good evening from new york, i am alicia menendez. we begin tonight in fort pierce, florida, where today there was another hearing in the federal criminal case over donald trump s wording of classified documents. the morning session, continuation of what we have become used to. trump-appointed judge aileen cannon entertaining wonky and far-fetched attempts by trump s legal team to dismiss the case. the afternoon focus on emotion brought by special counsel jack smith that centered around one of the most dangerous lies donald trump has ever told. you might recall in may, he seized upon an outrageous conspiracy theory, a theory based upon an extreme this characterization at the fbi search warrant of mar-a-lago. trump claimed that president biden and the fbi were, quote, locked and loaded to take me out during the 2022 search of mar-a-lago. he later boasted that biden, quote, authorized the fbi to use deadly lethal force. what trump tried to portray as an attempt on his life reall
who would go up against the masked forces of evil, the villains, and smite them, and perhaps even be destroyed in the process, and die a glorious death. that s not the way most politicians think. - you ve got a temper. - [laughs] i m a i m a person who feels very strongly about things like integrity. - so how is it that he became this farcical figure who had put himself at the service of a clown, a terribly dangerous and malevolent clown? i don t have a specific answer. i don t know. i think that if you are as blindly self-righteous as rudy was, and as self-seeking as rudy was, that is to say, as ambitious as rudy was, it s gonna lead you into very dangerous places
thrilled to welcome here on set christopher nolan himself. just thrilled to have you. thanks for being here. thank you for having me. i got to see this film. i will tell my viewers, it is worth seeing and then some. and so i mentioned your reputation. i hope you ll pardon a simple question to begin. sure. is this a film about how we develop science and technology, the science itself? or is this more a film about how people use it? i think it s both. i think it s a film about consequences. that s what i sort of come away from the process of engaging with oppenheimer s story for several years. i think it raises a lot of questions about the relationship between science, technology, the media, the government. you know, the manhattan project was the first time in history that scientists were called upon to defend their country, to try and win the war against, you know, the nazis, forces of evil.
who would go up against the masked forces of evil, the villains, and smite them, and perhaps even be destroyed in the process, and die a glorious death. that s not the way most politicians think. - you ve got a temper. - [laughs] i m a i m a person who feels very strongly about things like integrity. - so how is it that he became this farcical figure who had put himself at the service of a clown, a terribly dangerous and malevolent clown? i don t have a specific answer. i don t know. i think that if you are as blindly self-righteous as rudy was, and as self-seeking as rudy was, that is to say, as ambitious as rudy was, it s gonna lead you into very dangerous places
sometimes, we want to just tune out. but that s what the forces of evil and the forces that are disrupting our society want us to do. is tune out. the mass shooting yesterday in texas, makes us forget just weeks ago we had a young black boy shot for ringing the rolled all beland kansas city. and as we fight around this issue of just getting a man to have to be held accountable for choking a man to death on a subway in new york. and to people holding him down, and no one can explain to me and other new yorkers how these people explain this