look at some of the criticism angles at president obama's leadership. david, let me begin with you. you say the obama policy is being put to a test in ukraine and in crimea. what is the policy and what is the test? >> charlie, if you think about the first term in the obama administration he deliberately moved to a light footprint strategy. we've talked about it before on this show. the theory was that the era of sending 100,000 troops or 150,000 troops to a country for six of seven years to do nationbuilding had to end. the light footprint was about using drones which he has used far more than president bush, using cyber in cases like iran, using special forces to do a quick in and out. then he uses the treasury department as his favorite non-combatant command and that was very successful in bringing iranians to the table. we don't know whether or not that's going to work. the light footprint, as one of president obama's advisor said to me, has run out of gas. dealing with problems like assad or vladimir putin going in to a sovereign state and taking over crimea, threatening the re

military radar is the one that's giving us the altitude data. so even though it was at the very limit of its capability, the fact that we're seeing huge changes, they may have not been that huge, but they're still going to be significant altitude changes that would at least suggest to me that the people flying this airplane didn't know how to do it and were disoriented. >> charlie: we continue with lakhdar brahimi, special envoy toation nayto united nations anb league. >> the government thinks they are going to one and soon. >> charlie: soon. yes. they are making progress. they, are you know, pushing the opposition in many places especially around damascus and they think they are going to win soon, so they are not really, you know, in the business of making concessions. this is what we were facing in geneva. >> charlie: we conclude with veteran sports broadcaster verne lundquist. >> let your imagination roam a bit. earlier in my career, i started in austin at president johnson's television station, i was there three years and i thought, i'm not devoting my life to something serious. s

baseball" and a look at the final four. >> you're deal with guys that are extraordinary baseball players. i think we sometimes forget that because we focus on the super-stars making the multi-million-dollar contracts. the guys are 100 levels above guys like and you me. i played high school baseball. these guys are 100 levels above us. just to get to triple a, you've beaten the odds. >> rose: we conclude with a conversation of the web site impossible.com, and we talk with lily cole, jonathan zittrain, and david kirkpatrick about the internet and more. >> at this point in time it's all very normative things, peer to peer. and that's where i think hopefully the power lie lies isw we might meet needs we normally pay for. i can post out i'm getting rid of these things from my house. or i would love to borrow someone's guitar because i'm going to do a gig. or i could teach spanish or get advice on this, that, or the other. >> rose: mindy kaling, john feinstein, lily cole, jonathan zittrain, and david kirkpatrick when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in

new cold war." and from washington, a professor at columbia university and senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. i am pleased to have each of them on this program. give me a snapshot of where we are today. we just heard from the president. we had the response from russia. >> where we are today is that the administration is trying to show that the first list of measures that it announced on monday -- a few -- a rather small number of people, not particularly closely related to putin were given visa bans. today, they are trying to show they are much more serious about it. they have announced a number of measures expanding the number of individuals who are sanctioned, giving the president the authority to target sections of the russian economy, and looking forward to meetings next week in europe, when the president will be working with other members of the g7 to formulate a broader response. broadly speaking, this is a step forward in which the american government is trying to get its act together, showing it is taking the crisis seriously and is not being deflected to

figured out how to fix it." it takes a closer look at the administration's health-care website and it tells the story of the technology experts brought into rescue the site. that team included silicon valley consultants, google engineers, and the whiz kids behind obama's reelection campaign. they turned around healthcare.gov, in the process saving the president's legacy. let me begin with this question. how did you come to this story? you had already written a cover story about health care. >> people are still trying to make their way through it. >> i thought it was pretty clear. then comes the story. tell me what brought you to this story and what were you in pursuit of. >> what i decided to do over the summer -- listen, the government is about to launch the most complicated, ambitious, new program since medicare or social security. what about an inside story of how they are doing it? before launch. i started in july and august. the first round of interviews i did with people at the department of health and human services, cms, the medicare agency supposed to be in charge of the webs

