. >>> and robert redford, and what he has now revealed. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy monday night. and we begin with that major development in the special sown tell investigation, the trial of paul manafort. and tonight, robert mueller's star witness, rick gates, taking the stand against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. rick gates, manafort's right-hand man, before and during the campaign, nowch thing against his former boss. today, asked under oath, did he engage in criminal activity with paul manafort? his answer in that courtroom? "yes." and that's not all he said. abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off tonight. >> reporter: he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the republican national convention. but today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel robert mueller's star witness. coming face-to-face with his former business partner, paul manafort, g

robert redford has appeared in more than 45 films. >> i ain't about to walk into no knife for you. >>dford began his acting career nearly 60 years ago. he once said his favorite movie role was as the sundance kid, acting alongside paul newman in the film "butch cassidy and the sundance kid." there was "the natural." redford as roy hobbs, attempting that baseball comeback. one of his most famous roles, in "all the president's men," redford playing investigative journalist bob woodward. but tonight, robert redford telling "entertainment weekly" he is retiring from acting. "never say never, but i pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting and i'll move towards retirement after this, because i've been doing it since i was 21. i thought, well, that's enough." with a new movie coming out, "the old man and the gun," redford adding, "why not go out with something that's very upbeat and positive?" his talents behind the camera, still at work. but that actor, who began at 21, suggesting tonight that it just might be time to end this chapter. so many gifts. and he's ea

we asked the question for everyone, robert redford, 82, orjust coming up robert redford, 82, orjust comingn one reply in particular. i can think of anything worse than retiring. i am lucky to have a job i love doing, meeting people, playing great music that they choose and working on very different shows every week. who is that? tony blackburn, aged 75 still going strong. here is one from john sta nton. going strong. here is one from john stanton. with current austerity policies and pension plans this may become reality. i suppose the question for you, become reality. i suppose the question foryou, richard, how become reality. i suppose the question for you, richard, how much longer? a little while yet. a few yea rs longer? a little while yet. a few years to go to 75, let alone 82. longer? a little while yet. a few years to go to 75, let alone 82m comes down to passion. and you need money to pay for your long life. we have loads of tweets. quite a lot of those involving creative stuff. jazz players and teachers. that's it from business live today. there will be more business news throughou

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i spent two weeks every day with robert redford you know and. he was different then if you and if you meet harrison ford who is very private he did every day he'd show up at six am six sandwiches coffee and we would play tennis together. but nature is more important to me than any big name. the jungle the mountains the solitary beaches. appliance feel that you are connected to everything the ocean. earth the mountains the sky. if we've learned anything from our travels around it's a sense of humility a reminder to focus on what's really important. what we have is amazing as i live in an amazing place i have the best friends and family i could ever want but also here really. we've seen how powerful the force of a dream can be and how it can inspire others. one day will move two more years and see. because one doesn't and they're two years old. we've seen how people live in harmony with the natural surroundings. that they're nice to get out there get immersed in it and read it and that to me that's what i love. but above all how why he taught us t

i didn't do it it's got to be tide ♪ >>> oh, robert redford, just . >> oh, robert red ford just breakingrts there with that feathered hair. we want more. barbara streisand in 1973 "the way we were." i'm falling for it. >> that right there was my favorite dialogue, the back and forth. >> in their eyes. >> one of the amazing fills with robert rod ford, who says he is done with acting. no more, no mas. >> reporter: robert red ford has appeared in more than 45 films. he began his acting career nearly 66 years ago. he once said his favorite movie role was in "the sun dance kid." there was natural, red ford as roy hobbs. run of the famous roles in "all the president's men" with robert woodward, telling entertainment weekly he is retiring from acting. never say never, but i pretty well concluded that this would be me for acting. i'll move towards retirement, i have been doing it sentence i was 21. adding why not go out with something very upbeat and positive? his talents behind the camera still at work. >> that actor who began at 21 suggesting it just might be time to end this chapter. david mu

also, here's one for you: robert redford is retiring just before his 82nd birthday. you stick at yourjob to that age? and if so, we want to know what you do and why you'll keep at it. and if so, do tell us what it is and why. just use #bbcthebriefing. he said he would do it, and he has. president trump has followed through on reimposing sanctions on iran after pulling the us out of the international agreement, designed to curb tehran‘s nuclear programme. this first phase of sanctions will target iran's purchase of us dollars, the trade in precious metals and its car industry. even tougher sanctions are due in november. in tehran, president rouhani said the trump administration's previous offer of talks and this latest action do not make sense. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, reports. the demonstrations may be sporadic and they may be geographically widespread, but discontent across iran with the state of the country's economy is high and could be about to get a whole lot higher still. the us will reimpose sanctions, making life even tougher. so what can be done

