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. >> good morning, welcome to "morning joe." all this morning, we are taking a look at some of our biggest interviews of the year from the major news makers to a-list celebrities. >> we will start with those individuals whose influence and power we feel here at home and abroad. they all joined us the same exact week. >> joining us now on set, the secretary of state john kerry. great to have you on board, sir. let's start with the kind of over arching question here, who was in the coalition in the muslim world and beyond standing
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with us. >> well, we have more than 50 countries total now. in the immediate vicinity in the region, i think you saw we had a conference? jetta in which every single gulf nation and the surrounding neighbors joined up one way or the other, that includes saudi arabia, qatar, bahrain, kuwait. >> you bring up qatar, they are helping isis. >> there is no way, in the beginning, individual countries in the region multiple made decisions about who they would support to get rid of assad, in theory in many of their minds, okay, this was the first war, we get rid of them. it was kind of didn't work. they try to track down people in
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their own country? >> i think there are reports this past weekend out of london, some of the biggest are coming out of qatar. >> some of the things come out of the number of countries in the region still. >> that is a major focus of our coalition effort. >> are you disappointed with qatar? >> you keep coming back to one point, the answer is, disappointed if any country that is allowing foreign fighters to move in and financing to come from individuals. bahrain has stepped up and they're hosting the conference for three days to help coordinate what we've gotten good at t. treasury department is outstanding on focusinging, track people the sanctions we've had in the last years, that really. >> has the money flowed? >> has the money flow slowed down? >> state money has, yes, state sponsored support has stopped to
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our best of our knowledge at this point in time. individuals in countries are still funding. in case ofice il /* /- isil. it's been out in the marketplace. we have to make sure it can't move from turkey to syria or out through lebanon. there are various channels. >> i feel like nobody has gotten enough information in terms of why we should trust them? can we trust them? what credible information do we have this can be effective by arming the free syrian army? >> well, mica, we have been working with the free syrian army for years. you have had an active debate about arming, not arming.
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they have been in walk, toshing too. the fact is we have gotten good at knowing who they are, at vetting. we have been doing 20 years of veting. in iraq, it moved to afghanistan. by the way, enormous success yesterday for everybody in the decision of the afghan leaders to come together to form a government. we have been working at that diplomatically for months, intensively. also, they're putting in, this is a story that hasn't been focused on but iraq. iraq is an incredible story, coming toke to put their government together. to have new people come in, a breath of fresh rare to embrace a unity effort to deal with isis. so those are positive signs and obviously a sea of trouble. >> talk if you could about the challenges of getting a group of arab states to work towing that the navigating of that and also, can you realistically assess just how long this could go?
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>> let me start with the first. you may recall, i certainly, do over the last several weeks, there have been a lot of folks wondering where the coalition was. in the first instance, i think it's important to recall we have had 40 nations plus involved in this from the outset, particularly in iraq from the moment we began our operations there, support the iraqi government, military support from the iraqis to the kurds with our partners in humanitarian operations, partners taking strength with us in iraq. we have been doing a lot of very hard, quiet diplomatic work over the last several weeks that we didn't advertise publicly and that culminated in this very important collections of countries coming towing. >> this morning syria has been carried out by american warplanes and should face some -- >> we are the leader.
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>> very importantly, five important countries in that region. we are part of it. not part of it kos metically. >> where is turkey? >> turkey is a very important player in this. i think now that their hostages have been released, we expect turkey both as a nato allie and a country very affected by what's happening in syria and iraq to play an important role. for a that role, obviously, they have been involved in supporting the opposition inside syria as we have. they have been involved in supporting elements in iraq and the kurds, and what is particularly important and remarkable. we saw the manifest yesterday, sunni countries in the region that were our partners in syria have come in strong support of the new iraqi government.
