there was kind of an awkward moment in the interview when leslie stahl pointed outthat donald trump has suggested pointed to withering criticism about her vote in support of the iraq war , leslie stahl pointed out that pence voted for it as well, here's that moment. >> i don't care. >> what you mean you don't care that he voted? >> it's a long time ago. he voted that way and they were also misled, a lot of information. i was against the war in iraq from the beginning. >> but you use that both of hillary's that was the same as the governor as the example of her bad judgment. >> frankly, i'm one of thefew that was like . >> he's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while. >>. jon: so tammy, give us your assessment of that exchange. >> book, i think that mister trump is right. you've got hillary clinton in the senate voting that way for iraq and the debacle of her being secretary of state. it's a collective call about a series of decisions ending the horse with email server and the absurdity and the bottle of that, putting our national security at risk. when you're looking at a colle

the republican running mate sat down with leslie stahl for the first interview that airs sunday on "60utes." >> what is the negative side? he apologized for being a negative -- >> i understand that. i'll give you an example. hillary clinton is a liar. hillary clinton -- it was just proven last week. >> reporter: trump said he won't ask pence to be negative. cbc 3, eyewitness news. >>> our own jessica dean will be covering the rnc live from cleveland with reports all next week right here on eyewitness news. meanwhile, final preparations are underway for the democratic national convention. just nine days now until it begins. the convention runs the 25th through the 28th. presumptive democratic nominee hillary clinton is promising to introduce an amendment overturning citizens united. that's the supreme court ruling that opened the door to a flood of corporate and union spending in politics. clinton made the announcement tonight in a video showed to liberal activists meeting in st. louis. >>> plans to ban smoking at many new jersey beaches went up in smoke. governor christie vetoed a bill

a woman and the men we will talk about bad and her amazing career but please help me too well, leslie stahl. [applause] before we get to the book your colleague officially announced on wednesday that he is stepping down from "60 minutes" after 40 years. what your thoughts? >> garett is a sad this when people are the heart and soul almost for the beginning he has done the signature stories of 60 minutes where you say nobody else would do a story like that he had a twinkle in his eye and was a beautiful land whimsical writer that you don't please see on television. i have known him since he was the cbs bureau chief in london 1969. i dated myself. [laughter] he was always a person that cared of the journalism side of what we do and he will really be missed he is in the book not the police say the book but he is in there the book becoming grandmother. >> a think there is a one-hour special coming up of all his stories i tend to ask doctors when they appear and when and why do you decide to write the book? using the user can be found in that title itself? >> yes. there was a publisher in new yor

he caught journalists like leslie stahl in 1980, there was john wayne in a tank, jacqueline but there doubtfire, or a gay nightclub owner. in 1996 as "the bird cage". >> you do fussy, fussy, or martha graham. >> or matt damon's therapist in good will hunting. >> and you don't regret meeting your wife? because the pain i feel now? i don't regret a single day i spent with her. >> i never seen robin so focused on a movie? >> in 1997, he was shooting still photos to promote the movie. >> he had to use a boston accent, that was part of it. he was totally into it. he was studying with a dialect coach this his hotel room all weekend. and he delivered one of the great monologues, two pages of script on film that is still remembered. been totally vulnerable, known someone who could level you with her eyes. feeling like god put an angel on earth just for you. >> for this role, robin williams got his first oscar nomination and his first win. on oscar night, arthur grace was nearby, snapping everything with a pocket camera. >> what was robin williams like on oscar night? >> otherworldly, i was wa

a good story needs that.i want >> becoming grandma is a lovely read and i want to thank leslie stahl for coming here today. >> it was a pleasure. think you. >> thank you all. [applause] once again, were were going to go back here but leslie will bee out signing copies of the book. [inaudible conversation] >> the new boston post recently put together a list of the top ten summer books. the list starts off with george wills, the pursuit of happiness and other sobering thoughts which is a collection of essays written in 1978. william f buckley junior is next on the list with an exploration of his roman catholic faith in nearer my god. the downing street years by margaret thatcher is third and discusses her time as the prime minister of the united kingdom. in the way of the wasp examines the personality and value of george hw bush and his views on public service and tradition. the autobiography, the undocumented mark stein is fifth on the new boston post list followed by the closing of the american mind which is alan bloom's critique don't critique of american culture. next on the list is

