% >> Their goal is to unite
% the world under a single
% jihadist caliphate.
% >> Use fear and falsehood...
% >> We had a double Guantanamo...
% >> What do you talk about
% when you have nothing to say?
% >> This was insanity.
% >> Some of these people
% frightened me.
% They frightened me.
% >> President Bush has talked
% about our staying in Iraq
% for 50 years...
% >> Maybe 100.
% >> The danger from Iran
% is grave.
% >> Well, I'm not concerned
% about the voters...
% >> It will be a really nice...
% >> Fruitcake...
% >> But I can't be president
% unless you choose me.
% And I hope you will.
% (static)
% >> Deficit financing,
% big government.
% More taxes.
% More bureaucracy.
% More regulations.
% More policing the world.
% >> What are you guys talking
% about, you know?
% >> Hi, and welcome to
% nDirector's Cut,I'm your host,
% Charles Monroe-Kane.
% That was a clip from the
% documentary "For Liberty: How
% the Ron Paul Revolution Watered
% the Withered Tree of Liberty."
% We're joined today by the
% film's directors, Corey Kealiher
% and Chris Rye.
% Thanks, guys, for joining us
% today.
% >> Thanks for having us.
% >> So, let's go back to the time
% and just remind people.
% Who is Ron Paul?
% >> Well, Ron Paul is a
% congressman from Texas who ran
% for president in 2008 and found
% himself at odds with his own
% party.
% >> He ran as a Republican.
% >> Right, right.
% And it was mainly over the war
% issue.
% I mean, he's a strict
% constitutionalist, he's strict
% fiscal conservative, you would
% think that's something
% republicans would love in their
% candidates, but because of the
% war issue, he was marginalized
% and ostracized for it.
% >> Now, two things,
% we'll go to you.
% I want to pick up on, one,
% I want to help define what
% a strict constitutionalist is
% so people can know what it is.
% But what separated him about
% the war, as well?
% What was that thing that
% separated him?
% >> It was, it was obvious to
% people watching the debates,
% his stance on the war was
% drastically different than the
% rest of the people on stage,
% the other ten candidates, which
% is what it started out with.
% And he was basically, he's been
% opposed to the war since the
% beginning.
% He voted against it, he never
% supported it, and these other
% candidates on the stage with
% him, they're basically, I guess
% you'd call neo-cons.
% >> Remind us, they're Rudy
% Giuliani, obviously George Bush,
% who were the other people up
% there?
% Not Bush, I'm sorry,
% John McCain, and they were all,
% standard pro-war.
% So he separated himself there.
% It's interesting as I watch this
% documentary and I think about
% Ron Paul, and I remember the
% Ron Paul campaign, and this is
% a question for you, and would
% be one for Ron Paul if he was
% sitting here as well.
% Why?
% I mean, he was not gonna win the
% candidacy for president for the
% republican party, but he spent a
% lot of money and a lot of his
% own psychic energy to do it, and
% so did you guys.
% You guys made this film, you
% must've started editing after he
% lost.
% >> Yeah, yeah, we did.
% >> What's, for both of you,
% start with you, what would
% sustain your energy to make a
% film about a candidate who
% couldn't win and then making it
% after he lost?
% >> I think it's the thing that
% sustained us all the way through
% the campaign, too.
% Most of us knew that, obviously,
% they weren't gonna let him be
% president, it just wasn't gonna
% happen.
% But it was more about educating
% people, it was more about
% bringing people on board with
% the ideas of the constitution
% and what it means to be free.
% I think that we've lost a lot of
% that in the last 50, 100 years.
% We don't really have a really
% good grasp on what it means to
% be free.
% And what it means to obey and
% follow the constitution.
% And when we're doing this film,
% it was a lot of the same thing.
% We were more concerned with just
% trying to get this message out
% there.
% We were part of the campaign,
% obviously we invested a lot of
% time into this, and we thought
% that, well, this is another good
% opportunity, through a film,
% to get these ideas out there.
