charlie: yeah. and as i turn it's like i'm in the middle of a field and i'm turning around and i see the man with the bull horn. dean: this 9-year-old child has been telling you what his life is like as a refugee. charlie: in this remote camp in the swamps of south sudan one of the only ways to deliver large amounts of humanitarian aid is by air. dean: and they're waiting. there's the plane. they've been waiting for the plane. charlie: wow. this is extraordinary. dean: it is so powerful. now watch as they rush to pick up the bags. charlie: yes. it's like i'm in the center of everything and i can just turn and see everything. you parachuted me down. there are the bags. dean: and there these kids are, all of them, there is one bag so heavy that -- charlie: wow. dean: the kid needs help. charlie: yeah. dean: it's heart breaking. charlie: and these are bags of humanitarian aid. dean: yes. food. charlie: so this is available today? or when will this be -- dean: well, hopefully everybody will keep their g

peggy: thank you, charlie. charlie: what do we have here? why the title? peggy: because it is derived from an observation. not only we are living our own lives but the life of our times. charlie: do you look for themes, looking for dividing chronologically? peggy: we thought of all different ways. this is what i decided to do. i wanted to collect the things i had written over 30 years. there is old cbs stuff. charlie: like radio scripts for dan rather. peggy: i had all of my work in big white boxes in the backs of closets and in warehouses. i got it all together and i surrendered myself and started going through everything i had written and i found that naturally it divided itself into themes and topics. i love this. i don't know about this. and, oh my god, i hate this. charlie: if you are writing for ronald reagan, you write for his voice. and if you are writing for osgood and others, you are writing in their voice. and when you write a column, you write your voice. peggy: yes. it's what writers do. it comes straight out of your head and your heart. you k

charlie: the cause? ian: he was elected on the idea that he does not want to put americans in harms way and he's a very cautious president, and i think he asks the question what after? what do you do? charlie: and his foreign policy is based on part in don't do stupid stuff. they have had some success in knocking off leaders, the finance chief, other people. if they were somehow able to buy their way in, get some intelligence operating inside and could have al-baghdadi, would that stop them? will: it would not hurt them organizationally. there are many people waiting to can prosecute a war and they are his advisers. what removing al-baghdadi can do will be removing a very powerful recruitment symbol. nobody i can think of has let a a jihadist state that has had his lineage from the prophet mohammed -- charlie: he has serious religious credentials. as a student of religion. will: he has a phd in koranic studies. he has the lineage from mohammed -- charlie: do you know anyone who has written about knowing

charlie: yes. i think there is a first breath of relief -- a first breath of letting go of one's story, and it is coming to terms with -- speaking upon what lenny said, no matter how hard she tries to get away from this , her that happened to her son will forever be, for the rest of her life, this living, growing delightful representation of that period of time and she cannot run away from it. it is inescapable. he is here. so, instead of spending -- and we watch her for 40 minutes of the movie do everything she possibly can to remove herself from that situation, move on and get away from it. she realizes, as we do, as we grow, we cannot escape our pain. we cannot ignore it, but what we can do is learn how to hold hands with it, love it, grow with it, and walked into whatever that horizon is with it. charlie: think you are great to have you here. congratulations again. think you for joining us. -- thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ ♪ john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halp

charlie: how does it work? you know what you're going to say, you have a dollar, and then you get people like david letterman? billy: as the show of all, we started out on a smaller tv network and then recently moved to trutv and tbs. as the show got more popular it developed a following among celebrities, and amongst comedians in the entertainment industry. i did david letterman, and i grew up worshiping dave. i'm not as young as i look, charlie. i would stay up after carson and watch letterman by myself. charlie: what was it about david that you loved? the antic quality? billy: it felt fresh. it still felt fresh years and years later when he had been doing it for a while here but particularly late 80's and early 90's and i was coming into my own as a person. i was connected to what he was doing. years and years, literally decades later, dave became a fan of mine, which was a huge honor for me, and joined me on the street one day. charlie: did you initiate the call? billy: i did a segment on the emmys, with se

