. ♪ >> "lbj" is the new film from director rob reiner.oody harrelson portrays the big boisterous big texas politician in the 1970's. variety calls the film a prosaic engrossing biopic. here is the film for "lbj." >> the only major threat to kennedy is is lyndon johnson.he" place is, this infested. >> in a surprising upset, senator john kennedy has won the west. >> hi jack. do you mind if i ask you a question? >> you're out of your damn mind, jack. >> all of the liberals hate him. >> power goes. >> john kennedy has been elected as the president of the united states. >> i need to show a strong record on civil rights from the start. >> what makes you think he is on our side? those harvard boys are not going to tell us how to run the state of georgia. >> you are going to lose the support of people that have always had your back. you can hop on the station with me and try to slow the thing down. >> if i am going to make a run in 1968, i need people to like me. doo!the >> how can anyone not like hi,? >> you have martin luther king in a jail cel

. >>> the director of the new movie lbj, woody marldson and rob reiner here tonight.his is "hardball" where the action is. now that we have your attention... capri sun has four updated drinks. now with only the good stuff. do you know how to use those? nope. get those kids some new capri sun! >>> former president george w. bush seemed to take a shot at president trump earlier today speaking at a forum in no, sir, condemning the current state of politics in this country and warned about the threats to our democracy. let's listen. >> in recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined. our governing class has often been paralyzed. politics seem for vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. we've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. at times it can seem that the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. argument turns too easily into animosity. disagreement escalates into dehumanization. we've seen nationalism distorted. we've forgotten the die nammism that immigration brought to america. >> you

>> >> this will define your presidency. >> i can only hope. >> >> glor: joining me now director rob reiner and starwood difficult harrelson, welcome to both of you. >> thank you for having us. >> glor: so, rob, this moves because you took a finite period of time here, the years just before j p.k.'s assassination and immediately after, why did you decide to approach lbj in that way? >> well, we wanted to look at lbj as a complete person, and if we were going to do a biopic of lbj you need 10 hours or 12 hours to go from his, you know, childhood in west texas and the hill country all the way through his legislative rise to power and becoming the vice president and then president. what we wanted to do is just, if we could limit the, you know, it is like in greek, you know, drama terms you try to limit the time frame so that you can explore a character more fully, and that is what we tried to do with this. i personally hated lyndon johnson when i was young. i was of draft age during that time because of vietnam and he could have sent me to my death, but what i have discovered as time has gone

but she's having the real joke is the director rob reiner cast his own mother to say that line and it still holds up but now we're ready for dessert we've got a lovely little a here but have you ever tried monkey brains on ice cream. i don't really like for. our next bill is about food as a dare this scene from steven spielberg was banned in india and you can kind of understand why our number three. a dinner has the power to bring people together and can help make new friends sometimes a shared meal can be a bridge between cultures. and i. thought. people know. that if. you have anything simple like st. stephen spielberg knows how to bring strange customs and traditions to the boil. the menu here stands for the nasty character of an indian despot just delicious choose among keeping. the restaurant as a place of safety your go to a tallying conveys a feeling of security you won't come across any surprises here but just about good wine and passed on. i was born in this restaurant. the young michael corleone finds himself cornered by the boss of a rival mafia family and the nasty corrupt

dedicating hours upon hours to this topic and even hollywood just got in on it with spinal taps rob reiner actually forming an organization called investigate russia and making a video with morgan freeman literally saying that we are at war with russia he literally says we are at war so if that's the case that russia is evil and we're at war with them then this little piece of news sure is confusing because the u.s. and russia actually just signed a joint statement of cooperation to support a new space station that would orbit the moon called deep space gateway yes the two countries who are supposedly a war with each other are working together as partners to help humans go further out and just space nasa just released a statement saying that both nasa and its russian counterpart cosmos along with other international space station partners see the gateway as a strategic component of human space exploration architecture while deep space gateway is only conceptual at this point it's still pretty amazing that americans would dare to even think about working with the rest. in any form if we are

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so only useful idiot list john mccain one of the most vocal critics of russia even film director rob reiner gets a mention in the celebrity section he's now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia as not to mention u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as none other than the current american president donald trump i guess that's finally the smoking gun of russian election influence former first lady michelle obama gets a mention although her name only appears in the program description she was never an actual guest checking the episodes would have confirmed this back to boris johnson himself he's listed on the reports official r.t. guest list taken from web site descriptions for the comedy show news thing well they may want to double check that one as well exploring say trade boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia kill us saw. to beat the blue portion of the report is sponsored by george soros as well as the u.k. and u.s. embassies in the czech republic it certainly s

we're going to make to rob reiner, he's launched a new group to help americans understand the threated by the russians in getting into our electoral politics. this is "hardball" where the action is. ( ♪ ) dad: molly! trash! ( ♪ ) whoo! ( ♪ ) mom: hey, molly? it's time to go! (bell ringing) class, let's turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations. who would like to read? ( ♪ ) molly: i reprogrammed the robots to do the inspection. it's running much faster now. see? it's amazing, molly. thank you. ( ♪ ) >>> what i will confirm is that the russian intelligence service is determined, clever, and i recommend that every campaign and every election official take this very seriously as we move into this november's election and as we move into preparation for the 2018 election. >> welcome back to hardball. that was republican senator richard burr warning that the kremlin's influence campaign continues to pose a threat. as chairman of the intelligence committee, senator burr and senator mark warner held a press conference on the progress of their investigation. they made it clear that

