charlie: who did he meet? >> he met wade livingston and when the revolution broke down, alexander mcdougall. these generals immediately try to recruit hamilton to their staff, but hamilton knew that postwar glory would not go to the who had written the most beautiful letters during the war but the person who was a battlefield hero. when washington asked him to be aid de camp, that was an offer he couldn't turn down. charlie: he knew that that could give him battlefield command? hime knew it could give respect, but hamilton was chafing during the revolutionary war because he would like his own command. charlie: washington needed him? >> washington needed someone more to write letters than fight battles. washington had 14 political masters, he had to answer to the continental congress, but also to 13 state governors so he had immense correspondence. hamilton was completely fluent in french, and he was not only handling the correspondence and in english but also french. charlie: as a biographer he is easy to writ

charlie: that's in your head. lin-manuel: that is what biggie did with the song and that's what i did with the dueling code. charlie: and then there's the story of going to the white house. lin-manuel: yeah. charlie: you have one song. one song. they think, wouldn't it be great if you come here and do something you've already done? i don't think you have one song -- why were you so hell-bent on this one song for a performance at the white house? lin-manuel: they said we'll be happy for you to do anything from "in the heights." if you have anything else on the american experience -- charlie: they said if you have anything else from the american experience. lin-manuel: i said i have a hot 16 bars from alexander hamilton. [laughter] if not at the white house, when? do you know what i mean? if the white house calls, when you have 16 about alexander hamilton in your back pocket. the call felt like a sign -- "i have to do this there." like when i was asked to do the lincoln center concert. the date they gave me was hami

charlie: that's in your head. lin-manuel: that is what biggie did with the song and that's what i did with the dueling code. charlie: and then there's the story of going to the white house. lin-manuel: yeah. charlie: you have one song. one song. they think, wouldn't it be great if you come here and do something you've already done? i don't think you have one song -- why were you so hell-bent on this one song for a performance at the white house? lin-manuel: they said we'll be happy for you to do anything from "in the heights." if you have anything else on the american experience -- charlie: they said if you have anything else from the american experience. lin-manuel: i said i have a hot 16 bars from alexander hamilton. [laughter] if not at the white house, when? do you know what i mean? if the white house calls, when you have 16 about alexander hamilton in your back pocket. the call felt like a sign -- "i have to do this there." like when i was asked to do the lincoln center concert. the date they gave me was hami

charlie: oh, sure. nora: and sooner rather than later, which is why it is very important to eat your last meal before it actually comes out. charlie: tell that story as to how you came to that conclusion. oh, i know what it was. it was your friend. nora: my good friend, who was dying. charlie: she was trying to it a hot dog. nora: yes, and to be serious for a moment as they say in the joke, when you are actually going to have your last meal, you either will be too sick to have it or you aren't going to know it is your last meal and you could squander it on something like a tuna melt, and that would be ironic. important, you know, we all play these games at dinner with friends were we go around the table and we say, "this is what i would have for my last meal." and i feel it is important to have that last real -- last mea l -- charlie: today? nora: soon, soon. my last meal idea would be a nathan's hot dog. [laughter] charlie: that is the magic, in part, having thought about everything. what is the best s

charlie: ok. having said that, i mean, speak , this bout what, for you particular thing, it has rounded edges. >> i think that our experience of this as an object is so much more than its appearance. charlie: yes. >> our connection with this is of course what it looks like. but what -- what it feels like. charlie: yeah. >> and the materials it's made from. the more that we get into the detail of trying to understand materials, we become often fairly frustrated and dissatisfied. so that often leads us to developing our own materials. so the glass, the cover glass -- on the new iphone, is actually a custom developed material. the same as the aluminum on the back. it's an entirely proprietary -- charlie: aluminum -- >> it gets confusing. but there's no detail that is too small that gets overlooked in terms of the care that we'll extend. and i think -- charlie: even if it's not seen. >> well, i actually think that's -- one of the things that we've talked about is we will do things that -- it's hard to

charlie: welcome to cuba. >> thank you. charlie: why did you want to come? >> the main reason is that we were able to come. the idea of doing a concert here. we've done a lot of concerts. i've always been fond of cuba. i just thought when i had the opportunity, we had to do that. the first to come do it. charlie: it's been an interesting month in cuba. you, president obama, the rolling stones. diplo: the stones are coming later. we beat both of them. charlie: you kicked it off. you are the opening act for the president. you said this is the most important show you've ever done. diplo: i think the pressure is on us to do something. this is kind of an amazing opportunity. right now, i've done so many concerts. we have fans to the world. this is a show we are doing free for the people. we were invited. very diplomatic opportunity, i feel like. especially right now when relations between cuba and america is so unique for the first time in 50 years. that we can come into something cultural as a bridge. people think it's about politics, but it's a lot deeper. >> y

