leads. >> we can design stuff on the computer that has never existed and then in the lab be working with it in real life. >> translating that into vaccines or treatments could take years. >> i'm jonathan betz in morning. john siegenthaler has the night off. this is al jazeera america. s. >> doubling down. president obama intends to send 1500 more troops to iraq. the missing 43 mexican students, and breaking her silence. she said one of the biggest banks in america, forked over millions just to keep her

silent. and heri herbie herbie hancock w to rock. we begin with the broad expansion of the u.s. military mission in iraq. the u.s. authorized an additional 1500 noncombat troops. that would double the number of fighters sent to combat the push against i.s.i.l. paul beban has the story. >> will pay big in the campaign to defeat i.s.i.l. that money would go towards what the president is calling the iraq train and equip fund. the plan doubles the number of troops on the ground there from 1400 to nearly 3,000. but the pentagon stresses this is not a combat mission. it is to advise the iraqi army

and kurdish fighters on the front lines of the battle. >> they've reached a point where they need additional help and guidance. particularly in areas like ann anbar. >> providing high level guidance, others would be spread against 12 smaller scamps throughout the country, working with 9 iraqi and three kurdish brigades that number somewhere between 15 and 30,000 troops. the americans would begin deploying before the end of the year and the training program will last between six and seven months. >> these iraqi forces when fully trained will better enable iraq from defending against i.s.i.l. >> authorized in september to provide security for american interests and to provide training. members of that group were the first wave from the u.s. in iraq since december of 2011. keep in mind: at the height of

the iraq war, 171,000 u.s. troops were in the country. again, the pentagon is stressing that none of the mairc americans will be used in a combat zone. but u.s. personnel traveling anywhere outside the u.s. compound are going to be targeted. this is a very dangerous mission period. >> it is dangerous. paul beban, thank you. president obama named his outgoing pick for attorney general eric holder. loretta lynch if confirmed will become the first african american woman to hold that post. she has two degrees from harvard where she graduated, and she is a native of greensboro, north carolina. first face to face meeting of president obama with congressional leaders since

tuesday's stinging defeat in the mid term elections. senior white house correspondent mike viqueria has that story. >> reporter: good evening. the president started off this meeting, he started off with a gesture of goodwill presenting each of the participants with a six pack white house brewed home made brewed beer right in the basement. but after that things went downhill. around the table at the warehouse today familiar faces but in dramatically different roles. >> obviously the republicans had a good night. >> sitting down with congressional leaders for the first time since tuesday's blowout. the president prosmsed t promisp an open mind. >> the one thing i expressed to speaker boehner and leader mcconnell, i'm not going to be judging these issues whether they're democrat or republicans but whether or not they work.

>> a major battle already looms. the president's plan to go around congress with an executive action on immigration. >> the one trump card that exists, the house republicans can bring up the compromise bipartisan senate bill for a vote. >> that brought up a sharp response from john boehner, boehner wrote, unilateral action will erase any chances of doing immigration reform and will also make it harder for congress and the white house to work together successfully. it was a point driven home by boehner's second in command. >> why legislative most which america expects to see. >> a new authorization for military force against i.s.i.l. after insisting before the election that bush era measures were all the legal backing he needed to launch attacks mr. obama is now asking congress for a vote on a new authorization.

that was welcome news for democrats. >> i think we should be doing it now. i think we should have done it weeks ago. >> and before republicans take offer the majorities of senate in january there is the matter of the lame duck session. first president obama's nomination of loretta lynch to be the attorney general. there is the spending bill. the current spending bill expires december 11th. if the government is to continue running. that is expected to pass. the republicans are not ready for a showdown yet. there are judicial nominations that the president wants to take care of while he still has a democratic majority in the senate. back to you. >> mike viqueria in the white house. michael shore is al jazeera's political correspondent. he joins us from los angeles. let me ask you about loort lynch, how likely is she to -- loretta lynch, how likely is she

