eric: hi, bill and martha. president obama will be holding hiss first presidential news conference since the day after the democrats sing stinging defeat in the midterms. expected to be asked about everything from immigration to cuba and north korea, the sony hacking to the end of open enrollment you should obamacare. we will, of course, have fox news team coverage and in-depth analysis, and we ll have that news conference for you live in a few hours there now. bill: eric, thank you. see you top of the hour. new signs of life on mars, earthlings. new evidence from the red planet, but what does it mean?
or go and what do you think about that? martha: north korean hack attack revealing a weak streak in hollywood? why some call sony s cave-in a blow to our first amendment rights. they knew this was going on for the last three or four weeks. they should have pushed the date back until late january or february and by that time, they might have found out where the threats were coming from. and they wouldn t have disturbed the christmas season. and the l. wow! [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his campbell s chunky soup. it s new chunky beer-n-cheese with beef and bacon soup. i love it. and mama loves you. if you re suffering from constipation or irregularity, powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. dulcolax, for relief you can count on.
trying to stay ahead of the game, for these folks and for the president himself the fact that this sony hack and north korea s activities have come to dominate the discussion in a week the president was hoping, i think, for a pivot to his new policy vis-a-vis the castro regime in cuba, i think that it s going to complicate his bid to get out of town a little bit. martha: yeah. you know, i think so far he has not had a very strong response to it. he said, you know, basically he still thinks everybody should go to the movies, but he has not called on these companies to band together to fight this, and it potentially opens the door to a lot more of these situations and also raises the question, chris, how well prepared are we? how well prepared is the government? you hear about the nsa being in sort of everybody s computer, which they would deny, but if they are, they sure don t seem to know what s going on here. well, certainly part of the reason is probably that the insufficiency of o
and at least the government leaks that it was north korea solely responsible. bill: thank you, catherine. catherine herridge in washington. be. martha: as you know, president obama s going to hold a news conference shortly before departing on his 17-day vacation in hawaii which is his tradition with his family, and there are a lot of issues that the president will no doubt be asked about at this news conference. and the bombshell agreement with cuba this week, also the cyber attack against sony and what the real white house response is going to be. chris stirewalt joins me now, so no doubt, i think you re going to hear a lot of questions today about the white house s response which has been very tepid so far in terms of what they really think should happen with this sony situation, chris. well, for a president and an administration that have highly prized and long prietzed as a political operation the desire the control messages and dominate news cycles even in 15 or 20-minute increm
cautionary tale to other companies that it s time to really take cybersecurity seriously as a threat. bill: but it s sony that pulled the film. the government didn t pull the film. and who knows the real reason why. some believe they were just trying to protect themselves from more e-mails going public because it has hindered their business significantly, gillian. yeah. and i would argue that s sonys sort of foremost soakny s sort of sony s sort of foremost interest here. their interest is to protect their financial assets as well as their financial interests. and, you know, it s really not sony s job to step in and take on cyber terrorists and, you know, institute protection for american citizens in movie theaters. i think that here we really need the u.s. government to step in and help manage the response. if something like this happens in the future which it will you know, these private sector corporations are not left out, you know, to float around in the wind.