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i also want the talk to you about the trial of the chicago 7, aaron sorkin's new movie where you playdoing a movie for a director who also wrote it who's famous for the precision of his language and being a stickler for the lines? >> yep, it was -- i did ask aaron, i did say why did you cast a well-known improviser to say your words precisely? and he was very, very kind, actually. aaron would always allow me to do one for fun afterwards, where i got his version. i would say could i do one that's a little looser? obviously none go in the movie, his words got in. but, yeah, i mean, it was great in that it was just easier. >> stephen: was it hard to play abby hoffman who was the kind of guy who wouldn't care what aaron sorkin said about saying the right lines? >> yeah, he used these kind of clownish techniques and, you know, big students try and pursue political ends. i mean, you know, he had 10,000 people or 20,000 people try to levitate the postmaster general. so he did these crazy wild things but he was really a deeply committed political activist who ultimately, you know, was ready t

is this the first time you worked with aaron sorkin >> it is it is."hey, tell me everything or --" do you have to talk really fast - >> you know what, it's funny you should say that because there was a moment when a wonderful british actor alex sharpe and i were prepping and we were rehearsing together the two of us just a scene and it was kind of working but we weren't making it fly. and one of us suddenly -- i can't remember if it was he or i said, "how about we just walk down this really long corridor incredibly quickly and say the words as quickly as we can?" and without -- i mean, it's just sort of like it's like this joke but actually the entire scene came together and so in the film there is a moment in which we're walking through our part really quickly talking like -- the amazing thing about doing sorkin is he is just so much brighter than you are and his characters are so much brighter than you are that you get momentarily to have this speed of thought and feel slightly more intelligent than i am which was wonderful. >> jimmy: i want to show

i'm concerned you have to think about it. >> and aaron sorkin joins us now.ry film? >> that's right. i wanted it to be about today, and it is. we didn't realize just how much it was going to be about today until we got to today, but i didn't want it to be an exercise of nostalgia or a history lesson. i wanted to put as little between the film and the audience as possible. >> but this project actually started, what, 14 years ago on a saturday when you went to steven spielberg's house in pacific palisades? >> that's right. in 2006 on a saturday morning, i was asked to come to steven spielberg's house, which i should point out is uncommon. pi don't hang out with steven spielberg, and he said that he wanted to make a movie about the riots in chicago in 1968 and the conspiracy trial that followed. >> and you actually knew nothing about the chicago seven? >> no, i really didn't. i had said to steven that sounds great. count me in, and then immediately called my father and asked him what steven had been talking about, the riots in chicago. i had a vague sense that t

is the subject of a new netflix film, the trial of the chicago seven, written and directed by aaron sorkin. >> you really think there will be a big audience. >> reporter: the movie has been in the works for 14 years but sorkin said it took on a new urgency after president trump took office. >> reporter: was there a moment when you said okay, now i need to tell the story. >> well, it began when he was running for president and at his rallies. he would become nostalgic. >> like to punch them in the face. >> about the old days when they beat the crap out of them. >> you know what they used to do to guys like that in a place like this. they would be taken out in a stretcher. >> the police advanced into the crowd. >> reporter: one of those protesters, chicago seven rennie davis needed a stretcher. >> i was being clubbed by police. the police were literally screaming kill davis. >> reporter: how bad was your head injury? >> i had to go to the hospital. i will tell the story i have never shared before publicly. i went to the hospital to get 13 stitches. the police realized i was in the hospital b

. >> that's aaron sorkin, the writer and director of a new movie "the trial of the chicago 7." a premiere was held yesterday at a drive-in theater outside the rose bowl in pasadena, california. the film tells the story of violent anti-war demonstrations at the 1968 national democratic convention in chicago and the subsequent trial of the protest leaders. the movie is out now in limited theaters and hits netflix tomorrow. >>> an endangered lemur is missing from a zoo, and there are new details about a racial incident in central park. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." >>> the "new york times" reports the white woman who called police on a black man in central park in may made a second 911 call to falsely accuse him of trying to assault her. prosecutors revealed the second previously unreported call during a hearing yesterday for amy cooper on charges of filing a false police report. the man, who was bird watching in the park, recorded video of the woman after he asked her to follow the rules and put her dog on a leash. during her first call to police, th

