right than you re wrong which has fortunately been the case. presuming if you re not, you get sacked? exactly, exactly. you re still here so that proves that you re more right than wrong. but no, really, it is about the analysis afterwards. you have to be really honest with yourself about why something didn t work, and you have to go all the way along the decision making tree and, you know, really interrogate, where did we take the misstep there? and i think that s very healthy for an organisation to do that. i think oftentimes, it s easy to celebrate the wins and a lot harder to get self reflected as a culture and as an organisation, as to how we got there. and as the leader, it s also really important, i think, to be accountable, you know, and just lead by that example because, you know, the buck stops at the top. absolutely. i mean, if we turn to the future of cinema, you know,
of things that go into into making it and making it a success. but when it s not, it s hundreds of millions of dollars potentially, or certainly tens of millions. how do you pick yourself up from that? well, you have to, you know, and you hopefully are more right than you re wrong which has fortunately been the case. presuming if you re not, you get sacked? exactly, exactly. you re still here so that proves that you re more right than wrong. but no, really, it is about the analysis afterwards. you have to be really honest with yourself about why something didn t work, and you have to go all the way along the decision making tree and, you know, really interrogate, where did we take the misstep there? and i think that s very healthy for an organisation to do that. i think oftentimes, it s easy to celebrate the wins and a lot harder to get self reflected as a culture and as an organisation, as to how we got there.
when you have a movie that doesn t work, it s inevitably going to happen. you know, this is an industry that most corporate people think is not really a business, because there are just so many variables, and it s a miracle that any movie ends up being successful, really, because of all of the myriad of things that go into into making it and making it a success. and when it s not, it s hundreds of millions of dollars potentially, or certainly tens of millions. how do you pick yourself up from that? well, you have to, you know, and you hopefully are more right than you re wrong which has fortunately been the case. presuming if you re not, you get sacked? exactly, exactly. you re still here so that proves that you re more right than wrong. but no, but really, it is about the analysis afterwards. you have to be really honest with yourself about why something didn t work, and you have to go all the way along the decision making tree and find, you know, really interrogate, where did
centralized decision making tree there. and that has on the money become more so under muhammad bin salman, the notion this kind of operation 15 people flying to turkey, to at a minimum, render a very prominent journalist. the notion that muhammad bin salman wouldn t know about it is unbelievable to anybody who has had experience working with the saudis. it seems to me what we ve seen with the russian ands skripal. they attempted to murder him on english soil and did a lot of yada yada yada gaslighting. we watched the saudis do this, and the president is participating with them. he is complicit in the cover up at this point. there s basically three steps. one, they want this to get attention. the whole deterrent the whole point, right, is for any other dissident, journalist anywhere in the world to know i might not be safe anywhere in the world if i criticize muhammad bin salman. that s the first point. the second point is how do we
the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn t really know. maybe i don t want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like these maybe could have been rogue killers. who knows. it s unclear if the rogue killers hypothesis is something donald trump thought up on his own or if it came from saudi king salman or if the president of the united states was trying to set the stage for what very much looks like a cover up of murder from the saudi government. here now deputy national security advisor under barack obama and nbc political contributor ben rhodes. the phrasing is the same, rogue operators. it sounds like the president was floating the cover up trial balloon for the saudis this morning. right from trump s lips to your reporting. and, look, chris, we have to be very clear here. anybody who has worked with the saudis knows that is a top down centralized decision making tree there. and that has on the money become