says we're at the end of tech knoll, they're very embarrassed because something happens with human ingenuity to make it bet around better and i'm confident we'll do that. >> charlie: we continue with annette bening, the actress, her new film called "the face of love," co-stars with ed harris. >> even when you're an actor and you love and are trained to do what you do, there's a part of you that says, don't do this, don't give this up, don't feel this pain or whatever it is. a lot of it is working within one's self and finding a way to say, no, i want to go as deeply as i can into this idea. >> charlie: we conclude this evening with b.j. novak, the multi--talented actor/director/writer, his new book is called "one more thing," stories and other stories. >> i think, in a way, the perspective and the voice of a character is what i'm good at and what i've learned and really honed in on, is every character speaks a little differently and they would text a little differently and email a little differently and their facebook page would be a little different and knowing and respecting that

yand sincerity and a man who was a pro at presenting the timeless truths of the faith in kind of a sparkling new way. that's what we were looking for. that was the job description. we all thought, boy, that's a tall order. but i think, a year later, i think we said bingo. >> charlie: we conclude with ferran adria as one of the world's most renowned and innovative chefs. >> the hardest thing is to get up in the morning, look in the mirror and to be happy. you know... everybody wants this, of course. everybody looks for this. i have achieved this. in 30 years, i get up in the morning, very early, and i work 16 hours doing what i love. i go to sleep and i'm happy. you ask the question why? because i have passion for what i am doing, because i like challenges that i always believe i'm not going to reach, but i fight to achieve them. in the end, that's what life is, the struggle to reach a challenge. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: simon schama is here. he is an historian, a professor at columbia university

against women and girls. his new book is a call to action, women, religion, violence and power. looked at the issue and consequences. i'm pleased to have president jimmy carter back at this table, welcome. it's so good to see you. we first met during the campaign in 1976. >> long time ago. >> rose: listen to this. we can have peace in the holy land, palestine peace, the hornet's nest. you would remember the number. do you write because a you love to write. b, it's a primary source of income. c, there's so much you want to say and this is the best way to express it. >> all three. i like to write and this is my 28th book as a matter of fact. i don't have any. i'm not on any circuits or boards. >> rose: by choice. >> yes. i'm a professor at the university so i get a salary for professorship. it gives me a source of income for my family. we have a big family now and more importantly let's me address issue of this importance. and be on the charlie rose show and other shows and lectures around the world as a matter of fact. people who read my books have pretty much been best sellers. so this is

." i'm pleased to have robert kaplan at the table. >> thank you. >> let me start with the ukraine. how do you see it through the prism of the book you have written about geography? >> there is a difference between analysis and policy. analysis has to be cold-blooded. policy has to be moral. what we have seen with the speech in europe was moral inspirational leadership. here is the problem. here is where the story geography tells. ukraine is thrust so far east, and so developed by russia, the ukraine was where russia started. ukraine matters more to any russian leader than it matters to the united states, or even leaders in europe. it's president obama's job to inspire the europeans to say no, it matters to us. we die for our ideals through the 20th century. we cannot let this stand. obama knows the difficulties through his realistic analysis. now he has to inspire europe to do more because of geography. europe is meshed with the russian economy. a web work going from russia into central and western europe. countries like bulgaria, or germany, or the balkan states are dependent on russian

cia as well as outside the cia are looking at what cia officers as well as -- i defer to them to determine whether or not there was any violation of law or principle. myself to the matter the cia inspector general to make sure that he was able to look honestly and objectively at cia. when the facts come out on this, a lot of people who are claiming that air has been this tremendous spying and hacking will be proved wrong. >> joining me from washington is mark mazzetti, national security correspondent for the new york times. i'm pleased to have you on this program. this is a fascinating story for me. you have the director of the cia , the executive branch versus legislative branch. you have both of them believing that they have been abused. tell me how this story began. >> well, it began at the beginning of the obama administration when president obama in did the cia at thegation row graham senate intelligence committee decided to embark on this -- what turned out to be a year-long progress -- proverb -- project to document the history of the program. it was fraught from the begin

