Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times in Obama's 'Final Year'

“The Final Year,” director Greg Barker’s documentary about a year in the life of the Obama administration’s foreign policy team, opens this Friday in theaters. For this week’s Political Theater podcast, the filmmaker and President Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes recount the story they tell through a human lens. “I wanted to give a sense that these complicated policy issues are, in fact, being grappled with and decided on by ordinary people,” Barker says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices