fattah was yasser arafat. involved in the palestinian cause since the 1960s. >> arafat thought he was the leader of the palestinians, and he was, in effect. i mean, he couldn't control all i mean, he couldn't control all of them, but ina much as they had an elected representative, it was yassar arafat. >> more than five minutes past the deadline, and the arab guerillas said they would execute their hostages, it appears that the conference still on. >> an estimated 900 million people that had tuned in to watch the olympic games around the world were now transfixed watching this grisly terrorist drama play out in front of them. >> the israeli hostages and the arab commandos who have held them hostage for this entire day has now left to a makeshift helicopter pad at the back of the olympic village. >> the israelis wanted to come in and try and rescue them, and the germans said no. you know, when a bad number comes up, it comes up very bad. >> we find that this drama has not ended. >> the german police were sent u

whether it's fidel castro or, i don't know, yasser arafat, or vladimir putin.you're in it, you're not there to judge. you're there to get your questions answered and the way to do it for me is to counterattack, maybe, but not to challenge. this is not a, why did you? how come? i didn't do that. >> when will your country and my country have normal relations? [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: i believe that that depends on the good will of both parties. and i believe that it also depends on time. >> i understand that you have a note in spanish on your wall at home from fidel castro, from may 20th, 1977, at 1:29 a.m., in the morning, and it says, for barbara, as a remembrance of the most difficult interview that i've had in all the days of my life. why was it so difficult? >> because it was endless. and because i was able to ask him questions, he did so few interviews that very few people had asked. i was able to ask about his feelings about democracy, which as i noted, he does not see it as we do. but i also asked him personal questions. which he doesn't like a

yasser arafat is in the news. interesting. they overruled it. then arafat whipped off his headgear revealing he's really singer willie nelson. [ laughter ] let's be honest. i mean, arafat is not a good looking man. [ laughter ] he went to a tailor, and said, "make me look better, " and the tailor turned his hat backwards, so it would cover-- [ laughter ] i think there are about 20-- how many shopping days until christmas? have you started? you don't do it early. >> not until the end. yeah. >> yeah. i went >> you've been going in there a lot. >> what? >> you've been going in there a lot. >> i get my jokes there. [ laughter ] you know, jokes are us boutique. [ laughter ] they have-- they have an image of catering only to the rich, so what they trying to do, i guess, is appeal more to the-- you know, the ordinary shopper. i think they went a little far at gucci's though. they're calling it g mart. [ laughter ] >> it turned. >> obviously some didn't go home last night. [ laughter ] stayed in the studio overnight. have you been to that man shop-- rit

now, if you believe that you will also believe that yasser arafat is going to make the cover of gentlemen's quarterly. [ laughter ] all i've been reading about in the paper is about the budget deficit, and the new tax plan. the reagan administration had some meetings yesterday talking about the budget, and there was a big uproar when the director of the budget, david stockman, was sitting over in a corner of the room. turned around, and said, "are there six zeros that's scary. in case you are planning to travel over the holidays. you're going to italy. one place you might want to avoid right now is venice. do you know why? in the paper today it said that there are more pigeons in the city of venice, italy than there are people, and during the day pigeon pollution-- [ laughter ] falls on venice to the amount of 200 tons a day. [ ht the big industry used to be tourism. now it's hats. [ laughter ] a lot of hats. [ applause ] two hundred tons. no. come on. don't. don't feel you have to do it. only from the heart. [ laughter ] well, west hollywood officially became a city yesterday, and with the

said get a load of this and arrived here for my smithsonian internship and it was the next day yasser arafat on the white house lawn, a hopeful time in america. the library of congress sponsoring this event. the first i worked on that had the isbn number, the library of congress catalog number, and in philadelphia, the archives of american art, that was the main one. italian-american art history. i was saying earlier for me as an author every time i get a book in the mail the first thing i do is look at that catalog number, life is short in the library of congress. take that, great britain. being here thinking about when i was a young pup leading home to come here, that is the story i have been writing all these years through seven books. always the story of the misfit leaving home and that is the story of our country. earlier this year, this is the story of the united states, a kid walked away from home with a song and nothing else and conquered the world. that is the story i am writing whether it is the a roosevelt leaving new york city to mourn his wife and mother and head out to north da

wonderland and i arrived here in dc for my smithsonian internship and i think it was the next day yasser arafat shook revealed his hand on the white house lawn and it was a hopeful time in america the library of congress is sponsoring this event, you know, when i was an intern at the smithsonian the first work i worked on that had the number of the library of congress catalog number two things like art philadelphia in the archives of american art tort-- that was the main one. italian american art history and i was seen earlier that for me as an author, every time i get one of my books and it comes in the mail the first time the person i do is that catalog number because, as we all know life is short and the library of congress is forever. [applause]. >> so, take that, great britain, anyway being here thinking about when i was leaving home to come here i realize that is the story that i have been writing all of these years through so many books. it's always the story of the misfit leaving home and that is the story of our country. i think earlier this year they said this is the story the united