. >> i would say 30 hours. maybe more. books is toour know that you look at individuals and how they understand power and the forces that have shaped them. tell me about vladimir putin. >> first of all, let me say i agree with what i just heard. from secretary kerry. i think the latest move of putin is one that goes beyond accepted norms. of -- what i think is my impression of putin -- he is a man who believes that the disintegration of the soviet union was sort of a catastrophe for russia. russiawants to restore to a traditional position, which means a great power. , he realizeshand that this is a different world that one than the one studies in history books. longer very strong. it is no longer in the position to threaten all of its major neighboring countries. so he is conducting a policy in which he is both assertive and defensive at the same time. >> so he moved into crimea but then he stopped. toi don't think he intends annex crimea. he says he doesn't intend to. the basic problem -- there are a number of fundamental problems. the first problem is that no russian i have ever me

professor of lyrical science at barnard college -- political science at barnard college and a member of the faculty of columbia university. >> why did this happen now? eventss a confluence of in both russia, ukraine, and in the west. in russia, it didn't happen a few years ago because russia was in the midst of an economic crisis. they have gotten past that. even though the economy is great slowly, they feel that the worst is behind them. it is the return of vladimir putin. he took the presidency in 2012. part of his mission is that russia needed a national identity. >> until recently, the president of ukraine -- what does it happened without him being forcibly out? -- ousted? >> you are talking about the acute days of the crisis. beenis a question that has on the agenda for a long time. it is critical to the way putin thinks about russia and its role in the world and it is crucial to thinking about how russia exerts a dull. that itself. -- itself. what we have seen over the past three weeks is an improvisation. >> i want to come back to that. let's go back to mr. putin hospira marks ye

moved debris around we'll try to find literally an x on a map, and at that point we'll put robotic vehicles, perhaps, under water sonar, pinger locators will be towed through the zone, and if we get lucky, we may find the primary wreckage field, but that's far from certain, and people need to settle into, charlie, and while this is a big piece of news today, we are nowhere close finding out what happened to the airplane. >> charlie: steve, you and i talked about this before, do we have any more idea today whether this is a pilant act? >> there are a lot of defensive theories. none stand up to key questions, so nobody has the answer. what we have been given today, all we really know is the airplane went south, it's in the middle of one of the most remote parts of the world and it will be really tough to find out answers about why it's at the bottom of the ocean. >> charlie: is it because we heard the pings, then didn't hear them and we were able to locate where they were by data points is this. >> talking to boeing engineers, they knew how much fuel was on the airplane. the last pin

with geography to understand everything else. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the indian elections. we talked to milan vaishnav, sadanand dhume and jonathan shane issue and arvind panangariya. >> the last thing is seeing governments of the kind which has not done great. >> rose: is it about corruption or incompetence. >> it is both. >> rose: the power of geography and the future of the elections in india captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin today with the politics of the ukraine and the lessons of geography. president obama reaffirm his commitment to ukraine in a speech today the european union summit in brussels. he warned that continued russian aggression in the country would result in more sanctions and further isolation. >> over the last several days, the united states, europe and our partners around the world have been united in defense of these ideas. and united in support of the ukrainian people. together we've condemned russia's invasion of ukraine and rejected the legitimacy

intervene at the moment. he did not close the door and military action. >> [speaking russian] >> president obama promised consequences for russia's actions. >> from the perspective of the european union and the united they -- united states, allies like canada and japan, allies around the world, there is a strong believe that russia's actions are violating international law. i know president clinton -- present vladimir putin seems to have a different set of lawyers and different interpretations, but i do not think that is fooling anybody. everyone recognizes that although russia has which in the interest in what happens in neighboring states, that the activity right to use force as a means of exerting influence. >> john is in kiev. russia is working hard to create a pretext of being able to invade further. joining me now from phoenix, arizona is robert gates. he was the secretary of defense from 2006-2011. earlier in his career, he was known as a russian expert. thank you mr. secretary. >> sure, charlie. >> when will you lose that race? >> with any luck, in about three weeks.

