Jeff Daniels & Peter Sarsgaard talk Woody Allen, 9/11 and #MeToo in Hollywood

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🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Actors Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard join Chuck to talk about their roles in the new Hulu series "The Looming Tower." They also discuss how art and culture have changed, and how they can respond to crisis.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.5	Meet the press.
0:04.5	Meet the press.
0:05.5	Meet the press.
0:06.5	Meet the press.
0:09.5	After the 9-11 terror attacks, many Americans were terrified about what was coming next.
0:14.8	But for the intelligence and law enforcement communities, moving forward required looking
0:18.6	back to examine what happened before the attacks.
0:22.0	Lawrence Wright won a Pulitzer Prize for his book about the lead-up to 9-11.
0:26.6	That book, The Looming Tower, has now been adapted into a 10-episode limited series
0:31.5	that will be airing soon on Hulu.
0:34.1	In it, Jeff Daniels plays real-life career FBI agent, John O'Neill, who is at odds with
0:39.6	a Washington CIA intelligence officer by the name of Martin Schmidt, played by Peter
0:44.2	Sarzgar.
0:45.5	The series traces the rise of the threat of Osama bin Laden and the rivalries within
0:49.8	the government agencies charged with managing that threat.
0:52.6	Here's a clip.
0:54.3	You got a stash of intel that you refused to share with my agents.
0:57.5	If we were in possession of such a computer and I'm not confirming that we are, it would
1:01.4	be a foreign intelligence matter, not a law enforcement matter.
1:05.1	So you do have the hard drive?
1:07.8	I don't know how you reach that.
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