will have to be before it gets the freedom natalie portman recently said she was supporting gaza robert redford has always been a big name and always talked about the military industrial complex warren beatty you have to be really concerned you have read that big to really have any kind of freedom or even they have strictures apply think. well i mean i'm sure that the men get a lot more leeway susan sarandon i think. by hollywood standards was kind of branded you know kind of kooky that's what they like to do if you have a personality or you have a specific point of view you're a kook or you're kind of unhinged. when it's ok to just be a person and have have a point of view it doesn't have to be anybody else's but it can be yours. and i think if you're young and you're up and coming and you're making noise about gaza all of people above you will get very nervous because then you're going to get put in celebrity time. because not only is that you in the corner at lincoln so absurd is really a magazine celebrity time i mean i mean you get your like a little kid you get your face in the corner unt

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robert redford once called him the most successful playwright since shakespeare.east one play per year for much of his career, and penning material so popular his name became synonymous with broadway success. born in the bronx in 1927, he endured, he said, an unhappy childhood, storing up tragically comic situations that would later define much of his work. those close to him remember feeling like their personal lives were suddenly being made into international hits. he was writing about me, and about everybody i grew up with. it was as if we had our own playwright, who was telling our story. when he wrote brighton beach memoirs, we all grew up right near brighton beach. every scene was familiar. when he wrote the odd couple, it was our friends. so he was writing about us, and it was as if we lived in london, and shakespeare somehow had gotten into our neighbourhood and figured out what was making us tick. so it was so personal, and he had the ability to write to everybody. if we didn't have walter and jack to do it, i wouldn't do it. 1965 saw the odd couple debut

robert redford once called him the most successful playwright since shakespeare. at least one play per year for much of his career, and penning material so popular his name became synonymous with broadway success. born in the bronx in 1927, he endured, he said, an unhappy childhood, storing up tragically comic situations that would later define much of his work. those close to him remember feeling like their personal lives were suddenly being made into international hits. he was writing about me, and about everybody i grew up with. it was as if we had our own playwright, who was telling our story. when he wrote brighton beach memoirs, we all grew up right near brighton beach. every scene was familiar. when he wrote the odd couple, it was our friends. so he was writing about us, and it was as if we lived in london, and shakespeare somehow had gotten into our neighbourhood and figured out what was making us tick. so it was so personal, and he had the ability to write to everybody. if we didn't have walter and jack to do it, i wouldn't do it. 1965 saw the odd couple

quality and a great play often will transfer into a great movie, and be fit in the park made robert redfordfficult thing in the world is to write a hit, and to write a hit time after time. to write a hit time after time. to write a hit which makes people laugh is the most extraordinary gift.|j write a hit which makes people laugh is the most extraordinary gift. i am urging that will be a lot of people who feel very much that he influenced them, those people who came after him in the industry. you think ofjerry seinfeld and larry david, even though he was a contemporary of woody allen, they weren't succeeding at the same time. he was never particularly happy with the success, he was always frustrated the critics didn't take him seriously enough. although he was writing funny stuff, he felt that because he had so many hats the critics thought it diminished him as a playwright, but the public saw him as the greatest playwright after william shakespeare in terms of writing hit after hit, so he had this extraordinary capacity, and it came from his early life as a child growing up. his father was

frankly and a great play it often will transfer into a great movie, and barefoot in the park is robert redfordult thing in the world is too great a head. to write a hit time after time after time is amazing and a head that makes people laugh time after time after time as an extraordinary gift. there will be people who feel he influenced them who came after him in the industry. you think of jerry seinfeld and larry king. although a contemporary, woody allen. they were succeeding at the same time. and he was never particularly happy with his success, he was frustrated that the critics did not taken seriously enough although his funny stuff. because he had so many he felt that the critics diminished him as a playwright but the public saw him as the greatest playwright after william shakespeare in terms of rating hit after hit. he had this extraordinary capacity and he actually comes from a sadness of his early life, as a child growing up, his father was often away. you would leave the family home for up toa would leave the family home for up to a year would leave the family home for up toa yearan

