john lithgow is eerily convincing as roger, he is running this organisation, this absolute toxic culturelieves he has the absolute right to essentially abuse the women working under him and the culture is such that nobody appears to be ready to speak out. everyone thinks this is the way it is. if you speak out, it will end very badly. until finally, nicole kidman‘s character gretchen decides to take her complaint to the public through the law. here's a clip. if you are able to stick it out at fox, gather more evidence, you might be able to sue roger instead of fox. i was told in newjersey i can avoid arbitration by suing him personally. he says we could call other women and show a pattern. will other women come forward? yes, they will. you live and work in new york. roger has a house where he stays when he can't make it upstate. you have done your homework. no fingerprints. that's how much i practiced the violin as a child. if roger finds out you came to us, he will notjust fire you, he will bang us with a $1 million lawsuit and attack you personally. men like him worry more about reputa

. >> actor john lithgow discuss his book' which he chron tells the presidency of donald trump threw satireleader has to present himself or herself in a sense has to entertain, winston churchill was enormously entertaining in a comic and dramatic way. fdr when he said we only -- the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or yesterday, december 7, 1941 -- you know, these were marvelous performers. obama. at pinkny's funeral, when suddenly out of nowhere the started singing "amazing grace. "everyone in this room i'm sure experienced that. and it was deeply, deeply moving, and healing and calming, and it was a great performance. the way an actor can give a great performance in a complete fiction that people merely buy tickets to see as entertainment. trump is a disaster as all of these things. he's a complete disaster. the weird phenomenon is, he is enormously entertaining to his hard core base. but even there he carefully -- well, his people carefully curate his audience to make sure hi is performing for the already converted. look what happens when he goes out into a vast audience of unc

. >> could watch the program visit our website, booktv.org and search for john lithgow or the title of his book. ... >> in addition to her prolific book writing she serves as a presidential scholar, chairs the board of the coolidge presidential foundation and chairs the collection committee for the manhattan institute high-end prize. and award she herself is one. teethree latest work great society is a stunning achievement. few decades have them printed on the popular admit admit it - - imagination as the sixties we remember for its most dramatic and turbulent moments the assassination of the kennedys and mlk junior the march on washington and antiwar protests. but her drama did not play on television screens across the country so much as the failure of washington to control the events and direct the show. a generation of politicians came to realize that hierarchical and highly regulated bubble a political economy that dominated postwar america had stopped working but yet more than just a technical failure she captures the stifling feeling of a country from the top down america put up

john lithgow is really convincing as roger.ght to essentially abuse the women working under him, and the culture is such that nobody appears to be ready to speak out. everyone thinks "this is the way it is. if you speak out, it will end very badly." until finally, nicole kidman's character decides to take her complaint to the public. here's a clip. if you are able to stick it out at fox, gather more evidence, you might be able to sue him, instead of fox. and that is why i am here. because marty hyman told me that if i was here in newjersey i could avoid arbitration by suing roger personally. he says you have managed to change the law and we could call other women and show a pattern. will other women come forward? you live and work in new york. you have done your homework. no fingerprints. that's how much i practise the bible asa that's how much i practise the bible as a child. if roger finds out you came to us, he will not just fire you, he will bang us with a $1 million lawsuit and attack you personally. men like him worry mor