♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: welcome to the program. it is the end of summer and as we prepare for the next season we bring you some of the favorite conversations from al franken --"

al: it became more and more about anyplace i would go to, you would see a sheet of their spaghettiare having dinner for this family because they have gone bankrupt because of a health care crisis. and elizabeth warren had been on my radio show telling me more than 50% of americans go bankrupt related to a health care crisis. i knew that on my radio show, but it got personal because it was personal for the people of minnesota. ty reason to run for the senate to say somebody has to be this guy, but what it became more about is what paul said. he said politics isn't about ,inning for the sake of winning

it is an about money, it is about improving people's lives. --rlie: when we continue katie bam is here -- j.d. vance is here. he was raised in kentucky, graduated from yell law school and went on to success -- went to yale law school. he wrote a book "hil lbilly-ology," i am pleased to have j.d. vance at this table for the first time. -- whatwhat yo

drove you to write this. d.: i was disappointed there were more people like me at law school. it seemed to me i had this cultural outsider attitude that was very unique. i was not just lower income, but i felt like a cultural outsider for the first time in my life. i started to wonder what was it that may be different and i started writing to answer why weren't their kids -- more kids like me. charlie: did you feel like people look down on you or something? you qualified where you were at every stage. it was general disdain where i came from, maybe folks called them rednecks, but i never felt it was personally directed at me. charlie: as he started to write the book you thought about where you came from, it is about

memoir of a family and culture in crisis. j.d.: i think it is specifically white working-class americans in appalachia and the rust belt. a lot of the problems that existed in my family existed in the broader human the at large in a disproportionate way. charlie:? what is problems? divorce, substance abuse, learned helplessness. charlie: is it a feeling of being a victim? j.d.: i don't think it is an individual failing, i think it comes down to the communities and the attitudes we acquire. charlie: what do you acquire from the neighborhoods? j.d.: one thing is a sense your choices don't matter. the industrial economy has been top on these areas and i don't think we should ally that.

people start to think no matter what they do they cannot get ahead and i think that is a self-destructive attitude. charlie: do you think in this book we understand some of the feelings driving this residential election? charlie: yes. it's not any special quality of donald trump himself, but the fact that folks feel resentful of the media, the establishment, and so forth your one thing i recognize as a teenager is people are very pessimistic, cynical. they feel alienated. charlie: they feel alienated because what? it is a combination that the communities themselves aren't necessarily going very well. all of the social indicators

that things are not going very good, it breaks down that people -- you perceive people don't care about your problems. not only do they not care, there is a sense that they condescend, they look down on people like you because of the way you live your life. charlie: why didn't it affect you? did in a lot of ways. when i was 14 years old you would've said, because of the jugs i started to do, a big part of the story is what changed -- because of the drugs i started to do. charlie:? what changed j.d.: i started to live with my grandmother. she recognized that life was unfair, but major i didn't feel like the deck was stacked against me. charlie: how did she do that? j.d.: she preached a tough

message. she brought me a really nice graphing calculator. she didn't have a lot of money herself, but she said look, if i can afford this calculator, you're going to get out there and last year but this math class. and i was really struck by that that this very poor woman did that for me. she major i did my homework, major i took my studies seriously and she fought against the cultural believe that my feelings didn't matter. charlie: you went into the marines? j.d.: yes. charlie: did you do that out of patriotism or other reasons? j.d.: partly, but it was also recognition that i wasn't ready to life after high school. i remember puzzling over financial aid forms, i had no idea what to do and i was sort

of scared by it here the marine corps would give me four years to shape up. it?lie: did j.d.: it definitely did. i like to describe it as a four education, they teach you about financial management, to make your bed, a lot of these guilt sets -- the skill sets you need to be an adult. charlie: in terms of commentary that leads people to be so excited about your book is you giving them a key to understanding. dramaticit is a political component to the election of 2016. they say where is the dialogue between politicians -- dialogue between the establishment and the people we are talking about, everybody -- when there is a comment like hillary about desperate --

that offends people. donald trump says something that seems to have contempt for people, it offend people. i wonder how much dialogue really takes place in trying to listen and communicate, not just means. political j.d.: i think there isj.d.: precious little dialogue between these two segments of america, sort of middle why around america. donald trump has become their rest resented of -- their representative. folks were clinging to their guns -- he mentioned folks were struggling economically, but it was layered with a certain

amount of condescension. to think.'t cling he could have said it in a much better way. charlie: how do we change this? >> that is the really tough question. i continue to think that one of the big problems -- one of the big sources of this divide is that people are not spending a lot of time together. when my wife was born in san descent, i wasn terrified that she would think my family was a bunch of dumb hillbillies and they would think she was a strange -- but they love each other. there are studies that suggest when people of different groups spend time together they empathize at a much greater extent. we have too much segregation between the elites and the rest of the country.

