knows. knows. >> i'm just happy we got this ok i'll admit. i didn't keep my place as clean as i would like 'cuz i'm way too busy. who's got the time to chase around down dirt, dust and hair? so now, i use heavy duty swiffer sweeper and dusters. president trump bows to for hard-to-reach places, duster makes it easy to clean. criticism. next year's g-7 summit will not be held at his florida golf it captures dust in one swipe. resort. >> at doral, we have a series of ha! gotcha! and sweeper heavy duty cloths lock away magnificent buildings. >> this as the white house twice as much dirt and dust. struggles to explain another it gets stuff deep in the grooves other tools can miss. about-face. >> but i never said it was a y'know what? my place... is a lot cleaner now. quid pro quo, but there isn't. stop cleaning. start swiffering. also tonight, u.s. troops roll out of syria, leaving america's kurdish allies to fight for themselves as the cease-fire is set to end. accid multiple soldiers at an army base in georgia. plus technology and the future of work. why truckers and everyone else should buckle their seat belts. and throwing a bunch to knock out cancer. >> and the winner -- >> let's just say you don't want to fight a cancer survivor.

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>> reporter: white house acting hydrates better than the #1 retinol. chief of staff mick mulvaney suggested why mr. trump changed his mind. but she wanted someone who loves with the cats.ng. >> he was honestly surprised at the level of pushback. so, we got griswalda. at the end of the day, you know, dinner's almost ready. he still considers himself to be but one thing we could both agree on in the hospitality business. >> reporter: but at a press was getting geico to help with our renters insurance. yeah, switching and saving was really easy! briefing on thursday, mull ve m drink it all up. good! said president trump is prepared to handle criticism. >> we get that. but we're still going to go there. could have used a little salt. >> reporter: it was also during that briefing mulvaney admitted there was a quid pro quo visit geico.com involving military aid to and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be. ukraine and said the president froze the money to get ukraine to look into the origins of the russia investigation. >> whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our department of justice, that's completely legitimate. >> reporter: a claim so stunning, he was asked to . it's harvest season in clarify. >> but to be clear, what you california's famed napa valley. just described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow on the grapes. unless the investigation into jamie yuccas went to find out the democratic server h what's being done to save them. as well. >> we do that all the time with >> reporter: while a red wine

should be aged in barrels, these foreign policy. >> reporter: today mulvaney cabernet grapes are dying on the vine. andy beckstoffer has been denied saying what he said. growing grapes for some of the >> you were asked by jonathan biggest names in california's karl, you described a quid pro quo and you said, that happens all the time. wine country since the early >> and reporters will theirua n 1970s. how many cab do you drink a day? >> breakfast, lunch or dinner? proceed. can i see how people took that >> reporter: but he's concerned long the way way? absolutely. but i never said there was aid about his future harvest. >> the big deal is the erratic nature that we have with climate here. isn't. >> reporter: democrats argue they now have more evidence in we have bugs we've never heard their impeachment inquiry. of, we have diseases we never heard of before. >> the speaker of the house would like to get this wrapped up by the end of the year. we've changed the way we farm because of it. >> reporter: you're fighting >> reporter: the white house says mulvaney still has against climate change. >> yes. >> reporter: here in napa president trump's confidence but cbs news has learned he was on valley, cab is king. it's also where researchers are thin ice even before the trying to save it with 11 different projects happening all briefing with officials unhappy over his handling of the over the area. you want to keep the wine quality. impeachment inquiry. and there's a growing rivalry >> that's right. we want to keep it delicious and between mulvaney and white house cost-worthy of that $300 bottle. counsel pat to serve as the >> reporter: beckstoffer permanent chief of staff. elaine asked about his acting vineyards are investing tens of millions of dollars, partnering with uc davis for the world's title back in 5iapril, mulvaney says it doesn't matter because