charlie: dismantle and destroy isil. adm. rogers: a new objective you are seeing play out in syria and iraq even as we announce that is one part of a broader strategy that there is much more to it than just the military. charlie: iraq and syria seems to me it is to retake most all, headquarters of isil in iraq, and in syria to retake the city and to disrupt the communication. adm. rogers: you want to roll them back on the ground. the strategy to articulate is strongly tied to the idea of isil now has a physical manifestation of their ideology in the form of territory that they now control. the argument becomes, we are not just the vision, we are the reality. the argument we would make is the allergy -- reality they attempt to sell and their ideology is not one we would suggest -- charlie: do you view isil as the biggest national security threat today? adm. rogers: one of the questions i get is what is the most important and least important? a couple of the points i try to make as an intelligence professional is that it is not

charlie: like? lorne: there are -- comedy is filled with people that are funny and miserable all the time. charlie rose: in life, or comedy? lorne it is not something that : brings them joy. they do it and they are good at it, but they are not fun to be around. comedy is probably too important to be left to professionals. when you are around people who are funny, the thing that makes it the most fun is that when you are around someone funny, they are funny. nothing makes people that do comedy laugh more than other people around the being funny. charlie: you said adam mckay was like that. tina: funniest man in the room. lorne: adam brought tina. tina: adam gave me my job, brought me to "snl" as a writer. we were in chicago at the same time. he was on stage. charlie: when you are the funniest person in the room, is it just off-the-cuff funny? tina: yeah. in adam's case. lorne: it also helps when you are adam's size. a little intimidation. [laughter] charlie: do you want to direct films? robert: i woul

charlie: yahoo! is a company that everybody has affection for and want to see succeed, as they do for you, because you have been a part of the silicon valley for a while. what have you learned, not about specific things, but any sense of coming into a certain likeness? what do you wish you had known? what has been a learning experience? marissa: again, what is great, i get to learn every day. and i think that, it has been amazing. i love design and getting to work with the team at yahoo! to design the future, how the future -- how the cup and he works, this has been in a credible spirits. -- and cripple experience. -- incredible experience. think that pacing and time is always important. i think that there are some things that we did too quickly and some things we probably did too slowly. charlie: and not enough. marissa: and not enough. but i think that we learn from that and we are constantly getting better. and when i look at the strategic plan we rolled out, this is the combination of all of that

charlie: the immigrant thing. is there a connection with your father because he made the decision to come here from puerto rico? lin-manuel: i father is technically not an immigrant because puerto rico is part of the united states. charlie: from an island. lin-manuel: from the caribbean and not speaking a word of english. he learned english in school, came here at 18 to get an education, like hamilton did. he graduated college by 18 in puerto rico. he is the genius of the family. i'm the slacker. charlie: no. do you in any way have an immigrant's connection beyond your father? is there this idea of being an immigrant inside of your own psyche? lin-manuel: i grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. a historically immigrant neighborhood. it was all irish when we moved here, and then it became dominican and latino immigrants. i think i come at it from a different angle, which was i won the lottery. thegan commuting to go to countryzip code in the for school. i learned to pronounce my name differently in english and span

charlie: that is the idea. charlie: that is the idea. he wrote a letter. lin-manuel: saying i'm a good christian, i will not do it. i have to face and because of the code of honor but i am not going to do that. charlie: he was going to die. -manuel: the first challenge being i have to face him but i will not kill him. now you were asking questions historians have been asking. i had to provide the dramatic answer to that and it was the last thing i wrote in the show. charlie: because you had not come to any conclusion about it or because somehow, it's almost as if you have been doing lincoln story and you can only face up to what happens in the theater when you are really prepared to do it? lin-manuel: something happened to me. by the time i reached hamilton's moment in the duel and the bullets coming at him, a couple things happened. one, i don't care about why. what i care about is what are the last things going through his head? i found that much more interesting. while he is wrestling with whether to shoot at this man who's shooting at him, he's also th

