Get worried, really worried. David pogue will report our cover story. Reporter in case there was any doubt, 2020 has offered some pretty good evidence that the climate is changing. We always put Climate Change on the back burner, thinking we can do it later. But were out of time for that. Reporter but 2020 has also offered some tiny signs of hope. In one generation weve taken the planet from basic stability to the brink of catastrophe. But it means we are the authors of our faith. Reporter Climate Change, an update, coming up on sunday morning. Pauley Christopher Cross is a singersongwriter with some of musics most memorable hits to his credit. But for him, this year has been anything but smooth sailing. Not far down reporter Christopher Cross sa fivetime grammy awardwinner. This year he is also Something Else. What were some of the things you were saying to yourself in those darkest moments . I can tell you that i had a few conversations with whoever he or she is, and just saying, if
Publishing . When you write a book, hopefully the book indoors. Sometimes youre given a lecture you say was worth it because things about lectures, the moment they are over, they are over. They disappear. So when audible said, could we record your lectures . I said great. [laughter] audible. Com for people who dont know it. They can subscribe to that and get this out, hour and 42 minutes. It was the 100th anniversary last september so the Foundation Sponsored a celebration at harvard and they asked me to give a talk. I put some work into that talk and i said i wish this wouldnt disappear. Someone came up and said it was a very moving talk. He said how would you feel about having it recorded . I said id like that. Then they did it, they transcribed it. They said it was only about for seven minutes, wasnt long enough. He said are you getting any lectures . I was giving one for next week on the subject of political power from another angle of the Historical Society so basically took down
Admired man and woman in the world. Theres an annual survey. Its conducted by ugov. The most admired woman in the world this year is michelle obama. Michelle obama. [ cheers and applause ] is admired greatly. She finished number one, followed by oprah. You have to be happy with any result that ends with followed by oprah. [ laughter ] and the tenth most admired woman in the world is taylor swift. Although keep in mind this survey was conducted before they released the trailer for cats last week. [ laughter ] the top three most admired men in the survey are bill gates, barack obama, and jackie chan. And if thats not a great crew for a heist, i dont know what is. [ cheers and applause ] President Donald Trump finished 14th on the list, just ahead of pope francis. The pope is looking at himself in the mirror adjusting his hat right now going, what the how did that happen . [ laughter ] this might boost the president s admirability factor. Overt weekend he involved himself in a highprofile
Obama. Michelle obama. [ cheers and applause ] is admired greatly. She finished number one, followed by oprah. You have to be happy with any result that ends with followed by oprah. [ laughter ] and the tenth most admired woman in the world is taylor swift. Although keep in mind this survey was conducted before they released the trailer for cats last week. [ laughter ] the top three most admired men in the survey are bill gates, barack obama, and jackie chan. And if thats not a great crew for a heist, i dont know what is. [ cheers and applause ] President Donald Trump finished 14th on the list, just ahead of pope francis. The pope is looking at himself in the mirror adjusting his hat right now going, what the how did that happen . [ laughter ] this might boost the president s admirability factor. Overt weekend he involved himself in a highprofile legal battle with authorities in sweden. Trump is using his clout to try to secure the release of asap rocky, the rapper, who was arrested af
Wayses, and the exciting thing that ive been a part of is to watch in one single day as we voted on american amendments in one day of this year than we did in all of 2014. Right now if you look at i think the numbers weve passed over 60 bills, most of which were bipartisan. 25 of which have been signed into law. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lyndon Johnson a new documentary about william f. Buckley jr. And gore vidal and al hunt on the story with colorado senator cory gardner. All of that when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by 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 Doris Kearns Goodwin is here. She is a president ial historian. She is a pulitzer prizewinning author. His first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream was publicked way back in 1977. The biography is now bei