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in order to make themselves more resilient and better able to defend against this type of attack. and michael, as far as how this town is reacting, george clooney couldn t get anyone who he wanted to sign his petition. he wasn t looking for just other actors. he was looking for real power players and people who run stewed twrudios to sign the pet. is that changing? i think the idea of going to studios and exhibiters, movie house chains, they re probably not well cast could be the bulwarks in favor of free speech and the first amendment. they really are about their business model. and their business model is presenting movies and not, not subjecting their audiences to a threat. so i m not really surprised. but i think it really was a shame, a shame for the industry that they could not come
quote, we are not willing to escalate. in that same story, the newspaper reported that, quote, officials agree that there are no good options. chris, what are people afraid of? i mean, i know i m naive, but i guess my e-mail s pretty boring, but what is everybody afraid of, that the exhibiters, the distributors, why are they all buckling to this guy in pyongyang, in north korea, apparently? well, chris, you have to think about the precedent for the future. and, you know, what i would say is, we don t want to resort to frontier justice by throwing rocks when our entire society and economy is built of glass. so we have to be very careful how we proceed, because this is an entirely new space. it s unchartered territory. and we don t want to establish unhelpful norms that will escalate and keep american companies in the cross fire. so we want to what makes you you sound worried yourself. what is the worst thing the guy could do to us in terms of hacking into our anybody in
why were the exhibiters so somebody in my family called me the other day and said, i m worried about going to the movie to see this movie, because, you know, it might be dangerous. how did they get to the idea they can jump to actual physical violence? how did that get started, chris? well, it actually started with this threat chris, i m sorry. chris first. well, these are punks sitting behind a computer, okay? they ve got no actual ability to physically harm americans on domestic soil. but philosophically speaking, this is an ideological threat. they are threatened by our free speech, and this is their response to it. and i think you re right, to cower is the wrong response. we don t want to we don t want them to win in this case. i agree. thank you so much, chris. anyway, ted johnson, thank you for talking, for hollywood. coming up, president obama s proving he s no lame duck. in the last couple of weeks, lack at it, he s been doing some big, historic things, as if he s
quote. joining the roundtable, perry bacon, bloomberg s margaret carlson, and republican strategist, john feehery. john, here s what. first of all, the obama administration had very little to do with any of this. it was the sony pictures, the exhibiters, and the distributors, the movie makers and the movie showers, they didn t want to do this. they didn t want a fight, why? i think they re worried about other revelations coming out from the hacks, possible strategy on legislation, maybe other things. but this is very serious. and it is cyberterrorism and we do need to have an effective response. and there s plenty of blame to go around. there s been legislation kind of kicking around in the house and senate. there needs to be an effective response, because we cannot allow this stuff to stand. we can t be bullied by a small guy in north korea. speaking of bully, it would bug me, if a member of my family was concerned about going to the debuts of this new movie, the interview, that