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>> a lot of people are talking about they play both side. you look at sunni arab states who are actually, have connected the ambassador, that country out of their countries, because they have been such big supporters of terrorism across the middle east. why is the united states a bit more reserved in our approach towards qatar and their funding groups across the middle east? >> first, joe, what we saw yesterday is important. there undoubtedly have been tensions among the region. >> you've had concerns, obviously in. >> we had concerns about this tension between the bulk of our friends and partners in the gulf and qatar. we have been well aware of this. but yesterday in these actions, they came together. yesterday, in the meeting with president obama, they were together underscoring the same naej message that isil is a
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threat to them all. i don't want to minimize there have been tensions and there undoubtedly will be. isil had remarkable unifying correct, al piece of this. you are well aware, we had a major base in qatar. it is an important platform for us in the region and that's a part of the basis of our relationship. although, it's multifacetted. >> let's talk about your own operation certainly the training if saudi arabia, training the new free certain army, whatever it's going to be call, the intent is, i would assume, to take them back to fight on the ground if syria, the city of rakka, the headquarters of isil. it will take time to put this army together to maintain some competence of the army. what time are we talking about on the ground in rakka. you can't eliminate a city from the year him you can't do it. what is the time element here?
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>> it's going to take time, mike. it will take more time in syria than iraq the president has been clear about that. we have been partnering with the vetted opposition. we are now with the support of congress going to substantially ramp up our support. we will take the time to fight carefully. we want to give support to those we have confidence in. we will need to build tear ranks and their skills. it's not something we can do with the flip of the switch. so we have estimated that this will be a matter of months before these forces start to come online in substantial numbers. >> mr. prejudice it's easy to criticize barak obama for what he did or didn't do. you know more than anybody,
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whichever way it breaks, the other side will be correct am. what itself the great challenge here? you have the cold war us against them. is this a guy running a country? right now, it seems we don't tow who we are going after here. >> i think you got to do that. i think it is a little like the cold war. in the sense you got isis you got problems in yemen, libbia boka haram, nigeria, where they kidnapped those girls, yesterday, there were people in northwest xinxang and coin the biggest problem we have in the u.k., security terms now, france, germany.
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understand, this is going to be on the president, the prime minister. it will last for a significant period of time. i was going to say western civilization, against civilization itself. >> absolutely. it's very interesting they immediately criticize saudi arabia because they want to turn it back, say you guys are leaning up with the infidel and islam. this is a mod iraqis vs. extremism. >> it also puts us in a position where we have to knock down buildings in london and walk and new york and who doesn't? assad does not, isis does. assad is a terrible person. at the same time, assad running syria is preferable to isis.
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>> these regimes aren't going to stay if power. assad has killed people if power. there are more refugees since the second world war, possibly including the second world war. these old regimes are not going to stay in power. the issue is, when you get rid of the old regime, that's when the next battle begins and it's the open meaned people who want to be connected and share the to the that we share. and these radicalismists that want to create a society which frankly is not compatible with the modern world. >> no, it's not. to your point, exactly, it's not just about stamping out isis, really, it's about trying to eradicate an ideology that could destroy the world if unleashed and gotten out of control, which is why collective action and the president working with other countries and engaging them in a real way, seems like the only
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way to go. >> we have seen how difficult over the last decade na can happen. >> it's a critical coalition you put together. you said unless are you prepared to fight these people on the ground, talking act isis, you pay contain them, but you won't coast them. you are certainly not alone in that analysis. so where does that leave us this morning? turn their headquarters into dust, what happens next? >> right. i think again, your administration sensible in making sure we can do this and the president put in charge of this operation. he is super smart and good mannered. i think over time because you are building a coalition, you are addressing a weakness a strategy posed post 2003, you are creating a broad coalition, a lot of the arab countries and countries in the post-vl they now know this is their fight.
