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Crippling the attack and calling it groundless slander and times up with the united states for the investigation. president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what was the president up to today? >> reporter: well, julie, president obama played a round of golf in the first full day of christmas vacation in hawaii. his administration is dealing with theuation of soiber attack by north korea. north korea denied involvement in the attack. but the national council said the fbi made chlor, we are confide...

Serious hacking attack from hackers who the united states government believes to be the government of north korea. the president today says he has sympathy for sony and recognized they are going through a hard time, but he criticized very bluntly their decision to pull the movie. >> sony is a corporation. it suffered significant damage. there were threats against its employees. i am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. we cannot hav...

President holding a major year end news conference yesterday. mr. obama slamming sony pictures for pulling a movie from theaters after the company was hit hard by a devastating cyberattack. joining us live now from honolulu with the very latest on the first familys trip to the aloha state. >> president obama was clearly not happy with sonys decision to pull the release of that movie and yesterday the ceo of the entertainment division of sony shot back. hes been a big political supporter of the p...

Saying he tried to rally the troops and say we cant be giving in, we cant have a foreign country or any type of hacker dictating the content of what we produce. what if they start going after newsrooms and documentary newsmakers? things that are fact, not fiction. where do you draw the line? clooney says he couldnt get anybody on board. >> isnt that something? were all vulnerable to this kind of pressure and hacking attack. but the other point here is this, subtle shift now in sonys rhetoric bec...

Saying he tried to rally the troops and say we cant be giving in, we cant have a foreign country or any type of hacker dictating the content of what we produce. what if they start going after newsrooms and documentary newsmakers? things that are fact, not fiction. where do you draw the line? clooney says he couldnt get anybody on board. >> isnt that something? were all vulnerable to this kind of pressure and hacking attack. but the other point here is this, subtle shift now in sonys rhetoric bec...

We need a proportional response. sophisticated actors, when they carry out actions like this, are often times, not always, but often, seeking to provoke a response from the united states of america. theyve made believe that a response from us in one fashion or another would be advantageous to them. >> so the watch word has been proportional response. in the context of a big hacking attack and then a threat of physical violence, do we have any state crafty sense of what

We need a proportional response. sophisticated actors when they carry out actions like this are oftentimes -- not always, but often seeking to provoke a response from the united states of america. they may believe that a response from us in one fashion or another would be advantageous to them. >> josh earnest speaking today at the white house. joining us is jason healey, from the atlantic council. thanks for being with us. appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. >> the watch word from the ad...

Uber to legally. we are breaking news to report. the fbi just released a statement on the sony hacking attack. pete williams is live for us in washington. youve been following this. >> here is the key sentence in this long fbi statement, quote, the fbi has enough information to conclude that the north korean government is responsible for these actions referring to the attack on the sony entertainment computer system. they say theyre not going to give a lot of detail here about why theyve concl...

>> good afternoon from washington. in a few moments, president obama will hold his last news conference of the year before departs for his vacation in hawaii. the growing controversy over the hacking attack on sony and most importantly, sonys reaction. the change in cuban policy and the torture report. immigration policy. the economy and of course the plummeting prices for gas. all topics the president is expected to be grilled about in an hour long back and forth with the white house press corp...

We need a proportional response. sophisticated actors when they carry out actions like this are oftentimes -- not always, but often seeking to provoke a response from the united states of america. they may believe that a response from us in one fashion or another would be advantageous to them. >> josh speaking today at the white house. joining susjason healy, from the atlantic council. thanks for being with us. appreciatior time tonight. >> thank you. >> the watch word from the administration ha...