movement from the beginning all the way to the election of barack obama. it is the also the first time or the first movie oprah has done in 15 years since precious. it is a big cast. we caught up with all of them last night and asked them while filming did they have what oprah called that a-ha moment, that moment of clarity. my big a-ha was realizing i have vulnerable spaces even though i have to be a person in the world that makes decisions and moves forward. that i still main attend a sense of vulnerability that allows for the actor space to thrive. i had the a-ha moment into prosthetic makeup. always with lee daniels, you cannot avoid that moment. great. steve: the butler is the name of the movie based
the four 18-year-olds admitted to buying plastic bottles, aluminum foil and chemicals to make these bombs and then go on a joy ride around their town and throw them at houses. they were actually throwing these at people with the intent to cause harm, from what i understand. so with that intent to cause harm to either people or property, this goes well beyond teenage prank. the teen-agers were arrested on suspicion of detonating incendiary devices. there were no injuries and no major damage reported. back to you, steve, gretchen and the judge. steve: what a story. ainsley, thank you very much. andre embassies instead of fighting back, congressman lease gohmert from the lone star state sarks hey, it makes america look like a bunch of cowards. there he isers he s next. gretchen: he is one frame away from a perfect game when this happened. imagine this. oh, my oh, no. holy cow. did you see that is this. gretchen: so what happened next? did he get another chance?
spending in the government, i thought somebody had to continue and i will continue til he s out of office, to write him every day and tell him, what are you doing? steve: they re not love letters. no, no. steve: these are not love letters. obviously if the president gets all these letters where you were very critical of him, a response from him would not be likely. but he did respond. he responded 45 times. the first letter was from the sent by signed by the white house and others signed by his automatic pen. we covered 23 different categories in the letters. gretchen: so some of the letter, like you wrote about the tax code, you wrote about egypt. let s look at the one about egypt. why are we sending tanks and aircraft to egypt? it doesn t make sense. we supply israel and the people that threaten them. did you get a response to that particular letter? i got a response to that
and lee schreiber is lyndon baines johnson. gretchen: opening? next thursday friday, august 16. you can catch more coverage of the red carpet on in the spotlight.com. steve: thank you. gretchen: have you ever wanted to tell the president what you think about the state of our country? one new jersey man did 300 times. he s going to be here next. that s a lot of letter writing. steve: her story is including this beauty queen busted for throwing bombs at car windows. she s in trouble. okay, a? b?
needs to surveil everybody as they call it, it s not a big deal. the reason being, and you know with we are with our credit cards, they know where we are with our phones and they know where we are with our cars, there are a lot of different ways. who cares whether he s listening on the phone or not? steve: i do. andrew: some do care. steve: here is one of the responses you got from the president. thank you for your thoughtful words. it reminds me of what is best about our country. now, famously, the president is said to read ten letters from ten americans every day. is that why you started this, hoping you would be one of the ten? no. i put up a challenge in quite a few of the letters. i didn t like being called a coward by eric holder. knowing my background a little bit. i don t have a problem with meeting them and talking about