Trumps high was loose, fox news was on the big screen, and some others were sitting nearby. This is the scene. White wasit was significant and why did he tell you he was not going to speak out on the birther issue and then this morning he speaks out about it. Guest trump is very confident at this moment. I have never seen him more bullish about his chances. He revels in looking at the poll numbers. Spending 10 hours with him, this is still donald trump, someone at the center of his campaign, running on his instincts. When i heard his Campaign Manager say a week ago, that he believes president obama was born in the United States, i thought, that is quite a change in position. I asked him during the course of a wider interview, what you think of conways statement . We had a long conversation about it. He said he did not want to engage on it. Trump said conway can say whatever she wants to say. This is still a candidate who comes out of that birther movement, a true outsider who does not follow the political rules. Charlie do you believe he believes barack obama was not born inside the United States . Or was it simply a campaign device . Bob i cannot speak for what is in his heart and mind. You have to look at someones actions. I covered him heavily in 2011 and 2012. This is someone consumed by the issue. He was obsessed with it. Charlie because of what it would do for him politically . Bob im sure it was a political, publicity stunt. He is not driven by ideology. But he was on this particular issue deeply interested, sending people to investigate, looking into conspiracy theories. Charlie why did he change his mind . Bob he did not have his mind changed on wednesday night when we were speaking on the tarmac , but he is under immense political pressure from fellow republicans and some of his campaign aides. In the final eight weeks of this general election, can he appeal to those skeptical suburban voters, minority voters, and College Educated women . Charlie a big deal. Bob a very big deal. Charlie africanamerican voters take it as a personal insult. Bob they take it personally. I said to trump, you recognize a lot of these black voters you meet at the church and elsewhere see this issue as a cloud over you. Charlie he is trying to discredit the first africanamerican president. Bob trump said it is a cloud over the reporters. Toohinks the press is way into the issue. But the voters care about it. Charlie i dont know why he changed. Did he change because of political pressure and he didnt really believe it . Or did some of them caused them to say that i am no longer a birther, and they no longer believe the president of the United States was not born in the United States even though he submitted his lengthy birth certificate. Bob he gave a 60 word statement, something approximately around that range. That was it. He toured his hotel. I think he is driven on the polls. He sees a winnable race. Charlie what has happened in the polls. This comes from the National Review. The National Review did not like donald trump. I covered him for anine years. Conservatives cannot stand trump because they do not see an ideology there. Charlie the editorinchief said if you are not seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in electoral history, you are not paying attention. 15 months ago, donald trump was a Reality Television star with a spotty Business Record and a weird penchant for proclaiming he was running for president. Now he is close to being elected the 45th president of the United States. Charles krauthammer, he is rising, she is falling. What has happened . Bob some of it has to do with clinton and her comment about deplorables. The handling of the health episode. Donald trump called it the biggest mistake of the campaign. He thinks people are disengaged from politics and he thinks he can roust them to the polls. This is a total outsider, someone outside of partisan lines, and when i was with him in canton, and you see this crowd, it is electric, workingclass voters. They are not bush republicans or romney republicans, but they are out for trump. He loves it. He calls it a performance. Charlie he does. Bob he things of polls like he thinks of television ratings. He also thinks like a producer. He made sure to have medal of honor winners surround him. Four africanamerican supporters behind him. Yet all of the networks carried him live before he made his terse statement. Charlie when you look at the obama constituency, they are in favor of Hillary Clinton. At the same time, it is a neck and neck race. Bob her unfavorable ratings are very high. Sometimes it is not about trump winning over voters. When you talk to talk republican strategist, they say look at the millennials. It is not so much that republicans need to win them over. Keep them home. Charlie hope they do not vote. That is why when i talk to the clinton strategists, i say what is the Biggest Issue . And they say turnout. They have got to turn out democratic voters. Bernie sanders voters were democratic voters. Bob that is why you saw clinton seize on this issue. I published the story on thursday night, and within an hour clinton is talking about the birther issue on the campaign trail. Today in washington, talking about the issue on