there was a, not a vietcong soldier or a north vietnamese. they were terrorists. terrorists attacked the government outpost. we killed 30 terrorists here. we know now that they were actually, you know, organized, political you know, basically legitimate political force fighting for nationalist causes. the whole sense in that cold war era communists are bad. we didn't have to have pictures of them committing atrocities. we were told they're happening all the time. that was the sense about, if our government pronounced it. why was america in vietnam with half a million troops? to save the country from these terrible, violent, vicious communist people and advance the spread of communism through southeast asia and eventually to san diego, lbj or nixon, or maybe kissinger said at one point. so it wasn't up for us, it wasn't our job to talk about the other side. our own government was doing that. and also the, you know, the kind of pictures and reporting we did reflected the view of many americans who were within vietnam at the time, within the embassy,, within the advi

stokely carmichael was going to speak and a lot of radicals, and they were going to be carrying vietcong flags, and his advisers, who didn't want him to come out against vietnam at all, said if you're going to make that march, try to do something first that frames your argument in a way that it won't be distorted so that you can get your point across. the riverside church was designed to be a clear statement, but in a religious context that would be respectful and therefore generate the maximum amount of attention to what dr. king had to say -- and it didn't work. >> i deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and i trust concisely, why i believe that the path from dexter avenue baptist church, the church in montgomery, alabama, where i began my pastorate, leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight. tavis: it was one of the few speeches that king did not solely write himself, and unlike his sermons, which were often delivered extemporaneously, king read "beyond vietnam" from a carefully constructed text. the text itself actually went through revision after revision as many of hi

i'm like the vietcong, man. i'm in and i'm out. i was there the whole time. you don't know., to become somebody who people can pin their beliefs and their dreams on. >> david o. russell joins us right now. this film is so rich, david, so rich in personality and phoniness and ambition. my question to you. against all the odds you made a movie that could well win the oscar, that actually makes a politician look good. you actually pick out this guy, carmine polito. my wife and i watched it again the other night and were overwhelmed by the pathos of this guy, italian american guy from camden, a poor city of blacks and hispanics, and he is trying to do something for the people out there and he gets screwed because he likes some guy. >> i probably in the tradition of frank capra. they're gritty. whether it's the fighters, the silver linings. but they always have some romance and hope and enchantment. i was drawn to the character based on angelo errichetti of all the politicians because he was guy who was gloved by his community. and the fbi guys who busted him who i talked to a co

and then leger comes in like the vietcong and says, listen, we are guerrillas of the first degree andow that works! what does it say about ceo pitch men! >> it's interesting. in this case they really needed a guy like at that m. tobet-mob. i don't see it. >> trying to get people to leave their carrier accord to t-mobile's research, 40% of families don't do it because they're nervous about the break-up fee and in t-mobile's case they'll write a letter for you to present to your former carrier giving you the reasons why you're leaving them. >> this guy is just shaking up an industry, one man, one company, that you have a lot of firepower. they better merge, daeffed, or i'm going to start taking numbers down of verizon wireless. part of verizon now. >> we'll see. that's still the big question mark transaction we'll call it the first half of this year whether they give it a shot, being softbank getting deutsch telekom to come to the table, already, not even coming to the table, agree to a structure. >> right. >> by which they would do a merger, take on the risk, of course. figure out some