effort to assassinate george h.w. bush. right now it is a one-off. the question is whether the administration has the appetite to try to gain leverage out of this strike. they could seek to stick to the narrow issue of chemical weapons in the message to assad is essentially, you are continuing to prosecute this war, if you use chemical weapons, we will take a whack at you, if you don't we will conduct the policy they had a week ago, or this could be a game changer. i have my doubts on whether president trump has done a complete reversal of the policy articulated a week ago, but we'll see. charlie: the secretary of state said it was up to the syrian people to choose their leader. derek: that's true. but ambassador haley said something more akin to regime change. actually, president trump, in his statement to the american people last thursday night said sort of both in his statement. he hasn't been pressed on this. this is open for debate. charlie: do you get the sense this is driven by general mattis and h.r. mcmaster? robert: i don't. i think it is driven by the president who w

connecting. as george tenet once told me the definition of an extra analyst is somebody who looks at the other guy's shoes in the elevator. charlie: brennan wants to bring them together more. is that a good idea? philip: in the history of the agency, typically you had people collecting information and people analyzing information in separate faces. the iranian nuclear program, the people who are collecting are sometimes in another building. there is a simple thought. if you have knowledge of a problem, why don't you all sit together? there is a problem with that managerially. this is incredibly boring. it is called matrix management. if you have somebody managing all the stuff in iran, and the people connecting information -- on the side, you have somebody trying to manage that analyst, parachuting in, telling that manager, that guy working on the project needs different experiences to grow as an officer over 20 years. the line manager is going to say, i have a real world problem i am going to solve. matrix management is tough. you want everybody with experience sitting in one place. mor

for political affairs under george w. bush. i'm pleased to have both of them back on this program. nick, you said this was a remarkable day in the foreign policy history of a president. nicolas: it could be, charlie. donald trump is so predictable. rex tillerson went to moscow and said we're at the lowest point with russia in memory. donald trump a back that up. and they really took it to the russians and were extremely critical of what the russians had been doing in syria. rex tillerson brought it back, rightly to ukraine and crimea. tillerson ofto that russian interference in our election was a problem. that is progress. this relationship is at a low point in the russians are trying to undercut the united states. i also thought it was interesting to see, donald trump, who for 18 months has been railing against nato saying it's obsolete and you'll forgive me, i'm a former ambassador to nato, and today donald trump is said nato is no longer obsolete. he said nato used to not be fighting terrorism and now they are. nato wasn't spending enough and now they're on track to spend more.

affairs under george bush. i'm pleased to have both of them back on this program. nick, you said this was a remarkable day in the foreign policy history of a president. nicolas: it could be, charlie. donald trump is so unpredictable but rex tillerson went to moscow and said we're at the lot ehlo -- lowest points we've been with russia in recent memory. they took the to the rush and were extremely critical of what the russians have been doing in syria. and rex tillerson brought it back rightly to crime yafment he said russian interference in our election was a problem. i also thought it have interesting to see donald trump, who for 1 months has been railing against nato saying it's obsolete and you'll forgive me, i'm a former ambassador to nato and today he said nato is no longer obsolete. he said nato used to not be fighting terrorism and now they are. nato wasn't spending enough and now they're on track to spend more. he tried to put a positive gloss on these issues woo where herself been extremely criminal -- critical. and we may be seeing a repositioning of the position. commearl:

as the wilderness years. after he was fired from apple and he created and bought pixar from george lucas, and started next, which never became a big thing. what did he learn? why was that time important in shaping the man that came back to apple? brent: both of those ventures were really important to him. in the case of both of them initially, it was the school of hard knocks. because they couldn't quite get traction. so he learned a lot from skinning his knee. so to speak. but each one was very different. the next computer, he rushed into it and overshot, thinking he could take the formula that worked for him building the macintosh, and create a whole new class of computing called the scholar-workstation and build a huge business out of that. what he didn't take into account was that there were multiple companies already making things like that. they would not have been as beautiful as it is, but they were cheaper and they were just as high performance. he was not operating in a vacuum. steve always did really well in in open field. but he did not do well when he had to block and

in what they were doing. >> is it any different for people around hillary? or around george bush? or the people around the clinton? >> i don't know. >> you think you are that different? >> i don't think were that different. i think this is the first campaign -- and what it attracted was so different and authentic -- it was just, even if we had lost, it would have been a pleasure. >> do you wish there was no term limit? >> no. there should be term limits. >> two terms is enough. >> if you can get it done in two terms, you are probably ready to go. >> you get tired doing this? >> yes. >> how many e-mails or texts you get a day? >> i probably get a couple hundred. >> do you answer everyone? >> i try to respond to everyone. >> that is a nice reputation to have. that you care. >> it is paid forward from pete rouse, who had the same philosophy. even if the answer is no, always respond. >> someone said to me, who is a former aide to johnson, the last thing he did every night was make sure he returned every phone call. returned every phone call before he went to bed. >> they were so lucky to

