because often the more colorful personalities like ben bradlee commandeer the attention.ut where the responsibility lay, where the really hard decision, that was her. and the only reason that woodward and bernstein were able to carry through with the watergate investigation, that they had the confidence that they would be supported by the whole washington post organization, including all the television stations and everything, was because of the success of the pentagon papers, where they really in a moment of crisis, beat down the bad guys and they won. >> you were at the golden globes, you were all there wearing black. oprah winfrey on sunday night, decided to give a speech that everybody, including yourself, says it was her -- launching her presidential bid. do you think she is? that's the gossip and the conversation around the water cooler. >> she's certainly raising the bar for whomever decides to run, because they better burn the barn in the same way. because it's just -- we realize how thirsty we are for that sort of return to a passionate adherence to our values an

ben bradlee and kay graham, for about a week, not only altered the state of their newspaper empire, buty also altered the state of the first amendment and the history of the world. by what? by what? by printing the truth. dear lord, if that's a dangerous thing to do, we're in a bad place. >> brown: in fact, in the midst of another period of media and white house contention, director steven spielberg decided to rush the film into production. he spoke at a recent forum. >> there were a lot of fires being lit, and of course the evening news was lighting most of the fires. but we really felt we could get into the national conversation and make this movie as quickly as possible and make it as well as we possibly could. >> brown: the film has received mostly glowing reviews and, though losing out at the recent golden globes, is expected to compete for oscar and other awards. one criticism: its focus on the "post," when the rival "new york times" deserves the credit. former "times" legal counsel james goodale calls it, "a good film, bad history." >> although a producer has artistic license, i

of it the papers wind up in the hands of the ambitious executive editor of the washington post ben bradlee age he wants to publish top secret stuff is that legal what is it you think we do here for a living. five us presidents misled the public about the background of the vietnam war and kept the truth hidden. if you publish the supreme court next. week. with we could all go to prison. bradley has to convince his publisher kay graham of the need to make the papers public if she goes ahead it could mean the end of the newspaper. people are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper which doesn't have to pursue off to make the tough choices. thank you arthur for your frankness there were very few women in business very few women in law there is no one on the supreme court there was. women were still a little bit invisible at that point in time and the focus of history came to rest on this particular woman's shoulders that hollywood has always been fascinated by the work of investigative journalists in all the president's men dustin hoffman and robert redford uncover the watergate

ben bradlee shaped my career. i'm a godfather of ben's youngest son.absolutely central to my life and growth. ben kept trying to hire me at "the washington post," and i kept saying no in the early 1980s, and ben finally said, jeez, i've done more to raise your salary than you have. [laughter] every time the post would make an offer, i'd go back to "the wall street journal" and say they just offered me this, and i'd get a little more money. but, you know, these were -- what a blessing to to have liven the period when the real ben bradlee and the real katherine graham stalked the earth, roamed our newsroom. unforgettable. >> host: i think you dedicate or thank don graham jr., i think -- [inaudible] >> guest: to don, each of my books i've thanked don. don was katherine graham's son. don was our publisher. don literally knew the names not just of every reporter and editor, but every press operator, every person who delivered the paper. i i mean, don was an owner the likes of which we'd never seen. he'd been raised to run the post, believed in it, and he di

ben bradlee was on the left of the screen, and katharine graham was on the right of the screen.and when i had first initially put the scene together and i did it conventionally with cuts, it didn't ring true as much as a kind of theatrical stage play, where the audience just sits there and they do all the editing. when you go to a play, you're the editor. you decide who to look at and when to look at them. when an actor compels you to pay attention to them, you watch them more than the other actor, and i felt this should be more like theater. when they first meet, we should see the theater of that dynamic between the publisher of the post and the editor of the post having this breakfast where they don't agree on very much, and i thought it was much stronger letting them just play the hell out of the scene in a two shot. >> now, that scene unfortunately is not available yet, but when you see the movie, it's the scene when tom hanks and meryl streep are seen together on screen for the first time. you'll know it. it's an incredible moment. there's a cut later on in the scene, but i

then ben bradlee stepped in and said it's out, it's over, you need to confirm it.wo man at the fbi when he says he became the source to help reveal watergate, the scandal that helped bring down richard nixon. >> my dad, i know him so well, and he's a great man. he's so kind. he's so attentive to other people and loving. and we're all so proud of him. not only for his role in history but for that, for the character that he has, the person that he is. >> clearly there was an element of the conflicted man, the divided man. but then when i saw him on the doorstep, the video of mark felt and his pajamas and walker with the smile on his face, the smile i've never seen him smile. he was not a happy person in all the years i've dealt with him. >> it turns out to have been liberating for us, for the truth, for felt because now you know, there was an awful lot of speculation in those 30 years including by many of our peers and colleagues that we made this up. >> this was an element of clarity and closure, answering a question that had persisted for a long time. >> deep throa

then ben bradlee stepped in and said it's out, it's over, you need to confirm it.was the number two man at the fbi when he says he became the source to help reveal watergate, the scandal that helped bring down richard nixon. >> my dad, i know him so well, and he's a great man. he's so kind. he's so attentive to other people and loving. and we're all so proud of him. not only for his role in history but for that, for the character that he has, the person that he is. >> clearly there was an element of the conflicted man, the divided man. but then when i saw him on the doorstep, the video of mark felt and his pajamas and walker with the smile on his face, the smile i've never seen him smile. he was not a happy person in all the years i've dealt with him. >> it turns out to have been liberating for us, for the truth, for felt because now you know, there was an awful lot of speculation in those 30 years including by many of our peers and colleagues that we made this up. >> this was an element of clarity and closure, answering a question that had persisted for a long tim

