the affordable care act. they are one of a number of companies. >> from snow to arctic air, the severe weather crippled roads and grounded plains across the country. >> those are the headlines. "consider this" is up next. you can get the latest news on aljazeera.com. >> syria strikes back at critics. former ambassador to syria, wayne crocker, weighs in on the peace talks. >> why can't america's military win wars outright? >> should violent rap lyrics but their author behind bars >> you might want to thing twice before buying a small car >> i'm antonio mora, you might want to "consider this".

here is more of what is ahead? >> anything but peaceful at the conference amounted at ending syria's civil war. >> just a few minutes. >> i can't promise you. >> there's no way that the man who led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to government. >> the focus has been on ending the war as opposed to winning it. >> it's important for americans to recognise that we have young men and women in harm's way. we need to see the job all the way through. >> after saving the game for seattle -- >> sherwin is getting all the attention. >> that is a result you're going to get. >> that was immature, i regret doing that. >> we begin with bitter words and accusations that broke out almost immediately. syrian peace talks began in switzerland, where opposing sides in the conflict met for

the first time. syrian foreign minister walid al-muallem was defiant, becaming the rebels for atrocities and the destruction of the syrian culture and strongly rejected secretary of state john kerry's assertion that syria's president bashar al-assad has lost legitimacy. >> translation: we have come here as representatives of the people and the state. yes, but no one - no one, mr kerry, in the world has the right to give legitimacy or to withdraw legitimacy from a president, a government, a constitution or a law or anything in syria, but syrians. this is the right of the syrian people, and their constitutional duty. >> the syrian foreign minister refused to leave the podium despite numerous requests from u.n. chief bank -- ban-ki moon.

>> can you a wrap up in one or two minutes. >> no, i can't promise you. you live in new york, i live in syria. i have the right to give the syrian version here in this forum. >> yes, of course, i do not object to that. >> this is my right. >> for more on the talks i'm joined by al jazeera america correspondent nick schifrin, who is at the talks in montreaux switzerland. good to have you back. this can't be much of a surprise. we knew going in that the u.s. and the syrian opposition felt bashar al-assad had to go, and the syrians say assad had to say. let's listen to what john kerry said. >> there is no way - no way possible in the imagination that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. one man, and those who supported him can no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage

>> nick, with dim et rickly opposed position, how will they get anywhere? >> there's a lot of people here that say they are not going to get anywhere. what the u.s. officials i'm talking to say is wait a minute, yes, the rhetoric is a cas between the two sides. everyone is staking their claims, everyone is saying the worst thing that they could when it comes to starting peace talks. but at least they are here. but the two sides are in the same room. it's the first time that happened in three years of war that killed 130,000 people. the u.s. points out we are all here and great on one thing, the geneva 1 communique. something that everyone signed and agreed to before they came here. in that communique it says that all the governments here, all the delegations agree to move forward to create a transitional government. it will not include current president bashar al-assad.

the u.s., the u.n., the russians that back syria that are on the same page is the syrian government that used its stance, suggesting that bashar al-assad will not go anywhere, that he might run for president again. the u.s. say thats because they sign that, if the rhetoric is negative, the us hopes the syrians will stick to the pledge and consider creating a traditional governor. >> ban-ki moon said his hope for dialogue had been stopped by the syrian foreign minister, who went into a diatribe accusing nations of supporting the insurgence, supporting women to engage in sex business and

incest. and a defender against terrorism is what bashar al-assad is portraying himself. >> this is what they believe. there's no sense that president bashar al-assad, and his family have any sense that they want him to stop. there's no sense that in order to give up weapons and the violence that the opponents say that the u.s. says, that he is unleashing on the civilian population. the u.s. is trying to find a pressure point. president obama came up to - he stepped away and said that he's happy there's no second or third middle eastern war that the u.s. is involved in. given that, cary is trying to find another pressure point. that is why kerry said again and