charlie: it is. joe: if you think north carolina is the only college in the state with fake classes to keep athletes eligible -- charlie: it is awful. joe: the bargain the universities make with the students, they do not the bargain. most of the athletes, their only window -- charlie: what is the part of the bargain, the university? joe: play for us, we will give you an education and the prospect of a better life. charlie: you say, look, pay them for what they are, but don't go way out of your way to educate them. just pay them. joe: i think, as a matter of fairness, they should get some money. charlie: just a matter of fairness that they should get money. i think you should be arguing hard they should figure out a way they can somehow get through this notion of giving young athletes some benefit for being at the university. joe: i totally agree with you. i also think they should get some money. i have a salary cap. charlie: $25,000? joe: i am not a complete market guy. you know. north carolina is ju

charlie: they call you up. [laughter] charlie: thank you. don: thank you, charlie. charlie: thank you for joining us, see you next time. ♪ i'm al hunt. >> and i'm mark halperin. >> let me give an answer for the american people. who cares? who cares what donald is tweeting late at night? ♪ mark: hello from wisconsin. hillary clinton's campaign is playing chances in the primary year. don't tell that to hillary clinton herself. speaking tonight at madison, later in the walking, and spending a couple days here at least this week. al hunt joins me.

charlie: "i'm an american." lin-manuel: and the fact that it's an immigrant outsider who created the notion of one america more than anyone else through his financial system. we were also eking of -- speaking of ourselves as commoner. people would say to jefferson, will you vote for hamiltons plan or are you new york countries man question by the country, he -- they meant virginia. this is what began this thinking of ourselves as one nation. that's like the greatest day of your life when you discovered alexander hamilton. because of what you were able to do with it. a way into theaw story. i immediately went to google and said someone has done this. it's too good a story for there not to be three musicals about hamilton that i don't know about. so i got to work because i wanted to get there first. charlie: the immigrant thing. is there a connection with your father because he made the decision to come here from puerto rico? lin-manuel: i father is technically not an immigrant because puerto rico is part of the u

charlie: are they saying that? max: no, but apple is saying if there is precedent for a government organization can say, build software to allow us to spy on their citizens, who is to say it will not happen again? they say you can compel us to do this but it has to be in the open. there has to be a law. to say, here is what goes down. charlie: this is the perfect case to decide a supreme court decision or a congressional law. max: right. there is one more thing. it is worth considering and understanding here. beyond legal precedent which apple is not saying, we build this tool and this exists. for a brief moment in time. it is a company with several hundred thousand employees. there will be people involved. this tool is pretty terrifying and it will exist. not forever, but it will exist. who is to say as the world knows this tool is being built that you do not have every imaginable bad actor saying we will do what it takes to get our hands on the tool. as soon as we do, some other agent grabbing this tool while it

charlie: they call you up. [laughter] charlie: thank you. don: thank you, charlie. charlie: thank you for joining us, see you next time. ♪ mark: let's begin with the check of your bloomberg first word news. the justice department has withdrawn its legal action against apple in an effort to help it unlock the iphone of one of the san bernardino shooters. the government said that it used out side help to unlock the phone and no longer needs apple's assistance. cory will have more, coming up. in washington, authority saying a man was shot by police after he drew a weapon at a checkpoint at the u.s. capitol visitor center. >> the suspect was taken into custody and transferred to hospital for treatment. his condition is unknown at this time.

charlie: a bridge too far? jony ive: it is one of the things that the pursuit of perfection, it shapes you, and it establishes things you think are important. it infuriates you when you think you are getting closer, and realize that you are not. i think there are many of us that are driven by trying to make something that's perfect, something that -- and somehow something that is perfect seems to me, it is more than it is nothing wrong. i think we want to be more ambitious in making something that is not wrong. but yet, it drives us. charlie: i wonder if we will even know perfection if we see it. jony ive: i don't know that. sometimes i think you just get the faintest glimpse of an attribute that you think, i don't know how that could be better. and this is the problem with learning, isn't it? the problem with learning more, and the problem with being inquisitive and wanting to explore, is that your view -- your view of the world is constantly changing. charlie: did you look at the iphone 6 as iphone 6+? do you

charlie: the immigrant thing. is there a connection with your father because he made the decision to come here from puerto rico? lin-manuel: sure, yes. my father is technically not an immigrant because puerto rico is part of the united states. charlie: from an island. lin-manuel: from the caribbean and not speaking a word of english. he learned english in school, came here at 18 to get an education, like hamilton did. he graduated college by 18 in puerto rico. he is the genius of the family. i'm the slacker. charlie: no. do you in any way have an immigrant's connection beyond your father? is there this idea of being an immigrant inside of your own psyche? lin-manuel: i grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. a historically immigrant neighborhood. it was all irish when we moved here, and then it became dominican and latino immigrants. i think i come at it from a different angle, which was i won the lottery. i began commuting to go to the richest zip code in the country for school. i learned to pronounce my name diffe

>> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: c.e.o. and president of yahoo! since 2012. prior to becoming c.e.o., she was at google where she was one of the first 20 employees. on taking the challenge to run yahoo!, she inherited a legendary iconic company in internet history. people want the company to succeed and they want her to succeed. she does not do many interviews and here pleased to have her here to talk about the future and the past. we begin with the future. as many know, yahoo! became because of founder, they own 40% of the chinese companyal abaseballa -- companyally baseballa. there was consideration of a spendoff, then the board decided on a reverse spinoff which meant considering a sale of core operative businesses. marissa has announced a plan to return this iconic company to greatness and that's what we ant to talk about. welcome. it's good to have you here. marissa: i'm very excised -- excited to be here. charlie: tell me how you see ya hood today and what you want to do -- yahoo! and today and what you want to do to

charlie: thank you for coming. stay with us. ♪ charlie: a.o. scott is here, the new york times chief film critic. he has written a book. the los angeles time wrote his book is like watching the hero of a 1940's hero facing down his adversaries. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. a.o.: great to be here. charlie: why did you write this? a.o.: for a few reasons. i want to be reflective on what i do. i have written pieces about what i thought criticism is for. why some people are mistaken when they think critics are the enemies of artists were out to spoil fun. it was more immediately because i began to notice a lot of predictions of my immediate extinction. the idea that we have amazon marketing algorithms, facebook and twitter. everyone is a critic. nobody needs to be professional anymore. i wanted to think about that anyway without prejudice, not just to celebrate the democracy of the internet but not to cry about how the sky is falling and how my job is going to be taken away and how standards are collapsing and the world is

charlie: what about iranians? minister von der leyen: well, in iraq, without any doubt, iran is too. g a role roo -- charlie: what role of a playing? minister von der leyen: they support the shia, the sunni are supported by us. we try not to start to divide this country with sunni or shia but to stick together. what we are telling the kurds is that we expect them to stick to the central government as well as we tell the central government that we expect them to teach sunni and shia together. that is the precondition to be supported by the coalition against terror. withie: what is the plan syria? you have these hostilities. is that working as far as you know? minister von der leyen: it is working. since 10 to 11 to 12 days by now, a short the bank, it gives us hope. knock on wood as it stays it is. syria is different from iraq because you can see what happened. those who are supposed to fight in thehave no unities approach on how to fight eiffel. -- isil. russia together with a side -- assad, the regime, not only t

charlie: yahoo! is a company that everybody has affection for and want to see succeed, as they do for you, because you have been a part of the silicon valley for a while. what have you learned, not about specific things, but any sense of coming into a certain likeness? what do you wish you had known? what has been a learning experience? marissa: again, what is great, i get to learn every day. and i think that, it has been amazing. i love design and getting to work with the team at yahoo! to design the future, how the think that pacing and time is always important. i think that there are some things that we did too quickly and some things we probably did and too slowly. charlie: and not enough. in marissa: and not enough. but i think that we learn from that and we are constantly getting better. and when i look at the strategic plan we rolled out, this is the combination of all of that learning credit one thing we should do is get away from declining revenue more quickly you and get more focused on are

charlie: thank you. jony: thank you, charlie. charlie: remarkable day here. ♪

this is charlie rose. charlie: jack lew is here, the u.s. secretary of treasury. a role since february 2013. he was previously president obama's chief of staff. and prior to that, he was a director of the office of management and budget. a role that he also played in president clinton's cabinet. on wednesday he will deliver a speech on the impact of u.s. sanctions policy. he will deliver that speech at the international peace in washington. coordinated sanctions led by the u.s. were integral to reaching the agreement with iran to suspend their nuclear program. sanctions policies also playing a role in the fight against terrorist organizations, including the islamic state. for all those reasons and more, i'm pleased to have jack back at this table. welcome. jack: great to be with you. charlie: give us a sense of what sanctions have achieved and not achieved in our history. jack: if you look at sanctions, they've evolved dramatically from what they were before. they started out as kind of blunt instruments. an example is an embargo on cuba. cut off a country. if you