% >> And you, why did you make so
% much sacrifice to make this
% film?
% >> Just to record this for
% history.
% This is, I think a unique event
% in the political history of the
% United States and even though
% Ron Paul, when he announced, he
% knew he wouldn't win, he figured
% this would be more of an
% educational endeavor than
% anything.
% And that's the important part of
% it, so when we decided to make
% the film, we wanted to show
% people kind of what happened
% during the campaign, what went
% down during the debates, how
% these other candidates kind of
% treated someone like Ron Paul
% with his views, on stage,
% publicly in front of national
% audiences.
% They would ridicule and laugh
% at him, and things like that.
% So we just wanted to tell the
% story, make sure it doesn't go
% down the memory hole,
% and do some education, too,
% show this to audiences and
% let them see what happened,
% in case they missed it.
% >> Let's, for our viewers who
% maybe don't remember Ron Paul or
% need a good reminder, let's see
% Ron Paul in action.
% This is a clip from the second
% debate he was in.
% Can you set it up for us and
% then we'll show people this
% clip.
% >> Well, what happened was, he
% was trying to explain to people
% how our meddling in Middle
% Eastern affairs actually hurts
% our national security, because
% that's the reason people come
% over here and want to attack us.
% And Rudy Giuliani, the big
% terror warrior, jumps in and
% kind of interrupts the debate
% structure to make the point that
% Ron Paul's insane, basically.
% >> And that's the argument
% we always heard, right,
% about Ron Paul?
% "Ron Paul's insane."
% Let's see Ron Paul in action.
% >> It is the constitutional
% position.
% It is the advice of the founders
% to follow a non-interventionist
% foreign policy.
% Stay out of entangling
% alliances.
% Be friends with countries.
% Negotiate and talk with them,
% and trade with them.
% >> They looked at the republican
% stage that night and they're
% like, what is this guy saying?
% We've never heard anything like
% this.
% And what's better, it makes a
% lot of sense.
% >> So there's a lot of merit to
% the advice of the founders and
% following the constitution.
% And my argument is that we
% shouldn't go to war so
% carelessly--
% (bell rings)
% When we do, the wars don't end.
% >> He was talking more about the
% things that really mattered, not
% the war in Iraq, but should we
% be the policemen of the world?
% Should we be at war anywhere?
% And why and when?
% And under what circumstances?
% >> Congressman, you don't think
% that changed with the 9/11
% attack, sir?
% >> What changed?
% >> The non-interventionist
% policies.
% >> No, non-intervention was
% a major contributing factor.
% Have you ever read about the
% reasons they attacked us?
% They attack us because we've
% been over there.
% We've been bombing Iraq for ten
% years.
% >> You know, if we misbehave
% around the world, you know,
% there are going to be people in
% the world who don't like the
% United States, period, end of
% story.
% I think that's just common
% sense.
% I think most kids know that, you
% know, at the kindergarten level.
% >> It's very easy to be Rudy
% Giuliani and say, we've got to
% get the terrorists.
% You know, yeah, people will vote
% for you for that.
% It's very hard to get them to
% vote for somebody who actually
% makes them think, or says, wait
% a minute, these slogans are fit
% for a 7-year-old.
% >> Right now, we're building an
% embassy in Iraq that's bigger
% than the Vatican.
% We're building 14 permanent
% bases.
% What would we say here if China
% was doing this in our country or
% in the Gulf of Mexico?
% We would be objecting.
% We need to look at what we do
% from the perspective of what
% would happen if somebody else
% did it to us.
% >> I thought, what fun.
% How are they going to answer
% that?
% It must have been embarrassing
% for the other candidates to have
% to sit there and hear this deep
% discussion, and to know in their
% hearts that the guy's absolutely
% right, but...
% >> That's a great clip, the
% republicans must've hated him.
% So, who funded this film?
% Did Ron Paul fund it?
% Did the Ron Paul campaign,
% or supporters, or did you guys
% do it?
% >> We basically just did it.
