congressman from florida who said you can't worry about the efficiency of your home if you don't have a job, will you can't worry about the efficiency of your home if you don't have a home. we are going to start to see people, we are already seeing, i live up near vermont's, which is just many people have lost their homes in this off the chart flooding. we are going to see people impacted in incredibly direct ways. people need to go towards their congresspeople and demand action. because this situation, you know, is a slow-moving train. we need to start rapidly moving it in the right direction. >> elizabeth kolbert, think so much. this is all in. alex wagner starts right now. >> thanks, and thanks for joining us this hour. we still uppercuts out of the

new york times. special counsel jack smith has been defeat donald trump's son-in-law and former top white house aide jared kushner. the times reports that in an interview last month, the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election. in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today, checks myths senior assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom wyndham, was let ventral courthouse for the second time this week. mr. wyndham is one of the top prosecutors working on the general sixth probe. that was a role he played before jack smith was appointed special counsel. this afternoon, mister wyndham was back in court, indicating that the current jury is amazing. with all of these new details, it really does seem like jack smith might be getting that

much closer to potentially and i think trump over his actions in and around general sixth. the clock is ticking. fulton county, georgia fani willis just head to grant juries paneled on tuesday. one of those two koreas pittsburgh to be asked whether or not willis should indict trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the 20 election in his state. the first of his grand jury began hearing cases today. federal prosecutors do not exactly love when parallel local investigations outpace their own. they want their evidence and their theory of the case to be the first version that the public heroes. so the a willis poses a problem for special counsel smith. to a willis has signaled she anticipates announcing an indictment, potentially as early as july 31st, that gives special counsel smith 11 business days to make his own announcement, assuming he wants to make a first.

that is not the only calendar that jack smith has to worry about. there has been endless speculation about what the upcoming presidential election calendar will mean for smiths prosecutorial decisions. today, we finally heard about the matchup for the man himself. earlier this week, in jack smith's other case against trump, for trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, team trump asked the judge to postpone the trial and that case until after the election. today, jack smith's team responded. saying team trump, and their arguments, had no basis in law effect. and that the complications of a presidential candidates trial or actually reasons to start the process sooner rather than later. one wonders if that might apply to a certain other federal trump this to geisha as well. there are a number of reasons why it was like x mid is going to indict trump and soon. like in the next 11 business

days, soon. what exactly could that look like? luckily we have two handy potential road maps here. number one, we have the other criminal indictment mr. smith has already filed against former president trump. the charges he poor against him in the documents case. and number two, we have this. this thing. a group of seven highly respected former prosecutors and defense attorneys and prominent lawyers and administration officials put together a very comprehensive model prosecution, laying out what they think the charges against trump are likely to be. joining us now is danya perry, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and one of the office of this three-way model prosecution, and david aaron, a former federal prosecutor with the justice department national security division, which handles things like the mishandling of classified documents. danya, david, i could not think of two better people to talk to. about all of this.

dave, let me start with you. in terms of the inferences that we are making, based on jack smith's position in and around mar-a-lago. is it fair to look at that as a roadmap? >> in some ways it is. that was a little bit of a loyally response, but he is clint looking for a streamlined case. they focused very narrowly. they didn't include extra defendants, anti streamlined their case. that is probably not possible and degenerate six case because of the number of people involved. frankly, also, there is a bigger story to tell. >> i want to get to the potential touches, as written about he. but before i do that, in terms of timing, the response to date from the special counsel's office saying it presidential election isn't a reason to slow down a potential trial. it is reason to speed it up. one would think that that logic applies to any potential

criminal indictment in january 6th riot? >> of course. if there is a public interest and russell families just quickly, before the election, that applies with at least equal force to the case that is here to. come >> so tanya, when you thought about all of these varying factors, let's first of the timing. what do you think special counsel smith thinks about is concerned about, what he thinks about the 2024 presidential election? >> i think you headed exactly right and you're introductory remarks. there is an election coming up. he wants to get ahead of a cycle he made it very clear in his filing today. in the mar-a-lago case. he is also mindful of the fulton county d.a.'s investigation. and as you point out, federal prosecutors usually windows turf wars. we were looking at the calendar to, mindful of the clock, this is what we kind of work night and day to get this model

