassies and consulates under attack and under threat. france closed down embassies in 20 countries at the time and in that environment is when they decided to run the cartoons of the prophet muhammad. it wasn't because of those cartoons. it was because of an american film trailer that was put out on the internet. so in that environment, charlie hebdo, this newspaper put out more cartoons. so the question was okay okay we understand what your newspaper does. we understand the parody but why do it now? a

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michelle kosinski is at the white house with more on the president's plans. >> reporter: looking at theset any of this is going to pass congress? but the white house this morning is saying these are the president's proposals. he's still going to put them forward. now it's time for republicans to present theirs. this is very much the start of a dialogue. a debate not unlike what the president has been saying that he's going to continue to do what he can in the face of congress' inaction during this past year that was definitely an interesting one. >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: president obama is getting ready to deliver his state of the union address and put a tumultuous year behind him that saw challenges to obamacare, scandals in the va and secret service and the rise of isis a return to iraq air strikes over syria and americans murdered. >> we'll be vigilant and we'll be relentless. when people harm americans anywhere we do what's necessary to see that justice is done. >> not quite getting away from a constant war footing that the president emphasized in his last s

. >> let's talk more about the president's visit with our white house correspondent michelle kosinskiho is live from new delhi and our cnn analyst tom fuentes on the phone from washington. michelle, we heard this wrapping up here. they each took one question apiece and it lasted for about 40 minutes or so. what was the takeaway that you got from president obama? because he was asked a number of things, but, more specifically, on some of the crises that we have seen, particularly out of yemen. >> reporter: yeah, i think it's clear that they covered a range of topics. everything that is important in that bilateral relationship. the real headline is the reaching of an agreement, not signed on the dotted line yet. it doesn't assigned like. but what president obama defined as a breakthrough understanding in the civil nuclear agreement. the ability of companies in the united states to participate in indiana, to build nuclear reactors without threat of liability or problems happening down the road. now, they said that this was under discussion and moving forward and called it a before the ac

michelle kosinski cnn security and intelligence analyst robert bear and cnn social media expert samuel burke. michelle mr. cameron will try to get the president to pressure thighs americans companies. that's a tall order, isn't it? >> it absolutely is. it's a tall order in america to get certain amounts of information from these companies. they protect privacy and make a big deal of doing so. in britain the government can simply ask certain telecoms to turn over information and records when needed. by law they have to do that. i'm sure britain would love american companies who do business in britain or have clients in britain to do the same. if those american companies were to do that, they would be braking privacy laws in america. right off the bat, that's really not going to happen. it did emerge just in the past year though that american companies like google and like facebook do comply with nsa schemes that are private to turn over certain information when it's asked for. it's not as if the nsa has direct access to a giant pool of information from these companies, but they do compl

christine. >> michelle kosinski for us in new delhi.pan is now looking to jordan to help gain a freelance journalist freedom from isis. the prime minister is determined to bring kenji goto and the pilot home. the pilot has been held by isis since he crashed in december. it is not clear when the pilot's possible release entered the picture in the negotiations. >>> kurdish forces regained control of the border town of kobani. late last year the world's eyes on them isis fighters controlled much of the city. they posted videos with the flag flying in the region. kobani is the main focus in the last four months. >>> fidel castro breaking his silence over cuba defense of the u.s. ties. castro says in part quote, i don't trust the policy of the united states nor have i engaged a word with them. this does not mean i reject a pacific solution to the conflicts. castro adds we will always defend cooperation and friendship with all of the people of the world, including our political adversaries. >>> a drone that crash lapdnded on the white house g

let's begin with michelle kosinski at the white house.le. >> this morning the white house says they are very pleased with the speech and how it was received. and this is the state of the union address the president has been wanting to make. they say now for the first time the economy is strong enough that he can really focus on some of the initiatives to benefit the middle class. here's one of them. >> if you truly believe you can work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year? try it. if not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in america a raise. >> the president fired up there at times. throwing down the gauntlet challenging republicans to come up with better proposals on a range of issues. for example one of them was the keystone pipeline. the president has threatened to veto that at least for now. he said let's set our sights higher than one pipeline and pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. that's one area of working together with congress that might actually happen. that was a theme of his, it was

michelle kosinski has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: let's talk about that. he wants to cut rates right now. the rate is 20%. he wants to raise it to 28%. he wants to impose a fee on large financial institutions. this was big talk on the sunday morning shows. a senior advisor was on "meet the press" and republican congress member was on cnn's "state of the union." you will hear here they were on different pages. >> a proposition now the economy is in a stronger place, we need to double down with waste stagnation and declining economic mobility. we should ask the wealthy to pay a little more. >> it is a non starter. we are not just one good tax increase away from prosperity in the nation. this nation had its all-time high highest of receipts coming into the treasury. will they be better off or small businesses better off with more taxes and more government? no. >> reporter: here are the tax cuts that president obama ultimately wants to offer. he wants a tax credit for dual income families and trip the child tax credit. we will hear a lot about this as republic

michelle kosinski live from new delhi. chelle we knew that vice president biden was scheduled to go on the trip, why the sudden change? >> hi, christi and victor, the first question after the king died was would president obama be going, would he have to cancel entirely his trip to india. but the white house came up with the plan that vice president bind would lead the delegation. the president would continue on with things as scheduled but suddenly today the change. first, the news came out at indiana from officials there saying that president obama would be cutting his trip there short albeit by a matter of hours. and then the white house confirmed it in a statement. saying when they looked at the schedules and they realized what time the vice president would get to saudi arabia, it was almost the same time that the president would be leaving india. they then decided to change the schedule. and have the president go on to saudi arabia to pay his respects, offer condolences and now vice president biden will be remaining at

