Cenk Uygur speaks with John Cusack about the war profiteering that inspired his movie War, Inc., now available on DVD.

UYGUR: I’m watching at home, I feel the frustration coming through, right? I’m frustrated, you’re frustrated. The people watching are frustrated. How do we break through? How do we change the way this is all set up so that it serves us again, rather than serving these corporate interests that are so intertwined in the government?

CUSACK: Well, I don’t know. But I think the answer is you probably have to support candidates who are 1) willing to talk about it, like there’s a candidate from Florida, Alan Grayson, who won the Democratic primary. Jan Schakowsky has talked about it a lot. And I think probably to put as much pressure on the Democratic Party to do what their duty is, within the Constitution, which is to be a check and balance to the Executive branch. So Nancy Pelosi says that impeachment is off the table, what gives her the right to say that? I mean, I don’t think she has any right to say that impeachment is off the table.

UYGUR: Given their record, it’s a little hard to have faith in the Democratic Party…

CUSACK: So I think you have to put as much pressure on Obama as you can to make him talk about these things and deal with these things.

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Our buddy, John Cusack, on Countdown on June 20th.

If you haven't had a chance to see War, Inc. yet, what are you waiting for? And for those of you not able to get to the theaters, it has a scheduled DVD release date of October 14th.

I've posted John McCain's many visits on The Daily Show on C&L. Some have been heated exchanges and others have been nothing more than spots to soften up McCain's persona to the TDS audience. I understand that they always won't be heated exchanges, but as John Cusack asked on C&L, does TDS really need to put them on? Stewart is an excellent interviewer, who knows the issues and I would hope that he takes the path of asking really tough questions of McCain since nobody in the media will. That's a sad fact indeed, but true. We're coming down to the home stretch. Remember, they need Stewart. He doesn't need them to do his show.

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The Daily Show on McCain: The Sweet Talk Express

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Jon certainly has brought up all McCain's flip flops of positions and highlighted the Hagee endorsement so he knows the issues at stake. Will he be the tough guy who challenges McCain or the nice guy who wants to have a good time? I think America needs the tough guy on Wednesday and I think he will be that guy too...

I spend about an hour or two every night working on those little clips for the Music Club. John finally made it worth my while. He brought me along to a private screening of the best film I've seen all year, War, Inc," an incredibly original way of looking at an issue raised both my George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower: the dangers of great wealth and militarism ganging up on democracy. Monday afternoon John and I want to introduce you to John Cusack, who co-wrote, co-produced and co-starred in this thought-provoking (and hilarious) film. Just show up right here at 3pm (PT, 6 back on the East Coast) and help John Amato and I ask John Cusack some questions about his latest project.

An assortment of Cusack

John Cusack: On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)

(hat tip John) This is really a great piece.