prosecution memo, out because i strongly suspect along with michael authors, based on many, many decades of collective experience, this indictment, if it comes, will be coming in the next, as you say, probably 11 business days. so i think all of that is top of mind for special counsel smith and his team of intrepid prosecutors. >> danya, let's talk about what is outlined in this magnum of this. there are three charges you talk about explicitly. one, conspiracy to defraud the u.s. for the fake elector spin. two, obstruction of an official proceeding, trying to stop mike pence from certifying the election on thundery sixth. three, this is probably the most explosive, just because it's been bennett about a lot and not cover body is on the same page, inciting an insurrection or giving comfort to insurrectionists. can you talk about that last charge and why it was included in here? from a layman's perspective, it seems like the most complicated to charge. >> absolutely.

that is why we kind of had to include it. because, if everything was a case for bringing this very little used statute, this is it. as you point out, it has seldom been used since the civil war. i agree with david in his remarks, this should be streamlined as the other indictment, is but it is going to be very difficult for the prosecutors to do that's. given the defendants, the wealth of information, the possibility of so many defendants, and so they could keep it to probably two charges, but if that really want to bring the most apt case. that stands on its own. it's unique buttons furniture. if ever there were a case for bringing this, such a charge, as i said, i think this is it. if you really analyze it.

many, many pages. given the facts, the law, the president, this actually fits and it is one of the very few cases in history that does. so i think it is something that certainly the prosecutors must have spent a lot of time, spilled a lot of ink, discussing. to me, if there is an indictment, that would be the wildcard if they do decide to bring one under this civil war era statute. >> dave, what did you think, i mean, what do you think about insulting insurrection? honestly, it is hard to reach healthy -- the evidence the public has been presented with, without using inciting an insurrection. >> you're right. it's one thing to say, but how

does the law to fund his terms? these statutes her old. there are four when people spoke differently. there is no definition in the statute of what is an insurrection and how is it different from quiet revolution. i think the draft prosecution memo does a good job of explaining health terms would apply. it really is the best interpretation available of those terms. so it is a pretty good case made their, this qualifies as an insurrection. that is something that would have to be litigated. i think there are issues around proof of the then president mental state. >> that is what i went to get to also, danya. we know that jared kushner has testified whether the president had corrupt intent, whether he knew he was lying around his claims that the election was stolen. other people have testified who

are members of the inner circle and the trump administration. how much does it matter that the prosecutors can show he had corrupted intent? >> as we analyzed and the prosecution memo, if the prosecutor brings a narrow charge, in some ways it matters not at all. if the prosecution can show that mr. trump was aware for example that the slate of electoral significance that was submitted to congress was false, that could be enough in and of itself. if he knew that there was no legal -- whatsoever to put pressure on vice president pence, to overturn the will of the voters, that could be enough in and of itself. if he willfully incited this crowds to an insurrection, that could be enough. so that is kind of the narrow

case. but as a matter of jury appeal, as a matter of telling a narrative, it of course would be helpful to be able to tell the jury, to persuade the jury, that mr. trump at the time knew that, in fact, the election was not stolen and that he had actually lost the election. from what we've heard, from reporting, up until today, if it were many people who would say yes he was aware. mr. kushner may have said the opposite. there are good strategic reasons for the prosecution to call jared kushner and to the current jury, to tell that story. even if it doesn't actually support the prosecution. it can draw feasting, it can help them to anticipate what the defense will be. so there are other reasons, we don't know what he testified to. but according to reporting, he testified that note, in fact, the president thought he hit legitimately one. i still think even if there are

witnesses who will tell that, ultimately -- that's the narrow case that doesn't require proof he knew the election wasn't stolen. but there are enough people telling him, it was no proof that it was, and so that is more of an insanity plea that it is actually a good faith defense. and my view and few of my coauthors. >> dave, it reminds me of the bedminster type. that the prosecution did not charge trump on. they did not charge him on dissemination. just having the type of trump acknowledging the classified information was not his didn't follow, and potentially within iran classified documents in front of people without security clearance. in the court of public opinion, that meadows, right? that is the kind of evidence the public needs to understand just how wrong the behavior was. i wonder if it is sort of the same thing in terms of corrupt intent. is it to just explain to the public, he knew what he was