the president can fire anyone at most ambitiousaberuvign root st any time. >> thank you. american forces continue their defense secretary mark esper says they're headed for iraq, trial. vineyard manager clint nelson not home, as president trump and researcher kaan kurtural promised. left behind, america's ally, the said the area has heated up by kurds. as holly williams reports, a cease-fire about to end could determine their fate. nearly 2 degrees. it may not sound like much, but culturalists say it's enough to eventually make cabernet grapes extinct. >> we can't say, oh, we'll think >> reporter: there were reports about it 20 or 30 years from now. of sporadic clashes between you have to take action now. >> reporter: what does it mean turkish-led forces and syria to this area that you're doing this research? fighters today and turkey said >> we don't look at this as just a northern california trial or one of its soldiers were killed. experiment. we look at this as an but for now, the cease-fire industrywide trial. seems to be mostly holding. >> reporter: uc davis is using shade nets, switching from remember, this turkish incurse began last week after president horizontal to vertical planting and various technology to grow a better, stronger grape. trumphe t anc.s. you have naysayers. >> they might think we're going too far, spending too much money foes would pl b doing it, we're chasing things that won't turn up. >> reporter: researchers are border. now u.s. troops are with drawing testing 100 combinations, but it will take at least six years to yield results. like any fine wine, beckstoffer entirely. kurds say they've been betrayed

by the u.s. says it will take time, but the turkey claims the kurdish-led fate of one of america's most group is a terrorist famous valleys may hang in the organization. balance. president trump called the cease-fire, which was negotiated >> we'll use that data not only by vice president mike pence and the bestpot, president erdogan last week a great day for civilization but it's set to expire on tuesday. kurdish forces say they pulled out of one town today but turkey says they need to withdrawal from a 300-mile stretch of border or it will renew its assault. the other impact of the u.s. withdrawal is to hand even greater influence to russia. turkey's president erdogan will meet the russian president vladimir putin on tuesday and the future of eastern syria could be decided at that meeting. at which the united states will play no part. elaine? >> holly williams, thank you. three soldiers were killed and three others injured during a training accident today at ft. stewart, an army base in georgia. they were riding in a bradley fighting vehicle when the accident happened.

tom hanson has new details. >> reporter: the six soldiers were riding in a 25-ton armored bradley fighting vehicle, like the ones pictured here. three died on scene and three others were rushed to a nearby hospital. investigators have not said what caused the accident. in a written statement major general said today is a heartbreaking day for the 3rd infantry division and the entire ft. stewart-hunter army airfield community as we are all devastated after a training accident. the 450-square-mile base is home to about 18,000 soldiers and 4,000 army civilian workers. the incident falls on the heels of other deadly accidents for the military. in june at west point military academy, a vehicle training exercise killed one cadet and injured 21 others. in january a combat engineer died when his bradley fighting vehicle rolled over. the military plans to release

the names 24 hours after they notify all next of kin. tom hanson, cbs news, new york. we learned today that the european union is expected to delay its divorce from britain until february. the deadline had been october history was written 254 31st. miles above the earth. >> order! for the first time ever, nasa >> in a rare saturday session, conducted an all-female the house of commons refused to spacewalk outside the vote on prime minister boris international space station. johnson's brexit plan. but the astronauts are doing a outside 1 million protesters lot more than walking. they were on a repair mission. demanded a new referendum on the michelle miller reports. issue. canadians go to the polls >> reporter: nasa astronauts tomorrow to choose lawmakers who christina cook and jessica meir will sit in their house of commons. prime minister justin trudeau's completed the first all-female majority government could be in jeopardy after being bruised by spacewalk. the mission went off without a hitch. scandals. polls show his liberal party and >> jessica, christina, we are so rival conservatives in a dead heat. proud of you. you'reng to do great. we'll be waiting for you here in the "cbs overnight news" a couple of hours when you get will be right back. home. >> thank you so much. our pleasure working with you this morning. >> reporter: it began at 7:38

eastern time when christina cook and jessica meir first stepped into outer space. >> oh, wow. baja peninsula, one favorite things to look at. >> reporter: tethered to the space station by all too-thin cords and began their mission to replace a faulty power controller. >> the box is just to your right. >> okay, i see >> reporter: seven hours and 17 minutes later, the job was complete and they closed the hatch behind them. the repair job marked cook's fourth spacewalk and meir's first, but it's the first time two women have intren toured out of a spacecraft as a team. >> station, this is president donald trump. do you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> that's great. >> reporter: and president trump congratulated them while the two were still at work in a video call from the white house, thanking them for their bravery and service. >> and i just want to congratulate you. what you do is incredible. you're very brave people. >> reporter: the first woman to ever walk in space was russian

