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would not interfere with Editorial... 454 00:32:25,353 --> 00:32:26,855 ...and that the News was to be left... 455 00:32:26,938 --> 00:32:28,732 We don't make the news, we report the news. 456 00:32:28,815 --> 00:32:31,568 99% of the time he's wrong about those he's marked as Communists. 457 00:32:31,651 --> 00:32:33,695 If he goes too far, the Senate will investigate him... 458 00:32:33,778 --> 00:32:34,779 ...and we will report on that. 459 00:32:34,863 --> 00:32:38,158 But he's wrong 100% of the time when he oversteps people's civil liberties. 460 00:32:38,241 --> 00:32:39,367 And you're trying him in the press? 461 00:32:39,451 --> 00:32:41,453 Does he get the right to face his accuser? 462 00:32:41,536 --> 00:32:44,039 You've decided on this and you're presenting it as fact. 463 00:32:44,122 --> 00:32:46,458 - What I am doing... - I write your check. 464 00:32:46,541 --> 00:32:50,420 I put you in your country house, and I put your son through school! 465 00:32:50,795 --> 00:32:54,424 You should have told me about this before it went so far down the road! 466 00:33:05,935 --> 00:33:09,814 Everyone of your boys needs to be clean. Do you understand? No ties. 467 00:33:10,023 --> 00:33:14,610 If Aaron's mother went to a group fundraiser in 1932, he's out. 468 00:33:14,736 --> 00:33:18,531 Hewitt, too. Anyone in that room. You make no mistake... 469 00:33:18,656 --> 00:33:22,285 ...I will cut them loose. Corporate won't interfere with Editorial. 470 00:33:22,368 --> 00:33:25,788 But Editorial will not jeopardize the hundreds of employees... 471 00:33:25,872 --> 00:33:29,208 ...of the CBS. Do I make myself clear? 472 00:33:30,501 --> 00:33:31,794 Yes? 473 00:33:37,258 --> 00:33:40,636 Fellas, our next show is gonna be about Senator McCarthy. 474 00:33:41,721 --> 00:33:43,514 And we're gonna go right at him. 475 00:33:44,140 --> 00:33:46,934 I don't need to tell you how careful we have to be. 476 00:33:47,018 --> 00:33:50,187 If we are to do this, Ed and I need you to be straight with us. 477 00:33:50,271 --> 00:33:52,481 We need to know, for the good of the piece... 478 00:33:52,565 --> 00:33:56,402 ...if any of you have any connection, if you subscribed to a newsletter... 479 00:33:56,485 --> 00:33:58,362 ...if you attended a party, anything... 480 00:33:58,446 --> 00:34:01,615 ...anything that could compromise this, anything at all... 481 00:34:02,074 --> 00:34:04,410 ...because now would be the time to tell us. 482 00:34:09,874 --> 00:34:11,876 Ed, I think I should excuse myself. 483 00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:14,295 Palmer, you kidding? 484 00:34:15,254 --> 00:34:17,798 My ex was a... I wouldn't say she was a Communist... 485 00:34:17,882 --> 00:34:20,968 ...but she attended meetings. It was before we were married. 486 00:34:21,051 --> 00:34:24,013 I didn't even really know about it until after the divorce. 487 00:34:24,555 --> 00:34:27,558 But it was different then. We were all on the same side. 488 00:34:29,059 --> 00:34:32,021 I'm not telling you anything you don't know. The thing is... 489 00:34:32,104 --> 00:34:33,564 ...somebody'll find out. 490 00:34:35,274 --> 00:34:36,775 They'll hurt us with it. 491 00:34:38,318 --> 00:34:40,779 I should have told you sooner, Ed, I'm sorry. 492 00:34:41,905 --> 00:34:43,031 Fred. 493 00:34:46,243 --> 00:34:48,912 If none of us had ever read a "dangerous" book... 494 00:34:49,121 --> 00:34:51,290 ...or had a friend who was "different"... 495 00:34:51,373 --> 00:34:54,042 ...or never joined an organization that advocated "change"... 496 00:34:54,126 --> 00:34:56,962 ...we'd all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. 497 00:34:58,922 --> 00:35:02,551 We're gonna go with the story, because the terror is in this room. 498 00:35:06,555 --> 00:35:08,849 John! Jesse! Go through the HUAC hearings. 499 00:35:08,932 --> 00:35:12,853 Eddie! Palmer! Look at who did the interviews and any speeches. 500 00:35:13,854 --> 00:35:15,480 Okay, fellas, here we go. 501 00:35:16,064 --> 00:35:18,066 His own words, that's what we need. 502 00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:20,694 ...said that he wouldn't remove a General from the Army... 503 00:35:20,777 --> 00:35:23,780 ...who supported a Communist Major. I said, "Then, General..." 504 00:35:23,864 --> 00:35:26,199 "...you should be removed from any command." 505 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:30,495 "Any man who says, 'I will protect and honor a General'..." 506 00:35:30,745 --> 00:35:35,083 "...'who protects Communists', is not fit to wear that uniform, General." 507 00:35:35,375 --> 00:35:37,002 Ethically, we're fine. 508 00:35:37,168 --> 00:35:40,922 But legally, if we air this, are we leaking closed hearing testimony? 509 00:35:41,006 --> 00:35:43,425 - But he chose to read it. - We're not misquoting him. 510 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:46,92