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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. >> we're going to start with those individuals whose influence and power we feel both here at home and abroad and they all joined us the same exact week. >> joining us now on set, the secretary of state john kerry. great to have you onboard, sir. >> good to be here. >> good to have you back. >> let's start with the overarching question who is in coalition in the muslim world and beyond standing with us? >> we have more than 50
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countries total now but in the immediate vicinity in the region i think you saw we had a conference in jeddah in which every single gulf nation and surrounding neighbors joined up one way or the other to be active in the coalition. that includes saudi arabia emirates jordan bahrain, kuwait. >> you bring up qatar. they are helping isis in their own way. >> there's no evidence at this point right now that anyone is currently funding isis in any way whatsoever. in the beginning, individual countries in the region multiple made decisions about who they would support to try to get rizd of assad. this was the first war, get rid of assad and second war is we'll get rid of them. it was kind of expedient that didn't work. >> aren't they being too passive in trying to track down people in their own country.
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there were reports this past weekend out of london that some of the biggest funders are coming out of qatar. >> some of the biggest funders individually are coming out of a number of countries in the reasonable still and that's a major focus of our coalition effort. >> are you disappointed with qatar's behavior over the last several months? >> the answer is we're disappointed in any country that is allowing foreign fighters to move in that's allowing financing to come from individuals. bahrain has stepped up and they are hosting a conference in a few days which will be very, very important to help coordinate the activities which we have gotten good at. treasury department is outstanding at focusing on financing and being able to track people. the sanctions that we've had the last years. >> has the money flow slowed down? >> state money, yes. state sponsored support has stopped to the best of our knowledge at this point in time.
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individuals in countries are still funding. now in case of isil, isil robbed a bank. a big bank in mosul. isil has been able to sell oil and that's a major issue. >> who did they sell it to? >> they've been able to smuggle it out and it's out in the marketplace and we isthere are various channels. that's a major target of our efforts. >> let me ask you about the overall strategy as it pertains to armying the free syrian army. i feel like no one has enough information on why we should trust them can we trust them what credible information do we have this would be effective by arming the free syrian army? >> we've been working with the free syrian army for several years. you've had a debate about arming and not arming and debate in washington too. the fact is that we have gotten very good at knowing who they
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are. we've been doing 20 years of vetting now. began in iraq. moved to afghanistan, which by the way an enormous success yesterday for everybody in the decision of the afghan leaders to come together to form a government. we've been working at that diplomatically for months intensively and also this is a story that hasn't been as focused on. iraq is an incredible story of iraqis coming together themselves to put their government together to have new people come in a breath of fresh air, to embrace a unity effort to deal with isis. those are positive signs in obviously a sea of trouble. >> talk if you could about challenges of getting a group of arab states to work together navigating of that and also can you realistically assess just how long this could go. >> let me start with the first piece. you may recall i certainly do that over the last several weeks
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there have been a lot of wondering where the coalition was. in the first instance, i think it's important to recall that we've had 40 nations plus involved in this from the outset particularly in iraq from the moment we began our operations there support to iraqi government military support to the iraqis to the kurds involvement by partners in the humanitarian operation, countries like france and others taking strikes with us in iraq. we've 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 collection of countries comeing together yesterday. >> "the new york times" reporting the vast majority of air strikes launched in syria were carried out by american warplanes. we are carrying the disproportionate -- >> we're the leader. >> overwhelmingly. >> a collection of five
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important countries in that region. we're part of that. not part of it in a cosmetic way. part of it taking strikes. turkey is a very important player in this. i think now that their hostages have been released we expect turkey both as a nato ally and as a country very directly affected by what's happening in syria and iraq to play an important role. now, what form that role takes, we'll continue to discuss with them. obviously they have been involved in supporting the option inside of syria as we have. they have been involved in supporting elements in iraq and the kurds and what is particularly important and remarkable and we saw this manifest yesterday the sunni countries in the region that were our partners in this effort in syria have come in strong support of the new iraqi government. >> let's talk about one of those partners. qatar obviously. a lot of people talking about the fact they are playing both sides.
