was catherine graham becoming catherine graham and all the issues of equity and equality that goes ahe truth secret so they could continue to hide what was going on the ground in vietnam as well as attack of the first amendment that freedom of the press, that we felt we were sort of making a museum piece. we were a bit surprised that all three of those would be so pressed forward. >> i think that's why he wanted to do it this year especially was because of the siege on the free and independent press. >> et will's talk about this. i'm told that i's his voice. >> isn't he grate in teat in th? >> some of the lines you hear nixon say are exactly, tom, what we hear today from the president of the united states when it comes to the press. >> pentagon papers and got contact with samuel elsberg and nixon went after him specifically and we see this repeated where the press is in jeopardy. i mean, when -- when -- the state goes after the press, it -- it's a very dangerous situation in a democracy because it gives license all around the world for this to happen. >> i don't want to give away too

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it tells the story of washington post editor and if you lie cher ben bradley and catherine gr graham.e pentagon papers. the new drama directed by steven spielberg and stars oscar streep as you saw. kevin got a chance to sit down with his favorite director ever with whom he has quite the history at this point. you're joining us with this and i know first of all, congratulations to you sitting down with steven spielberg. >> thank you it was amazing. >> what an honor. >> amazing honor. i remember going into that weekend. i wasn't initially on his list and i reach out to fox to see if if there was any way i can get in with him. thankfully his people approved it. really incredible interview. it's fascinating story. a story that i knew about but i didn't know the details behind it. >> right. >> for people who aren't aware the washington post published the pentagon papers. >> right. >> and this was a huge deal considering the idea what was going on with the admini administration, these papers essentially showed that the administration was lying to the american people about the involvement in

pentagon papers after the "new york times" received an injunction, and about meryl streep as catherine grahamo have a woman in that position of power and so just her sort of struggling with her position and making this decision, along with her editor in chief, ben bradley, played by tom hanks. i play her daughter in the film, her loving, supportive daughter. >> jimmy: i want to show everyone a clip. here's alison brie and meryl streep in "the post." take a look at this. >> these were your people. mcnamara. kennedy and johnson. >> well, jack and lyndon were your father's friends. >> you flew down to texas with lyndon the weekend after his convention. >> oh, well, it's your fault. you wanted to see his helicopter. >> and the instant he saw you, he invited you to the ranch. >> oh, well, he just wanted the paper to endorse him. >> yes, but my point is, you had steve and bill waiting at home. >> i know. >> you had house guests waiting at the farm. you had nothing but dirty clothes in your suitcase. >> how do you know what i had in my suitcase? >> jumped on air force one. spent the weekend -- >> i

the figure head but also the owner and the publisher and the person who made the decisions, catherine graham decide whether or not to print stories about the pentagon papers. >> perhaps on the threat of imprisonment. >> "the new york times," who had run these huge stories on it was shut down in fact, they were enjoy iing from publishing anymore, by the government government, the justice department, they were shut down by agents of the president of the united states. so the assault on the first amendment was pretty basic. and you had a president of the united states who was trying to shut down literally trying to keep from publishing -- >> richard nixon. >> richard nixon was. that's what tyrants do. that's what crappy communist dictators do. you know in on the smaller countries on the other side, that's what banana republic dictators do. they shut down the knenewspaper. they keep them from printing whatever stories there is. i think it's interesting, david, it's all about fake news. this movie, what is your hope, what is steven spielberg's hope? >> i can't speak for steven, he's the boss. >>

opening the month, we'll show you an interview with the late publisher of the "washington post," catherine graham. talks about her book, personal ry. an autobiography on theory of "the washington post." other topics include the watergate scandal, pentagon papers, and a journalist strike from 1997. watch the interview today, 5:00 p.m. eastern on cspan. >>> coming up new year's weekend on cspan. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. north korean refugees describe life under the kim regime. >> in china, tens of thousands or north korean detectors are leaving without papers and are being physically or sexually exploited while the u.s. should continue urging china and russia to support more economic sanctions, it should also do more to stop beijing repate rating defectors back to north korea. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern, james clapper on his career in the intelligence community. >> we call that new paradigm ela immaculate collection. about being so precise, given the global interconnection represented by the internet, which is the way everybody communicates. the difficulty of sorting out you know, good pe