if you are a policy maker in washington, d.c., you know very little about the people in ohio. charlie: what effect do you think this election is having on this country other than disdain for the tenor of it? is having ak it very negative effect especially on the white working class. what it is doing is giving people an excuse to point the else --nger at summary finger at someone else. i think it is fair to say the policy elites from the democratic party have not been totally concerned about the white, working-class, but at the same time what donald trump has done is change the focus on the to a, working-class politics of pointing the finger. -- said that what

hillary clinton should do now is she should go to these working-class communities -- perhaps she is -- go to them and say i may not get your vote, but i amt you to know listening. and even if i don't get your vote, i am coming back to get them in some sense to be able to believe that somebody headed for washington has taken enough time to try to hear what their problems are. j.d.: sure. i think that would be a constructive addition to our politics. at the end of the day if people only focus on the people they think will work for them, then we will have a very polarized electorate. i think there could be room for hillary clinton, obviously the fore working class voted

bill clinton in overwhelming numbers. it is not so much an ideological opposition, it is the sense that people don't care. charlie: they don't care. j.d.: right. if you think about the political dialogue we are already starting to have on the left and right, there is a movement to gloat about the elites were right about trump. i am a never trump guy, but i have noticed a willingness from people that felt like i do that we told you so -- we told you that you were an idiot if you voted for him. the problem is if you take that attitude of gloating over his defeat, you are playing on the very thing that gave rise to trump in the first place which is the feeling that elites think you are a bunch of idiots. charlie: what impact has writing this book had on you other than

making you think about deeply where you came from and what impact and understanding of your own community might make? j.d.: for the first time it has exposed me to the wild world of internet to rose that criticize everything you do. charlie: they follow you everywhere? j.d.: absolutely. it is a den of vipers. i think the impact it has had on melife is it sort of forced to confront the fact that i sort un exist an easily -- an easily in the world of a leave, and uneasily back home. somebody who doesn't like trump myself, i understand where they come from, but i also don't like trump himself and that

makes me realize i am not quite part of either world. charlie: back a moment.

charlie: dr. neil degraff ties and is here, the most powerful nerd in the universe -- neil tyson, the director of an hayden planetarium, also

evangelist for scientific career curiosity.scientific his latest book is called "astrophysics for people in a hurry." welcome back. sexiestat astrophysicist, that was 40 pounds ago. charlie: you were a young dude? coded you write this for, people in a hurry? neil: yeah, people with kids. if you are still serious as an adult, is there anything that serves that busy lifestyle your i wanted to take these headlines i know you have seen akzo planets, a multi-verse, things about the universe i know you have seen it. i won at put them under an umbrella in a story arc.

charlie: bear with me for a couple of definitions, astrophysics. we care about everything outside of the earth's atmosphere. moons,oles, planets, asteroids, comets, stars, universe the entire asked, present, and future. the interesting thing is the laws of physics is not a given, but the laws of physics we established in the laboratory, turns out they apply across the universe and across time here i celebrate that in a chapter called "on earth as it is in the heavens." charlie: why are we so curious? is it simply because --

neil: let me offer an untested hypothesis here it i want to research this, but humans are one of the few mammals, one of the few animals that all comfortable sleeping on our back. you have never seen a horse sleep on its back, right? and we sleep at night. what happens? i'm asleep on my back at night and then i look up. i look at the stars. the man was here last night and it was there tonight. you have to be curious your you have to be. speciesis in butte our the curiosity -- i bet this embued our species. if you take a bird and turn it upside down, it has no --they

might try to do a head thing. charlie: one exception, i have a dog named hemingway who sleeps with his legs in the air at night. i always thought that was a little crazy, but now i think it is even more crazy. know all animals, but just the ones i know about. after dog if he is thinking about the universe. you don't mind me mentioning that this book is opening at number one? city --nessing the. witnessing the curiosity. first lookught at what i did, but then i thought know it's not me, there was curiosity that has been undervalued by media.

