. >> reporter: after sasha baron cohen studied him before he played him. >> who is this guy is he a fool or the smartest guy in the room. >> what do you think? >> i think he was the smartest guy in the room and developed a whole style of protesting that was designed to get as much media attention as possible, and even in the riots in chicago, he always had his mind on where the cameras were. >> we can't fight it in the court. these are the people that are putting us on trial, see. >> reporter: hoffman and his co-defendant jerry ruben became celebrities in our own right. >> it was raining, cold and it was not a night out for man and beast and it was only -- they should choose this night to hold a news conference. >> only people to stop the trial are the people in the streets. >> the u.s. attorney wanted a negro defendant to scare the jury. >> reporter: the trial was a different experience for the lone black defendant, bobby seal. he wound up representing himself and ended up clashing with judge hoffman. >> he was gagged and chained for refusing to obey the judge. a white linen cloth reinf

with sasha baron cohen and jeremy strong sporting full head trees as counterculture icons abbie hoffmanutlandish comb—over as lawyer william kunstler. can you tell us why? because this is my courtroom. 0n the other side of the cultural parting, joseph gordon—levitt is more conservatively camped as prosecutor richard schultz, while frank langella pretty much dispenses with hair altogether in a scene—stealingly cranky turn as judge julius hoffman. on top of that, we have eddie redmayne as tom hayden, john carroll lynch as david dellinger, kelvin harrisonjr as fred hampton, michael keaton as ramsey clark, and yahya abdul—mateen as bobby seale, a stellar roster indeed. such how much is it worth to you, what's your price? to call off the revolution? my life. anyone watching scenes of protesters being clubbed and tear—gassed in us cities, or of african—americans being bound and gagged by a clearly politicised judiciary cannot help but draw comparisons with contemporary news footage, comparisons that aaron sorkin is keen to emphasise. there is a message in this entertainment. i'm tired of hear

his clothes after taking off a microphone >> seth: i will say if rudy hadn't been tricked by a sasha baron cohen, i would have assumed he was a sasha baron cohen character. i mean, he looks like a guy who either wears no make up or seven hours of make up i mean, that's either a weird old dude or a teenager working real hard to buy beer. of course, this isn't the best prank ever pulled on rudy. the best prank is definitely still the time he looked at his wife and said, "you're my cousin?" now, rudy claims he was just tucking in his shirt and honestly, who knows? maybe he was he's one of those weird guys who does stuff like lie on a bed to tuck a shirt in, or keep half a tuna salad sandwich wrapped in a newspaper in his briefcase i'm sure his supers had to come up to his apartment to pull cigar butts out of his shower drain. so that's the guy. that's the guy right there, asking us to believe joe biden is somehow a criminal. the reason they have to go to these absurd lengths is simple, nothing else is working. for example, tonight was the second and final presidential debate now we taped this in th

during that prank, sasha baron cohen calls him his teenage daughter. he said he was only adjusting his clothing after taking off a microphone. he also calls the video a fabrication and says he was never inappropriate. [ bell tolls ] >> there you have the opening bell of the new york stock exchange. the dow is up aspell owesy signals progress on that stimulus deal. jobless numbers are released and 787,000 people applied for first-time claims. that's less than what analysts expected. more than 8 million people are still receiving continuous jobless benefits. on top of those jobless numbers, california not doing well when it comes to unemployment. federal numbers last month put the state's unemployment at 11%, third highest in the nation. hawaii, nevada round out the top three. mercury news says governor newsom's program is having a positive impact on the jobless rate. >>> trying to get the homeless off the streets and help them try to make it in the bay. approved prohibited home leless encampment so the homeless won't be able to set up tents in parks or

son, hunter biden, and yes, as we mentioned, trump's anger and twitter attacks also trained on sasha baron cohen who plays borat. he is out with a new response. donald trump says i'm a creep. i say he's an existential threat to democracy. that after cohen offered trump a job on his next movie saying this. i'm always looking for people to play racist buffoons and you'll need a job after january 20th. let's talk. such is the surreal state of the 2020 race for the white house. joining us with seven days to go until polls close in the united states, some of our most favorite. >> reporter: -- reporters and friends. john heilemann, co-host and executive producer of showtime's "the circus." also former congresswoman, donna edwards is back and branding and marketing expert donny deutsch is in the house. john heilemann, i must start with you because you're now out and about. there is something about president obama on the trail in 2020. there is a feeling of pent-up disgust at all of donald trump's sort of abdication of any effort to lead this country. there seems to be a pent-up desire to whack him in a

he says he called the police once he realized sasha baron cohen was behind it.'s bring in the group for this wednesday night. jonathan lamarre, white house reporter, amy carney for "the new york times", jason johnson, campaign veteran, a journalist and contributor and professor of politics at morgan state university. good evening and welcome to you-all. annie, let's see. we're 21 hours and change away from the start of this debate now. some of our colleagues with a straight face have teased out a plot line that features the president unrolling a new tone tomorrow night. has he had any debate prep that you've been able to learn? do you expect anything different tomorrow night? >> no. there has been no debate prep. there were a few sessions on his calendar, but he did not partake in those. he -- the hope among his aides is that he will let biden do more talking and that he will layout a vision for his second term. it's, you know, less than two weeks until election day and he's still not laid out a clear vision for his second term despite multiple attempts by sean

the new one yet so the first of they're proud of their fake citizen known as bore at which is sasha baron cohen and the second movie is now out where the first time i think it was like 16 years so he goes to do reporting. so yes in us a name that unites us and so now he's back yes now this is a big we should say this is a huge turn one 84 the country causing cycles in the first movie came out i they were mad they banned the movie for being air they i mean there was a well now they're just like you know what it doesn't in the best light biggest a thing right, you know any news is good news we'll take a quick break it is 8.55 coming up in the next hour. >>it's another morning of no power for a whole lot of folks across the bay area will have the latest on where those outages still exist and what's being done today to get that power turned back on and non essential officers are offices along with more indoor fitness centers are being allowed to reopen in san francisco. we'll talk more about that in the latest guidelines in a live report and then judge amy coney barrett is now a u.s. supreme court

with sasha baron cohen and jeremy strong sporting full head trees as counterculture icons abbie hoffmanyer william kunstler. can you tell us why? because this is my courtroom. 0n the other side of the cultural parting, joseph gordon—levitt is more conservatively camped as prosecutor richard schultz, while frank langella pretty much dispenses with hair altogether in a scene—stealingly cranky turn as judge julius hoffman. on top of that, we have eddie redmayne as tom hayden, john carroll lynch as david dellinger, kelvin harrisonjr as fred hampton, michael keaton as ramsey clark, and yahya abdul—mateen as bobby seale, a stellar roster indeed. how much is it worth to you, what's your price? to call off the revolution? my life. anyone watching scenes of protesters being clubbed and tear—gassed in us cities, or of african—americans being bound and gagged by a clearly politicised judiciary cannot help but draw comparisons with contemporary news footage, comparisons that aaron sorkin is keen to emphasise. there is a message in this entertainment. i'm tired of hearing you. it would be impossible