conclude this evening with a conversation with morley safer, jeff fager and steve craw talking about mike wallace. >> we were all in the trenches but mike was particularly diligent about that. he would find one kernel in the research that he knew would find the core of the story. >> rose: an appreciation of morley safer for the hour. next. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: morley safer, a friend and long-time correspondent for cbs news and "60 minutes" died in his home thursday in manhattan, cause of death knew moan . i can't he was 84. he was the longest serving correspondent in "60 minutes" history. over five decades he produced 919 reports. often he traveled over 200,000 miles a year for stories. he exposed frauds, investigated crimes, profiled politicians and editors, opera singers and writers and chronicled a time of change in america. it was in his coverage of

mike wallace was one of the great interviewers ever.hat he did in these profiles showed you that there is no single way to be able to engage somebody in order to figure out. what makes them tick? been.er it might've end they got the same results. where peopletion like him so much that they want to tell them. that has a lot to do with really good reporters. if they are really likable, they tend to get information. they don't want to disappoint you. they want to share. they go beyond where they might go. mike knew how to do both. he repeated out of you. they would both come with one central question. to one common trait you have succeed is that ability. the ability to talk to someone and get it out of them. even more important is that is hard to come by in this world. someone who is able to listen and respond spontaneously. it is a rare trait. ♪ ♪ charlie rose: he wrote really wonderfully about him. he talked about the number of profiles he had done with women. that's right. [laughter] helen mirren, i remember. kate hepburn people remembe

and so it was with his colleague and sometimes nemesis, the late mike wallace. ing in a bottle. and when mike retired ten years ago, morley interviewed him. >> mike wallace: it's been a long time. >> safer: it has been a long time. >> kroft: it was a strange and salty encounter. hard to tell, at times, who was interviewing whom. >> safer: do you feel it's time to maybe pack it in and reflect or... >> wallace: reflect about what? >> safer: whatever. >> wallace: give me a break. reflect? what am i going to reflect about? >> safer: you know, you're right. >> wallace: about the fact that i'm not working? >> safer: ( laughs ) you're absolutely right. >> kroft: from the start, there was often bad blood between the two: fighting over stories, not speaking for months at a time. >> wallace: when i wanted to do a story, and you wanted to do a story, and it's the same story, and... >> safer: and i come into the office the next day, you're out of town doing the story. >> wallace: you mean to say something. >> safer: it happened more than once. >> wallace: what story? >> safe

the same could be said for the late mike wallace and ed bradley.r retiring at the age of 84. health issuefo back on his workload but not before he filed 919 reports from all over the globe. even before 60 minutes he forged a reputation as a war correspondent in vietnam. there will be an hour-long special of morely safer's reports on sunday night following 60 minutes. >> 84 years old. >> a great writer. so good on the features. >> amazing. >> can you imagine, 84. you want to stay until you are 84. >> not quite 4. >> a little before then. >> right. a couple years. we did it today. measurable rainfall. we had measurable rainfall before midnight. that is day 14. today is day 15 in a row. we crushed this record. the old record was ten days. we are 15, piling on. we may add to it tomorrow and perhaps friday and perhaps saturday. we still have showers in the forecast. right now we are at 15 in a row wi national. three-degree guarantee, i am concerned about this. i went 68. i went from 66 to 68 last night at 11:00 in my inidentify night wisdom. not looking

. >> i'm mike wallace. >> i'm walley safer. >> correspondent morally safer died at the age of 84.he legendary journalist retired just last week, after spending more than a half century with cbs news. >> i've led a charmed life. some blood, sweat anteriores, but a lot pure un adulterated life and i'm a lucky guy. >> survived by his wife and caught you are err. we're very lucky to watch over 900 report for 06 minutes alonement good stuff. >> katie, having good moral i safer. >> family in our authorities. >> celebrating such a wonderful life, too. >> what look to be on promises to be stunning weather to wrap up a work week here. we have nice clear sky, the light of day popping over the horizon, we have, see here, just under ten minute to go before the sun will officially rise in philadelphia. >> take a look i mean, just gorgeous. you have got some beautiful colors out there with barely cloud in the sky. so clear asbell, will stay that way courtesy of high pressure for one full day. problem is it does not last for very long, as we've been allude to go. please, save or it, expect to se

and while his relationship with "60 minutes's" mike wallace was stormy, he travelled the world covering everything from fine art to the landmark french hotel, the ritz in 1971. >> 40 years ago, you could come in here and watch the truly gilded people at play. scott fitzgerald brought hemingway here and they got very drunk, made passes at beautiful women and got beaten up in fistfights. in the corner cole porter scribbling music on a napkin. winston churchill sipping champagne. valentino and garbo being idoliz idolized. it was the literary and social mecca of the time and everyone seemed young and beautiful and rich. it was to hear that the lost generation came to laugh at the rest of the world. >> morley safer was 84 years old. >>> of course we continue to follow the breaking news this morning. the egyptian army saying it found wreckage believed to be from the egyptair 804. belongings from some passengers as well as parets of the fuselage. we'll stake a break and come back with the latest. what brand of makeup is better for your skin than wearing no makeup at all? neutrogena® cosmetics.