hollywood film star robert redford has said his next film will be his last.sundance kid, indecent proposal and the horse whisperer, the 81—year—old actor won an oscar as a director in 1981. he will star in the old man and the gun, the true story of a criminal who escaped from jail in a kayak before committing more heists. that will be his last film. that's quite nice, to say this is my last thing. i've got a nice catalogue of work and i'm going to go and enjoy myself a bit. can i tell you my favourite? i think my favourite robert redford film is the one with barbra streisand, is it the way we were? that is fantastic. he is a lovely lukka. he is a handsome man. ifi lovely lukka. he is a handsome man. if i said that about a woman i would be in trouble. if you said sophia lorraine was one of the most beautiful women in the world you wouldn't be in trouble. just a fact. if you want to say we are beautiful then that's fine. you wouldn't, i guarantee that isn't happening! you've got to watch these things! talking of superstardom, adam peaty! is he the best swimmer

. >> after six decades in the thsiness, robert redford will be retiring. >> what do we do now? >> glor: this is our western edition. good evening. i'm jeff glor. we'll begin tonight with an historic wildfire, set to become the largest ever in california. reinforcements have been called in. the army set to deploy 200 soldiers. they will be fighting fires from the air. in addition to this, the mendocino complex fire, there are 15 other big fires in california alone right now fueled by strong winds and high temperatures, including many in the triple digits. a new fire started today in orange county and spread quickly. it was first reported near holy canyon road and it's being called the holy fire. farther north, john blackstone neports now. >> reporter: parts of the mendocino complex fire are ino ng to be unstoppable. torefighters in lake and mendocino counties ignited more backburns overnight to remove tinder-dry brush fueling this massive wildfire. but fierce, hot winds continue to whip flames into a frenzy. more than 400 square miles have been scorched, making this california's

will have to be before it gets the freedom natalie portman recently said she was supporting gaza robert redford has always been a big name and always talked about the military industrial complex warren beatty you have to be really concerned you have read that big to really have any kind of freedom or even they have strictures a place i think. well i mean i'm sure that the men get a lot more leeway susan sarandon i think. by hollywood standards was kind of branded you know kind of kooky that's what they like to do if you have a personality or you have a specific point of view you're a kook or you're kind of unhinged. when it's ok to just be a person and have have a point of view it doesn't have to be anybody else's but it can be yours and i think if you're young and you're up and coming in you're making noise about gaza all of people above you will get very nervous because then you're going to get put in celebrity time. because not only is that you in the corner at lincoln so absurd is what magazines liberties i know i mean i mean you get you're like a little kid you get your face in the corner

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. >>> robert redford, who turns 82 this month, says he is retiring from acting after an on-screen career that spanned more than half a century. redford's breakthrough role was as a train robber in "butch cassidy and the sundance kid." in what he says will be his final movie performance, he plays a bank robber in "the old man and the gun," which is due out next month. >>> one more notable retirement tonight. the emotional end to an officer's career when we come back. >>> and now a surprise ending to a police officer's career. here's michelle miller. >> it's our great pleasure to announce that as of 1116 hours on this date, officer duane ledoux is retiring and giving his final code five. >> reporter: on the massachusetts police force, code five means an officer as wrapped the scene. for officer duane ledoux, it means retirement after 31 years on the job. >> not too much to say but thank you. >> reporter: but he never expected this kind of send-off. >> it is my honor to acknowledge this code five to set free a man who has sacrificed so much of his time for all of us so that he may spend the

are struggling with a collapse in their country's currency. >>> and legendary hollywood star robert redfordng from acting after a nearly 60-year career in tv and film. i know, hearts breaking. in an "entertainment weekly" exclusive, redford confirmed his final role will be in the upcoming movie "the old man and the gun." he said he's excited to play a role of a career criminal burst out of prison. with other prospects, redford said, "we'll see." >> i hope he will. maybe he just wants to read a book. >>> people are being questioned after an attempt to assassinate venezuela's president with weaponized drones. loud explosions interrupted a speech by president nicolas maduro on saturday. several soldiers were injured. it was orchestrated by using drones carrying bombs. there is a look at the threat to national security in the u.s. and overseas. >> you put your finger on it. this is a global thing, this is an american thing as well. president maduro has been condemned by his opponents who accuse him of thrusting venezuela in an economic and humanitarian catastrophe and driving hundreds of thousa