charlie: thank you. jony: thank you, charlie. charlie: remarkable day here. ♪ >> let's just say -- >> the pride of miami, marco rubio. now rubio takes the snap. he drops it. rubio passes to his man, just out of reach. here's the handoff. it's a fumble. he is wide open. one final chance for rubio to save the game. can he do it? >> basically not even filling the end zone. ♪

charlie: yahoo! is a company that everybody has affection for and want to see succeed, as they do for you, because you have been a part of the silicon valley for a while. learned, not about specific things, but any sense of coming into a certain likeness? what do you wish you had known? what has been a learning experience? marissa: again, what is great, i get to learn every day. and i think that, it has been amazing. i love design and getting to work with the team at yahoo! to design the future, how the future -- how the cup and he works, this has been in a credible spirits. -- and cripple experience. think that pacing and time is always important. i think that there are some things that we did too quickly and some things we probably did too slowly. charlie: and not enough. marissa: and not enough. but i think that we learn from that and we are constantly getting better. and when i look at the strategic plan we rolled out, this is the combination of all of that learning credit one thing we should do

charlie: think about this. when something came up, he was getting advice from his secretary of state. >> most of them wanted him to give it up. the first vote -- he had a vote at the beginning, shall we resupply -- and the overwhelming majority said no. yeses and one no. >> exactly right. back to this notion of this extraordinary man, who has not had the perfect resume, does not have the perfect experience, who has not been in washington as a senator. he has been dealing with slavery, rhetorically. >> i think it's because he had huge ambitions. he certainly was not a modest man in terms of ambitions. charlie: that famous quote about him that ambition burned like a fire? >> like an engine that could not stop. his ambitions were not just for office or power of a it was about a couple she something so worthy -- accomplishing something so worthy that his name would be recovered. motherthis dream, his when she died said i am going away from you now, and it will not return. not offering hope of heaven or that they wo

>> this "charlie rose." charlie: we begin with politics, donald trump and hillary clinton came close tore securing their party nomination. super tuesday. saw both candidates win victories in seven -- contenders look towards november. >> we know we got work to do. but that work is not to make america great again. never stopped being great. have to make america whole. we have to fill in. >> we will make america great again. watched hillary speech, she's talking about wages have been poor and everything is poor. make it.ng to she's been there for so long. hasn't straightened out by now, she will not straighten thefection fur years. she wants to make america whole again. figure out what that's all about. charlie: cruz managed to beat trump in texas, oklahoma and alaska. won in minnesota fueling doubts about his candidate as he marchs to florida last night lindsey graham discussed the dilemma facing the republican party. there's no way you seem to be suggesting that stop donald trump from being the nominee? major

charlie:? nick: it is less about who leads these party event with a likely nominees are, donald trump and hillary clinton. party, bernietic sanders will be the first insurgent candidate who can keep raising money for as long as he wants despite losing delegate count. he is in a hunt to change his own party to achieve a policy position in the party to be able to rish shape it from the inside. donald trump is trying to reshape from the outside. he is trying to take over the modern gop, and there is a real potential he can change it and reform it into something new and more ostensibly populous the rest of the party does not want to do. charlie: larry raises question. -- let me raise this question. mccain said there is no political analogy in the modern candidateshe top two are as divisive and weak. and then you have, hillary clinton and donald trump's resounding wins mask a strange reality that many americans still do not like him or her. both major parties must confirm the skepticism and distaste

charlie: well said. you all of you, or some, or any of you feel like this somehow, in this world of musical theater is transformative? fromhing taking place here manuel and all of the performances and collaboration that somehow is impact on theater as we know it? >> good god, you hope so. everything we have been through, all of us. we bring our own struggles and pain. the things that it took to get us here. we got in our second week of previews, we had the president of the on states -- of the united states. in the audience. chance, we don't know if it is going to happen, but we have the chance to touch his heart. to make him think about something in a way that he has never thought about it before. just the opportunity to do it. >> three hours. >> you hope that it doesn't. -- it does it. it is world leaders. minds on thisted planet are coming here. we have a chance. we'll see what happens. but we have a chance. >> that is what is exciting. in terms of impacting the world. there are successful hit shows, w

