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"central park," the price you pay is youll be attacked if you go out and stand up. but you cannot give in to cynicism. because at the end of the day, we did end up proving those young men, and you put that i think in a beautiful way in this film, were innocent. one of them ended up having to work for the international network because he lost 13 years of his life. thats the downside. the upside is we have been able to show this. the downside of race today, the birther movement, never happened to ...

I had to do numerous takes to eat all of that lobster, i can tell you. we are back with more of our roundtable. the other thing that i did, and i think a lot of people did this weekend, is see "lincoln." what a film. it chronicles such a critical part of our history, and lincolns presidency, fighting to abolish slavery and winning the 13th amendment. that you wrote, david, in your column on friday something that really struck my attention and struck me. and ill put a portion of it on the scree...

Question and answer and they spend more money. >> is there any down side to this? because youre projecting no down sides to this? >> i dont think there really is a down side. and if you look at the real model employees in this sector, costco, safe way, theres a great convenience store called quick trip in the south. they are doing great. their stock -- cost of stock is higher and they invest in their employees which in turns leads to better jobs. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. the new fil...

>> yeah, yeah. but can i get a little bit more butter please? >> all right. thats how i spent part of my thanksgiving break, appearing on "the tonight show". and we did that little gag there, lindsay lohan very nice. >> that was a gag? >> yeah. exactly. i had to do numerous takes to eat all of that lobster, i can tell you. we are back with more of our roundtable. the other thing that i did, and i think a lot of people did this weekend, is see "lincoln." what a film. it chronicles such a critic...

To another president. but the good side is as i watched the lincoln film last night is a black family is living in the white house, and many whites voted for him. so sometimes even in the midst of what seems like great despair, the country grows if were willing to pay a price. >> but you cant take your foot off the accelerator here. because the thing that "lincoln" is talking about the 13th amendment. thats early 1865. and what we are talking about? its essentially extending the 13th amendment i...

Went through four near-death experiences with the bill. >> that made me think also about -- let me just also say for the record, the 13th amendment is a much, much, much bigger deal in the affordable care act. lest anyone think im equating the two. much bigger two. >> yeah, absolutely ending slavery is a much bigger deal than anything, but the affordable care act is immensely significant. i think the difficulty here is to, you know -- and i think this is the difficulty. its for progressive peopl...

Genuinely shakespearean. but after two years of trying, i never got any farther than january of 1864, i got like three months in. it was impossible to condense. then the writers guild went on strike, i had to stop writing, and after the strike was over, the spring of 2007, i had the idea of doing just the last four months which produced a 500-page screen play, the first quarter of which -- >> 500 pages about the last four months and then steven spielberg says lets focus on the 13th amendment now...

Dealing everybody in because if you dont deal everybody in, the thing falls apart. there was something about the way in which that process unfolded that ultimately tainted my judgment of the final product, right? that like its the -- its the fruit of the poison tree. that you cant -- it cant be an ideal piece of legislation. it cant be something i can really, really get behind because i know all the dirty details of how it came about. and watching the story of how the 13th amendment was passed i...

Ruth, and fred yang. talking about congressional ego stroking was one of the tenets that made president lincoln so successful in deeming with congress trying to get the 13th amendment through. can president obama do that this time around? would john boehner get receptive enough? i want everyones opinion. is the legacy question enough to move boehner and obama forward on a fiscal cliff deal? >> crossed fingers. i hope so. short enough? >> boehner wants to keep his job as speaker so he has to deal...

Lincolns story wondering was he that funny an that humorous, was he that way? youre saying to the best of your ability and daniel day-lewis ability, yes. this the most important thing so many people think of him as an icon and statesman. they dont know what a great politician he was, what the movie is all about. >> the fate of human dignity is in our hands. blood has been spilt to this moment, now, now, now. >> he does everything he can to get this 13th amendment passed at the time he won the el...