i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley and leslie cockburn. >> yeah, i think he probably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new normal, it's honestly too soon to say. yes. is this progress? yes. is this the solution? no. happens there is great films led by african-american actors, people of color, and that's great. in some ways, i'm almost looking beyond the academy. i'm looking at the blockbusters that are coming. that's more indicative of where the industry is headed. >> we con crude with jared cohen, president of jigsaw. >> the notice of toxicity of people being mean to each other is not new. throughout history and every corner of the globe we're

i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley andably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new norma i

widow, carol blue hitchens. welcome to all of you.ou memorably told me that up until his last moments, he was engaged in the news. we can absolutely predict he would have had something to say about what is coming out right now. >> i think he would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv. infer we have to try to what he might have said. and really, only he could say it. but there you go. >> intellectual forensics, that is what we will call it. brinkley, he could create a parallel. what do you think he would find as the most significant historical reference that would describe this time of donald trump? >> he probably would have turned back to george orwell, who he loved so much. the fact of the matter is orwell's books are back in circulation. the one consistency of this contrarian, christopher hitchens our friend, was his disdain of authoritarianism in any guys. henryld go after kissinger or the catholic church. he did not care if he smelled authoritarianism. the moves of donald trump to suppress journalists w

i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley andcockburn. >> yeah, i think he probably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new norm