second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says. for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. works. creek. and can't. see evolution. and. will not be seen tells us that other malfunctioning corporation of this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it as a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene well for a very few well raining poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of ac

got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers a pretty well for a very few fall running poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world. that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the destruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit the precious view over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology places corporate greed. and greed take back the popular phrase is not g

where is michael douglas, "american president?" >> the contender. rock, "head of state," and robin williams as "theodore roosevelt at "night as the museum." >> they're obviously not calling us. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> the re-election in hand, president barack obama turns now to face the challenges of the next four years with house speaker john boehner saying, quote, we are ready to be led. the question is do we have any reason to believe the two parties in washington will get along better in a second obama term? we'll see. >>> an ugly nor'easter complete with rain, wind and snow whips into the same parts of new york new york and new jersey that were wiped out by hurricane sandy. the question s what does the new storm mean for those still waiting for the lights to be turned on ten days now a

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which movie does michael douglas play the president of the united states, "the american president, ""wilson's war," "independence day" or "frost/nixon"? >> the american president. >> wait, did he cheat? did he cheat, too? >> we both love that movie, 1995, annette bening the romantic interest. it's great. a great one. are we doing another one? is it over? one more. one more, kath. >> i guess, which president was a licensed bartender? abraham lincoln, james garfield, herbert hoover of grover cleveland? >> i would say cleveland. >> you're wrong. good guess. >> all right. what's the correct answer? >> abraham lincoln, before becoming president, he owned a tavern but he didn't really drink so i believe he was selling alcohol but didn't partake in it himself. >> these are all very interesting, by the way. >> thank you for having me. >> thanks for coming on. >>> are you an easy target for online scammers? we will tell you how to avoid getting hacked. sara haynes, you know, they get into her stuff, right after this. ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insu

she gave us this picture with her husband, michael douglas, who was an army sergeant in ' '70s. oldest son was killed in the iraq war in 2008. a couple more. you can always find the good in someone or something. that's from michael vaf nau. they are both serving right now. and finally, don't waste time worrying from kim mcconnell, wife of jonathan mcconnell who served in the iraq war. we'll have more in the next hour. it's become a nice and beautiful discussion people are having online and on ireport about what they have learned if they wouldn't have otherwise known so deeply from the people who made the sacrifice. >> so often people keep those thoughts to themselves or they are sharing that with just the immediate family or friends and this is a great forum in which they can share with so many people. >> a lot of people don't know about veterans. what do you don't know about our veterans. >> thank you so much. >>> voters have sent the same balance of powe back to washington. does that mean more gridlock for the president? george mitchell is with us in the newsroom on how the si

his name was andrew shepard, and in michael douglas' capable hands, in the film "the american presidentepard, and i am the president. >> especially to left-leaning aaron sorkin fans who loved shepard because of what he said and how he said it. >> is the view pretty good from the cheap seats, a.j.? >> reporter: and for the fans who have been yearning for years for obama to give his inner shephe shepherd, he did that yesterday. >> if senator mccain and others want to go after someone, they should go after me. >> our friends at pbs said they sent the first episode on dvd, because like most fans, she can't wait. the difference is if you don't live at the white house or don't get invited over to watch, you'll just have to. 70% of venice flooded this week, and about 1% of the people there thought that a lifetime of eye infections would be a good idea. we've had way too much water out east the past few weeks or so, and amazing stories are still suffering. like this jacket found busted up in highland' new jersey. west pointers will recognize it as a cadet jacket, this one from the class of 1933

. >> that was of course was michael douglas as the wheeler-dealer gordon gekko, responding to his proteje played by charlie sheen in the movie "wall street," the 25 years ago. back in the late '80s, the director oliver stone, himself the son of stock broker, saw something happened before it reached the mainstream. before the rest of us knew what hit us. that little speech about the richest 1% of the demise of democracy proved to be prophetic. flesh and blood americans are living now every day with the consequences -- >> my name is amanda greubel. i am 32 years old, born and raised in iowa. i've been married for ten years today to my high school sweetheart, josh. he's the high school band director of the same district where i am the family resource center director. we have a five-year old son benen, and our second child on the way in december, like a lot of american families we have a lot of debt. mortgage, two vehicle, and because we both have master's degrees a lot of student loan debt. >> amanda was invited to testify last summeralt a senate hearing on how americans are coping in hard t

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. >> the cast includes michael douglas. >> yes. >> morgan freeman, kevin kleine. >> yes. >> and maryegas and now in atlanta. i may get down there. spend a little time together. >> sure. >> vegas would have been good. i'll take that today. >> thanks. >> "silver linings playbook" is opening in select theaters on friday, and in theaters nationwide on november 21st. coming up, meatless monday, coming up the new push to get you to go vegetarian once aia before cold & flu season, help prevent with lysol disinfectant spray. and use the lysol no touch hand soap for 10 times more protection with each wash. this season, a good offense is the best defense. lysol. mission for health. >>> back now at 8:45 with the food trend that's gaining some momentum. meatless mondays. a los angeles city council just adopted a resolution asking residents to go vegetarian on a voluntary basis on monday. "today's" nutritionist joy bauer is here with more. good morning. >> i love this campaign, it's creative and delicious. savannah, it has so much beneficial perks. >> it's been around a while but it's really catc

cameras on this show is absolutely outraged that you left "the american president" off your list michael douglasncoln." >> i did. >> yes. it laid the ground work for "west point." >> somehow -- i don't know if those films -- they are good. i don't know if they last into the decade. >> there's something about their carefulness and blandness. it doesn't get into the, quite enough into the mess of politics. in general hollywood very cautious about dealing with american presidents because they want to project sort of consensus and everybody kind of getting along and working together. as we know that's not -- >> isn't it about selling tickets pap lot of these guys are not really what you see as presidential material in real life because you got to sell tickets and -- >> democrats and republicans and, you know, nonvoters. >> if you go back and look at what kind of dents "american president" made they made some not huge but it dieded the audience along political lines. >> "west wing" did it. "john adams," the hbo series. >> thank you guys. we'll see you at the movies. we'll be right back. ♪ seeinging t