cosmonaut svetlana, the but plans for an all-women's walk earlier this year had to be scuttled when nasa realized the space station lacked a second properliy fitting suit. it was an embarrassing ov overl "saturday night live" back here on earth. >> and this has got to be disappointing. >> nope. >> reporter: nasa's next milestone could come in 2024 when the agency plans a return trip to the moon, very possibly with a woman taking that small step and giant leap onto the lunar service. one go indication, the mission is named artemis, after the twin sister after the greek god apollo. that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new

york city, i'm elaine quijano. it's monday, october 21st, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." tornado! >> texas twister. thousands of anti-government a tornado touches down in dallas protesters in hong kong defied a packing winds of over 100 miles per hour and leaving behind a ban and flooded streets today. trail of damage. it got ugly fast. some protesters threw gas bombs u.s. forces are withdrawing from and set fires. police responded with water northern syria, but they're not coming home. cannons and tear gas. it's the 20th week of why the trump administration is positioning them in iraq increasingly violent instead. demonstrations with no end in sight.ew tensions between plus, a deadly army training accident. three soldiers are dead and three others hurt after a training exercise went horribly training exercise went horribly wrong. nuclear-armed rivals. today india and pakistan once captioning funded by cbs

again exchanged fire across the line disputing the himalayan good morningth region of kashmir. ten people have died in the las. >> reporter: the fig kashmir's l between india and pakistan about 500 miles north of here. india's military says the fighting started when pakistan fired on an indian border post and several civilian areas along the heavily militarized frontier. pakistani officials dispute that version, saying they retaliated because india fired first. both countries say the attacks were unprovoked and are a violation of a cease-fire deal that's been in place between the two since 2003. now earlier this year, india and pakistan were on the brink of a full-scale war when the two carried out air strikes over each other's territories. then in august the conflict flared again when prime minister modi stripped kashmir of its status as a semiautonomous

region sending in more than 10,000 troops and imposing a virtual blackout on all information coming in and out of the region. we're now told some mobile phone service has been restored but the internet is still blocked for kashmir's entire population of 8 million people. the region is muslim majority and has been a major flashpoint over the past seven decades. since 1989, at least 70,000 people have been killed. elaine? >> thank you. a series of controlled explosions toppled two construction cranes that have been leaning over a collapsed new orleans hotel. it's still unclear if the demolitions went at planned. the crane on the left appears to have only partially fallen. on the right, a large portion of that crane was left hanging over canal street. 300,000 public school children in chicago are expected to miss a third day of class tomorrow.

the city's 25,000 teachers have been striking since thursday. pay is not the only issue. teachers are also demanding urcl workers. senator bernie sanders is back on the campaign trail. the democratic presidential candidate spoke to a crowd of thousands in new york city yesterday. 19 days after he suffered a heart attack. among his supporters, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who officially endorsed him. both sat down with nicole killian. >> you both are part of the most diverse congress in history. this is also the most diverse democratic presidential field ever. i'm going to be a little blunt with you, congresswoman, and a woman of color, why back an old white guy? and is this the future of the party? >> yeah, you know, i'm actually very excited about this partnership because it shows what we have to do our

country, is that we have to come together, across race, across gender, across generation, and across class in order to establish our basic system rights. >> the only way in my view that we beat trump is through a campaign of energy and excitement where millions of people, young people, working people, poor people, who have not been involved in politics, are going to stand up and say, you know what, this is our country. and it's not just the country of the 1%. and i think with alex andree can yeah on board, we're going to rally those people and win this campaign. >> and you can watch much more of the interview with bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez on "cbs this morning". an add vjimmy, the border c ended up stranded 65 feet down a cliff high above bell's beach, auts trail yeah. a rescue worker dropped in,

greeted by jimmy and his frantically wagging tail. after being hoisted to safety, jimmy and his two-legged dad were happily reunited. robots in the workplace, are they coming for your job? also, the chilling effect of climate change on california wine. and cancer survivors take their fight to the