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>> right is there they're going to be there. the other thing we got to do is since this is a problem in the far east as well as the middle east. in africa as well as in subsaharan affect. we got to deal with the systems teaching literally millions of young people, a view of the world based on religious prejudices dis and not open mindedness. unless we have a long-term plan to root out those education systems, the kids are taught former religious instruction, you are preparing, incubating, if you take pakistan, that's not been in the news, you have a million people displaced. they battle the country in pakistan. >> u.s. ambassadors, welcome. >> thank you so much, we have been talking about the u.n., it's far different from cairo in
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2009. but the world has changed dramatically. >> his messages are totally meant for this institution, insofar as no one country can deal with them alone. but the country that comprise this institution have to step up, right in the united states is leading on ebola, leading on isil. yeah, it's gone. >> talk about what's happened across the middle east and some of the countries that obviously frustrated americans and people in your positions, turkey, qatar is there, do we think we're going to have a more unified prime against isis as we move forward? >> the horrors of isil should unite those countries and cause them to put practices that have behind them, the test of this moment is whether that threat is
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a uniteer. >> the message is we got our hostages, talk to us, what are the requirements. there were a million people inside their border already. hundreds of to yous that could follow because of isil's rule. >> as you speak to the world and the president really reaches out and gets collective action, also, try and get the country behind engagement i'm sure it weighs on their mind as his. what do you make of karzai's bitter comments and why would we say would we ever bother to get engaged again? why would we? >> well, i have become a diplomat. i will say not ideal. >> very good. >> not ideal. but i think the larger point is we have interests. right. we have our national security that we need to look out for here. we rely on partners.
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it's horrible when somebody is as ungrateful as he reveals himself to be and has successively now in the twilight of his presidency. but we're moving on there, with new leadership. we have the hope for a new beginning. but when it comes to the effort against isil, we have these national security imperatives for ourselves that are at stake here. i think you see from theover welling support, bipartisan support for the so forth far that message is getting through and because isil gross out of al qaeda, pro sayss this expansionist agenda, it's heart breaking, they understand it's not just effort. yesterday the president convened all these countries, 104 co-sponsors on terrorist fighters, that's people admitting they have to follow through, to stop the financing, to stop the -- >> we heard in some different
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ways you can feel it's different from what's come before the french and the reaction. it's a tragic story, the french, even breaking a tradition of ransom and funding isis, they refuse to do it. when the president says, come on, in that speech yesterday, water the response from europe? i know perform is coming back tomorrow to hold a vote to support a coalition in iraq. not necessarily syria. what are you hearing from france, from germany, will they be on board? will the american and arab states? >> when the president shared this meeting yesterday on foreign terrorist fighters, where 50 countries contributed. you heard an overwhelming support from all corridors for the effort against isil, it was a very dramatic moment because we had just learned of the killing of the french hostage and president obama was able
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right there before the world to pay his respects to the president. what you heard was far from cowing in the face of what isil had said, remember the tourist was killed because france didn't stop its airstrikes in iraq allegedly, the president said, we will not be deterred, president elan said we will step up. this shows why we have the people. >> because europe with us on that? >> i feel france and the united kingdom, contributions from all kind, denmark, german, people are contributing, yesterday's resolution again as a reminder and the effort is a reminder the financing is co-agree gen, the delk with the clearics and bring the communities into this conversation. you spot people. you prevent them from become activity before you then have to take them out on the battlefield. a prevented foreign terrorist fighter is more effective than allowing them to get to the battlefield and deal with them later. >> coming up, everything you've
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ever wanted to know about willie geist, his father bill goift, spills the benefits on willie's childhood. i thought he was our child. >> well, we share in that. >> we'll be right back. ♪ (holiday music is playing) hey! i guess we're going to need a new santa ♪(the music builds to a climax.) more people are coming to audi than ever before. see why now is the best time. audi will cover your first month's payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. visit audioffers.com today.
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all right. we have a father-son moment, remember chevy chase. >> i thought it was the best thing in the world. yeah, when i was a boy, just about every summer we'd take a vacation and you know in 18 years, we never had fun but now i have my own family, well, we're on our own vacation. you know something, russ. >> what, dad? >> we're going to have fun.
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>> have fun. hey, don't let your mother smell that beer on your breath. she'll take it out on me. well, i better get a move on the i want to get us out of here by dark. good talk, son. >> good talk, dad. >> that's it. >> that scene helped inspire their new book, good talk, dad the birds, bows and other conversations, we forget to have, joining us now, bill geist, my idol and his son, our own willie geist who is a male. >> i have to give our producers credit, they're the first ones to realize the title of our book comes directly from that scene. >> one person to get to that. >> thank god, exactly. >> the good talk, dad, is in the spirit of the chevy chase, which is to say we never had a good talk. >> the dangers of alcohol last week. >> good. a little bit played.
