tuesday is manhatten hench, when the setting sun alines with the street grid of new york city.s the first day of the french open tennis tournament. thursday is the final round of the scripps national spelling bee in national harbor, maryland. friday is the 50th anniversary of the release of the beatles' "sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band." saturday is national trails day. >> rose: that's "charlie rose: the week" for this week. from all of us here, have a happy memorial day. i'm charlie rose. we'll see you again next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh brought to you in part by: viewers like you, and you, and you, and you... ha, ha! thanks so much you're very kind. ♪ hey both: what? ♪ come over here ♪ the cat in the hat is about to appear ♪ ♪ he's whizzing over to whisk you away ♪ ♪ on a fabulous journey today ♪ he's coming! ♪ and now he's arrived in the thingamajigger ♪ ♪ the thing that he drives ♪ he's a cat and he's oodles of fun ♪ ♪ with his hairy helpers, thing 2 and thing 1 ♪ yoo-hoo! ♪ whoa! woo-hoo!

tuesday is manhatten hench, when the setting sun alines with the street grid of new york city.s the first day of the french open tennis tournament. thursday is the final round of the scripps national spelling bee in national harbor, maryland. friday is the 50th anniversary of the release of the beatles' "sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band." saturday is national trails day. >> rose: that's "charlie rose: the week" for this week. from all of us here, have a happy memorial day. i'm charlie rose. we'll see you again next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. we begin tonight with richard haass, president of the council on foreign relations. he has a new book called "a world in disarray: american foreign policy and the crisis of the old order." >> instead of our welcoming him the way the israelis and saudis did, the europeans were not inclined to welcome him because they almost preferred barack obama, almost a mirror image of the middle east. lots about this president is not w