>> rose: welcome to the program. it's end of summertime when we look back at some of the best moments in our program so far this year. tonight in our encore conversation, james cameron. >> dealing with the natural world and the beauty of science is that every question you answer poses three new. questions. if you embrace science it's job security. the investigation never ends, you know. but it's trying to create a framework for understanding of how it all works. >> rose: james cameron for the hour, next. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> there's a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don't make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it, when you know where to look. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg. a provid

no. >> rose: '84. >> noz. >> rose: '85. >> there were thins on the show that were good. >> rose: but you don't have great memories about -- >> huh-uh, not really, no, i don't. is that terrible to say, i don't really. it was fine. i'm not kidding. i really did learn a lot about how the business worked. but it wasn't creatively satisfying. but i will fell you one thing, i came out of that show and i said to myself, i'm not going to do anything again unless it's fun. >> rose: fun. >> fun. >> rose: so when you got to seinfeld you say, jesus. >> this is fun. and what also was good, i knew larry david. larry david was a writer on snl. and that's how come he sent me these seinfeld scripts because he knew me. and so that's something good that came out of snl too. >> rose: so he gets the credit for elaine, doesn't he. >> yeah, sure, yeah. he wrote it. >> rose: i wrote it and not only that, he thought you would be perfect? >> yeah, yeah. >> rose: i mean you walked in and they just said bingo, it was not a whole lot of maybe, maybe, maybe. >> no. >> rose: it was walk in, bingo. we've found our

thank you. >> charlie rose, charlie rose, that's my man.r charlie rose, gentle charlie with the two valves. i said charlie, would you get that valve. but no charlie could come and sing lavion charlie. ♪ ♪ ♪ that's all for today, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you and good night. >> good night. >> let the camera keep rolling. >> little charlie, charlie rose. good thing, i remember young charlie rose. i said charlie, charlie even as a child was doing interviews with his bear, we line up all the little animals and he had a little tiny table in and what are you up to, teddie and he had a picture and he had just written down things an even then he just looked at the questions and he would look, teddie, how long you have been stuffed. and the bear was there. and then we turn and the other animal was just look at him and he would turn, as a rabbit do you feel fear? >> the rabbit, do you feel fear near this small stuffed animal? >> we'll be right back. >> for more about this program and early episodes visit us on-line at pbs.org and charlie rose.co

down. >> rose: i see. experimental time, this is the actual mission. >> oh yes. so when i was at the bottom of the challenger deep, we still had planned several more dives. i was going to go back there, we were going to go over to the deep nearby which is almost as deep. we're going to look around, you know, do some science. and so i was in a hurry to get back and give it to the maintenance guys. >> rose: there was also a moment though which you had to make a decision do we continue or not. >> yes. >> rose: what was that moment. >> well, they put me in the war, it was kind of high sea state and i had the choice, the weather window was so narrow i had a choice. launch in a high sea state and recover lesser or the other way around. but i couldn't have both so i said all right it's better if i get in the water. it's recover. i would rather you were pulling me out. >> rose: but that was a certain danger in doing that. >> that's right. >> rose: which was. >> if we had a problem, if we had a hold and we had to r

"great party." >> rose: thank you. >> thanks, charlie. >> rose: that was good. >> that was fun. >> rose of the best. that was a wild riff, as they say. that was free range. i love when you go open field-- charlie gives you open field. >> rose: he does. >> you can go full tilt with charlie. >> rose: show him what you can do. >> bring out everything. throw everything in the mix. >> rose: he's going to like it. >> "charles has a valve." people do come up to you and say, "way to go." you are better now. he who runs like a horse will have a great day. charles is good. he is now happy. the brain is back online." >> rose: exactly. and he can breathe and he can sleep and he can walk and talk. >> all of those things. >> rose: all of those things. makes a great difference. >> yeah, huge. >> rose: how much of this is simply natural comedic talent? >> i mean, i think lenny bruce said it best. you start off trying to win the attention of your mother just for one of these-- is this thing on? and then you work from there -- >> i'm thirsty, mother. >> please. >> rose: laugh at me. i'm so thirsty. >> "t

>> rose: welcome to the program. don't an encore presentation of my conversation with bruce riedel of the brookings intelligence project. >> >> i think the big lesson there is you can't just walk away from afghanistan. this is a very dangerous part of the world. it seems to be a place where important things happen because not only was it a global changer in terms of the end of the cold war, we can now say 25 years later it was the start of the global jihad. >> rose: bruce riedel for the hour next. funding for "charlie rose" is provided by the following. >> there's a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don't make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it, when you know where to look. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg. a provider of