that eventually came around and created a kind of, you know, parody between ben bradley and catherine graham left of the screen and catherine gallon ham was on the right of the screen a very equal and fare shot that showed the dynamic of their relationship. 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 t there and they do all editing. you go to a play and you're the editor. you decide who to look at and when to look at them. when an actor compels to you pay attention to them you watch them more than the other actor i fell 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 to letting them play the hell out of the scene in two shot. >> i'm curious now that we've seen so many films going into digital age, what is it about film that still in your opinion is so magical and why you shot t

she was so brave and catherine graham is real until my opinion soup peer hero for what she did.about the bravery of meryll graham at that time period and being looked down upon by all these men and making this decision and also the concept there were 4,000 pentagon papers they got hold of, and these particular papers showed that the americans had been lied to by the administration about our involve many in the vietnam war. bob oden kirk plays one of the reporters and matthew reece and i spoke to them about the idea of having the papers onset. watch this. kay, people are concerned about having a woman in charge of thee resolve to make the tough choices. >> thank you, arthur, for your frankness. >> can you talk about the bravery aspect of her character and what you saw from that arc that she took in this role and the what that means for audiences today to see that character on screen and in that environment? >> i think it's tough to imagine what it must have been like in 1971, 46 years ago, what it must have been like to be a woman who was head of an organization like that when wo

it tells the story of washington post editor and publisher ben bradley and catherine graham and the covered by steven spielberg. last night the stars hit the red carpet in washington, d.c. >> you were there. >> i had chance to catch up with the biggest stars involved in this story you'll hear from spielberg and from the two of the biggest producers behind the film. daniel else berg played by matthew reece in the film. he was a us military analyst who actually is the one who leaked the pentagon papers to the washington post. he met in hotel room with b character. in the movie world they put printed out all the papers and made it look realistic but i spoke to daniel else berg what that risk was of actually giving these papers to the washington post and risking his life in the sense of going to prison, and i wanted to speak to him about and he tells me about that night and how scared he was and how he had to hide for 13 days from the fbi. it's pretty fascinating but here's the cast including steven spielberg from last night's premier and daniel else berg the analyst who leak the pentagon pap

the opening up, we will show you an interview of the late owner of the washington post, catherine graph. -- graham. a topic includes the watergate scandal, the pentagon papers, and a journalist strike from 1997. tonight, events from 2017 featuring celebrities talking about issues they care about. jennifer garner talked about visiting a young boy and mother with save the children staff. here is a portion of what you will see tonight. was stagnant. boy the coordinator brought something for this child, along with a book bag of books and a long for the mother to fill a never she read to her child. this boy had never seen a ball. son,ne your children, your with his first ball. this kid looked at that ball and looked at his mom and his mom was putting up with this, and the coordinator said role that ball to your son. she did. she did, she rolled her to it him, and could not believe what was happening. and he rolled it back. the mother sat there, and the coordinator said, he is playing with you. she rolled it to him again. --soon as she was [sound] is that my time? ok. you guys are worse than the oscars.

a new movie premiering today, andhanks plays ben bradley, meryl streep plays catherine graham, the movies called the post. from the calling us independent line. caller: good morning. host: you are on the air. caller: i just want to say that grading, your thinking is a little off. it is supposed to be designed chaos in that there is an even disbursement with two senators from california and two from rhode island, and 535 people are not supposed to get along. it is designed to be chaotic and a fight down to the last minute. that is what it is designed to be, what you are seeing. host: thank you. the tax cuts are hardly a cure-all for 2018, looking at issues such as the dreamers program,nd the chip children's health insurance, which was put in place during the clinton administration. from arkansas, good morning. we are doing fine. how are you? just wanted to i ask a question. fixed income, on how is the tax cut going to help them? income, and id get 15 to $20, my supposed to be jumping for joy? host: thank you. why christian conservatives dep orted him. guest will be joining us. republican

of mission after the pentagon papers are published and catherine -- katherine graham did what she did important to the post. they continued to watergate and to this day. the papers back to where it once was. it is exuberant. it is vital. when you go into the building company can feel the buzz. it is on a mission. it is having one whale of a good time reporting the truth. host: let me ask you about a recent headline with the justice department going after the proposed merger between time warner and at&t. time warner owns cnn. the president has been a fierce critic of cnn, calling it fake news. is there a connection? guest: i do not know what there is a connection -- if there is a connection. you read the works of some economists on this merger and they say it will be too big. i do not agree because they are not in competition with each other, so they are not limiting the amount of competition in the sphere. on the other hand, the president has said he wants to kill cnn and its fake news. he is totally out of line. i have never been and never seen a president go to war against so you ha