a few years later simon's "barefoot in the park" helped make robert redford a star. in 1965 simon won his first tony, for "the odd couple," the story of two mismatched roommates, oscar and felix. >> everything do you irritates me! and when you're not here the things i know you're going to do when you come in irritate me. >> reporter: "the odd couple" was a huge hit that inspired a successful movie and a long-running television series, and it firmly established simon as broadway's most popular playwright. other hits followed. "plaza suite," "the last of the red hot lovers." "the sunshine boys" just to name a few. no theater season seemed to be complete without another new play, sometimes a new musical, featuring simon's one-liners. there were screenplays too, for movies like "murder by death" and "the good-bye girl," for which richard dreyfuss would win an academy award for best actor. critics often dismiss simon as a mere joke writer. >> because i wrote a play almost every year, 27 plays in 30 years is almost every year, so anyone who writes that many plays it couldn

. >> screen legend robert redford sounds like he's retiring.uring an interview about his old movie "the old man and the gun" red ford told "entertainment weekly" it's, e, quotor me -- that's it for me in terms of acting. i believe that's what he said.df d is 82 now. he hasn't ruled out directing films in the future. we'll see. >> if he's looking for something new to do maybe he can look at the next story. nfl fans will see history on the shrines this year, and this has nothing to do with the game of football. for the first time there will be male dancers as part of two tea cheerleading squads. one of the dancers postedur pi and videos as he's getting ready to kick off the season with the l.a. rams and th new orleans saints wil have a male cheerleader on their squad. have male er teams stuntmen as part of their shrine entertainment. >>> well, that will be somethin to se >> keep an eye out. >>> stray bullets shatters windnd pierce the sides of a local home. >> just look behind me. it's not hard to s that this used to be rural farmland wide open.

he knows robert redford played him in a movie.this is a guy he can't wave away as no one listens to bob woodward. i don't know what's in that book. but i know that he's worried that he won't be able to wave away whatever's in that book. >> yeah. he doesn't read books that much. so i don't know why he's worried about it. listen, this is a pattern from the president. i mean, he tweeted several untruths in the last two days. he tweeted out that -- a story from the conservative news outlet claiming hillary clinton's private e-mail server was hacked by a chinese-owned company. an fbi official, okay, told cnn there is no such evidence. he also accused, trump did, google of promoting president obama's state of the union address but not his. google says that is not true. they have the receipts. they highlighted trump's speech on their home page. joan, does he suffer any consequences for just making stuff up? >> not with his base, don, but i think increasingly he does. i mean, we're starting to see a president who is losing it. i'm startin

a few years later, simon's "barefoot in the park" helped make robert redford a star. his first tony for "the odd couple," the story of two mismatched roommates, oscar and felix. >> everything you do irritates me! and when you're not here, the things i know you're going to do when you come in irritate me. >> reporter: "the odd couple" was a huge hit that inspired a successful movie and a long-running television series. it firmly established simon as broadway's most popular playwright. other hits followed "plaza suite and "the sunshine boys" just to name a few. no theater seemed to be complete without another new play featuring simon's one-liners. there were screen plays too, for movies like "murder by death" and "the good-bye girl," for which richard dreyfus would win an academy award for best actor. critics often dismissed simon as a mere joke writer. >> because i wrote a play almost every year, 27 plays in 30 years is almost every year, so anyone who writes that many plays couldn't be very hard for him. >> reporter: simon never gave up comedy, but as he got older, hi

his breakthrough play in 1963 was barefoot in the parks later vie starringa mo robert redford and jane fonda as newlyweds. >> you're always dressed rght, look right, say the right thing. you're very nearly per >> that's a rotten thing to say. before we were marri, i thought you slept with a ti >> no, just for very formal sleeps. >> the odd couple about two mismatched divorcings was a big hit. >> kindly remove that spaghetti from my poker table.t' >> iling weany, not spa gety. >> mm-hmm. (crashing sounds) >> now it's garbage. in the broadway rehearsals of the show directed by mike nickels, simon felt the scene had fallen flat. later he told the "new york times" of a lesson he learned. >> i said what happened? he said, it's funny but they don't like what's happening. they like the people and you're making them go in a way that's not go for them. so i changed that and we got less laughs but more cheers for the play. so i started to learn about i that it's not all about the laughter, it's about the feelings that the audience gets. >> brown: in 1966 same uphadad four bry shows running simul