. >> michelle kosinski thank you. charlie hebdo published cartoons mocking the prophet mohammed.etary back then. here's what he said about the editor's decision to actually run the cartoons back then. >> we don't question the right of something like this to be published. we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it. it has to be said. i'll say it again. no matter how offensive something like this is it's no way a justification for violence. not in any way justification for violence. >> jay carney joins me now. do you have the same concerns you had two years ago about how wise it may or may not have been to publish these kinds of cartoons? the argument is why should anyone have to kowtow to someone else's, you know something that may offend somebody else? >> i don't think that was what i was expressing on behalf of the administration. our view and remember we had experienced this with the video that had been seen by some muslims as offensive to islam and to the prophet mohammed produced in the united states. and the point i was trying to make is and i think it's

cnn's white house correspondent michele kosinski has details for us. le. >> reporter: hi, christi and victor. this is somewhat unexpected news since it seemed like the schedules had been established. the question initially, when we

joining me is michelle kosinski and chief presidential correspondent dana bash. to you both. >> nice to see you carol. >> nice to see you. michelle i want to start with you. give us a preview of the speech. >> reporter: they put it into three words, middle class economics. a lot of this has been laid out over the last couple of weeks. big proposals like two years of free college education, these tax reforms. yeah, as you put it, many republicans will oppose. so we don't know exactly what the surprises are going to be tonight. the white house has said that they still have more to come that stay tuned, they're going to have something more to lay out there, but they've sort of set this up in an interesting way because they say a lot of their proposals are actually republican ideas, ideas that many republicans have supported in the past things like expanding education tax credits, for example. so they've in some ways put republicans on the spot that are republicans going to support these? unlikely. are they going to oppose them? if they do oppose them then what are th

let's go live to michelle kosinski in new delhi with the details.ing this because they effectively ratcheted up the delegation to pay respects in saudi, haven't they? >> reporter: right. i mean this was a question initially when we learned that king abdullah had died would the president go? would he cancel all together his trip to india? but it looked like they had it established that vice president biden would lead a delegation there. the president would continue on with his plans here to india and that was the way they had it. then suddenly today word came from indian officials that there had been a change of plans. so that's how we learned of it first, that the president would cut his trip a bit short here in india, only by a matter of hours, and then the u.s. agreed yes, that was the case. that plans have changed. the white house put out a statement through the pool of reporters traveling with him, saying that they decided that vice president biden's trip -- by the time he got there to saudi arabia the president would already be about to leave i

michelle kosinski reporting from the white house. >>> a cyber jihad.ack attacks across france. in all, 19,000 websites targeted. investigators have traced much of the work to islamic hacker groups. cnn's samuel burke is here to talk about that. >> the head of cyber defense for france says this is an unprecedented surge in attacks against french websites something they've never seen before from military websites to civilian websites. this includes the websites of businesses carol, religious groups universities they're being filled with pro islamic images and messages on these sites. it's interesting. at the same time these attacks are happening against french websites seemingly from islamic groups at the same time anonymous launched their own campaign that they say will be a repriceal campaign for what happened in the "charlie hebdo" shootings. take a look at what they posted on youtube. >> attacking freedom of speech is attacking anonymous. we will not permit it. any organizations and entities linked to that should expect a massive attack from anonymou

let's go to michelle kosinski. vice president joe biden is in the senate getting ready to swear in the newly reelected members of the senate and the new members of the senate. we'll be watching that as he goes forward. there's the vice president of the united states, joe biden, getting ready to do that, to start swearing in new members and reelected members of the united states senate. joe biden being the president. the vice president is always the president of the united states senate. but quickly, michelle, tell us a little bit about what we expect. we fully expect the president will go ahead and veto legislation if the senate and the house pass the keystone pipeline. >> reporter: right, we certainly heard that yesterday. they're not saying that in so many words. yesterday we didn't hear from the president directly but from the press secretary. this was the first white house briefing we've had since before the holidays. we asked a lot of those tough questions. they're not issuing a veto threat as they have in the

let's get the latest from our michelle kosinski live in the white house with details. director clancy said this was coming. >> ever since the now-infamous white house fence jumper incident in september exposed an array of deep-rooted problems at the secret service, we've seen the need for change here. the director said that a french perspective is needed. the question has been out there, who would be held accountable. the director did lose her job and now we see the of the top-ranking secret service employees, the assistant directors of investigations protection public public affairs and technology reassigned not fired, but reassigned. and a fifth person has retired. so after the series of security breaches and embarrassments the acting director said this was devastating. and the independent panel's review after the fence-jumper incident voeed that the agency was quote starved for leadership. that there was low morale, a chronic lack of training and short staffing also an unlocked front door at the white house. the panel recommended that the fence outside the white hou

