Facebook Live with Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

"60 Minutes" correspondent and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has spent the last year fostering an even closer relationship with his famous mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, who recently turned 92 years old. This morning, they joined "CBS This Morning" to talk about their new book, ‪"The Rainbow Comes And Goes," and HBO documentary, "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper."

After the broadcast they stuck around in the Toyota Green Room for a 10-minute Facebook Live conversation with Vladimir Duthiers of CBS News' digital network, CBSN.

Anderson Cooper on having a baby:

Vladimir Duthiers: In the book you say you would like Anderson to have children.

Gloria Vanderbilt: Oh. Absolutely.

Anderson Cooper: Well thanks for bringing that up. What mom does not want...

GV: A while back... you were talking about having children... and I was you know... ecstatic and thrilled.

AC: Well, I just realized, thank you for bringing that up, it would mean a radical life change in terms of career and job and stuff. And I don't know.

GV: Anderson would really be the most wonderful father.

AC: But, you know, I would want to be the kind of dad my dad was to me and he was really present and around, and you know I am on a plane a couple times a week.

His experience with Truman Capote:

Vlad: She [Gloria] said something, she said Truman competed with you and Carter...

AC: Well he liked the attention to be on himself. I think it was more competing with my brother, because my brother was incredibly well-read and you know my brother was probably 7 years old at the time but he was very well-read and Truman Capote, he wanted to be the center of attention and wasn't necessarily the center of attention.

How Anderson came out to his mom as gay:

AC: I said to her, "I think I am gay."I knew I was... as soon as I said that, I knew I shouldn't have said "I think." And her response was, "well, don't make any definite decisions." And I was like, well, that wasn't really the response I was going for.

GV: And then you left the room...

AC: 'Cause I thought you needed some time to adjust.

GV: I would have liked to explore it more.

AC: Well, I didn't realize that. So I just thought you needed some time to think about it...

GV: I mean, I wish I were gay.

Vlad: I have heard that before.

GV: Because there is no difference.

Gloria Vanderbilt's greatest fear:

GV: My greatest fear is that people who I love will not know how much I love them, although I am very affectionate. I do express myself. I hope that [looking at Anderson] you know how much I love you.