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you look at sunni arab states who are actually -- they already kicked the ambassador of 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 of terror groups across the middle east. >> i think what we saw yesterday was very important. there undoubtedly have been tensions amid countries in the gulf region. we've had concerns about this tension between the bulk of our friends and partners in the gulf and qatar. we've 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 message that isil is a threat to them all and that together they have to confront this threat. i don't want to minimize the fact that there have been tensions and there undoubtedly
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will be but isil has had remarkable unifying effect. >> you think you're going in the right direction. >> you're well aware that we have a major base in qatar. it is important platform for us in the region and that's part of the basis of our relationship although it's multifaceted. >> let's talk about ground operations. there's going to be training that goes on in saudi arabia. training of a new free syrian army, whatever it will be called. the intent is i would assume, to take them back to fight on the ground in syria. the city the headquarters of isil, it will take time to put this army together and maintain competency of the army. what time are we talking about without american troops on the ground. you can't eliminate a city from the air. what's the time element here? the beat the clock factor? >> it's going to take time mike. it's going to take more time in
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syria than iraq. the president has been very clear about that. we have been partnering for some time with the syrian moderate opposition, the vetted opposition but we're now with the support of congress going to be able to substantially ramp up our support and provide equipment and training in a direct way. we will take the time to vet these fighters carefully. obviously we want to be sure that those we're giving our support to are those that we have confidence in. and then we will also need to build their ranks and their skills. it's not something we can do with the flip of a switch. so we have estimated this will be a matter of months before these forces start to come online in substantial numbers. >> mr. prime minister easy to criticize barack obama for what he did or didn't do. you know better than anybody, whichever way it breaks the other side is going to be critical. what's the great challenge here?
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you look at the cold war, it seems simple us against them and then even 2003 we're going after a guy running a country. right now it seems like we're firing missiles into the desert. we don't know where we go or who we're going after. >> i think the president is right to assemble the broadest coalition and go after these people. you have to do that. it's a little like the cold war in the sense that you have isis you have problems in yemen, libya, boko haram in nigeria where they kidnapped those young girls and taking over towns in the whole of northern nigeria. yesterday there were people in china where the muslim population is biggest security problem china has and biggest problem we have in u.k. france germany the same returning fighters from syria. we'll have to get into a different rhythm in this and understand this is going to last beyond this president, this
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prime minister this is going to last for a significant period of time. >> when you say that you're talking about a battle against islamic extremists that want to wage war against civilization itself. >> absolutely. and it's very interesting that they immediately criticized saudi arabia because they want to turn it back within the arab world and say you guys are lining up with the western and infidel against islam. what we've got to do is understand this is a battle of moderation versus extremism. >> it also makes us -- it puts us in a position where we have to make tough choices, doesn't it and ask who wants to knock down buildings in london and washington and new york and who doesn't. assad does not. isis does. assad is a terrible person but at the same time assad running syria is preferable to isis running syria. >> this is what's really important. we've lost the significance of the arab revolution that started
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a few years ago. these regimes won't stay in power. assad killed over 200,000 of his people. more refugees displayed from syria than in the second world war. the old regimes will not stay in power. the issue is when you get rid of the old regime that's when the next battle begins and then it's a fight between what i would call the open-minded people that want to be connected for the world and share thoughts we share and radicals that want to create a society that's not compatible with the modern world. >> it's not. to your point exactly, it's not just about stamping out isis 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 way to go. >> we've seen how difficult over the last decade it is to stamp
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out a radical ideology. it's a complicated thing to do. >> it's not just bombs. >> a critical coalition he put together. you said recently mr. prime minister, unless you are prepared to fight these people on the ground, talking about isis, you may contain them but you won't defeat them. you're not alone in that analysis. where does that leave us this morning? >> i think, again, your administration is sensible in making sure that we're also helping the syrian opposition that can do some of the fighting on the ground. i know general allen the president put in charge of this operation is super smart and a good man and i think over time because you are building a coalition, you are addressing what was a weakness of strategy post- 9/11 post-2003. a lot of arab countries and countries in the middle east know this is their fight and they have to be there. you know the other thing we have got to do since this is a
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problem in the far east as well as the middle east in africa as well as north africa we have to deal with the education systems around the world which are teaching literally millions of young people a view of the world that is based on religious prejudice and not open mindness and unless we have a long-term plan to root out those education systems, these people who are taught religious instruction and you prepare the next generation and incubating this problem in some of these education systems. if you take a country like pakistan that's not been in the news these last weeks. a million people displaced in the last weeks as pakistani army battle militants in hill country of pakistan. >> u.s. ambassador to the u.n. thank you for being with us. we've been talking about the president's speech yesterday at the u.n.