again that bashar al-assad was isolated. he was the only perch. it was about the family. it's kerry's attempt to communicate this notion that he cannot continue to act with impunity. he's isolated and no one was supporting him. russia and iran are supporting him. there's no evidence that bashar al-assad feels the pressure, and no evidence that bashar al-assad feels the need to stop the violence. >> the conflict was not just inside the room. there was conflict on the outside. >> this is a symbol of how far apart the two sides are. a few feet from me in the hall i witnessed a confrontation with a pro-syrian journalist and opposition. they were yelling, screaming, accusing each other of being terrorists. on the other side of the hall there was a pro-government rally

where people asserted loyalty. at the same time you had opposition fighters and representatives chanting and creating a mock funeral. it shows how far apart the two sides are. they've been far apart for three years, the u.s. hopes that at least this starts a dialogue. nonetheless on friday morning they are supposed to stand side by side or sit across the table from each other. there's no sense that there'll be a break there. there's no sense that concrete details will come out of that immediately, the u.n. is hoping to get baby steps, a prisoner release, or some kind of localized ceasefire. there's a lot of pessimism as to whether this conference will produce results. >> there'll be mediation on thursday. let's hope something comes of this, there are millions and millions of people suffering displaced, refugees and so many have died and been injured.

>> joinings now from college station texas is ambassador ryan crocker, serving as united states ambassador to syria, iraq and afghanistan and is the dean of the george bush school of government and public service. great to have you with us. let's start with the syrian president, bashar al-assad, and the main reason we are negotiating there in geneva, you advocated in a new york times oped that the u.s. should engage with the regime. syrian rebels were not happy. it's not barack obama's position. why would that work. it's simple. the regime is not going away. bashar al-assad is not going away. we could wish it otherwise, buts we have to deal with the world as it is. if there is ever going to be a negotiated solution, we are

going to need to start talking directly to the syrians, not bashar al-assad, but members of his regime. >> you wrote that bashar al-assad is more rigid than his father and many westerners hoped he would be different. you were firm in that belief, that that has not changed, and you wrote that you think he'll end up winning the war in a bloody way, little by little as time goes by? >> i certainly do believe that he is more rigid, less flexible than his father. i was ambassador to syria at the time when his father died and he took over. i had the chance to have several one on one meetings with him, and i came to realise that he grew up under the system. his father had a relatively liberal education for the place and time. not bashar al-assad. i posited who outcomes.

the one you mentioned the momentum may shift, and he may get it backyard by bloody yard. the other possibility is at some point it will settle down into a stalemate. i don't think a rebel victory is likely. i think we can be grateful for that. >> you have millions displaced in the meantime if this goes on and on and on, if there is a stalemate. you are concerned and think it is better to have bashar al-assad in place, than to allow the opposition to win the war? >> well, it's not a question of the international community, the united states or anyone else allowing anyone to win the war. >> why? >> we have to be modest about our ability to control events, we cannot control the outcomes. >> unless the united states and the international community intervene and throw serious

military force behind the syrian opposition. john kerry spoke at the peace talks on wednesday, and he just talked about how the bashar al-assad regime is a terrorist regime, backed by iran, that it has hezbollah, that it crossed over from lebanon and says bashar al-assad is making them a magnet for terrorists. it doesn't sound like someone interested in engaging the bashar al-assad regime. what do you think about what john kerry said? i think there is plenty of terrorism to go around on both sides of the fight in syria. certainly on both sides of the assad regime, which has committed atrocities, and not just with poison gas. as we consider what we want to see, again, aside from what we can effect. we have got to consider what the nature of the opposition is. the real opposition are not the

people sitting there in geneva, these couple of days, they are elements like al nusra, elements like the islamic state of iraq and syria, led by abu bacar. these are basically al qaeda. so i make no apology for the bashar al-assad regime. it's despicable, it's guilty of gross acts of terror. crims against humanity. the other side is not a whole lot better and could be worse from regional stability. were they to take power. >> on the eve that reports were released with the alleged torture and killing of the detainees. the president, the opposition

