- and liberty will reign in america! - and trying to figure out what a president is. - god bless george washington, president of the united states. [cheers and applause] - it's a gift to be given 12 hours on hbo. god help you if you don't have something to say. - let's understand each other. i'm not western district. i'm not a narco. i don't dirty people, 'cause i don't give a s**t about a possession charge. i'm a murder police. i'm here about the bodies. - david simon was a newspaper reporter in baltimore. he spent a year embedded with the baltimore homicide unit to write a book. he and ed burns, who was a police officer, got together and said, "well, what if we tell "the whole story of the death of the american city, "the futility of the war on drugs, through the eyes of cops"... - bang! - [laughing] - "of drug dealers"... - y'all got the best territory and no kind of product.