(2019) Wheres My Roy Cohn Movie Subtitles

00:00:18,268 --> 00:00:20,Auletta:
Testing, one, two, three.

00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:22,Roy cohn, September 28.

00:00:26,485 --> 00:00:28,I was writing a profile of Roy cohn.

00:00:31,573 --> 00:00:33,My recorder is going, and...

00:00:33,408 --> 00:00:36,I'm taking notes as well, and I said...

00:00:36,203 --> 00:00:37,What makes Roy cohn tick?

00:00:41,625 --> 00:00:45,Cohn:
A love of a good fight. Uh...

00:00:46,004 --> 00:00:50,A certain pleasure / derive
in fighting against power

00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:52,and the establishment.

00:00:55,305 --> 00:01:00,I will take on a cause against
practically anybody.

00:01:03,605 --> 00:01:05,I hate hypocrisy.

00:01:06,608 --> 00:01:09,Newswoman: Roy cohn was called
the most brilliant and influential lawyer

00:01:09,736 --> 00:01:10,in america.

00:01:10,946 --> 00:01:13,His specialty was power.

00:01:13,282 --> 00:01:16,And from the very beginning,
he was flamboyant,

00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:19,he was ruthless and always controversial.

00:01:21,832 --> 00:01:24,Zirin:
And he was like a caged animal.

00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:27,If you opened the door to the cage,

00:01:27,629 --> 00:01:29,he would come out and get you.

00:01:32,843 --> 00:01:36,Man 1: Roy cohn's contempt for people,
his contempt for the law,

00:01:37,472 --> 00:01:39,was so evident on his face

00:01:40,017 --> 00:01:42,that if you were in his presence,

00:01:42,853 --> 00:01:45,you knew you were in the presence of evil.

00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:59,Zirin: And he saw himself
as a political puppeteer.

00:01:59,328 --> 00:02:02,He could pull strings
and bring people together.

00:02:02,331 --> 00:02:05,He could pull strings
and make people do things.

00:02:09,463 --> 00:02:13,Man 2: Roy cohn is the common thread
from senator Joe McCarthy...

00:02:14,176 --> 00:02:17,All the way to his protége', Donald Trump.

00:02:21,224 --> 00:02:25,Zirin: When you look at cohn's life,
you're shining a light...

00:02:25,896 --> 00:02:27,On demagoguery...

00:02:28,398 --> 00:02:29,Hypocrisy...

00:02:29,983 --> 00:02:32,And the darkest parts
of the American psyche.

00:02:35,656 --> 00:02:39,Crowd: Usa! Usa! Usa!

00:02:39,868 --> 00:02:42,The Roy cohn show, which is unbelievable.

00:02:57,302 --> 00:03:00,Now here's Roy cohn, who appeared recently
on the cover of esquire magazine.

00:03:00,722 --> 00:03:04,And the title of that article, as I
recall, sir, was "the legal executioner."

00:03:04,434 --> 00:03:07,- Yeah.
- It went on to say that you are really a tough man

00:03:07,104 --> 00:03:11,- and that at times you can...
- Tough, mean, vicious, so on.

00:03:11,525 --> 00:03:15,What does that kind of publicity do
for your business in New York?

00:03:15,112 --> 00:03:16,Oh, it's fantastic.

00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:19,The worse the adjectives,
the better it is for business.

00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:21,What are they looking for?
What are they buying?

00:03:21,702 --> 00:03:22,Scare value.

00:03:23,578 --> 00:03:27,Going back, over a period of years,
when I call somebody

00:03:27,249 --> 00:03:29,or write a letter or something like that,

00:03:29,126 --> 00:03:31,this is supposed to make them
tremble and think,

00:03:31,461 --> 00:03:34,unless they act promptly and reasonably,

00:03:34,673 --> 00:03:38,that all sorts of terrible consequences
are gonna flow.

00:03:38,552 --> 00:03:39,[M1

00:03:41,430 --> 00:03:45,Roy's reputation in the courtroom
was for such viciousness

00:03:45,767 --> 00:03:48,that merely retaining him

00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:52,usually caused the other side in any
dispute to want to settle immediately.

00:03:52,774 --> 00:03:57,I hired Roy cohn
because he is a tough son of a bitch.

00:03:57,779 --> 00:04:01,If I can compare this with a western,
it's like bringing in a hired gun.

00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:02,Man: That's right.

00:04:02,826 --> 00:04:04,My name is Roy cohn.

00:04:07,622 --> 00:04:12,The way Roy cohn practiced
as an attorney was:

00:04:12,502 --> 00:04:17,"I don't care what the law is.
I wanna know who the judge is."

00:04:17,340 --> 00:04:22,That's the way he worked, because
that's how he manipulated the system.

00:04:22,637 --> 00:04:28,I would do anything to get my client
to win. Yes, I would. That's my job.

