sony says they didn t. it s a very ill-judged decision to make a movie with kim jong-un in it in the first place, named and identified as a sitting head of a foreign state. no other studio would have done it. sony did it. now they re paying a horrible price. and the whole country is being pulled into this horrible display of suppression of freedom of expression and an international incident. if somebody would have said at the beginning of the year, the president would have a news conference at the end of the year and most of it would be dominated by sony pictures and north korea, we would have said, what? kim, thanks very much for joining us. kim masters, christian whitton and tom. thanks very much. in this accident.
i was in meetings in 1994 where we were discussing information warfare, the threat of cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure, what to do about protecting it. the fbi in the 90s established a program called infraguard which has tens of thousands of companies that they work with every day to help them look at their systems and keep track of their systems because of what it would do to the united states power, water, nuclear facilities, communications most of all. so these things this is something the government s been focused on, not necessarily resourced enough over the years, that s a different battle. but this is not a new fight or a new issue. it s a huge, huge priority. certainly it is right now. christian, what do you think? did north korea do this alone or did they have some other outside partners, actors, individuals, maybe even someone inside sony helping them? well, the fbi and the president seem to be pretty clear that it was just north korea. but frankly north
there are always very sophisticated actors out there. and for them, we just have to assume that an attack could occur. so organizations need to be prepared. reporter: the government spent $10 billion on cyber security last year. but that can t defend against an employee who s duped into clicking on a malicious link. as one expert told me, there s no good defense against a stupid user. chris frates reporting for us. thank you very much. let s get more right now. joining us in the situation room, cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. also joining us, kim masters, editor at large for the hollywood reporter and christian whitton, senior adviser on north korean matters. i assume you accept the fbi s bottom-line conclusion, saying there s enough evidence to conclude that north korea the north korean government is responsible for these actions, you have no doubt about that? no doubt. they wouldn t put that out if they had the slightest dou
of course, we also have to worry about islamists who are doing pretty well in places like libya well, really, everywhere. the problem with china, and the new air defense identification zone that they ve declared, this is only the latest steps in provocations. they re really pushing the peripheries, and not getting a lot of pushback. they asked the u.s. commander, or top admiral in the pacific, what s the biggest threat in your region. he didn t say china, he didn t say north korea, he said climate change. what should it be in that case, christian? i think we should make the pivot real. first of all, it s a bit misleading to make the pivot to asia centered just around the military. our relationships in asia are much more commercial. make the military change real. we don t need troops, frankly, in europe anymore.
gorbachev. the former state department senior adviser and author, christian joins us now. christian, hello to you, first of all. what is your take on the general frustration that u.s. allies have with the white house, then weigh in if you will on some of the specific concerns. good to see you. it looks like we ve reached a turning point. there have been things in the past that have caused allies around the globe to worry about the u.s. when this administration came into office, it essentially betrayed poland and the czech republic. it made russia very mad. we canceled the program, so those allies got the down side of russia s ire and didn t get