we won't spoil the ending for you, but to paraphrase ernest hemingway, all true stories end in death. "ford versus ferrari" is based on a true story. >> if a movie work, you end up feeling a lot of gratitude for all the people who worked on it because it's hard work. >> reporter: much like putting a ce we're not rking our lives. >> reporter: good point. >> we're lighter. we're faster. when that doesn't work, we're nastier. >> reporter: what is it about this film that you want people to see? >> well, it's a beautiful story and hopefully it's a chance for everybody to kind of come together in a dark movie theater and see a story about friendship. that's a nice thing to put out into the world right now. >> reporter: you could say "ford versus >>> so-called influencers will have to find another way to show how influential they are. graham is dropping the famous likes button. jonathan vigliotti shows us why. >> reporter: for users like my mom who only get about five likes per post, i think it's pretty welcome news, but you're right. there is controversy. for one, rapper nicki minaj who is

lemonis: ...like ernest hemingway. and i am that character. i'm shy. i've been a fat kid my whole life, so maybe it's a part of just wanting to fit in, so there's a real story, a real person. i grew up really fast. i had to be really responsible really young, so i just wanted to make my life as fun and as carefree as i possibly can. that's why it's not just some schtick. lemonis: are you aware that some people see it as that? vinny: sure. lemonis: i do feel like sometimes, you get caught up in the character. if you could work on putting some precision behind the facts and just checking yourself because i think what happens is, it undermines the character. vinny: right. lemonis: it starts to click for me that he is the way he is because he's trying to overcompensate for some insecurity that he has, and i'm more sympathetic to that, but we have to understand when to turn it off. i think vinny struggles with the dial. i think you have to look at what you've created totally differently. vinny: okay. lemonis: what's the gol

ernest hemingway once said that you write because it's like an exorcism. demons in your head you have to get rid of. i found that was true i could it move on until i had written things down. i have these ideas these reputations of what i thought were the bad arguments of the new atheist and i would write them down and just kept the file and eventually i started saying, what if i could organize this into something bigger. over the course of a few months i just kind of started putting things around and my brother said commute out to turn that into a book so i did the polishing's rewriting is which of course was the most important word of the writing process. i got in book form i had a friend at cedar fort they published it and there it is. this is in my mid ta. what i teach at brigham young university is u.s. history the american founding a teacher course on american civics. i teach a course on film history. i taught asian history in the past. this is us Ãbimportant enough to me and important enough to me in my own spiritual development and the things and co

worry about the repercussions for writing this book i would have much rather have written about ernest hemingway's six tow cats but as a generalist after 40 years in the business, you can't think about that. i was told that i was pursuing the mob story that to stay away from these people because people carry grudges and things like that i tried to be as careful as i could. >> you want to talk about your time at the national enquirer? [laughter] >> if you are committed to investigative journalism you have to be willing to go the extra mile for whatever comes up if it is a valid story. if you feel it is something that is corroborated and the lawyers are accepting of that information. we cannot second-guess ourselves as journalist. and then to embrace this book or not so the work that we did on this book is important for a man who wants to remain president. >> i agree investigative journalism is very important. but i suspect you have written the book but how do we get this across to people to vote for democrats? what about the women in the midwest that probably don't rea read. >> what do you expect a

ernest hemingway was asked how do people go into bankruptcy and he said they go in gradually and then suddenly. the real -- republican party has changed gradually and more suddenly into a party that is downscale demographically. the democratic party has turned into a party which is for upscale demographic -- more upscale demographically. the wall street journal had an article delineating how that is happening. that is the change we have seen to the point that hillary clinton, temer credit nominee in 2016, is now boasting that the democrat party carries the most affluent congressional districts and most affluent counties in the country. when i was growing up in michigan, where at that stage, the 1950's, the republicans had support from affluent voters, they did not go around bragging that rich people were supporting them in there for everyone else should defer to the rich people. i found that senator clinton's comments were a little bizarre. host: our guest is michael barone. he is a former washington post editorial staff writer. he is the co-author of the almanac of american politics