privacy in venezuela. you may remember the former brazilian president offered him to go seek treatment in brazil. they have accident facilities. he himself was treated for cancer there. he went to cuba. it s widely understood that he did that so nobody would know any details about his condition unless he and the government wanted it to be known. wolf? douglas brinkley, the presidential his store general, his tore general is joining us on the phone. i believe you went there with christopher hitchens and sean penn. what was he like? i spent quite a bit of time with him. he was very charismatic and quite sunny.