Jeff Daniels pretty much reprises his Newsroom role to talk Trump

HBO’s The Newsroom hasn’t aired a new episode since 2014, but that doesn’t mean Jeff Daniels has entirely exorcised the spirit of Will McAvoy, the blustery but sometimes insightful anchor he played on the controversial Aaron Sorkin show. In a new video posted to Bloomberg Politics’ YouTube channel, Daniels becomes more or less possessed by the spirit of McAvoy for about two minutes while talking about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton with MSNBC’s John Heilemann and Mark Halperin on the set of With All Due Respect. A simple question is posed to Daniels: Why is Trump the best-case scenario for Clinton in the fall election? He tries to dodge the issue with a glib, jokey answer, but the hosts demand an honest, thoughtful response. And then, in true Newsroom fashion, Daniels launches into a very convincing McAvoy monologue, prompted by a simple prompt (“He’s not.”) from off-camera.