e-mails to say they shouldn t show the picture, and they basically on the basis of looking at that, they decided they wouldn t take the picture. does that mean that dvd release also becomes difficult because you would face the same challenge, which is the walmarts and the costcos of the world would have to agree to stock the dvd? again, we don t have a direct interface with the american public, so we would require either through online or in a retail situation, we would need distribution, and, yes, it s fair to say if we can t find one of those large retailers or many of those large retailers to sell our dvds, we wouldn t be able to provide them with the interview. is it fair to say, michael, your hope and expectation is that the movie will be seen we have always wanted the american public to see this movie. we have worked tirelessly to do so. so absolutely we would that s been the primary objective
i m sympathetic that sony as a private company was worried about liabilities and this and that and the other. i wish they d spoke on the me first. i would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks. but sony chief executive michael lynton insists that sony was in contact with senior white house advisers about the problem. the state department agrees that sony was in discussion with them. now, as someone who follows the president i can tell you he is often not a man of his word. so who to believe? a company on the front page of virtually every newspaper struggling to deal with hacking by a former foreign regime, or the president of the united states, who makes believe he wishes he was contacted?
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we are back with the ceo of sony entertainment to get sony s side of the story and to hear from michael lynton, the head of the studio. you are well known as somebody who supported president obama. yes. were you disappointed in what you heard today? i would be fibbing to say i wasn t disappointed. you know, the president and i haven t spoken. i don t know exactly whether he understands the sequence of events that led up to the movie not being shown in the movie theaters, and, therefore, i would disagree with the notion that it was a mistake. it s a generally held view by the public and the press that