charlie: yeah. the challenge for you, one room. lenny half the film takes place box, which by 10 presents a lot of challenges. we tend to think cinema is about wide-open spaces and fast camera movement, but what we said to ourselves, let's see if we could turn this small space into a whole world, also for the audience. we are trying to capture something of the little boys sense of the place, and therefore, the task is not to make it feel small and contained but to make it feel rich and fall and storied and a place where childhood can be acted out. charlie: that depends on the mother to a large extent. ma in the novel is so creative,l, courageous, and in a more t,tensified contest -- contex does what all parents try to do, try to create something safe, warm, stimulating for their child. patterns weniversal were looking at come and that parente way in which a is a constructor of a set of safe stories and myths, and also just a giver of love, this is that story, but it is in a very high stakes and pres

charlie: thank you for being here. nina: thank you, charlie. charlie: thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ angie: i'm angie lau in hong kong. china's consumer data waned in the fourth quarter. policy makers may need to add more stimulus. cpi rose 1.2% from a year earlier, while ppi dropped 5.9%, the 45th straight month in the red. japan's current account was in the surplus for a 15th consecutive month in september. the wiki and lifted income from overseas. the ¥1.5 trillion access was about $12 billion and was narrower than expected and assign companies are hoarding cash. the oecd cut its global forecast

charlie: to what? tom: so, it used to be that there were special networks for special kinds of video. you had the movie networks, the theaters, ok for movies. then you had the television networks. and really they never really meshed. now you have the digital world in which everything is the same in terms of being digitized and can be distributed over a common network. and that challenges everybody to evolve. and i think the television industry is evolving just like everybody else. charlie: to what? tom: to a broadband video business is one. charlie: content. tom: but i also think there is going to be a fine future for broadcast, traditional broadcast television. but i think it will also be redefined. charlie: what is that future? tom: i think continuing to provide local service. continuing to be a way that in a local market you can reach all the people at one time. but that content continues to sector markets and slice them down and that ends up being over on the internet. charlie: you call next year's

. >> charlie. >> charlie sheen today after he admitted he has hiv. did he knowingly put others at risk? >> plus, charlie's exes, the women in his life speaking out. >> it's what's coming you right now. >> on entertainment tonight. >> have you had unprotected sex since your diagnosis? >> yes. >> his ex-girlfriend took an hiv test and i'm here with the results as she goes off. >> he never said anything >> his multiple partners, are they now taking legal action? >> were you worried at all having unprotected sex with him? >> not revealing you have hiv is a serious crime. >> and what charlie's former madam is telling us today. >> then burt reynolds, our exclusive with the legend at nearly 80 as he tries to deal with chronic pain. >> you keep feeling on your leg. >> i'm in such pain now. >> and we're with blake making gwen blush. >> there's been some rumors. >> i'm not saying i di >> now in our 35th season, this is "entertainment tonight". >> charlie sheen is h.i.v.-positive. and he says the three letters have changed everything. >> the diagnosis, the shak

charlie: they say what? jon: they say he works hard, but never once anyone to know it -- wants anyone to know it. charlie: you decide this is a worthy subject. first contact with the bush people, did they say, thank god, jon meacham. we have been waiting for a man like you to show up. jon: i don't remember the pickup. there was skepticism because i had been, for a long time and newsweek. you may remember in the fall of 1987, newsweek did a cover story saying, fighting the wimp factor. he hated that. it was a long conversation about it. interestingly -- charlie: at dinner? -- us some biographical jon: based in the winters in houston -- they spend the winters in houston. i think president bush was more for it perhaps than other people. charlie: barbara? she made a condition. jon: she would not give you diaries unless you allowed her to approve cut -- quotes. i took 90 pages to her, she took nothing off of the record. presidential families go, i could not imagine a more gracious, open, and welcoming group. they

charlie: today? michael: i think he's officially retired but he did play a role in the vatican's conduct of foreign affairs. has there been any roads into this -- has his personal mission affected behavior within the church? not just the act of the priest but the act of the governing? the church was very much a clerical society under him. that tended to protect the priest, all about the priest. by getting the bishops out of their limousines -- pope francis started to change that. what is the hardest thing about making this movie? you have good actors, good coaches. [laughter] i mean, come on. tom: one, transporting people back to a time where they knew nothing about this. these reporters had no sense into what they were walking into. they were excited about the idea -- charlie: creating the sense of blindness they had. tom: how could this ever be apart of something like this, this iconic institution? they had no idea. with were so many moments characters involved all around the investigation so we ha

♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: karl rove is here. his new book is called "the triumph of william mckinley." 1896contents that the present race holds lessons for the 2016 elections. rove has said that little separates ben carson, donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz, and jeb bush. he writes the gop race is a most unprecedented in its closeness. he says nomination could still be up for grabs when the gop .onvention opens on july 18 karl: thanks for having me. charlie: do you really think this could go to the convention> karl: the rules have been changed. as a result we have 28 states that are going to vote between the very first and march 12. all but one will be proportional in nature. it's not until the ides of march that the rules allow states to be winner take all, and were grandfathered in. trump wins in at iowa, wins in new hampshire, i had significantly. and he wins in south carolina. does that put him in a unstoppable position? karl: no. take a look at iowa, take the latest poll that we have in iowa and divide the delicate up. he

charlie: it does. because in the early days of satellite television, everybody -- the incumbents said well, why would satellite tv -- why would anybody pay for a satellite dish? all right? and the answer was pretty simple -- it was better picture quality. it was all digital. it was interactive guide. it was less expensive. you got to pay a little bit more for -- the bundles were smaller so you had more choices as a consumer. the signal quality was more reliable. it was a better picture. hdtv was more prevalent with satellite. and so now people are asking the question, why would you pay for ott? and there are similarities. ott eliminates some of the pain points. we have 10 to 15 million broadband homes in the united states who don't pay for tv. all right? or as we know it. they may pay for netflix or hulu but they do not pay for tv as we know it. so we take away some of those pain points with sling tv. so you don't have a contract, you don't have equipment to buy normally. you can go on vacation and not

>> from our studios in new york, this is "charlie rose." charlie: dr. francis collins is the director of the national institutes of health. he has been described as the man who holds the most powerful job in american science. president obama tasked him with two projects, the precision medicine initiative and the brain initiative. the precision medicine initiative provides new approaches to disease treatment and prevention. it accounts for genetics, environment, and lifestyle to determine diagnosis. it aims to enroll one million volunteers. the brain initiative looks to increase understanding of the brain and their logical diseases. i am pleased to have dr. collins back at the table. welcome. dr. collins: great to be back. charlie: we have talked about many things here. tell me about these new things. i'm constantly curious about where the new is. what is precision medicine? dr. collins: it is the contrast to one sized fits all. we have been trying to make medicine precise over time with variable success but still it is the case when you go to the doctor

charlie: barbara? jon: she was great. charlie: she made a condition. she would not give you diaries unless you allowed her to approve the quotes. jon: i took 90 pages to her, she took nothing off of the record. as far as presidential families go, i could not imagine a more gracious, open, and welcoming group. they are comfortable with what they did. the 43rd president was not a big fan of this project. he said that publicly. he was skeptical of me. the case i made, it was my initiative was, this is a man who needs to be seen as his own figure. not simply as precursor. at some point king david was just king david. he was not a forerunner. i read the diaries. classic george herbert walker bush, he said read the diaries, i want to make sure you think something is there. he said to jean becker, what if he just finds an empty deck of cards? he told me two things that were heartbreaking. he said sometimes i feel i can -- like an asterisk. lost between the glory of reagan and the trials and relations of my son. the other key element i think was that he did no

charlie: how long does it take? sam: two and a half years. charlie: total? sam: 6-9 months working on the script while doing other things and then complete for two years. with the pressure on big movies to deliver, movies take longer to make these days. if you are doing something for real. it involves traveling the world, which we did. charlie: there is no smart way to ask this. are you already think about getting -- doing it again or will you do for that? it is literally one of those -- things have been said and i've said in the press. two days after i finished filming. no, of course not. [laughter] i would work with him again tomorrow. i love the family i work with on this. i've had an amazing time doing this one. but i need six months. literally just to think about something else and clear my mind. begin a debate because it becomes about something else. we have spent two years producing this movie. we are very proud of it and want as many people to see it. all people are talking about is who is going to be the next james bond. one's life is not a democrac