friday on the campaign trail because she knows a group of africanamerican women, this gets the base out. It is her base. A lot of democrat to speak to like her and respect are, but they are fatigued by the obama years in a sense, really admire obama and love him as voters, but fatigued by the political establishment and intrigued by trump. Charlie and she has trust issues. Bob she has run this campaign against trump based on temperament. Wrapping herself around the obama administration, it is the figure of obama. What he means to many voters. Charlie what is interesting to me about the election, apart from the candidates, president obama is having, he is over 50 in approval ratings, yet the country is going in the wrong direction. Bob that is the risk for the clinton strategy. The mood for change is out there. A lot of these swing voters want change, but president obama remains very popular. She is trying to latch herself onto that popularity, but she needs to also find a way to be the change agent. Charlie he did not speak quickly in condemnation of secretary clinton when it was discovered and we had the video and she went home to rest for several days. For a day and a half he did not say anything. When he finally said something, it was good to stand up here for an hour and half . What is influencing him not to Say Something to take a nonattack position while she was getting all the attention on her pneumonia . Bob that was the most illuminating part of my full day with trump, who really has influence in this inner circle that is a mystery to most of the country. People do not know these names, they are not on tv all the time. Stephen bannon, he is kind of the soul of the Trump Campaign. He frames himself as a populist nationalist, and he has latched himself onto donald trump, the horse that can bring his worldview to prominence and power in america. He clicks with donald trump personally. David bossi, the anticlinton investigator, operator, he is providing a lot of fodder for trump. Kellyanne conway, a moderate in tone, but in use she views she is pretty conservative. The thing that unites all of these new people is they get trump as a new yorker, as a businessman, in a way that Paul Manafort never did. The other thing is charlie kushner, too. If all goes husband ivanka s has been. P bob he is the liaison. He is someone who shies away from the press. He is almost always off the record when he talked to him. He is talking to businessman, connecting trump with the donors, and people in washington in a way that governor christie is in a similar way and newt gringrich. Ivanka is becoming more of a spokesperson. She gave a speech on childcare this week. She is someone who he deeply respects and admires as a spokesman for his company and for his campaign. Charlie heres what he said you to you about his medical issues. I have done everything i have done. No more. It was just a few records about his cholesterol. A note from his doctor. Bob very limited information. I pressed him on this. This is a letter. Your doctor has had some controversy and scrutiny for being a little different. Charlie he wrote the letter while they were waiting outside. Bob that is exactly right. Donald trump defended the doctor saying he is respected. Charlie why is he trying to shut it down . This is it, and it was not much. But also she has a lot to get. Bob i asked him pointblank because i am curious as an american and reporter. Have you ever had a major illness, have you ever had a heart attack . He said no. Charlie what else came out of this conversation you had . Bob i think one of the most significant things is he sees this race in a different way than i think a couple months ago. I pressed him on the issue of will he form a Media Company if he loses the race . When you are at washington, and you are at the capitol, the chatter there is what is this all about . Is he going to start something with roger ailes . Stephen bannon, who ran breitbart . There is a lot of interesting questions. Trump pushed that aside and said it is a false rumor. Charlie he really wants to be president. Bob i believe it. Charlie i think you wanted to be president for a while. I think he wanted to be president for a while. He wanted to be president when he raised the birther issue. There is no other explanation for me as to why he raised the birther issue is that he wanted to get involved in right politics. Bob you cannot assume trump does not want to be president. Charlie why would he not want to be . Hes intoxicated by the process. Bob as long as i am in the newspaper, i am winning. Get my name right. Spell it right. Charlie there is also the question of roger ailes. We will talk about debates in a minute. Roger ailes said he is my friend, we talked to him, but he is not an official advisor. What is he trying to say there . Bob roger ailes has a lot of controversy around him, as we all know. Sexual harassment allegations. There is a lot of concern within trumps orbit to not have ailes have any formal role. There is a hesitancy about ailes. For obvious reasons they do not want to link trump formally with him. But based on my conversations with donald trump, roger ailes is influential. Goes tomeone who trumps golf course in new jersey. He is telling