uncover secrets there, and i'm going to show you scientific ways to up your satisfaction while multily lowering your risk of heart disease. but right now, more new day sunday with suzanne and victor. good morning everyone, i'm suzanne in for christie paul. >> and i'm victor black it's well. >> grief, anger, shock. >> yeah, that is what a lot of people are feeling in new york this morning after two police officers were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. look at the cover of the new york daily news. officer rafael ramos and wenjian liu were on patrol when a gunman braisingly approached them and opened fire. alexander field has the latest on the killing that has stunned the city.

>> reporter: hundreds of police officers united in grief in a salute for two of their own. >> they are two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation, they were quite simply assassinated. >> reporter: with those words, a visibly shaken new york police commissioner talking about the deaths of rafael ramos and wenjian liu. liu, a seven year veteran, married two months ago. ramos, a two year veteran turned 40 this month. married with a 13-year-old son. they were killed, ambush style saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car on a brooklyn street. >> the suspect who has been identified at a 28-year-old, walked up to the police car. he took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired the weapon, his weapon several times

through the front passenger window, striking both officers in the head. officer liu and officer ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons, they may never have actually even seen their assailant, their murder. >> reporter: police say officers chased the man to a nearby subway station where he reportedly shot himself to death on the train platform. a semiautomatic handgun was recovered near the body. brinsley had connections with to brooklyn. earlier in the day, she shot and seriously wounded a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend in baltimore. police there received information that he made threatening comments about police on social media sites and they sent a warning to officers in new york. but that message came almost at the same time the ambush happened. >> these officer were shot execution style, particularly

despicable act which goes at the very heart of our society and our democracy when a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society. >> reporter: new york police say there's no indication he was connected to any terrorist group. >> there's blood on many hands tonight -- >> reporter: the deaths two of officers have highlighted mounting tensions between police union officials and the mayor whom they accuse of putting officers live's at risk with his support of recent protests involving the eric garner choke hold death and the police shooting of mooi cap brown. -- michael brown. >> those that incited violence under the guides of protest that tried to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. we tried to warn, it must not go on. it cannot be tolerated. that blood on the hands starts

on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: and in an apparent show of defiance, police officers gathering at the hospital where the slain officers were taken, turned their backs on the mayor as he entered for saturday's press conference. >> alexander field, she's joining us now, and, push this forward for us, if you will, i mean this has been an awful, awful weekend. and we have seen weeks where a lot of tension between the community, between the police department, now this riff between the mayor and the police department, are people going to be addressing this today and how? >> reporter: this is such a delicate, such a sensitive issue, suzanne because on the one hand, you have two victims, these two police officers who have given their lives, all difference wants to be paid to them, all tribute, all respect needs to be given to the two men who lost their lives right now at the same time, you cannot ignore the tension that we have seen in this city over the last few weeks in the wake of the death of eric garner as we saw

protests, we have seen tensions between the patrolmen's union and the mayor. the mayor is not commenting right now. he did not address when he spoke in a press conference last night. he's keeping his focus on the victims, but surely we will be hearing more from the union and we'll wait and see what we hear from the mayor in the coming days. >> alexander field, thank you so much. >> let's bring in our political commentator who's the political anchor at new york one news. good to have you with us this morning. >> good morning, victor. >> so let's talk about this rift. the conversation that the mayor has with his son and the way he characterized his son's interactions with police potentially, those are real conversations that people have, people who are raising young, black men, was the insult to the police not having the conversation, but using that as some type of commentary about police in general? >> well, the conversation and the rift between the policemen's

union, there's 35,000 cops, speaks for most, maybe not all. it involves a contract negotiation. so you know, we should be clear that there's a lot going on here that's kind of undersnooet the surface. i think what did -- underneath the surface. i think what added to it is the mayor talking, kind of honestly, but he talked as a parent, and while that might help him connect with other parents and other sort of ordinary new yorkers, he is the mayor of the city. i mean, he is the chief magistrate. he is in charge of the police department. and when the cops feel that there's somebody leading them who doesn't really have their back, well, the evacuation what you saw. you know -- reaction is what you saw, you know, the show of disrespect in the middle of the tragedy. this is something that is real serious. it's going to take a lot of fixing. it's not going to get handled by, you know, one speech or something like that. there's going to have to be to walk both sides back from the

