- ( slap ) - ( grunts ) ( muffled grunting ) you have taken a lot of risks in your life. you put down $3 million of your own money. you say, it s my way or the highway in terms of my movie. you try and sell a play when you ve never done anything like this before. and you live in a car and you struggle for five years. you are a major risk-taker. do you think of yourself that way? - cause i sure do? - i hadn t thought about it until you said it. cause for me, it just feels like i just always believed in betting on myself. that s what it i just i m gonna put my money on me because i know me. i m gonna do all i can to make it work. i m gonna go all out and i m gonna just be in it 150%, so if that makes me a risk-taker, then i guess so. spike lee, so he called some of your movies coonery and buffoonery. - how d you receive that? - in the beginning, i was really hurt by it and frustrated by it
- ( slap ) - ( grunts ) ( muffled grunting ) you have taken a lot of risks in your life. you put down $3 million of your own money. you say, it s my way or the highway in terms of my movie. you try and sell a play when you ve never done anything like this before. and you live in a car and you struggle for five years. you are a major risk-taker. do you think of yourself that way? - cause i sure do? - i hadn t thought about it until you said it. cause for me, it just feels like i just always believed in betting on myself. that s what it i just i m gonna put my money on me because i know me. i m gonna do all i can to make it work. i m gonna go all out and i m gonna just be in it 150%, so if that makes me a risk-taker, then i guess so. spike lee, so he called some of your movies coonery and buffoonery. - how d you receive that? - in the beginning, i was really hurt by it and frustrated by it because i didn t understand, you know, what it
even as he said that, he said get me a list. l.b.j. said jerk every damn bill there because i want to show that i m good as f.d.r. it s crazy. the presidents shouldn t forget. learn from the past and not be competitive of what went before. neil: it s up to the media to do that, myself included. one of the things, doris, i blame president trump on, he did come in setting high expectations for himself. for good reason. he could shake the world, the ceo, all those guys. have a different view of getting things done. the same thing i was raising with jack welch. they have a take no prisoners. it s my way or the highway. washington doesn t work that way. could the president serve himself keeping expectations low, the kind of stuff that my dad say, neil, it will come in handy. you know what i mean? the promise is, he made 282
how dtry. how do you assure the american people it won t be pushed through quickly. the american people hear phase one, phase two, phase three. are we able to change things if things aren t the way want them to be when the vote rolls around on thursday. go to the senate. back and forth. of course there is reconciliation. there have been improvements yesterday technical and policy improvement. you see the difference work requirements have been put. in in other words, the progress and improvement was that the president did not say this is the bill and it s my way or the highway. he has been very respectful of different inputs. and that s reflected in the legislation. these three phases really are beholden to the number of votes you need in the cincinnati. steve: sure. phase one, getting rid of those taxes and mandates and penalties and expanding health savings accounts. phase three tort reform, drug pricing and of course interstate mobility, buying and selling. brian: that s going to
people it won t be pushed through quickly. the american people hear phase one, phase two, phase three. are we able to change things if things aren t the way want them to be when the vote rolls around on thursday. go to the senate. back and forth. of course there is reconciliation. there have been improvements yesterday technical and policy improvement. you see the difference work requirements have been put. in in other words, the progress and improvement was that the president did not say this is the bill and it s my way or the highway. he has been very respectful of different inputs. and that s reflected in the legislation. these three phases really are beholden to the number of votes you need in the cincinnati. steve: sure. phase one, getting rid of those taxes and mandates and penalties and expanding health savings accounts. phase three tort reform, drug pricing and of course interstate mobility, buying and selling. brian: that s going to be with democrats involved. yes. you n