. director terry george is one of the first feature films to depict the genocide. here is the trailer for "the promise." >> thank you. [shouting] ♪ >> the world is at your feet. >> you're going to become a doctor. >> yes, it is my passion. >> i am with the associated press. >> a toast to old friends and new. >> bravo. >> [applause] >> she is a fine woman. >> you make me feel like i have come home. >> she was very fond of you, it is obvious. >> it is very dangerous for armenians right now. i want to get you out of here. >> if it is not safe for me, it is not safe for any of my people. >> what is the associated press doing here? >> reporting on the war. >> there is no war here. ♪ >> no one here is safe. >> i have to get us out of here. before there is no time left. >> i was told to organize an escape route. how can i help? ♪ >> dear love. ♪ >> chris? ♪ >> we will build a future together. charlie: joining me now is the film's writer and director, terry george as well as three of its stars, christian bale, oscar isaac, and angela sarafyan. i'm pleased to have them here a

together. joining me now is the film's writer and director, terry george as well as three of its stars, christian they'll, oscar isaac -- i'm pleased to have them here at his table. this is historical. tell us what happened and why there is so much controversy, and why there has not been a film. terry: the background to the genocide result is that when the first war broke out, the turkish government, the ottoman empire government made a decision to eliminate the armenian population. war used the cover of a between the turks and the russians in the northern border to say to the armenians had risen up, and they had to be moved out of that war zone. what happened is that the bulk of the population around the ottoman empire were walked into the desert and massacred in ffs, drownedds, cli at sea. this was not the first genocide of the 20th century, but a key moment in these catastrophes in that the word itself genocide came from this event. charlie: why has the united states refused to clearly call it a genocide? terry: the fact that it hasn't been covered by film. the reason why are

which took a lot of the jazz away from george h.w. bush. the fact that perot turned out to be crazy did not hurt, either. [laughter] he made a very interesting vice president to pick, his clone, al gore, a moderate southerner. people did not do that kind of thing. i can tell you there was all of a sudden a lot of energy, and hillary clinton can do the exact same thing. lisa: she is certainly going to be considered. the numbers also bring us back to why you are this outpouring of frustration from berg than after new york about bernie sanders. there is a lot of overlap between the critique of hillary clinton and the donald trump critique of hillary clinton. they are talking about a live the same things. clinton's campaign is concerned with how that dovetails into the general election. al: how would you run against hillary clinton, and how does she present herself as any sort of agent for change? running trump's campaign, which i am not, i would make it about strong leadership. she plays it safe. he has got to do something different. the difference in this campaign, we are going to hav

difference. in general, if you look at what obama did, you compare it with george bush at the end of the cold war, you have a sense that somebody tried to navigate through it. and whether you can blame so much on obama and so much on reality is all the different players in that region do not protect the america that is guiding these. [speaking simultaneously] >> the timing of the pivot to asia is problematic, throwing that under the bus -- ian bremmer: is it good money after bad? the region is in turmoil from its own internal screw ups, and we cannot fix it from the outside. >> obama is trying to bank the fires. jane harman: i don't think cauterized is an adequate strategy. partnering with the region and world to find a new act for a very fragile government and the use of bold, where -- a youth bulge, jobs are harder to get, oil is no longer the standard, we need to protect this. all of this metastasized terror. the pivot to asia was not his purpose. it was like moving off the middle east. i do think making an investment, and economic investment in asia, which is what tpp is suppo

compare it with george bush at the end of the cold war, you have a sense that somebody tried to navigate through it. the reality, whether you can blame so much on obama and so much on reality is all the different players in that region do not detect the kind of america that is guiding these. [speaking simultaneously] >> the timing of the pivot to asia, the announcement of a pivot to asia is problematic throwing that under the bus -- , ian bremmer: is it good money after bad? d brokee iraq, asaa syria. the region is in turmoil from its own internal screw ups, and we cannot fix it from the outside. >obama is trying to cauterize te problem, bank the fires. jane harman: i don't think cauterize is an adequate strategy. partnering with the region and world to find a new act for a very fragile government and a youth bulge, jobs are harder to get, oil is no longer the gold standard for the region, something we need to invest in. all of this metastasized terror. if we do not watch it, and we have been a target and we are going to be the next target. the pivot to asia was not his word, it was reba

