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Journalists but there's an important distinction to make. the journalists are not the ones hacking into sony. that would be illegal and that would be wrong. we're only reporting on what has already been made public. >> reporter: the hackers say the best is yet to come. "we are preparing for you a christmas gift. the gift will be larger quantities of data. and it will be more interesting. the gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put sony pictures into the worst state." cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter and the host of "reliable sources" says this has a chilling effect. >>...

There will never be an article or a morevie, for that matter about brave screenwriter executives, and they would be the first ones to laugh you out of the room if you pitched a movie about brave studio executives. but ask yourselves what you would have done if people who broke into your company and stole everything out of your files and then started making it public, and then started threatening you and your family and the families of everyone who worked at your company, and all they wanted you to do was suppress one little thing that your company was doing, suppress a movie that didn't cost a...

You two are going to be in a room alone with kim, and the cia would love it if you could take him out. >> hmm? ? take him out. >> for coffee? >> for dinner? >> for kimchi? >> take him out. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea? >> gentlemen. >> they offered to keep it secret if they would withdraw the movie. they were threatened with not only you but your family will be in danger, end quote. now you are can scour the news media for stories about the brave studio executives choosing to support freedom of speech instead of cowering in front of only you but your family will be in dange...

Heretofore pale by comparison. but speaking of the salacious stuff, i want to read a september exchange. criticizing leonardo dicaprio's decision to back out of the bio pick. quote, was this about the deal or did he just change his mind? that's from gordon. the latter replied, then gordon replied with horrible behavior which was echoed, actually, despicable. do you think hollywood stars are really surprised by exchanges like this? or are they more surprised they've gone public? and i also want to ask, do the stars need the studios more or do the studios need the stars more? >> well, it's a mut...

Warrants. >> you bet. there's a dramatic story developing in hollywood tonight where computer hackers have leaked some e-mails from some movie studio executives who were also some of the president's biggest donors. and these e-mails are shocking in what they say. wonder why we didn't hear about this everywhere today. trace gallagher has more from our west coast newsroom, trace. >> the e-mail exchange happened just before president obama appeared at a fundraiser in 2013. the head, amy pascal and scott rudin were having a back and forth about what the president's favorite movies might be. the ...