first up "entertainment weekly" exclusive robert redford has announced he's decided to retire.lassics such as all the president's men, butch occasion difficult, sundance kid, "the natural" the way we were with barbra streisand. never say never but i pretty well concluded this would be it for me in terms of acting and i'll move towards retirement after this, because i've been doing it since i was 21. i thought, well, that's enough. why not go out with something that's very upbeat and positive. redford referring to his upcoming film "the old man and the gun" which hits theaters september 28th. he's certainly had a career and deserves retirement. john luke picard, a role he started playing in 1987. now that a series under way many fans left to wonder if stewart would return to the role. well, he made a surprise guest appearance in las vegas this weekend and had a special announcement to make. take a look. >> gradually it became clearer and clearer to me that the power of that show, the success of that show, the benefits that it gave, and that lies at the very center of what i have

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hollywood film star robert redford has said his next film will be his last.e kid, indecent proposal and the horse whisperer, the 81—year—old actor won an oscar as a director in 1981. he will star in the old man and the gun, the true story of a criminal who escaped from jail in a kayak before committing more heists. a student from texas has taken part in a graduation photo shoot with a difference, posing with a 14ft alligator named big tex. makenzie noland, who will graduate from texas a&m university on friday, says she struck up a bond with tex while interning at a rescue centre for alligators, crocodiles and other reptiles. makenzie says she's not scared of the alligator as she gets in the water with him every day, adding that he's one of her best friends at the centre. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30am. thank you very much. you are getting in touch with your thoughts on the high street with house of fraser the latest of the big names in trouble. eileen says, giving permission for any old chap is not the answer, one food store, charity

robert redford announcing to "entertainment weekly" he is retiring from acting.e new colonel sanders at kfc. >> you're a wreck. you're sweating bullets. it is the kung pow. george likes his chicken spicy. jillian: he is promoting the fast-food chain, chicken buckets. brian: this rotation of celebrities really thrown me. jillian: welcome to today. brian: change gears. a story making headlines, violence rattling through chicago. 70 people were shot this weekend, making total number of people who were shot in the city so far this year at 1700 but chicago is not the only city with major problems. seattle facing a homeless epidemic with 12,000 people without homes. making third largest homeless population in the nation. san francisco, what a mess. the streets are filled with drugs and other things and used needles. what do these cities all have in common currently? they're run by democratic mayors with democratic principles and have been for the last decade. here to weigh in, the sites chairman for center for urban renewal, mark little. what do you believe are the dem

will have to be before it gets the freedom natalie portman recently said she was supporting gaza robert redford has always been a big name and always talked about the military industrial complex warren beatty you have to be really concerned you have read that big to really have any kind of freedom or even they have strictures a place i think. well i mean i'm sure that the men get a lot more leeway susan sarandon i think by hollywood standards was kind of branded you know kind of kooky that's what they like to do if you have a personality or you have a specific point of view you're a kook or you're kind of unhinged. when it's ok to just be a person and have have a point of view it doesn't have to be anybody else's but it can be yours. and i think if you're young and you're up and coming and you're making noise about gaza all of people above you will get very nervous because then you're going to get put in celebrity timeouts. so it was not only for you on the corner at lincoln so absurd as the magazine's liberty now i mean i mean you get you're like a little kid you get your face in the corner un

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robert mueller's russia inquiry. speaker ryan needs to shut down the attempt on rod rosenstein. trump's lackeys in the archconservative freedom congress -- caucus. that's the editorial board of the new york times today. lorraine. redford. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a question. these women and all this other stuff happened. it was before he was sworn in president. so why is it making it sound like he was the president when he wasn't sworn in to be the president yet? and you getting all these allegations against him as if he was the press and of the united states then. he wasn't. office ofning for the presidency. host: would you care about anything that happened before donald trump as president? caller: not until he became president. host: ok. key west, florida. independent. good morning. caller: when i hear c-span it's always someone from the right or that have the hardest positions. no one seems to be addressing the subject from the middle ground. for instance there's a woman on youtube. her name is bridget lynch and she has written a thing called the modest proposal and one of her concepts is we are not capable as laypeople of addressing the subject of global warming. but we are capable of