barbara walters, that's excellent. yeah, you know. three three characteristics of the three women done biographies of our two i've done and when i'm working on complicated barbara bush barbara bush. yes. i did a biography of barbara bush. called the matriarch barbara bush nancy pelosi and now barbara walters one. they're complicated. to their consequential they had an impact. and three no good biography of them. so a lot of you know, yeah, there's kind. and feel on that. yeah. hi my question. that that item that you talking to speaker pelosi about in the ninth interview. what was that item actually in in your included in your book. was yeah and what? what was that? so not gonna poke the bear by telling what it was but you know, i'll tell you this. this actually makes me look smart when potentially could make me look stupid. so i'll tell this story when when i was when i was starting both books. i didn't. contact the subject of the books beforehand to see if they would cooperate. which i think potentially could be very stupid. both of

now barbara walters. they are complicated and they their consequential and they had an impact and no good biography of them. >> the item that you are talking to nancy pelosi about was that item included in your book? >> it was, yeah. [applause] >> what was that? >> i'm not going to poke the bear by telling you what it was. potential it will make me look so i will tell the story. when i was starting both books i didn't contact the subject of the book beforehand to see if they would cooperate which i think potentially could be very. both of them cooperate at. i did interviews with barbara bush and attend interviews with pelosi for this book and an 11th interview for the paperback which just came out. the reason i did didn't ask them if they would cooperate is becauseth i thought if they said no i might out and i thought if they said yes that they might think they had control over what i wrote. if i came to them and i have signed a contract to do a biography of you and i would really appreciate you talking t

barbara bush, nancy pelosi and now barbara walters. one, they are complicated. 2, they are consequential. they had an impact and three, no good biography ofthem . >> there's quite a good deal onthat . >> that item that you were talking about about speaker pelosi ... [inaudible] was that item in your book? >> it was. >> and what was that? >> i'm not going to poke the bear by telling what it was but this makes me look smart. when i was starting both books, i didn't contact the subject of the book beforehand to see if they would cooperate which potentially could be very stupid . both of them icooperated. i did interviews with barbara bush in the last six months of her life and the 10 interviews with pelosi for this book and then an 11 interview for the hardback, for the paperback which just came out a couple weeks ago. but the reason i didn't ask them if they would cooperate is because i thought if they said no, i might chicken out. and i thought if they saidyes , they might think they had some control over what i wrote but if i came to t

working and i work for simon and schuster is another biographer and another interesting woman, barbara walters would buy that book, right quick. >>g spec you texted them this morning and said we would be together. >> we love our agent. the three characteristics of the three women complicated. one is t complicated, too was consequential with an impact and there is no good biography of them. >> . >> that item your writing to speaker pelosi about wasn't actually included in your book? >> it was and what was that quick. >> i will not poke the bear. [laughter] but w this makes me look smart or also stupid so starting both books i did not contact the subject before hand and then for the last six months of her life and then policyth for this book but the reason i did not estimate they would cooperate is because i thought if they said no then i might kick them out and i thought if they said yes that they may have some control over what i wrote but if i came to them and said i signed a contract and i appreciate you talking to me, then it is clear i'm writing the work of journalismou and not an authoriz

this is not what barbara walters envisioned 25 years ago. >> carley: certainly not. talking to todd. hi, nice to meet you. >> todd: been a pleasure. >> carley: my sister every single morning when we were kids and it was more pop culture and fun and now it is just gosh darn divicive, todd. >> todd: it is. joe, thank you. >> joe: glad we have the names straight. >> carley: virtually shaking your hand. >> joe: this is from carley getting knocked down in knocker-ball. >> carley: knocked down while winning. i got the trophy. somebody getting a trophy today, it is primary states in new jersey. >> todd: they give a trophy? "fox and friends" goes, pete hegseth is there. hi, hegseth. >> pete: i believe they call it a consolation trophy, carley. she did win the trophy, carley, be honest, it was wonderful approach to knocker-ball and you did a great job. >> carley: you know how i won? i thought it was a secret? i stole the -- >> pete: put the soccer ball in front of you and kicked it while the rest -- >> carley: i cheated. i stole the soccer ball, put it in my giant inflatable

in both america and britain were angling for diana to sit on a couch, notably oprah winfrey, barbara walterses of panorama with martin bashir, someone who was pretty much unknown. martin bashir got to diana by approaching her brother, lord spencer, and made allegations about how she was being spied on. he claimed her car had been fitted with a tracking device, her telephone lines were bugged. >> martin bashir came to her apartment with what he called his anti-bugging team and went right over to a radio and produced what he said was a electronic bug, a listening device. >> bashir even convinced her that the boys' nanny was having an affair with prince charles. he convinced diana that her private secretary was in cahoots with prince charles' private secretary. >> diana had good reason to believe martin bashir's deception. charles' camp had been trying to undermine her for years. and she'd been spied on before. >> the abhorrent ways in which bashir deceived her played right into her biggest fears. >> with the squijie gate tapes, diana had had her private phone conversation recorded and then lea

. >>> welcome, barbara walters. it's a pleasure to have the chance to talk with you today. .. think or believe and what i thought it would make sense to do when we get launched to give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms then we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we go along. >> my argument comes from studying civil awards for the last 30 years. i've looked at all regions, all countries out of experience of the worse since the end of world war ii and there been over 200 of them. one of the things that we've learned, they tend to break out in similar ways in the same factors emerge in the lead up to these wars no matter where they happen. then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the u.s. governments task force they have a task force called the political instability task force i served on that until the end of last year. the goal of that task force was to come up with a predictive model to try to predict where around the world countries would experience instability and political violence. so there are a bunch of experts on civil wars like myself,

. >> welcome, barbara walter, a pleasure to have a chance to talk with you today. ... an astonishing national debate about where we are as a country today during a moment of. quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would many of us would likeo to think or believe, and what i thought it would make sense to do as we get launched is give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms, and thengo we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we go along.

. >> welcome, barbara walter, a pleasure to have a chance to talk with you today. ... an astonishing national debate about where we are as a country today during a moment of. quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would many of us would likeo to think or believe, and what i thought it would make sense to do as we get launched is give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms, and thengo we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we go along. >> guest: yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. i look at all reasons, all countries that have experienced civil wars since the end of world war ii, and there have been over 200 of them. one of the things we've learned is they tend to break out in similar ways, and the same factorss emerge in the lead up o these wars, no matter where they happen. and then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the u.s. g

way downplayed what women thought, i guess, and didn't really put much oomph behind them and barbara waltersoing the same thing because we've given women notice that they do matter, and their thoughts and beliefs do matter, and so we're letting everybody talk where everybody has a place at this table. so that's what we'll do. >> and ten years after the show debuted, you came in as a co-host in 2007. did you expect to be there for so many years? >> no. no. no, but you know, sometimes -- you find yourself going, okay, here's the plan for my life and then something happens and you go along and you go, oh, i guess i'm doing something different. i'm lucky enough to have been able to stay as long as i have been at this table. the table, you know, we've had lots of different people, and so i'm really kind of surprised to find myself here still, but really grateful given all that's going on in the world. >> well, we're grateful to have you there guiding the conversations. we understand, i know you had a lot of great moments there at the show but we understand one of your favorite moments came during