." >> i'm mike wallace. >> i'm morley safer. >> reporter: he joined "60 minutes" in 1970, doing his fairare of serious stories, but he soon began staking out his own territory. the off-beat, the humorous, and the absurd. >> i don't want that hand on at all. heel! come on, boy. >> reporter: people trek from every corner of england to this country lane to watch her work her wonders on dogs. >> reporter: in 1979, he interviewed the muppets. >> is your wife here? >> no, she's not. >> great. >> reporter: morley had a passion for art. he sketched, he painted. >> i was giving a definition of life and death. this is the eternal. >> reporter: and in 1993, he riled the art establishment with a piece suggesting some of the emperors of the modern art world wear no clothes. >> it's a white rectangle. >> right. he's a minimal artist, and-- >> i would say so. >> reporter: some of his best interviews were with famous women, anna wintour of "vogue" magazine. >> >> perfectionist. >> let's try bitch first. >> reporter: ruth madoff, wife of convicted ponzi schemer, bernie madoff. >> you must have known. >>

." >> i'm mike wallace. >> i'm morley safer. >> reporter: he joined "60 minutes" in 1970, doing his faire of serious stories. but he soon began staking out his own territory. the offbeat. the humorous. and the absurd. >> i don't want that hand on at all. heel. come on, boy. >> people trek from every corner of england to this country lane in hartfordshire to watch her work her wonders on dogs. >> morley. >> reporter: in 1979 he interviewed the muppets. >> is your wife here? >> no, she's not. >> great. >> the fortune teller -- >> reporter: morley had a passion for art. he sketched. he painted. >> i was giving a definition of life and death. this is the eternal. >> reporter: and in 1993 he riled the art establishment with a piece suggesting some of the emperors of the modern art world wear no clothes. >> it's a white rectangle. >> right. he's a minimal artist, and -- >> i would say so. >> reporter: some of his best interviews were with famous women. anna wintour of "vogue" magazine. >> bitch. >> perfectionist. >> let's try bitch first. >> reporter: ruth madoff, wife of convicted ponzi schem

brian: that was from 1958, mike wallace. what can you tell us about the discussion went on in this country about pro-franco or anti-franco activities. adam: there are probably a lot of people who felt as we said it was anti-communist dictator. many people felt that way. there was an enormously strong feeling among the right-wingers here at that time that because the military help that the net activity was getting for the soviet union was that if the republic won the war soviet influence would be greatly enhanced and might even become a soviet satellite. i don't think that would happen but it was certainly a feeling that this was very effective. about 200,000 people were killed in combat and at least 200,000 more were killed in political murders that happened during the war itself. about three quarters of them were supporters of the spanish they were killed by mobs in republican territory. this is my eighth book. which one was the biggest seller? five,ould be both number king leopold's ghost. about the belgian colonial conque

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if mike wallace was the hard charging, morley safer was the master story teller and the longer servingin the network's magazine history. howard is our fox news media analyst and thank you for joining us. you know, what strikes me about him. you felt like you anyhow him and felt like you could sense his personality through the camera, but he didn't make the stories about him. >> that's exactly right. in the business full of egos, morley safer didn't make it about him. he was a modest guy for a big- time star. he played pool with jackie gleason and interviewed odd row help burn, and dolly parton and bernie madoff's wife. and that was earlier in vietnam where he was with one story changed the story about marines setting a vietnamese hut on fire. he was a writer and a sense of humor and favorit i don't like to be on television. it is not natural to talk to a piece of machine row but the money is very good. >> i love that. >> he didn't look uncomfortable. but he had a long time to get used to. and what do you think p the magazine now. you you talk about the number of years on television. an