group, talked about it in a - at the peace commence on wednesday. let's listen to that. >> we call for an international inspection. >> if this is happening, i would like to know what you make of the report. you mentioned the poison gas. if we have evidence of these other war crimes, what should be do? >> i agree with mr james jatras, if it can be done, an investigating body, if it can be assembled and get into the country and do an investigation, i think that will be very important. because we have convicted nar tifs here. there is no way from outside that we can really ascertain the truth. i hope there could be that kind

of commission. i would say, though, that such a commission would need access not only to regime facilities and investigate regime activities, they need to take a close, hard look at what the opposition has done and is doing. >> it was a rocky start to the peace talks. do you think something rocky can come of them? >> today was the opening session. friday the parties, themselves, will sit down face to face, and i understand there'll be preliminary work done by a u.n. mediator with both sides during the course of thursday. so we'll find out on friday. i would be quite modest in my expectations after what we heard from all the parties to this

conflict. but i do think there are some outcomes that could be achievable. for example, agreement to allow increased amounts of humanitarian assistance. more help for the internally displaced and perhaps some local ceasefires. if that were to be the outcome on friday, then i would consider this a conference that succeeded beyond my expectations. >> let's hope they succeed. it's been a pleasure having you on the show. >> no one doubts america's military strength. after struggles in iraq and afghanistan, has the u.s. lost an ability to win laws. should a man's viability rap lyrics be used against him in a murder case. and what is tracking on the web.

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>> the united states is undoubtedly the greatest military power in the world. has it forgotten how to win wars? according to a provive article in the l.a. times by a professor of international relations and former ltcol in the army, and i quote:

>> for more i'm joined by the professor, the best selling author of many books, including "breach of trust", how americans failed their soldiers and their country. you say that the u.s. military is second when it comes to skills and gadgets, and that it struggles to finish the job. did this start with vietnam. ? is the problem with the military or the civilian overseers. >> i think the problem has many aspects, but the most important and probably the most difficult for americans to reckon with is that military power is an inappropriate instrument to deal with the conditions that exist

in places like afghanistan and iraq. we came out of cold war, the united states came out of the cold war, having convinced itself that military power was an all-purpose tool. in many respects operation desert storm in 1991 seemed to affirm that conclusion. all of our experience since, whether you are talking somalia in 1993 or the post 9/11 wars, that was a different story, we are using the wrong tools to solve the problem >> let's talk about afghanistan. should we have not gone in after 9/11? >> no, i think we needed to. the george w. bush administration demanded after 9/11 that the taliban cough up osama bin laden, dismantle

training camps. the taliban refused to do so. i think it was necessary for us to demonstrate that any nation providing sanctuary for terrorists intent on attacking us needed to be taught a lesson. we needed to make clear to the world that that was unacceptable. what doesn't follow is we needed to stay for after a decade trying to create a stable political order. that turned out to be a task we can't handle. >> president obama spoke out about the war in afghanistan a week ago, i'd like to play part of it and get your reactionism. >> i think it's important for americans to recognise that we have young men and women in harm's way, and coalition forces making sacrifices and we need to see the job all the way through

>> what would seeing the job mean in afghanistan. what would winning the war mean in afghanistan. there are reports that the u.s. plans to draw down to zero troops by the end of the president's term. >> of course, the president is understandably vague about what finishing the job is. there has been many definitions overtime. at this point the obama administration administration would be satisfied with extricating all or most of u.s. forces and not have the hamid karzai regime collapse at least not until obama leaves office. that may be the most practical definition of success. what we need to remind ourselves of is the distance between that definition of success and the definitions touted in the immediate wake of 9/11. recall that the invasion of

afghanistan was touted, was named operation enduring freedom. there was an expectation that somehow we were going bess toe freedom on the peopleful afghanistan. it was absurd and hasn't come to fruition. >> you don't have an argument with going in, but we went too far in defining what we thought winning the war would be. >> absolutely, and we went too far in articulating a global war on terrorism. it's that formulation, engaging in a war on terrorism that creates a rationale for going from afghanistan to iraq, the invasion of iraq. there was no justification for that. another mismanaged war from which we are trying to recover. >> we are seeing how things are falling apart there.