>> very interesting developments michelle kosinski thank you. >>> a u.s. navy cargo ship has run aground off the coast of japan. about six miles east of okinawa. right now we're told there are efforts under way to try to refloat the vessel. the 127 crew are still on board. we have learned that they are uninjured. fortunately no leaks or hull damage has been reported. and at this point, no word on what exactly caused the accident. >>> ukraine is now under siege. this is not just a skirmish this is a battleground. ten civilians have been killed dozens injured. militants began shelling areas in donetsk. secretary of state john kerry is accusing pro russian separatists of a blatant land grab. ukraine claims it isn't just separatists, it is in fact russian military. the president there says 9,000 russian troops are fighting alongside rebel forces in ukraine. russia denies this as they have denied any involvement from the beginning. >>> take a look at these images, this is a massive fire destroying an apartment complex in edgewater, new jersey the fire is contai

cowes michelle kosinski is our white house correspondent. i know he was briefed on air force one about what's going on in france the ramifications for the u.s. what are you learning? >> reporter: this meeting just wrapped up a short time ago. his national security advisor, homeland security adviser, secretary of homeland security directors of the cia, fbi, and others. the focus was on paris to update the president fully on the situation as well as look at the u.s. security posture in light of this. no further detail was given on any changes that might come out of this, but because the president was traveling, this was all done by phone as he was on air force one on his way back to d.c. from phoenix. and we did hear from the president yesterday as well as others in the administration but today the white house has been quiet. they're not responding to any details that have come out through law enforcement. they're not weighing in on any of those details, especially since one of the big questions out there is foreign fighters and that has been

white house correspondent michelle kosinski joins us to tell us reaction from the white house. >> thereot just the u.s. but the world has been focused on the visible threat posed by isis. is the u.s. doing enough and has it been doing enough to stop al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, in yemen, which has been such an effective exporter of terror and bomb-maker now thought to be linked to the horrific attacks in paris. much has been made of the president calling the u.s. strategy there, working with the yemeni government something of as success story. four months later, many are calling millennium an failed state with, rebels taking over the capital. what does that mean for the strategy moving forward? and analysts are also looking at past aspects of the strategy. did the u.s. and the yemeni government essentially cause al qaeda to spread out, become further entrenched? further hidden without defeating them? why have there been so few drone strikes there recently? the administration is saying that criticism is unfounded, that the u.s. remains vigilant. and engaged and even pointing to sev

cnn's michelle kosinski is live at the white house with a preview. >> plenty will be watching to seection is. but there's also talk about president obama getting his mojo back after the mid-term elections. his approval rating ticking up over the last few weeks. in the latest poll from abc and the "washington post" is a 50% approval rating. or nine points higher than it was just about a month ago. the white house sums up the theme of this state of the union in three thirds middle class economics, we've seen them lay it out with their tax proposal free junior college education. they say there's more to come. but you have to think, coming on the heels of major cyber and terror attacks, that has to figure in significantly as well. and we asked a former speech writer for president clinton what he thought the speech would be, domestic versus foreign policy. he said he thought it would be 50/50. he thinks that this speech will start with president obama's domestic agenda. alisyn? >> okay michelle thanks so much for all that let's break it down with cnn's political analyst and editor in chie

our white house correspondent michelle kosinski joins us live with some of the memorable moments of the session. the first of its kind. >> we would have loved to interview the president after the state of the union message. but unfortunately for us, we've never attempted the green gumball challenge, the october mu pus octopus challenge. we did not qualify. >> the state of the union is strong. >> so the white house assembled some top talent to delve into the president's thinking. not from among the titans of journalism, or the political uber blogger wonkie, but the best of youtube. >> prepare to empty your brain. >> it's okay? is you? good, because i want to know. >> the lineup, glozell. millions of subscribers. her clip, my push-up bra will help me get my man, 23 million views. and green, science nerd. >> speed and velocity are not interchangeable. neither are mass and weight. >> and bethany moda, a teenager brimming with style tips and eight million subscribers. >> my eyebrows look extremely uneven in this video. let's not talk about it. >> for all the build-up -- what? >> you used phr

cnn's white house correspondent michele kosinski has details for us. good morning, michele. >> reporter: hi, christi and victor. this is somewhat unexpected news since it seemed like the schedules had been established. the question initially, when we learned of king abdullah's death, what does this mean for the president's trip to india, would he have to cancel that would he go to saudi arabia? the white house established vice president biden would lead a delltation to saudi arabia and that the president's plans in india would continue. but then news broke in india from officials here that the president had cut his trip short. not by a long period of time. in fact less than a day. he'll still be able to give remarks on tuesday. once that broke, then the white house did release a statement early this morning saying that was the case that they -- they said they looked at the schedules of when the vice president would land in saudi arabia versus when the president was scheduled to leave india and decided it was just too tight a window of time why not have