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This. i know brian talked about them cobbling together some theaters to show it. i do not believe for one second that sony had to cobble together anything. if i think if they wanted to show the movie, they would have been able to find theaters to show the movie. and i think they were perfectly pleased to have these theaters pull out and give them a face-saving way out. i think what they said was -- >> that was their scapegoat. >> who will relieve us of this troublesome film? i don't believe they had any trouble finding theaters. >> that's interesting. do you want to respond? >> they could have...

Senior correspondent at gawker. a truman project fellow and a director for cyber security legislation and policy in the obama administration. we were talking about this earlier. is this a victory for free speech and for sony? >> i think there is no way to construe this as a victory for sony. they have still been shamed across the internet and the political landscape. they will have a limited release of this film that has been the center of the controversy, but i don't see it reversing the damage that has been done overall by the hack. >> if this movie is released and we know it will be somewha...

Any sort of video on demand type experience. we've shown a number of videos released afterwards. we haven't been hurt by that at all. >> okay. paul brown, thank you so much. >> that's it. >> appreciate it. >> yeah. >> thank you very much. >> you got it. you got it. happy holidays to you. i want to talk more about this with michael, a columnist for out.com. here you are back, we're talking about this reversal. are you surprised? >> i'm not that surprised because, brooke, the entire world came down on sony, including the president, george clooney was starting a petition saying let's stand up to ...

We were completely surprised by it. and announced they would not carry the movie. >> reporter: sony's ceo had to reach out to the major theater chains after those comments and say he did not mean theaters were wholly responsible. government sources tell us that hacking north korea's internet and the denial of service attack is not incredibly difficult. but if the u.s. government did do this, they aren't talking about it. tom llamas, abc news, new york. the envoy in charge of transferring detainees from the u.s. prison at guantanamo is resigning. cliff sloan has been on the job 18 months. he ...

Spokesperson was asked about the out agenda this afternoon. >> we aren't going to discuss publicly operational details about the response options or comments on those kind of reports in any way, except to say as we implement our responses, some may be seen and some may not be seen. >> the studio does plan to driblt the now infamous interview. meanwhile, the republican national committee has called upon theater chains to play the movie today. the congressman sent sony a letter asking them to scream e screen the film at the capital. here's the thing. there are some very smart people out there. n...