And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Thank you very much for coming here today. We are at the Kennedy Center. You played here many times, i assume . Yoyo um, once or twice. David im very honored to be interviewing you, because i am the chairman of the Kennedy Center, and we gave you the Kennedy Center honors at one point not too long ago, and you have been the recipient of the president ial medal of freedom and every other award one can get. Will you are traveling around the world all the time. What drives you at this point when you are already so successful . Yoyo i want my wife to approve of me. David well, that is important. Yoyo well, what probably drives me is i want to be useful. So, i play the cello. And people like me to play. But maybe something you dont know is that my great passi
Carusocabrera in davos. And she is with the man who just finished up with President Trump squawk joe kernan. Michelle yes, thats right thanks so much tyler i am here with joe wrapped up extensive interview with president know a lot of things you talked about. Give us some of the highlights. Mr. Trump comes to davos. What would be anyones first question i wanted to know here you are coming into the bastion of elitist and everything else. How are you going to sell the american first agenda to the crowd we have here in davos . When i decided to come to davos, i didnt think in terms of elite es or globalist i thought in terms of lots of people who want to invest lots of money and all coming ba can to the United States they are coming back to america. And i thought of it much more in those terms. After i said that i was going, there were massive stories about the elite and the globalists and everything else. Its not about that. Its about coming to america and investing your money, creating
Exhilarating to watch them have dialogue back and forth and though it was 45 years ago, it spoke very much to the present tense. Brian and to your partner in crime . Morgan robert called me and said he had come across a bootleg tape of some of these debate between William Buckley and corbett all. Gore the doll. Gore vidal. I was very interested in him as a character. Buckley was someone we all knew from being such a tv presence, when i saw the debates i saw something that was really speaking to today as much as it was to 1968. We got excited and decided to make a film about it. Brian when did they start . And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 62. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. It really became more personal when gore went on it the David Celestine david suskine show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a categorize it like the right had been categori
Here are some others you might enjoy. Christopher hitchens discussing his life and work. Former speechwriter ray price talking about his time with the nixon administration. And his role in preparing nixon for a series of interviews with journalists damon frost. David frost. You can find those online. On the next washington journal a at the Highway Trust Fund with bud wright. Also, Mike Rosenbloom of the Migration Policy Institute on u. S. Immigration policy and the recent debate on sanctuary cities. Emily badger discusses efforts by the Housing Department to provide assistance to low income families. We will look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Monday on the communicators, fcc commissioner Michael Orielly on key issues like that neutrality, regulating the internet, and the publics influence on policymaking. That document should be made available publicly. I think that would provide an opportunity for everyone to know exactly wha
Very knowledgeable and sweet man. But oddly, was very different than bill. He and his other brother were very similar. James was almost from a different family, which is probably why he was a successful politician. Brian before we run completely out of time, whats next . Robert might be next documentary, might be next book. Someone is interested in my stacks record book. It might turn into something. Brian you did an oscarwinning 20 feet from starting on . Was that just you 20 feet from stardom. With that issue . Morgan i have a feature coming out with yoyo ma area we will premiere in the fall. Brian our guests have been Morgan Neville who lives in los angeles and has done a lot of documentaries with our other guest who lives in memphis. We thank you for bringing us the best of enemies. For free transcripts, or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q a. Org. If you like tonights q a, here are some others you might enjoy. Christopher hitchens discussing his life and w