want to unseat him. >> it's always about the cia. >> george soros, the pope. he sees lots of enemies out there. since the orange revolution in ukraine in 2004 when the pro-russian candidate was defeated by a pro-western candidate, putin has argued that american policy is designed to dictate who rules in what country. he is convinced that the american effort is to show him the door. >> he believes that? when you say russians, who are we talking about? people in the government that you would know because you have been a scholar and a government official? >> all kinds of russians in and out of government. >> they say that is his mindset about america. his first response to the demonstrations in ukraine in kiev, his first response was it was the cia. brennan goes over and they go crazy. see? we told you. >> this is a very strong conviction on putin's part about the meddling of the west. it does not seem to be possible to dissuade him. containing him might turn out to be more constructive. >> let's talk about the book. why the title? maximalst. >> my argument is that american policy for a

advisor to mitt romney and paul ryan and , in the office of george w. bush. and philip bump is a correspondent for "the washington post." i am pleased to have all of them here. , how do you go about an assessment of this president after 100 days? hugh: you have to use the old nixon yellow pad, the good and the bad. it has been the best of times and the worst of times. neil gorsuch is a 30 year with, -- win, maybe a 40 year win. a significant win, and a huge free exercise for the court. there will be many more decisions where justice gorsuch will be on the side of the originalists. it is impossible to overstate how they got that win. on the other hand, the loss of the obamacare repeal is devastating to the idea the -- they could do something if they had all three branches of government. they haven't. that's a major drawback. there are also 20 circuit court judges that are vacant for which only one nominee has been put forward. there are 13 congressional review statutes which have long-lasting, deep implications for the rollback of the federal administrative state. it's a 50-50 per

as he gets intelligence briefings as a candidate for president, he will realize, as george w. bush and barack obama could tell him, these things do not go very quickly. charlie: michael, what did you think of the speech? michael: i think the fact of the speech is interesting. he does not give policy speeches. this is the second time he has given a real speech of substance that was planned ahead as a presentation of an agenda. i thought he looked a little uncomfortable in the role of a policy pronouncer. noticed that his mouth was really dry and he was stumbling over some of the words. but when it got around to delivering the message, there were a number of, you could diplomatically call them, paradoxes. we are going to get out of the business of nationbuilding, but we are going to build a stronger, safer world. those two things are somewhat related, as we have found over the past years and decades. he argued there are too many weapons in the world, then he later said i want to develop some newer weapons. he talked about the need to be unpredictable, while arguing that he was going

harder to george -- to judge. it was a more enthusiastic room. he is not a great orator. when it came to his oratorical athleticism, his ability to command the stage he was not as potent. he is trying to show he is a big time operator. he has an organization and place in iowa welcome in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, other places that demonstrates organizational muscle. inherited from his father, not entirely, but that is a different kind of strength. charlie: is that what this is about? the republicans on the right tea party want to see someone early on clear the field so they can go against hillary because they think the establishment has each time won the nomination and each time lost the general election. john: there is no doubt the anti-establishment part of the party does not want to see the establishment part win. mark suggested they want to show they are the ascending part of the book and party and another establishment nominee will not win against hillary clinton. i don't think anybody has any assumption there is going to be a clearing of the field until we get to iowa. th

. bill clinton never mentioned george w. bush at his convention in 2000. charley: i think that speaks to who trump is. what they did is used his words against him. >> and what i thought was interesting, explicitly with the speech by hillary clinton, but also in obama's speech, this is not a republican. you had hillary clinton invoking morning in america. you had obama invoking city on the hill. john: two republicans made comments that were to the point. one was janet goldberg, who said that the democratic convention was about democrats loving america and the republican convention was about republicans loving trump. it does get to the thing i mentioned before, which we will get to. second was the democratic chairman, who said it was the best convention he had ever been to. the left party, hillary clinton, there was nothing where hillary clinton challenged democratic orthodoxy. it is a much more progressive party. megan: the democrats are trying to urge a seachange in politics and trying to woo republicans who are not enthralled by trump and do not believe he represents their values or

