his new memoir calls "what if."on't ever tell stories about my life but when i do, they are true and amazing. i am honored to have you in this program >> thank you, my pleasure. you must not be going anywhere now without being stopped. >> good, i am delighted about that. keep it coming. >> yeah. >> not at all. >> the back story is that for 45 years basically, you were in this town. >> right? >> trying to make it like everybody else and then eventually this commercial. we'll come to the commercials in just a second. tell me of the 45 years journey of what it is like trying to be in the business. >> i was in the business and i made a living at it and i did not do anything else but it was a same struggle that everybody has, you know? >> it is so many ifs, ands and maybes and close calls. those dreams just trous on so often. never being right for anything exactly. >> yeah. >> it takes its toll. i got out of the business for ten years. >> yeah. >> then i got a call from my new agent, one of the few would handle many afte

former democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state spoke in new york about her upcoming memoirs. clinton says president trump has unleashed a level of hate and she find it incredibly dangerous. >> when you call fake news, lies, pick your choice it is deeply troubling and it is also worrisome that it could cause lasting damage to our institutions. >> clinton's new memoirs about 2016 presidential campaign will be out this fall. >>> your phone's voice mail may fill up with robo calls if the fcc gives companies permission to send messages directly tour voice mail without a single ring. new technology would allow solicitors to stop ringing your phone but leave you with information. if the fcc rules and the company's favor calls could legally go straight tour voice mail box, marketers say ring less robo calls are a good thing but consumer advocates fear the opposite. >> a ringless voice mail is a non-intrusive alternative to this robo call. >> even more invasive, more time consuming in some ways then a standard phone call. >> companies argue that since the phone number actually rings

and stand up comedian joins us at the table with his new memoir which chronicles his transgender activismng distance running. that's the cbs news for this morning. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. news for this morning. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. [ applause and cheers ] >>> it is a very good morning for "dub nation." the golden state warriors are the official nba champions. wahoo! good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, june 13. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm anne makovec in for kenny choi. we have complete coverage of the championship game but first, our ladies are here to weigh in. how is everybody feeling? i know people stayed up longer than normal. >> a little tired. >> a little tired but excited. >> happy. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> all the above! >> she is still asleep. >> now, the hardest part was trying to get out of the parking lot last night. you had to stay for the celebration and the trophy presentation but making your way through the parking lot, everybody was celebrg a good kind of celebration. it really is. i have been

you can now read about his unlikely journey into politics in his new memoir, al franken giant of the love that. he joins us live from new york. good to have you on the program. >> great to be here. thanks for loving that. >> let me start with this. you were an entertainer before you got into politics. it's not lost on me that donald trump was an entertainer of sorts before he got into politics. you have made the transition to being taken seriously. can donald trump do that? >> i don't know. you know, we took different approaches. i thought that i had to sort of prove something because i had not served in public office before and i made it a point to read as much as i could and learn about policy and he seems to have taken the opposite approach saying things like no one knew that health care was complicat complicated until i just realized it. so it's a completely different approach. won. he's president. i mean, so i guess that was a success for him. not so much for the country as far as i can see on so many different scores. >> you may have just answered this, senator, but if you were

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minnesota senator al franken's new memoir., much more. >> woodruff: president trump's first overseas trip included meetings last week at nato and european union headquarters in brussels, and with other g-7 nations in sicily. germany is a key member of all three bodies, and in the aftermath of those meetings, chancellor angela merkel sounded notes of concern about president trump's stance on some key issues. chief among them: climate change and the paris agreement. to discuss this and other matters, i spoke a short time ago with germany's ambassador to the united states, peter wittig. >> woodruff: ambassador peter witig, thank you for joining us. >> a pleasure to be here. >> let me start with the terrible incident this morning in kabul, afghanistan. this is a normally considered safe area, diplomatic area. but the german embassy was among the many places affected. you had a german citizen with was injured, others who work at the embassy, one died, another severely injured. does this give your government pause, does it give you