. >> i'm mike wallace. i'm morley. >> the death comes day after 60 minutes aired a tribute for his decades on air. he joined the broadcast in 1970 and announced retirement last week. his 61-year career captured several awards including 12 emmys. >>> frustration is growing over tsa wait times at airports across the country. >> but officials say that you can help move lines along by following basic tsa rules, so the tsa held a demonstration in midway airport showing ten people going through the screening line. then show the same ten people going through the same line with prohibited items. the difference? additional six minutes. this is on the heels of massive backups from chicago's other airport, o'hare, earlier this week, forcing several to miss flights. there was a rapid response team to get things moving. officials warn it could get worse with a busy summer travel season approaching. >>> 2016 is the year of the road trip. aaa predicts 38 million people traveling this season, the most since 2005. 89% of th

safer was the cool civilized counterpoint to the confrontational mike wallace. the sad news comes a week after the program announced his retirement and aired an hour long segment. >> do you feel like a legend? >> i don't think you ever feel like anything. you feel like a -- >> yes, i think we should do the interview both in the nude. you'd love it. go on. >> what the hell? >> hey. hey. do you like that one, pal? >> please. >> playing pool with jackie gleason, but he could also confront the wife of bernie madoff. >> do you feel the shame? >> of course i feel the shame. >> it's a tough name to live with. >> it sure is. >> safer did ground breaking reporting in vietnam, especially in story about the torching of civilian huts that pricked the american conscience. >> as we came in guys started lighting up. with matches, with lighters, with flame throwers and they were clearing these people out and torching their houses. this was not like any operation i had ever been on before with american troops or with any troops anywhere quite honestly. >> this is what the war in

and then he added mike, mike wallace, into the pilot. a it was his relentless pursuit. they said, ok, ok, ok, we will do it. we will try. we will put you on at 6:00 on a sunday. and so harry and mike went on. are you a later, harry left to go to abc, and they brought me in to take the other guy on "60 minutes." the a and we were not a huge success at all. role will partly because 6:00 on sunday, football season completely wiped us out. sometimes they would wipe us out to do a kind of 10 minute broadcast, and then they is thought, have little news bulletins at the end, or at the beginning, all kinds of experiments. and then they tried us on a different night. we went against something called "marcus welby," which was the most popular program on television. and finally we settled, because there is nothing else you could put at 7:00 on sunday. we took off like a skyrocket. i can't remember what year that was, probably 1972 or 1973. i can remember. brian: what have you found that does not work? morley safer: what does not work? don hewitt's first rule, and i think he was ab

after 46 seasons on "60 minutes" which he played a big role in creating it a counter point to mike wallaceews is a weekend after his retirement was announced and an hour long tribute showing him to be a great writer, storyteller and conversationalists. >> do you feel like a legend? >> you feel like, why think like anything. >> we should do this interview in the nude. you would love it. >> what the hell. >> you liked that, pal? >> please. >> playing pool with jackie gleeson and three could confront the white of bernie madoff. >> do you feel ashamed? >> a you have course i feel ashamed. >> it is tough name to live with? >> it sure s. >> me did ground breaking reporting in vietnam especially the story of the sovereigning of civilian homes that pricked the american conscience. >> as we came in guy started lighting up with much mas, with lighters, with flame throwers clearing the people out and torching the houses. this was not like any operation i had ever been on before with american troops or any troops anywhere. that is what the war in vietnam is about. he was a comfortable presence and i l

if they do what i believe they will do, did he send a signal on mike wallace? she is isn't.o that and it comes out the fbi recommended something, we will have a minisaturday night massacre. >> i will say that sanders, only raked in 25 million. you've say only. he i running low on money. think he is going to negotiate for some part of the platform. >> i thick it's going to be bigger than that. his going to -- >> i got $15 minimum wage and two other things out of this, plus will be more vocal and more exclusive. >> that may bev -- may be but i think the pressure is bigger. >> let me ask you about the g.o.p. side. did you see the video of with ted cruz -- >> i thought was interesting if like it when candidates engage, but this one had an air of desperation to it. it's different when you're ahead and you're talking to people and being nice to them. and that can be very positive. this one didn't feel that way. >> listen, he has been human heckled -- the guy who has heckling had great timing. every time crews -- >> should be in show business. >> hitting him over the head, like it'