doing was wrong and that is what we are going to trial with this? or is it more meaningful than that, do you feel that actually needs to be presented in court is part of a potential damage? >> i think it's both. >> know they're very loyally answer. >> sorry. debilitate anti incitement to insurrection statements. ment t they have something else in common. the defense is the defense of posting. when i think about proving state of mind, it's not so much that he knew he had lost the election, it is was he willfully insulting and insurrection or was he just talking. was he just talking the way he always talks. was he just blustering. that would be an interesting line. that is, is there a lot of evidence saying he knew what he

was saying at the time. >> are you saying jack smith could pay making room for for the prosecutions down the line at this level? we know he just brought bright raffensperger and recently, the current georgia secretary of state. we know, the washington post is reporting that arizona is professionalizing it's on probe into election temples in and around the 2020 election. at both of them may have their own funny willis level of estimation. there is a lot happening at these level from the feds and state level ags. is it possible we could see a situation where president trump, former president trump, is charged and in the investigations and indictments continue on after that? >> yes, as much as people like to joke about state and federal or federal and local, there is some intense corporation. if something can proceed and one system, the authorities will cooperate and look at persuading the other. the limiting factor would be the appetite for bring yet

another one of his cases. >> that is the million dollar question penn state resolved and the next 11 business days. thank you both for your time and great wisdom plus evening. we have a lot more to come tonight. what it might mean to have the presidential nominee standing trial on multiple criminal indictments, while he is running for president. my former travel buddies will be here on set to talk about that very weird split screen, after the break. and frank dresher joins me as 150,000 tv and film actors prepared to go on strike tonight, after failing to reach a deal politicos. stay with us. >> how they plead poverty. that they are losing money left and right. we're giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their ceos. it is disgusting. shame on them. m. washed all day without heavy perfumes?

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went up's case and jersey, i would put political took essential, he would say never do that. i could never go to jail. i'm telling you, no matter what he says, no matter how he's bragging and going on and on about him not being afraid. he goes to pit every not thinking about the sound of that jail cell to closing behind him. >> there are two things moving

over the 2024 campaign. donald trump anti-multiple criminal charges against him. he remains the front runner in the republican field and yet there is a pretty decent chance he will have to appear in court as part of two federal cases at the same time that the campaign is on. so what does that mean for the already circus like atmosphere? i have trust people to ask that. joining us now are the co-host and executive producers of showtime's, this circus, my old traveling companions and her friends. this is the most number of people we have ever had on the set. >> bring on the clowns. >> i think the already here. >> and away, yes. john, also with you. what does it mean. first of all, you have studied trump, the political creature, for many months now. i wonder what you think the specter of potential multiple federal criminal announcements is testing him as a candidate?

>> the thing you sit in the maiden's the trolling. hovering over the, race or are these two things. i have to say, i've covered president -- since 1992. i've never been less interested in what's going on and the republicans. it's a kabuki dance. it's not anything. the only story is trump. he is so much the dominant figure. people are like, i'm going to see my pants. what are you talking about? he's not relevant to who's going to be the republican nominee. the stories are about photos and donald trump. a little system and donald trump. compared to -- he's had so much power in the party. he's transform the party for years, but it's no evident as a huge cult of personality. it's the mega party, not the republican party. the more the legal system get

some and, when but the rest of this, people running around, there are some serious people in the, race there is a lot of them now. but it is all sort of, like really? i've got to pay attention to that? it just seems irrelevant. >> i guess you're not going to the stick fight with my pants, but i do have to ask, the idea that trump is going to be wounded by these indictments. i mean, maybe, with a certain subset of the electorate. but as a candidate i feel like you are going to be hearing about this at every rally that he holds because he does draw strength from controversy? >> that is actually what he wants. he wants to be the dominant piece of attention for all of us and all the media. that's what really matters to him. that's what he ran the first place. he didn't think he was going to be elected, he just knew it was the biggest spot in the world. he is doing it again. the fact is that he is going to absorb all of that box he is a twice indicted, first time and

