A Charlie Rose Global Conversation

Joe Manchin came from immigrant parents and grandparents in in Farmington West Virginia to the Governor’s Mansion in Charleston, and then to the United States Senate in Washington, where he served from 2010 to 2025. Manchin left the Democratic Party in 2024 to register as an independent. During his Senate career, Manchin was known for taking centrist positions and for working with both parties. He...

A Charlie Rose Global Conversation. Frank Gehry - a great and distinctive architect by any definition - died on December 5, 2025. He was 96.Gehry was perhaps most famous for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Disney Concert Hall, the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris and his home in Santa Monica, California, connected to chain link fence. He is survived by his wife, Berta, their children and grandc...

Sir Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born British playwright in a nation of brilliant playwrights, made an incredible contribution to the world’s theatre. Stoppard died on November 29 at his home in England. He was 88. Stoppard was taken from then Czechoslovakia in 1939 to Singapore to be with his father a doctor who died during WWII. His mother later married a British journalist, Kenneth Stoppard, and the...

A Charlie Rose Global Conversation:Tom Freston is very much admired for his winning personality and unconventional leadership of MTV, the culture defining cable tv channel that merged music and television. He added Comedy Central, South Park and Live Aid to his success. It all led to becoming CEO of Viacom and then being fired within a year by Sumner Redstone. Freston has spent his time since then...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia - widely known as MBS - came to Washington this week to meet with President Trump and business leaders. It is his first visit to America in eight years and seven years after the murder of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. The Crown Prince also attended a White House dinner and, the next day, met with business leaders at the Kennedy Center. Thi...

Jonathan Karl is a reporter’s reporter. He is the Chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week, the ABC News Sunday morning program. His new book on the 2024 campaign is Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America. It is his fourth book on President Trump, the previous three were:Front Row at the Trump Show, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, a...

James Watson, an American scientist and Nobel laureate who was involved in two of the most important scientific achievements of the 20th century, died on Thursday. He was 97.James Watson and Francis Crick received the Nobel prize in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, the genetic blueprint for life. It is considered one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science. He...

The voters have spoken, and we have the first indication of what they think since the election of 2024 which put Donald Trump back in the White House for a second term. Our focus is what these results say and what are their implications for the future. Joining me is Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who has advised candidates including John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeb Bush and now co-hos...

The voters have spoken, and we have the first indication of what they think since the election of 2024 which put Donald Trump back in the White House for a second term. Our focus is what these results say and what are their implications for the future. Joining me in separate conversations Molly Ball, a political reporter who has written for Politico, The Atlantic, TIME, and most recently The Wall...

Remembering the life of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who passed away at age 84. We honor his decades-long struggle with heart disease, and reflect on his significant influence on U.S. foreign policy and national security.

Michael McFaul has spent a lifetime studying Russia and the global contest between great powers. A Rhodes Scholar and Stanford professor, he speaks from the perspective of scholar, diplomat and author. From 2012 to 2014, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia under President Obama, after three years on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russ...

John Malone is one of the most important architects and builders of contemporary media. He went from Phi Beta Kappa at Yale to a Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins and then jobs at Bell Labs, McKinsey, and Jerrold Electronics before being recruited by Bob Magness to come west to Colorado and grow the cable industry. As CEO of Tele-Communications Inc. and Liberty Media, he played a major role in putting toget...

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress whose wit, warmth, and singular style made her one of the most recognizable figures in American film, died on October 11 in California. She was 79.She first came to national attention as Kay Adams in 1972 in The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark portrait of family and power. Five years later she became an icon in Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s modern rom...

Amos Yadlin has spent his life defending the State of Israel - first as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, then as head of military intelligence, and later as a respected strategic thinker. He was one of eight F-16 pilots who destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.From 2006 to 2010 he was in charge of intelligence for the IDF.He helped oversee the 2007 Israeli strike that eliminate...

General Stanley McChrystal's story begins as the son of a general and continues through a military career that saw him make important stops as he rose through the ranks - leading a Ranger battalion, serving with the 82nd Airborne, overseeing U.S. counterterrorism operations in Iraq as head of JSOC (the Joint Special Operations Command), and ultimately rising to his final post as commander of a...

David Brooks is one of our most thoughtful and influential writers on American politics and the human aspiration. He is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a regular commentator on PBS NewsHour, as well as a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine. Early in his career, he was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. David Brooks is the author of six books, i...

Jane Goodall, who became a global celebrity for her study of chimpanzees in East Africa, died on October 1ST in Los Angeles. She was 91.In 1957, with no formal academic training, she left secretarial work in England and traveled to Kenya, where she met Louis Leakey, the renowned paleoanthropologist who became her mentor. In 1960, at age 26, she went to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in what i...

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs - the well-known music and fashion entrepreneur - faces his sentencing hearing this week. Two member of his defense team, discuss the highly publicized trial of the summer of 2025.Combs’ defense team achieved a significant victory by securing acquittals on the most serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. He was convicted on two lesser counts of transpo...

The indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program - which he hosted for more than two decades - reverberated across media, politics, and public conversation. We are at an important moment. The questions go beyond one host or one network. They speak to the balance between government power and individual rights. People on both sides of the political spectrum fear the rise of violence ag...

Karen Elliott House knows well the personalities and history of the Middle East conflict from her experiences as a reporter, editor, and author. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her reporting on King Hussein of Jordan. She later became foreign editor of The Wall Street Journal and eventually its publisher. She has written two books on Saudi Arabia: the most recent, published in July 2025,...

Sir Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, combined his education in history, politics, and economics at Oxford with his passion for debate to become a prominent historian, author, teacher, and documentarian. His works include a two-volume biography of Henry Kissinger, with the first volume published in 2015 and the second scheduled for release in 2027.His ideas and views appear in various med...

Michael Wolff is a New York writer whose books have been about: media and power, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News and Donald Trump and the Presidency. His most recent is: “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America”Michael Wolff and James Truman, former Conde Nast Editor,co-hosted a podcast called Fire and Fury. At Jeffrey Epstein’s request, Michael Wolff also recorded many conversations between them...

Gerard Baker is editor at large of the Wall Street Journal and host of WSJ at large on Fox Business. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal from 2013 to 2018 and now writes the weekly Free Expression column, which explores politics, economics, media, and global affairs. He also held senior roles at the Financial Times and the Times of London and served as a speech writer to the Chancellor of...

Douglas Murray is a British journalist, author, and political commentator whose work explores major themes in politics and culture affecting the future of Europe and America. He is an associate editor at the Spectator Magazine, a columnist for The New York Post and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Douglas Murray has written eight books. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and wrote his first bo...

The eyes of the world were on Alaska Friday as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin flew into Anchorage for a three-hour conference about the Ukraine war and then held a press conference without taking any questions. Analysts are trying to decipher the meaning of what was not said and the impact of what was not agreed. An agreement for a ceasefire did not happen. The question remains, do you need a cea...