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but that's okay. it's funny, i didn't think of scene even though i can totally har you say that. >> we don't want to have the talk. >> exactly. nobody does. why did you decide to write this book? it's funny, it's wonderful in many ways. >> thank you, for one thing we like writing half a book. when you collaborate, you only have to write half a book. that the first thing. the second thing was two years ago my dad went on national tv on sunday morning and told the world he has parkinson's disease, it's a disease he has for almost two decades. we realize we have never really had a talk about this huge thing in the middle of our lives, he hasn't told me or my sister for ten years, we didn't know, we couldn't see the outward signs. he says, actually, we never talked about sex, we never talked about drinking and all these things dads are supposed to talk to sons about. we go back retroactively and have conversations.
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>> better late than never. >> i thought it would happen naturally oul out in the woods. >> you are like me. >> i didn't want him contradicting me. 3rd grade, kids are taught more than i know now. i'm real clear today. >> it all doesn't make sense, does it? >> the truth is, talking to people about this book now, anecdotally, i don't know about you. i haven't heard any fathers an sons that said, let's talk about sex, son, what dad and kid wants to have that conversation? >> can you imagine my dad, my brother? >> component. i don't know. i didn't know what to do. >> oh my god, i love it. >> this book is not only laugh out loud funny, every page of it. it is a must read for every family in america. for many, many reasons. but i want to ask you, bill geist. >> yeah. >> warp you thinking when you sent willie to summer camp?
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>> i had the best intentions as fathers and mothers always do. so joey, his mother and i, we researched this, we went to the camp expo. they become the greatest baffoonist. we opted for a pristine camp, sparkling blue lakes, pine trees we thought we were heading down. >> wonderful. wonderful. >> it looked when we got there it looked lovely. what the guy that sold my dad the camp at a cut rate. >> a slide slow show. >> what he didn't share with my father is the counsellors at this camp were in rehabilitation. they were juvenile offenders. they committed -- in some cases committed mostly non-violent crimes, some violent and we didn't know that when we got there. so i kid you not, there were gang fights at the camp, there was one night where some of the counsellors went and slashed the
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tires on the cars. we often couldn't get into what they call the pill box the medical facility. the woman the nurse in the pill box was sleeping with some of the counsellors, they were locked up in there. if you had a medical condition, you had to wait until they were finished. >> wow. >> that actually boats being held hostage in the family to take care of the kids. >> i got a $25 discount. >> you deserve that. >> sunday magazine. >> you know, you love your truck, right? >> i love my truck. >> did you see the pick of the red jeep? >> i did see the red jeep. >> did you know that willie finally drove the red jeep from jersey to vanderbilt. >> that was our family car right there. 1984, my dad spent every nickel of a book advance on that car. >> '77. >> it was extra if you wanted a front seat. >> that's the way the jeeps were. so he paid for a back seat, no power steering, no frills what
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ever so. it didn't have doors or a roof or anything. by the time i learned to drive, that was about 13 years later, ten years later, it was so beat up. the there are was rusted through. that was our family car. mom used to pick me up at school with no doors and the red jeep. >> i like this picture of you. i don't know if you guys can get it. you look like eddie haskell. >> that's my senior photograph. you can't see me because of the black and white, it's a little blurred. i have an earring in. >> you tell that story, why? >> football teams got earrings, it was an act of rebellion, except i told my mom about it. she said, if you are going to do it, we will do it another way, another jab through the ear, my mom drove me personally to her little hair and nail salon. it takes the rebellion. >> you are playing a pink button
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down shirt. >> long john silver. >> so what conversations did you guys actually have that you won have if you didn't do this book together? >> i think a lot. movie of it is fun and light. we didn't have a serious birds and the bees conversation, we talked about parkinsons, we had some small conversations. we did talk more deeply about why he didn't tell us about it. >> why didn't you? >> i didn't. i had always been the fun guy. when i walked into a room, i didn't want the first thing people thought of, oh, he has parkinsons, he's a sick guy or something. i didn't want my kids to worry about it. i didn't know where we were going i didn't want him to think catastrophic. >> he worked with it on national television. >> not always effectively. >> your stuff is amazing as it always has been and you know
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what, you bring light to a condition that a lot of people suffer from and make it okay. >> i have phone that. i got probably a couple thousand e-mails from people who have contracted parkinsons and it's sort of embarrassing. i have always been the outsider and women rush up to me in the airplane and say, are you my hero. >> oh, stop bragging. brush up to me here. >> they usually had police. >> coming up, 14 states, thousands of miles, a whole lot of coffee. >> a lot of coffee. >> our team covered a lot of ground there year, taking us to the front lines of what became some of the most heated senate races in the country and breaking some major news in the process, we look back at their tours straight ahead.