there was the intervention in the former yugoslavia in kosovo and bosnia. that seemed to work. >> i think that's probably the closest case you can get to post cold war interventions that produced unbalanced outcomes, albeit the occupation of kosovo ended up taking a much longer time. let me emphasise my argument is not that there are never cases where military power has utility. there are cases. i think that the problem with policy makers in the united states over the past couple of decades is that they have tended to think that all problems can have a political solution. excuse me, a military solution.

>> we went into libya and helped overthrow muammar gaddafi. it's been a disaster. it's a mess there. in yemen we've gone into al qaeda. >> a question that comes to mind is is the problem intervening in countries where there are parts of the population, mostly muslim countries, that hate the united states. >> i don't think i'd phrase it that way. i think i'd phrase it that there's a problem with inspecting that foreign intervention in societies that are in the process of immensely complicated transition, transition to modernity, trying to reconcile religious traditions with the 21st century. to imagine that a bunch of

american soldiers can facilitate that transition in a relatively short period of time is a delusion. the people themselves, whether we are talking about libyans, iraqis, av caps, egyptians, and outsiders will find themselves irrelevant. >> a lot of throughout-provoking information. >> switching topics. violent rap lyrics are at the center of a case before the supreme court. vonte was convicted of a murder of a drug dealer in 2008. a prosecutor was allowed to read 13 pages of skinner's lyrics that included:

>> a higher court overturned skinner's conviction saying the lyrics should not have been admitted as evidence. the prosecution has taken the case to the new jersey supreme court of the for more on rap in the courtroom i'm joined by er-eric neil son. he is a consultant or served as an expert witness in rap music. do the prosecutors have a point, can't rap lyrics show motive or intent or the character of the person who is being tried? >> i think that second word is the key. it's important to make a distinction between the justifications that prosecutors use for bringing in the lyrics

and the reasons they are using them. prosecutors will say that they show motive and intent. i argue that wrap lyrics don't do that. they say say they are inculpa tory statements. >> that is after the fact. >> correct. what i would say is what they are really doing it trying to get this evidence in front of a jury in order to smear the defendant's character. you can't say to a judge, "i would like to introduce violent liarics to make this person look -- lyrics to make this person look like a thug. the reality is that it's being used just to get the lyrics in front of a jury, because we know that they are prij dicial. >> you wrote about the skinner case. most of the lyrics were written well before he was tried. >> yes. >> you noted that the acou found 18 cases where courts considered

rap lyrics as evidence and they were admitted as evidence. i'm a lawyer, and i was surprised when i read that. there's really hesitation on the part of most judges to affect prior bad acts because they can prejudice a jury in a particular case. are wrap lyrics treated differently than other forms of expression. >> absolutely. in the research of mine and other scholars who looked into this, andrea dennis, a law professor at the university of georgia, our research reveals rap music is only fictional or musical genre to be treated this way by courts. it is exclusively targeted in these ways. >> let's play a couple of clips from two famous recording artists who sang about violence ♪ i shot a man in reno ♪ just to watch him die ♪ and i hear that whistle

blowing ♪ ♪ i hang my head and cry ♪ ♪ i shot the sheriff ♪ but i did not shoot the deputy ♪ >> now, you wrote that nobody would assume that johnny cash or brett easton ellis who wrote "american psycho" would have committed murders that they sang or wrote about. the question becomes - but you don't read about country singers going out and reading people or authors going out and killing people. while most rap artists are not violence, there's a long history associated with wrap. we have one rap person dying a violent death, tattooing, "thug life", but should they be treated differently. >> no, they shouldn't. i resist a little bit depicting