all of these stories about history, his time with nixon, his experience in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump loves it. Charlie what is his agenda for the first, the debate is coming up. How does he see his own path and how he spends his own time between now and the debates and between the debates and the election . Bob most republican consultants are advising the Trump Campaign to focus on certain swing states. North carolina, florida, pennsylvania, a few others. Charlie in north carolina, how is he doing . Bob it has been tough. The research triangle, educated voters are very skeptical. It is very competitive. Charlie he has to appeal to College Educated women in the suburbs, a clear constituent. And because of what he said about women, it makes it a very difficult challenge for him. What else does he have to do if he wants to score one of the most surprising political upsets in political history . Front, ivankaman is going to be on the campaign trail more. She has been rarely seen since the Republican National convention. You see trump on policy. He is not a traditional conservative. He is advocating more spending on child care. Charlie tax cut, too. He believes that tax codes will be paid for because of economic growth, that will ignite, correct . Bob correct. He is not a natural fit with that wing. But he has taken up some of their policy proposals. Charlie in polls, he is viewed on questions of economics and handling the economy of the United States, more favorably than she is . Bob he is seen as a strong steward of the economy on questions of tone and temperament, he has weaker numbers. I think your question is the most important one. What does he have to do between now and november 8 . I was talking to a couple of trump allies, who are well known. One of them put it to me like this. It is not about trump, it is about frustration with political parties. Can he hold on and ride this wave into victory . He cannot get distracted. Maybe that is why he came out today. I have not spoken to trump about this. He came out with a small statement. I know his Campaign Officials want to get rid of the noise that has always been around trump because they see this wave. Charlie that is why they latched onto to some kind of identification with brexit, which was considered a wave and a movement. He became in a sense, he did not produce it, but he got to the head of the parade on the issue of discontent and the establishment having had an opportunity and failed, and what was necessary with a new direction. Bob one thing that really struck me was he was reading the paper on the plane about ford moving some of its operations to mexico for some of production. He seized on this. He started scribbling notes, i am going to talk about this. He has a teleprompter that he strays from for most of the speech. It about mexico, the wall, 35 tax hes proposing on board and on ford and others who produce abroad. He is not a natural charlie this was an acheron. Akron. Bob yes. Charlie basically trying to make the appeal that all of the things he has been talking about in terms of trade and saving jobs. Bob he is mentioning things like obamacare, some usual republican talking points, but it is mostly unusual talking points. Heavy trade tariffs, talking about mexico and populism and globalism, and talking about jobs, jobs, jobs. That is how he thinks. Charlie this whole idea of what did they call them, the alt. Bob that is a cloud over him still. Charlie as to whether he is legitimizing them. Bob he shrugged it off. He said the the altright is a fiction. It is not. There is a White Nationalist movement growing online. It is very vocal and has had a presence in this election. They have connected themselves with donald trump. Charlie he has not disavowed them in any sense, has he . Bob he does not seem to want to talk about the concept of the altright. Charlie the name has been around for a while. Bob it is the ugly side. Charlie what does that say to you . He wants their support but does not want to acknowledge it . He wants them to be enthusiastic about him at his rallies but he does not want to be identified with them . He wants them but does not want them. Bob it says that to an extent. I think you can connect back to how he handled the birther issue. He does not engage or even want to talk about any kind of moral side to politics, whether it is about apologizing for talking about where the president was born or disavowing the altright. Someone is talking down to their base, and trump does not want to go there ever. Charlie it is great to have you here. Congratulations on a terrific interview. Bob costa of the washington post, back in a moment. Stay with us. Charlie joining me now is that, he is covering the campaign for the new york times. Donald trump gave a press conference. He spoke about the birther issue. What did he say . Hes finally said that president obama was not born in this country. He said Hillary Clinton had spread the rumor in the first place and he has now got to the bottom of it. He seemed to have put it behind him without acknowledging his role in it in the first place. He has been hounded about it by the press. His campaign wanted to put it behind him. He did not admit any error or