showtime is airing a four-part special this week called "the putin interviews."his is an excerpt. >> you do realize how powerful your answer could be if you said that you prefer x candidate, he would go like that tomorrow. if you say you did not like trump or s something, what would happen? he would win. yoyou have thahat amount of pown the u.s. >> unlike e many p partners of , we never interfere with the domestic affffairs of other countries. this is one of the principles we stick to in our work. >> thahank you, sisir. we will see you tomorrow and talk about some heavier stuff. amy: that is an excerpt from oliver stone's new showtime special "the putin interviews." oliver stone is also releasing a companion book compiling the transcripts of his interviews with vladimir putin. oliver stone joins us here in our studio. welcome back to democracy now! you, amy. amy: there is a lot to talk about in a number of clips we want to play. iscan i just say that clip before the election? it was shot in 2015. that was his attitude -- he said things before the election also. v

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>> mason: "the putin interviews" will begin airing monday june 12 on showtime, a division of cbs. in the philippines, police initially said no one was seriously wounded in an attack yesterday at the resort world casino in manila. they later found at least 37 dead, apparently from smoke inhalation. authorities say the gunman set fires before taking his life. isis is claiming responsibility, but police say it was a botched robbery. comedian kathy griffin apologized again today for a photo showing her holding a mock-up of president trump's bloody head. diffin says she's getting death threats, is under investigation by the secret service, and she said the president is trying to ruin her life. >> he broke me. he broke me. ikd then i was like, "no, this isn't right! it's just not right!" sed i apologized because that was the right thing to do and i meant it. >> mason: griffin has had several performances canceled, cd she lost her job co-hosting cnn's new year's eve show. coming up next on the cbs evening news: is it the end of the line for wired phones? and later, steve hartman with phi

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it's on showtime premiering june 4th.omething i love hearing about. >> yeah, absolutely. >> it's not so loosely based on the comedy store and the '70s and the comedians. you were one of those -- >> it's a fictitious history. >> jimmy: you actually lived in a closet at one time. >> i did. and that's the wonderful michael angarano and clark duke doing a couple of characters that come out from boston, comics that come out from boston to make it in hollywood. hollywood, brotha. and there's little pieces of me through the show. that line "hollywood brotha" comes from a drug dealer that used to hang at the comedy store. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> and every time you walked up to him and say how are you doing, man? he'd go "hollywood, brotha." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: which can be taken either way. >> right. but it's an incredible time in history that i got to live. >> jimmy: do you look back on it fondly, that time? >> absolutely. to me it's like the big bang of comedy. it followed nixon and watergate and the impeachment. all that s

>> showtime lakers were pretty great, man. i grew up watching that. talk to seven guys, showtime laker himself, byron scott said it's the best offense he's ever seen. but i did talk to a couple other guys like alex english and kobe bryant and isaiah thomas and kenny smith who played with akeem a olajuwon wan. they say the one thing that is keeping this offense from being the greatest of all-time is the center. there is no kareem abdul-jabbar. there is no akeem olajuwon.ol this wasn't the 70s, this wasn't the 60s. today is a different time. that's why it's hard to compare. harris, you know, magic said if they would sweep them, i don't know that those lakers were in shape to run with guys like that you know what i mean? james worthy was a great defender, but was he going to chase k.d. around? only way we'll know is the video games. >> all right. who do you like tonight? >> they're not near us, right? i like the warriors. i just like their focus. i think they play better on the road in these playoffs. i see lebron and tyree playing better. i see a tighte

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rose: and we conclude with oliver stone, his documentary called "the putin interviews" premiered on showtime monday night. >> what does a director do? i want the actor to do his best. that's not the say i'm going to leave the movie and act as his friend. maybe during the course of the movie, with mr. putin, i felt like i was keeping him interested. i was making him think, and about everything, across the board, about what's going on in the world today, and i think he said some very pregnant things about the united states and about russia. >> rose: michael weiss and oliver stone, when we continue. >> 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. >> glor: the russian ministry defense announced friday a russian airstrike may have killed the leader of i.s.i.s. abu bakr al-baghdadi. it is far from the first time the leader of the islamic state has been reported killed or wounded and the re

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rose: and we conclude with oliver stone, his documentary called "the putin interviews" premiered on showtime >> what does a direct

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so showtime just posted that trailer for the oliver stone-vladimir putin interviews. posted that just in the last week. the kremlin is now very, very upset about the people who are pointing out what that video really is. pointing this out as putin's mistake. they're very upset about that. they're denying it up and down, but it's clearly a mistake. and that comes at a time that is tense, not just in political terms between our two countries, but specifically in military terms, too. a couple of days ago, u.s. military aircraft, big spy plane, we have an animation of this thing, i forgot, u.s. military spy plane, the larger plane there, with more than two dozen u.s. crew onboard, it was intercepted by a russian fighter jet. now, u.s. and russian aircraft intercept each other and fly around each other and try to scare each other in international air space all the time. it apparently happens frequently. it apparently now happens with the chinese air force as well. but this thing that happened on monday, it was a little bit beyond the pale, because this russian fighter jet

a show about the founding of the first women's wrestling federation called glow on netflix and a showtimema about struggling comics in the 1970s called i'm dying up here. two tv critics, i hope they're not dying when we are talking to them, to help us sort through the season. eric deggans of npr and sonia saraiya of variety. thanks for joining us. help us out here, first of all, eric summer season. does it actually mean anything. is there any rhyme or reason any more? >> well, you know, tv is a business that loves habits. so are to the broadcasters especially, there is a summer season. i think it's less so for the cable nets and it's even less so are to the streamers like netflix which seem to churn out a new series just about every week. but there is a sense the tv season is shing down a little bit and we're seeing shows that are less than marquee shows debuting during the next few months. >> sonia, let me start with i, one of the new ones, one of the old ones coming back, a successful one, is aziz ansari master of none. let's take a look at a clip. >> it is really good. >> i told you. a

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. >> rose: the director oliver stone's latest sprct now running on showtime.s a distillation of roughly 20 hours of wide-ranging conversations between the russian president and the director. >> it was 20 hours with them over two years, four different visits. and it's-- it was a massive amount of material to org. it ended up being four hours because i-- basically, i felt that was a natural pattern. it started in about 2000, when he becomes president. and there's quite a thick history in there, where you pick up in 2000 with u.s. relations, and it works its way forward up until the 2007 munich speech, and then it ends up, of course, with ukraine and syria. and post, that a new crisis develops with the election. so one thing after another terminating right now, in this period-- there will be another cries, i'm sure, but write now it's as pretty bleak as it's ever been in terms of temperature. >> rose: did you see yourself as a diswrrlist, as an ally, or as someone once said, a fool? how did you see your role there? >> well, he knows i'm a m a movie director. and

then, academy award winner melissa leo joins us to talk about her starring role in showtime's new seriesi'm dying up here. we're grlad you joined us. all of that coming up in just a moment. ♪ ♪