And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

He is a phenomenon in American cultural and political history.

Arnold Schwarzenegger came from a small village in Austria to become a global sensation and

bodybuilding transformed himself into a Hollywood blockbusting actor and then, improbably,

governor of California.

I sat down with Arnold in California for my CNN show recently.

Here's the full version of that conversation.

And action.

Thanks, governor.

Good to be here with you in this office, which is as colorful and as eclectic as your amazing

life.

We're here just days before a really consequential election and I want to talk about that.

But I have to take advantage of being here with you to talk about the issue of celebrity

and politics because we have a celebrity president now.

And you in certain ways were a trailblazer in this modern era.

I mean, I remember very well watching the tonight show when you announced your candidacy.

And you sold a persona that people knew from film.

I mean, you were an action hero.

You were going to smash Sacramento and rebuild it.

But politics turns out to be different than film in that you can't write your own script

all the time.

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