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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 confident that the north korea government is responsible for the destructive attack. president obama said t...

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 have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the united state...

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 family's trip to the aloha state. >> president obama was clearly not happy with sony's decision to pull the release of that movie and yesterday the ceo of the entertainment division of sony shot back. he's been a big political supporter of the president. but yesterday he said on cnn that he defended his actions, that the president was mista...

Saying he tried to rally the troops and say we can't be giving in, we can't 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 couldn't get anybody on board. >> isn't that something? we're all vulnerable to this kind of pressure and hacking attack. but the other point here is this, subtle shift now in sony's rhetoric because before it said it had no plans and frankly no interest in putting this movie online, whic...

Saying he tried to rally the troops and say we can't be giving in, we can't 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 couldn't get anybody on board. >> isn't that something? we're all vulnerable to this kind of pressure and hacking attack. but the other point here is this, subtle shift now in sony's rhetoric because before it said it had no plans and frankly no interest in putting this movie online, whic...