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what a thrill it is to welcome our guest today, leslie stahl, a true trailblazer in the world of broadcast journalism and for the past 25 years she has served as correspondent on television's most respected and revered news program "60 minutes." she was cbs news white house correspondent during the carter, reagan and part of the george h.w. bush administration. aji hosted the sunday morning program face the nation for eight years. but it was five years ago that she took on the most important and rewarding job, and that his grandmother. leslie's new book "becoming grandma: the joys and science of the new grandparenting" explores how becoming a grandparent can truly transform women and men. we will talk about that book today and a little bit more about lesley's amazing gripper please help me welcome lesley stahl. [applause] >> before we get to the book, i want to ask a question about your colleague morley safer to officially announced wednesday he is stepping down from "60 minutes" after 40 plus years. tell us your thoughts. >> there's a sadness when the people who were the heart and soul of

. >> leslie stahl: how do you think you did in this movie?urself. >> michael caine: secretly with myself, i regarded it as the best thing i ever did. it was the most difficult.

. >> and let me ask you about the thing my friend leslie stahl, she was great there asking that question, you just blew it again but publicly he could be the guy that says what trump was trying to say there was he's with the american people. that's close to the american's point of view right now. whereas if he had chris christie there, he'd be trying to defend christie's latest league problems. this guy is ballist. >> and mike pence can pick up a call from paul ryan and explain. he knows motorcycle. he was in the leadership in the house. he's someone who can explain throughout the party about what trump is really trying to be. >> was he serious about picking christie? >> i think his gut was with christie because there's part of trump, if you talk to him -- >> with all of the bridgegate stuff out there? >> that's the problem. i heard chris christie in the talks, new jersey's fiscal record. matters number to trump and he was looking at new jersey and indiana and he was comparing records and pence had a better record, in my mind. >> how about newt? did he realize that he would be the subjec

the bush-chen the botched vp rollout, the interview with leslie stahl, now melania trump having thatech yesterday. how do they recover? >> first of all, acknowledge you made a mistake. you say yes, we made a mistake, we fired the staffer and you move on. this being looked into we will never apologize, we will try to defend and rationalize, sorry, chris christie this morning was somewhere between cringe worthy and pathetic. i understand why people might support donald trump but do you have -- can't you just hold on to a shred of dignity and not defend the indefensible? and what i'm concerned about is a lot of republicans here don't understand what a fiasco yesterday was they are in denial, they're drinking orange co kool-aid. you can't fix something if you don't have a problem. >> in all your years, bob, have you ever seen anything like we're witnessing today, how charlie is describing things about a fiasco? >> no, this is amateur hour. not just the vice presidential rollout but the fact that the first part of the convention program before melania trump there was no effort to reach ou

politicians running for office and journalists running to meet deadlines, like our cbs colleague leslie stahlp comedian-turned-movie star.xdlpu she played an elde/av woman in 1993's "mrs.t( doubtfií >> martha graham,w3 or twila! tracy smith: or matt damon's therapist in "good will hunting."ñri] >> the pain i got now, but i don'ti] regret a single day ilp arthur grace: i'd never seen robin so focused on a movie. i mean, he really was concentrating on this movie.r in boston on the set, shooting still #úsáos tá arthur grace: he had to use a boston accent. that was part of it. so he was into it, totally into it. he was studying with his dialect coach in his hotel room alltn7i. and he delivered one of the great monologues, two pages -- two pages of script on film that's still remembered. >> but you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable, known someone that could level you with her eyes,i] feeling like god put an angel on earth just for you.a5a5a tracy smith: for this role robin williams got his fourth oscar nomination, and his first win. on oscar night, arthur grace hovered nearby,

trump and his newly minted running mate mike pence with a pretty extraordinary interview with leslie stahlth chris christie and so many others pulled into trump's orbit, pence seemed prefouofoundly diminishe the experience. >> if he thinks i'm doing something wrong i would want him to come in and say really, and that's okay. >> do you think john mccain is not a hero because he was captured? >> i have a great deal of respect for john mccain. >> do you think went too far? >> you can say yes. that's okay. that one, you can say yes. >> he speaks from his heart. >> well, i speak from my heart and my brain, just so we understand. >> are you agreeing with him? >> i am not -- >> we get information. >> i believe this good man will be a great president of the united states. >> i love what he just said. >> joining me, a.j. delgado, conservative columnist, trump campaign surrogate. here's my read on the mike pence situation. he was a salve to all the people you have been fighting against for months, the establishment people, the cruz people. is that how you read that? >> well, i put it in different te

