The Post (2017)

Jesse Plemons: Roger Clark

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• Roger Clark : What if we wait? What if we hold off on printing today. Instead we call the Attorney General and we tell them that we intend to print on Sunday. That way we give them and us time to figure out the legality of all of it, while the Court in New York decides the Times case.

  Ben Bradlee : Are you suggesting we alert the Attorney General to the fact that we have these documents, that we're going to print, in a few days?

  Roger Clark : Well, yes, that is the idea.

  Ben Bagdikian : Yeah, well, outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.

  Fritz Beebe : Oh boy!

• Anthony Essaye : Ben, look, we know your reporters are talented. But, The New York Times spent three months going over these documents. You've got, what? Seven hours now until the paper goes to press? Can you honestly tell me that that is enough time to make sure not a single military plan, not a single U.S. soldier, not a single American life will be put in harms way? That this will do no damage to the United States if you publish?

  Ben Bradlee : Yes.

  Roger Clark : And you're sure about that?

  Ben Bradlee : No! That's why I've called you guys.

• Roger Clark : If you got the study from the same source, that would amount to collusion.

  Ben Bagdikian : Yeah, we could all be executed at dawn.

  Roger Clark : And we could be held in contempt of court - which means Mr. Bradlee and Mrs. Graham could go to jail. Mr. Bagdikian, how likely is it that your source and the Times source are the same person?