charlie: why is that? david: if you had the saudis or any of the other neighbors or the jordanians or others in iraq, that would give a huge boost to the shi'a militia who might see this as, again, sunni arabs trying to solidify the position inside iraq. it would certainly be an outside intervention in a way that would not be welcome. charlie: an ongoing opponent of the middle east now is sunni-shi'a, as well as saudi-iranian. david: very much so. that could be seen as an escalation of that, undoubtedly it would be, i think. so calls for that kind of activity, i think, are misplaced. beyond that, frankly, the saudis and the emirates and a number of others, bahrainis, are engaged very heavily in yemen. they need to see that through. that's yet another -- by the way, that has, of course, shi'a-sunni overtones because the huties that are being fought against the saudis are shi'a. charlie: and supported by bahrain. so the question that constantly comes up, i want you to help clarify this when the question is r

charlie: sure it does. is it easier when you think someone who sings to learn to dance or someone who dances to learn to sing? >> that is tough. i consider myself a singer who moves ok. [laughter] >> i think she is more than ok. >> i forget that he is a new york city ballet dancer. people would love to be dancing with him and i adored him through this. i forget that you are not from this world. charlie: you are an alien. >> sometimes ballet dancers feel like aliens. the ballet world is very insular. you go to work at 10:30 in the morning. you don't finish before 10:30 at night. it can feel insular and ballet is at times not relatable because it is so closed off. it is a great opportunity for the world of ballet to be exposed to broadway which is so much more mainstream than anything i have been a part of. charlie: more mainstream. what about you? >> in regards to -- well, i do think it helps. some people are born with a voice. he was born with a voice. it has gotten very strong. [laughter] some people no ma

charlie: -- planning on. charlie: when did you know, do you say this will morph right into "billy on the street"? billy: we would show those videos during my live show. it was a segment in my live show. from the first time we showed one, the audience loved it. the videos got tighter. i got more confident. strangely enough, i'm normal to shy, offstage. but people love the act. they love the energy. i think the real savvy, new york, l.a. audience, who i was the four youtube, really appreciated getting worked up about entertainment. myn the videos did well in life show, and then eventually you to get along, i put them up on youtube and they went viral, as they say. and funny or die, the website came to me. the president of production e-mailed me out of the blue one night and said, i like what you are doing. if you are ever in l.a., come to see me. i was broke and poor, no health insurance, nothing. i said to my dad, i'm not telling this guy i'm going to l.a. just to see him. i'm going to make up an excuse, but i

charlie: what did he say to you? frank: he came, he saw my house. charlie: your office. frank: he came with his wife. he saw my office and he said, i love this. -- he said, i want 10 times this. charlie: are you saying that he didn't get involved very much? he said, this is what i want? frank: this wasn't his thing. he didn't want design with a capital "d." charlie: did you ever have any contact with steve jobs? frank: a little bit. charlie: he was so pronounced in terms of what he wanted. through the close friend. norman foster was the right match for that. an absolutely perfect, object-like precision. paul: that's what he wanted. frank's work is funkier and looser. that's what facebook wanted. frank: it's the spirit of what i did for my house, which is not know, 10ilt on, you acres. charlie: with the whole roof being a garden. frank: it's a different paradigm. charlie: born in canada. thinking you would be what, wanting to do what? expecting to do what? chemical engineer, he was the only one that looked interesting. so, i thought about that and went to a chemical engin

