Amanpour and Company

>> IT IS AN EFFORT OUT THERE TO KEEP US ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PROCESS. TO KEEP US ON THE OUTSIDE OF DEMOCRACY AND NOT LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD. I SEE THE NUMBERS AND I SEE PEOPLE COMING OUT TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE AND OVERCOMING ALL THE OBSTACLE THAT'S ARE THERE TO HOPEFULLY OVERWHELMINGLY LET VOICES BE HEARD. IT IS INSPIRING TO ME. IT GIVES ME SOME SORT OF FAITH IN THE PROCESS AND FAITH IN PEOPLE. AS I LOOK AND SEE, IT DOESN'T SEEM THOSE IN POWER ARE REALLY TRYING TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN DEMOCRACY. IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WANT TO REALLY KEEP PEOPLE ON THE OUTSIDE OF IT. IT IS NOT REALLY ANYTHING NEW TO ME. IT IS NOT SURPRISING TO ME THAT THIS IS ALL GOING ON. I GUESS IT IS A LITTLE SURPRISING THAT WOULD YOU HOPE WE WOULD BE IN A BETTER PLACE THAN WE ARE AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT. AMERICA HAS NEVER REALLY GIVEN UP CERTAIN THINGS FREELY. YOU HAVE TO DEMAND IT THROUGH ACTION. SO THAT'S WHAT I TRUST IS HAPPENING WITH THE NUMBERS THAT ARE THERE. >> AND YOU ARE BOTH DOING THAT WITH THIS REUNION. LET ME JUST CLARIFY. YOU ARE TOBY ZIEGLER IN THE WEST WING, THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR. AND YOU, DULE HILL, ARE THE PRESIDENT'S AIDE. IT IS A THROWBACK TO A MOMENT WHEN THERE WAS SUCH OPTIMISM. I THINK THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR. IT IS NOSTALGIA FOR COMPETENCE PORN. I WONDER IF YOU CAN TALK TO ME BOTH. FIRST YOU, RICHARD ABOUT, THE IDEA OF REUNITING FOR THIS. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT? WHAT DID IT TAKE, PARTICULARLY IN COVID LAND AND COVID WORLD? >> THE WEST WING CAST, DULE AND BRAD AND ALLISON AND MARY AND JOSH AND I AND A FEW OTHERS SEEM TO GET TOGETHER QUITE OFTEN TO DO KIND OF THE, MAKE THE GOOD TROUBLE THAT JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT, TO GET TOGETHER AND DO PSAs. WE'VE CAMPAIGNED IN THE PAST. WE'VE TRAVELED IN THE PAST. WE CAME TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THIS ELECTION. AND CONCURRENTLY, AARON HAD AN IDEA OF HIS OWN. WE KIND OF MESHED IT. WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE DOING A ZOOM GREETING. OUR ORIGINAL AND GREAT DIRECTOR HAD THIS MASTER PLAN TO DO A STAGED GREETING AND BRING MUSIC TO IT AND WE JUST THOUGHT, THAT'S FANTASTIC. SO WE OVERCAME THE COVID OBSTACLES. WHEN WE GOT TOGETHER, IT WAS LIKE GOING BACK TO WORK. IT WAS AS NORMAL AS IT COULD BE. IT WAS SO GLORIOUS TO SEE EVERYBODY, TO WORK MARTIN AGAIN. THE SCENES I HAD WITH MARTIN MOOSE MY FAVORITE HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET AND IT WAS JUST JOYFUL TO BE BACK TOGETHER TO DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL AGAIN.