people have curiosity into adulthood -- maybe not everybody, but i am privileged to be able to fan that ember. greatare a lot of very books on the list. this kind of floated to the top. it is an affirmation that the public does care about science. charlie: it is an affirmation you tell it well. g for all hehawkin is done, how many people have actually read his book? neil: hardly anybody. charlie: this is a reasonable book. neil: by the way, it is not astrophysics for dummies, it is

real astrophysics. if you open the book to any page, you have to pay attention, i am treating your intellect with respect. there is a lot of fun things in their as well, because it will more resoundingly received if i attach it to pop culture you know about. goneie: i think why i have into media is because i have maintained a childlike curiosity. ail: i think that is all scientist is, a kid that never lost curiosity. what is going on at home, we speak the first year teaching the kid to walk and talk, the rest of its life telling it to shut up and sit down. somewhere in the school system we need to nurture curiosity on a level that can be sustained even when you graduate. how many people you know run down the steps of high school at

the end of senior year, school is out your you are celebrating the fact you no longer? learn things? charlie: it should ignite curiosity to learn more than you ever thought you could. if you teach curiosity, you can turn all of us into lifetime learners your it and you will be inoculated against people who might exploit what they perceive as your ignorance. you have a built-in skepticism when you are curious. charlie: let's talk about more questions you answer. einstein's theory of relativity. neil: this was the follow on, because isaac newton came up with a new theory of motion and a theory of gravity, and it worked everywhere we ever measured it.

the men going around earth, the moons of jupiter around jupiter. it was not just a solar phenomenon. the planet neptune was discovered because the planet uranus was not following newton's loss. laws.ton's they said wait a minute, maybe there is another planet that we have not folded into our equations. it is a very hard mathematical problem to invert. one is i have an object calculate its gravity, the other one is there is gravity here, where must the object be. the announcement that to berlin, an observatory, and astronomer looked and discovered neptune. newton's laws of motion and

gravity were still intact. we find failures at the edge of it, things are not working. all it is, is an updated version of the laws of motion and laws of gravity. it doesn't replace newton, it subsumes it. if you put low speeds and low gravity in einstein's equations, they become newton's equations. charlie: and i write believing that i have read over the years that we have discovered affirming evidence of how einstein was right? einstein was right on some any counts, but here is something interesting. when he wrote down his first equations that describe how gravity functions in the universe, there was a term that represented antigravity. mathematically it doesn't have

to match the universe, you can do the rest of it fits, but antigravity. is no what this did for him was stabilize the universe to become a static entity. if you take out this term, the universe collapses. why would he think the universe was in motion for all? he puts it in, he says i don't know what it is, but i'm putting it in. then edward hubbell discovers the universe is expanding. the man, not the hardware. einstein realized he didn't need the term and took it out and said putting it in was the greatest blunder of his life. fast-forward 70 years, we find a pressure operating at ends --

operating against brevity making our expansion accelerate. now we need the term, it is real. it is called because my logical constant -- it is called the cosmological constant. his only mistake was saying he made a mistake. charlie: is there a big search for ethereum of -- for a theory of unifying gravity? neil: yes. not just gravity, but all forces of nature. there is a philosophical idea not unfounded,is you go back 150 years there was magnetism, electricity, and we werere two forces playing with. these were manifestations of the same coin, we had electromagnetism. we found that weak electrical

back at athe same -- noble price. three of the winners were graduates of my high school. that school has eight nobel laureates among graduates. seven were in physics. electroweak now the force, electrostrong, and gravity. we have top people working on it here. charlie: can anything or any object out run a beam of light? neil: no. experimentally, theoretically we can declare it is not possible. charlie: what is the significance of that? is one of the founding

principles that make relativity real. charlie: that einstein did. neil: yes. let's imagine and must be so everywhere in the universe, what would then be the consequences and out of that he derives laws of relativity. every time we tested, it comes out correct. we have a very deep awareness and sensitivity of the operations of nature as new did. neil: what is the difference between dark matter and dark energy? dark matter is they gravity in the universe that has no known origin. energyld call it dark here it we see things moving in space and you can calculate how much gravity would enable that. and if you look at what is there, there is not enough there to account for the gravity making the motion.