mistake but still somehow said the right words about president obamas birthplace. There was never any compelling evidence of any kind that the president was not born in hawaii. Charlie it was primarily internet chatter, wasnt it . Nick correct. Eight there he making the rounds. There were some clinton supporters who purported the theory back in 2008. Clinton herself never had. It was confined to the conspiracy reaches until trump came along and became the prime proponent of it for five years. Charlie is he in any way a hostage to the early supporters who gave him his first substantial core support in this president ial race . Nick he is 100 hostage to them. It is the core of his support. He has shown time and time again that instead of pivoting in some way on immigration, he will not do it because he does not want to lose the passion of those core supporters. They are the people who brought him through the primary, the 40 backing him in this election. He cannot lose them. It is an either or choice. How does Hillary Clinton get the the other five percent10 she needs . Charlie when you look at her campaign, she has got a former president , her husband campaigning for her, barack obama campaigning for her, a lot of surrogates out there. Are they making a difference . Nick i think you will see some movement there. Among the obama coalition, her challenge is to reassemble that coalition which had elevated turnout of millennials, black, and brown voters. That is the key to her winning the election. It will make a difference to have the leader of the Coalition Come out and stump for her. Charlie how are they preparing differently for the debate . She is trying to prepare differently for it. It is not clear to me how trump is preparing at all. He has only recently decided he wants to get into the debates. It is going to be a real test for him. She is an excellent debater. He is good at throwing people off of their balance in these debates. Im not sure you can see anything like that in modern politics. I am not sure it can be prepared for. I believe that certainly before, when he was behind, it might have been his only chance to change the fundamental tenor of the election. I think we have seen now it is closer than we thought. It is go time for both of them. She can remind people of what they are getting along with his unconventionality. And maybe he can access a new pool of people who might take him seriously after seeing him on a president ial debate stage. It is a real test for both of them. Charlie well be right back. Help me with this. You hire this guy, jonathan. Decide youre going to step back . First of all, i started in my early 20s. 22 years old. A girl comes from europe and wants to be independent. I was married, i was a princess that i wanted to be independent. I came with a few dresses i designed. I worked in a printing plant and i wanted to make dresses. I become this huge success with no experience, none whatever. I truly lived the american dream. I ended up selling the business. That was my first phase. That is american dream. Second phase is comeback kid. I come back in about 18 years ago because i see the young girls are buying the old dresses in the vintage stores. By then, my brand is in the dust. It is all over back. Bad. Gradually, i get back at the name and a start again. This is comeback kid. At that point, my motivation was not to be independent, but to show the world that my success had not been an accident. Fashion is fashion. It has waves. Now, ok, 40 plus years later, you are established. You have an established name. You are very much part of peoples lives. My mother did, my grandmother did, i did. Dress,he stress, this i got my job, i did whatever. I conceived my son. You hear all kinds of stories about what happened in this dress. Now is heritage. Ok, how is this going to, how did this brand survive after me . How do i plan it . Also, it is me personally, i feel like i have given, in terms of creativity and fashion, i feel i have given what i knew, and i certainly have expanded a expanded it for a long time. I feel like it needs, i also i feel like it needs, i also always remember jonathan, when he appeared on the scene about 10 years ago. He started his own business. The way he uses print and colors, it immediately struck me because my business, i mean my fashion, it is very much about colors and prints and how you put it together in simple styles. Your decision to step back and put him in place happened because you thought of him . Diane it is a combination. I was looking for someone. Was i looking for someone that i would give that much power with . I am not sure. I was definitely looking for someone. And then, i found him. And then, at the same time, i am at the moment of my life, uh, i am 69. Who else would tell you that on television, but you could see on the internet anyways. [laughter] diane i am thinking, ok, how am i going to live the next 10 years of my life in a way that i can still participate, that i am relevant, and not ridiculous. The best way to deal with your age is to embrace it. If you embrace it, what is it that i have to offer . At this point in my life . It is my experience, my wisdom, and use my voice for people who have no voice. It is a huge panorama