leslie stahl is at the white house. >> the white house is hoping -- >> in the '80s, women came into theas '72. there are very few. by the '80s, there were more and more. the decade of the '80s was still a time of sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didn't think women had what it took. >> these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting. all of them happen to be women. >> the best producers, i'm going to get fired -- the best producers at cbs news are women. and they're at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they are not yet executive producers of all the news shows. but they will be. >> the past 24 hours, christine craft has taken her cause to many of the nation's news and talk programs. >> i didn't set out to be joan of arc, but i think what happened to me deserves some attention. >> reporter: christine craft had a very successful career but there she was in her late 30s and the tv station said to her, we're taking you off the air because you've go

leslie stahl on her book the coming grandma, the choice and science of the new grandparenting.ter nathaniel on valid ambition, george washington, benedict arnold the fate of the american revolution. we round out the night look at the book the gene, an intimate history. that's all tonight beginning at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the united states institute of peace. my name is lance lynn board and i'm the president of usip. just to note about everybody who needs one has a headset for simultaneous interpretation, english is on channel one. arabic is on channel six. and it is my distinct honor today to welcome his excellency dr. al-jaafari, the foreign minister of the republic of iraq. adult also like to welcome the distinguished members of the iraqi delegation who have also joined us today. the deputy minister for bilateral affairs. the iraqi council here in washington. doctor mohammad, the indices chargÉ d'affaires', and the minister senior advisor. thank you all of you for joining u

pin you down as a trump supporter, though, because to your point in the "60 minutes" interview leslie stahlas asking about terror in syria and then she pivoted "well, governor pence, you voted like hillary clinton for the war in iraq." here's what happened there. >> that was a war she shouldn't have done because iraq did not knock down -- >> your running mate -- >> excuse me -- >> your running mate voted for it. >> i don't care. >> what do you mean you don't care that he voted? >> it's a long time ago and he voted this way. they were also misled. >> but you harped on this. >> i was against the war in iraq from the beginning. >> but you've used that vote of hillary's that was the same as governor pence's as the example of her bad judgment. >> many people have and, frankly, i'm one of the few that was right on iraq. >> but what about him? >> he's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while. >> but she's not? >> no, she's not. >> how is that fair? >> a couple points. if you go back to the 80s when lee atwater talked about creating the big tent, bringing new folks in, that's what's happeni

. >> of course, but look at the 60 minutes interview where lesli s leslie stahl confronted him.ck down. his supporters will think the media is biassed. >> journalists read this story different from others. most people don't have that experience, don't know what it's like and i don't think care as much as plagiarism as jump journalists do. >> it's lying about what happened. >> the liberals in hillary's camp have to tread carefully. because if they aggressively go after melania and trump on this issue, it will be seen as bullying. >> i don't think it's about melan melania. we'll have a little wager about whether or not she comes out to defend herself, because i think she's her best defense. you wrote about roger ailes and the reports of something to the effect of maybe we'll let him go. roger ailes in this with carlson. >> this is a huge story in media. roger ailes has been the dominant force at fox news for 20 years now. and the murdoch family has decided that he needs to go. >> you believe that? >> yes, i believe that 100%. >> she's a television legend an he was brought down by

there is an indication leslie stahl has. come in, leslie. leslie: walter, you're absolutely right.rmond was just over here, going over the foreign policy language so there will be no fight on the floor. the ford people are eager not to have a fight on the foreign policy front. what language have you written in? i noticed you marking off the buzzwords so to speak. >> i would not confirm that. leslie: i saw you do it. >> i do not know what a buzzword is. leslie: i saw you mark out the word detente. is that right? >> no, it's not. -- leslie: i saw you mark out the word detente. are you willing to seek a compromise, senator? senator thurmond: i am willing to talk to members of the committee. i am not a member of the committee. i have been able to talk to them to see if we can make a few changes to it. leslie: we know that there are conservative members of the committee who want stronger language. what is governor reagan's position? senator thurmond: i don't know. leslie: you don't. >> [indiscernible] leslie: well, i am told that he did. [laughter] >> we have a lot of strong conservativ