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nina is an associate professor of international affairs at the new school. thank you both for being here. and i want to start by asking you, tony, as a technical matter. would this attack be considered cyber terrorism? oh, without question. when the private enterprise, a major corporation, international corporation like sony actually has its decisions changed and its actions changed based on a hacking attack. and it really sets a dangerous precedent. not only in the united states, but internationally. well, and the reason i asked that question, nina, is because what the attack does lack is the credible threat that anything violent would then come of it beyond the embarrassment, obviously, to sony and the loss of money to sony. and jay johnson specifically was asked by andrea mitchell if it was terrorism. and he was really reluctant to call it terrorism.
building. there s been speculation that this job was something that it was an inside job, that this hacking attack was something done from the inside. we re told that the u.s. does not believe that s the case and found no indication of this. instead, we have the fbi, nsa, every part of the u.s. national security apparatus that s been working on investigating this hack, wolf. and they found traces, fingerprints, digital fingerprints that lead this right back to north korea, wolf. i want to be precise on the breaking news that you are getting, evan. they managed to get from somebody on the inside the credentials, if you will, the passwords, whatever they need in order to get into the system, open the door and then start stealing all of this information. is that what you re saying? they managed to steal these credentials, wolf. they managed to steal the credentials of somebody who basically had access to the
threatened movie theaters that were planning to screen it. for more on all of these developments let s bring back chief national correspondent, jim sciutto from washington, cnn analyst jeffrey toobin and former presidential candidate newt gingrich. thanks so much for being here. tell us your new reporting. well, it s incredible. only a few weeks ago, we had the release of all the american detainees in north korea, you ll remember that moment. reporting it here on new day. thoughts what does this mean, new outreach from north korea. a calmer period in u.s./north korean relations. now you have this unprecedented north korean hacking attack on a major u.s. company. the u.s. about to identify north korea today as behind the attack and announce measures it s going to take in response. so the concern is that that restarts this cycle of provocation between the u.s. and north korea. it is so familiar and the u.s. officials have been on pin and needles about a missile test.
straight ahead, sony pictures is pulling the movie after the hacking group vows terror attacks on theaters. only the we re learning u.s. officials believe north korea was behind the computer hacking attack on sony entertainment. the officials telling nbc news, the hacking attack originated outside north korea but they think they were acting on orders from the north koreans. also more on the top story and why someone on the right is out of touch with america on cuba. i think this is most wonderful news in my entire life, to be honest with you. i have traveled all over the world including china. a very big communist country. we have a great relationship with the communist country china. why can t we have that with cuba?