to get confirmed? >> the conciliatory nature is likely to continue. she may have a hard time from some senators on the way out or from the ted cruz direction, but this is not where republicans will take their stand. >> the lunch, what happens now in the capital? >> what happens in the capital now, you sort of saw after the lunch. i was telling tony harris earlier today, it is a little bit like sports, it's like a game, they they hit each other for three hours and then shake hands, in politics, they shake hands first and then hit each other. how john boehner almost threatened, actually did threaten, if there is any unilateral action on amnesty, we will not come up with a bill. that is tough talk even in the lame duck session.

everybody is anticipating the president will do something but what and when? it probably won't be an exclamation point until after the new year. >> we've heard talk from republicans and democrats that they will work together and be reasonable. is this all just talk or do you actually expect there to be a new maybe era in washington? >> i would imagine this is really just talk. it has not meant that before or for a long time. the salad days of ronald reagan and tip o'neil, that looks better in the rearview mirror than it was at the time. both people, boat sides of the congress the democrats and republicans have what they want on their agenda. they're both looking towards 2016. so the idea of compromise is very slim. where they might find some compromise are issues related to energy. and issues related to tax. that would be the initial sort of launching point for that kind of work. but it's going to be really

tough when they get into areas of immigration and defense spending and sequestration cuts. that's going to be really tough. >> do you think they'll look at other national issues as they try to rally the country? >> you know john, i think they're going to do it first. they're going to spend a little time and see what the president stands on other issues about energy. lisa merkowski, the senator from alaska, is going to be heading up the energy committee, that's her greatest area of interest, what to do with oil exportation and oil reserves, and where to store nuclear waste, wind turbines is an area where they may find agreement. keystone is an area that the republicans want to put through but it remains to be seen whether or not the president

will be for that. i think they're going to try to find a couple of things they agree on before what they disagree on. >> michael there has been a lot of talk about republicans in congress. what about democrats, what role will they have in this new congress? >> that's an excellent question. democrats main role is that of campaigners. they have to be sure that what happens in congress isn't put on them. what isn't working in congress, that's going to be 03 difficult to do. there are two defendan deft hany reid is very good at that, so too is nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi, 13 or 14th seats fewer in her caucus so it's going to be tough for them. what they really have to do is make sure that what doesn't get done doesn't just have the face of the democrats on it. and as far as working with their counterparts they're going to have to do it. it's going to be very tough for both of them.

>> tough road ahead. michael shore, always nice to talk to you. >> jonathan, thanks. >> today a judge ruled that the motor city can move ahead with its bankruptcy plan. bisi onile-ere has the story. >> federal judge rhodes brought months of negotiations and court hearings to an end. >> this is a day we should celebrate and enjoy but it also marks a day that we have more work to be done. >> a stark $18 billion in the red, the plan will eliminate $7 billion of the city's debt but it all comes at a cost to pensioners and other major creditors. endure a 4.5% cut to their monthly pension and 90% reduction in health care benefits. bond holders like bermuda based sencora still stands to lose

hundreds of millions of dollars. an historic bankruptcy that 15 months ago ignited age are and protests. concludes soonerrer than many people expected. >> i think what you saw today was the best of us. the best of detroiters. the best of michiganers, coming together through a difficult and managed judicial process to get a result that's for the benefit of the citizens of detroit the region and the state. >> once the target of a potential selloff a deal was also reached to save city owned art. in a town where a calm to 911 didn't always guarantee a response, detroit will invest 1.4 billion to improve ooh essential city services and eliminate blight. judge rhodes ruling brings a sense of optimism to some but for others, disappointment. >> today's ruling maximize in the face of injustice and