% We did it on the cheap, very
% cheaply, so that was nice.
% Chris has a 1984 veggie-driven
% Mercedes, so that saved us a lot
% of money on gas traveling around
% the country.
% And yeah, basically all we paid
% for was, what, food?
% People put us up for lodging, a
% lot of the people that we went
% around and interviewed, so we
% did it very cheaply.
% >> You traveled around the
% country, you went to Ron Paul
% supporters around the country.
% >> Yep.
% >> One guy from the clip was
% from Texas, and a bunch of
% people.
% >> We went literally from coast
% to coast to coast, yeah.
% >> On your own fryer grease car,
% sleeping on people's couches.
% >> We actually had a pump with
% us, a little pump that was
% charged off the battery of the
% car, and then we'd pull up and
% pump veggie oil out of the
% dumpsters at restaurants and use
% that, and we drove 10,000 miles
% on the trip, we did basically a
% loop around the whole country
% filming our interviews.
% >> I just have to ask this
% question because it's
% interesting to me, because I
% watch, I was watching this film,
% sitting on my couch and watching
% it, and I knew this.
% They're traveling around the
% country in a veggie fryer car.
% You're young.
% He's anti-war in Iraq,
% he's anti-Afghanistan, you're
% sleeping on people's floors,
% that just sounds like liberal
% stuff to me, like completely.
% That's just the stereotypical
% way people think.
% But this is not liberal, Ron
% Paul is conservative, he's very
% conservative in a sense, more
% conservative than even a John
% McCain.
% What's the difference, how do
% you separate Ron Paul from,
% like, a total left-wing liberal?
% >> It's just the message of
% freedom, I think, that's what
% really brings people together on
% all sides of the political
% spectrum.
% When people talk about liberal
% and conservative, I think
% they're just very arbitrary
% divisions that we kind of impose
% on politics.
% And when we use terms like that
% it's because we've forgotten
% what it means to follow the
% constitution.
% We didn't really have a lot of
% these problems, say, 150 years
% ago.
% We didn't have these deep
% political divisions.
% But nowadays everybody is just
% trying to get their politicians
% into office so they can seize
% power and take what they can
% from the system.
% >> Sure, a simple message equals
% a vote, that's what's worked.
% But that means that the people
% who don't do that, you guys,
% aren't gonna be "successful."
% You won't win.
% Doesn't mean you won't get the
% message out, doesn't mean you
% won't be successful.
% Don't you find that frustrating?
% >> Well, yeah, there's a lot
% working against us.
% But it kind of empowers you,
% though, if you keep getting
% pushed down, you just want
% to get up that much more.
% To move your views forward,
% especially with just educating
% people about Ron Paul and the
% issues.
% >> It's funny you say that, that
% was something I pulled out of
% the documentary that some of
% these people, it wasn't like
% they wanted to be abused or
% thought they were victims, but I
% think they liked the fact that
% the media was unfair to Ron
% Paul, they kind of liked that
% people thought they were done
% but then they liked that
% they were being lied about,
% They kind of liked the fact that
% they would get back up again.
% >> I think we just expect that
% by this point.
% >> Well, tell me about some of
% the people.
% Tell me about someone
% you met on the road that you
% just remember, like, man, that's
% America and I wish all Americans
% would be.
% >> I don't know, I couldn't pick
% out just one person.
% Because they all had their
% little quirks that were just
% really interesting.
% >> During this trip, I think we
% interviewed maybe 20, 25 people
% for the film and the gamut, the
% wide variety of people was just
% astonishing.
% >> It was, I was surprised by
% it.
% I think that if you would've
% made, and I don't want to
% disparage this particular
% candidate, but I think there's a
% lot of other candidates that ran
% who, I think if you made a
% documentary about their
% followers around the country, it
% would be fairly ubiquitous.
% This kind of person, this kind
% of person, this
% socio-demographic.
% But you guys, there were some
% total free spirit types, I was
% saying, like my one uncle.
% He's just a trip and he's like
% the cool guy.
