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So, can I ask you a hypothetical question?
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So, can I ask you ahypothetical question? Oh, dear, I don't likehypothetical questions....

So, can I ask you ahypothetical question? Oh, dear, I don't likehypothetical questions. Well, I don't thinkyou're gonna like the real one either

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So can I ask you a hypothetical question
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Oh dear I don't like hypothetical questions
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Well I don't think you're gonna
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like the real one either
Available in 6 languages
Duration
10 seconds
Views
427
Timestamp in Movie
00:59:32
Uploaded
Mar 02, 2026
Genres
biography, drama, history
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.

Actors

Tom Hanks
Ben Bradlee
Tom Hanks
Meryl Streep
Kay Graham
Meryl Streep
Do you have the papers? - The Post 00:07
Do you have the papers?
Oh, gosh, because you know... - The Post 00:04
Oh, gosh, because you know...
You knowthe only couple I knew that both Kennedyand LBJ wanted to socialize withwas you and your husband and you owned the damn paper - The Post 00:12
You knowthe only couple I knew that both Kennedyand LBJ...
The only couple I knew that both Kennedy - The Post 00:05
The only couple I knew that both Kennedy
Was you and your husband and you owned the damn paper. - The Post 00:05
Was you and your husband and you owned the damn paper.
Yeah? Well, I wasn't a stooge for Jack Kennedy. - The Post 00:05
Yeah? Well, I wasn't a stooge for Jack Kennedy.
The night he was assassinated - The Post 00:05
The night he was assassinated
The night he was assassinatedTony and I were down at the Naval Hospitalso we would be there to meet Jackie when she landedShe was bringing Jack's bodyback on the plane from Dallasand she walked into the roomShe was still wearing that pink suitwith Jack's - The Post 01:03
The night he was assassinatedTony and I were down at the...
So we would be there to meet Jackie when she landed. - The Post 00:05
So we would be there to meet Jackie when she landed.
She was still wearing that pink suit - The Post 00:05
She was still wearing that pink suit
"None of this, none of what you see, - The Post 00:05
"None of this, none of what you see,
"is ever going to be in your newspaper, Ben." - The Post 00:08
"is ever going to be in your newspaper, Ben."
I never thought of Jack as a source, - The Post 00:05
I never thought of Jack as a source,
And it was something that Jack knew all along. - The Post 00:05
And it was something that Jack knew all along.
The days of us all smoking cigars together - The Post 00:06
The days of us all smoking cigars together
Your friend McNamara's study proves that. - The Post 00:05
Your friend McNamara's study proves that.
We have to be the check on their powerIf we don't hold them accountableI mean my God who willWell I've never smoked a cigarand I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jackor Bob or any of them accountableBut we can't hold them accountableif we don't have a - The Post 00:22
We have to be the check on their powerIf we don't hold...
We have to be the check on their power. - The Post 00:04
We have to be the check on their power.
If we don't hold them accountable, - The Post 00:06
If we don't hold them accountable,
But we can't hold them accountable - The Post 00:05
But we can't hold them accountable