he would not get more specific. but said it would be, quote, proportional. the new york times is reporting mr. obama will be briefed on his options while he s here in hawaii. the president said sony was wrong to not release the interview as planned on christmas day. i wish they d spoken to me first. i would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks. sony entertainment ceo michael lynton says he personally was in contact with senior white house advisers about the seriousness of the cyberattack, and the reality if the theaters won t show the film, there s no point in releasing it. a few days ago, i personally did reach out and speak to senior folks in the white house. and talked to them about the situation. and actually informed them that we needed help.
the world will see what an awful movie sony has made. the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september, 2001. sony pulled the film, as you know, this week. they are looking at other options for the release. sony entertainment picture ceo michael lynton spoke with fareed zakaria in this tv interview. when you began to experience the cyber attack, what was your response? there was a number of people that wondered why it happened. did you have weak malware? no. we had sufficient cyber security. the fbi and the experts who we brought in basically said the malware was so sophisticated 90% of american businesses would have fallen prey to what happened to us. i don t think we were inadequate at all in our cyber security.
because he has discussions with china and they are at a very sensitive stage and he thinks he can get the chinese to dump the north koreans. i m afraid this is going to be like that discussion between the president and ceo michael lynton where he said, no, and the other one siz the opposite. because clearly administration officials are talking to the new york times and others that china was involved and we have these reports from reuters that chinese intelligence was involved. so clearly this is going to be a very difficult thing for the president to manage. thanks very much to both of you. and there is the great irony. corporations hate the government until they need it. outfront next, north korea cyber attack on sony being called a game-changer. so what is next. we have a special report on north korea targeting american nuclear plants. that special report is next. plus president obama today talking about race. is black america better off than before the first black presid
clipping from the canton resuppository identifying this gift and i put it together that the anonymous beaver dot was my grandfather, sam stone. sam stone was jewish, this was a christian community and he chose to do this in the christmas season. why? very good question, michael. i think he did it for several reasons, one is although everyone in the community assumed that this was a good christian, the secret santa, he was the son of orthodox jews, he had escaped romania and 1933 as you ll remember was the year that adolf hitler came to power. i think that having walked out of romania with the clothes on his back and rejected by country after country, and having witnessed what was going on in the old world in germany, i think that he felt enormous debt of gratitude to his christian
know, we stood extremely firm in terms of making certain that this movie would appear in movie theaters. lynton told cnn he still hopes anyone who wants to see the movie will have the opportunity to do so. but he says that no major on demand distributor has been willing to distribute the film. all right you can see the complete interview with michael lynton tomorrow morning on fareed zakaria gps at 10:00 a.m. eastern. [inaudible] all right we ll see more of her straight ahead. also ahead we re hearing more about the grand jury proceedings of michael brown. and the prosecutor saying he