. tensions have grown. on thursday the wall street journal reported investigators were looking at data which suggests the plane might have flown for hours after its last known contact. live from los angeles, california. we are pleased to have andy pazstor with us. >> good to be here. >> tell me where we are at this moment. you filed the story overnight. then you have the acting transport minister suggest it wasn't true, as far as he knew. what has happened since then? investigators seem to be suggesting that there was a period in which the plane had flown after last contact at 1:03 a.m.. >> that is correct. this is turning into almost a bad tom clancy novel. you have a malaysian investigator for a challenge. they are not overly competent. you have an aircraft that is supposed to crash into water. there is no debris. now, it seems that investigators are looking seriously at the possibility that this aircraft continue to fly for up to four hours after the last transponder reading and it disappeared off of the radar screens. this is an unprecedented set of issues and problems. i don't thi

agreement on an end state here or at least an interim end state. so it's an important leadership moment for the united states. this is europe. >> charlie: and the russians, you know the president, you saw him, i guess, last may -- >> yeah. >> charlie: -- tell me where you think his head is in this. >> well, you know, as a general matter, you know, the concept of the sphere of influence, balance of power, zero-sum games, these are very real concepts to president putin. he, you know, has set about trying to define russian foreign policy as separate from, independent from the foreign policies of the west. the principle point as a counterto the united states and the west. he sees threats to his country and his view is very much a view of russia surrounded by a set of countries that he regards mainly the former soviet republics that he regards as a russian sphere of influence to be protected and, in this case, he was dealt a big blow. he also has, as you know, charlie, this rather fanciful view that, in fact, he can put together a eurasian union that would be a counterpart to the european union.

who is on assignment. we look at the crimean -- columbia university professor kimberly matterren. >> he's not a chest master he's a judo master. it's about tactics and not about strategy. i think what's driving putin are dewey bates happening inside the halls of power in the kremlin and he's using the populous nationalism he's stirring up in russia to get support among the elite for going forward. >> we continue with two interviews charlie had recently. first up is computer scientist and former microsoft researcher jaron lanier. his new book is who owns the future. >> we made a mistake, an honest mistake about how to organize our digital network and i was part of making the mistakes. so i'm absolutely certain there was no ill intent, there was no evil conspiracy, it was an honest mistake made with tremendous purity of heart. >> rose: the mistake was. >> the mistake was if we made information open, if everybody shared their information, if we created an informal economy for the information world, that that would make the world efficient enough that it would benefit everybody in th

>> charlie: welcome to the program. with we begin with a look at the russian-american conflict over crimea talking to tom friedman and davi david sanger of the "nw york times." >> i think obama's response is measured to our interests. it's quite reelingist. i don't buy the criticism that he's manifested weakness. ronald reaken at his most angriest would not be going to war to reverse putin's intervention in ukraine, let's be honest about that. and george w. bush didn't go to war to reverse putin's intervention in georgia. >> charlie: we conclude with hattie morahan and dominic rowan starring in "a doll's house" by ibsen at the brooklyn academy of music. >> it talks about how to be honest to long-time partners, you know, how to be -- the big questions. you know, how to be true to yourself but also kind. you know, those are the difficult things about how to be a good person, but i don't think one can ignore the context in which the play was first put on and what it seems to have meant to people. >> charlie: tom friedman, david sanger, hattie morahan and dominic rowan when we continue.

controversial period. this report is going to be considered the most definitive history at least at this point. so i think that's one of the reasons the c.i.a. seems to be pushing back so hard because they know this will be the, this will be the bible for the time being about this program. and it's really about who gets to write the history. >> rose: we continue with a look at pope francis at one year. we talked to father john general sins of notre dame, father james matter im, elaine paying el and miguel diaz at the university of dayton. >> he has been an inspiring provocative wonderful presence. the question is will he been transformative. >> rose: we conclude with the great conductor now with the israeli philharmonic orchestra. >> that's not a single member of the orchestra that i have not personally engaged of course with a committee always. always with discussions and arguments. but now there are people that we have chosen together and we have played over 3,000 concerts with them. >> rose: a conversation about the conflict between the c.i.a. the senate intelligence committee, a look at po