morell: thank you, charlie. charlie: let me start with the question we have talked about, where do we stand after paris? mr. morell: paris was obviously a very significant event. i think it is a game changer, and it is a game changer in the following way -- before paris, we had a strategy which by the president's admission would take a number of years to show success. i think before paris, that was acceptable. i think the real change because of paris is that it is no longer acceptable for this to take years. we know face a time dimension that we did not face before. we can't take years because there will be further attacks in europe and possibly the united states. there is now a sense of urgency that there was not before. charlie: which has to be both defensive end offenses. mr. morell: absolutely. charlie: what is the offense of ive component? mr. morell: we have learned two key lessons in the fight against al qaeda. lesson number one, you have to take away their second. -- safe haven. safe havens provide a sec

charlie: hannah. anthony: and just realizes that, if he can save her, he can somehow possibly save himself. charlie: and why does she need saving? hannah, when we meet her, she is a woman who, i think she doesn't know how to be in this world, how to be in life anymore. she is not quite able to be here, yet she is not quite able to let go. she is tethered by something. later in the film, we discover what or who it is, more accurately. and she is someone who experienced loss and tragedy in to what ind turned think was kind of an old habit, which is the use. and i think, in an attempt to escape the pain she was feeling, it wound up creating somewhat more pain, because, ultimately, she wound up doing things that she couldn't bear to sustain her habit. and so, ultimately, she made more of a mess. charlie: and what's the relationship? jennifer: he's -- they meet because she is actually -- she has actually stolen his jacket. charlie: yeah, right. jennifer: so, he has been -- he was in prison for the night. w

coming up, charlie sheen's women. we're tal heidi fleiss, the woman who provided him with prostitutes and you'll hear if his ex-wife brook mueller. >> did you immediately call and tell her she should be checked? >> then burt reynol once faced now he is nearly 80 struggling to walk. we're with the legend selling off i had home. does he still blame his ex-wife for his money troubles? >> she liked to spend money. everything i had. >> that's next. 23467 r closed captioning provided by -- >>> charlie sheen has been married and divorced three times. of course, we all know about charlie's goddesses. we're hearing from manufacture the women in charlie's lives who are feeling the reprecushions of his hiv admission including heidi fleiss. >> i'm h.i.v.-positive. >> i heard rumors maybe a little over a year ago about it. i'm not surprised if anyone gets it. it can happen anyone. no one does it on purpose. who knows where it. and it's not even that important anymore. what's important is how he handles how he got it. >> heidi arra

charlie ergen. i'm betty liu, thanks for watching "titans at the table." ♪ ♪ >> it clearly had an impact on the way people began to think about economic policy. >> i was totally aware that a revolution was starting. >> if we did nothing else, we changed the world. howard: this is how i tasted my first cup of coffee. steve: boy, this is the first time in years. oh. [laughter] ooh. >> stand by, take three. david: knowing for sure whether it was going to work, no. but what a grand experiment.

charlie: paris was not bad. parisxactly -- charlie: was not that. paris was an organizational thing. ian: exactly. they will shoot a lot of people in a theater or a school or something like that. that frightens me. that said, my hat is off to -- excuse me, america's police and intelligence. there has been a lot of years that could happen. the opportunities have been there. and it hasn't. they have done an extraordinary job. an extraordinary job. charlie: in terms of -- ian: preventing this sort of thing. charlie: everyone says since 9/11. since 9/11, people have set up his table, 10 years ago, five years ago, last week and said, i'm surprised there has not been a major attack. we know that they have turned back attacks. it is incredible. it's amazing. operational attack like what happened in paris, all of this coordination would be very difficult. one person with a gun going and doing something in the name of the islamic state would not and the fact that that has not happened is amazing. cbs show, they said the response time in terms of the u.s. is

betty: dish network founder charlie ergen. for the first time on bloomberg television, ergen weighs in on a seismic shift taking place in television. his plans for becoming the next big wireless company and why he might looking to merge with that guy, john ledger. charlie: they have done it for testing jobs in the upstart company. betty: he faces questions about his management style. charlie: we have high expectations. betty: join me as charlie ergen dishes it out on this addition of "titans at the table." hello. welcome to "titans at the table." charlie ergen has always been something of a fearless renegade. ergen led a group in the 1980's and started dish in the next decade. in the process, he has become one of the richest men in america, worth nearly $20 billion. he stepped out of the spotlight in 2011 and handed the ceo reins to joe clinton. he is back in the hot seat. with the satellite tv business in its early days, he wants to get the forefront of this change by creating a new over the top product called sling tv and bu

