i've done quite a bit of beckett beckett, yes. i love beckett. >> rose: (laughs) yes, you have. so where do you place this? where does it fit in the context of what you've done? >> it's just so fun to be in. i feel so free in the even though it's quite tightly -- i can laterally -- i can play as i -- i can't make up lines but i feel at ease in it. i know what i'm doing. i don't fully know but i know enough to get me from here to there. that's all you need, isn't it? >> rose: tell me who ms. rooney is? >> rose: who? >> rose: ms. rooney, your character. >> oh, she's wonderful. i love beckett anyway and i think i've seen nearly everything and i wish i had been his muse but he had billie whitelaw was his muse but mrs. rooney is just an irish woman, she's not -- it's difficult to put class on people in ireland, it's less obvious than england. she's just a woman who's had a tragic -- a tragedy happen to her but she's not -- oh, she's wonderful. she's what you call the salt of the earth if she hadn't had the tragedy happen to her. she -- it's -- >> it's seemingly a very simple play in

one, beckett and pinter. the last play pinter appeared in was beckett's play as an actor. pinter was an actor before he began to write. >> david baron was his name, i think. >> rose: exactly. >> well, he played famously pats part in the show. i saw him do it. a static performance. i much prefer what you did with it. but he was, of course, totally in awe of beckett what he liked about beckett was that he wasn't trying to sell you anything. he wasn't giving you an answer. there was no easy message that you could take away and put on the wall, you know, home sweet home. there was no comfort like that in life. so he would just tell it how it is and that we make up your own mind and that's true about pinter. >> the friendship between two of you, where did it begin? >> >> it began perhaps in a luxurious trailer on the "x-men" set on the fox set. >> rose: it did not! >> yes. >> well, the acquaintance, we were both in the royal shakespeare company at the same time, never in the same productions, always in different productions but saw one another's work ian was a star performer ve

fund usual suspects, the beckett fund and freedom groups and then on and freedom groups and then on the other side the american the other side the american civil liberties union, and old civil liberties union, and old fashion church state-separation fashion church state-separation groups that are lined up as well groups that are lined up as well as planned parenthood and the as planned parenthood and the abortion rights groups. abortion rights groups. it's shaping up as a standard it's shaping up as a standard culture war battle. culture war battle. and i think it's not going to and i think it's not going to be--this isn't going to be the be--this isn't going to be the final word on this mandate. final word on this mandate. you're going to get a lot of you're going to get a lot of cases coming out of this. cases coming out of this. >> have earlier attempts by the >> have earlier attempts by the department of health and human department of health and human services meet some of these services meet some of these objections have the yays and the objections have the yays and the nays be

the position that hobby lobby and the beckett fund have taken, whether it's the individual's burden is entirely a subjective judgment that they make by themselves and the government cannot question. no matter our idiosyncratic the believe, if a person simply raises her hand and says this burdens my religion, then the government has to come forward with a compelling interest and it has to show that it's protected in the least restrictive manner. as i said at the beginning, that's unprecedented for people to be able to opt out from general laws just by raising their hands. >> lori windham, too light a burden for employers and too heavy for the government? >> i believe the burden on the employers is heavy. we don't want the government to be in the business of deciding whose religious beliefs are correct, but the burden is the rule, and the consequences of the rules. here the consequences are huge. we're looking at fines of $100 per employee per day if you provide some but not all of the services. $2,000 per employee per year if you don't provide any insurance whatsoever. and so the burden

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all that gear on one hand a lot of the structures are agents of the double its attack on the other beckett they're subjected to much heavier loads. then they were designed to carry all the action. it certainly seems like you could run into road construction in every corner and gone mike here most construction sites just have some problems rather than fix them. this not enough money to do more. but none deal qantas as the large federal cash injection currently being discussed is not the answer. being too modest to see them we'd be kidding ourselves if we spend massive amounts on infrastructure for one or two years unless stated that this is an area that needs continuous attention in cooperation with the construction industry on this. quite often infrastructure is on the replacement news the total breakdown. such is the city's district heating system. our lines and a long list of other infrastructure components also need to be renewed. the pink ladybug range don't know is coming from berlin. federal government funding is set to ensure that here at least drivers will be in for a smoother ride

. >> do you think beckett's charge would have been successful if the confederates had automatic weapons? [ laughter ] the economy of the planet is more sophisticated now. lincoln was adjusting as needed. in addition to his patience, a key element of his leadership was pragpragmatism. what needs doing? he didn't come to the office saying, we need an income tax in this country, but he saw the expense of the war, saw no other way in which that war could be financed, talked with secretary chase about what could be done and they came up with the income tax. in the same way, he would have addressed the problems in a same way. what's the best way? reduce spending and raise taxes. those seem to be the practical way. yes, if pickett had automatic weapons, he would have broken through. i'm speculating there. >> i can speculate on the two things that i think lincoln would say if he could view them today. one that would outrage him and one that would sadden him. i think he would have been outraged to see how long liberty took to take effect in america after his death. >> he put andrew johnson on th

a senior council from the beckett fund helping hobby lobby says this is another groundbreaking case forights. >> we believe that these cases will be successful, they've been successful so far. we think the trend will continue. we believe that religious freedom is going to trump what the administration is trying to do here. the administration has already given out over 100 million exemptions from this law. and soap we don't think in the face of all those exemptions they can justify their decision to trample religious freedom. >> the owner of freshway foods, a pair of catholic brothers who didn't want to have insurance for plan b. they cited part of their religion. even facing a fine for not complying. the obama administration said it's necessary to protect a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children, the judges were not convinced. they interpreted it as forcing companies to cover contraceptives. the decision friday echos the tenth circuit court of appeals ruling. that court ruled against the abortion pill mandate in the hobby lobby case and has relied on the ruling in pre