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gm. workers are set to volt friday on a tentative new labor deal. it would end a 35-day-old walkout that's shut down gm kruk amica. there is lingering tension among workers, not just about the contract, but the future of their work. here's gene reynolds. >> reporter: while gm and the united auto workers have struck a tentative deal, there's an unmistakable trend towards new technologies with the way work is done, not just in the auto industry but across the country. the issue came up at the most recent debate. >> so should workers here in ohio not be worried about losing their job to automation? >> so, the data show that we've had a lot of problems with losing jobs but the principle reason has been bad trade policy. >> reporter: andrew yang argued it's not trade, it's the future, and it's here. >> driving a truck is the most common job in 29 states, including this one. 3.5 million truck drivers in this country, and my friends in

california, are pilot self-driving trucks. >> reporter: a study by the brookings institution says truckers and everyone else should bucstimated automation w affect approximately 25% of all u.s. jobs in the coming decades. and that routine, predictable, physical and cognitive tasks will be most vulnerable to automation. that sounds a lot like the assembly line where, for example, gm plans to introduce 20 new all-electric models by 2023. vehicles that have less complicated motors, fewer parts and need fewer workers to produce. matthew spanko is a professor at the illinois institute of technology. he says, not to worry. >> new types of jobs have always, always come up. >> we have adjusted. >> we have adjusted. every single time a new technology has come up, society has adjusted. >> reporter: that means learning new skills to fit t

determine how long and painful the adjustment will be. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. still ahead, how climate change is threatening to dry up california's multibillion dollar wine industry. i can't believe it. what? that our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost? hey jill! hey kurt! movies? i'll get snacks! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our car insurance with geico. i got snacks! ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. am i chewing too loud?veou fifteen percent

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freshedoe. harvest season is wrapping up in california's napa valley. the state's wine industry is big business, valued at $160 billion. climate change has the growers and their grapes withering on the fine. >> reporter: while a red wine should be aged in barrels, these cabernet grapes are dying on the vine. andy beckstoffer has been growing grapes for some of the biggest names in california's wine country since the early 1970 says. how many cab do you drink a day? >> the big deal is the e nner? . nature that we have with climate here. we have bugs we've never heard of, we have sdiss we never heard of before. we've changed the way we farm because of it.tee fin

>> repr:ereng it's alshere reerith projappenil over the area. you want to keep the wine quality. >> that's right. we want to keep it delicious and cost-worthy of that $300 bottle. >> reporter: beckstoffer vineyards are investing tens of millions of dollars, partnering with uc davis for the world's most ambitious cabernet clone trial. they say the area has heated up by nearly 2 degrees. it may not sound like much, but culturalists say it's enough to eventually make cabernet grapes extinct. >> we can't say, oh, we'll think about it 20 or 30 years from now. you have to take action now. >> reporter: what does it mean to this area that you're doing this research? >> we don't look at this as just a northern california trial or

experiment. we look at this as an industrywide trial. >> reporter: uc davis is using shade nets, switching from horizontal to vertical planting and various technology to grow a better, stronger grape. you have naysayers. >> they might think we're going too far, spending too much money doing it, we're chasing things that won't turn up. >> reporter: researchers are testing 100 combinations, but it will take at least six years to yield results. like any fine wine, beckstoffer says it will take time, but the fate of one of america's most famous valleys may hang in the balance. >> we'll use that data not only to fight climate change but in the best spot, hopefully, to improve the wine quality. that's the big deal. >> reporter: cbs news, napa valley, california. next, cancer survivors land a punch in the fight for their lives.

finally tonight, nearly 2 million americans are diagnosed with cancer every year. our chip reid met some survivors fighting for a knockout blow. >> reporter: at age 31, andy got blindsided by breast cancer. >> round one. >> reporter: but now healthy, she picked this fight. did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine yourself in a boxing ring? >> never, no. >> reporter: ann any is here with the help of haymakers for hope, a nonprofit that pairs people who are literally fighting for a cure. like his co-founder, julianne

kelly. >> after treatment i kind of fell into a little bit of a depression and i just said to myself, you're here. other people don't get to experience what you're experiencing. throw that out and do something good. >> reporter: in its ninth year, haymakers for hope has raised $36 million at 26 events, including bells of the brawl, featuring female fighters, rumble in the rockies and this one in washington. where a lymphoma survivor, also stepped into the ring. is there anybody you know who might be looking forward to you getting punched in the face? >> e on, plenty of people, absolutely. >> i'm sure some exs out there. >> reporter: annie spent four months in gruelling training, learning how to defend and land. he trained five days a week, even with his own business, two young kids and a new wife who wasn't always on board. >> i didn't tell my wife until after the fact. every day she's like, if you