this is charlie rose. charlie: gisele bundchn is the highest paid model in the world and wife of tom brady. and written a new book, it is a series of photographs. i talked with her recently about the book and that's part one. and then about her life from brazil to world wide stardom. charlie: let's talk about this book, it is a heavy book. gisele: yes. how young were you then? gisele: 17. no hair and no makeup. that's how i was -- that's a picture that shows exactly me, yeah. so that was my first -- when you go, you have to have a book. and this is my book. the first photograph that was taken by my mother. this is the actual book, the first time someone put makeup on me. but you see my face kind of like, i'm kind of wondering and i don't know what's ahead. charlie: there is your dog. gisele: that was my partner in crime. and a lot of crazy emotions and things happening in life and you feel alone. she is the one -- charlie: she's been there. gisele: she's my bodyguard. she was with my for 14 years and the b

charlie: that's amazing. as you talk about these evolutions in this fourth revolution, there's going to be a need for new governmental structure and new rules and regulation. guest: governments have bad case. ce.case -- pa they need to become agile. they need to go in the direction , legislation. --have to have a corporation cooperation with government agencies and parliaments and the business community to bring these norms and legislation to the latest levels of technological development. charlie: you have set the fourth revolution is different from the previous ones. speed. guest: just look how long it er. that's one. charlie: it's a disruptive technology. guest: it's disruptive. revolution is not new products, it's a systems revolution. charlie: exactly. the ecosystem changes. the second reason is it's not related to one area. guest: you have a combination. research would not be insible without the progress the information technology. charlie: you already mentioned beyond speed, it's not about a single pro

charlie: 10,000, 15,000? mr. mcraven: when you look back on the estimates done years ago, anywhere from 10-20,000. i am not sure what the lay of the land looks now in terms of how we have that relationship. we need to continue to staying gauged in afghanistan for the foreseeable future. if we don't the effort we put into it may go the way of iraq. the administration recognizes that and i appreciate the fact that -- charlie: you have heard this before. we cannot fight their war. mr. mcraven: i understand that. but we can't turn a blind eye to the fact that their war is also part of our war. if we allow the taliban to come back in afghanistan -- charlie: they are back. mr. mcraven: they never left. parts of the never left. if you can keep the pressure on the taliban and and the level of al qaeda that remains you don't give them an opportunity to use that as a safe haven to continue to conduct strikes. you do that by applying pressure. does that mean this war will be over in a year, in five years? probably not. this

charlie: tell me about isis. are we looking at the beginnings of the execution of a more global strategy? >> from the very beginning, they have had two strategies. they have had the domestic one which has been superimposed. two countries -- syria and iraq -- artificially created after world war i. the main aspects of the propaganda, you saw them smashing the berms that designated the boundary between those states. they say it is established. the main plank of that strategy is what they call remaining and expanding. michael: massive immigration from america, from great britain, france, the region in the middle east, must come and emigrate to the caliphate. they must have babies, bonds, young child soldiers. women should come and breed. the second part is the foreign expeditionary part. they can see themselves as a state. we like to say they had nothing to do with statehood. charlie: they were not a state and simply a force. el: i just got back from turkey where i interviewed a defector from isis, a state security

charlie: it does. back in the early days, people wanted to pay the premium for the satellite dish, and the bundles were smaller, the view was better, and the signal quality was more reliable, it was a better picture, and so now people are asking the question, why would you pay for ott and the similarities? ott is in so many homes and they don't pay for television as we know it. they pay for netflix and we take away some of those pain points with ott. you don't have to sign a contract, you don't have equipment to buy it normally. you can go on vacation and not pay for of subscription or to put it on hold for a month. it is immediate. you can watch the nba finals tonight and you don't have to wait for an installer. betty: you don't have to wait out of work and wait for the cable guy. charlie: we have several many packs that you can add onto if you want to, including showtime and hbo, so it attracts a lot of people, particularly younger people who are not wanting to pay for more television today. we have

