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Is a great outcome for, a great story for those of us who have been following it all day. what about the rest of the country? people take it as a given, i think, that you cant go to cuba, that this is a zero tolerance policy. and americans have heard, i should mention, from presidents in both parties for decades, that this is how it has to be, that this is a national security matter. what changed and what about it would be good for regular americans? >> well, ari, i think after 54 years of unsuc...

Experience. >> reporting in hollywood, is this seen as a sony problem or a story about a particular movie that was aberrant, was weird, that went really far in a storyline about assassinating a current leader or is this a bigger story now that people are feeling square eing bigger story now that people are feeling square ein scared acros industry? >> the silence was deafening, very few a-list director, big studio executives came out and went to bat for sony. >> why? >> a lot of it was fear. >> f...

He e-mailed me and said today the u.s. succumbed to an attack. the wishes of the terrorists were fulfilled in part by easily distracted members of the american press who chose gossip and schadenfreude-fueled reporting over a story with immeasurable consequence for a story that was forming before their eyes. judd apatow asked if they will pull any movie that gets an anonymous threat. and steve carell called it a sad day for creative expression. whether theyre criticizing their own government than...

Interview" from theaters sony faces the decision about what to do about all this in the film. theyre calling for them to release the movie online arguing that doing that will make it clear that those behind the hacks and the threats they cant force complete censorship of this film. quite a story unfolding here. joining me is brent lang, a senior reporter for "variety" magazine and has been all over this. lets start with the fact that this is a difficult decision that sony had to make. we underst...