that right wing film we have been talking about "i want your money," the director ray griggs stopped by for a special screening with us and i tried unsuccessfully to get eliot to be nice to him. fair warning. >> joining us now for a headliner interview, the filmmaker of "i want your money," ray griggs. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> congratulations on your release today. for a minute, just describe what the movie is for those who don't know. >> my film is reaganomics versus obamanomics. it contrasts the two roads we can go down, one is the current administration or trying to go back to the conservative values and beliefs of that of ronald reagan. >> it was -- the release was timed to come out right now before the election so you could have sort of -- make a political statement. >> absolutely. i wanted to give people proper tools to take with them on november 2nd so they make wise decisions on what course to take. >> you have made this film outside the usual hollywood movie system. in other words, you say you've self-financed, right. >> i self-financed it, the produ

filmmaker ray griggs is the director, co-writer and narrator. with the idea after president obama passed the $787 billion stimulus package and in much of the film's 92 minutes, griggs uses cartoon animation because he says it was easier to educate the young people about the deficit so take a look at part of the trailer. >> what are you doing here? >> i'm redistributing the wealth. i learned in school spreading the wealth is good for everyone. >> well, i learned from real life that it's not. in fact, there's a word for it. it's called theft. >> is there any doubt that they will raise our taxes, that they will make government bigger than ever and deficits even worse? >> yeah. go us! >> problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people's money. >> 305 million people each have a moral responsibility to help this country remain the freest in the world. >> i want your money! a controversial look at government spending. >> did you happen to see my look at newt gingrich in there. other republicans make appearances, too. he says

joining us is ray griggs. you are started a year ago to put this together. what prompted this move?imulus bill that obama passed when he got in office. that really started the motivation because i have kids and i was worried about the future that they're going to have and freedoms that i was given in this country. >> brian: you're rolling it out in a hundred theaters today. >> on friday. >> brian: friday, excuse me. we know a lot of the people that you asked to be in this movie. run through some of the people we can hear from. >> newt gingrich, mike huckabee, john stossel, steve forbes. a lot of great experts in their particular field. >> brian: the message is? >> basically you have to look at what we're spending and how are we going to pay for this? we got two paths to go down, the one reagan stood for. >> brian: under reagan, do you want the days of big deficits? >> he had deficits, but nothing compared to what was going on today. the amount of spending. reagan spent $1.6 trillion in eight years. he created 28 million jobs. a huge difference from what's going on now. >> brian: wha