source of income. i'm not on the lecture circuit. >> by choice. >> by choice. i'm a professor at emory university so i get a salary. but it gives me a source of income for my family. we have a big family now. it also lets me address issues of importance, and be on the "charlie rose show." and let the people read my book. this is the most important book i've written. it is a subject that is the worst affliction on society that exists on earth. it is the greatest human rights abuse i've ever known. it is largely unaddressed. women and girls are suffering in an unconscionable way that very few people know about. one example. the worst case of genocide i have known was the holocaust. 25 times that many girls have been killed by their own parents. either strangled at birth, or aborted when they find out it is going to be a girl and not a boy. this takes place in china and in india. it takes place in other countries. the result of that is that young men cannot find brides to marry. that has a contributed factor to the greatest level of slavery. $32 billion a year. the state department

that will answer most of the mysteries. not all, but most. at the bottom of the ocean. we will find the answers in the debris which is hundreds of miles away potentially from where the wreckage is. >> how important are the next two weeks? >> the batteries will run out. they can run up to 40 days. the manufacturer says they are guaranteed for 30, but they may run to 40. in the air france crash, neither pinger worked. the reason the crash went on for so long is because they did not hear the pingers. they broadened search. they didn't go back to the basics. it wasn't until they went back to the statistical analysis to understand that they found the aircraft. >> what are the things we want to know is whether they are making any kind of progress on the police head of the investigation. without the crash wreckage, the boxes, there's only so much of the new on the airplane site here. the fbi is looking at the computers ticket from the pilots homes. the flight simulator taken from the captain's home. they have continued to go through the flight manifest and checked games against known datab

. maybe more. >> rose: to read your books is to know that you look at individuals and how they understand power and the forces that have shaped them. tell me about vladimir putin. >> first of all let me say, i agree with what i just heard as secretary kerry said. and so i think the last, latest move for putin is one that goes beyond accepted norms. but what do i think about what is my impression of putin? he is a man who believes that this indicates that the soviet union was sort of a catastrophe for russia. and he thinks, he wants to restore russia to a traditional position, which means a great power. on the other hand, in my estimation, and that's nothing he said but that's what i interpret, he realizes that this is a different world situation than the one studies in history books. russia is no longer very strong. it's no longer in a position to threaten all of its major neighboring countries. and so he is conducting a policy in which he is both assertive and defensive at the same time. and that's partly produced the current situation. >> rose: he moved into crimea but then he stopped.

were people at the department of heal and human services at cnns who was in charge of the website and people at the whitehouse. a conversation started with each of these interviews maybe a dozen, who is in charge of this thing. i really didn't listen very carefully to the answers. i got back on the train going back to new york, and i'm reading my notes and i had gotten 12 different answers for who was in charge. and i got home that night and i said to my wife, i think this thing is in big trouble. >> rose: conversation about art with david zwimer one of the leading galleryists. >> i might have postponed the artist to wait a little bit. that was a cause however one has to be cautious. sometimes you go into the studio and see something radically new that you don't understand and understanding might bring a negative reaction where that breaks your body of work. i learned to tread lightly. sometimes you show a body of work you don't feel absolutely great about and the audience passes judgment and then both you and the artist. >> rose: brill and zwimer when we continue. captioning sponsore

investors to go online and look at the best startups coming out of israel and can decide which one they would like to invest starting from $10,000. so it's not, you know, the 20 bucks you spend on kick starter. someone called us kick starter for millionaires, but it's quite democratic relative to the existing venture capital ecosystem where it's a couple of guys in close room. andy pasztor, turki al faisal and jon medved when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: six days have passed since malaysian airlines flight 370 vanished on march 8. the boeing 777 was carrying 239 passengers and crew on board the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. the mysterious disappearance prompted a massive international aiair and sea search. there have been no results so far as investigations are broadening. several countries are assisting plainings authorities in their efforts including the united states, china and india. tensions have grown as china and vietnam were critical of malaysian authorities coordinating the e

