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Bow. >> "all in "starts right now. >> good evening to you. i'm ari melber in for chris hayes. president obama got right to the point when addressing the sony hack for the first time today. telling americans he believes sony pictures made a mistake in pulling the theatrical release of its film "the interview "which depicts that plot to assassinate north korean leader kim jong-un. in self-ken sureship after the company was hacked, and began releasing it in order to damage and intimidate sony. there were also terror threats made against any theater that wanted to show the film. it was an unusual ...

Similarities to last year's south korean companies. state departments spokesperson declined to outline how the u.s. plans to respond to the attack. the president walked a strong but strategically vague line at the press conference. he rebuked sony and he slammed north korea. but he avoided telegraphing his foreign policy plans and he distinguished between the core values of free expression and principle that many have been debating this week and the way it was being tested through an admittedly goofy cast of a film very few people have seen. >> i think it says something interesting about north...

Industry, perhaps the support of government, we could have figured out, how do we respond to this, you know, collectively as americans. >> p.j., sony -- >> and as a government -- >> sony was not prepared. do you think the state department was unprepared as well, basically? >> well, the government has seen the threat of cyber attacks coming at us. this is an act of aggression. don't think it's an act of terrorism necessarily. i don't think it's an act of war. and i do think that we need to continue as a government to press for greater information sharing from the private sector to the public se...

Else? >> i think any company put in this situation would face the same decisions to actually protect the entity. of course, we want companies, we want people to stand up for first amendment. oh, by the way, the first amendment is alive and well in america. of course we do. but not at, you know, possibly critically injuring the messenger. we don't ask that of anyone. and i don't know why we would ask it here. and the bottom line, ari, is that if you think about it, if there's a threat to an exhibitor, whether it's a physical threat of an explosion or bombing or the 9/11 threat or there's actual...

Lost our first cyber attack. it's like, really? really? we expected sony to fight back and possibly, you know, lose their business in the long term? it's not a corporation's fight to fight. it's really something that happened. i think sony's fighting right now to survive. and i think that's the right approach. >> mitch singer, i appreciate your time and your expertise here. that was the corporate perspective. thank you for that. and we are going to go to the government perspective to p.j. crowley, former spokesperson for the state department. first, what did you think of that argument mitch ma...