. >>> we will talk to writer/director aaron sorkin, and he will tell us why it took more than 13 years to complete his latest project, the trial of the chicago seven. all of that coming up when we see you at 7:00. >>> 6:43 now. the white house making a fresh push for a deal with congress on coronavirus relief. naomi whitcomb joining us live now from the cbs broadcast center in new york. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. trading a has been underway for a little more than 10 minutes now. the market starting this monday up. right now the dow is at 122 points to start off the day. checking in on the tech sector, nasdaq up 150 points to start off your monday. >>> the white house is urging congress to pass a stripped down coronavirus relief package. administration's proposal calls for using leftover funds from an expired small business loan program. economic advisor larry kudlow did not provide specifics but did note it would include stimulus checks and aid for airlines. kudlow said there would be for the negotiation this week. >>> amazon is gearing up for its annual prime day

aaron sorkin. >> jimmy: had you worked before -- >> no. >> jimmy: yeah. >> a long time ago -- i bet you. there was a show called "sports night." >> jimmy: yeah, sure, great show, yeah. >> yeah. he had done -- i think he probably had done some things in television before, i don't really remember. but i remember thinking, man, who is this guy? and we have so many -- a friend in common who said, you want to go out? have lunch? i did and i just said, someday we have to do something together. that was like, i don't know how many years ago, 25, 30 years. whenever "sports night" was on. >> jimmy: right. >> finally it took all these years for us to finally do something. when he called -- i had done a play reading with him. but that's -- this is the only thing we've ever done. it was great. >> jimmy: yeah. you think he had you in his head for probably, what, "sports night" was probably 22 years ago, something like that? >> yeah, i live a life where i think everybody's kind of got me in their head. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: well, you are batman. if you need a robin -- will you need a ro

kevin: i think there is a large extent, to quote the great aaron sorkin in "the west wing," they are all just winging it. i think that is a really smart point because both of their strengths have been taken away from them. joe biden, and the sense of retail politics. president trump in the sense of massive campaign style rallies. both of their strengths have been taken away from them. we have talked about in the media, the conversation about getting face time with sources on either effective campaign. but even beyond that, there's not really an ability for the staff on either side to be seeing each other, or even for some of the elite strategists to be able to get face time with staffers. there is none of that happening. it is weird, for lack of a better term. it is very weird. jonathan: i just want to get in a final question and build on something lisa asked you. want to understand from the conversations you are having with republican senators whether their association on the campaign trail is helping them or hindering them. kevin: it depends on the stage. it is a great question. in

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. >> an extraordinary thing about bobby seale is that this movie is written by aaron sorkin who has hise said. >> right, right, right, exactly, yeah. so the transcripts from the trial or the words that i speak in the film come directly from the trial. you know, aaron was able to pull directly from the transcripts of the trial, which i thought was so fitting that it fitted directly into bobby seale's -- into aaron's words because bobbie is a word smith, he loves to speak. when i studied him, i saw he was extremely charismatic. loved to hear his voice, extremely passionate and speaks at a quick pace sometimes so it felt like a really good part, and so, so, so excited that, you know, i was the one chosen, you know, to be in those shoes. >> stephen: it's an extraordinary performance. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you very much. >> stephen: "the trial of the chicago 7" is streaming on netflix now. yahya abdul-mateen the second everybody! we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ woman 1: get your vote-by-mail ballot? woman 2: you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. surfer:

