Culture's different. And I'd like to see if I could do it quickly enough so that it would actually come out, you know, before the election so that what I discover would be useful to the American public in terms of making a - rendering a judgment. Let's talk about the decision to open the film with that excerpt of your conversation with Margarita Simonyan. Alex Gibney On New Documentary, ... got it right don't have that much to do with culture and have a lot more to do with organization and learning and also political will. And they left a playbook for future administrations. Right now we're going to this phase where this there's an effort to rewrite and edit parts of history that are harrowing and uncomfortable for a lot of Americans to grapple with. And so it seemed interesting to actually start it in Moscow rather than Washington. How often were you kind of tempted to include additional details as they emerged? you control the narrative very often in book rollouts by making sure that you turn up on shows that give you a quick hit and then move on. And that I think is the essential American problem at the moment. All rights reserved. There are a lot of people who we had, and there were other people who I would have liked to have interviewed who we came close to getting, but they wanted to save it for their book tour. And that's pretty good because they hadn't come out when we were forming those conclusions. The lens poked out, and on top of the lens was a kind of a teleprompter, and an image of whoever was conducting the interview would be projected. I'm not sure it was. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. It's a new documentary by Alex Gibney, Ophelia Artinian and Suzanne Hillinger. But seems to me that that is a vital piece of information that you have to give to voters just before they go into the voting booth or mail in their ballots. So the great sense of vitality and freedom and freedom of expression we've had for so long is being undermined by our own emotional undertow to want to surround ourselves with people who think and act exactly like we do, and believe what we want to believe. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. Follow her on Twitter: @McTelevision. Why do you think that's an important comparison, a legitimate comparison? So they just weren't even going to look at that playbook, which is really (laughter) - really a ridiculous response. GIBNEY: It's a funny question because when you think about voting, surely what we want to do for voters, particularly as journalists and as filmmakers, is to inform voters so they can make an informed decision about who should be president. So I feel pretty good about that. Copyright © 2020. We didn't do this on behalf of the DNC. So we put in a card at the end that said, "One day after finishing this film, Trump tested positive for coronavirus.". And Part 2 would be how did that reverberate here, which was the essential thinking about it. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. And, yes, it's a different culture. We thought Part 1 would be about, what did Russia try to do? The cyber assault on our voter databases and the Democratic National Committee's servers is laid out with equal precision. So it definitely wasn't completely locked. And just two months later, the real pandemic hits. It could have been the Germans!". So to some extent I've been here before. Right. We did this as a fact-finding exercise to find out if, in fact, the federal response had been bungled by this administration. But they never pull that playbook off the bookshelf. And I wanted to see if you had your own answer to that. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC.

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