>> >> rose:. >> rose: why did you want to act? >> i don't know, it is such a hard yes, it was just sort of liklike in me. i took a class at school and i like it but i wasn't -- i don't know, my teacher was actually very supportive, and i in never thought of doing it and i said no. >> rose: the groundling? >> yes, that is in la, yes, a theatre improv comedy group, and i never had seen improv before and i saw show and i was like, i want to do that. >> rose: that's what i want to be. >> and i signed up for classes right away and that theatre changed my life, yeah. >> how did lauren hear about you? >> i -- a lot of of times you just sort of send tapes in, you write snl new york and it gets there. yeah, i send a tape in, it was just like, little things i had done, little bits on like sitcoms and like a lot of stuff from groundling characters. >> and you auditions before before loren and tina fey. >> yes when you audition you go into. >> the studio and you go on the stage and you -- they are there, you hear they are all there, but you d

they're roses you can actually eat these roses. people were like roses, as if it was a veg i believe. what is an artichoke it's a flower and roses are too. >> if we treat it like a vegetable, we treated it like a vegetable here it was magical. he thinks it's the first time in the history that they did this, that someone did this, that someone prepared a rose in this way. >> rose: next is culinary evolution someone. >> within the work that we're doing now, when did cooking start as we understand it today. we were talking archaeologists anthropologists, we were studying it we reached a conclusion that was in the neolithic period because why? because you have erten wear, you can boil things, friday things, do things f we didn't have these tools imagine, then we have agriculture so grains, flowers, you have you have commerce and trade. people exchange products and we stopped being nomad and became sed enter. cooking as we understand it today starts then. before you could eat, of course. and that's a theory, well, it's very proven. and

it. >> rose: yeah.t you are going to do this year. >> well, we're going to do a new production which we haven't done in many, many years. >> rose: 50 years. >> that's right. and i've done a good number of the revivals of that production that was the only one in my time. >> rose: you have described it as the creme de la creme. >> yes. >> rose: why is that? what is it about it. >> let's put it this way. if you take all of the great operatic comedies, the real great ones, if you take figero and johnny skeki and the done pascale and eli zeer, and you take all the human comedies, with or above the best of them is falstaff, falstaff is just a miracle of libretto, of story line, of musical inspiration, of master, mastery of every detail of composition. it's in a class of figero a&m istro singer which are the other two that are near perfect. i don't need them to be perfect. i love a lot of pieces that aren't perfect. those are just the creme de la creme of operatic comedy. which is striking because 80% of opera

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: turning now to politic, president obama and hillary clinton, the former secretary of state were supposed to patch things up on wednesday night at a martha vineyard's dinner party, just days of a mrs. clinton seemingly slammed the president's foreign policy in an interview with the magazine. david brooks wrote about it in his column for the no times. i'm pleased to have him here. david, explain to my how you feel about this. i know on reading the column that you tend to agree that secretary clinton is more right than president obama on certain points that she has made. but give me the political dementia-- demeant-- dimension of this and what she deliberately said in the atlantic and understood the ramifications of it was it that mack cilia. >> i think not. there is a machiavellian spin in that she is someone careful in what she says and it is natural she will want to distance herself from president obama in some regards. he has a 36% approval rating continuationing would fooli

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: president obama ordered limited air strikes against isis militants in northeastern iraq on thursday. the action was in response to what he called a potential genocide. the strikes have achieved their initial goal of liberating 20,000 yazidi refugees in the sinjar mountains. >> the deputy speaker of the parliament replacement for maliki is al-abadi but he refused to step down accuse the president of acting unconstitutionally. president obama addressed the situation earlier today and here's what he said. >> this new iraqi leadership has a difficult task. it has to regain the confidence of the citizens by governing inclusively and by taking steps to demonstrate its resolve. the united states stands ready to support a government that addresses the needs and grievances of all iraqi people. we're also ready to work with other countries in the region to deal with the humanitarian crisis and counterterrorism challenge in iraq. mobilizing that support will be easier once this new gove