% They're interesting,
% free-thinking people,
% interesting people that you got
% caught with.
% I want to show another clip from
% the film, and this actually is
% my favorite part of your film.
% It was about Ron Paul, the
% history of Ron Paul's logo.
% So why don't you set it up for
% us, we're gonna see that clip
% about how his logo was invented.
% >> Right.
% Basically it's the word
% "revolution" and they take the
% R"evol" and flip it around so it
% says "love" backwards.
% So it's basically the word
% "revolution" but there's this
% subtle "love" in there.
% So it kind of puts a new spin on
% the word "revolution" which is
% really a powerful word.
% And they just came up with the
% slogan, these people in Arizona.
% And it just, people loved it and
% they started making them.
% >> And he didn't, Ron Paul, I
% just want to make sure people
% get this.
% This wasn't like, Ron Paul
% didn't approve it, Ron Paul
% didn't work with it, it just
% happened and people started
% spray-painting it and they ran
% with it.
% >> Right, and this was all
% grassroots.
% There's no contact with the
% official campaign at all, I
% mean, people are just out doing
% things on their own.
% They don't care what the
% official campaign thinks.
% And they're just gonna do it.
% >> Wow, that must've made Ron
% Paul excited and very nervous at
% the same time.
% >> Yeah, and it's kind of
% sketchy with the FEC, the
% Federal Elections Commission,
% there's a lot of really strict
% regulations that govern, watch
% over all these selection
% processes and fundraising and
% all this stuff.
% >> You guys just threw a spin in
% the works, I love it.
% Let's see that clip, this is the
% logo clip from "For Liberty."
% >> The Revolution logo, I don't
% know, I ripped it off of
% somebody, off the Internet.
% I happened to see something
% like that, where they did
% the backwards "love."
% And all we did was put Ron Paul
% on top of the logo and explode
% it.
% >> I don't know, maybe the
% implications are that a
% revolution means, you know, you
% bring out the guillotine and the
% peasants storm the castle with
% pitchforks and torches.
% >> The word revolution has a
% certain strength to it.
% Combining it with the word love,
% obviously gives it a completely
% different spin.
% >> We started the Ron Paul
% Revolution sign production.
% >> Okay, here we go.
% (laughter)
% >> We would do this every
% Friday.
% We'd have at least one to three
% stations across, just in
% Arizona, the Valley of the Sun
% here.
% We would have people on a Friday
% making 200-300 signs.
% >> That's another batch of
% another 42 more signs for
% tonight.
% >> We started shipping them to
% friends all over the country.
% >> I needed some banners.
% And I saw one of these things
% that said Ron Paul Revolution,
% and I go, that's pretty cool.
% I got a look on the Internet and
% I found out who was making them,
% and I just wrote him a letter.
% I said, you know, I'm Linda
% Hunnicut, I would really like to
% have some of your banners.
% And he called back.
% He said, what's your address?
% So I gave him my address.
% And he hung up.
% About four days later, here we
% get this huge box.
% >> In South Carolina, we wanted
% to find out who's going there,
% who's going to be there.
% >> The stage is set and the
% candidates are ready for
% tonight's republican
% presidential debate.
% >> Sent those to Granny
% Warriors.
% And a lot of the activists that
% were there in support of
% Dr. Paul, they held them up, and
% the cameras got their first view
% of them, and that's when it
% kicked.
% It went cross country.
% >> It went cross country.
% As I watch that clip I can't
% help but think about the
% 800-pound elephant in the room.
% That's Barack Obama.
% From what I was told, and from
% what we understood from the
% media, he also had a grassroots
% campaign.
% He had supporters from young
% people.
% That was kind of a wave that
% started, and obviously he won.
% It's a two-part question.
% First, how did you guys react
% when someone with a similar
% style and grassroots background
% kind of just took over.
% And kind of dwarfed what you
% guys were doing.
% And then also, what do you feel
% about the Obama grassroots
% campaign?
% >> Well, I wonder how much
% grassroots campaigning was
% actually going on.
