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In a way, we're simply doing a character study about a marriage and a beautiful marriage. a long and relationship to be celebrated, but the fact that it's a same-sex marriage, i don't think this story has been told in this way. which is a, it is a way which i think can make a mainstream audience just that little bit more -- >> and you don't see a lot of older gay men or relationships portrayed in the media, but for younger people, gay and straight, the whole gay marriage thing, it's the new civil rights movement. >> and also, you don't see many movies about relationships at this end of the age...

Over a five year period to get facials so they got to know the family. they got no know the mom and daughter and they saw the family go from a normal immigrant families everybody working hard, the kids getting scholarships to private, to really good schools, to slowly but surely becoming very religiously devout, to becoming religiousdel lots, to the end of the day talking about conspiracy theories, september 1ing isth was plotted by americans and it was a manufactured thing to have an excuse to kill muslims. it's a character study. great reading. >> did she mention anything about websites, eit...

>> hot time by aaron bentley says you should cover the kids and hats off to the students for having the guts to create an upset tradition. some truly great reporting from spencer ackerman who was on the show last night. he got an exclusive interview with an american-born jihadi. he agreed to speak from direct messages on twitter and said i believe in attacking u.s. interests everywhere, no second thoughts or turning back. he writes sentences like that make it likely hamady will be the next american killed in the next drone strike. a terrific read and character study. worth checking out. ther...

He talked about going to the new play and it brought up the most fascinating conversation. bob herbert sounding like all of us are getting old. how did it play? >> a character study of mike mclamary and bob was there during the great tabloids hey days of that group who were in that play. it's a story about a guy who really, really wants to be jimmy breslan. it's nora eflon's last play and mike is dying of cancer. you hear sentence after sentence these poignant things like what is life all about? >> bob you were talking about the newsroom back then. you said the reporters all had jugs in their ...

What are we supposed to think about this guy? was he acting out of principle or self-promotion? what are we to make of him? >> all of those things. i spent months working on this story and a vexing character study because he is a very implicated individual. he was trained as a cia officer to deceive everyone around him. he seemed to practice those arts in lots of unexpected settings. what is interesting about the case, at least in my take on it, was on the one hand his character is fascinating, complex and reflects a sort of polluted aspect of washington's political kind of ecology. at the sam...