xander plots is one of the truly great epics of german literature i mean you can compare it to james joyce's ulysses in english so condensing that epic story down to even a very long film this is a 3 hour movie is quite a big task but. the director almost pulls it off i think is a master stroke is the decision to take the main character from a cop and make him in this case into a african refugee because that really highlights the sort of themes of poverty and desperation from doublings novel and also makes the bridge between the berlin of the 1020s from the book and the modern day berlin of 2020 so this. transforming actually 100 years old well almost 100 years old it does well. yeah i think setting up the modern day actually works very very well and i think the film works best when it actually since very close to the to the plot in the characterization from the novel i mean in some cases even have some of this character speak and do billions antiquated german which i thought were perfectly i think the only time this film doesn't work is when the director tries to sort of shoehorn in 21st ce

but to your question this course is a classic german novel it's sort of like the equivalent of james joyce's dubliners for for for berlin. in bringing this film into the modern day i talked to the director of the film for uncle bonnie and he said when he looked at the book again he found that the saturday 920 s. berlin was a time when that incredible disparity between rich and poor when you had this sort of underclass living peril of her in a parallel world to a world of extreme wealth and privilege and he said he saw a direct parallels to the to the modern day and what berlin is like nowadays but to take the main character french people called who in the original book is a criminal he sought to make it more accurate to the realities of the day he should take someone from the from the lowest class in berlin society and so we thought an african refugee should ship to play that role which is what happened in this film had a patient. all right and director sally potter will be presenting the roads not taken in competition a little bit later what is that film about. that's where that's a star st

joyce vance, matt miller, he signed on to calls for barr's resignation, and columnist for "new york times," author of deep state, trump, the fbi, and rule of law. jameslp me get my arms around this. do you see clear evidence of wrongdoing on bill barr's part, doing the bidding of the president, or does this all just stink? >> it definitely stinks. this is a shocking departure from norms of independence of the justice department that have been clearly established at least since watergate. so far i haven't seen him breaking the law. ess he is appointed by the president, there to carry out his orders. >> matt, so far the department of justice has prosecuted michael flynn, roger stone, and paul manafort is still sitting in jail. at the same time, president trump's foes, no charges against them. friday, andrew mccabe got a letter that said we're all set, nothing is happening. >> i don't think you get credit for not bringing the case with andrew mccabe, the grand jury seems to not indict, left it hangover him four or five months because you didn't want to tell the president the truth that he will find unpopular. should have dropped it in september when it