brink. that's been tried actually. cardinal dolan, the highest ranking clerk for this whole region, made an explicit printed appeal asking both sides to stop the rhetoric, stop the attack, stop the harshness and you know, this tragedy, i think has set back all of what little progress might have been made. >> you have this petition that was being passed around not having a city council person also the mayor at funerals of officer if they were to die or be killed in the line of duty. does this complicate the relationship between the mayor and commissioner bratton, any indication? >> no, i don't think so. that footage you showed, that stung footage of the police, you know, at the hospital last night where the officers bodies were turning their backs on the mayor. the commissioner was there too. it is a pair of military organization, and chief of the police commissioner bratton has an enormous amount of respect and credibility. he's been doing this for 40

years, he ran the los angeles police department, he ran the new york city police department, he's done tours in boston. he is sort of a cop's cop. and so i don't think that the anger, if there is anger will be directed at him. i think everybody does understand that the police commissioner serves at the pleasure of and is answerable to the mayor. and that is, i think, a problem that you know, we're just not going to see it go away. they're going to have to work through this. and if anything, it seems that the commissioner might be able to play the role of the man in the middle, i think he understands both sides, maybe better than anybody else in new york city right now. >> you suggested there are contract negotiations part of this. let's show you the tweet, the head of the police union tweeted the blood of two executed police officers is on the hands of mayor de blasio, may god bless the families and may they rest in peace. beyond contract negotiations, this is extreme language that does not appear to be helping to end this break.

>> i couldn't agree with you more, victor. again, this is what cardinal dolan was asking, almost pleading with union leaders to stop doing, pleading with the mayor in fact to also stop with some of his statements. some of which could be seen as provocative. we have protesters who are out in the street, they too are saying provocative things, added a layer of complication because like the occupy wall street demonstration, it's not clear who's in charge. to so with 35,000 people demonstrating, some make extremely violent chants and comments and are provocative and in a couple of cases have actually jumped cops and beat them up, well, who's responsible for that? it's unclear. and so what we have right now, i think is a crisis of leadership in this city. and people are going to have to use all of their skills and all of their words and all of their best judgment and wisdom to try and try and bring things back to some kind of normal state here in the city.

>> yeah. have to start by at least having this civil conversation between the two sides. and these tweets don't appear to be helping. arrow lewis, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the gunman was no stranger to crime, he had earlier shot and seriously wounded a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend in baltimore. he had been arrested several times in georgia where he had a home. those charges included shoplifting and illegal weapons possession, property damage, and obstructing a police officer. he had also suggested on social media that he planned to kill police officers. including this tweet, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours, let's take two of theirs. well ahead on new day, president obama sits down with cnn's candie crowly for a one on one interview. another big story this weekend that massive sony attack. you'll hear why he's calling that cyber vandalism. plus amid terror threats, sony yanked it's move, "the

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cyber vandalism, that is what president obama is calling that crippling attack on sony by north korea. during an exclusive sit down interview with candy crowley, president obama responded to claims by some that the hack was an act of war. >> do you think this was an act of war by north korea? >> no, i don't think it was an act of war. i think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. we take it very seriously. we will respond proportionately. >> that full interview airs at 9:00 a.m. eastern. the president also standing by comments that he made on friday that it was a mistake for sony not to move forward with the

christmas day release of "the interview." let's talk more with chris moody, thanks for joining us this morning. first of all, it seems pretty clear that the president is trying to in some ways take the rhetoric down a notch or two that he doesn't want to escalate the rhetoric with north korea when he calls this cyber vandalism. how does this benefit the administration moving forward? >> well, the words of presidents are extremely important in carrying a lot of weight, obviously. especially when it comes to foreign policy. for him to use that word, war, there would be serious international implications, you're right, he was trying to de-escalate this and proportional response for an act of cyber vandalism is very different than an act of war. this has raised a lot of concerns about cyber security, both in the government and in businesses. and it's something that security experts have been warning about for a very long time. so, while it was terrible for the company and embarrassing for a lot of people, i think it's

going to serve as a wake up call in many industries across the country about getting their security on the web in tact and prepared for things coming in the future. >> and there is another pointed moment in that interview with candy crowley when she asked the president specifically about cuba and the other things, i want you to listen to something the president said about russian president vladimir putin. >> there was a spade of stories about how he is the chess master and outmaneuvering the west and outmaneuvering mr. obama and this and that and the other. and right now he's providing over the collapse of his currency and huge economic contraction. that doesn't sound like somebody who has rolled me or the united states of america. >> so he is clearly defending himself here. and we saw that press conference that vladimir putin had, more than three hours, 53 questions,