rap or hip hop culture as being associated with violence. hip-hop has long been a productive force. underlying this criminalisation of wrap lyrics, if you will in the courts, and the decades long assault on hip hop is an assumption that it goes hand in hand with violence. there are - no genre is immune from having connections to violence. what hip hop has done over the last 30 years is worked in tangible ways to transform violence into something productive, something artistic. if you go back to hip hop's earliest roots, it was born out of a dangerous gang culture characterising 1970s new york. and a pioneer of hip hop, was the leader of a fearsome gang,

and he started moving hip hop forward so he could give people involved in gangs something productive, meaningful to do. >> a lot of it didn't productive. >> how so? >> well, when - you know, there's misonlienism, calls to violence, negative things in some wrap. >> i think in some rap is the key. one ofs things that draws me to rap music is the exceptional work out there. if you think about literature, 50% of paper back sales are supermarket romances. we don't use those to characterise literature. i would resist using the misonly nistic. it's competitive or redundant. i will note that in those cases, that's provided a live-in for

someone. ice t polarizing figure on the one point said it. if it hadn't been for rap. if he hadn't had a chance to wrap, he would be dead or in prison. a lot of kids could say that. >> one question you talked about - confessions. we have a case in nevada where the supreme court of that state allowed those statements to go in. it was something that the person had written after the crime had been committed. in those cases do you think the rap lyrics should come into the case. >> that was a split decision. there was a dissent in that decision. >> if rap lyrics mirror a crime and seem like a confession -- >> seem like is an important phrase. they are not confessions. the first thing we have to understand and we typically do when we talk about other genres

is there's an author and narrator. rap is no different. the problem is with something like gangster wrap, the violent subgenre, eventually if you write enough of those lyrics, one of them will mirror any number of crimes. in a lot of cases the kids are writing notebook full of lyrics. it will not be hard to flip through and find something that corresponds to murder. it's an interesting point. >> thank you for having me. >> time to see what is trending on the website. >> millions of americans turn to antidepressant drugs to battle a range of issues. what happens when the drug becomes a hurdle. long-term use of anti-depressants is common in the u.s. 16 million americans used anti-depressants for two years. 70% of them are women.

when long-term users try to come off the drug they have physical and psychological reaction to the decrease of the drugs in their system, including anxiety, headaches, dizziness, shock-like sensations and suicidal thoughts. many wrote about your personal experience. elizabeth said: >> you can read more at the website aljazeera.com. experts say part of the problem is the medications are ov overprescribed to women for things that may have nothing to do with depression, such as insomnia and irritable bowel system. >> they help a lot of people, but you have to be careful not to overprescribe them.

america's decrime has been in place for years. are we missing the point? >> do mini cars an a leg up on s.u.v.s? race and the post-game rant. why richard sherwin is grabbing the pre-super bowl hype.

>> america's decline has been a political talking point for years. political magazine looks at the issues in an article entitled "americans stop worrying and learn to love decline", why 2014 will be the best year yet. we are joined by a senior fellow of global development and the author of "the upside of down, why the rise of the rest is great for the west." there's data saying that america is not the dominant economic force it

was. the uk-based center for economic services says china will overtake us. you said it's not a design that we are going down, but the rest of the world is coming up. china became the largest trading nation in the world, overtaking the united states, and that's the first of many firsts to come, if you will. but that is not bad news for the united states. it's not that the united states hasn't seen growing exports, it's done well. it's china has done better. china has grown fast, 7, 8, 9% over the last 20% or so. india and brazil has been growing faster. there's fewer poor people, educated people, and they are producing goods that we want to buy and producing demand for goods we want to sell. it's good all around. >> some analysts say there are benefits to being dominant

economically, and it's not a question of the rest of the world catching up to us, but we are voluntarily contracting. that we are doing things that are making us not move forward as quickly and stay as strong. >> hey, i'm sitting in washington d.c. i can hardly argue that congress and the president shouldn't be doing a better job. i accept there are some roles for the united states doing things wrong. it good be engaging proactively, pushing trade and investment and more, and that would strengthen the u.s. economy. having said that most of the story is a story of other places not doing things wrong. a few decades ago it was killing off millions of its population. that is not a real way to go, as well as being a disgusting human rights event. now it's doing things better -