charlie: of course. having believed that, you believe the value of assets can match the value of the assets of the japanese investment? marissa: i think that, overall, i think we would need it to achieve growth. growing revenue, we know that, because of declining legacy revenue, we have been weighted down in that. but now that we are moving away from some of the legacy revenue, which is largely from premium banner ads, now we are moving toward global and video and we can see a path that will have growth in it. and is valued more by the market. charlie: with the growth be easier if you had inherited a better situation and you come our focus on it at the beginning? marissa: i think that overall, we have focused the proper amount. you need to make an immediate decision when you come, you try to build the revenue back up, but that was impossible for us. you try to offset the declining revenue, or do you take that out? i would argue that our revenue base were large enough, the services were large enough, that

charlie: the best example. human revolutions were promoted by people that were technologically savvy, but there was no leader, and once there was revolution, and once there was the overthrow of the government, then they did not have a political structure. think about south africa with nelson mandela. the problem is that there are neither institutions nor leaders who can bring the country together in a transition phase. in south africa you had nelson mandela, the anc. in poland you had the solitary movement. and now you have these internet propelled movements, and is vacuum. charlie: the book is called "the industries of the future." alec ross, who lives in baltimore, which shows he is intelligent, because he teaches at johns hopkins. ♪ federal appeals court judge merrick garland went to capitol hill. speaking to minority leader harry reid. garland also spoke with vermont's patrick leahy. summer publicans have expressed an openness to meeting with garland.

charlie: indeed. me, back to what you referenced, how is your evolution taken place on donald trump? where was it? what was the interim? and, where you now? because you have been very strong. david: i didn't take them seriously for the longest time. i knew there was dislocation and a coalition of the dispossessed in the country, but i didn't think they would turn their dispossession to him, just because i do think he answers any of their problems. charlie: but do you know why they think he does? david: so, i think there are a couple of things going on here. one, people are into manners. they are attracted by revolutions in manners more than revolutions in policy. and he has revolutionized the manners of how you run for president. charlie: what do you mean? david: for the first debate, he had already insulted carly fiorina's face. charlie: and john mccain's -- david: right. and rand paul says i'm not going to insult his looks, but i have a lot to work with over there. that is a way to run that nobody h

>> charlie: hey, lady! >> woman outside: i'm glad you're back. >> man outside: it looks like i seen you somewhere. >> woman outside: i love you! >> man outside: you got an awesome spirit on you, man. god bless you. >> charlie: hi, how are you? >> woman in car: all right. nice to meet you. >> man outside: gentleman and a scholar, man can't nobody do it like you, charlie. you hear me? >> charlie: see ya, lady! ♪ >> anthony: cheers. >> charlie: cheers, man. ♪ yep. you want one? >> anthony: that's the benefit of a college education, right there. people seem to like you in this town. who hates you in this town? >> charlie: who hates me in this town? >> guy on street: nobody i know. >> charlie: politicians? >> anthony: i'm guessing there are a number of politicians and former public employees who are not too happy with you. >> charlie: i don't know, you know. yeah. [ laughter ] >> anthony: yeah, but let's face it, there's a whole lot of people out there who'd just be perfectly happy with just letting detroit

charlie: thank you, ron. ron: thank you. ♪ charlie: a continuing -- continuation about our conversation about politics, america and books and movies that may interest you. welcome to cuba. >> thank you. charlie: why did you want to come? >> the main reason is we were able to come. the idea opened up to do a concert here, we have done a lot of concerts at my group all i have the caribbean and always been fond of cuba. i have been here once before. i thought when i had the opportunity we had to do it. we're the first to try and do it. charlie: this is an interesting month in cuba. you, president obama, and the rolling stones. >> we beat both of them. that was the goal. charlie: you're kicking it off. you're the opening act. you have said this is the most important show you have ever done. >> i think the pressure is on us to do something, it is kind of an amazing opportunity. right now i have done so many concerts, we have fans alter the world. this is a show we are doing free for the people. we were invited w

charlie: what did he do? he is running an army that is >> chronically short of men, money, clothing, shoes, blankets, gunpowder. there are one year enlistments. every december the army shrinks from disillusionment and you have to re-create it in january. holding this ragged band of men for eight point five years -- he had to have been a strong leader and a very inspirational presence. you have to understand, this is not the story of the general standing on the hill watching battles unfold in the planes. this was a general who was always right in the thick of battle with bullets whizzing around him. charlie: who were his friends? >> that is an excellent question. washington was somebody who was naturally mistrustful. he had to know you for a long time and he would gradually lower the barriers. washington did not have a lot of friends in the contemporary sense of a confessional relationships. heart-to-heart conversations. yet he forms more powerful , friendships than a alliance is with some of the other founder

