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
closing the school, and yet as putin comes in at the last second, big surprise, he gets to play the nice guy, and as you mentioned. even invites everyone to a holiday christmas/new year s party. one final thought on this. putin starts 2017 in a much stronger position than he did in 2016. the price of oil, which is largely a big source of revenue for his government, up almost 50% since the beginning of year. he s starting this conversation with the trump administration from a position of strength. chris. and this just happened, but hans, has there been any reaction from the white house yet to the decision by putin? white house is still sleeping in hawaii. i touched base with folks in the pentagon and the state department. usually the state department takes longer to filter everything through and have the proper diplomatic speech statement. i suspect we ll get background comments and then an official statement at about 12:53, give or take a couple 20 seconds. that s a very specific
documentaries? what happens if they don t like news? where does it go from there? it was very strong pro-free speech statement from the president and you re right. i m very surprised. evan perez, you have new information. you re learning right now, you re our justice reporter, about the fbi and how they came up with this decision that it was in fact north korea no doubt about that. reporter: there was no doubt, wolf. i have to tell you one thing real quick. what the president just said echoes what i m hearing from u.s. law enforcement intelligence officials. they are outraged. they understand sony did what they did but they are outraged that a dictator won censoring the american movie industry as a result of this hack, wolf. the fbi pretty quickly thought they knew where this hack was coming from and they said that they they say that there was some telltale signs despite that north korean hackers did a very
so i gave up at that point and waited until the end of the speech statement and then i called out the question again as he turned his back on us. sean: are you saying that when you did ask that initial question, because he seemed mid sentence when you jumped in, were you anticipating that was his last sentence, the end of his remarks, and you wanted to get him before he left the podium? is that what you re saying? yeah. the trick is to get him just before he leaves the podium because as soon as he finishes, he s a very good speaker, he walks beautifully and he s gone into the oval office. we ve seen this happens lots of times. he ll finish his statements and he s gone. i was hoping to get him just at the end, right or wrong, and well, i didn t. sean: have you heard from the white house? do you expect any type of retribution? did you try to apologize? is there any update to the situation? i did ask if the white house people wanted to talk to me, but i haven t heard back. i shall
so i gave up at that point and waited until the end of the speech statement and then i called out the question again as he turned his back on us. sean: are you saying that when you did ask that initial question, because he seemed mid sentence when you jumped in, were you anticipating that was his last sentence, the end of his remarks, and you wanted to get him before he left the podium? is that what you re saying? yeah. the trick is to get him just before he leaves the podium because as soon as he finishes, he s a very good speaker, he walks beautifully and he s gone into the oval office. we ve seen this happens lots of times. he ll finish his statements and he s gone. i was hoping to get him just at the end, right or wrong, and well, i didn t. sean: have you heard from the white house? do you expect any type of retribution? did you try to apologize? is there any update to the situation? i did ask if the white house people wanted to talk to me, but i haven t heard back. i shall