. >> i'm mike wallace. >> osgood: we pause moment to say thank you and farewell to our friend and colleaguehis retirement this past week after more than 50 years with cbs news. >> fit old man in his 94th year -- here we are on the good ship. >> somehow in the whirlwind of doing 919 reports for "60 minutes" he was only -- >> when he made this self portrait. >> osgood: he found time to contribute dozens of pieces to "sunday morning" over the years. most of them about the masters of art. >> at age 42, paul gogan a merchant seaman, successful stockbroker, full time eccentric is about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the south seas and cultivate his art in, as he called it, its primitive and savage state. vienna at the turn of the 19th century, the twilight of the aistro-hungarian empire. no one captured the moment of poppy lent decadence the way gustav klimt did. >> a towering figure of 20th century art in america. it was light he loved best. the hodgkin's house in gloucester, a woman in a bedroom. new york's 7th avenue on early sunday morning. >> osgood: tonight it's morley's mastery that

i mean mike wallace, ed bradley, morley safer. >> the great clip was the last piece they did when mikeallace was leaving ten years ago. there's always been this tension between them. even in the farewell interview, they are fighting and bickering. it's the best tv. >> the secret of "60 minutes" is they fight to the death in the screening rooms. i have been to a few of those. you don't come out well. but your piece is better. if it makes it. >> mohr lee asked in that interview, when i arrived, were you a little threatened by me. he said i was so far ahead of you, i didn't know you were here. >> we'll have more ahead. but we're going to begin news wise with breaking news. the egyptian military says this morning they believe the navy has found some belongings of passengers, even parts of the plane from flight 804. they describe the items as being 180 miles outside of alexandria, egypt. the plane lost contact 170 miles off the egyptian coast. a ministry of defense spokes mantles nbc news they are absolutely sure the wreckage is from flight 804 and all wreckage will be brought back to egypt

archival coverage of presidential races between ross perot, jerry hart, and mike wallace. president obama let up today's white house briefing with comments about the latest unemployment numbers with the labor department reporting this morning that the u.s. added 160,000 jobs in april. government data shows this morning the weakest pace of hiring in seven months. the unemployment rate did hold at 5%. here is a look at the president's comments from this afternoon. >> good afternoon. in april, our economy lost nearly 700,000 jobs. seven years later, in april 2016, our economy added 160,000 new jobs. that makes april the 74th consecutive month of private-sector job growth in america. over that record streak of job growth, our businesses have created 14.6 million new jobs in all. wages have been rising at an annual rate of more than 3% this year, so the unemployment rate is growing, unemployment has been falling, and wages have been rising. economy, as many people are aware, is not growing as fast as it should be. sing lacking growth in europe, japan, and now china. here in the

and then he added mike, mike wallace, into the pilot. and it was don's relentless pursuit. they said, ok, ok, ok, we will do it. we will try it. we will put you on at 6:00 on a sunday. and so harry and mike went on. 18 months later, harry left to go to abc, and they brought me in to take the other guy on "60 minutes." and we were not a huge success at all. partly because 6:00 on sunday, football season, completely wiped us out. sometimes they would wipe us out to do a kind of 10-minute broadcast, and then they is thought, have little news bulletin at the beginning, all kinds of experiments. and then they tried us on a different night. we went against something called "marcus welby," which was the most popular program on television. and finally, we settled, because there is nothing else you could put on, at 7:00 on sunday. and it took off like a skyrocket. i can't remember what year that was, probably 1972 or 1973. i can't remember. brian: what have you found that does not work? mr. safer: what does not work? don hewitt's first rule, and i think he was absolutely right, is w

brian: that was from 1958, mike wallace. what can you tell us about the discussion going on in this country about pro-franco or nti-franco activities. adam: there are probably a lot of people who felt as we said there that it was anti-communist dictator. that was the important thing. a dictator is ok for another place as long as they keep the ommunists out. many people felt that way. there was an enormously strong feeling among the right-wingers here at that time that because the military help that the net activity was getting for the soviet union was that if the republic won the war soviet influence would be greatly enhanced and might even become a soviet satellite. i don't think that would happen but it was certainly a feeling and fear that was whipped up very effectively. brian: many people died in the war? adam: about 200,000 in combat, at least 200,000 more were killed in political murders that happened it during the war it so. about three quarters of them were supporters of these spanish republic who were murdered by t

