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From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Prit Bharara.

There's always a shadow narrative in American life and we need to pay attention to that narrative

if we really want to understand what's going on here and stay awake to the ways that power

can end up landing in places that we didn't put it.

That's Edward Norton. He's a writer, director, producer and actor who's been nominated three

times for an Academy Award. He plays a detective in his most recent movie, Mothalus Brooklyn.

A film noir murder mystery, it features a fictionalized Robert Moses type builder and gets

it something essential about America. Edward Norton and I talked about the infectious

nature of power, what infamous Donald Trump line made it into his movie, why it feels

good to root for the underdog and the anchor to an actor's authenticity. That's coming up.

Stay tuned.

This question comes in an email from Cheryl in Sacramento, California, who writes,

just read a Vindamins statement and feel so grateful that he is speaking up. I wish I

could sit down with every senator, read it out loud and discuss. Well, that's not really

a question, but I will take it in the spirit in which it's meant and maybe discuss a little

bit of Vindamins testimony. So obviously, Cheryl is referring to what appears to be blockbuster

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