Week In The News: Russian Security, Obamacare Launches, Pot Legalized Out West (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Week one, 2014.  Well, half a week, anyway.  And plenty of news.  In Russia, where terror attacks have shaken things up just weeks before the Winter Olympics.  In Colorado, where pot is now legal and shopping baskets are filling up.  In Iraq, where the Syrian war threatens to spill and spread.  And in the USA, where Obamacare is in effect as of January 1.  We’ve got a would-be definitive telling of what happened in Benghazi.  A dramatic Antarctic rescue.  Drone testing sites in the US.  And a blizzard in the northeast.  This hour On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

– Tom Ashbrook

Interview:  http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/01/03/russian-bombing-obamacare-pot-colorado