100 years to not be reelected, and lose the house, and lose the senate, that hasn't happened since grove a. and to indictments now. but there could be a third, and they could be a fourth. the question is, if nothing's happened after two, watch anything have an upper floor. but at a certain point, voters do is morgan up and say, can escape when a general election? the answer is no, he. can't >> you say that definitively. >> i think that after, a certain, point yes, they are going to safeguard can't win. that is when the bleeding. starts >> there -- >> there will be enough polls between now and then to say he is cleaning up and the primary, but he will be crushed in the. general >> i'd understand. what does not republican take the bait, no fillers or looking candidates. >> chris christie. >> other than chris christie who is pulling at 4% right now. >> yes, but he was at 1% when he slowed. not that he's going to win, but it shows that there is a appetite. >> there is a chance. >> do we have time to play this

incredible sound from tim scott on paris morgan? can we play it? let's play it. >> to win the nomination, you have to look at donald trump. how will you do? that >> everyone watching the show tonight can go to vote tim scott.com. learn more about who i am. >> are you a better human being than donald trump? >> i think we all have intrinsic value in the eyes of god. >> you've got some people who are method audit love trump 100% all the time. i love my hundred percent of the time. >> oh my god. i love my husband -- >> inward to make an illusion between donald trump and your husband, but teed up, here is our chance for you just something about donald trump -- >> that is what the republican primary is about. i so political ahead a story today that say donors are not worried that desantis doesn't have to use.

>> -- >> now they are taking a look at ten scott. but dustin most fundamental thing and politics. you to find the differences between you and your opponent. >> and no one's looking, you know, the whole theory of the centers is that people want an alternative to trump. there is no push to have an alternative to trump. 51% of the primary vote right now. >> i want to challenge tim scott's comment that we all have intrinsic value and the eye of the lower. speak for yourself, buddy. here is the thing about this. we, you know, have a take on trump, eight of trump. i think the loyalty to it and looked parts of your militant base or sentence. i myself contract. john ellis, a very smart man, keeps saying you have got to figure out a way to hug trump while you shove him. beating him up is not with republican base wants to see. the people who vote republican,

they don't want to see some will say don trump is terrible. they want someone who says, the gold for the g, -- >> that's what desantis is kind of trying -- >> but desantis is so obviously not ready for primetime. it is kind of like, it is very hard. they are trying to find a way -- they have to do some contrast. but just beating the hell out of trump is not going to be the way. the republican nominee -- donald trump. we don't understand it. it's all bonkers. villa. can >> can i ask one question. what does joe biden do if donald trump is facing multiple federal criminal indictments, he has said nothing thus far. he is going to have to isolate them going. >> i don't know. i think he just runs his race. they plan, yeah, why watts

would he say. what would he say? he would say there is a dangerous agenda that he followed, the maga agenda, heat disrupted our democracy, he doesn't respect for receive, he doesn't have to go to the indictments. i don't see why he would ever really have to be in a position where he has to comment and a real way on the indictment. . >> that's an interesting and important caveat, and a railway. because the whole arguments -- >> this guy is chaos. indictments are an element of position of the chaos. >> that was the rationale for his candidacy in the first place. storm visa america. >> he's got a great contrast. >> obviously, we have more talk about. keep your touches in the seats. because we are going to talk much more about 2024 and the republican war on woke. the craziness personally unfolding right now on capitol hill, as house speaker kevin mccarthy once again band to the culture warriors in his party's

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that were yelled at my sixth grader this year at the middle school. you are going to hell. my parents say i can't talk to you because you are gay. fagg. i bet if i kissed you would like it. you don't deserve to live.

my parents say you are a pervert and if i beat you up they wouldn't care. you should kill yourself. die, forget. a 13 year old. where do you think these kids are hearing it from? >> that is lindsey patrick right. her child is in the sixth grade in tennessee, a state that has passed more anti lgbtq laws in the last eight years than any other state in america. that question that she is asking at the end, where do you think these kids are hearing it from? is a direct indictment of the republican party. anti gay anti-trans culture wars are being fought by republican lawmakers in schools and in doctors offices and even in the u.s. military. right now, at this very moment, congress is in the middle of trying to pass the annual defense budget. the process of trying to get this thing passed, speaker kevin mccarthy carving's been cowed by the right flank of his

party, which seems to be treating the bill like a culture war christmas tree, trying to hang in dozens of amendments on the bill before passing it. the amendments would prevent the military from providing gender-affirming care to service members, would block service members from being blocked for abortion care. and would eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion. the list goes on. so on this big night, the co-host of showtime's the circus, john heilemann, and palmieri, and mark mckinnon. mark, the republican parly party that you once worked for has changed a lot. and it's hard to articulate what the priorities are at this age stage of the game. >> completely unrecognizable to me. so contrary to the message that attracted people like me across the bridge back in the 1990s about compassionate conservatism. i don't see an ounce of compassion anywhere. i think the problem is gonna be the republicans caught the car on this and it is now clear