00:04:28,477 --> 00:04:30,There isn't anything I would not do,

00:04:30,729 --> 00:04:35,because I believe there's only one answer
in an adversary profession like law,

00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,and that is winning.

00:04:37,986 --> 00:04:43,And he did it in ways that were,
you know, beyond machiavellian.

00:04:44,326 --> 00:04:49,He was an amazing manipulator,
and often g***t his way as a result.

00:04:49,831 --> 00:04:52,Reporter 1:
What are they confiscating?

00:04:52,167 --> 00:04:54,Cohn: Packets of white powder.
Reporter 2: But what was it?

00:04:54,753 --> 00:04:56,Was it cocaine?

00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,It was not in his briefcase.

00:04:58,673 --> 00:05:01,They do not allege it was in his briefcase.

00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:05,I've read the complaint, and I
was in court, and you weren't.

00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:12,Cohen:
Roy was somebody that had no boundaries.

00:05:12,229 --> 00:05:14,And if you were on the right side of him,

00:05:14,272 --> 00:05:17,it was great, and if you were on
the wrong side of him, it was terrible.

00:05:19,361 --> 00:05:22,Dave: He loved power.

00:05:22,239 --> 00:05:27,He loved pulling the levers of power. And he
g***t a taste for that very early in his career.

00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:45,Mangan: Here's a man that everybody
is going to enjoy meeting.

00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,He's Roy m. Cohn, who is confidential assistant
to the United States Attorney General,

00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:51,and, of course, they've been very busy

00:05:51,977 --> 00:05:55,prosecuting the communists
and communist party.

00:05:55,105 --> 00:05:56,- Hi, Roy.
- How are you, Jack?

00:05:56,648 --> 00:05:58,What can you tell us, Roy,

00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,that we might not know
from general newspaper coverage

00:06:03,572 --> 00:06:06,of the workings of the
party in this country?

00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:08,What can we watch for
as individual citizens?

00:06:09,077 --> 00:06:12,Well, the communists, the one thing
we have to understand at the outset

00:06:12,247 --> 00:06:13,is that the communist party...

00:06:13,999 --> 00:06:15,Cohn & hoover:
Is not a political party.

00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:17,Hoover: It is a way of life.

00:06:17,419 --> 00:06:19,An evil and malignant way of life.

00:06:19,838 --> 00:06:22,It reveals a condition akin to disease,

00:06:22,924 --> 00:06:25,that spreads like an epidemic,

00:06:25,093 --> 00:06:30,and like an epidemic, a quarantine is necessary
to keep it from infecting this nation.

00:06:31,016 --> 00:06:33,Cohn:
It's a criminal conspiracy.

00:06:33,268 --> 00:06:39,Its object is the overthrow of the government
of the United States by force and violence...

00:06:39,441 --> 00:06:42,And institute the worst type dictatorship
this world has ever known.

00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:48,Roberts:
This was the height of the cold war.

00:06:48,491 --> 00:06:52,People were genuinely terrified
of a nuclear attack

00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:56,and of the so-called communist menace.

00:06:56,458 --> 00:06:58,Newsman:
President Truman's dramatic announcement

00:06:58,627 --> 00:07:00,that Russia has created an atomic explosion

00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:03,sends reporters racing
for the United Nations.

00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:09,G***t any statement about president Truman's
statement on the atomic bomb?

00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:12,- Please, please, excuse me.
- Does Russia have the atomic bomb, sir?

00:07:12,223 --> 00:07:14,- Won't you reply to me?
- What can we do?

00:07:15,769 --> 00:07:17,Zirin:
It was a period of hysteria.

00:07:17,729 --> 00:07:22,You really start to see the paranoid style
of politics unfold.

00:07:22,525 --> 00:07:25,And Roy cohn was right there.

00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:32,Newsman: One of the greatest peacetime spy
dramas in the nation's history reaches its climax

00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:35,as Julius Rosenberg
and Mrs. Ethel Rosenberg,

00:07:35,413 --> 00:07:38,convicted of revealing atomic secrets
to the Russians,

00:07:38,625 --> 00:07:41,enter the federal building in New York
to hear their doom.

00:07:42,045 --> 00:07:46,He became one of the prosecutors
in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

00:07:50,053 --> 00:07:54,The appointment of Jewish prosecutors
and a Jewish judge

00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:56,was to create the impression

00:07:56,559 --> 00:07:59,that it was not an
anti-semitic prosecution.

00:08:01,398 --> 00:08:05,He was only 23 years old,
but Roy cohn was ruthless.

00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:08,Roy cohn knew how to bully,

00:08:08,321 --> 00:08:13,and he was willing to do whatever he could
to manipulate the result.

00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:19,Cohn felt he could ride the wave
of anti-communism

00:08:19,582 --> 00:08:21,to further his own career.

00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:26,And, in fact, his role in that case is...