-Your daughter is --
I saw she's getting very involved in politics.
-Yeah, Romy, Romy. She's an amazing --
She's so talented.
I mean, at age 20 years old, I mean she writes, she --
great photographer, artist.
She wrote a whole screenplay by herself.
-Fantastic.
-And eight episodes of a half-hour show.
She's absolutely incredible. -At 20 years old?
-At 20 years old. And I'm -- I've basically --
Now she's, you know, into pol--
She tweets, and great tweets and stuff.
Follow her on Twitter.
-What is she talking about for politics?
-Well, I mean, you know, what is she talking about?
She's talking about what we're all talking about.
This nightmare that we haven't woken up from!
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It's just -- It's unbelievable.
Every day, it's just an avalanche of horror.
[ Laughter ]
-What is her solution? What does she say?
-Well, what's the solution?
All you can do is keep your eye on the ball.
I mean, the whole thing is that,
we have to hold this guy accountable.
We have to get the truth out.
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-And we got to vote.
-And it's getting harder, you know?
It's getting so much harder now.
Because it used to be that the mainstream media
would at least challenge the administration,
try to get the truth out.
But now you've got, like, two mainstream medias.
You've got, you know, the "Washington Post,"
"New York Times," and all of the TV shows.
But then you also have Fox and Sinclair
and Breitbart and Alex Jones.
And so they're, like, opposite narratives.
And how do you break through?
You know, and what's true?
And people are having a really hard time.
-Yeah. -And then, we're under attack.
The media's under attack.
They call it the enemy of the people.
I don't know if you saw what happened today,
but a guy went in there to, you know, a newspaper office
in Maryland and started shooting people.
I mean, so, we don't know where this came from.
But, you know, we've seen Trump say,
"They're the enemy of the people."
You know, "They're fake news."
And so, these are the pillars of democracy
that have to hold us up,
and right now, they're being challenged.
And that's why I did "Shock and Awe,"
because it's all about holding the administration accountable.
There's about four journalists from Knight Ridder News
in the run-up to the war in Iraq,
and they basically got it all right.
But they were buried because nobody believed them,
because they were buying the company line,
which was the Bush administration.
-And to go to Iraq because Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruction.
-Yeah. Supposedly, he had weapons of mass destruction,
supposedly he had something to do with 9/11.
All these things were lies.
And administrations always use propaganda to sell,
you know, a policy or a rationale to go for war.
But it's always up to the journalists to keep them honest,
and that's their job.
There's a clip in the film.
And I think one of the lines I have in there is --
I don't know if you're gonna show it or not,
but I talk about how when the government says something,
there's only one question you have to ask --
Is it true?
And that is what the journalists have to do.
But now it's more difficult than ever
to get to the truth and inform the public.
Because unless the public is informed,
we don't have a chance to hold this democracy together.
So, we're trying, we're fighting,
and, you know, hopefully we will,
because we love this country,
and we don't want to see it devolve.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Absolutely.
-Yeah.
It's a great cast, by the way, in "Shock and Awe."
-Yeah. -It's Tommy Lee Jones.
-Oh, no, he's the best. -What? It's unbelievable.
-Yeah, yeah. -I just love seeing him.
And Woody Harrelson, Jessica Biel, we love.
We have a clip. Here's Rob Reiner,
James Marsden, and Woody Harrelson
in Rob's new film, "Shock and Awe,"
in theaters July 13th. Check it out.
♪♪
-If every other news organization
wants to be stenographers for the Bush administration,
let them.
We don't write for people who send other people's kids to war.
We write for people whose kids get sent to war.
So when the government says something,
you will only have one question to ask --
Is it true?
♪♪
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-Now... -I love seeing you act, as well.
-Yeah. Now, the truth is,
I wasn't supposed to act in this film.
Alec Baldwin was supposed to play that part,
and we had actually rearranged the schedule
so he could come back on Fridays to do "Saturday Night Live,"
you know, to do Trump.
And two days before he was supposed to come,
and we had been shooting for a week with Woody Harrelson
and Tommy Lee Jones, he said, "I can't make it."
You know, they got a call from the agent.
He says, "I kind of have to drop out.
I can't do it." I said, "Oh, my God.
It's two days before we're shooting.
I don't know what to do."
So my wife, Michelle,
who is one of the producers on the film,
she says, "Well, why don't you play the part?"
And I -- oh, I thought,
I don't like acting and directing.
It's kind of a split focus.
But then I thought, "I'm available."
[ Laughter ]
And I work cheap, you know? So...
[ Laughter ]
-It's a double whammy. -I said I would do it.
And you have to understand, I'm playing a guy
named John Walcott in the movie.
So one direction my wife gave me was,
"Try to be a little less Jewish."
[ Laughter ]
So I don't know if I pulled that off.
-You did a great job. -I try.
-You did a great job. Rob Reiner, everybody!