unsurprising since aaron sorkin wrote both of the play and film of a few good men.can find in cinemas now. meanwhile, the netflix—only release of the boys in the band also takes us back to 1968, with a new version of mark crowley's stage play. all right, this is a raid, everybody‘s under arrest. hello darling — connie casserole, or mary, don't ask? hi, ann marie. come one, you can put it in the kitchen. who is this exotic woman over here? my dear, i thought you had perished, where have you been hiding your classically—chiseled features? crowley's play was first filmed in 1970 by william friedkin, with leonard fry as birthday boy harold, at whose party a group of gay men tear themselves and each other apart. since then, it's had numerous revivals including a barnstorming 2017 west and production in which mark gatiss played the imperious harold to a t. happy birthday. you're late. 0h, michael, you kill me. when he's sober, he's dangerous. when he drinks, he's lethal. now zachary quinto takes on that enigmatic role, rejoining the cast of the cast ofjoe mantello's tony

and it's an aaron sorkin script. >> yep >> seth: and i have to imagine as an actor, there are just certainlogue and not only do you get to do sorkin dialogue, you get to do sorkin court dialogue, which is maybe -- >> yeah. >> seth: maybe his highest - >> that's right. >> seth: tier. >> that's right. that's right that is -- that's a bump up. and, you know, nobody else does it if you watch -- first of all, this cast in this movie -- in this movie is so good. but -- but if you noticed, that's exactly right when you get in the courtroom or anything like that, it actually bumps up when you watch this movie and what he does is, you'll be right in the long stretch of traumatic tension, film scene. and he will just drop a gem of a joke, a gem of a funny line and kind of, you know, boop, lifts everything up. he was really fun to work with it's a really, really terrific movie, i think >> seth: i do want to -- because again there's this scene in the courtroom. as an actor, like, is it thrilling or intimidating? i mean, just the people that are watching you do your thing, like, franklin langella, jose

is now the subject of a new netflix film: the trial of the chicago 7, written and directed by aaron sorkin giving them exactly what they want, a stage and an audience. >> reporter: the movie has been in the works for 14 years. but sorkin says it took on a new urgency after president trump took office. was there a moment in donald trump's ascendency when you said i need to tell this story. >> it began when he was running for president. >> president trump: i'd like to punch him in the face, i'll tell you. >> about the old days when they beat the crap out of them. >> president trump: you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they'd be carried out in a stretcher. >> the police advanced into the crowds, clubbing those who resisted. >> reporter: one of those protestors, rennie davis, needed a stretcher after taking a billy club to the head. >> i was being clubbed by the police, and the police were literally screaming. >> reporter: and how bad was your head injury? >> i had to go to the hospital, and i'll tell the story now that i never shared before pub

for years, fans of the west wing have been begging the show‘s creator aaron sorkin to bring back theial break in last night's debate, this happened. thank you. what did i miss? oh, yes! the west wing is back — don't tell my wife, she will self—combust. it's all designed to raised funds and awareness for when we all vote, an organisation spear—headed by former first lady michelle obama that works to get more people registered to vote. and this, while it is not a new episode, it is an old episode, is going to be keenly anticipated. hello, good evening. earlier today, we had temperatures into the high teens across or southern parts of the uk. for all of us, though, in the next few days, as we head to the weekend, it will be feeling colder — colder by day and colder by night as well — with sunshine and some showers. a good day today for chasing rainbows, as we saw here in scotland, where there's been the bulk of the showers. further south, the low cloud has been breaking up. it did take a while to eventually thin and break here in cambridgeshire and across some other southeastern parts o

it was sort of the stuff of legends in my family and so when i got to tell my parent, you know, aaron sorkinht. let's take a quick look at a clip here. >> how do you see them? >> personally -- >> personally. >> i see them as vulgar, anti-establishment, anti-social and unpragmatic, but none of those things are indictable. >> imagine how impressed i'll be when you get an indictment. >> the bigger question. >> which is. >> who started the riots. was it the protesters or was it the police? >> the police don't start riots. >> they'll have witnesses who say they started this. >> you'll dismantle them and win because, mr. schultz, that's what is expected of you. >> wow. i mean this trial, joseph, happened more than 50 years ago as you know but, wow, is it relevant today. were you all talking about it when you were shooting it? >> well, i mean, we shot it well before the recent tragedies of george floyd and breonna taylor and everything, so i mean, of course, we were aware of how relevant it is today. it's, you know, sadly remained relevant for the last 50 years, but then seeing what has been happen