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with our ongoing coverage of the isis threat to iraq and the change of government there. u.s. air strikes on the islamic state of iraq and syria continued for its sixth day. meanwhile the u.s., britain and france have been delivering food and water to thousanding of iraqi yazidis on mount sinjar. refugees remain stranded after fleeing atacks from isis, the pentagon announced it fend advisors to northern iraq to plan the evacuation of the yazidis. "the new york times" reports a senior u.s. white house official acknowledged the possibility of using american troops to assist iraqis in the rescue of yazidi refugees. the white house is careful to say there is a difference in using forces in a humanitarian mission rather than a battle against isis militant, joining me brett mcgurk, the u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state for iraq and iran. he previously served as senior advisor to the u.s. bam dos-- ambassador to iraq and national security council. i'm pleased

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> we begin with president obama, it is a testing time for him, and he contends with one foreign policy after another. from ukraine to iraq, to gaza, to the demands of the moment have disrupted longer term planning on the domestic front, economic numbers have improved but with two-thirds of his presidency behind him many policy goals remain elusive, the economist magazine has run several covers critical of the president during the past year, joining me now from london, john micklethwait, she the editor of the economist and recently interviewed the president aboard air force one, i am pleased to pleased to have him back on this program. i want to talk about this very, very interesting interview but i made the reference to the number of covers that you have run of the president, raising questions as do, you know, about foreign policy as well as domestic policy as well as leadership and a lot of other things you endorsed this president twice. but you have raised critical questions. now y

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. mandy patinkin is here, he is an emmy and tony award-winning acker, he is one extraordinary acker, he stars in the showtime series homeland as you know. as you also know his character sol barenson a cia direct are and the show some say moral center, here is a look at his performance. >>> sol. >> his iconic roll in the princess bride has gained cult status. >> you killed my father, prepare to die. >> he is also a broadway veteran of more than 30 years an a noted interpreter of stephen sondheim, i'm enormously pleased to have mandy patinkin back at this table, welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> you are just back from australia. >> yes. >> rose: doing what? >> i was doing a series of concerts there with my dear friend nathan gunn, the wonderful, glorious opera singer who just started rehearsals today at the met for magic flute. and we did three concerts in australia, sydney, brisbon and melbourne and then went to automaticland and did one there. and it was fascinating. i thought i was ex

made some rose. now every single wine country makes rose. this is a south african rose. it's darker because it is actually made from cabernet sauvignon grapes. little more intense flavor. >> that is stronger. >> a little fruitier, almost spicy on the end. at the same time, you chill it down, summer, something like that with a barbecue, with sausages or even burgers, it's a great option. >> i'm no wine critic but that tasted like cotton candy. i like it. >> what it tastes like to you is what it is. >> this is a summer drink, though? >> well, it's a summer drink, honestly i think it's great year round. however, in terms of the market for the wine, there's a huge fall-off in sales post labor day. so if you are looking for sales on rose, september is the month because retailers are trying to get it out the door. it's very hard to sell in the winter months. >> ray, thank you as always. great having you here. this was really yummy. >> cheers. absolutely. >>> up next, "on the money," a look at the news for the week ahead and if you could just put your money away, watch it grow

, it used to be france made rose and italy made rose and u.s.some. now every single wine country makes rose. this is a south african rose. it's actually darker. a little more intense flavor. >> that is stronger. >> a little fruitier. >> also a spiciness on the end. at the same time, you chill it down, summer, something like that with barbecue and sausages or even burgers, it's a great option. >> i'm not wine critic, but that tasted like cotton candy. >> what tastes like to you is what it is. >> this is a summer drink though. >> well, it's a summer drink -- i think it's great year round but in terms of the market for wine, there's a huge fall off in sales post labor day. if you're looking for sales on rose, september is the month because retailers are trying to get it out the door. it's very hard to sell in winter months. >> thank you, it's great. this is yummy. >> cheers. absolutely. >> up next, a look at the news in the week ahead and if you could put your money away and watch it grow and not for worry, would you do it? why they may not be righ

rose. >> mr. chairman, supervisor mar, on page 50 of our report drab~ we state that a budget for the requested fourth amendment for the contract of $2,835,000 is shown in table 4 and that's on page 51 of our report. and then also on page 51 we note table 5 which shows the proposed budget for the two future amendments of the contract management services between the airport and pgh wong are anticipate today increase the total not to exceed amount of the contract by up to 1,700,000 dollars, we recommend you approve this resolution. >> thank you very much, mr. rose. no comments or questions, we'll move to public comment. anybody wish to comment on item 13? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> i move approval. >> we can take that without objection. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item 14? >> item 14 is resolution approving modification no. 3 to airport contract 9230.9, construction management support serve is he for the runway safety area program between parsons brinckerhoff, inc., an