not great, but better. >> we have seen huge reforms in india's economy. so the story of the growing rest is the bigger part of a story, rather than us doing things wrong. >> you said that it's returning to the default position in human history, that countries with larger populations are more dominant economically. the critics of the position that you take say "well, it is a choice. we have chosen not to go after all natural resources, going, you know, offshore drill, drilling in the arctic. we are pulling back, letting other countries catch up and losing our primacy in space. >> the last 100 years or so the america's growth has grown 2%, china and india 7-8%. the united states never grows that fast. it's a rich country at the edge of technology. it doesn't have the opportunity

for catch-up growth, for using the technologies and institutions we developed to grow faster like india, china and brazil. it's not a story of what is happening here, but a story of what is going on in the rest of the world. >> you think there's a silver lining and the title talks about 2014 being the best year yet. >> absolutely. a richer, healthier more secure world is a huge opportunity for the united states, not least over the recent past, one of the few bright spots is growing experts. three fifth of u.s. exports go to the developing world, and that can afford to import the u.s. exports because it's getting richer. they make money from patents and royalties. we get a benefit to. a richer africa and china

produce more innovators, many coming to the united states. a big part of success is attracting migrants to start-up companies, driving the innovative potential of silicon valley. there are huge upsides from the rest of the world getting better off. >> we have a social media question. >> if america declines in the world it shows a more level playing field and agrees with you, but gin your article travels -- given that your article applies conventional wisdom, are you alone in your view? >> it is not a popular view. it's generally if one side is up, the other side must be done. if the republicans take over the white house, the democrats have lost. that's a dumb way to think about

politics. it's about partnerships, true in tried, investment, migration and true if we can come to peace agreements. areas like syria. if we can work with russia and china to create peace, it's better than sitting in our own camps buying more and more weapons. >> do you see danger if the united states pulls back and is not the dominant force, the superpower in the world. we have been a begin superpower. if we pull back, that someone else will fill the vacuum. >> i don't want america to pull back. i want it to engage more. what is sad is how few americans get out and go somewhere else to study or live or invest or trade or retire or get health care. if more americans travelled and went overseas, that would be a great thing. if we traded more, that would be a great thing. the role for the u.s., the global military leader will

continue for a while. it's an important role, playing on important role in peace-keeping efforts. the military provide 0.03% of troops involved in unpeacekeeping, most coming from developing countries. there, there's a huge role for partnership. >> great to have you back on the show. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> ahead - alarming crash tests may make you rethink what car you'll buy. why one of the n.f.l.'s best players is gaping international fame for something other than his play. and the conversation on race that resulted.

>> today's data dive puts the breaks on small cars. the chev roe lay spark is the only of the mini cars to pass a crash test by the insurance industry of highway safety. it was rated acceptable. it looks at what happens if they smash into another vehicle or an object like a tree. the honda fiat pulled it from a recommended vehicles list. the structure collapsed.

the dummy's head slid past the airbags and hit the instrument panel. there was problems with the foot pan 'em likely causing leg and hip injuries. a revamped model will debut this spring. the fit was joined by five others in achieving a grade of pour. the fiat 500s door ripped off its hinges. four others had a marginal score. it's the worst scores. are smaller cars less safe. it depends, you can brake faster and the lower center of grave itty makes it less likely to flip over. they are far better in front-end crashes. researchers at buffalo looked at severe head-on collisions and found the odds of death are 7.6 times higher for the driver of a smaller car than the driver of an s.u.v. s.u.v.s had one of the lowest

rates of deaths in tests conducted by the highway safety group. the lowest risk of death - mini vans. i don't think it will make them any cooler. >> seattle's richard sherwin's post-game rant and statements that overshadow his next game - the super bowl.