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the world has changed dramatically since 2009. >> his message is threats of today are totally meant for this institution in so far as no one country can deal with them alone. the countries that comprise this institution have to step up. >> that was a real challenge. >> yeah. come on. >> and talk about what's happened across the middle east and some of the countries that have frustrated americans and people in your position turkey qatar is there. there have been some concerns. do we think we're going to have a more unified front against isis as we move forward? >> the horrors of isil should unite all of those countries and should cause them to put some of the practices that have troubled us or concerned us behind them. the test of this moment is whether that threat is a uniter.
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there are real divisions. the message to us this week is we got our hostages talk to us. what are requirements. how can we contribute? of course they have more than a million people inside their border already. hundreds of thousands more could follow because of isil's rule in northern syria. >> as you speak to the world and the president really tries to reach out and get collective action but also get the country behind an engagement that weigh it isweighs heavy. what do you make of karzai's comments and not say why would we bother to get engaged again? >> i've become a diplomat so i would say not ideal. the larger point is we have interests. we have our national security we need to lookout for here. we rely on partners. it's horrible when somebody is as ungrateful as he revealed
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himself to be and has successfully now in the twilight of his presidency. we're moving on there. new leadership. 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 and i think you see from the overwhelming support bipartisan support for the effort so far that message is getting through and because isil grows out of al qaeda and possesses the expansionist agenda and beheads americans and others including a french tourist of course yesterday just heartbreaking, i think the american people understand they also understand it's not just a military effort and that was what yesterday was about when the president convened all of these countries. 104 co-sponsors for this resolution. that's people committing. they have to followthrough to stop the financing. >> you can look at the president's speech and just sense it's different from what's gone before.
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the french and reaction to the kidnapping. it's a tragic tragic story. the french even breaking a tradition of paying the ransom and funding isis. they refuse to do it. >> that's exactly what i was going to ask you, ambassador power. when the president says come on in that speech yesterday. what's the response from europe? i know parliament is coming back tomorrow to hold a vote on whether to support the coalition in iraq not necessarily syria. what are you hearing from france? what are you hearing from germany? will this be an international effort or america and some arab states? >> when the president chaired this meeting yesterday on foreign terrorist fighters more than 50 countries contributed and you heard overwhelming support from the international community from all corners for the effort against isil. a dramatic moment because we just learned of the killing of the french hostage and president obama was able right there before the world to pay his
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respects and 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 air strikes in iraq allegedly that was their claim. and the president said we will not be deterred. we'll step up. this just shows why we have to defeat these people. >> you feel like europe is with us on this? >> i feel france and united kingdom. you have contributions from denmark, germany. people are contributing in all kinds of ways. also yesterday's resolution again is a reminder and the effort is a reminder that financing is key. again, dealing with clerics and bringing the communities into this conversation so you spot people and prevent them becoming a terrorist before you actually 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 try to get to them later. >> everything you wanted to know
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>> we have a father/son moment happening. >> my dad shared a beer with me and i thought it was the best thing in the world. when i was as boy, every summer we would take a vacation. and in 18 years, we never had fun. now i have my own family and we're on our own vacation and you know something, russ? >> what dad? >> we're going to have fun. we're going to have fun.