democracy. we are supposed to be a country of laws. and what i saw in there was lawlessness. >> reporter: out of bankruptcy and free of an emergency manager, meyer mike duggan will now have the power to lead but after decades of decline a shrinking population and tax base leaders admit there is still work ahead. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, detroit. added 214,000 jobs in october, that is healthiest pace of hiring in eight years. revised figures show at least 200,000 jobs have been added since february, that marks 49 straight months of growth, the best stretch since world war ii and all that hiring reduced unemployment to 5.8%. the lowest rate since july 2008. >> if you had asked any pundit a

year ago, when the being rate was 7.2%, what do you think it will be in a year? they would have said 6.9, 6.8. if you would have said 5.8 they said you would have bens smoki g something. >> at least 7 million people are underemployed. that means they work part time or earn below the poverty level. and the number of americans below that level is the highest it's ever been, 48 million people. that averages out in one in six american children who live in poverty. joining me now is ali velshi, host of "real money." now, the lowest unemployment rate, steady job growth it seems like good news right? >> and it is mostly good news. this report was pretty good. but most interesting is the

trend. we've seen 49 months now of straight job growth. that's the longest stretch since the early '90s. if you've looked at this year alone, we've averaged 229,000 net new jobs every month this year and the unemployment rate which is now 5.8% has dropped 1.4 percentage points in the last 12 months. and jonathan here's the thing, you've heard the criticism that the unemployment rate is going down that it's going down for the wrong reason because people are leaving the workforce. in this case it went down and people are joining the workforce. the number i like better is the labor forbes participation rate and it ticked up to 62.ray%. now we're still at generational lows in terms of the labor force participation rate. that's the perming of people of working age who could be working who are actually in the workforce and looking for ajob, very low 62.8. when president obama first took off in 2009 it was 65.7%.

so if the number of people participating in the workplace were as high as it was at the beginning of president obama's presidency, the unemployment rate would actually be 8.8%, we're at 5.8%. so you see that's why i don't likely the unemployment rate. it doesn't tell you enough of the whole story. so yes we're making progress, it's not as good as that 5.8% number sounds. >> loot of the jobs that are created are low paying right? >> that's the other question. the unemployment rate is deceptively low and the wages are the problem. 2% on average acknowledge raise, that's better than inflation but not enough to make people feel prosperous, not enough to sort of kick them into high gear. there are a couple of numbers out there sort of contradictory. one is that we are seeing really good consumer confidence so people seem to think things will

be better in the future. and when asked about their specific job situation they seem pretty confident. but as part of the election that you and i were covering on tuesday jonathan, we saw 70% of americans saying that they think the economy is doing poorly or very poorly. it is this weird disconnect. the numbers are actually encouraging but this low wage increase environment that we're in is causing people to be cautious. so you know we're going to need a little more momentum. we get a number of months like this one, things will start feeling better in a few months. >> we'll have an interview with the whistle blower with the j.p. morgan if you can. >> matt taibi will also be joining me. the woman that the government dangled before j.p jpmorgan cha, j.p. morgan's first offer to the

government was 3 billion. it ended up $13 billion, probably mostly because of this woman who you're going to see more later on in the show. >> ali velshi, host of "real money," thanks. and you can see that every weeknight 7:00 east, and 4:00ing pacific. rebecca. >> the coldest air so far this seen and blasting in the last half of the weekend. we've already got winter storm watches going into effect. montana is going to get the snow with this cold air. and we're expecting it to slowly slide in through day sunday to the northern tier of the u.s. remember chicago to du leut, minnesotaduluth,minnesota, you r

strongest cold last year this time. the stronger temperatures stop dipping down to the 40s, texas and alabama as that very cold air flows in. we're expecting initially a few inches of snow and down into nebraska even and then over the great lakes. temperatures will drop 40° over the course of two days. the coldest days look tuesday-wednesday, and what created by even national weather forecasters in alaska are calling a monster, bringing wind gusts potentially to 90 miles an hour to the western aleutians, and waves up to 40 feet in height. it is pushing drier weather to the west but more intense colder snowier weather this next week into the east. jonathan. >> when they say a monster they mean a monster. thank you rebecca. climate change and years of

logging are forcing birds out of california. our science and technology editor jacob ward has that story. >> humans are forcing big bad changes on the lives of birds. the national audubon society in a study published this year found that climate change will imperil nearly half of all u.s. birds within this century. and already, birds are having to adapt to human encroachment in difficult and almost impossible ways. the vox's swift used to roost in the hollow trunks of enormous trees as it migrated each year. but those trunks are so hard to find that the bird has adapted a new habitat. one built by humans. this is mcneer's brickyard.

