absolutely wipe them out first appearance coast-to-coast. that s great. he had a sitcom so fast he became kind of the template for what you wanted to achieve if you were a standup comic at that time. mommy, what took you so long? i ve been waiting for your call. are you surprised, my lover? oh, hi, mr. peterson. success coming early in life, and quickly, it destroys a lot of people. but you just seem to grow and handle it better than almost anybody i know. well, i was lucky. a couple of good accidents happen. freddie prinze, the 22-year-old star of television s chico in the man shot himself in the head today in an apparent suicide attempt. it s the classic cautionary tale of show business, and when you become that famous that fast at the age of 20 it s like throwing a child into the world of fame and money without anyone to help navigate the seas. there s nothing about that
this is incredible. then they go to commercial. they come back again, they bump the guest to talk more with this young comedian. you know, there s no greater thrill for me personally than to have somebody come out here and absolutely wipe them out first appearance coast-to-coast. that s great. he had a sitcom so fast he became kind of the template for what you wanted to achieve if you were a standup comic at that time. mommy, what took you so long? i ve been waiting for your call? are you surprised, my lover? oh, hi, mr. peterson. success coming early in life, and quickly, it destroys a lot of people. but you just seem to grow and handle it better than almost anybody i know. well, i was lucky. a couple of good accidents happen. freddie prinze, the 22-year-old star of television s chico in the man shot himself in the head today in an apparent suicide attempt. it s the classic tale of show business, when you become that famous that fast at the age of 20, it s throwing a chi
if you could interview him now, because you haven t spoken to him since you turned down the rnc. no. well, when i turned down the rnc was the last time we spoke, and i said to him, what are you doing? and i explained to him in the nicest way that it would be difficult for me. i said i m not really actually comfortable being a public speaker, which i m not. i don t like going up. i never was a standup comic. i don t like getting up in front of audiences. this radio studio suits me just fine. i m alone with robin and she s my audience. i m in heaven. it s great. so when you know, what struck me as even odd, i know he was a hillary clinton fan. he was a supporter of hers. so the whole thing was weird. and i am i have been a hillary clinton supporter way back before when obama when
character, complete newcomer, standup comic, sitcom actor, also a businessman but a newcomer, totally outside politics, sweeps the parliament elections, talks about making a deal with russia, fascinating character. we re getting somewhere. i interviewed the previous president three times. then it gets very, very close and i get there in early september for a conference i happen to be going to and i said can i meet him to seal the deal? that s the september 13th meeting that apparently the u.s. embassy was frightened he was going to give the interview that day and do the second half of the quid pro quo, announce the investigations into biden and burisma. they had not confirmed it with us they were still playing, you know. but it looked very good. we were getting down to the logistics, when will he do it, new york, around the time of the u.n. general assembly, which was ten days later. and then the whistle-blower story breaks.
investigations into whether there was ukraine influence into the 2016 election. that s where cnn s fareed zakaria enters the picture and he joins us now. fareed, it was going to be an interview with you where the second half of the quid pro quo was announced. right. we had been trying to get an interview with zelensky anyway because he s this fascinating character, complete newcomer, standup comic, sitcom actor, also a businessman but a newcomer, totally outside politics, sweeps the parliament elections, talks about making a deal with russia, fascinating character. we re getting somewhere. i interviewed the previous president three times. then it gets very, very close and i get there in early september for a conference i happen to be going to and i said can i meet him to seal the deal? that s the september 13th meeting that apparently the u.s. embassy was frightened he was going to give the interview that day and do the second half of the quid pro quo, announce the investigations i