Later, scott walker. A look Clay Whitehead year he led government efforts in the 1960s to break up communication monopolies. Some of his former colleagues spoke at the library of congress. This is about one hour and 40 minutes. Members and friends, i have the pleasure of serving this institution as the associate librarian of congress. We are here to celebrate the official assessment of the clay t. Whitehead papers. This evening marks the beginning on many levels. From this point forward the library of congress has pledged to provide access to the story. The personal history of his participation in critical events of the 20th century. We also pledged the necessary corollary to protect and preserve these materials in perpetuity. He yells from kansas where his interest in ham radio foretold his life work. Graduate and undergraduate studies in the engine if not the engineer a huge lead to sweeping and lasting a changes in the entire Communications Landscape in the United States and the wor
That we seize it. My presidency is entering the Fourth Quarter. Interesting stuff happens in the Fourth Quarter. And im looking forward to it. Going into the Fourth Quarter, you usually get a timeout. Im now looking forward to a quiet timeout. Christmas with my family. I want to wish everybody a measure wrimerry christmas, a happy hanukkah, a happy new year. I hope that all of you get time to spend with your families as well because one thing that we share is that were away too much from them. And now, josh has given me the whos been naughty and whos been nice list and im going to take some questions. Reporter thank you, mr. President. Starting with north korea since
that seems to be the biggest topic today, what does a proportional response look like to the sony hack . And did sony make the right decision in pulling the movie or does that set a dangerous precedent . Let me address the second question first. Sony is a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats agai
Good morning everyone. 10 00 here on the east coast. 7 00 out west. And were starting with the breaking news. North korea is coming out swinging at accusations by the fbi that it is behind a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures. North korea says it is being framed by the United States. And that is not all. Pyongyang says the insults to its Supreme Leader showings americas hostile tendencies and while america continues to point the finger at us we suggest mutual investigation with america on this case. Pyongyang warns of serious consequences if that doesnt happen. And all this as top sony exec is defending the decision to yank the movie from Theatrical Release. President obama calls that move a mistake. I am synthetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes i think they made a mistake. We have not caved. We have not given in. We have pers veered and we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American Public see this movie. Senior media corre
Mr. President. Lets start with north korea because that seems to be the biggest topic today. What does a proportional response look like to the sony hack . And did sony make the right decision in pulling the movie or does that set a dangerous precedent for this kind of situation . Let me address the second question first. Sony is a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. In this interconnected digital world, there are going to be opportunities for hackers to engage in cyber assaults, both in the private sector and in the Public Sector. Now, our first order of business is making sure that we do everything to harden sites and prevent those kinds of attacks from taking place. When i came into office i stood up a Cyber Security inner agency team to look at everything we could do at the government level to prevent these kinds of attacks. We
Youd be hardpressed to find a republican in washington today. Theyve all gotten out of town but what theyre up to is driving talk in d. C. Gop lawmakers making their way to hershey, pennsylvania for a twoday type of soul searching retreat in parts of deep blue california turning red as the rnc convenes its winter meeting in san diego. Well hear from mitt romney there tomorrow. Ahead of the rnc meeting kickoff, a potential game changer. Ellering up the convention now in midjuly instead of late august. Joining me now nbc Congressional Correspondent luke rumplt russert at the retreat in hershey and joining us from the rnc winter meeting, luke start with you. Everybody wants to talk about 2016. Republican lawmakers have to get 2015 figured out. Yeah. That little thing calm called governing. Right, jose . This retreat is extremely important because they have to mesh out difference on one big issue, immigration. Yesterday House Republicans passed a bill that went to the right of where a lot