epic thing he does annually. the president wanted to make that point here that this is not somebody whose getting urn his skin. in fact, he is responsible for the economic down fall and essentially that is going to hurt him in the long run. >> vladimir putin spent most of 2014 flexing a lot of muscle. and president obama's right, there were a lot of stories written about how obama was allowing this to happen and letting putin walk all over him, then the ruble collapsed and gas prices collapsed which hurt the oil industry in russia. and i think that puts putin in a very tough place. may not be able to be nearly as ambitious and president obama knows that. now president obama spent the last part of his year as we saw in the last week flexing on cuba. and that was a controversial decision, it is going to play a major part in his regularly of foreign policy and i think it's going to be something that's going to be talked about and debated for many years to come, but i think while putin was spending most of the year looking fairly strong, president

obama is saying that he's coming out on top at the end of the year. >> all right, chris moody will be debating this much throughout the year and into the next one. thank you so much, chris, appreciate it. of course you can watch more of cnn candy crowley's exclusive interview today at 9:00 a.m. eastern. sony hackers made threats against movie goers who planned to see "the interview" on christmas day, sony said it had no choice after theaters said they would not show the film. up next, we'll talk to one theater owner about that decision.

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ask your doctor today if eliquis is right for you. welcome back. on tuesday, hackers targeted sony pictures warned americans there could be a terror attack if they went to theeters to see "the interview." the comedy about north korea was set to debut on christmas day. in an exclusive interview, sony's ceo told our reporter that it was up to the movie theaters whether to cancel the

film. >> when it came to the crucial moment, when a threat came out from what was called the gop at the time, threatening audiences who would go to the movie theaters, the movie theaters came to us, one by one, over the course of a very short period of time, we were completely surprised by it, and announced that they would not carry the movie. at that point in time, we had no alternative but to not proceed with the theatrical release on the 25th of december. >> while the owner of one of the movie theeters that chose to -- theaters chose to cancel before sony pulled it joins me on the phone. michael hurley in bell fast, maine. good to have you with us. you know, i wonder if this decision before sony made the decision was something that was internal that you made on your own, or if there was pressure from the outside. which was it?

>> there was no pressure, but i can't imagine it was a surprise because theater owners were talking to each other like crazy about this subject what to do, et cetera, i made the decision very much based on a very simple, i look at it as a crime in progress. they had successfully taken down sony, they destroyed their servers, they had stolen all their equipment, i'm a smaller company than sony, i figured if they can do that to sony, they could probably do it to me and lots of others. so i just said hey, i'm going to, i'm going to sit this out and see what's going on. >> so your decision was based less, based on less than not really the safety, but your own personal information? >> i wasn't, no, not my personal information -- >> the information of your customers. >> i wasn't worried about somebody shooting up my theaters, i was worried this is

a simple coding challenge for any hacker to attack a theater's website or our digital projec r projectors or our digital servers. and if they took that to the next step, and by the way, there's no police, there's no army, there's nobody to defend me if that happens. so i just said, you know what, this isn't, i can wait and see what's going on. here. >> we have just a couple of seconds left, but i wonder if you're getting a backlash, the president said it was a mistake for sony to pull the film, are you getting backlash from customers? >> well, everybody wants to see the movie, of course, but the only backlash i hear are from people who have nothing to lose. my theaters had a lot to lose. >> all right, michael hurley, the owner of colonial theaters, thank you for joining the conversation. >> you can watch the full interview when it airs today on gps, that's today at 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn.

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opportunity to remember when you were part of the, i guess the monologue he starts his show with? >> this was a white house correspondence -- >> yes, yes. >> spoof on the white house press corps. >> let's watch it. >> i have a brief statement. the press is destroying america. okay. let's see who we got here today. stretch. sir nerdlyton, and susan mall, hello. >> yeah, he did call me. nobody is, you know, left unscathed. >> yes. everybody gets a chance. >> yeah, he's a lot of fun. he was there at the white house, he did that little bit for the white house press corps dinner, and we saw him in 2008 during the campaign.

it's also spoofing and part of the political world as well. >> i wonder how much he's going to bring to the show on cbs, we'll have to see. >> he's a fun guy. >> he is. >> thanks for starting your morning with us. >> all right. president obama heads to hawaii for christmas. one last take on 2014. >> i am energized, i'm excited about the prospects for the next couple of years. and i'm certainly not going to be stopping for a minute in the effort to make life better for ordinary americans. >> stunning decision to normalize relations with cuba as most republicans furious. >> this president is the single worst negotiator we have had in the white house in my lifetime. >> plus 2016 via flashback to 1992. >> we can stand up together and say, yes, black