% I know in Stevens Point where
% we're from, he had an office and
% they had sent out a lot of young
% people to do some door-to-door
% canvassing.
% But it was all teenage kids who
% just loved more the idea of
% Barack Obama as president than
% his ideas.
% And they paid them with pizza
% and soda, had a little party for
% them and everything.
% So, I mean, I don't how much
% real grassroots was there.
% >> And how did you guys feel
% when that wave finally hit?
% It must've been annoying,
% I would assume, to you.
% That's all the media talked
% about, it was totally
% grassroots, it's all for the
% people, all that stuff.
% And you guys felt you were that,
% of the people and of freedom.
% That's how the media put, that's
% how Barack Obama framed himself.
% Do you find that annoying
% since you probably found it
% disingenuous, I assume?
% >> Well, we knew from our
% experience that what was going
% on inside the Ron Paul campaign
% was actually a real grassroots.
% There was no top-down
% controlling it, it was bottom-up
% controlling.
% And the media was definitely
% working against us the whole
% time, would try to paint us as
% these kooky weird people.
% But with Obama, they were
% holding his hand the whole way,
% they were helping him along.
% So anytime they would have some
% "grassroots" things going on,
% the media would put all the
% focus and attention on it and
% make people believe that it
% really was this grassroots win,
% when the real grassroots
% movement, the Ron Paul campaign,
% was kind of just tossed to the
% side and ridiculed.
% So I guess, what can you do?
% It's somewhat frustrating,
% you know, but that's just--
% You've got to move on.
% >> The Internet played an
% interesting role in the Ron Paul
% campaign, kind of post Howard
% Dean, that no one else really
% did.
% What was the role of the
% Internet for Ron?
% >> The Internet was the biggest
% driving factor to the whole
% campaign.
% Without the Internet, there
% wouldn't have been a campaign
% like Ron Paul's campaign.
% >> That's interesting, because
% that's true.
% It's an interesting fact.
% That means 20 years ago, it
% couldn't have existed.
% Meaning it can exist again.
% >> Right, we saw something
% similar with Ross Perot.
% >> Sure.
% >> And that got pretty big, even
% without the Internet.
% So, you know, without the
% Internet, there's just no way.
% Ron Paul's ideas have been out
% there for a long time, since the
% founding of the country.
% You know, why is it that just
% recently these ideas, you know,
% bubbled up to the surface, and
% everybody got a good look at it?
% Well, it was because of the
% Internet.
% It was very Internet driven.
% And from the Internet, it got
% out to everybody else, everybody
% who's not online.
% >> I want to show another clip,
% that doesn't need any set-up.
% This is kind of a clip of you
% guys, the grassroots campaign
% in action.
% It's a very telling clip.
% So, let's see another clip from
% the documentary "For Liberty."
% >> I think the people now have
% understood how much power they
% as individuals really do have,
% and where the battle really is.
% Mind to mind.
% Individual to individual.
% One on one.
% Me putting a sign out on the
% freeway, and a 100,000 people
% see it, know what I think.
% I vote every time
% I put a sign up.
% >> The sign bombing culture
% that developed as a means
% of spreading awareness.
% It was something that I did, you
% know, climbing up on overpasses.
% You know, putting up signs with
% zip ties.
% >> These are all things that the
% grassroots thought of because
% their man wasn't getting the
% attention.
% So they basically had creative
% tantrums.
% >> Young people are, they're
% just natural born activists.
% It's in their blood.
% They're, you know, they're
% rebellious.
% They rebel against their parents
% and teachers, and so it's
% in them, not to be fearful,
% and to stand up.
% >> Don't just play by the rules.
% Think of ways to do unique
% things that break through.
% >> It's not just what kind of
% places.
% It's like, can you attach it.
% If you can attach it, it went
% up.
% >> Just walk down the street,
% inconspicuously with the signs.
% Then, you know, you get
% somewhere, put up a sign, just
% keep on walking.
