that we started, and i think that harvey weinstein said it last night on piers that starting in august it was a gamble and that is a long time to keep the movie in the minds of the academy and certainly in the minds of the public, but what is exciting and i think that we are all so pleased about is that the movie was so well received by the public, and not just in america, but seen around the world and this movie has been well received which is very hard to do for a movie with all african-american cast, and predominantly african-american cast. and even a drama. a drama is hard to sustain and get that kind of money, and so it is very exciting. and can i tell you something, because with all of the star power here, elijah stole this movie for me, and he was so f funny and had such great timing and the great one-liners and in that intense moments he brought some extra to it. and may i tell you something that most of those one liners
to make sure they got it right. i taught them how to fly. no, no, no, you taught them how to act like they were flying. that, too. they reminded us all the time how not them we were. elijah, what an honor. as i pointed out, memorial day just around the corner. to be able to share space and time with someone like mr. brown, the hit of it alstory of. you said something very important, space and time. as we get older, those are the two things that we don t cherish so much, and to be able to look at a living legend in his eyes and know that he s a modern day hero, you know, we have movies like avengers that just did a billion dollars almost, but those are fictional characters, you know. they don t exist in real life. i feel like the only things that separates a person like dr. roscoe brown and the other tuskegee airmen from being modern day super heroes is
in my mind. also with us the star of red tails elijah kelly who plays samuel joker george. it fits you. mr. brown, i have got to ask you, what a life you have had, and when you see it on the big screen and i imagine when you think about some of those memories in your mind, at any point in the day do you just go, man, i m a lucky fellow? i am a lucky fellow. but, see, i come from a generation with lots of lucky fellows and lucky women because i come from the generation of african-americans who wanted to be better. we knew we had to be better than white people. we knew we had to compete. part of the tuskegee airmen story is just the competition among us to do good and then we see these young guys trying to act like us, they did a pretty good job. yeah, yeah, about you it was acting. you did the real thing. i did the real thing, but when they shot the movie i was over there as a consultant along with lee archer.
generations of family, you know. absolutely. and all families, all walks of life, dr. brown, can be inspired. they tell you these kids these days, don t know responsibility, they don t want to work hard. you can see this and whip them into shape. when we were kids, i speak a lot to kids, i try to point out to them that pursuit of excellence is what we were about, and pursuit of excellence needs to happen now because excellence can be an anecdote to obstacl obstacles, an antidote to prejudice. but most of all it makes you feel good. when you know you have done the best you can do, you are at the top. i feel inspired now. you are at the top. elijah, thank you so much. we re going to watch this over and over all weekend long. red tails go out and get it. uhh!
i think that the bain record as a whole is fair game. i think it is amazing that this president thinks that cherry picking some investments that did not work out that he is going to be able to somehow convince the american public that private equity investment is evil. and joining me now from the washington post nia malika henderson. when investments did not work out people lost and that is the job maybe of someone in that industry, but not the job as the president said of the person who leads this country. i think it s all fair game, and i want to applaud substance because so often with what i do for a living, you know, i go down these tangent roads getting caught up in conversations about bogus birth certificates or whether someone s dog should have been strapped to the roof of the car. the country is ailing. the economy is problematic, and we re having, i think, a really good conversation about who among the two of them can best move this country forward when it co