how much stuff is there? about 15 percent of what is necessary. it is a mystery, the longest modernd mystery in astrophysics, possibly all of science. it has been with us since the 1930's. charlie: all of science? neil: there i go that far? i think i do. how many mysteries have been with us for 80 years? i don't know of many. it remains a mystery. we do not know what it is. if you are a betting person that bets on physics -- [laughter] are suspecting it is a new kind of exotic particle that doesn't interact with us. it doesn't reflect light, bend

light, interact with light in any traditional way that matter interacts with electromagnetism. black energy, that is what we call the pressure that is operating against gravity. says we stephen hawking need to colonize some planet somewhere, and they talk about mars. neil: i think we should do it because it is cool. i don't think it is because of their reasons. asteroid, killer virus, killing two planet, if you're eggs in two baskets, you don't break them all. that's correct. people andorize

split the species, i get that. but whatever effort it takes, it has to be easier to figure out how to deflect the asteroid. it has to be easier to, with a super viral serum where no virus would ever in fact you. you.er infect earth and then go to mars after we terraform it, then i think we should terraform earth. to do it as the solution to saving our species, i don't see it as realistic. are you going to watch 4 billion people go extinct and do nothing about it. we are fine over here, we are the have that are going to survive and propagate the species. i don't see it as realistic.

i say let's do it, but not for those reasons. charlie: these and other questions are answered in your book "astrophysics for people in a hurry." ♪

♪ charlie: al franken is here. he's a two-term senator from minnesota. before entering politics, he was

a comedy writer and performer on "s.n.l." and hosted a progressive radio talk show on air america. he's recently emerged as a forceful challenger of president trump's and administration. his tough questioning of nominees went viral. al: if there's any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. >> i think if i'm understanding your question correctly around proficiency, i would also correlate it to competency and mastery so you -- each student is measured according to the advancement that they're making in each subject area. al: that's growth, not proficiency.

in other words, the growth they're making is in growth. the proficiency is an arbitrary standard. >> the proficiency is if they reached like a third grade level etc. ading, al: i'm talking about the debate between proficiency and growth, what your thoughts are on that. governor, thank you for coming into my office. did you enjoy meeting me? >> i hope you are as much fun on that dais as you were on your couch. al: well. [laughter] >> may i rephrase that, sir? al: please. please. oh, my lord. charlie: there it is. karen tumulty of "the washington post" wrote, at the dawn of a presidency, that would be the trump presidency that stretches , the limits of late night

parody, the former comedian and satirist may be having a breakout moment as a political star. he's out with a new book, a memoir called "al franken: giant of the senate." i'm pleased to have senator al franken back at this table. welcome. al: thanks, charlie. great to be here. i hope i'm as much fun behind this table as i was on that couch with rick perry. charlie: i did notice when rick perry campaigned, he wore the glasses, people said he was trying to look differently. obviously, the glasses have continued. al: i found him actually very prepared for our meeting. he knew my stance on energy issues. and i found him actually to be -- he's the longest governor in the history of texas. they did a lot of wind energy. charlie: very popular down there. al: very popular. and brought a lot of wind -- i

think texas is the largest wind electricity producing state. i didn't vote for him, because i didn't like some of his answers, but i called him to tell him i wasn't voting for him and we said, let's get dinner. charlie: you had dinner with him? al: i did not have dinner with him. we just said, let's get dinner. we were going to have dinner, we just said -- i hope to do that. i hope to do that. i asked him to become a student of climate. and so -- i think it'll take a few months to do that. charlie: we might need that. there are reports and seem to be more and more evident that the president will, although he's not announced it, withdraw from the paris climate. al: i think that one a big tragedy in terms of our leadership in the world. this is something that 195 other

countries signed on to. every country in the world, i believe, but syria and nicaragua. charlie: let me talk about the budget they have and look at this domestic agenda. the argument is a lot of what he promised in the campaign would be hurt a lot by the budget. with patcochair roberts of kansas, a republican, the world health caucus, and i go all over minnesota talking to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes. people are freaked out about the --lth care bill, because i in minnesota a woman was crying because she said my mom will lose her home health care and my home -- and my husband and i both work, and i don't know what we're going to do with my mom.