want to continue doing anything like this, we're going to have a discussion about it. >> reporter: but on fight night, she was in his corner. >> are you nervous? >> i'm so nervous. >> reporter: annie's cheering section included her mother and sister, also a cancer survivor. >> she is tough! >> reporter: tough enough to beat more than breast cancer. >> and the winner, awesome ann any. >> reporter: are you surprised? >> no. >> reporter: no? >> what did i tell you? >> reporter: you said you were going to win. winning with the confidence that comes when you've already won the fight of your life. chip reid, cbs news, washington. before we go, an introduction. to video elizabeth.zna congratulations. welcome to the world, emerson. that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for

"cbs this morning." i'm elaine quijano. welcome to the "overnight news." the decision, while it lasted, was unprecedented in american politics with an impeachment inquiry swirling around him, president trump last thursday awarded a huge contract to himself. directing next year's g-7 summit be held at his golf resort outside miami. now an abrupt reversal. after days of fierce criticism trampling the constitution. >> reporter: president trump blamed media and democrat-crazed and irrational hostilitity for ditching his doral golf resort

in florida as the site of the g-7 summit in june. the president came up withid, w during this year's gathering in france. >> we have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants. >> reporter: white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney suggested why mr. trump changed his mind. >> he was honestly surprised at the level of pushback. at the end of the day he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business. >> reporter: but at a press briefing on thursday, mulvaney said president trump was prepared to handle criticism. >> there's going to be folks who will never get over the fact it's a trump property. we get that. but we're still going to go there. >> reporter: it was also during that briefing mulvaney admitted there was a quid quoe proceed involving military aid to ukraine and said the president froze the money to get ukraine to look into the origins of the russia investigation. >> whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our department of justice, that's completely legitimate. >> reporter: a claim so stunning, he was asked to clarify. >>ut to

quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server foreign licy. >> reporter: today mulvaney denied saying what he said. >> you were asked by jonathan karl, you described a quid pro quo and you said, that happens all the time. >> and reporters will use their language all the time, so my language never said quid pro quo. can i see how people took that the wrong way, absolutely, but i never said there was a quid pro quo, because there isn't. >> reporter: democrats say the danl is done and argue they have even more evidence in their impeachment inquiry. >> the speaker of the house would like to get this wrapped up by the end of the year. >> reporter: the white house says mulvaney still has president trump's confidence but cbs news has learned that he was on thin ice even before the briefing with with officials

the impeacen abo hisg title backnul the prtirenyone atbecause antime. >> thank you. american forces continued their withdrawal from northern syria today. defense secretary mark esper says they're headed for iraq, not home, as president trump promised. left behind, america's ally, the kurds. as holly williams reports, a cease-fire about to end could determine their fate. >> reporter: there were reports of spored addic clashes between turkey forces and kurdish-led fighters today and turkey said one of its soldiers were killed but for mou the cease-fire seems to be mostly holding. remember, this turkish incurse began last week after president trump effectively opened the door to turkey announcing that d w u.s. troops are in the

process of withdrawing entirely from eastern syria. kurdish led forces were america's closest partners on the ground in syria in the fight against isis. 's s they werayeby the u.s. president trump called the pntk turkish pren wea, e, greatay lization eir y.rdyuld out of one town today but turkey says they need to withdrawal from a nearly 300-mile stretch of border or it will renew its assault. the other impact of the u.s. withdrawal is to hand even greater influence to russia. turkey's president erdogan will meet the russian president vladimir putin on tuesday and the future of eastern sia could be decided at that meeting. at which the united states will play no part. elaine? >> holly williams, thank you. three soldiers were killed

