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>> just what i said. you were graceful. you were confident. youre going to be a very fine king. >> i dont know what to say. >> your father would be very proud. >> im not so certain about that. >> if i were your father, id be proud. >> wow. bill murray playing the charming fdr, laying it on the king of england. what did you make -- i havent seen that movie yet. what did you make of it? >> its a strange kind of movie, very shapeless. but theres something very interesting going on now, as you learn...

You see, there it is. even in that 2,000-year-old book of mechanical law, it is a self evident truth that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. >> what do you think, david, of that movie? as a movie and then also as history. just educational to americans. >> well, its fascinating, isnt it? its like an epic inside baseball movie because it doesnt take the piece of lincolns life that were most familiar with. instead, the civil war is almost done. and here is a man who i...

Senate position thats open. he proves that he is just a consummate showman in this movie. everything about this movie is real. absolutely real. fetishistically real, except for the clie mamax which is straight of a hollywood cliff hanger from the 1920s. but its a treficily entertaining movie. and it shows you how much we didnt know way back when. >> i know, i remember as a side story, what a great role the canadian ambassador played. it looked like him. anyway, now back to politics and bull murr...

Preten pretending to be producing a hollywood movie. >> youve got six people highing out in a town. you want to set up a movie in a week. you want to lie to hollywood, a town where everybody lies for a living, and theb ythen youre going to sneak a 007 and then youre going going to walk the bradybunch out of the most watched city in the world. >> thats right. >> right. look, ive got to tell you. we did suicide missions in the army that had better odds than this. >> what did you think? i was at a ...

Bigelow and the screenwriter say theyre not taking a position. theres no question in my mind that mark ball drank the kool-aid given to him by his cia sources and really believes that one of the key links in the chain that led us to osama bin laden was obtained through torture. thats what happens in the movie. i dont know if it was right. i wasnt there. nobody knows if it was right, except those people high up in the cia. but lets agree that this is what the movie is saying. the movie might not ...

Award? because i think shes up for it. >> i think it would put the kibosh on it, frankly. because i do think thats how people lean out there. and you have a much more liberal choice in "lincoln," if you will. the tony kushner certified choice. >> youre right, kushners going to help. >> im very ambivalent about this movie myself. im very wishy-washy about it. on one hand, i think its the most phenomenally made movie of the year. i think its a great piece of filmmaking. on the other hand, i think ...

Exhibit. >> clarence, youve seen this movie before. it sounds like something is in the works here, huh? >> yeah, something is in the works at least on the senate side. on the house side, we still dont know about those hard core intransigents and even if the senate does come up with something, if the house can agree to go along with it, if as kristen said, youve got to have all of the democrat and 30 republicans. theres only about six who come. the rest dont seem to lose any points, as far as the...

>> you were wonderful tonight, young man. >> what do you mean? >> just what i said. you were graceful. you were confident. youre going to be a very fine king. >> i dont know what to say. >> your father would be very proud. >> im not so certain about that. >> if i were your father, id be proud. >> well, bill murray playing the charming f.d.r, laying it on the king of england. what did you make -- i will definitely see it. >> its a strange little movie. its kind of shapeless. but there is somethin...

So you watch this movie and it makes you think lincoln wasnt just some guy who sat on a pedestal. he was a guy out there playing hardball. he had these three lobbyists in the film. i wish we could take -- >> no, they were on the fiscal cliff. >> the fiscal cliff guys and it says -- >> no, theyre the best lobbyists ive seen. it showed that the democratic party of that day were pretty were copperheads. they were playing ball with the war ending saying that they could let the south keep slavery. >>...

I think its a hustle of genius. i think ben should take that senate position thats open. he proves that he is just a consummate showman in this movie. everything about this movie is real. absolutely real. fetishistically real, except for the climax which is straight out of a hollywood cliff hanger from the 1920s. but its a terrifically entertaining movie. and it shows you how much we didnt know way back when. >> i know, i remember as a side story, what a great role the canadian ambassador played...