these tiny birds are going to fly in a huge mass into these chimneys behind me. we are in hopes of being able to catch it on camera. rusty scalf discovered this area because he knew that birds liked industrial chimneys. >> there was a huge vortex swifts in the sky, circling the chimney i about had a coronary. >> the trouble is although this group of devoted birders try count the thousands of swifts that roost here for this one period no one knows exactly where they slept before this or where they'll sleep next. >> the next known roost site is los angeles, ultimately central america. >> why have they found this

chimney? >> perhaps because their vision is a redwood stump. it is an area where they can cling. >> clustering around this symbol of pollution, heres this birds are literally clinging to the sides of this thing to survive. >> while we stood there literal thousands of birds -- literally thousands of birds swarmed into this space. >> i don't know if it reads on camera. it's amazing to look at. massive storm of birds is all stuffinstuffing itself into this chimney so they can make the push to los angeles. even though it's making the most of what it has, this bird is still in danger. >> they're vulnerable and these

antique smoke stacks are themselves vulnerable they are in a state of decay all of them. these particular stacks have been landmarked by the state of california as historic sites but the way you preserve a landmarked smokestack is to fill it with concrete. >> for this one brief moment, the humans and vox's swift have formed a strange balance but that balance could soon be lost. jacob ward, al jazeera, san rafael, california. >> they know exactly what happened to those missing mexican students. plus, the reclusive photographer vivian maier, her lost photos now found.

>> five years after her death the photographer vivian maier is making a splash in the photography world. now the mysteries of her life and her work are finally being

revealed. in tonight's first person report, art curator art greenberg. >> she became a nanny. she chose to be a nanny, a woman who lived with families and helped bring up their children as her career. she apparently never married or even socialized very much with people. she had a box brownie camera and took photographs of no consequence. that's where the mystery begins. we don't know anything about how she may have been so informed. where did her eye and her mind about photography come from? there's no records of her having studied with anyone. obviously she never -- and this is such an interesting part of the story -- she never shared her photographs with anyone. she had a great eye to see the pictures, she had great timing when to snap the shutter. she had a restlessness about

photography, what i mean is that she was constantly searching for a good photograph. she loved what happens when she photographed through glass. and reflecting back, and what was going on on the other side of it. that's really evident in this particular photograph where there's so much going on. i think that's a fabulous photograph. i would hang that photograph in my house in a second. because it just -- it's so amazing. amazing. it has the light on the hand you don't know where it's coming from, it's so prevalent and strong and creates an -- almost a dream like quality. it's so as i say unusual and so beautiful and evocative to see the light and what it's creating in this picture. and again, you have to give her so much credit as a photographer, to notice these things. and notice them quickly and pull out the camera and make the picture. so here we have this in color.

it's fascinating to see the dress and its redness. and it is more evocative of that period because of it. but what makes the photograph great is really the gestural quality of her hands behind her back. an extraordinary large quantity of great photographs. should we say she is one of the greatest who have lived? i'm not sure, time will tell. we'll live with her for another ten or 20 years, and we'll see how it shakes out. >> the life of this extraordinary nanny is documented in the film, finding vivian maier. >> a woman who ended up costing a bank billions. >> and takada, the maker of

those exploding air bags.

is. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz. coming up this hour. a confess in the disappearance

of 43 mexican college students and the gruesome details of their murder. meet the whistle blower who cost j.p. morgan billions of dollars for what she called massive fraud. and herbie hancock, on how his music bridges the gap of different generations. tonight there's new information about 43 missing students in mexico. police say three suspected gang members have confessed to their murders. rachel levin is in mexico city with the latest. >> on friday, mexico's attorney general gave a chilling press conference, where he detailed the confessions of three gang members who said they

participated in the killings of are 43 students in guerrero over a month ago. the gang members said they received the 43 students in buses in a trash dump a few kilometers away from where the attack occurred. at least 13 of those students were dead upon arrival and then they decided to kill -- proceeded to kill the rest of them some by ax fix yaitio act d some by burning. they are combing the scene and looking for evidence as to what would point to the truth of what happened to those 43 students.

those 43 dna samples have been shipped to austria, because of the state in which those remains were found. the parents had their own press conference an hour later, who denied what the attorney general said, they didn't want until they had proof, checked by argentine forensic experts. this case has really gripped not only mexico but the international community. because it once again highlights the violence that mexicans live with day in and day out. and not just violence by criminal organizations but criminal organizations that work oftentimes hand in hand with government and with police. rachel levin, al jazeera, mexico city. >> the whistle blower responsible for the government's

multimillion dollar settlement with jpmorgan chase is speaking out. ali velshi sat down with elaine fleischman and the investigative journalist who brought out the story. >> joining me now journalist matt taibi and elaine fleischman. elaine let's start with you, what did you do with jpmorgan chase? >> i was a deal manager, making sure the loans were being reviewed properly and they were good enough to sell to investors. >> you are a lawyer. >> i'm a security lawyer by trade. >> your deal was jpmorgan chase whob buyinwould be buying beingi think most of the americans know that story. but you were reviewing the loans

being bought busy green point bank and others. >> we could say to investors these are good to be sold to you and if there are any issues, here's what they are. >> you had rules and there were rules that said you're not going to bundle these morntle and mord represent them as a certainly quality, in this case alt-a, which was a certain quality, you were under some pressure to fudge that. >> exactly. when you are doing these loans relying on people saying what their income is, you still have to match up what their job is, with what they're making. it should make sense. for example if you have the man curist making $115,000, that's five times what our programs were telling us she should make.

>> your problem was, when your team pushed back there was pressure to let some of these go through. >> yeah, really what happened when people were saying no and at this 40% rate, the person that was hired to supervise, the diligence managers suddenly yelling at them, making them do reports over and over, making them stay late at night, until he would clear the loans. >> matt, you described this as baiting a confession out of a witness, you wear them down, put them in isolation, there's a bright light on and eventually they will say what you want them to say. >> it was clear, they would keep asking the question until they got the answer that they wanted, which was these loans are fit to be sold to other investors. when these diligence managers were looking at these loans and saying, we can't resell this

stuff. that was unacceptable to upper level managers. >> you either have to represent what the quality of these loans are, if you don't it's fraudulent and if you do represent it, nobody's going to buy it that way. >> that's exactly right. i actually stopped the purchase before it happened, to talk about the problems they would have, if they ever put this into a security. >> there are several references that you have a confidentiality agreement. why do you have that and why are you able to talk about this? >> it's standard to anyone working in these banks, there are quotes coming out the doj that we were blowing past our internal warnings. you don't see anybody talking about it publicly. but to me, i just felt that the public has a right to know what happened. a lot of the forecast we're hearing from holder, just

doesn't match what i saw or what i believe the department of do . >> we also did ask if department of justice for comment and this is what they have told us, in each of the settlement negotiations we would refuse to provide waivers that would shield the banks from criminal liability. as a result, we have preserved our rights to conduct criminal investigations. we will pursue evidence wherever it leads. however, matt taibi, in exchange for not going through criminal prosecution was $3 billion. it worked its way up to $9 billion. the number most people are familiar with is $13 million but

