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Permission from a voluntary regiment of armed men could i take a photo. one of the gentleman said no. one of the others who i didn't engage with or speak with put a gun on me and walked me to the vehicle where my family was located about 600 yards. in taking refugees out, you're dealing with a real martial moment. it's very precarious. >> i wonder what is it like for the kids in these situations especially knowing that they're going to the borders and their fathers will not be going with them? >> that's one of the -- yes. that's one of the toughest decisions you have to make because the thing ...

Listening. you must have made this film because you worry it could happen again. >> yes. you know, i was of draft age during the vietnam war. i was against that war as i was against the war in iraq. i, you know, i couldn't believe in my lifetime, we were about to go to war. this is back in 2003, based on a lie. again. it was happening twice in my lifetime. so, i wanted to get this story out of how does this happen? how does the government -- i understand propaganda, every administration needs propaganda to sell a policy or a rational to go to war. but, to lie, to know you are lying about thing...

Iraq invasion but nobody was listening. you must have made the film because you worried it would happen again. >> i was of draft age in the vietnam war and i was against that as i was the war in iraq. i couldn't believe we were about to go to war in 2003 based on a lie again. it happened twice in my lifetime. i wanted to get the story out of how does this happen. how does the government? i understand propaganda. every administration needs propaganda to sell a policy or to sell a rational ato go to wa. but to lie, that to me was too much. i worked for a long time figuring out the best way to te...

Antiwar movement has parallels to what we're seeing here. this is a spontaneous uprising of kids who are affected personally by gun violence and are taking to the streets, if you will, to say enough's enough. we had the same thing. i was draft age, ours was a draft-driven antiwar effort. we took to the streets to say enough's enough, we don't want to be drafted. we don't want to go there. we don't have a dog in that fight, and we saw what happened. i think we're in a similar, you know, sort of pivot point recent these issues. >> yeah. this week, there was a school shooting in maryland, great m...

Director rob reiner and actor woody harrelson, yes, him as lbj, stars in the film. i started by asking woody about the process of physically and audio wide transforming into lbj. >> is it the ears? >> the ears. everything from the eyes down, really. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he even had contact lenses. >> everything. >> that is -- so, rob when did you start doing this film and why this renaissance of lbj? >> well, you know -- >> what grabbed you? >> this is the crazy part, because you know both woody and i struggle with the idea of even making a movie about lbj, because when i was of draft age in t...