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The biggest documentary in the last five years to give you an idea, al gores movie, "the inconvenient truth" made $3.7 million. and the pope francis, 1.7 million. >> laura: bomb. >> why are people going to the mr. rogers movie? >> laura: innocence. >> decency. someone uplifting people and using the media for good. people just like you, laura. >> laura: none of the satire on cheap cynicism. this is a beautiful town and -- >> mr. rogers was a presbyterian minister that used the medium for good. >>...

>> this movie is the biggest documentary in the last 25 years. >> laura: men with turtlenecks doesnt work. >> this movie is about to make $25 million at the box office. the biggest documentary in the last five years to give you an idea, al gores movie, "the inconvenient truth" made $3.7 million. and the pope francis, 1.7 million. >> laura: bomb. >> why are people going to the mr. rogers movie? >> laura: innocence. >> decency. someone uplifting people and using the medium for good. people just li...

Even more and more medium sized international companies are testing markets and countries so we are relatively optimistic that the german engagement the german business engagement on the african continent. and well increase over the years to come but we have to we have to work hard on that right germany is currently not one of the relevant. players on the continent. because of kind of their general manager of the german african business association thank you so much for your time thank you the e...

Release policy. they are caught and they are turned loose on the interior of the united states while they wait for adjudication. that was really frustrating. is there a happy medium between this release and this deterrent to sprat kids and drag kids, babies, and toddlers from their parents. >> a family crosses the border, and because there is no deattentid detention capacity theyre released. that is a problem with the court system, and that failure to adequately budget and prioritize these cases...

Advisers, aides, his legal team, have always viewed twitter as such a dangerous tool for donald trump. jeff, as you were saying, this is the medium he uses without a filter. this is where you know exactly what the president is thinking and feeling. as the story points out, robert mueller and his team could be using the tweets to try to build a case to see if they can build a case using the tweets, using other information that theyve gathered to see if they can make the case that there was any so...

Therefore theres something else going on. who would have directed that? >> just to be clear, there is no justification under any circumstance for the white house to be putting out a video of an event that happened and altering it in any way whatsoever, whether its to their interest or not to their interest, theres only one version of this reality. >> exactly. >> question was asked and answer was proffered. that is the only version that our white house should be putting out on its youtube channel...

The money back. most people didnt get $1000. when bush and nancy pelosi did their thing everybody is getting a check, you will open the mail, thanks for a check, this one doesnt work out like that. is why paul ryan says say it is good. >> i dont think that is a bad thing. i am no tax policy expert. >> a big georgia race. >> a big runoff. time for where in the world. israel acted in the interceptor system for the first time today, in response to rockets fighting in neighboring syria believed to b...

Endangered species. they are also removing, deleting science and ecological and natural heritage importance and replacing that with economic importance. so imagine a bald eagle on the endangered species list, on the brink of extinction, just four or five decades ago. if that was happening today, would that bald eagle have a chance to survive? unlikely. it would slip to extinction. >> you are a pragmatic guy, and i was shocked to see that when they voted on the endangered species list 45 years ag...

>> you look at the year that "american beauty" won the oscar, which is also the year that the sopranos debuted. almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. >> i know what i must do. im afraid to do it. >> movies became much more focused on big tentpole things that could bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grownups that ma...

Believe. >> dont call me bitch, im a grown man! >> bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch. >> god, youre mean. >> the idea was everything. the idea was parody. >> why are there newspapers all over the place? >> political satire. crazy characters. sketches. it was anything that was fun that you wanted to try that a network would never put on. >> i would like to welcome my first guest, jessica chastain. >> its a program thats a send-up of talk shows, a satire of talk shows. >> real interested in the work youv...