charlie: what is it? >> there is a little of man meets the moment, but an extraordinary understanding of how to use television to advance his agenda. argue that trump is horrifying or impressive. he is extraordinarily -- the twins the thing that mark talked about. an extraordinary ability to harness the grievance and resentment of the party. he taps into it in a deep, profound way. you could not teach that to someone. has aner thing is, he extraordinary instinct for the attack. understanding the psychological vulnerabilities of the people he is running against, distilling it down to a simple thing and in fifth grade language attacking people. charlie: how do you explain david duke? >> i actually think he was careless. i do not think it was a tactical thing. i think he was careless about how he answered. he will often just try to answer what he would like to answer. in this case he answered what he wanted to answer. as john said, when you talk about the klan court nazi's, you have to -- klan or nazis, you

charlie: food to eat. david: museums to see. charlie: isn't it great to have a huge appetite? that is what i say. i don't want anybody with a small appetite. david: you should have a bunch of opera stars. torlie: i was speaking someone the other day who felt they had been stolen from having a big life. i thought, that's sad. a big life is not being a celebrity or having a lot of money. a big life is being connected to all that is possible. i had a journalist friend who asked a woman, what would you do if you were not afraid, and the woman started crying. get intowell, you things like marriage, responsibility, mortgages, career. david: i always tell my students, two thirds of you will be more boring at age 30 then you are now. inple's happiness is high their 20's and then bottoms out at 47 -- which is called having teenage children -- and then it rises after they have gone away. when people are older, they look at the world in a happier way. they look at happier phases. they don't look at the bad phases. and you get to a certain age and you sort of know who you are. you can tak

charlie: great to have you here. ♪ charlie: co-founder and c.e.o. of air b and b to help people book accommodations around the world. it has connected 80 million guests with hosts in 190 countries and valued at $25 billion. writing in "time" magazine last year, brian's audacity is fabulous and dares to believe we shouldn't be strangers that we can have a sense of true belonging wherever and whenever we travel. i'm pleased to have brian back at this table. i love the quote, too. you two share something. >> we love design. when i was in college, a lot of kids put possible terse of lebron james'. i went to rhode island school of design and i told johnny that. charlie: he and mark are such close friends. and we did a program together and they were terrific and did things on "60 minutes." remind me again for people and ou talked about this before, understanding what air b and b does. b ou can go to air b and and book two million homes in 191 countries, homes, apartments, castles, boats, tree houses. we start with homes and one day someone added a castle.

charlie weis that just happen -- charlie: did that just happen? how is it that one kid wants to do those things? what is it in you that made you want to do those things? those of the things that you do -- are the things that you do. >> is an incredible to do what we love? you have to think about how you looked into this -- lucked into this. charlie: all of the great albums of all of the great musical theater. >> my fair lady, sound of music, south pacific. that was the music that we played to clean up after parties. we would dance because we are rican. can -- puerto charlie: were you shy or like you are now? >> i still think i am shy. i honestly do. , i like theve with flaws -- applause. i would not take over a room just to take over it, but i was eager to share. my mother's favorite story, i am sure she will tell you -- our first piano recital. i only practiced enough to play one song. i learned four, but only one i could do reliably. i would go up the scale and go back down. they clapped. i looked up, i looked around, and i said, if this is the

charlie: but why you? why do you have this opportunity -- someone respected enough to spend these hours with to explain himself? he wanted to explain himself to you? >> i asked if that helps, but the truth is i have interviewed him periodically over the years thei think, they think that atlantic in particular -- they know that we will devote the time, energy, resources and thought to not just do the bumper -- this is a guy allergic to bumper stickers. you cannot say that a 20,000 word story is a bumper sticker. he knows he will get a fair shake and we will quote him in paragraphs. charlie: and you understand him? >> we try. charlie: thank you very much it is an incredible piece. back in a moment. ♪ charlie: we begin this evening with syria. vladimir putin announced today he would begin withdrawing troops from the country. he said they had largely met their objectives as peace talks resumed in geneva. the u.s. special envoy has called the latest round of negotiations a "moment of that." joining me now is