prayers for charlie and his family. and lady gaga wrote, an opportunity for people all over the world to learn about modern hiv prevention. >> while there is another major layer to this story, charlie's women, his ex-wife, ex-girlfriend ands reacting to charlie admitting he has hiv. you're going to hear from them coming up. >> blake shelton and gwen stefani put romance on full display "the voice." we spoke to blake minutes before the show >> there are rumors that you rode together. >> i'm not saying that i wrote a song with gwen. but i'm not saying i didn't. ooh. controversy. one thing we know for sure, this romance is officially taking center stage, check out gwen running into blake's arms before last night's taping. feelings heated up after she sang her version of "hot >> that is also big. even i have heard it. >> wow. that's shocking. >> gwen sang it to me on "the tonight show >> definitely better than the version that we did on fallon. >> they're getting comfortable together but blake is still mr. modesty when it co

my eye charlie. give me a sense of what we can do that what we know about the attack that place harris. the operation as you know is ongoing early this morning. the french undertook as i understand it in operation in paris to go after those. league we are in the are in constant communication area i've been in touch with the burlesque days with counterparts in paris. the french are going after the waters vigorous the we are working very closely with them area flex the one everyone is talking about, the ringleader. has it been confirmed that he was there? >> i will let the in.ch into the specifics we do not have any confirmation. quite certainly that's what the french investigators in the french counterterrorism professionals are very focused on. it is a we are also working with on. this investigation of old. they certainly are not retreating friday. they will be vigilant as we are against the attempt. like you are the first person in the white house to advise the and on the issues. what you learn what

charlie: joining me on the phone from iraq, embedded with the curd troops in the fight against isis. tell me what you have seen and heard today. what is the future of this fight? >> all day long what we have seen mostly are these tremendous themrikes, dozens of striking sing. we have a good vantage point over the entire city. it was relentless last night and from the dawn this morning. airstrike,fter targeting suspected isis positions inside the city itself. peshmergan to that, forces have taken a position on the mountain, where they have been firing artillery at these positions in addition to that. at the same time, we watched as thousands of peshmerga forces moved into the city itself. they were in every vehicle you can imagine. there were people in the back of pickup trucks with machine guns. civilians, volunteers were charging to the front lines to take on isis. they have been fighting all day, small arms fire, machine gun fire. it is long after dark year. charlie: how long will it take th

charlie: thank you so much. charlie on the ground in iraq. we will be right back. ♪ charlie: turning to politics and the 2016 campaign, it is a big week for debate. republican candidates met on tuesday, while democrats face off saturday. joining me is the chief white house correspondent for cbs news, and i pleased to have him on this program. we take a look every weekend where the election campaign is. let's begin with the democrats. tell me about trends, issues, and changing poll numbers. >> the trends are in hillary clinton's favor. the debate coming up will be a pivotal moment in deciding whether this race is effectively over for democrats, or if there is another act that needs to play out. it will be crucial for bernie sanders. hillary clinton leads nationally, i had in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. is this race over? bernie sanders will have to tell those watching the debate and democratic activist there is a reason to keep their minds open, that they're all to be an alternative to hillary clinton. martin o'malley will make

announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: tom wheeler is here. chairman of the federal communications commission. treatw regulations internet service as a public utility. the commission has been active in reviewing media and telecommunications mergers. at&t'soved a anti- -- takeover of directv. next year they were holding auction to coordinate the sale of television airwaves. it seems like i have known him for 100 years. pleasure to have you. we have had your favorite ohio state coach here the other day. "the" ohio state university. my impression was they have no bigger or stronger fan than you . tom: that is a true statement. charlie: used to work with woody hayes. tom: in graduate school i had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with the coach. and talk about military history and all the things he taught there. and three yards and a cloud of dust. tom: three things can happen in two of them are bad. charlie: so, what can happen to the fcc/ ? are sitting at an exciting time in history. if you stop and think about it, the most important external t