Manafort and others and the very next day, at least one of those loans was approved. One of those loans was for 5. 7 million. Whats interesting about this is this is the time when mr. Manafort was the Campaign Chairman or the Campaign Manager of the trump campaign, and it was pretty clear that this man wanted, in other words, the ceo, wanted to do something with the Trump Organization. And he expressed that. It wasnt clear whether he was talking about the Trump Organization in new york, the business, at least from the testimony i heard while i was there, or whether he was talking about the trump campaign. Nonetheless, its also clear that this individual, steven, did get recommended for a job inside the administration, we know from other sources. The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Application. And apparently, he forgot about it. So then he started bawling out the prosecutors in front of the jury and that causes them to lose their credibility. Then a second i
duke, there was a long silence on the other end of the phone. really. they said you have to go read for spike. not like anything you ve done before. i was happy to read for him. and so, in researching the role, i read that you watched a lot of phil donahue. i mean, you read his book. no. it was this is like the best day of your life. spike lee calls you and says i want you to be my guy and then at the end of the day you go, this is going to be the worst month of my life. i had to read the autobiography called my awakening. i don t recommend it. terrible. i watched a lot of filmed interviews from the 70s. listened to his radio show to get his voice down and most helpful things is episodes of
someone s head who s so full of hate. and i was watching the interviews with the real ron stallworth sitting with spike and ron said he got a call from the real david duke, ahead of the film s release. like five nights ago. he says to ron, essentially, hey, i m worried about how i may be portrayed in this film. did ron tell you about that? he did. i mean, i was like, sequel! it s like kind of a same thing that happened years ago. david has denied since his book came out in 2006, since ron s book came out in 2006 that it ever happened so this was kind of an admission on his part it did happen and i think also an admission he doesn t know how hollywood works because, you know, there s no changing it now. in the can coming out today. topher, the film is all about racism in the 70s and reading
theft-related crimes and ended up spending several months in juvenile hall. as an adult, he was again arrested for a theft-related incident and ended up spending another three months in adult jail as a result. since being released, he has been wayward and has not returned to our family home for several months. the chief s son, tyrone mcallister and a second teenager face charges of attempted robbery, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. the chief and his wife helped locate their son so he could be arrested. coming up next, we ll continue our conversation on race in america with actor topher grace. he plays david duke, the grand wizard of the kkk, in this new spike lee film out today called blackkklansmen. hear what happened when the real david duke called his castmate this past week.
from your research of david duke the lines used, america first, make america great again. right? decades ago. then the film ends with the present day and the gut-wrenching scene of charlottesville a year ago. i m curious what you think this will stir up in audiences as they leave the theater. well, yeah. when i especially in the episodes of donahue using the words america first and make america great begagain a lot. watching that from 2017, i don t know how many people watching ep codes of donahue now but it really stood out to me and i realized why a film like this and all are so important. if you don t study your history, you know, they say you can be condemned to repeat it. i think what spike is doing is just so, so important. topher grace, thank you so much. still ahead, tens of thousands of people under