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the sale of kevin hart's new memoir, the i can't make this up life lesson.s say that hart makes a convincing case for simple values that seem more connected to his roots in philadelphia than his life in hollywood. and you hear that education is the key and a pair of princeton high school students are working to educate the nation on the subject of racism. here is nydia han. >> it's a 224 page textbook on race used in 22 states, a collection of hundreds of stories hoping to bring to classrooms nationwide. a book complied by 17-year-old seniors at princeton high school. they are asking their fellow citizens to choose to engage in the topic of race. >> what do you think it's like to grow up in and live in a town predominantly white? >> one person from our own high school was talking about her experiences as a black female, and this one is a man talking about his experience crossing the border and creating the book they collaborated with teachers and madministrators and alongsie every anecdote. they -- >> we would back up their story with research to show it's a

. >> in the morning buzz, kevin hart's new memoir goes on sale today its called i can't make this up,ons. the book tells the riches life story of the comedian from philadelphia. he makes a simple case for values that seem much more closely connected to his roots in north philadelphia than success in hollywood. >>> today is the final day of voting for the b esiason foundation athlete of the is living with cystic fibrosisrs play half marathons. michael is also on the announced school for hospital can vote for him. you can also find the story and a link on the delaware he ie kid.an happening today, new jersey voters head to state's p. and a the e nd bucks county. back. donald tmeet phil murphy,by former goldman sachs bankers. another wall street banker running for governor, whose firm helped trigger the financial meltdown that put millions out of work and out of their homes., paying off new jersey bosses. and i'm running for governor of new jersey. who uncovered the bridgegate scandal the choice -- insider wall street politics or maist >> breaking overnight, police hear gunsh city's mant

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and hillary clinton reportedly has a new memoir in the works on we went wrong in the election. that will be a thick book. the senate republicans temporarily abandoning healthcare, and obamacare imploding all around us. there are only a few things left to do before the insurance carpet explodes like a beached whale. 1,000 counties will be left with only one insurer. next year, 5 entire state will only have one option. and maybe that's why 23 million americans have knowingly opted out of obama care taking exceptions for ignoring irs orders. the law is fails because there are too many sick people and not sufficient suckers to prop up the system. premiums are going up because sick people cost more to treat. of course the government is subsidizing most customers so there is no incentive to keep prices low. obamacare was brilliantly designed. its barbed tentacles were jammed into the economy. lazy lawmakers went for the next option. instead of keeping obamacare as it is and letting it fail. they slapped a new coat of paint on it and tried to sell it as a shiny new car. the other is t

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you are in the "ocean" movies and a new memoir called "believe me: a memoir of love, death, and jazznd jazz chickens? >> i don't even mention them except for in the title. they're not mentioned in the book at all. we worked out the title and they said you have to this, you have to be crazy so i shoved in jazz chicken. they said you can do that. >> stephen: every sult culture it's said has jazz chickens. >> they could save the world. >> stephen: you started out as a street performer. we have this shot here. >> i'm not sure what the back side is doing. >> stephen: you're wrapped up in chains. is this coffent garden? >> yand for four years i was a street performer and i used to go out in front of people who did not want to see me which is the hardest performing ever. people who don't want to see you. >> stephen: i've done it many times. >> i've sent two audiences way, dismissed-- weren't good enough, which was amaze ago. >> stephen: in the theater? >> no. in the street. >> stephen: how do you send them away in the street. "i want you out of the city by sundown." >> wifs my partner at th

history retold through air of american lives and the new memoir the home that was the country that we will also be discussing today. the author of novels green on blue and the new book dark at the crossing. he lives in istanbul and has covered the war since 2013. writings have appeared in the new yorker, the atlantic and stories have been included inith the best american short stories. a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq andve afghanistan where he received a silver star, bronze star for valor and purple heart. welcome, everybody. [applause] when we think about the era era arab spring it broke down hosni mubarak and pulled from a golfing shot yemen and bahrain, a little bit of saudi arabia ann so on, but syria stands alone. yet walking the broken revolution of dividing the world that has left him standing. we will begin with elliott. in your novel that is very powerful there is a moment one of your characters is deciding do i go back and she doesn't want to. he feels there is no life for him anymore and gives powerful t thoughts on the idea of the resolution being sha

trouble, and also worrisome that it could cause lasting damage to our institutions. >> clinton's new memoir about the 2016 presidential campaign will be out this fall. i would guess a lot of people very interested to see what she has to say. >> look forwards to that one. instagram getting the rainbow treatment. >> social media site is offering new prize stickers including rainbow tinted seats, rain bowl bullhorn. new rainbow brush will allow you to draw rainbow on any photo and in hollywood stain gram teamed up with local boutique to crow ate the rainbow striped wall. place to take a selfie you might say. wall forced lgbt rights and will return to its bubble gum pink color once pride season is over. >> social media thinks of everything these days, never miss an opportunity. >> interesting one, thanks to ill-time break, water tower in one town getting whole lot of looks. we will show it to you next. >> the warning alan thicke received from a psychic three months before his death what his widow is now saying about it coming up. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning

contact kevin hartist a man of many talents and now he is adding, author to his resume, and in his new memoirs can't make this up life lesson he takes us through his journey of growing upright here in philadelphia to topping the list of forbes highest paid comedians. and ending jerry seinfeld nine day reign. book is out today and by the way if you are wondering, hart made 87.5 million-dollar in 2016. >>> speak of jerry seinfeld he is coming to the defense obfuscate griffin, who found herself in hot water after she posted a now infamous photo of a bloody president trump mask. jerry said quote every comedian tells bad jokes, we all do it. that is how we find the good jokes. i don't understand the big deal. >>> and piecing together perfect outfit for school picture day is always quite the challenge, but not for justin taylor who grew up in l.a. justin wore the same billabon t-shirts throughout seven years of school photos and his hair style changed and he grew some facial hair that t-shirt remained the same. justin tweeted that his parents weren't the biggest fans but he found it pretty hilarious

as you will hear in a few minutes, she's hard at work on her new memoir which will be as surprising, fascinating, opinionated, provocative and deeply reflective as anything she has written before. in fact, we trust you will hear hillary as never before as she gives us her unique take and analysis on recent events. in addition, we have the gorgeous picture but addition of it takes a village with illustrations by the incomparable two-time caldecott winner marla crazy. tonight hillary will be interviewed by cheryl. [laughter] [applause] cheryl, of course, is familiar to you as a hugely popular and talented number one best-selling author in her own right. her books including wild, have touched millions of readers around the world and help them to navigate their own personal journeys. before we bring out hillary and cheryl, i will leave you with this: no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, remember the 65 million people voted for hillary clinton last november [cheering] and it just a small fraction of those purchase the book. [laughter] we will still have the biggest book of

his new memoir, are you anybody" is available in stores now.the show, the always wonderful, jeffrey tambor, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: welcome back, friend. >> thank you. thank you. it's great to be here. >> seth: i'm so happy to have you here. congratulations on this book. >> thank you. >> seth: what made you -- you've had this incredibly successful career. you've had a lot of opportunities i would think to sit back, and write a book. what made you think this was the time? >> when i was a young actor, i was on broadway, and it was pre-selfie stuff, and there was a -- >> seth: there was a time before selfies. wow. >> there was a time before cell phones. >> seth: wow. >> and this autograph seeker was outside and i came outside, i had three lines in the george c. scott, "sly fox." i came out, i had my $300 faux shammy sort of thing on with my hat, and he said, are you anybody? [ laughter ] and i said, i took thirty seconds, and i said, no. [ laughter ] and so i thought that would be a great entrance, plus i have four kids at

arab life and her new memoir, the home that was our country, about syria. we will be discussing it today. elliott ackerman is the author of green on blue and dark at the crossing. he lives and incidental and covered the syrian wars since 2013. his writings have appeared in the new yorker, east east atlantic and the stories have been included in the best american short stories. he's a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan where he received the silver star, bronze star for valor in the purple heart. welcome everybody. [applause] when we think about the arab spring, it's this thing in 2011 that started this glorious fire and it seemed to stir into asia, 18 days of furious energy, and egypt that brought down libya and laid in. yemen and bahrain restless a little bit of saudi arabia and on and on. syria stands alone. 400,000 dead, millions of refugees and displaced and a tide of anguish that has seeped into europe and across the world. still he rules. mocking a broken revolution and defined the world that is left's band. we'll begin

as you will hear in a few minutes, she's hard at work on her new memoir which will be as surprising, fascinating, opinionated, provocative and deeply reflective as anything she has written before. in fact, we trust you will hear hillary as never before as she gives us her unique take and analysis on recent events. in addition, we have the gorgeous picture but addition of it takes a village with illustrations by the incomparable two-time caldecott winner marla crazy. tonight hillary will be interviewed by cheryl. [laughter] [applause] cheryl, of course, is familiar to you as a hugely popular and talented number one best-selling author in her own right. her books including wild, have touched millions of readers around the world and help them to navigate their own personal journeys. before we bring out hillary and cheryl, i will leave you with this: no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, remember the 65 million people voted for hillary clinton last november [cheering] and it just a small fraction of those purchase the book. [laughter] we will still have the biggest book of