charlie: do you believe that looking to 2018 election which democrats could take over both the house and senate? is it heading that way? al: you know, i'm not a prognosticator. i'm not going to go down that -- that's not a pivot. that's -- i'm not prepared to answer. charlie: that's a statement. al: i don't like to do that. i like to focus on what's in front of us right now. what's in front of us right now is a terrible health care bill that the president had the ceremony in the rose garden, which you don't do after the house -- charlie: that's not a mission accomplished time. al: no. and the president is saying, you know, you know, everyone -- no one knew that health care was complicated. until i figured out that it's complicated. that's -- you know, that's crazy. and we all know it's complicated.

it's very complicated. and sometimes i feel that my republican colleagues just had the affordable care act, which has its flaws and has weaknesses, they just were counting on hillary winning so they could keep bashing it around and didn't bother to find out how complicated it is. charlie: i want to talk about politics. why did she lose? why did the man you're looking at in the presidency today win? al: i think there are a lot of reasons. he obviously appealed to people who are angry. and -- charlie: why wouldn't she appeal to those people? al: i believe that part of what they're angry at is the establishment. and part of what they felt was, if we just get somebody in there who hasn't been part of this -- charlie: the establishment, washington crowd, drain the swamp. al: there was that aspect of it.

but people are legitimately angry. i mean, i'm talking about people who for 40 years have seen the middle class squeezed. and who don't see their kids having a brighter future than they had. and are angry about it. i think that we -- the democratic party have a different interpretation of why that has happened. charlie: did you make that argument clear? al: i think what happened was at a certain point, hillary had felt that donald trump had disqualified himself. i think they felt they were going to win. and they started playing prevent defense and then 11 days before, the comey thing hit. i'm not making any excuses for her. and the extent of the russian interference in terms of 1,000 trolls in russia sending fake

stories out and that's where fake news came from, and that going on facebook taking -- once they hacked the d.n.c. and hacked podesta, they can put anything out there. no one has read all of podesta's emails. no one has read everything from the d.n.c. they can send whatever lies. if you're talking about was there cooperation with russians on that, there are some things where, you know, podesta's time in the barrel is very soon. charlie: roger stone said that. al: so that's kind of suspicious, don't you think? charlie: speaking of politics, too. you have said that celebrity trumps ideology. i didn't mean it as a

pun. charlie: what did i say? triumphs. what, if youeving have a big name recognition as a celebrity, you can when over wonks.who are policy al: i think i first made this observation when i went to republican conventions for comedy central. i'd go to the conventions, people were like, hi, al. all i did was, you know -- savaging your people and hi, al. charlie: i normally vote republican but i remember that great skit, i'm going to vote for you next time. al: believe me. i write about the 2008 campaign and everything i'd ever done in comedy was put through a $15

million machine the republicans -- charlie: looking for an attack ad. al: to create an attack ad but they put everything through a dehumorizer. charlie: explain that. you write about it several times. al: this machine was built with israeli technology which would decontextualize anything i've ever written. in satire and comedy you use irony and hyperbole. sometimes when those things are taken out -- i'll give you an example. so, i wrote this joke which was -- is a very conservative joke , because it was warning parents about the internet and you should monitor what your kids are doing on the internet. but i wrote the joke with some irony. i said, the internet is doing great things for learning. my sixth grade son did a report last year using the internet on

-- bestiality and he downloaded a lot of great visual aids and the kids in the class just loved them. because at that age, they're just sponges. you're laughing. charlie: you made your point. al: you understand the joke. they just did an ad where they kind of did, al franken tells jokes about bestiality and it goes from infinity to, to your face in the living room. my mother-in-law cried when she saw the ad. i was unrecognizable as her son-in-law. it was rough. it was rugged. charlie: speaking of family. you said in that election, your wife of 40 years. al: 41 1/2. will be 42 this year. charlie: without her you couldn't have won the election