," dexter filkins and george packer. i am pleased to have both of them here at this table. dexter, what is the risk, here? >> i guess it depends on where you stand. i think the white house sees the risk as getting pulled in to something that they can't get out of. that is why last night the president spent most of his discussion saying, this is a very limited action, it will not go on forever. we are not getting into another war. i guess that is the danger. i think the real danger is something larger than that. it is what the president is facing, which is isis, this growing, metastasizing, very strong and virulent group now spanning two countries, occupying space wherever they go. they're disciplined, good at what they do. at some point we have to deal with that, if only because there are hundreds of fighters who have american and european passports and they're going to be coming home someday. >> they also have money and weapons. >> yeah, when they went into mozul they looted the bank. they got tens of millions of dollars, i most accounts. by most accounts. they got all the american milita

just about the relationship tween ben and george, fred and me. it's about love and its various generations and stages. it makes us feel so good that we've made a very real and simple film about older people that you just don't see very often. you certainly don't see a film about an older gay relationship. you don't see many about an older strait relationship. it's about these combinations, the long history of a long relationship. what it is that keeps us cemented together and spite of all your occasions, disagreements, discord. >> i guess you find it is all the same thing regardless of it's a gay or heterosexual relationship, young or old. it's always the same things that both provide inspiration as well as risk. >> fred and i both have long marriages, both over 30 years. for both of us, that's the strongest reference point to creating this relationship. i'm very proud of the film. also we are artists. fred plays a music teacher and i play the painter. a good enough answer but not a great painter--a good enough painter. his head is in the clouds. it's a lovely portrait of an ar

before. with mcgovern it was, we are with george, but then there would always be somewhere else when george showed up. these people are being far more public about it. kasich and ors like charlie baker, rick snyder of michigan, or senators with susan collins and jeff blake. it's really quite unique. charlie: thank you for joining us. back in a moment. stay with us. charlie: tell me about the man you know now, donald trump. >> they are not much different. to be honest. donald trump was clearly having a good time and there are nights where he is still clearly having a good time. he shoots from the hip as he did from day one and as he's doing now. he's become more of a politician in some senses. we see him reading from a teleprompter. we see moments where he refuses to engage. he is still run by his natural instinct, which is to say whatever he is thinking. he likes to entertain. the first time i saw him at a rally was a backyard private home, with people standing around a pool, and he was saying many of the same things he says now in front of these crowds. at that rally, he called me o

see that letter from george stevens, i said he is inviting us to come to the honors. i said we'll have to decide as we get closer. he said, no, he wants to honor you. said, no, he doesn't. they give certain people the mark twain and give other people the kennedy honors. and i never want to win those big tickets. charlie: why not? guest: i'm not that old. charlie: they're not that old. charlie: do you feel better? guest: i feel better. charlie: no question that you deserved it. you didn't say, well, look at what i have done that i don't deserve to be here on stage with these people? guest: i did want to trade seats with tom hanks because i wanted to sit next to obama. charlie: would you have given him a piece of your mind? guest: no. he has enough of people's minds. charlie: is feminism part of this? guest: no question. i think if you happen to be male, you better -- you are going to run across a few women in your lifetime. i went to all-boys' schools which is not a hotbed of feminism and have come a long way. and it was exciting. and this is how the story panned out and sam elliot

see a cold-blooded killer. george bush said he looked into his eyes and saw something else. he also was in the situation room with you when president obama and president bush -- president bush made hard decisions. then later under president obama, when he was secretary of defense as well, hillary clinton was secretary of state. he's -- he said about putin, he is playing a bad hand well. do you agree with that? mike: yes. he has an incredibly weak economy. the prognosis for that economy is bad to worse in terms of what is happening to their demographics. he has over invested in oil and gas. he does have a weak hand. but the things he wants, is russia's secret the table, russia is as a great power, constraining the united states and trying to do things around the world. himself so being seen as a major power. he is playing a weak hand pretty well. interestingly, in playing that hand he is weakening his hand down the road. charlie: korean airbase open to russia. moscow's footprint expands in the middle east. iranian airbases. these planes no longer have to fly from russia -- meaning th

you -- the book suffered under the illusion that baseball is supposed to be more about george patton and john wayne who were two of merle's idols, than about bryce harper and mike trout. baseball today. more about john wayne and george patton or more about bryce harper and mike trout? >> bryce harper and mike trout no doubt about it. one of the reasons? ask bryce harper about the history of the game and he can tell you a lot of things. he is very fluent. >> he studied ted williams' batting habits even. those guys, the trouts and the harpers we may not read about them as much and the trey turners our new phenom i have to say in washington but they engage in that kind of discipline and hard work and that old fashioned working, taking 500 swings and everything didn't they? i mean, that's not naive and old fashioned. that's still current. >> that's still hard work. you can argue they work out even harder than some of the other players because they know that is the way you separate yourself. >> how do you think the game has changed? how is it different from even when ozzie smith came up?

