Mr. Rose, I used to watch all your interviews religiously and had a personal wish to one day chat with you at your famous table! You are by far a legend in the interview game, so happy to see you back interviewing again! Great interview! Subscribed!
Dear Charlie, please bring back the in-person studio interviews at the round table. There is a quality and magic to having conversations face-to-face that zoom cannot reproduce. I look forward to the old show.
No, the protests after Oct. 7 are not about anti-semitism. Bret Stephens is wrong about that. It's about politics. The protests are about the mess that is the Israel/Palestine question, and frustration that an equitable solution has not been reached yet. It's not called an "intractable problem" for nothing. Bret Stephens needs to put some distance between his personal feelings, and the realities that both Palestinians and Israelis face, in order to be impartial, and more lucid about what fair, and just solutions might be possible, which include security concerns. Anyway, interesting interview, as always with Charlie Rose.
But you gotta admit, it’s weird that the righteous masses don’t protest about 500,000 dead and 20 million refugees in Syria, 370,000 dead in Yemen, up to 600,000 dead in current Ethiopian civil war with 13 million in need of food, 9 million refugees in current Sudan. What’s the difference here?
I'm a liberal close to age 50 myself I've been a Charlie Rose listener for a while was raised in a protestant church. I agree that a Dec 7 moment won't get the result the yesteryear. I want to touch what made the greatest generation so great, in this moment.
In my work, I must build long term relationships with people who have very different politics than me. While I do gain a greater appreciation for their views and sometimes I am even persuaded to change my own, mostly I learn to appreciate their humanity. It’s our common love of our families and our common worries about life that ultimately bind us. This is what gives me hope for a future where our country can be more unified than we are now. So, I love “date night for Congress.” Thanks Brett for a thoughtful conversation. Also, I knew nothing of Operation Praying Mantis. I was only seventeen when it happened but still, how did it not come up in my reading. So much to learn…
I’m listening. We must be strong, but I still find it perplexing that you both don’t even touch on the fact that two things, among others, are sources of world conflict: our ridiculous act that we must “defeat” China, when we need all of their products, and crony-capitalism.
There’s an intellectual smugness and self satisfaction in this conversation that disturbs me. No mention of Vivek Ramaswami a talented outside who has thrown himself into the political ring, something both these guys say they want.
Mr. Stephens fails to mention that the 'nut' jobs who are going into politics these days represent only one of our political parties at this time. I''ll leave it to the reader to figure out which party that is.
