Causing. I would also ask to take up the cause of freedom and democracy. Plus a major victory for the Antifracking Movement in new york. And attorney general holder talks to msnbc about race and policing on his watch. It means we as a nation have failed. Its as simple as that. Weve failed. All in starts right now. Im ari melber. The hacking worked. After threats of violence over a movie they didnt like because of its treatment of north korea, tonight they know they got exactly what they wanted. Sony announced it is paying the ransom. As the work day ended here on the west coast, sony made it official that its canceling the release of the interview. The comedy imagines a plot to assassinate real life leader kim jong un and has escalated tensions between that country and the u. S. Sonys statement is something else. Sony pictures has been the victim of an unprecedented criminal assault against our employees, our customers and our business. Those who attacked us stole our intellectual prop
Publicly name north korea for the attack, which they have traced using digital footprints. The u. S. Government is taking this attack very seriously, as an attack on a company, its an attack on its employees and frankly, its an attack on the freedoms that we enjoy in this country, the freedom of an entertainer or an artist to make something, though it may be controversial. And the freedom of people to go see it. Were reviewing a range of options for how we will respond to this attack. Cnn justice correspondent evan perez is with me now to tell us more about this. Good morning. Good morning, carol. This is the big issue for this administration is, how to respond to this north korean hacking, but also to make sure its not an overreaction. The white house is expected to announce attribution of this hack in the next couple of hours and as you said at the top, carol, the way this was done was to make it look like it was an inside job, to make sure that people thought it was coming from insi
Tonight the story of todays historic announcement and the political firestorm its causing. I would also ask to take up the cause of freedom and democracy. Plus a major victory for the Antifracking Movement in new york. And attorney general holder talks to msnbc about race and policing on his watch. It means we as a nation have failed. Its as simple as that. Weve failed. All in starts right now. Im ari melber. The hacking worked. After threats of violence over a movie they didnt like because of its treatment of north korea, tonight they know they got exactly what they wanted. Sony announced it is paying the ransom. As the work day ended here on the west coast, sony made it official that its canceling the release of the interview. The comedy imagines a plot to assassinate real life leader kim jong un and has escalated tensions between that country and the u. S. Sonys statement is something else. Sony pictures has been the victim of an unprecedented criminal assault against our employees,
Ba bartiromo. The Federal Reserve met in its final meeting of the year and kept their pledge to leave Interest Rates low tore a considerable amount amount of time. As a result, people are looking at the stock market as the stock market for their money. China is slowing down from its peak levels, europe is also deteriorating and couple the low Interest Rate story in the u. S. With the fact that corporate profits are doing well and you have to own u. S. Stocks, just very few alternatives. Today one catalyst was better than expected earnings from oracle. That put the Technology Sector on fire, again leading to speculation and the suggestion that the corporate sector in america is the best game in town, as the rest of the world falters. One risk i would point out is that even though things in the u. S. Are doing well and we are looking at Economic Trends that are improving, its hardly gang busters. Were looking at an economy growing at a pace that is below expectations. As we see from poll
About the massive sony data breach as federal officials may give word as early as today who the source of the cyber attack. The white house is calling this suspected attack a Serious National Security matter. U. S. Officials say it may have become months ago and ran through series of servers to disguise the origigiorigin. Senior official told nbc news that the u. S. Concluded that north korea was responsible, Administration Officials did not say so in public on thursday. The Obama Administration is considering now how to respond but it said the attackers may be sophisticated and just inching for a reaction. The White House Press secretary josh ernst confirmed that sony previously sought freedback from the administration and officials about the movie the interview. Administration officials were consulted prior to the release at the request of officials from the company producing the movie. But im saying you had an involvement months ago in this. Did the administration under estimate the