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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 h...

>> 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 ...

>> 9/11 style threats. it has a plot to assassinate the north korean leader kim jong-un. >> the cia would love it if you could take him out. >> huh? >> take him out. >> like for drinks? >> to dinner? >> no. take him out. >> you want to us kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. the news is that u.s. officials believe it is linked to the hacking attack. joining me now, toure. nbc news reports, quote, we have found linkage to the north korean government. this is a major development in

Critical of him. there's a number of countries, if you open your mouth and criticized government -- that's it, you're going to prison and maybe worse than that. so in that sense, this one is a little more unprecedented, because it's hitting here against us in the u.s. or against a company doing considerable business in the united states. cnn has showed clips from that movie how many times a day? the other news networks also. what if they turn this hacking attack on one of the news networks and start censoring our news? tell cnn we're going to release your emails and destroy data in your networ...

And it's another to bring in explosives and carry out that type of an attack. i think the bigger fear that the fbi and the other authorities have is that other companies could be vulnerable. what if they pick a news media company? when you start having the internal workings of an organization or the destruction of data within an organization, what if they attack this network and start destroying data in the archives of cnn or releasing internal documents and e-mails between senior producers and others? so the threat that this can happen to any company, the data disruption is part of the progra...