of things i can do that will give me pleasure, that will help people, that will help women, and by the way, that will also help my brand, you know . I am still there. I am the owner. How hard is it to step back . How hard is it to watch somebody else to have put in this place take effective, to some degree, control of the brand and what it is supposed to be . Diane i know. It is very hard not because it is hard, but because you want him to succeed, and therefore, you think that you can help. When we met in london, when we met in london, after one hour, he was saying we. And then he came to do consulting, freelance consulting, and he never left. And he said, i can do this. I did not know how intelligent he was, how hardworking he is, and how meticulous he is about everything. I discovered all of these other strengths, that i am us he was talented. I will tell you, how do we combine jonathan and his power in the company and me, the owner, the name, and all of that, and still around, and hopefully for a while, and hopefully combine it. Think about this. The umbrella, when the blast me how do you want to be remembered, i say, i would like to be remembered as somebody who told women that they can be the woman they want to be. I worked hard at being the woman i want to be and i want every woman to do that. Jonathan is in charge of helping women to be the women they want to be by giving them the right product. Beautiful handbag, the right dress, anything you can buy. I help women to be the women they want to be by finding their own strength and their own confidence, and they do not have to spend any money on that. What happens to the company . Is it the company you ultimately want to sell . Diane you never know what happens. You may need expansion, there may be a Strategic Partner that could be helpful. I mean, you know, but i it has lived so long, it may as well continue to live. When you talk to jonathan for the first time for him to explain to you what he wanted to do with this business diane we celebrate freedom. Freedom means freedom of being, freedom of movement, so it is simple. We empower women, right . You give them confidence. And we inspire confidence. Those are the things. Colors are very important. Softness is very important. We have that in common. That is why a lot of people even before they saw anything thought it would be a perfect match. Let us talk fashion and a little bit about this business. There is something to be said, an argument made in the b tell world, that there is no new fashion. One of the reasons in the business world, that there is no new fashion. Diane i dont know who told you that. It is completely wrong. The whole fashion industry is struggling because there is a product pollution. Theres too much of everything in every color in every this, and too many stores, too many this, too many discounts. That is the problem. It is not true. Fashion is, i mean, you may not think it is fashion, but all of a sudden, everybody being very casual, that is fashion. It is not true. There is a lot of really talented new designers. It is just that, it is like for any industry, the digital revolution has changed everything. Everything. You can see everything immediately, you can shop, you can ask for something the same. It has changed everything. The industry right now is surfing a tsunami. Fashion week was a trade, it is trade. It is a time that buyers, partners, and the press would, and review, and then they would write a review, photograph one thing, it would be in the new york times, and this and that, and six month later, people would get it in store. Everything was six months late. Celebrity started to go to the shows. Celebrities instagram and all of that. Then it became completely confusing for the consumer because they saw things they could not buy. A few months ago, i called in the chairman of the cfda, and i said, i do not have the solution and nobody has the solution, so i wanted to feel like Young Designers did not have to spend all of their Marketing Budget on a fashion show that really at the end did not hurt them more than this. Right now, you have a confusion of a lot of things. Ralph lauren tomorrow is doing another thing. It is confusing, so no one has really figured out how it will really does the business have to change . Diane there are three things that have to change. We have to do a cadence of markdowns. It happens because people in june, it is about to get hot, and you have coats and furs in the source. It makes no sense. Go back on calendar some people find what they need when they need it. Calendar discounts, and then decide about the fashion show, how much do you want to reveal to everybody . By the same token, everybody talks about show now, wear now. It is not like you see an instagram and you want it right away. You have to digest a little bit. Sometimes you go to it right away, but it is not immediate. You have to digest. You do not have to digest six months. Who do you look at, Young Designers, you say, you know what, that is pretty interesting and reminds me of myself. Diane i was the first woman who was, like, kind of socialite, although i cannot say that, i cannot believe i would ever say that. I mean, i was the first one. After that, there was a