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>> well, you just heard from him. president obama taking questions for the future of america head on. hi, everyone. im gretchen carlson, and were here to give you an abelievated forum of the real story today. thanks for joining us. his announcement comes as the fbi calls out north korea for sonys hack attack. it also comes just days after the president announced new relations with cuba. after more than half a century of sanctions and an embargo, he says did not work. the president faced down rep...

>> tom last what about kyung lah was talking, about the shadowy group of hackers, the bureau 121, what do we know? >> we know they have it and we know they have probably a couple thousand people that theyve trained with that. and this almost meets the exact definition of asymmetrical warfare. you have a country that cant reliably launch a missile, even as close as japan, much less reach the united states. but if you can train a couple thousand top-level hackers like this, then they can cripple s...

Principles in europe. >> we will continue to monitor the white house briefing over there. josh earnest the white house press secretary changing, answering questions on ukraine and russia, sanctions. well bring you up to speed on that. eventually he will be speaking on day two of the dramatic announcement yesterday about an improvement in u.s./cuba relations and monitor that as well. you heard him say, no official announcement yet from the administration on who was responsible for the attack, the...

What have you learned about the u.s. linking the attack directly to north korea? because as you know, the north korean government has flatly denied it was responsible and praised all the criticism of the film, but it doesnt -- it insists it had nothing to do with the hacking? >> youre right. the north korean government has denied involvement but we know from sources in early december there was a growing confidence in the u.s. government that north korea was responsible for the hack attack at son...

The question now, will any of them risk a hack attack to do it. cnn, new york. one estimate says sony looks like they could lose at least $50 million by pulling this. expensive. >> it cost $44 million to make. but its all about freedom of speech. its not necessarily about the movie. can we really let terrorists dictate what we see in the movie theatres? i think theyre right. stand up to them. >> yeah. there we go. now, coming up next, some new steps to repair the battered economy in russia. ho...

Understand today is that in the north korea is behind the attack. the question becomes, who did they use? did it originate in that country or was it outside that country? and that remains as far as we can tell, uncertain. but what is the u.s. government assessment, is that the regime of kim young un was behind, is responsible for that hack attack. >> so the outsource, that gets to capability. what about motive? is this more anti-japanese because we keep forgetting, it is so familiar to us. a bra...

North korea is behind the attack. the question becomes, who did they use? did it originate in that country or was it outside that country? and that remains as far as we can tell, uncertain. but what is the u.s. government assessment, is that the regime of kim young un was behind, is responsible for that hack attack. >> so the outsource, that gets to capability. what about motive? is this more anti-japanese because we keep forgetting, it is so familiar to us. a brand name coming from japan. are t...

I cant keep a secret in this family. thats my tide. and welcome back to the second hour of the rundown. developing this morning, two major stories we are following. the first, a dramatic domino effect release of alan gross. the second is the hack attack on sony pictures. the u.s. confirming north korea is to blame. nbc news chief foreign correspondent, andrea mitchell is fighting some kind of voice issue. here she is working like she does 24 hours a day. pleasure to see you. >> i hope you can ...

Decades. >> interesting also apparently agreement not to invade cuba by the united states. >> right. and theres some people think that settlement prevails. it never went into force because the united states promised not to invade cuba only if castro didnt spread revolution. also if he allowed on site inspections of military sites. that never happened. >> michael, i wish i had three hours of the show so i could spend the rest of it with you, man. thank you. >> thank you, jose. >> pleasure to see ...

"live with kelly and michael." >> james franco was supposed to be here but theyre going through a lot over there so he had to cancel. but, you know, hopefully everything over there gets worked out. >> reporter: even the new york premiere set for tomorrow has now been scrapped. this as a movie with a $44 million budget so if theaters wont play it, what should sony do? >> i think sony should fight fire with fight. that is, if these people are using information theyve hacked on the internet, why do...