am a george herbert walker bush republican. a realist who believes in institutions. i do not like talking about it, we should be it rather than talk about it, be someone others want to emulate and work with. charlie rose: if you take that, the democrats one after another grasp america,ot they were attacking essentially his appreciation of what the history and constitution of america. richard: what i think you have is one candidate, hillary clinton, who was operating within the 40 yard lines of foreign policy, the post-world war ii consensus, and donald trump is not. he is the first major party candidate that is working far beyond. i think it's connected to foreign policy. if you look at his views on immigration and other issues, they are not part of the traditional governing consensus. in maize it may be reflects, 70% of america thinks we're headed in the wrong direction, he is clearly tapping into that. charlie rose: they believe we are in the wrong track. they believe that obama is now experiencing a rise in his ratings. so as the wrong track has risen, president obama's popular

i am a george herbert walker bush republican. a realist who believes in institutions. i like talking about it. it is the kind of thing that creates on the rest of the world. we should be in rather than talk about it. we should be who others want to work with. that,e rose: if you take they say they don't grasp america. they were attacking his of the history and constitution of america. richard: you have one candidate hillary clinton who is operating within the 40 yard lines of foreign policy and donald trump is not. he is the first major party candidate that is working far beyond. i think it's connected to foreign policy. if you look at his visa and they are not part of the traditional governing consensus. and 70% of america thinks we're headed in the wrong direction, he is clearly tapping into that. charlie rose: they believe we are in the wrong track. obama is nowthat experiencing a rise in his ratings. as part of the dilemma for hillary clinton. .ou want to argue continuity then easy 70% of americans say we are on the wrong track. that isrose: continuity, not change. richar

about people on the worksite, that is a very common message from george wallace. the feeling about america being off track because the elite let it there, that is the same message. the feeling that the candidate is saying what he believes, and we have run into a society where nobody says what they believe, and people suffer because nobody speaks up. this candidate is doing it because he shares the irritation with, and you can fill in the blank. when you talk about law and order, nixon's phrases stealing from wallace, who had beaten him online order in the beginning of 1968 -- charlie: finding relevance not only in the south but also chicago. john: with humphrey, it is fascinating, you look at what humphrey did to block wallace with blue-collar voters. you said you think he is for the working man? look at his record in alabama, thousands of dollars less. he had been a union buster, which is what clinton is doing with trump. you think he is for you, look at how he treated his workers. charlie: but is what she has to do, go to his face and make inroads. she may very well be able to. h

countries were disappointing. >> there you go. >> it goes on where they are suggesting george herbert walker bush tell the u.n. we are not giving an ambassador. we are just going to sit and not vote. we will not officially pull out but not partake. >> what do you think of this new poll that suggests president obama is the worst president since president nixon? >> in the long game of history, you will see president obama ranked higher than nixon. presidents get an upward revision. george 41 is going up. nixon is toward the bottom because of watergate, obstruction of justice, abuse of power. the racial slurs. talking about people, that they are dirt. it is very hard in a sound bite america to float very high. obama had a fine personal life. you will see obama being a historic first. he will not be by james buchanan or richard nixon. >> of all the people you have written about, who do you admire the most? >> theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. they put public service first. they cared about the country. tr was more conservative. their pragmatism and love of the land. both tr and f

world. george: during the lead up to the war, and certainly in the beginnings of the war, you could argue some of the best news was coming out of that comedy show. they were actually bringing up issues that weren't being talked about in other places. charlie: are they only getting their news from jon? george: that's not jon's fault. that's saying there's a lack somewhere else of real information. stephen: i know something about his politics in terms of i know something about comedians' politics. they tend to be iconoclasts and they tend to be anti-status quo and a lot of comedies about tearing down status or status shifts. jon is admirably balanced, however people may characterize him. every time i ever worked with him on something, he tried to perceive what was the true intention of person speaking left or right, whether or not it was something he agreed with because he wanted to be able to honestly mock. >> i think he is one of the most important voices in information in this country just because he delivers it with a comedic point of view, does not diminish its importance. john:

remember george wallace. charlie: you think, if comic he begins to lose the republican primary, he would run as an independent? ed: i don't think he wants to lose. he could have a big impact on the race and cost the republicans, but it would cost a lot of money to get onto the state ballots. i don't know if he would spend $300 million with no guarantee of doing better than 8% or 10% of the vote. that's half of what perot had. charlie: people are comparing him to george wallace? ed: it is some of the same premise. the blue-collar, left educated. they're worried about jobs and security. she understands the electorate better than washington, and to a certain extent, the problem with washington is everyone gets up and it is all about the game. in the country, people don't worry about this. they worry about their jobs and kids going to college and the irs and taxes. he has tapped into that. the more the establishment goes after him, the more he is like, "of course they are going after me, i am for you, not for them." dan: he is a vessel for blowing up the system. "who do you trust to bl