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 job to try to mask where this was coming from. they tried to route the attacks through several countries in asia and europe and even latin america. in the end, what the fbi found was telltale signs and lines of code, encryption cal algorithmst show where it came from matching an earlier attack from last year that was carried out against south korean banks and media companies and so this is one way they were able to very quickly this is unprecedented for them to make a determination so quickly and go public with this. the president also said that there is no indication any other countries were working together with north korea. he said he has seen nothing along those lines. this was a north korean operation. gloria borger, you know, the president almost seemed