lot. Anytime there is a woman that comes up with olivia, birch, nasty girl, of course i relate to them. I relate to any woman. I am the godmother. No but there is nobody right now. Diane i am the mother of all the american designers. I am not supposed to tell you that because i should protect everybody. Ok. Thank you. Charlie roger ebert talks to the director and stars of the new movie snowden. Good evening. Im filling in for charlie rose, who is a away this week. Snowden is a new film by oliver stone. It tells the story of the farreaching reach in u. S. He has been called a hero and a traitor and become one of the most polarizing figures of the 21st century. In the new film, al qaeda, audiences will get a personal look at the man behind the headlines and the relationships he risks by his decision to leak topsecret information. Edwards calls the film as close to real as you can get. Before we get into the stores, i need to know more about you. Im 29 years old. I work as a private contractor for the nsa, for the csa. They are going to come for me. They are going to come for all of you, too. How about we start with your name . My name is Edward Joseph snowden. What was it you were doing again . Analysis for the state department. Dont be shy. The modern battlefield is everywhere. How is this all possible . Think of it as a google search. Instead of just searching for everything people make public, we search for things they do not. Are they watching us . One man can stop the motor of the world. What is it about this job that makes it more important than your life . Snowden has been charged with espionage. You have no idea what it is like to be accountable for other peoples lives. Are you going away . Joining me is the director, oliver stone, and the films stars, Joseph Gordon levitt, and that frequented, who plays former guardian journalist glenn greenwald. I am pleased to have them at this table. Welcome everybody. Why Edward Snowden . [laughter] i think he is an historical figure outside our time. He addressed something that we did not know. He made the world aware that our government has deployed and created and deployed a Massive International spying system and surveillance system. Without democratic consent. He is the one who brought it out. I believe he made it, he did so out of conviction and love of country. I visited the set briefly. One of the things that struck me is the level of security precautions you were taking to avoid the script leaking out. Oliver from the beginning, we operated off the grid as much as we could. We kept everything on paper. We used all forms of encryption available at the time. Actors and other parts of the world had to read something to whether to do the part or not and we sent it in pieces to whatever country, and sometimes, and the phones, that was another issue, yes. We had our offices debugged. In germany, we felt more comfortable, that is were we shot most of the film. We know from the snowden papers that germany is a main target of the u. S. But still, we functioned in a good atmosphere. People were more, how do you say, prone to snowdens cause because they suffered under the communist regime and the nazis. Edward snowden is not necessarily universally loved. I was looking at opinion polls, and a large majority of republicans think he was a traitor, and a lot of democrats have doubts about him, too. This film entries him as unambiguously a good thing for this country. Oliver it is important to see how he feels and what his relationship was. These are crucial, and they help support what he is feeling and doing. How do you get into character historically when youre paying a real person as ultimately you were doing, do you meet with a real person, do you study to jump them, do you listen to tapes or do you create your own version of them and go . I think it is different for all of us and different on this project. The film is called snowden. For me personally, it was important to know the function of the character, which is to contextualize the story, to capture the urgency and vulnerability at this time. I did not get a chance to meet glenn in preparation of going into production. I was able to read many of his articles, watch interviews, debate, his book, no place to hide. There was no shortage of material. Zachary for the function that my character served, that was more than enough for me to draw from to feel like i can capture those things and will honor him as a journalist and a person. How about you . Going into it, oliver had met her, and the other writer of the screenplay. I trusted the character in nice trip was based on the person they had come to known. I did research. She had passed social media posts that have not been taken down since ed did what he did. There was a lot of her photographs online with blog posts about them. There is only so much insight when it comes to figuring out a human being from the twodimensional cyber world because you can be anyone you want to be. A lot of it was creating a character that they had come to know, but also replicating the human they had come to know, but also being really truthful in the character i was playing because above all else, i had never played someone who was real before. Apart from wanting to give a