vince, i wanted to ask you about walter white. he is so memorable because the acting from bryan cranston is so strong and it's been a revelation to people because before the show bryan cranston was the dentist on "seinfeld" and the father on "malcolm in the middle." not roles you would think would recommend somebody to play this role we're describing. what is it you saw in bryan cranston that made you say, yeah, he could be the meth kingpin of the southwest? >> well, admittedly if i'd only known him from the dopey dad on "malcolm in the middle" i would have had a hard time picturing myself. i was fortunate to have worked with him about a year and a half before he did "malcolm in the middle." he was in an episode of the "x-files" i wrote and he played a very dark character who was kind of an anti-semite and just a general creep, all-around bad guy who was trapped in a car with agent mulder played by david duchovny for like the whole hour. and yet at the end of the hour you had to feel bad when, here comes the spoiler alert, the guy

i got on and i said, this is walter white, you're taking my associate away from his duties. i'm going to come over to pay you a visit unless you hang up right now. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and what -- >> they're screaming. they're screaming. they can't believe it. but he's done that several times. >> jimmy: wow. what was your first, like, real acting job? >> well, i was working as a background artist. an extra in hollywood in 1978 and 1979. and just learning the ropes, you know? and i did this one television movie back when they were making those, called "to race the wind." and it stars steve guttenberg. >> jimmy: excellent. >> excellent choice. nice guy. and he plays a blind kid who goes to college -- >> jimmy: awesome. >> right. and he's in a fraternity. and there's a fraternity football game. >> jimmy: wait a minute, he's playing football blind? >> as one would do, you always play football if you're blind, jimmy, come on, you know that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: was he a wide receiver? what position would he be playing? >> he's running around. don't tell him. just let him go.

>> in the season we get darker, walter white is just becoming so venomous. >> jimmy: he is actually becoming evil. >> super, super evil. >> jimmy: brian krantz, was here last week, he was telling us that you tweeted. think we have a picture of the phone booth. yeah, that phone booth. you gave out the number. while you were on set you told people to call you. then you took phone calls for a while? >> yeah, literally the phone. we were there for a few dates. the phone rang. for like three days. >> jimmy: three days straight? >> people kept calling. >> jimmy: what was the strangest call you got? >> people were calling from all around the world. there was this girl from singapore. i could tell, she told me she was having a rough past couple months. i'm like -- it is going to get better, i promise. she goes, can i ask you one question. i just love you so much. do you think jesse would make a good father? i'm like, well, yeah, maybe. i mean, not right now. once he stops cooking crystal meth. maybe down the road he would make a good father. >> jimmy: that is a strike against you in the father categ

house film library being treated at walter reed and wanted to watch movies in the white house library. richard nixon at the clubhouse, as john mentioned, only one reporter in history has set foot inside of. >> when i asked if i could see the club house which is on jackson square right across the street from the white house i call a press secretary jay carney who used to be my colleague and said what building? i don't think we know anything about this. in 1969 richard nixon is president and he is getting calls constantly from the hill country of texas where lyndon johnson is going crazy. he has been sent home. his term is done. the decides not to run for reelection and is a little stir crazy. he has been drinking from a fire hose and constantly calling the white house a and i want to come up and i need somewhere to stay. johnson was driving the nixon white house to such distractions that nixon said just get him out. get him a building would get him a place to stay overnight. a young military aid to was a colonel in the air force was named -- got this assignment. that tells you how i fo

house so my birthday were being treated at walter reid and wanted to watch movies in the white house library. richard nixon as the clubhouse as john mentioned, which only one reporter in history has stepped foot inside. >> when i asked the white house if i could see the clubhouse on jackson square across the street from the white house, called a press secretary jay carney used to be my colleague at time and said what building? [laughter] i don't think we know anything about this. in 1969, richard nixon as president and he's getting calls constantly from the country taxpayers, where he's going crazy. he's been sent home. his term is done. he decides not to run for reelection. he's a little stir crazy beauties entering and from a firehose for 10 years, longer than that. he says i want to do stuff. need somewhere to say. get them in office, a place to stay overnight. a young military aid since there's a kernel and the air force was named brent scowcroft. got this assignment. instead they basically take over rundown townhouse on lafayette square he's going to work, stay overnight. until

he is embarrassed when i read to them transcripts of white house tape about walter cronkite. colson reject it back, but he was the pinnacle of richard nixon and colson was onto this idea that they had to bring down the power victory. they liked cronkite. nixon personally liked walter cronkite socially when he saw him, the recognized cronkite to the surprise some that really spoke the entire state. if you could can't walter cronkite, you tend to go up and from the nixon white house as the liberal media that became quite a square off between cronkite and the nixon administration and particularly chuck colson. particularly from the tapes on nixon's interest in bringing cronkite down a notch or two. >> host: here's a piece of video from the 1997 took notes with walter cronkite. >> guest: >> in the middle of an explanation, but it was going on from the podium and on the floor was the producer would come in and say go to mike wallace, go to mike wallace the south carolina delegation. well, the carolina delegation didn't have anything to do with that story at the moment. that was a

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clear problems with the white house right now. to professor larry sabado. >> the media relationship with president obama the honeymoon is over. the bloom is off the rose. this often happens as reality meets the promise of what a candidate said during a campaign. this happened to jimmy carter in 1980. the media was much taken to him in 1986 but by but they moved to ted kennedy or necessity liked john anderson the middle of the road semi liberal independent who ran against both reagan and carter in november 1980. i think some of that is going on now. they recognize that the market, their market is not as entrenched with president obama as they were four years ago. they follow their market. they have to get viewers and get buyers. you know how that works. >> neil: absolutely. newsweek, i'm going explore more on this on fox business network, if you can't get readers praising the president you might as well attack him. it does come at a time where a number of publications are hedging their bets. we see a degree of more critical piece o

thank you, walter. .. so too did a great episode law rights movement was successful in the 1950's and the 1960's, so to the significant shift and a white movement in this country, far most of the 20th century with the exception of say the 1920s and maybe a slice of woodrow wilson's presidency, the country was increasingly moving to the left book ended by theater roosevelts politics and and and common aiding in lyndon baines johnson administration. so, the question that i have is, here is a man who is not only black, he is painted red, not as a socialist tank and its. he carries a tremendous burden of representing a kind of politics, personal empowerment wedded to social justice that costs people their lives, particularly in the south, particularly the height of the mccarthy era something that we haven't talked about in this discussion but certainly the letters that you have told together make reference to the cold war. and the stakes for this kind of politics of action that bayard rustin was committed to a