. >> i managed to persuade former prime minister bliss tony back in the early 2014to give me his time and we ended up spending 18 months together. i said i was going to do this on the model of frost nixon . we were going to videotape at least 100 hours of interviews which we did, making a documentary right now but berlusconi is an outrageous character. it was a fascinating experience. there you have a self-made millionaire, a kind of italian donald trump in real estate who then becomes the kind of rupert murdoch billionaire media tycoon. then he gets elected to be prime minister.then he has 65 separate bribery corruption mafia scandals. has been put on trial all the time and of course, in all of this he was an important person meeting vladimir putin, his good friend. acting as a middleman between george w. bush and hooton during the post-cold war years. a friend of qaddafi, helped save qaddafi in the old days. disagree with hillary clinton over libya back in 2011 but berlusconi has a lot of inside stories to tell. when i was able to supplement the biography with interviews with mister