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. >> over the last year, our stakes took "morning joe" across the countries, criss-crossing many states. >> while there are plenty of moments worth remembering, there are a few many of the candidates forget. >> she seems so nice. >> she's not. >> she's not. >> msnbc political correspondent casey hunt proved to be one tough interviewer. >> so mica, she's going to put a bumper sticker on a pick-up truck. mitch, he ran a great campaign. he really did. >> i want all of these on my
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truck. what has been a long strange trip? over the last year, states of play has taken us all over the country criss-crossing the map to 14 states, going to many, more than once. there were moments worth remembering and oh such delicious questions. some of the candidates probably wish they'd forget those. here is political correspondent casey hunt. >> from arkansas to alaska colorado to kentucky, states of play spent the year on the road with candidates across america. >> this is people of the south wind. >> i'm learning. >> welcome. >> 240,000 miles, a few set of tires. the baby is going to get me over
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the finish line. >> democrats work hard to distance themselves from an unpopular president. >> would you want him to come down and campaign tore yfor you. >> i speak for myself. i don't need any other surrogate to do that. >> they want to make the race about the president. >> do you think the president is an executive, someone you would model your leadership after? >> i'd probably look to other models, whether it's abraham lincoln or george washington. >> reporter: some republicans struggle to prove there is no place like home. >> if you lead this race, will you and your family commit to staying here in new hampshire? >> of course. my mom is five miles away. >> democrats labelled you east coast dan, implying you are not from alaska. where are you from? >> i'm from alaska. i'm annual alaskan. >> not everybody was eager to answer questions. >> i don't want to talk to you. >> some questions were tougher than they seem. do you think the president has done a good job handling the
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ebola crisis? >> umm, i would say it's hard to know. >> you are acting like she found your porn. >> we didn't just talk politics. >> this big expansion. >> ridiculous. i did enjoy the campaign. >> i grew up catrateing hogs on aiowa farm. >> what does catrateing hogs involve? >> a very delicate hand, let's put it like. after 14 states, tens of thousands of miles, untold gallons of sweet tea and pounds of bar-b-que, states of play foods are finally home. at least for now. >> hello iowa! i'm back!
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she went to all those great states, all i got were these bumper stickers. >> put them all over your car. >> all over the truck. that's awesome. >> obviously, you have been. >> clayton, scud row. >> amazing. >> john towers, it really was a wonderful, wonderful team. >> still ahead, we go deep inside the under belly of crime journalism in los angeles with a look at the equipment "night crawler." . >> our interviews with jake jilin hall and bill paxton coming up next.
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gyllenhaal and bill paxton and they join us here on "morning joe." >> excuse me, sir, i'm looking for a job. i'm a hard worker. i set high goals, my motto is if you want to win the lottery, you have to spend the money to get a ticket. what do you say? i can start early tomorrow or tonight. what do you say? >> no, i'm not hiring. >> we're first. go around, get a shot inside the car. >> hey, back awayp. >> i i got it. >> will this be on television? >> morning news, in it bleeds, it leads. >> are you currently hiring? >> oh, yeah, that, oh my good, i got to see that. >> from "night crawler." . >> you love it. that's our moral. >> nominated actor, bill paxton. >> hi. >> if it bleeds, it leads. >> if it bleeds, it leads-is like a subversive love letter to you guys. >> intoxicateing.
