From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell, my guest today.

Well, let's see how we best with this.

Let's go over here.

Some of the things he's done, sports night. He worked with Mike Nichols on Charlie Wilson's War. He wrote Moneyball. He did a little show called West Wing. He adapted to Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway. I would like to bring Aaron Sorkin' honor to talk about his new film, Trial Chicago 7, but I think we're out of time. Aaron, thanks so much for doing this.

Thank you for the introduction office.

It's very nice to be here.

It's always great to talk to you.

And I'd like to ask you about Chicago 7.

And then also, when you're doing on some work in general, you're writing for a balance of a

room and the way people occupy a room.

Often it's two people going toe to toe in that room, but also people surrounding that

being a kind of de facto Greek chorus audience.

Talk about how you worked that out for Chicago 7, given that you dealing with real people.

As far as the real people go, you mentioned Charlie Wilson's war.

That was the first nonfiction that I wrote.

And I swore after Charlie Wilson's war, on which I had a terrific experience, but I swore I was never going to write nonfiction again.

That the constraints of real people and real facts. You know, who needed it?

I'll make up a story.

And then I wrote five nonfiction films in a row.

In fact, I haven't written fiction since.

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