% >> And all these young people
% that had never even thought--
% I go, do you have a permit
% to put that sign up?
% Never even crossed their mind.
% Didn't even blaze over their
% cortex, brush it at all, that
% they were going to seek some
% kind of permission from the man
% to challenge the man.
% >> You don't need permission
% from the man
% to challenge the man.
% That's the quote of the day.
% I really like it.
% One part of your film that you
% follow, that's kind of a
% narrative through the film,
% that I kind of like, is there
% was a walk across Wisconsin,
% that Ron Paul supporters did.
% Can you tell me a little about
% the walk?
% >> Yeah, this was after the
% campaign had ended.
% This group of people, they
% wanted to do this walk to
% Minneapolis from Green Bay,
% that's about 280 miles,
% in three weeks.
% And the reason they were walking
% to Minneapolis is because the
% Republican National Convention
% was happening there,
% in St. Paul.
% And Ron Paul, and his new
% organization that he started,
% called Campaign for Liberty,
% they were holding a defiant,
% alternative rally across town
% at the Target Center.
% So there were these two
% conventions happening, you know,
% six or seven miles away,
% which is kind of crazy.
% I mean, I don't think that's
% ever happened before.
% So these guys walked, ended
% their journey, then attended
% the rally in Minneapolis.
% So, it just timed out really
% good for us, because we kind of
% followed them through their
% journey and inter-cut, as they
% were progressing, into the film,
% through the history of the
% campaign.
% Then it all kind of culminates
% at the end, at the rally there.
% >> They seemed like interesting
% characters.
% They seemed like interesting
% guys on the walk.
% It's interesting, you were
% talking about the alternative
% set-up in Minneapolis.
% You know, there's a stereotype
% of democrats, that they tend to
% shoot themselves in the foot
% because they splinter.
% They have different groups that
% splinter and they fight among
% themselves.
% But once republicans have a
% candidate chosen, it's lock,
% stock and barrel, and you
% blindly follow, and that's what
% republicans do.
% There's been success based on
% that.
% So, they must have really found
% you guys a burr in the saddle,
% because you didn't do what you
% were supposed to do.
% Republicans are supposed to
% follow their leader, and you
% guys didn't do that at all.
% What kind of flack did you get
% back from official republicans,
% or from other republicans?
% I would assume liberals wouldn't
% be mad at you.
% You were walking across
% Wisconsin, oh, this is cool,
% that's interesting.
% But I would assume that the
% right wing, the
% neo-conservatists, must have
% been pretty annoyed at you guys,
% especially at the end, I would
% assume there was some annoyance.
% I'm sure he got a lot of flack.
% Did you guys get people just
% annoyed at you because you
% weren't doing what republicans
% were supposed to be doing?
% >> Not, I mean, we weren't there
% at the convention.
% But a lot of Ron Paul supporters
% had been elected as delegates,
% and had gone to the national
% convention.
% >> Right, of course.
% >> And the republican party was
% pretty annoyed that they were
% there.
% And a lot of those people were
% being watched, and the
% republicans were really
% expecting them to just make a
% big show and just disrupt the
% entire thing.
% Adam Kokesh, who we just saw in
% that clip, he had actually snuck
% in a sign to the convention.
% And while John McCain was giving
% a speech, had pulled it out and
% it said, "John McCain votes
% against Vets," or something like
% that.
% And they were afraid that the
% Ron Paul people who were there
% were going to pull, you know,
% something huge, that they were
% going to make a big--
% But you know, it never happened.
% It was just, you know, paranoia,
% I'm sure.
% >> They actually had security
% teams following some of
% the Ron Paul delegates around
% at all times.
% >> Good for you guys,
% that's great.
% Tell me, I want to move into
% another topic, because I think
% this is an important part of the
% Ron Paul campaign that I think
% a lot of people would remember,
% and I do.
% It was about fundraising.
% He was an amazing fundraiser.
% He raised a lot of money, or a
% lot of money was raised in his
% name.
% The one I like the most
% was the November 5th.