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we're talking about it. >> well, it's something that came to me about a year ago. dan gilroy, brother is tony gilroy wrote it. he got jake gyllenhaal and his wife renee russo to seen up. i read it. it was so fascinating to get into these night crawlers, these guys who drive around with police scanners, emergency scanners, trying to get some, any kind of grizzly footage they can sell. >> it is the under belly of reporting in l.a. and all across the country. >> dan said the guy that inspired him, he grew up in new york, luig i, the famous photographer, he installed a police scan tore get to the scene. >> beat them there. >> absolutely. >> what was it about the film role that drew you in. obviously, for jake gyllenhaal, we break reports of extreme weight loss and things he did
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for method acting. what was it to you? >> this movie was made for all the right reasons, it's a passion project for the writer and director. nobody got paid a big salary. but it attracted top talent, robert elsworth the great cinematographer, we all said we got to be in this. it's original. this movie becomes an intense thriller. but you won't see it coming. you cannot guess what's going to happen. >> we connected in on bill paxton last week and this show, this movie, before it came out. >> right. >> it looked great. and you guys are doing really well at the box office and the atlantic, they said you channelled a young -- >> paxton? >> no the atlantic said that you were channeling a young deniro. that's big. >> as big as you can get. >> it's not the only outlet. they were making comparisons like that.
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i thought jake did an enormously amazing job. >> compliments back his way. the reason i decided to do it is because this script is extraordinary that dan wrote and then directed was one of the best scripts i ever read t. character was unbelievable. the dialogue unreal. he has these huge soliloques, tony robbinsesque that are incredible. dan has wrote anmazing script. >> churn and verne talk about. >> particularly los angeles. when i uncovered this world of night crawler stringers, these people go out at night, they film crime and crashes and sell it to the local news. i was interested if that world him when i researched the local los angeles news. >> isn't it fantastic? >> it's a particular beef. you have as to watch sunglasses when you watch the local news in los angeles. i was aware a narrative of fear, at some level if you are not watching, you are in danger. what i uncovered, it's a more
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nuance story. it's a story of urban crime peeping into the suburbs. suburban crime is overreported and the fact that crime in los angeles is basically trending downward. it's not suspect that's addressed and the stories lean heavily into graphics. >> so, thomas, you and i delivered local news in our day. so i think he's a scanner people. were you a scanner person? >> me, too, i listened to it. i slept to the scanner. yeah. >> i would wake up to the beep beeps and tried to know what the police codes were. how cool is it for you to not have a critically acclaimed film but a consumer success? because you are a no. 1 movie. >> that's hard. >> that's great. >> yeah, to me, that's everything to make good point of view that people love and enjoy and hopefully will last and also people see is unfortunately today not common but it's, i
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think we feel wonderful about it. >> let's talk about lou, lou bloom the character you play. he starts, he wants to make a difference. >> a difference? >> by himself? >> i think he's the ultimate entrepreneur. i think he wants to make a difference and he wants money, i think he wants power. i think that's his ultimate goal. >> one of the things we discussed early on is the idea that he's emblem attic of the generation, tens of millions of young people have trouble finding work. he starts off with this elevator speech, within are you in an elevator, you have 30 seconds, early on, he gives that. >> i still do it now. i can still do it now. in fact, i can pitch you for a job right now. >> do it. go ahead. jake. come on, i want to hear it. right here. don't think, just do it, go. >> excuse me, sir, i'm looking for a job, i made up my mind to find a career i can learn and grow into. who am i? i'm a hard worker, i'm not fooling myself, sir, i have been
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raced in the popular esteem, i know the culture no longer caters to the work generation. my motto is if you want to win the lottery, you have to buy the ticket. >> how would that one work? that was good. you know what i'd do. >> i'd tell him to leave. >> i'd turn to mica, mica would say, you're hired. >> i would say this job is going to be a nightmare and you work 24 hours a day. i'm going to totally scary you out of it. >> sounds great. >> you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. the equipment tracking system will get you to the loading dock. ♪ there should be a truck leaving now. i got it. now jump off the bridge. what? in 3...2...1... are you kidding me? go. right on time. right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably.
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good morning. i'm francis rivera. developing now, we are expecting a news conference from the st. louis county chief of oh police about a fatal police involved shooting just a few miles from ferguson oh, missouri. it sparked new anger overnight in the city of berkeley where police say an officer approached two men at a gas station last night. they say one manle pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer. police say the officer, fearing for his life, fired several times at the man, killing him. crowds gathered at the gas station taunting and yelling at police following the incident. police haven't confirmed the victim's identity. a woman at the scene identified herself to reporters as