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Night of all nights even if he did mean mazel tov, granting the hanukka celebration, is it's not really a mazel tov situation. it's more of a happy holidays thing, not mazel tov. but still, nice try. and tonight is the first night of the festival of lights. so molotov to you and your whole family. happy hanukka. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> i'm just going to play it wicked safe. happy holidays. >> indeed. play it safe for now. thanks, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. well, tonight, the stolen sony e-mails story has become a terrorism story, and the terrorists are t...

Very dangerous slippery slope here. on the one hand, if they keep this movie in theatre, it could cause people to say you know what, i'm not going near any movie theatre over the christmas holiday. and that week between christmas and new year's is the most traf trafficked times of movie theatres for the entire year. it's crucially important to hollywood. but on the other hand, if if you take a movie out of the theatres because of some threats by some hackers, you're essentially giving the green light to do this again and again and again. >> and so matthew, does the industry -- i know a lot of ...

Incredible capability to do damage in cyber domain to its company, but not really in the physical domain. i think there's an important disting there. it's very different to say you're able to threaten people's lives versus releasing data stolen from servers. >> well, john, blowing up a movie theatre is easier than the cyberattack that has occurred on sony. many, many, many people can do that. timothy mcveigh didn't have anything like the technical sophistication these attackers on sewnmy to do. so to say it's not within their powers to blow up a movie theatre, which has a exercise for a very l...

And more on the way. minuteclinic. another innovation from cvs health. because health is everything. >> breaking news tonight on the attack on sony. today, the sony attackers threatened to attack movie theatres and movie theatregoers that show the seth rogan-james franco north korean comedy "the interview." a sony pictures film is scheduled to open in wide release on christmas day, according to the hollywood reporter. sony pictures is telling theatres that they are free to drop the movie and that the studio will support them in whatever decision they make. the "hollywood reporter" is also repo...

Theatres, 2,971 screens across 41 states. joining me now is the executive editor of "the hollywood reporter." also joining me is john condra, an east asian richl expert. the breaking news about the theatre cancellations, this is one of the things that sony feared from the start, but the threats to the theatres are very specific and include a threat to people who live nier the movie theatres that might show this film, warning them that they should not be home when this film appears. >> yeah. this is a definite escalation. so far, this has been an attack on a company. it's now an attack on you, ...