and three others injured during a training accident today stewart, an army basene rid a b fighting vehicle when the accident happened. tom hanson has new details. >> reporter: the six soldiers were riding a 25-ton armored bradley fighting vehicle like the ones pictured here. three died on scene and three others were rushed to a nearby hospital. investigators have not said what caused the accident. in a written statement major general tony aguto said, today is a heartbreaking day for the 3rd infantry division and the entire ft. stewart-hunter army airfield community as we are all devastated after a training accident this morning on the ft. stewart training area. the base is home to about 18,000 soldiers and 4,000 army civilian workers and is responsible for training and deploying active and reserve military personnel. the incident falls on theen the military. in june at west point military

academy, a vehicle training exercise killed one cadet and injured 21 others. and in january, a combat engineer died when his bradley fighting vehicle rolled over. the military plans to release the names 24 hours after they notify all next of kin. tom hanson, cbs news, new york. we learned today that the european union is expected to delay its divorce from britain until february. the deadline had been october 31st. >> order! >> in a rare saturday session, the house of commons refused to vote on prime minister boris johnson's brexit plan. outside 1 million protesters demanded a new referendum on the issue. senator bernie sanders is t. the democratic presidential candidate spoke to a crowd of thousands in new york city yesterday. 19 days after he suffered a ngr

ocasio-cortez, who officially endorsed him. both sat down with nicole killian. >> reporter: i'm going to be a little blunt with you, congresswoman, and don't take offense, senator, but as a woman of color, why back an old white guy? and is this the future of the party? >> yeah, you know, i'm actually very excited about this partnership because it shows what we have to do with our country. is that we have to come together across race, across gender, across generation and across class in order to establish our basic system system rights. >> the only way, in my view, that we beat trump is through a campaign of energy and excitement where millions of people, young people, working p, country. and it's not just the country of the 1%. and i think with alexandria on board, we're going to rally those people and win this campaign. killian's interview w

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this is the "cbs overnight news." three hollywood names got together to make a landmark film about jimmy hoffa. we had them sit down about their project "the irishmen." >> reporter: in a retro speakeasy, high above manhattan recently, the stars aligned. >> well, here we are. >> reporter: super novas. martin scorse talking about their first high-wattage

collaboration "the irishman." >> hi, frank, would you like to be a part of history? >> yes, i would. >> take business and the government by working together, trying to pull us apart. >> something has to be done. >> fans have been waiting for the three of you to do something forever. why did it take so long? >> you didn't want to work with me, right? >> i didn't want to work with you. >> i'm saying to the best of my recollection -- >> reporter: did you know what to expect? >> you know what it is? you're without a don't care because you can do anything because he's the net, he'll take care of it. whatever you do. going this direction, that direction, you're safe. >> get that gun out of his hands. >> always charge a guy with a gun. with a knife, you run away. you charge with a gun. with a knife, you run. >> i could have shot for another five or six months. i was happy. >> could you really? >> yeah. >> reporter: do you drink on the job?

>> no. >> did you ever hit anybody? >> on the job? >> yeah. >> i don't think so. >> all right, then we don't have nothing to worry about. >> reporter: their upcoming film is a mob epic. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: after all, with this cast, which also includes joe pesci and harvey keitel. it would be a shame if it wasn't. >> we're going to war with d.c. wrt but this is not "goodfellas" andi it's not the god father. the irishman is taking stock of lives lived hard. if there's one thing you want people to walk away with after seeing this film, what would it be? >> that people feel something about it. >> that's interesting. >> yeah, something comesff at iofort utyou , is affecting that sense and you don't even know why.

>> it's about getting eeolder a what's happening with us and just realizing this is what it is. you know, that's it. >> i heard you paint houses. >> yes, yes, sir, i do. i do. >> reporter: the film chronicles a true story about franc sheerer, played by de niro. he was a hit man who got in close with the controversial leader of the teamsters union, jimmy hoffa, played by pacino. >> our friend speaks very highly of you. >> thank you. >> he's not an easy man to please. >> well, i do my best. >> reporter: he's a bulky guy. he's there to be the muscle. and yet his personality isn't so much that. he's a much softer guy. >> that's what i felt. i mean, that he was like -- that he was a good soldier, but he had to do what he had to do, you know. >> reporter: his friend, jimmy hoffa, was as well known as any president back in da >> d ever readne se