, because she had some bouts, right --ng to say this bouts with alcoholism. al: she's an alcoholic a recovering alcoholic. she did not like the way i was being portrayed and wanted to -- she said i want to do an ad. telling about my battle with alcoholism and how you stuck with me, because what we're seeing isn't who you are. she did an ad with mandy grunwall. she did a one-minute ad. in it she talked about, we've had problems in our marriage, and i was -- had a problem with alcoholism. but the line was, how can a mother of two such beautiful kids be an alcoholic? and that line spoke to the shame

that mothers feel. and that alcoholics feel. and there was an anchor, esme murphy, an anchorwoman for wcco, the cbs affiliate who wrote a thing like, imagine this is the best political ad this year. because this can actually help somebody. two days after the ad aired, we had a debate. it was in a gymnasium. when she entered that room she got a standing ovation. and i cried when i saw the ad. chuck schumer cried when he saw the ad. i was extremely, not only would i not have won, i would have lost by a lot if it hadn't been for frannie. frannie, it's funny.

people come up to me and say, you have a thankless job. thank you. i go, no, a thankless job is a job where no one thanks you. frannie has a thankless job. which, that reminds me -- i should thank her for making that ad, don't you think? charlie: you do, i don't believe you haven't thanked her a thousand times. have you or not? thanked her once. i felt that was sufficient. charlie: why did you decide to run? you start at the top. no political experience. you'd been a comedian. al: i didn't start at the top. we've seen that. paul wellstone, who -- i dedicate -- charlie: the progressive senator from minnesota.

al: whose seat i hold, i guess. also, hubert humphries' and walter mondale's. he was a hero of mine. i dedicate the book to him and to his wife sheila. he died less than two weeks before in a plane crash, he and his family and others. his daughter and wife and others in the staff and the pilot. and there were a sequence of events where there was a memorial for him that was very much about paul. paul had this exuberance and energy. and he was sort of -- i write about this at length in "lies and lying liars who tell them" and that was taken by the republicans and they said that we -- that there was some inappropriate things said during

that and it was used in a certain way. and so, norm coleman ended up winning that election and he beat walter mondale who had stepped in at the last minute. charlie: the former -- the former vice president. al: yes. a couple of months after coleman had taken office, he did a profile, his first profile in "roll call" and he said, i'm a 99% improvement over paul wellstone. charlie: and you read that. al: i read that and said who is going to beat this guy? i didn't say guy, but i said something. and i had never, ever, for a second considered running for the senate. or running for office. until i saw that. and you know, frannie and i were going to be empty nesters. and i talked to her about moving to minnesota. and i had the air america thing start here. i did that -- charlie: the radio show.

al: yes the radio show in new , york. but then we moved to minnesota to do the show and to explore. listen, i didn't necessarily think i was the guy who was going to beat norm coleman. and as the campaign progressed, it became less and less about norm coleman and more and more about those who -- any cafe i'd go to in small towns anywhere, v.f.w. hall, american legion hall, you'd see, you know, a sheet up there saying, we're having a spaghetti dinner for this family, because they've gone bankrupt because of a health care crisis. and elizabeth warren had been on my radio show telling me more than 50% of americans go bankrupt because of a health care crisis. it's related to a health care crisis. and i knew that. my radio show. but the -- it got personal. because it was personal with the

people in minnesota. so, it's a petty reason to run for the senate. to say someone's got to beat this guy. but what it became more and more about was what paul said. paul said that politics isn't about winning for the sake of winning. it isn't about money. politics is about improving people's lives. and that's -- you know, i wrote this book to answer the question that i get asked more than anything else, which is, is being a united states senator as much fun as working on "saturday night live"? and the answer is, no. why would it be? but it's the best job i've ever had because i get to improve people's lives. two weeks into being in the senate, johnny isakson from georgia, i call him up, i have this idea, this bill, to match

vets from iraq and afghanistan with invisible wounds with ptsd, with service dogs. and he co-sponsored it and it went through and it passed. and that made me feel like i was doing something. and that's when you feel like, i'm a good senator. charlie: and the interesting thing is you won by a landslide. al: i clobbered him, 300 and 12 votes. charlie: it took them six months to decide who one. al: it took them eight months. i won the recount in time to be

seated with my colleagues, but we went to the process. charlie the book one more time, : "al franken: giant of the senate" by al franken. ♪

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