that the party has been completely controlled by the fringes and the fringes are controlling the dialogue and the agenda. and they're just gonna take a run off the cliff. listen, kansas was a great example on abortion. that's the most conservative places in the country, obviously, and the abortion amendment that was passed today are surprised everybody. but it passed there, that should be the memo to republicans that they just haven't got. >> and tomorrow, at a summit in iowa, two of the six leading presidential candidates are going to be in the same afternoon session as good governors signing a six-week abortion ban into law. and yet this is what republicans are doing to other republicans. >> ron desantis did not, i know it happened 11:00 at night, but you signed the six-week abortion ban, and it is what you are for. and when we cover the glenn youngkin race in 2021, yes we

spent time in fairfax county, i think, lab county with a woman that was very concerned about critical race theory, a mom, and those issues seem like they were gonna dominate in 2022, but look what happened. >> it is taken over the entire republican party. >> and then jobs happened. >> the culture war issues, and one of the things about just to be blunt about it, critical race theory is a very different cast to that issue because of the fact that it's not 52% of the population is not african american and republicans have run racist and race baited campaigns for a long time and they can do that because the math works in a lot of cases and they have profited from it over the years. i'm not approving it but -- >> not saying those numbers are changing. >> they are changing but still, what changed was an issue wet the vast majority of america or half the country, half the

voters are women and way more than half a country objected to what happened in dobbs. but you still see, not just that this thing in -- on the house floor and then put up to take to effectively ban abortions in the military. and all of the new york republicans who got elected, this five or six purple biden districts here the one republican 2022 in the all voted for that amendment. it's not gonna go anywhere. the senate's gonna kill it. >> on the record so -- >> where the house is going, bring it on. >> women signed up to serve in the military denied a basic health right. >> unbelievable. i do wonder, as we talk about ron desantis, who shrewdly sign his six-week abortion ban at midnight with no media in the room -- >> there's two routes that usually don't go together. desantis and shrewdly. >> we are hearing the donors are less than enamored of governor desantis and are looking for alternatives.

rupert murdoch says he wants glenn youngkin to throw his hat in the ring. i do wonder, in terms of culture warriors, do you see a meaningful difference in the way that, for example, glenn youngkin has handled this versus ron desantis? has he done a better job? >> well, listen, a lot of this is just style and demeanor. ron desantis is not the voters don't like him he doesn't like voters. that's the problem. he's a worst retail politician i've ever seen. i think he of presidents i've. don't they love to campaign. they love the. people clinton, obama, biden. desantis doesn't like people and young couldn't guys. he's got a throwback reagan's style -- >>-ish. he gives his toes in the culture war stuff in my thinking is that it's not, it's like being pregnant, you can't be halfway there. you're either in a culture war and talking about critical race theory, anti-trans, anti-gray, gay or you're not. if you --

>> if you get into that arms race. >> they are in the briar patch. >> the republican candidate who talks least about, don trump. >> i now. also not in iowa right now. >> he's asking the same questions. >> focused on federal and criminal indictment. that's the circus in which we live. >> let's go do a show. >> guys, i miss you. come back on. i know you're so busy, but john heileman, jennifer palmieri, mark mckinnon, i adore all of you. cocktails next time. the circus on showtime returns this fall. watch it. coming up, fran drescher, beloved actor, comedian, and president of the creed screen actors guild joins me to discuss the massive strike that is about to cripple hollywood. stay with us. >> this is a moment of history that is a moment of truth. if we don't stand tall right

