Things got unsurprisingly political in Venice on Friday as Seymour Hersh talked about the “existential crisis” facing America right now.

Hersh, a celebrated American political writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, features in Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Lido-bound project Cover-Up , the out of competition political thriller that traces Hersh’s explosive career, including his work exposing the 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war. “ Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence,” the Venice Film Festival said, “revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.”

Things got unsurprisingly political in Venice on Friday as Seymour Hersh talked about the “existential crisis” facing

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