. >> mike, it's nicole wallace. think paul ryan is a republican leader, principled very much in the way that jeb bush is, would you agree? >> oh, yes. so how would you think, take us inside the mind of paul ryan, knowing very intimately the inside the mind of jeb bush who's now free to say whatever he wants. what is paul ryan's state of mind right now after meeting with donald trump and getting all of this pressure from the base of the party. a poll out today shows republicans see donald trump, 54% see donald trump as a leader of the republican party, paul ryan's number is in the low to mid-30s. where does paul ryan take this from today? >> well, i haven't talked to him about it, but i think he is in a tough position, because he is a leader of what i call like jeb, the non-grievance republicans who have a real vision to make us the leading party and win elections. he represents a caucus that's split, three quarters of the house caucus is for trump. privately, maybe half. and, you know, he has that position as speake

mike, it's my coal wallace. so i think paul ryan is a republican leader, principled very much in the same manner that governor jeb bush is. would you agree? >> oh, yes. >> so how do you think, take us inside the minds of paul ryan knowing intimately it is inside the mind of jeb bush, who is now free to say whatever he wants. what is paul ryan's state of mind right now after meeting with donald trump and getting all of this pressure from the base of the party, a pullout shows republicans see donald trump. i think 54% see donald trump as the leader. trump's numbers in the low- to mid-30s. what does paul ryan take this from today? >> i haven't talked to him. he is the non-grievance republicans who can win presidential elections. he represents a caucus that's split. i would say publicly three-quarters for trump, privately maybe half. and, you know, he has that position as speaker where he has a certain institutional duty to the parties. i think he has done a better job than anybody else except for possibly senator s

nicolle wallace. mike barnacle, i think is somewhere.. false advertising. msnbc contributor jonathan capeheart. next to him is the great harrold ford. you know harrold. former mccain senior campaign strategies steve schmidt. and editor of "the fix" of the washington post chris is a el a eliza, and katty kay. we're sorry mike barnacle went missing. >> we need a search and rescue mission. >> you never know. he might have shuffled away. the race between donald trump and hillary clinton is narrowing. nbc surveymonkey shows hillary clinton at 48% and donald trump at 45%. secretary clinton maintains her advantage over trump with women voters. a 15-point margin down a bit from 19 last week. donald trump's 11-point lead among men remains unchange. clinton's strength with minority winning black voters 84 to 9. trump is up among 14 points among white voters. both candidates holding their own among party supporters trump is doing better among independents. 44% to clinton's 36. and last week trump called house speaker paul ryan the leader of the rep

mike barnicle. former communication director for president george w. bush, nicole wallace.olitical analyst and professor at the university of michigan school of public policy, former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. we have a ton to talk about this weekend. >> so much to get to. >> "meet the press"! how many times was -- >> i think nine. >> was shakespeare asked on "meet the press"? >> i think nine times. >> will he endorse donald trump. >> yeah. >> at the same time, rubio and huntsman and a lot of others are starting to move that direction. >> and at the same time, donald trump crossed the border and he made it to the other side. >> what?! >> ted cruz and the stop-trump forces in reality have one day left to stop trump from being the republican nominee for president. and a new poll of indiana's republican primary is potentially crushing those hopes. the nbc news/"wall street journal"/marist poll finds trump near a majority, 49%, 15 points ahead of cruz, who is at 34%, john kasich at 13%. only 34% of indiana republicans approve of that shaky cruz/kasich alliance forg

bush, nicolle wallace, legendary columnist mike barnacle.resident george w. bush and co-creator of the circus on showtime, mark mckenna. mika, of course, in the south of france. the next few hours could be pivotal for the future of my republican party. leaders in congress getting together with the party's presumptive nominee donald j. trump. they'll cy ssee if they can ham out their differences and forge a path forward. paul ryan declined yesterday to specify exactly what he wants to address but said he welcomed the opportunity to spend some time with donald trump. >> i don't really know him. i met him once in person in 2012. we had a very good conversation in march on the phone. we just need to get to know each other and we as a leadership team are enjoying the fact we have a chance to meet with him. i'd rather have a conversation in person than through the media, no offense. >> john heilemann, the meeting is going to be an hour from now. what can you tell us from your reporting we should expect to come out of that meeting? >> both sides wo

chris wallace is on the phone. your father, miked with morley safer for decades. >> i just want to say what a great journalist moore -- morley safer was help was a stylist, beautiful writer, dressed elegantly, he was a -- favored fine food and great grip my father would admit he was jealous of morley bus because he had qualities he thought the didn't have and that he was such a stilist as a writer and such a great war correspondent and had done everything and a very nice complimentary way my father would say i was jealous of hill. >> safer's reporting from vietnam in some ways turned the tide of public opinion against the war when he -- well, here's the footage. u.s. marines torching a village that apparently had done them no harm. that was apparent live quite a turning point in the war and something that really aroused the ire of president johnson. >> that's exactly right. and it was the famous line, we had to destroy the village in order to save it. there was a question whether they harbored viet cong and you're exactly right, tre