expose a of a cover—up in the nixon government by the washington post, led by its legendary editor ben bradleeescribed it as a timely movie. well, obviously if you flip the 1 and the 7, or the 7 and the 1, you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics that richard nixon used to try to silence the press. i'm talking about the current administration and their absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anybody that offends. you know, there is a label that is immediately attached to them, well, that can't be true, because they're all fake news. i mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way, than it was in 1971. if you publish, we'll be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there's been another massive press expose the last six months, it looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation of women in hollywood. i mean, you're a really senior figure in hollywood and you've been around a long time. do you ever think, you know what, i think i could have done a bit more to stop this? well, you kn

expose of a cover—up in the nixon government by the washington post, led by its legendary editor ben bradleewell, obviously you just flip the 1 and the 7, or the 7 and the 1, and you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics that richard nixon used to try to silence the press. i'm talking about the current administration and their absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anybody that offends. you know, there is a label that is immediately attached to them, which is called, well, that can't be true, because they're all fake news. i mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way, than it was in 1971. if you publish, we'll be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there's been another massive press expose in the last six months, which is what looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation which is, what looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation of women in hollywood. i mean, you're a really senior figure in hollywood and you've been around a long time. do you ever think,

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expose a of a cover—up in the nixon government by the washington post, led by its legendary editor ben bradleehave the papers? set in 1971. yes. but you have described it as a timely movie. well, obviously if you flip the i and the 7, or the 7 and the i, you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics that richard nixon used to try to silence the press. i'm talking about the current administration and their absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anybody that offends. you know, there is a label that is immediately attached to them, well, that can't be true, because they're all fake news. i mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way, than it was in 1971. if you publish, we'll be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there's been another massive press expose the last six months, it looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation of women in hollywood. i mean, you're a really senior figure in hollywood and you've been around a long time. do you ever think, you know what, i think i coul

then you have the vice—chairman, ben bradlee is in charge of youth and young people. of what the members want is to be less and more. that this central control. good to see you both, thank you for your analysis. theresa may has carried out her largest cabinet reshuffle since becoming prime minister. there has also been a change in title for jeremy hunt, to reflect his responsibility for health and social care. at the start of his trial, former football coach at barry bennell pleads guilty to seven child six offences against boys aged between 11 and 14. rail commuters across england are facing up to three days of disruption, as staff at five train companies begin a fresh wave of strikes over the role of guards and safety. workers at northern, merseyrail, south western railway and greater anglia are walking out today and on wednesday and friday. rmt members at southern are also staging a 24—hour walkout. our transport correspondent victoria fritz has been at london waterloo station today. waterloo is one of the busiest stations in the world. about 100,000 people come th

meryl streep as the legend, the publisher katherine graham, teaming up with hanks as the editor, ben bradleer and their very freedom as they race to catch up with the "new york times" in exposing a massive government coverup. >> you know, the only couple i knew that both kennedy and lbj wanted to socialize with was you and your husband and you own the damn paper. that's the way things worked. politicians and the press, they trusted each other so they could go to the same dinner parties and drink cocktails and tell jokes while there was a war raging in vietnam. >> i don't know what we're talking about. i'm not protecting lyndon. >> the man who commissioned this study. who wanted a dozen party guests out on your patio -- >> i'm not protecting him, i'm not protecting any of them. i'm protecting the paper. >> well, it was nominated for six golden globes but got shut out. "the post" is drawing critical acclaim from many. one writes, if the intention was to send audiences out feeling inspired about journalism and its function in a republic, consider that mission accomplished. and drawing a paralle

additional stories, it fell on graham to decide whether to allow "the washington post" and its editor, ben bradleestory. >> do you have the papers? >> not yet. >> oh, gosh. oh, gosh. because you know the position that would put me in. >> graham would risk prison time and losing the family newspaper she inherited after her husband's suicide. >> she had to take a big risk, and she might have been wrong. >> you know, the only couple i knew that both kennedy an lbj wanted to socialize with was you and your husband, and you owned the damn paper. >> there's something that was really special about this decision for her because it was personal. it wasn't just about losing her company. this was about telling the people she trusted most in the world that they were wrong. >> we are extremely gratified from the point of view of the public and the public's right to know, which is what we were concerned with. it really wasn't ourselves. >> what do you think it is that allowed this woman to find her voice? >> knowing the truth. knowing the truth. once she knew the truth of what was happening, she could no longer

. >> it makes it an interesting point because ben bradlee and kate graham have this interesting, respectfulual jobs. empathy, understanding a long sense of their history, you can wrap it up and call it a love. they had a love for each other. it was the best version of it. >> bob, you play the reporter who gets a copy of the pentagon papers, lest be friends at the "new york times" be mad at me, they had the story and ""washington post"" had to catch up. >> he made a side deal. it was demanded he take two copies. one he gave to a senator who read it into the congressional record two weeks later to make sure it went public. >> it was the first time a president tried to preemptively stop the presses. he got a judge to put an injunction on the "new york times" after they published for three days this great reporting. when that injunction came down, and the "post" found is source, ellsberg, they had a choice to make. whether or not to go against the court and nixon, and they decided to go ahead. >> this week in 1971 dealt with an administration that wanted to keep its secrets. they did not want t