article where they ever said hoffa didn't deliver the goods? the answer is no. >> reporter: a controversial but charismatic labor leader, he disappeared in 1975 without a trace. >> suburban shopping center where hoffa was last seen that day. >> reporter: sparking conspiracy theories that still swirl today. his body has never been found, but frank sheerhan, the real one, said he knew exactly what happened to hoffa. >> now someone has stepped forward to tell what really happened on the day hoffa disappeared. >> reporter: late in life and on camera, taped by best-selling arthur charles brandt. >> there's no question that frank was telling me the truth. >> reporter: he said hoffa's body was cremated. >> they took the body to the incinerator. that was a funeral parlor? >> funeral parlor, yeah. jimmy was put into the incinerator. >> reporter: but he went even further, not only did he know

what happened to hoffa after he was murdered, he confessed he was the one who killed him. with two bullets to the back of the head in this house in detroit. and that was that. at the end of the day, do you bee him? >> i do, yeah. >> reporter: you think he did it? >> i do. that's me. i do. >> yeah, i sort of do, too. too many things when he tells the stories, they're so accurate. if i were to tell you of my day, which i really think is interesting, by the way -- >> reporter: especially today. >> especially today and the last five minutes, you know, you would know i'm telling the truth, you know. and then i went and then the bus -- and it was going this way and i said, well, i'll get a cab. i saw the cab driver -- there are so many details that come out -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. that's great. >> you just say, that's real. >> reporter: do you ever wonder what he would think of the film? >> oh, gosh. >> i don't know if i want to know.

reporter: hoffa doesn't come off exactly as love only, but pacino plays him with as much color as he had in real life. >> everything you done, you're a real gentleman. >> i just feasted on hoffa. i really just enjoyed. >> reporter: did you improvise a lot? >> yeah, sometimes i did. drove him nuts. but at the same time -- >> reporter: did it drive you nuts? >> no. there was only one time where you were doing the speech. >> in the '60s he was like the beatles. >> there were a couple hundred extras, right, and they were all yelling hoffa, hoffa, and it was you making the speech about -- >> a truck brought it. >> if you have pencils, if you have, you know, chairs, if you have anything -- oil for your industries, a truck brought it to you. >> the day our trucks stopped, america stops! >> big business and government was trying to tear the union apart, interesting. >> beautiful reading. >> thank you.

thank you. thank you. but then i wanted him to stop. i kept yelling, cut, cut, cut. i couldn't breathe. i said finally -- people ran down to stop him because he was going. i couldn't get the message to him to just stop. please. >> reporter: he did the same with dinero. >> and you tell this guy something, anything, he just goes with anything. you just say anything, he's there. >> reporter: is that right? >> yes. >> yes. >> i remember once i was doing a movie with brando, the one movie i did is called "the score," i don't even know if he read the script, he just went where he wanted to go and everybody went with him. >> my hand has to be $6 million. >> operator, i got a nut down here that just said $6 million. >> what else are you going to do? >> he wasn't doing i'm just saying -- it's all

right. >> reporter: the film is a collection of flashbacks over 50-some years aided by new technology that deaged the , especially de niro who looks at some point in the film like he's back to his taxi driver days it, a digital fountain of youth. what's it like to look at yourselves on screen and see yourselves 20 or 30 years younger? >> well, i used to joke, it will add 30 years to my career. i have no complaints. >> do you believe this weather, frank? >> reporter: but that technology did not come cheap. to help balloon the film's budget to nearly $160 million. major studios wouldn't touch it. netflix, however, was all over it. >> it's a whole newe there. we don't know where this is going to go. the fact is that this film is made by netflix, they stepped up, no interference. none. allowed us tocgi, all that sort. >> reporter: if they hadn't, it neve would have gotten made? >> no. because they don't want to make the pictures i want to make out

there. it's over. it's finished. >> feels like the army. you followed orders. you did the right thing. you got rewarded. >> reporter: you can't help but feel this may be a one-off, a perfect storm of talent that doesn't blow our way very often. but nobody here is retiring any time soon. if anything, they seem more energized than ever. do you feel like collectively that this is one of the best things you guys have ever done? >> i mean, i always knew that it would be a special thing no matter what happened as far as the reaction to it, that we would be -- create something, do something together, all of us. it was going to be special no matter what. you can't take that away from us. that's all. if it gets a good reaction, that's even better. >> who