. let me get with this question. where are we when we have this conversation at about 7:00 p.m. new york time? >> i am glad you put in the hour in there because it is amazing. by thery is changing hour. i'll change my personal opinion about the possibilities. this new york times story that came out was interesting because it said there were radical aptitude changes as it is altitude changes as it proceeded through the strait of them a lot though. it would lead to one partners -- what additional scenario. there are others the same it is just skin paint, a reflection of the radar energy with no transponder data associated that it is not reliable. and it was probably straight and level and these are anomalies. if the aircraft was straight and level and no out to two changes, i would favor a different scenario. what we do know is given the evidence that involved today is the airplane was under the control of somebody whether pilots or somebody in the cabin. it flew 90 degrees from the original flight path and it looks certain at this point that it is somewhere in the bottom of the india

churkin back at this table. the me how russia sees annexing of crimea. but we see it as a historic fact and day. separation,rs of crimea and russia can finally be reunified. something on the desperation of the people all the crimea all of those years. you remember crimea has been a part of russia for centuries. around 60 years ago, arbitrarily by his own decision, he transferred crimea to ukraine. at that point, there was a little grumbling. at least crimea stayed within the same continent. tried to cutople their political adopting a certain cousin to should giving them autonomy, but, kiev changed it giving power to crimea. in that situation which developed unexpectedly after the februaryh happened in as no legal authority remained in cap. and the situation where crimea felt threatened by those who ponducted this violent cou they went ahead and declared their own independence and a referendum where people voted for joining russia. russia cannot do but take up the challenge and incorporate crimea. >> what i would like to know is what else does the russian government want? do you wan

with the obvious question. what do we know at this time about flight 370? >> it is amazing. four days after the plane disappeared, we do not know where it is, and we do not know what happened to the plane. we have conflicting information and not very many facts to go with that. we haven't found the wreckage . we do not have the plane's black box. we're are working on the intel side. the u.s. intelligence agencies around the world have taken a look at the passenger manifest list. they do not see any potential ties to terror there. we have a missing airplane and we can't say whether or not it crashed because of mechanical failure or sabotage, maybe a bomb. we just do not know. >> it is unlikely some people suggest it was a bomb because there was not a scattering of wreckage. >> that is right. we have seen in past crashes, it hold in theunched a cargo. it spread debris about an 80 mile swath. here we have all of these ships scouring the gulf of thailand. we do not see one shred of debris. that tells me they are looking in the wrong place, or the plane did not, part. it hit the water in t

companies. forbes recently estimated his net worth at $18.4 billion. it makes him the richest man in japan. i am pleased to have him at the table for the first time. >> thank you very much. >> you're going to speak to the u.s. chamber of commerce this week. what are you going to tell them about the wireless revolution? >> i would say that mobile internet, the internet highway, is the most important infrastructure for the weaver century -- or the 21st century. that theres so clear is no other infrastructure that is more important for the 21st century. however, the u.s. is number 15 in the world when someone did the survey. out of 16, number 15. >> in terms of what measurement? >> speed. -- only company the u.s. daily country the u.s. beats was the philippines. >> they did not beat south korea or japan. countries, the u.s. was beaten. it is a good enough situation for the 21st century, the most important infrastructure, u.s. is lagging behind. the u.s. has been number one in infrastructure for almost everything in the 20th century. the television, almost everything. >> you believe that

, this lineup is filled with the highest level of auteurism. we look at eight films up for best picture, director, actor, and actress, screenplay, and cinematography. some contenders speak about their fellow artists. we begin with "12 years a slave," nominated for nine academy awards. it has already won bafta awards for best actor and best film. chiwetel ejiofor portrays solomon northrup, who wrote about a life of slavery. at the table was michael fassbender, who played a brutal plantation owner, and best director nominee steve mcqueen. >> at a certain point, i wanted to make a movie about slavery. to me, there was a hole in the canon of cinema about the subject. reference was not there for me. i wanted to investigate that. i wanted to find out about that in a way which was not predicting, or putting my stance on it, but investigating. solomon northrup was a man who was living in the north, who was pulled into slavery. my wife said, why don't you look at true accounts of slavery? we both did some research, and she found this out, "12 years a slave." she said, i think i have got