% We're going to show a clip
% about it, but can you tell me
% a little bit about the
% thisNovemberfifth.com campaign?
% >> Yeah, thisNovemberfifth.com
% was basically an idea that
% the grassroots came up with.
% They called it a "money bomb."
% The idea was that, you know,
% promote this ahead of time,
% and pick a date.
% They picked November 5th,
% which plays into the whole
% "V for Vendetta," the movie,
% November 5th, and how the movie
% is kind of against--
% >> And remind people again
% what November 5th is.
% It's significant in England.
% >> Well, it's Guy Fawkes Day.
% But that's an aside.
% The real reason is they wanted
% to tie "V for Vendetta" in,
% because the movie itself
% is kind of against a lot of the
% things that Ron Paul supporters
% are against, you know,
% like the spying, wire tapping,
% the development
% of a police state.
% The movie is just kind of
% a parallel.
% And they decided to have
% this date.
% They just promoted it online,
% and it kind of went viral.
% Then the day came, and all these
% people, at the same day, within
% the 24-hour period, donated
% $4.2 million to the campaign.
% I think that set a record
% at that time.
% >> Yeah, it was a record.
% Well, let's check out the clip.
% Let's remember, remember
% the fifth of November.
%
>> The money bomb for
% Congressman Ron Paul, organized
% by grassroots supporters to
% coincide with the 1723 Boston
% Tea Party, is now happening.
% >> Everybody wanted to see that
% number go up.
% Ron Paul's numbers,
% you know $6 million in one day.
% I mean, that's just
% unbelievable.
% >> Revolution is in the air.
% The resistance is on.
% Take action right now,
% ladies and gentlemen.
% Tell everybody you know.
% >> We are blessed to have had
% Ron Paul stand for us
% all these long years!
% Now we are here today
% to stand for him.
% (cheers)
% >> And there were just parties
% held everywhere, you know, hey,
% let's get together.
% You know, basically probably
% inspired by the MeetUp groups,
% which were just flourishing
% all over the nation.
% >> I'm with the Ron Paul
% headquarters in New York,
% and it's going crazy here.
% We've got a couple hundred
% people.
% And Ron Paul is about to reach
% his goal, $12 million.
% >> When we blew past, you know,
% you could see the crowds
% going crazy, as soon
% as he passed $12 million.
% It's really probably a reaction
% that happened across
% the Ron Paul community.
% (cheers)
% The old thermometer came down.
% And then a few minutes later,
% a new one came up
% with a higher goal.
% And the $12 million was passed.
% It was just awesome.
% >> What do you think, man?
% >> That was awesome!
% >> Success?
% >> Absolutely, $5.5 million
% so far.
% (cheers and applause)
% >> You set the record.
% In the history of American
% politics, nobody has ever raised
% more money on a single day
% than you.
% And yet, this is happening
% without your campaign people
% coordinating it.
% This is completely about
% grassroots.
% And it's completely about you,
% just saying what you believe in.
% >> Wow, the audacity
% of saying what you believe in.
% We're almost out of time.
% A quick question.
% 2012, where are you going to be?
% >> Campaigning for Ron Paul,
% I hope.
% >> 2012?
% >> We'll be there,
% and "For Liberty, Part 2."
% We're doing it.
% >> Well, come back.
% "For Liberty, Part 2."
% If he wins, we'll have you back
% even earlier, how's that?
% >> There you go.
% >> If he beats the Sarah Palin
% machine that comes back.
% Thank you very much.
% It was a refreshing documentary.
% I really enjoyed it
% >> Thanks for having us.
% >> Thank you all for joining us
% today, as well.
% For more information on
% "For Liberty: How the Ron Paul
% Revolution Watered the Withered
% Tree of Liberty," please go to:
% wpt.org/directorscut
% And while you're there, send us
% an email, because we absolutely
% love hearing from you.
% I'm your host
% Charles Monroe-Kane,
% and for everyone here
% atDirector's Cut,thank you
% very much for joining us.
% Check the gate.