let's say 9. this woman was pivotal in moving it from 3 to 9. tell me what that is. >> i believe so. the government was about to file criminal charges against jpmorgan chase. there were rumors that jamie dimon called the head of the urvet judghead of the university department. >> there were reports it was a woman. >> it was a woman, it was clear to elaine at the time. that was a shot across the bank's bow to let them know, they had a case. and after that the bank upped its offer, they eventually settled and the important thing is the truth never came out. they agreed on a statement of

facts, they never went before a judge and they essentially just exchanged a little bit of money and the whole thing went away. >> so not only did the whole thing seem to go away, jamie dimon credit, the chief executive officer of jpmorgan chase actually got a huge bounce. the planet's 85 richest billion airs have as much money as the 3.5 billion poorest people combined. 85 billion airs for three and a half billion people. also, in one year, billion airs like bill gates, warren buffett and mark zuckerberg grew their wealth by $668 million a day. that study is cowjte conducted y

oxfam. according to the new york times, the auto parts make are takata, began investigating the problem of air bags in 2004. never notified of the problems until 2008. 14 million cars have been recalled. earlier i spoke with benjamin dang, the transportation reporter for business outsiter, and i asked him when this first came to light and what consequences it may face. >> the first sign came in a very normal car accident in alabama in 2002. so based on the new york times investigation, it showed that according to two former takada employees, the company had some inkling that something was wrong as early as 2004. they started going around to scrap yards and finding wrecked cars with their air bags in them

and they started testing those air bags and according to the new york times there was some very troubling information, until a hype e-higher up in the justice department deleted the entire investigation. they did everything they could to wipe out. >> instead what should have takada have done at the time? >> as with any scandal, the coverup is often worse than the problem itself, time and time again we have seen this, and coming forward to the government might have been the best option for them. >> already senators are calling for a full investigation. do you feel like there could be more recalls? we've already seen so many as it is. >> absolutely. it's possible. one of their big issues is with quality control at their factories. these air bags are very delicate

creatures. they don't like moisture, they don't like wetness. they have what is essentially a giant explosive. if they come into humidity, they come into water or anything wet they have a tendency to go off and to fire explosive shards and you never know what more can happen, they just keep digging. >> to me that's a big point of confusion. we keep hearing that the people who live in humid states, mainly the gulf south, are more at risk of these air bags blowing off in their face. but isn't anyone who has one of these air bags at more risk? >> it doesn't mean if you live in a northern or a southern or dry environmentalist you are more at risk.

>> call your service department. >> how can you trust the new air bags they're putting in these cars? >> the question is, we don't know. hopefully, tac da has gotten past -- takada has gotten past their issues. we have no way of knowing. >> benjamin zang, thank you for coming. you are 36 times more likely to get hacked if your contacts have been scammed. that's according to a study lisy google this weem. there are more opportunities for your information can be compromised. phil la vel has are the story. >> there's making it the old

way. >> this controls the coffee pot. >> or the new way. even cars drive themselves these days. they're already being tried on some roads. welcome to the internet of things. more where just computers and cell phones are connected and it is here to stay. the internet of things the a massive deal here. we're told this is the technology which will revolutionize every aspect of our lives. with every new technology it comes with a new health warning, there may be trouble ahead. because the hackers are watching. lots of manufactures are being so concerned about first in market they're not making their devices secure enough. and he knows a thing or two about that. as part of the anonymous group he helped cause havoc on the internet a year or two back. he's only 21 years old.