good performance and being truthful, and making sure the actors you are working with feel honored by what you are doing, not honored, but feel like they trust you with the performance, you want to make sure you are honoring and protecting the integrity of who all of you are talking about. They are in moscow right now in realtime. He is a historical figure who is still dealing with the repercussions of what happened, what we are discussing casually, what is their daily reality. Being mindful of that and mindful of wanting to protect what this movie was for them as well. What do you think about all of that . Did you meet Edward Snowden, steady Edward Snowden . To what degree are you try to capture the physicality of this guy . Both. When you are acting, people talk about acting from the inside out and acting from the outside in. Some actors say they prefer one or the other. A mix of both is what works best for me. Joseph i studied as much as i could as far as what he said about why he did what he did, and you know, what was going through his head as he made his decision to act. I also did get to meet him, and when i got to meet him, my focus was actually less on those sorts of politics and more just on him, which is funny because hes trying to take the attention off of himself and put it on the issues he is bringing up, which i admire, but sort of disobeyed because i was focused on him personally, how he sits or stand or walk for talks or how he shakes your hand, or how he eats. We ate lunch together. These are the nuances that were really valuable to me as i was putting together a performance. Can you give me one example of something you gleaned from studying him that you use in your performance . Joseph i noticed right off the bat from the very first moment i met him, he is very gentlemanly. You do not necessarily expect that because the stereotype in our culture, right or wrong is that guys who are good at computers are socially awkward. And i guess i admit, i was may be guilty of some of that prejudice and expecting he might be that way because he is really good at computers, but that is not what i found. He looks you right in the eye and gives you a warm handshake. He is almost oldfashioned in his sort of manners. That was something i really wanted to incorporate. I know you are starting to root for him. I have been watching your inner liberal grow. You deserve it. What is this . Oh, that, just leave that there. Russian hackers, they can activate webcams now. That is creepy. Bothering me. You should not let it bother you. It is not a big deal that someone could be watching you right now . Let us talk about the relationship between these characters and the role it plays in this story. Shailene a lot of us are familiar with the name Edward Snowden. Our country has a lot of strong opinions about him, whether they agree with what he did or not. They had a lot of strong judgment. Those beliefs are based off only a few narratives. Those of journalists, our government. We do not know the whole story. This movie, you see why he did what he did, but it is grounded in the humanity that is the relationship of lindsay and ed. It is something all of us can relate to, the foundation of love, and the trials and tribulations that occur within partnership, and lindsay, they have been together for nine years, when ed decided to do what he did. Throughout those nine years, there is obvious up and downs, but they stayed together and it was not always easy. He was not able to explain to her what he was encountering at work, what information he had been entrusted with, and what he was doing, but there is still a foundation of the relationship that kept them together. Did working on this film center on habits when it came to privacy . Do you do anything differently . Do you think about things differently . Aikido is very cavalier when it came to my relationship to algae. Subsequently, i have put tape over the camera on my laptop. I reinforce all of my passwords. The bottom line is, if they want to get in there, they are going to. People are far more advanced than i will ever be with that kind of thing. It certainly, we were talking about the distinction between paranoia and awareness. Paranoia suggests there is no credible reason for concern, which obviously, in this case, is not applicable. This is about the aware and vigilant and being as proactive as possible in addition to the responsibility we have to hold our government accountable to this indiscriminate intrusion and constitutional violation of our privacy. We also have the opportunity to be aware of how vulnerable we are and to protect ourselves. That is something i have tried to do as much as i can. Oliver, tape over the laptop camera, yes or no . Oliver yes. Thank you very much for coming by, and good luck with the film. Thank you. I am mark crumpton, youre watching, bloomberg west. The man wanted for questioning in connection with the bombings in new york and new jersey is in custody. He was arrested after being shot and wounded during a shootout with police. Authorities say two officers were wounded, but were not believed to have been seriously hurt. The council on islamic relations welcomed his arrest. 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