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unanimous decision to strike after four weeks of negotiations with the alliance of motion picture and television producers. after those negotiations failed to reach a deal on a new contract. pop the comcast, that owns nbc parents company, is one of the one of the company's own by that. alliance a pacific time this evening the more than hundred citizen active represented by the union will join members of the writers guild of america who have been striking for the past 72 days for their own contract. this collective action will be the first industry-wide hollywood shut down in nearly 63 years. joining us now is fran drescher, president of sag extra. miss treasurer, thank you so much for us this evening. i know you have a lot for us. i'll get right to it. two weeks ago you recorded this saying the union was having extremely productive negotiations with the studios. can you tell us what transpired between then and now that this leading saget to strike? >> well, i think that we're

dealing with a lot of peripheral issues that seem to be going well and so i guess naively i figured it would continue to go that way. but as we got closer to the core issues, it seemed like we were either being stonewalled or were further and further apart from coming into any kind of meeting of minds. and that came as a real disappointment to me. i didn't expect it. and i really feel profoundly saddened that we got to this point. i wasn't really, i mean, we did everything we could to avert a strike, including extend by 12 days in an unprecedented amount of time and we really had to convince the membership that in

earnest we thought that we would be able to carve deeper inroads and that was why we felt that if we could only extend a little longer that maybe we could avert a strike. in fact, they didn't come to the table that often. they canceled a lot of meetings. i thought maybe they were duking it out behind closed doors, and they were actually gonna come back with something of substance that was meaningful and boy did i get a surprise. because we've got but kiss, basically. and i think we were duped to allow for more promotion of summer movies before we struck. >> wow. can we talk a little bit about the sticking points? i know the union is asking for better pay. they want residuals on streaming. and there are some concerns about artificial intelligence.

can you talk at all about what is most troublesome to you about the latest bid from the studios? >> definitely everything that you have mentioned. artificial intelligence is a threat to workers around the world. what we are doing here, the eyes of the world are watching. we happen to be able to get a lot of interest because of thecr labor force. but that doesn't mean that what is happening to us is unique. and everybody is watching to see what happens because artificial intelligence and the pursuit of greed by big business is systematically cutting labor out of their livelihoods, and we see that happening since the introduction of streaming as well as all different kinds of

things, that a.i. intentional has imposed on our industry. basically the entire business model has changed, and there is still just thinking that we're going to be satisfied with incremental changes from a contract that was forged in 1960, and it no longer applies. it's a completely different game. and so that became a mounting problem and when you talk about what the journeyman actor, the journeyman performance, that is the majority of our members, who are just working class people trying to get jobs to feed their family and to pay their rent. this is the people that we are really going into the match for because they are getting hurt the worst and getting marginalized to an extent where

they that it cannot be tolerated anymore. it's imperative that we don't settle for a proposal that is a minimum which essentially ends up paying those people less than what we made in 2020, in real money. and that's what supposed to be satisfied now? until through 2026? it's insanity. those are the only things. the old contract was based off of shows like the nanny that had great longevity and a long tale of revenue and that was the name of the game. and everybody about the line, up and down the ladder, prosper from it. but now, with streaming, it's not like that anymore. it's in a vacuum. you are in a box.

. you are walled in. and there is no tale of revenue to follow. and there's not even based on what it used to be based off, which was eyeballs and ad dollars. now it's based off of subscriptions. so you don't even get the amount of episodes that we used to get. i used to do 28 episodes. now you're lucky if you get ten. eight. how do you make a living on that? >> i hear you on the changing nature of the industry. it bears mentioning that the writers guild is also striking for many of the same reasons, the disruption in the industry, the studios often say the disruption in history is making them rethink the revenue streams. i mean, how do you see your goals and the rioters goals dovetailing? do you think that your strike is going to help them achieve their ends? i know there has been some reporting at least from one studio executive who said the studios are determined to,

quote, break the writers guild of america. are you guys gonna be there to support? that are you working hand invest? >> let me just say that for anybody to say that shows the arrogance and complete disregard in this respect for a community that contributes so much to the industry upon which they prosper. it's just unconscionable, the complete disrespect to the people that contribute so much. and we are experiencing it, as well. i thought they would come to the table and really want to make a deal. but that was not the case. being stonewalled and being faced with the kind of resistance, that's almost irrational. it's not just about money. there are things that they want to have our background performers work one day for and

get scanned for a eye and then they own the likeness of the person digitally, and they can use them over and over again. what is going to happen to that hardworking background person? they're going to be out of business. this is the kind of thing that is happening all over the world. >> the issues that are being brought up are so novel and yet in some ways the struggle is the same as it ever was. fran drescher, president of sag-aftra, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> that's why we have unions. because people don't do the right thing. >> it is why we have organized labor in this country. thanks for joining us this evening. appreciated. we will be right back. l be right back. un these days? family cookouts! [blowing] [dice roll] ♪ playing games! [party chatter] dancin in the par—!

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