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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 if i want to get us out of here by dark. good talk, son. >> good talk dad. >> that scene helped inspire their new book "good talk dad." the birds and bees and other conversations we forgot to have. joining us bill geist, my idol and willie geist. >> i have to give our producer credit. they're the first ones to realize the title of our book comes directly from that scene. >> one person gets it. >> thank god. >> it's "the good talk dad" which is to say we never had good talks. >> i talked to willie about dangers of alcohol last week. >> a little bit late but that's okay. >> i didn't think of that scene
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even though i have seen the movie. i can hear you saying that. >> we don't want to have the talk. >> nobody does. >> why did you decide to write this book? it's funny but wonderful in many ways. >> thank you. you're nice to read it. for one thing, we like the idea of writing half a book. when you collaborate you only have to write half the book. two years ago my dad went on national tv and told the world he has parkinson's disease and we realized we had never really had a talk about this huge thing at the middle of our lives and he hadn't told me and my sister for ten years that he didn't have it. you couldn't see outward signs at that point. we got to funnier things. we never talked about sex. we never talked about drinking. we never talked about all these things that dads are supposed to talk to sons about. we go back retro aktactively and
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have awkward conversations. >> the sex thing i didn't know. i thought it would happen naturally out in the woods. >> you didn't know anything about it. you were like me. >> didn't want him contradicting me. third grade kids are taught more than i know now. i'm not real clear on it today. >> it all just doesn't make sense. >> the truth is talking to people about this book now, i haven't heard father and sons that said let's talk about sex, son. what dad and what kid wants to have that conversation. >> can you imagine my dad and my brothers? >> no. does it have a visual component, i don't know. i didn't know what to do. >> this book is not only laugh out loud funny, every page of it it's a must read for every family in america. for many many reasons. i want to ask you, bill geist, what were you thinking when you sent willie to summer camp? >> i had the best intentions as
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fathers and mothers always do. so his mother and i researched this. we went to the camp expo where you can send your kid to finland and we opted for a pristine camp. sparkling blue lakes. pine trees and dropped him off. >> wonderful. >> it looked when we got there, it looked lovely. the guy who sold my dad the camp at a cut rate in a slide show in the living room and what he didn't share is counselors at this camp were in rehabilitation. they were juvenile offenders. they committed in some cases mostly nonviolent crimes but 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 counselors went and slashed tires on each other's cars. we often couldn't get into what they call the pillbox with ihich is
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the medical facility because the nurse was sleeping with some counselors. if you had a medical condition, you had to wait until they were finished. >> he learned a few things. >> that beats being held hostage in nice to take care of the kids where there are no kids. >> i got a $25 discount out of a sunday magazine. >> you love your truck, right? >> yeah i love my truck. >> did you see a picture of the red jeep. >> i was coveting it. >> did you know that willie drove the red jeep all of the way from new jersey to vanderbilt. >> that was our family car right there. 1984. my dad spent every nickel of a book advance on that car. $7,700. >> it was extra if you wanted a front seat. >> that's where jeeps were. he paid for a back seat. no power steering. no frills. doors or roof or anything.