here, ma founder and c.e.o. andi chairman of softbank corporation. estimated his net worth at $18.4 billion, that makes him the richest man in japan. i am pleased to have him here at this table for the first time. welcome. good to have you on the program. >> thank you very much. >> charlie: you're going to speak to the u.s. chamber of commerce this week in washington. >> yes. >> charlie: what are you going to tell them about the wireless revolution? >> well, i would say that mobile internet, the internet highway is the most important infrastructure for the 21s 21st century. to me, it is so clear than any other infrastructure that's more importantÑi for 21st century. however, the u.s. is number 15 in theñr world. outÑi of 16, number 15. >> charlie: in terms of what measurement? >> speed. >> charlie: speed. yes, lte speed. so the only company they beat is the philippines. >> charlie: they didn't beat south korea or japan? >> no, no. many other countries, the u.s. was beaten. so is it good enough situation for the 21st century, the most important infrastructure, the u.s. is lagging

interim government as secretary katie -- kerry leading negotiations trying to get to an agreement at least an interim state. it is an important leadership moment for the united states. >> the russians, you know the president, you saw him last may. tell me where you think his head is in this. >> as a general matter, the concept of sphere of influence, balance of power, zero-sum games, these are very real concepts to president putin. he has set about trying to do fine russian policies separate and independent from the foreign policy of the west. he has defined it as a counterpoint to the u.s. and in west. he sees threats to his country. his view is very much a view of a russia as a surrounded by a set of countries as he regard as the former soviet republic and a russian sphere of influence to be protected. in this case, he was dealt a big blow. he had this rather fanciful view that he can put together a eurasian union and that will be a counterpart to the european union. indispensable -- it is fanciful but it is almost impossible. >> ukraine has a special place in russian history. >> t

world have taken a look at the passenger manifest list, don't see any potential ties to terror. they listen to intel chatter and don't hear claims of responsibility. we have a missing plane and don't know if it crashed because of mechanical failure, some sabotage, maybe a bomb or a combination of factors a. we don't know. >> charlie: we continue with robert wagner, talks about the golden age of hollywood in his new book called "you must remember this." >> i work with a lot of young people and they always ask me about what was it like? what was the golden era like and what was it like being in the contract system and all that. so i started to tell them. you know, i tell them, universal had 40 young people under contract and fox had 40 and columbia had 20, and every studio had a young contract player's list, and we were all anxious and eager to get into the movies and, you know, today, that's not possible. you know, that's not -- you know, you're a young actor today, you've got to go out and get an acting coach -- >> charlie: right. -- get a manager. >> charlie: we conclude this evenin

one up at the republican national convention, the people would say, down in front, it would so compel, and it was so accessible. there wasn't a need to explain it and we haven't explained it to this day. when we ask what that means, you have to achieve that through your engagement. >> what's next with ukraine and larry harvey when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >>> we begin tonight with the ongoing crisis in ukraine. tensions are high after russia and allied troops seize ukraine and military facilities in crimea. earlier this week moscow approved a treaty engage the region to join russia. thursday president obama announced further sanctions on russian officials and financial institutions. >> this is not our preferred outcome. the sanctions would not only have impact on the russian economy but disruptive to the global economy. however, russia must know further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community. >> charlie: russian authorities announced sanctionons u.s. lawmak

>> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." >> he is a historian and professor at columbia university. his most recent project is a multimedia account of jewish history. it includes the pbs documentary series and two books. here is a look at the opening of the series. >> this is a jew. and so is this. this is a jew. and this. and this. so my -- so am i. what do we have in common? skin.e color of our not the languages we speak. saying.s we -- we sing. the food we eat. not our opinions. we are a fiercely argumentative lot. not even the way we pray, assuming we do. what ties us together is a story , a story kept in our heads and hearts, a story of suffering and resilience. creativity. it is the story that made me want to be an historian in the first place. i understood when i was quite small that there were two special things about the jews that we had endured for over 3000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell. somehow, these two things were connected, that we told our story to survive. we are ou