>> >> the super bowl match up is set. the big game has been overshadowed by the outcry over this. >> well, i'm the best one in the game. when you give me a sorry receiver, that's what you get. don't you open about the best. >> those comments from seattle sea hawks richard sherwin set off a firestorm in social media services and the media. out raged viewers called him a thug and outline sorts of enny thets. others rallied to defend him as a passionate man. why were many upset by what sherwin had to say. we are joined from silver spring by al jazeera contributor dave, great to have you on the show.

sherwin admitted it was a little immature and not a classy interview, but he made a huge play to send the team to the super bowl. he was disreported by the receiver. why a big fuss, is it about the way he said it? >> first and foremost it's about the form of what he said, than the content. he didn't say inflammatory or political or third rail. i mean, it's not like he was giving his opinions on theize rayleigh palestine conflict. he got up there and did things we don't see, in that he did not put us to sleep. i was watching the game. they had left my house by the time the interview happened. he looked into the camera, spoke like he was in a wwe promo. and it was praising. when all of the racist trolls

got online it transformed into something else entirely. >> let's talk about that. there was a huge wave of racist tweets directed at sherwin calling him every name in the book. here is what he said today about the worst of the responses. >> we are talking about football here, and a lot of people took it further than football. you know, i guess some people showed, you know, how far we have really come in this day and age. >> much of the out-right racism wasn't even anonymous. all over a 15 second rant. did that surprise you? it did not surprise me. a lot of racism was highly coded as well. one study showed -- >> a lot was not coded. >> you could look at it in two categories. >> high racism is all of the n words and raicial epithats, and

the other is when you look at an intelligent player, coming out of stanford, writes a column for "sports illustrated", and all of a sudden he's just a thug. the word thug was used in sports media after the game, more than any other time in the last three years, and all directed at richard sherwin. you have to ask a question, did it only happen because of the colour of his skip, his attitude and the fact that he was standing next to aaron andrews, and he is the very blond telegenic sideline reporter for fox sports. she handled herself well on the sideline, yet immediately when it went to the fox news anchor team one said, "wow, erin looks scared." i didn't think she looked scared. >> we are looking at her now. she didn't look scared. afterwards she said she wasn't and felt it was a good interview. >> exactly.

>> he gave an interview with cnn saying he regretted what he said. >> if you catch me in a moment on the field when i'm still in the zone, as competitive as i can be, it won't come out as articulate, smart or charismatic. on the field i'm not all those things. i'm everything i need to be to be a winner. >> he hedged the apology, but did he need to apologise. >> no, but he did something smart. richard sherwin is a team player, is fifth-round draft pick, he'll be the defensive player of the year. at the end of the interview he yelled out lob. legends of boom. it's the nickname for the secondary of seattle. he wants the focus off him and to the seattle seahawks organization and celebrate their

making it to the super bowl. >> he referenced mohammed ali. >> i studied mohammed ali, dion sanders, jerry irwin. the old school more than the new school. it rubs a lot of people the wrong way. given a true speech after a game, a true passionate speech is old school football. >> he mentioned dion sanders a commentator in a post-game show. he said he didn't think sherwin should have said the way he woox. >> and i would never mutt mohammed ali and sanders in the same sentence. he should send sherwin a check. do you know who an a lot like them is peyton manning. ali played a psychological game like richard sherwin does. what do people think peyton

manning does when he goes up to the line saying, "omaha", it's in a different packaging, but the same gamesmanship is happening on both sides of the line of scrimmage. >> isn't this the best thing that could have happened. as you said earlier in a league full of players, going through media straining and saying nothing, they are never passionate, much less controversial, now this guy's name is everywhere, and jamie fritz said corporate america knows who richard sher win is. they are fired up, love it. they say it's real. we have a player willing to speak his mind. 30 seconds, dave, no such thing as bad publicity? >> there is if you can't perform on the field, then all of his bragga-docio and locuaciosuness about be used against him. >> he'll be on the biggest statement in a couple of weeks. we'll see what he does.

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