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by the time i learned to drive 13 years later, ten years later, and it was so beat up. the floor was rusted through. that was our family car. my mom used to pick me up at school with no doors in the red jeep regards of the weather. >> i like this picture of you. i don't know if you can get it. you look like eddie haskell. >> that's my senior photograph in high school. you know what you can't see because of black and white, i have an earring in. >> you tell that story why? what in god's name? >> our entire football team got earrings. it was an act of rebellion except i told my mom about it she said if you're going to do it, we're going to do it the right way. other guys were going to jab a needle through their ears. my mom drove me personally to her hair and nail salon. it takes the rebellion out of it when your mom takes you to the nail salon. >> wearing a pink button down
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shirt with an earring. >> tough guy right there. >> what conversations you had that maybe you never would have had if you didn't do this book together? >> that's a really good question. i think a lot of what we did -- most of it is fun and light. we didn't have a serious birds and bees conversation. we talked about parkinson's a lot more than we had. we had small conversations. we did talk more deeply about why he didn't tell us about it and what his life is like with it. >> why didn't he? >> i didn't because i had always been the fun guy. when i walked into a room i didn't want the first thing people thought of is he has parkinson's or he's a sick guy. i didn't want my kids to worry about it. i didn't know where it was going. i didn't want them to think it was catastrophic. >> the remarkable thing about my dad, not only did he live with it and worked with it he worked with it on national television. >> not always effectively. >> you're stuff is amazing as it always has been. you bring light to a condition that a lot of people suffer
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from. and make it okay. >> i have found that i got a couple thousand e-mails from people who contracted parkinson's and thanking me. it's sort of embarrassing. i have always been the outsider and women rush up to me in the airport and say you're my hero. >> stop bragging. women rush up to me in the airport. >> they always did in the airport. usually with police uniforms on. >> 14 states and thousands of miles and a lot of coffee. >> a lot of coffee. a lot of ground covered this year taking us to front lines of what became the most heated senate races in country and breaking major news in the process. we look back at their tour straight ahead.
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over the last year, we crisscrossed the country. >> there are a few the candidates wish they avoided. she seems nice but she's not. msnbc kasie hunt proved to be one tough interviewer. >> mika found the bumper sticker she's going to put on a pickup truck. mitch ran a great campaign. he really did. >> what's been a long strange
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trip. states of play. over the last year states of play has taken us all over the country crisscrossing the map to 14 states going to many more than once. there were moments worth remembering and such delicious questions. some of the candidates probably wish they would forget those. here's msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. ♪ >> from arkansas to alaska colorado to kentucky states of play spent a year on the road with candidates across america. >> you know it means people of the south win. >> i'm learning that. >> welcome. >> 240,000 miles. new set of tires. this baby is going to get me over the finish line. >> democrats worked hard to distance themselves from an
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unpopular president. >> would you want him to come down and campaign for you? >> i speak for myself. i don't need any other surrogate to do that. >> you know, you want to make this race about the president. >> do you think the president is a good model as an executive who would you model your leadership style after? >> i would probably look to other models whether it's abraham lincoln or george washington. >> some republicans struggled to prove there's no place like home. >> if you leave this race will you and your family commit to staying here in new hampshire? >> of course. my mom is five miles away. >> democrats have labeled you east coast dan implying that you're not from alaska. where are you from? >> i'm from alaska. i'm an alaskan. >> not everyone was eager to answer questions. >> i don't really want to talk to you. >> some questions were tougher than they seemed. >> do you think the obama administration has done an appropriate job handling the ebola crisis?
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>> i would say that it's hard to know -- >> you're acting like she found your porn. >> we didn't just talk politics. this big ten expansion? >> ridiculous. maryland and rutgers make no sense whatsoever. >> i enjoyed the campaign and getting to know my fellow kansans better. >> what does that involve? >> a delicate hand. >> after 14 states tens of thousands of miles, untold gallons of sweet tea and pounds of barbecue states of play boots are finally home at least for now. >> hello, iowa. i am back! ♪
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>> she went to all those great states and all i got were these bumper stickers. >> are you going to put them all over the car in. >> all over the truck. >> you and ben clayton, amazing. >> dan. john. it was a wonderful team. >> still ahead, we go deep inside the underbelly of crime journalism in los angeles with a look at the film "nightcrawler." our interview coming up next.
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it's rare when a film can impress both critics and fans alike but that's exactly what "nightcrawler" was able to do. >> it took viewers down a dark and twisted road. they uncovered the world of l.a. crime journalism in what became one of 2014's must see films and they both joined us on "morning
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joe." >> excuse me sir. i'm looking for a job. i'm a hard worker. i set high goals. if you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket. with a do you say? i could start tomorrow or even why not tonight? >> no. i'm not hiring. >> go around. get a shot inside the car. >> back away. >> will this be on tellevisiontelevision. >> are you currently hiring? >> look at that. my god. i have to see that. >> i love it. that's our morning right there. >> bill paxton, if it bleeds it leads. >> this is like a love letter to you guys. >> talk about it. >> something that came to me
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about a year ago. dan gilroy whose brother is tony gilroy wrote it. he got jake gyllenhaal and his wife to sign up and i read it. it was so original. it was so fascinating. you get into this world of these guys and these guys who drive around with police scanners emergency scanners trying to get any footage they can sell. >> it's the underbelly of reporting in l.a. and across the country. >> dan said the guy that inspired him -- he grew up in new york -- the famous crime photographer who supposedly was the first guy to actually install a police scanner in his car so he could get to the scene. >> beat them there. >> what was it about the film role that drew you in? obviously for jake gyllenhaal this is a darker role for him. we read reports about his extreme weight loss and other things he did for method acting with this but what was it for
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you? >> it was a passion project for the writer/director and for jake. nobody got paid a big salary. it attracted top talent. it was just something we all said we have to be in this. it's original. it's a movie that becomes an intense thriller. you won't see it coming. you cannot guess what's going to happen. >> this show this movie, before it came out, it looked great. you guys are doing really well at the box office. and "the atlantic" you channeled a young de niro. >> paxton said that? >> no. "the atlantic" said that. >> they're not the only outlet to sing his praises who make comparisons like that. jake did an amazing job.
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>> the reason i decided to do it was because the script was extraordinary. the script that dan wrote and then directed was one of the best scripts i ever read. the character was unbelievable. the dialogue was unreal. he is like corporate speak that are incredible. dan wrote an amazing script. >> dan, you are obviously making a statement on the 24/7 news cycle that's just churn and burn and churn and burn. talk about that. >> it's particular to los angeles. when i uncovered this world of people that go out at night and film crime and crashes and sell to local tv news i was interested in that world. as i started to research local los angeles television news it's a particular beast. my brother likes to say you have to wear sunglasses when you watch local television news in los angeles. i was aware there if you're not watching you're in danger. what i uncovered is it's a story of urban crime creeping into the
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suburbs. urban crime is underreported. suburban crime is overreported and the fact that crime in los angeles is trending downward is not something that's addressed and the stories as they present lean heavily into graphic violent images. >> thomas you and i did local news in our day. i think he's one of those scanner people. were you a scanner person? i was a scanner person. >> i was early in my career. >> i slept next to the scanner. >> wake up to beep beeps. for this movie for you, how cool does it feel to not just have a critically acclaimed film but consumer success. you were number one movie. that's great. >> to me that's everything. checks all the boxes to make a good movie that people love and enjoy and hopefully will last and people see is unfortunately today not common but i think we feel wonderful about it.
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>> let's talk about lou bloom. the character you play. he wants to make a difference. a difference for himself. >> i think he's the ultimate entrepreneur. i think he wants to make a difference but he wants to make money and he does want power. ultimately that's lou's ultimate goal. >> one thing we discussed early on was the idea that there are tens of millions of young people around the world having trouble finding work and his character starts out giving this elevator speech you have 30 seconds. very early on he gives that. >> i can still do it now. yeah. in fact, if i can pitch you for a job right now. >> do it. i want to see that. go ahead, jake. i want to hear it. don't think. just do it. >> excuse me sir. i'm looking for a job. i made up my mind to find a career that i can grow in. i'm not fooling myself. haven't been raised self-esteem
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movement. i know today's culture no longer caters to job loyalty. i believe good things come to those who want to work their asses off. >> let me tell you how that would work. if we were in an elevator and you said that i would turn to mika and go and mika would say you're hired. >> i would say this job is going to be a nightmare and harder than you ever thought and work 24 hours a day. i'll totally scare you out of it. >> you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back.
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hello 2015. the world rings in a new year. not all of the celebrations went off without a hitch. a warm-up in the works after a bone chilling end to 2014. also the states that are seeing a rise in minimum wage starting today. and the one thing you can do to improve your wellness in 2015 and it does not include a trip to the gym. good morning to you and happy new year. 2015. here's what's happening on this day. it's all that. 1 million people packing new york
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