iraq invasion but nobody was listening. you must have made the film because you worried it would happen again. i was of draft age in the vietnam war and i was against that as i was the war in iraq. i couldn t believe we were about to go to war in 2003 based on a lie again. it happened twice in my lifetime. i wanted to get the story out of how does this happen. how does the government? i understand propaganda. every administration needs propaganda to sell a policy or to sell a rational ato go to wa. but to lie, that to me was too much. i worked for a long time figuring out the best way to tell it. i found the four journalists that got it all right. they figured it out. they couldn t break through. i am a bit embarrassed because i consider myself to be
antiwar movement has parallels to what we re seeing here. this is a spontaneous uprising of kids who are affected personally by gun violence and are taking to the streets, if you will, to say enough s enough. we had the same thing. i was draft age, ours was a draft-driven antiwar effort. we took to the streets to say enough s enough, we don t want to be drafted. we don t want to go there. we don t have a dog in that fight, and we saw what happened. i think we re in a similar, you know, sort of pivot point recent these issues. yeah. this week, there was a school shooting in maryland, great mills. and when we heard from the vice chair of the nra several years ago, and he s reiterated since then, wayne lapierre, that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, and creatics of the
director rob reiner and actor woody harrelson, yes, him as lbj, stars in the film. i started by asking woody about the process of physically and audio wide transforming into lbj. is it the ears? the ears. everything from the eyes down, really. yeah. yeah. he even had contact lenses. everything. that is so, rob when did you start doing this film and why this renaissance of lbj? well, you know what grabbed you? this is the crazy part, because you know both woody and i struggle with the idea of even making a movie about lbj, because when i was of draft age in the 60s, he was president. and i hated him. i hated him, because he could send me to my death. it s so funny you say this, you re about the same age as my father. i m sorry. he s no longer with us, for him lbj was vietnam and he couldn t
when i was growing up, i hated him. i was of draft age and was against the war. i learned as i went into politics, public policy and government that what he did was monumental. the second thing i wanted people to see is what a real president does. yes. you know, hopefully there s a young generation that only sees this president. that s not the way presidencies work. lyndon johnson, you ll see a different president. the film is amazing. that is our show for the day. join us next week. i ll be filling in for rachel maddow tomorrow night at 9:00 pm. more news at the top of the hour. world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures.
the ages of 18 and 20. it would be great. if they want to continue their service, that s something different. every kid should give two years to their country, for sure. i am for this because i am 47. there is no way in hell i think if i was 20 if i was 17 i would be going, this is nuts. i am a hipocrite. mccrystal says if these guys would have a uniting thing they can go to a bar and talk about service. he has a point. that s a thing of the past though. look at who is draft age. it is the same people we saw during occupy wall street. that s exactly the reason. the best people i have ever met are the people who work at fox news who came from the military because they have a system here where they bring guys from the military. these guys are so much more they are just better people than m why. they make me feel like crap. i would like to feel that way all the time, not just an hour a day.