>>> as we mentioned, george clooney had a full week. wednesday he testified before congress, then attended a state dinner at the white house . thursday he met with the president again. today he got arrested at the embassy of sudan during a planned protest against the conflict in darfur. nbc's andrea mitchell covered the protest and has never really believed in covering a story at arm's distance. today she got a whole lot closer than that. as she reports tonight, it's all an effort to do exactly what it did, focus attention on atrocities taking place overseas.
>> reporter: he is using his celebrity to sound the alarm, trying to arouse the world to stop atrocities by the leader of sudan .
>> we are not talking about military intervention. not talking about money. we are talking about political wills. work on the sanctions, freeze this man's money so he can't buy weapons.
>> reporter: time is short. in weeks the rains will start. urgently needed aid won't get to a half million starving people. desperate times call for desperate measures . today the actor and his father nick clooney , along with civil rights leaders and four members of congress, deliberately stepped on to the walkway in front of sudan 's embassy and were immediately arrested.
>> andrea, it's actually a humiliating thing to be arrested, but i'm proud to be standing with my father.
>> very odd place to be for a newsman. now i'm an advocate.
>> what my father and his team experienced.
>> reporter: clooney is best known in the world of red carpets and paparazzi, but equally at home in darfur. first bringing his father in 2006 . traveling with ann curry two years ago. hoping to dramatize a crisis a world away from hollywood. as he told brian williams on "rock center."
>> i'd like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me. that seems fair.
>> reporter: using his access to the powerful to stop a murderous regime to the white house to the calls of congress.
>> she's are war crimes .
>> reporter: george:00ly arrived in washington by train with a police escort and ended in handcuffs.
>> not allowed to hang out at the sudanese embassy.
>> i didn't know that, did you?
>> reporter: a man with a light touch and serious purpose.
>> it's worth a criminal record . it is.
>> reporter: tonight, sudan 's government said clooney put on a show that could earn him another golden globe . the actor did what he set out to do. got us talking about the horrors of sudan . andrea mitchell , nbc news, washington.
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