In an interview with actor John Krasinski about his role in the new movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, co-host Lara Spencer fretted over the political impact of the film set to be released on January 15: “Do you feel like this movie will re-open the wound, the debate of what happened in Benghazi?”

Krasinski replied: “I don't know if there is an debate. I mean, I think searching for the truth is always something that's really important.”

At the top of the exchange, Spencer observed: “Of course, based on a true story, 2012. There had to have been some internal pressure for you to get this right.” Kransinski explained:

Oh, 100%. I think there was pressure on everybody, certainly the actors. And I will give a ton of credit to Michael Bay, from the moment he decided to do this he wanted to get it right. From, you know, obviously it’s based on a book about the true story and I think a lot of people don't know about the true story. I think people think they know about Benghazi....I think there's so much focus on the situation politically that this was an opportunity for everybody to hear the human story of what happened that night, which is six heroes went in to attempt to save Ambassador Stevens and ended up saving so many American lives that night.

Spencer managed to conduct the interview without mentioning the Obama administration’s poor response to the terrorist attack or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in that response.

Here is a full transcript of the January 5 exchange: