robert rauschenberg among friends. >> we wanted to suggest that through rauschenberg's career that you could celebrate creativity and conversation, of course, he collaborates more than almost anyone else, you know. he is always pulling people into his projects and finding an enter lock for in a way to create new works with someone else .. so we want people to feel tha that openness well. >> rose: the supreme court on the travel ban, white house chief office staff on the presidency, and leah dickerman on robert rauschenberg when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by the >> 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: we begin this evening with the supreme court. the justices agreed to uphold a limited version of president trump's travel ban from earlier this year. the order prevents travelers from six primarily muslim countries to enter the united states,

i love that about rauschenberg. people have their oedipal relationships, at a distance, but not rauschenberg. he knocks on the door and de kooning agreed to give him a drawing he could erase. he went through the portfolio files and gave him one he found difficult to erace, full of oily pastels. according to rauschenberg, he spent weeks erasing it and many, many erasers. then he did nothing with it. he put it in a drawer until two years later, when jasper johns was in his life. it was johns that persuaded him to frame it up and put it in exhibition and johns put the label, "erased de kooning drawing by robert rauschenberg." charlie: this is called "automobile tire print." leah: now they're living in fulton street and he calls john cage the composer and asked them to bring his model a ford. he lays out 20 sheets of typewriter paper on the ground, they are glued together. he has cage drive the ford, very straight, along the typewriter papers, to create this image. he laughed later that cage was both printer and press.

rauschenberg learned that through albers.unningham before and they did performance work, learned dancing. charlie: he was close to jasper johns? leah: they were partners from 1954 through 1961. they were together in a creative and romantic partnership. they push each other in incredible ways. duoss one of the artistic whereby working together, they left the rest of the world behind. they gave each other permission to do things and try things. rauschenberg once wrote that, i would give him an idea and then he would have to give me one, too. they played this game of thinking out loud and critiquing each other's work. in the show, you have jasper untitlednted bronze, cans. and you have work by rauschenberg with cans together. you can see they are contemplating cans and consuming them. charlie: why did they split? leah: i can't tell you the answer to that. charlie: there are no biographies written about it? leah: no, i do not know the answer to that. but i do know they had an incredible, formative impact on each other. among the