i would have had an incredible challenge facing this. most people would. game change premieres tonight at the newseum. and on hbo. if you care about the country, you have to watch this. this is great. danny, fantastic. as good as recount. if you really want to learn about politics from the inside, watch this movie. mark halperin, danny strong. when we return, let me finish about a president who took on big business and showed the people he s on their side. 50 years ago these days. right now. 50 years ago, kennedy took on big steel. what a fight that was. you are watching hardball only on msnbc. [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn t the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there s more whole grain than any other ingredient. that s why it s listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient. just look for the white check.
strong. danny why did you decide to put the focus and actually the meaning of game change around the palin pick. there was no one that was a bigger game changer than sarah palin. there s a lot of great stories in this book. a fantastic book and a lot of great movies in it. we felt the palin story wasn t just one of the best stories but one of the greatest political stories of all time. you have an individual who has never been on the national stage who overnight is thrust onto it right in the middle of a presidential election. and it just seems like this is going to be a very, very exciting movie. i m watching it. it s absolutely fabulous. i love this movie. i m probably going to watch it 20 times in my lifetime. i ve already watched it twice. let me go back to mark, my colleague. i watched it last night with my son. two-thirds of the way through the movie, i said i m watching sarah palin here. i m not watching an actor play her. it s really her. how do you feel about it as a guy
it airs saturday night and premieres here tonight in washington at the newseum. that s where we find the co-author mark halperin and the movie screenwriter danny strong. danny why did you decide to put the focus and actually the meaning of game change around the palin pick. there was no one that was a bigger game changer than sarah palin. there s a lot of great stories in this book. a fantastic book and a lot of great movies in it. we felt the palin story wasn t just one of the best stories but one of the greatest political stories of all time. you have an individual who has never been on the national stage who overnight is thrust onto it right in the middle of a presidential election. and it just seems like this is going to be a very, very exciting movie. you know, i m watching it. it s absolutely fabulous. i love this movie. i m probably going to watch it 20 times in my lifetime. i ve already watched it twice. let me go back to mark, my colleague. mark, i watched it last night
i m not watching an actor play her. it s really her. how do you feel about it as a guy who was so close to this? the julianne moore s performance is fantastic and the filmmaking is fantastic. danny s script adds versimilitude the techniques used in the film that contextualize her, some incredible sophisticated film-making, particularly for a television movie that really does get you lost in the picture, lost in the story and the characters. makes you think you are watching john mccain and sarah palin more than an ordinary movie. that s one of the real magical things about it. here s another season from game change in which two members of the senior campaign staff are having a heated exchange over sarah palin. let s watch. when you interviewed her, didn t you ask her about national security? foreign policy? domestic policy? so what did you ask her? i just we talked about if she would back john s positions
is fantastic. danny s script the techniques used in the film that contextualize her, some incredible sophisticated film-making, particularly for a television movie that really does get you lost in the picture. lost in the story and the characters. danny s script adds versimilitude the techniques used in the film that contextualize her, some incredible sophisticated film-making, particularly for a television movie that really does get you lost in the picture, lost in the story and the characters. makes you think you are watching john mccain and sarah palin more than an ordinary movie. that s one of the real magical things about it. here s another season from game change in which two members of the senior campaign staff are having a heated exchange over sarah palin. let s watch. when you interviewed her, didn t you ask her about national security? foreign policy? domestic policy? so what did you ask her? i just we talked about if she would back john s positions when they co