so only useful idiot list john mccain one of the most vocal critics of russia even film director rob reiner gets a mention in the celebrity section he's now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia as not to mention u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as none other than the current american president donald trump i guess that's finally the smoking gun of russian election influence former first lady michelle obama gets a mention although her name only appears in the program description she was never an actual guest checking the episodes would have confirmed this back to boris johnson himself he's listed on the reports official guest list taken from web site descriptions for the comedy show news thing well they may want to double check that one as well its power in say three boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia killer so. to be. proportion of the reporters sponsored by george soros as well as the u.k. and u.s. embassies in the czech republic it certainly spares no cr

and in the celebrities section for instance is the film director rob reiner he's actually now part of an organisation called the committee to investigate russia are the politicians on the list include a u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current american president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama got a mention as well now according to the reporter all of these people appeared on a show on this network called politicking with larry david the problem is the famous american comedian has never had a show on c politicking of course has always been hosted by veteran journalist larry king and that wasn't the only mr. either of the think tank says it took guests name from show descriptions on our website which apparently led to just more confusion take boris johnson for instance he claims he appeared on artie's news thing comedy show but this was his appearance so it's always someone with their finger on the right side of the international affairs. boris welcome. all we go and get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russ

mccain he's a vocal critic of russia and he's grouped among politicians who've been on our director rob reiner he makes an appearance he's actually now part of an organization that's called the committee to investigate russia and the politicians on the list include former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama gets a mention now the report clearly states that all of these people appeared on a show called politicking with larry david now the problem is that the famous american comedian here as actually never had a show all the worse for it i would say but we've never had him on r t politicking has always been hosted of course by the veteran journalist larry king and we're glad that it did come on our channel now that was obviously a mistake but it wasn't the only one the think tank says it to guess them some show descriptions of that which were on our website and that's led to confusion for example boris johnson the claim is he was an r.t.s. news think comedy show was this him you decide. it's always someone with

from director rob reiner he makes an appearance he's actually now part of an organization calling itself the committee to investigate russia are the politicians on the list include former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama she gets a mention now the report clearly states that all of these people appeared on a show called they called it politicking with larry david and that would be pretty pretty good the problem is that the famous american comedian has never had to show such a shame on our team politicking it's always been hosted in fact by the veteran journalist larry king big mistake and not the only one the think tank says it took guess things from a show descriptions from a website seems to have left him pretty confused for example boris johnson they claim was on artie's news thing comedy show i ask you was this him. it's always someone with their finger on the right side of international affairs exploring johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and r

then not long after that rob asked me and i was like well, if rob reiner wants me to do it i might have him the more i knew about him i couldn't just qualify him as abad guy, i thought he did really good. >> that woman spends so much time this this house other than lady bird she's family. >> i think at the a lot of good things. >> the whole movie resolution around the civil rights bill, how did he evolve? >> i think it's very complex if you look at him. he came from a very poor area of texas, west texas, the hill country. he understood poverty, no question about it. he was raised in it, understood it, his greatly society was all about the war on poverty and trying to lift people out of poverty. so somewhere in there he knew that this was the right thing to be done. he also knew he was a legislator and he wanted to make sure he got things done. he viewed himself as a texan as a western and yet people talked about him as a southerner. he was more than happy to take that mantle and use it to be able to bridge between the south and the north in passing the legislation. and i don't believe h

film director rob reiner makes an appearance he's actually now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia and other politicians on the list include former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama gets a mention now the report clearly states all these people appeared on a show called politicking with larry david and the problem is the famous american comedian has never had a show on r t politicking has always been hosted by veteran journalist larry king and that wasn't the only mistake either the think tank says it took guests names from a show description from our website which apparently led to more confusion take boris johnson for instance it claims he was on our t.v. news thing comedy show but this was his appearance. so that's always someone with their finger on the right side of the i mean it's a national face it's power to say treat boris johnson. welcome. it all week out in. the spanish before america and russia kill us so we could. ease. proportion. for some of the uneasiness ove

and director rob reiner he makes an appearance he's actually now part of an organization though that's called the committee to investigate russia other politicians on the list include former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama got a mention. now the report also clearly states that all these people piers on a show called politicking with larry davey to that's larry david now i wish that was a real show it would be great to watch the problem is the famous american comedian has never actually had a show in our politicking is always of course been hosted by the veteran journalist larry king now that wasn't the only mistake either the think tank says it took guests names from show descriptions from our website which apparently led to more confusion great confusion though take boris johnson for instance its claim that he was an r.t.s. news thing comedy show easy mistake if you watch the appearance. it's always someone with their finger on the right side of the international affairs. johnson. welcome. are we

from rob the new film reiner. woody harrelson for trace the big texan. engrossingd an biopic. major threat to kennedy's health is lyndon johnson. it is a surprising upset. west.ennedy has won the >> hi. do you mind if i ask you a question? >> all of the liberals hate him. >> we need southerners. >> i guess you kennedy's don't to a lot of this. >> john kennedy has been elected as the president of the united states. >> what makes you think he is on our side? >> he is not going to tell us how to run the state of georgia. >> the people have always had your back. >> let's load the thing down. if i am going to make a run in 1968, i need people to like me. >> how could anybody not like him? >> you have martin luther king in a jail cell. it is an embarrassment to the world. >> what are we waiting for? >> a new leader has emerged. >> america has a southern president. >> you don't waste any time, do you? kennedy was a man of great ideas. our country needs someone who can deliver. >> there will be no compromise. this is about making president kennedy's vision a reality. >> this will defi