. >> we conclude with the great john mcenroe, his new memoir is called but seriously. >> i was very fortunateung to fall into the lap of legendary tennis icons in the

. >> kevin hart's new memoir goes on sale today. it's called i can't make this up life lessons. of the comedian who hails from philadelphia. sounds like a good book. >> a lot of people around here will probably buy it. >> yes. >> 6:28 now. insurance dispute. comedian tracy morgan refuses to testify under oath about that deadly crash on the new jersey turnpike. >> the free and sleepy fugitive. a bear is captured after spending days roaming a local neighborhood. >> ♪ from the time i was pregnant with him, had so much life and energy in him. he wanted out, and he wanted to conquer the world. right now, quinton's goal is to be a doctor. it's not easy being a single parent with three kids and having to provide for them. but my son will be an amazing doctor, and he'll help people that are less fortunate. no matter where you are in your college journey, sallie mae can help you find the money you need. and it's also a story mail aabout people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the u

. >> we conclude with the great john mcenroe, his new memoir is called but seriously. >> i was very fortunate when young to fall into the lap of legendary tennis icons in their own way, harry hotman who was a great davis cup captain, who taught the labors, the rosewalls all these great australians and having a fallout with that federation and moving to new york, hi no idea who this guy was but he had this aura about him and he made you want to do more for him, try harder. he helped me quite a bit. the other guy was this great mexican player, who taught me how to play and sort of had me look at the court like a gee metric equation. >> rose: burns and mcenroe when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: bank of america. life better connected >> 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. william burns is here in 2015. he became the president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. he retired from the foreign service i

. >>> john mcenroe's new memoir is "but seriously." best female player ever. he told the reporter he added the qualifier because if she ed would be 700. he'll be joining us on "cbs this morning: saturday" and he'll definitely be asked to defend that remark. >> do you think he will sf. >> yes. he speaks his mind aulsz. >> looking forward to talking to john. >>> oprah is unveiling her next highly anticipated selection for her book club. she skriebs it as a dissection of the american dream, savage and compassion in all the right places. only on "cbs this morning" oprah reveals its newest pick. >> "cbs this morning." hello, everybody. all my friends at ctm. i'm excited to announce my new summer selection for oprah's book club. "behold the dreamers." that's it. "behold the dreamers." let me tell you all. this book is so beautifully written and it's a debut novel by a young woman. the story just takes you on a breathless journey. it's everything our culture is grappling with right now. at least many of the things, race, class, the economy, i

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. >> just wrote new book, memoir.evealing in this, doing interview and he talked about everything, about the bill cosby case, and why he's not going to be thereto show his support. >> i don't think comedians will bring to justice whenever it is he is looking for, i think, overall, just the support in knowing that with the legacy he's built important to him, and should be. as a comedian, i think bill cosby has done so much for comedy. i can say that, you know, what is going on with him now is such a tough thing, because it tarnishes, you know, the reputation of what america's favorite dad was. >> he got candid about his last row slayings ship with his wife, he knew it was time he needed to call it quits. >> me and my ex got into it. and i had -- i took a stance, like okay, like i'm waiting, i'm waiting, because i was going to dip and bow. and i'm like oh, my god. i'm gone. like i'm lost t at what level of anger am i at that i've gotten here? i was like i'm -- all right, kev, take responsible, whether she did, whatever

country together after that tragic attack on police officers last summer in dallas and now he has a new memoirief bruin. >> good morning. >> how are you. >> i'm fine. how are you? >> i'm doing great. >> you were a sophomore in college when you decided to go into law enforcement. what brought that on? >> so, i was a sophomore but then my senior year i'm about to graduate college and the crack cocaine epidemic hit my old neighbor, this is 1983. and i am so restless about wanting to do something to help my neighborhood after the disappointment of my father. i quit school and put in an application for the police department to get hired and my first beat was my old neighborhood. >> really. >> yes, yes. >> why was your father disappointed? >> well, he had negative experiences with the police. he was born in the 1940s and so he lived throughout the '60s and wanted me to help the family by graduating college, getting a decent job and getting into corporate america and i was very stubborn. i insisted on giving back to the community and my mother just looked at me and said you just be safe. >> once you

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his story being told in his new memoir, it is called, "called to rise."brown. chief, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: congratulations on your new book. thank you for serving our community. we love our police officers and men and women in blue. how did you get, your mom raised you. >> yes. ainsley: she raised a little bit of money to send you to parochial school. >> got me great early childhooded hecation, parochial school, kindergarten, first grade. went to public school. got full academic ride to university of austin, hook 'em horns. my senior year, crack cocaine epidemic hit all the cities. where i grew up, all the kids became increasingly violent. i quit school my senior year to disappointment of my parents, put a application to the police department in my own neighborhood. then i became chief of police. ainsley: your experience changed you in what way? >> it was awful experience for 11-year-old, what all the race stuff was about, adults were in conflict over. young white kid invited me to dinner after school one day. changed my worl

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meanwhile, losing her new memoir what it's like running as a president, especially if you're a woman.t it? send us your comments. in the meantime, america is in the midst of a opioid crisis out of the 52,000 drug overdoses in 2015, over 33,000 of them were related to opioids. brian: president trump has made ending this epidemic a key issue in his administration, starting with the building of a border wall. joining us right now is marine core veteran, contributor reporter at americans for limited government. now, what do you think the wall would do to stop this opioid rises? of course there's no quick fix. but this would fix a lot. how? >> good morning, guys. thanks for having me. ainsley: good morning. >> yes, this would help quite a bit, and this is not a one-stop shop to stop the flow of opioids over the border. what this does is stem the flow of opioids and directs it to where border control can more quickly interindict. brian: what states? >> texas, arizona, and california. and the border patrol knows the area where they want to build the wall, and they've told the president. ains

the hardcover was named "memoir," and then, so, what happened was the new york times, they have their know. and so, they put mine in the - it was -- i wrote a novel. it was a novel. >> jimmy: yeah. >> but i just put "memoir" in the title. >> jimmy: sure. >> so, i thought they would read it, you know? [ laughter ] and they said they read it. i -- i contacted them and i say, "well, clearly this is not a memoir, it's a novel." and they said, "we thought it was a memoir." so, it's either the worst novel or could be the best novel of all time. >> jimmy: yeah, i think it really is. and it's such a -- it's such a -- it's such a -- just so well written, so congrats on this. it's in paperback, everyone pick this up. >> and it is available now, apparently. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i just heard. >> jimmy: is it? >> whatever date you said. but they said just backstage, they said, "jimmy's wrong, it's available now," a lady told me. >> jimmy: who -- who said this? the turtle lady? >> no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she doesn't know about when your book comes out. >> i was stopped -- i was stopped on the way

he's out with a new book, a memoir called "al franken. giant of the senate." i'm pleased to have senator al franken back at this table. welcome. al: thanks, charlie. great to be here. i hope i'm as much fun behind this table as i was on that couch with rick perry. charlie: when rick perry campaigned, he wore the tpwhrass, people said he was tiing to look differently. obviously the glasses have continued. al: i found him actually very prepared for our meeting. he knew my stance on energy issues. and i found him actually to be -- he's the longest governor in the history of texas. they did a lot of wind energy. charlie: very popular down there al: very popular. and brought a lot of wind -- i the ht -- i think texas is largest wind producing state. dint vote for him because i didn't like some of his answers, i called him to tell him i wasn't voting for him and we said, let's get dinner. i -- charlie: you had dinner with him? al: i did not have dinner with him. we just said, let's get dinner. i hope to do that. i hope to do that. i asked him to become a student of

my guest tonight is a best selling author whose new book is called hunger a memoir of my body.ers and applause ) welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: i know you from your writings and columns. many people know you from topics that range from feminism to politics to social commentary, but this book is a memoir that takes us through your life in a way i don't think anybody would expect. it takes us through your life through the prism of eating and through the prism of being a fat person living in the world. >> yes. >> trevor: why did you choose to write it in this waw? >> because i wind want to write it at all, but, as i was thinking of what i wanted my next nonfiction project to be, i wanted to tell the story of mu body because when you're fat in the world, people have assumptions about who you are and why you're fat and think you're stupid. yesterday someone e-mailed me, do you know exercise is required to lose weight? ( laughter ) no, never occurred to me. and, so, you know, i think it's important to show, like, what it's actually like to live in this world in a fat b