. >> i have been with rock stars, all th the rolling stones, the peettles, i have been with yasser arafatd every dictator in general from southeast asia to the tip of latin america, there are people that you connect with in a way in an intrapersonal way that has nothing to do with the outside world. like i like you, i really like you. you and i come from different sides of the street. we probably agree on a couple of things in the middle there. and, yet, i find you engaging in many ways. i find you refreshing in many ways. and come to bury castro not to praise him tonight. >> i hope you will come back tomorrow night and tell us what a great guy charles manson is. geraldo, thanks for joining us. >> he wanted to put my head in a basket. >> i bet he did. thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. on that note. >> coming up, i'm ready to take your criticism, a lot of it you sent in some very cool tweets. we're not afraid. we will bring them to you at godaddy, our goal is to make you look awesome online. let's chat in football terms. this is the goal post. the end zone. the goal of every team. we k

connected the anti-shah revolutionary movement in the 1970s to colonel gadhafi's libya and the plo's yasser arafat. we now know that in 1977, for example, the libyan embassy paid the iranian mujahideen $100,000 every three months. that's 1977 dollars. every three months to buy such high-powered weapons as armor-piercing rifle grenades, assault rifles and mortars to use against the iranian security forces. their maoist counterpart was supplied with polish, czech and east german weaponry that included tungsten armor-piercing ammunition, machine pistols, submachine guns and high-powered hunting rifles. this was 1977, before the revolution starts. presenting this evidence does not detract from the fact that there was a high level of dissatisfaction in iran in 1978. but neither can scholars now overlook compelling evidence that that shows the level and presence of an organized, foreign-backed opposition to the pahlavi state. one of the reasons why i believe these groups mobilized against the shah was in reaction to his decision to support his friend anwar sadat's search for a peace settlement with isra

incredibly difficult for president obama to be in this position -- >> like revenge shaking hands with yasser arafat that was distasteful. you could tell, he did not want to put his hand on the man who had been approving terrorism for years. >> but i think what the president did is stepped into his constitutional role. that wasn't hard, right? he put the country before his personal feelings about donald trump. which i think should be applauded. which is not an easy thing to do. as we know, this country is incredibly divided. the race has showed us that. so i think, you know, the hope is that donald trump learns from what president obama did. >> let me go back to steven and back to you, karine. a little bit of the point today was these two gentleman, big shot, one president, one a billionaire, both elected for president, they never met each other. to me, that's a gareat example f this country. i think 99.9% of the trump voters have never really met obama -- they vernal haven't hung out with the hillary people. and there are hillary people who say, i don't know any trump people. that's why maybe i can

michael and david, i was once, fortunate enough to get an interview with yasser arafat, and one of the interesting side arrangements was, just to make things work smoothly here, i don't know who made the deal, but would you mind getting your rooms and stay at the hotel down there in ramala? nobody wanted to stay down there, but as a courtesy, the person who set up the meeting said, that's the way you do it. how does trump avoid foreign dignitaries coming to washington and passing the word through the office of protocol, oh, by the way, we've got 20 rooms at trump hotel down on pennsylvania avenue, as a courtesy to our host. how do you stop foreign people who are used to buying people, used to bribery, from playing the game with trump enterprises. >> it's too late. >> let me go to michael first. go ahead, michael? >> i'm kind of disappointed in the language i'm hearing about this. you can't stop that from happening, and there's no guarantee that it won't happen. and yeah, the law may be on your side, but the ethical conundrum that you create, and not only that, but just the way it appea

for my smithsonian internship, and i think it was the next day yasser arafat shook rabin's hand on the white house lawn. is a hopeful time in america. the library of congress is sponsoring this event. you know what i was an intern at the smithsonian the first words i worked on that had the isbnth number, we're finding aids to things like art in philadelphia, the archives of american art, or, yeah, that was the main one. italian-american art history. i was saying earlier that for me as an offer every time i get one of my books when it comes in the mail the first time, the first thing i do is look at that catalog number. because as we all know life is short and the library of congress is forever. [applause] so take that, great britain. [laughter] but anyway, being here thinking about when i was a young pup leaving him to come to i realized that is the story thati i've been writing all these years to seven books. it's always the story of the mistake leaving home, and that is the story of our country. i think earlier this year in the city t-bone burnett said this is the story of the united

yasser arafat is in the news. interesting. they overruled it. then arafat whipped off his headgear revealing he's really singer willie nelson. [ laughter ] let's be honest. i mean, arafat is not a good looking man. [ laughter ] he went to a tailor, and said, "make me look better, " and the tailor turned his hat backwards, so it would cover-- [ laughter ] i think there are about 20-- how many shopping days until christmas? have you started? you don't do it early. >> not until the end. yeah. >> yeah. >> you've been going in there a lot. >> what? >> you've been going in there a lot. >> i get my jokes there. [ laughter ] you know, jokes are us boutique. [ laughter ] they have-- they have an image of catering only to the rich, so what they trying to do, i guess, is appeal more to the-- you know, the ordinary shopper. i think they went a little far at gucci's though. they're calling it g mart. [ laughter ] >> obviously some didn't go home last night. [ laughter ] stayed in the studio overnight. have you been to that man shop-- ritzy man shop in beverl