administration. quote, the need for sony pictures to make that decision ultimately arose from the administration s continuing failure to satisfactorily address the use of cyberweapons by our nation s enemies, closed 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
we ve had movies that people put up with that say, yeah, i don t like it, i don t like the message, but we re america and we re going to put up with it for the greater good. and you see hollywood just go to its knees, bowing to pyongyang and north korea, because, oh, golly, they ll do it again to one of our exhibiters. i still don t get it. 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 r
i asked for hip-hop music during the break. hip-hop music about geeks. we ve already been geeking out this morning on the show but apparently it s time to geek out a little more as we take you to las vegas. of course, that is where the tech gadgets of the future are now being displayed at annual consumer electronics show. kabc s rick romero is there to give us a look. reporter: nearly 20 football fields in size and almost 4,000 exhibiters, the ces in vegas is a high-tech dream. this year robotics are huge. take the momma rue for moms. for $250 you can rock your babies to sleep robotically with up to ten different soothing motions. are you one who doesn t do windows? don t worry. the wind bot window cleaning robot will do it for you. turn it on. sticks to the window. measures your window for you. and then it cleans it and at the end it goes around the edges and then goes back to where you started it. reporter: buggie is your
exponentially, algorithmically, whatever word you want to use, in cannes. erin, how is the thief able to pull this off? reporter: well, erin, it was 11:30 on sunday when people had gathered here at the carlton hotel to look at the diamond exhibition, when all of a sudden a man with a space-covered head in a cap walked into the hotel carrying a semiautomatic weapon and threatened to shoot both the exhibiters and the guests before walking out with what prosecutors now say is over $100 million worth of jewelry. now, there was security present at the time. prosecutors say that security was unarmed. plenty of questions remain as to how this could have happened, why the necessary security was not in place to protect the jewelry and what is looking like one of the biggest gem thefts in contemporary european history. erin? all right, thanks to erin. and now, let s check in with
robber made off with close to $136 million in precious jewels, a number that, by the way, surged stratospherically, exponentially, algorithmically, whatever word you want to use, in cannes. erin, how is the thief able to pull this off? reporter: well, erin, it was 11:30 on sunday when people had gathered here at the carlton hotel to look at the diamond exhibition, when all of a sudden a man with his face covered, head in a cap walked into the hotel and carrying a semiautomatic weapon and threatened to shoot both the exhibiters and the guests before walking out with what the prosecutors say now is over $100 million worth of jewelry. now, there was security present at the time. prosecutors say that security was unarmed. plenty of questions remain as to how this could have happened, why the necessary security was not in place to protect the jewelry and what is looking like one of the biggest gem thefts in contemporary european history.