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SOUNDBITE: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING:

"Yes I think they made a mistake."

President Obama did not mince his words regarding Sony's decision to cancel its Christmas day release of the "The Interview."

SOUNDBITE: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING:

"We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States because if someone is able to intimidate folks into releasing a satirical movie, image what they start doing when they release a documentary they don't like."

Sony made the decision after the company was hacked and received threats not to show the comedy depicting the assassination of Kim Jong-Un.

Obama says he wished Sony had talked to him first before making the decision.

SOUNDBITE: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING:

"I would've told them do not get into a pattern in which you are intimated by these kinds of criminal attacks."

Obama vows the U.S. will respond to the cyber attac

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