>> really just a case of people trying to get these devices out the door as quick as possible without really having security in mind. and you buy a box for 50 or 100 euro you never think it aneeds to be outfitted. >> these specialists showed me how they were able to hack into a printer and made it play a game. >> there's a dark side to internet connected lightbulbs. you control them and give your home a nice glow. you may also unintentionally give a hacker private information. they found it easy enough. >> the target is not the lightbulb. the lightbulb is a means to an end. it allows you to get into sensitive areas of people's networks. you could sit outside a person's house and access their internal network. >> but the industry is in a spin, it's just a learning process. >> a lot of the systems that are out there today are very basic.

you know we're like 1977 in the computer revolution right now. obviously, things are going to mature. as they always do. right? and current will get greater and greater. >> the internet of things is set to change our lives. the hearings are on course for it. question is: are the rest of us? phil lavelle, al jazeera, dublin. the lgbt magazine the advocate picked the person of the year, vladimir putin. to draw attention of his crusade against gay russians. shirtless on a horse, cuddling with a snow leopard and banning home owes sexuality. our image of the day is coming up.

plus: musician herbie hancock's message for his critics.

>> a large storm system hitting alaska is actually impacting weather as we get into the first of the week. it's going to force colder air to drop gradually into the u.s. snow to break out in the

northern parts of the states early part of the week. chilly in some spots but the real cold comes in as we move into the week ahead. especially tuesday and wednesday mornings. in fact monday morning we'll be in the single digits definitely into canada but also billings, teens for denver and that cold by the time we get into wednesday and thursday reaching into the 30s in places like tennessee and even into georgia. we're watching a huge storm. it could be a record breaking low pressure storm hitting the western aleutians, bringing wind gusts up to 90 miles an hour as we get the course of the next 36 hours. that particular low pressure is forcing our jetstream to lift up bring warm comfortable conditions to the northwest, then allow the arctic air to plunge into the midwest by next

week. your temperatures tomorrow, still enjoyable. al jazeera america news continues.

>> herbiherbie hancock is knowns one of the best musicians of all time. he's one of the first to mix from across genres and cultures. as he prepared to release his memoir, possibilities, randall pinkston asked him why he used that title. >> hopefully, the readers might be interested in the experiences i've had. >> starts in chicago south side in an apartment building where a friend of yours owned a piano. i'm curious. when you first sat down at your friend's piano, were you able to pick out a tune at all? >> you know i'm 74 years old

then, right? i was six years old then. i don't know what i did. i didn't know how to play piano. >> obviously in your book you talk about learning and wanting to learn more. but it is fair to say that you weren't a person who came into this world with this amazing ability just to sit down at a keyboard and play, correct? you had to learn it. >> this thing about people being born and you sit them in front of a piano and they play, that is a myth. there are some savants who can do that but people have to teach you before you can learn. >> as you moved throughure career in the early days breaking things down into their basic components, share with us if you will how that has helped you develop as a musician, as a composer. >> well, i've had this basic curiosity ever since i can remember. and when i used to take apart

clocks and watches it was because i wanted to know how they worked but it also helped me to learn jazz at the age of 14, and when i first began learning jazz, i'm still learning jazz. but this curiosity has led me to explore the possibilities of putting things together that usually peopling conceive as being or perceive as being apart or not connected. >> that has also brought you criticism from so-called jazz afish yoa nad doughs, from what they taos synthesis of acoustic instruments with electric

instruments. what gave you the idea of putting those different things together and how did you initially deal with the chorus of criticism, i suppose it continues today. >> well, i can't explain why i liked the idea of being like the first to do something. so sometimes, that manifests itself through me seeing two kinds of music or music from two different cultures or more. putting them together, in a way that's unique to me, and hopefully unique to others. as far as criticism is concerned, when i put things together that perhaps the critics don't like, i mean some friends don't like, i'm putting things together because i want to put them together. because i'm the only one that lives in this body. and i have to look at myself in

the mirror in the morning. and so i have to answer to myself first. that's primary with me. so if the critics have a problem with that, it's not my problem, it's theirs. >> with respect to your career development it was interesting to note the credit that you paid to donald bird and how he not only allowed you to become a professional in a real sense of the word early on but gave you some key advice from buying cars to making sure you retained the rights to your musical compositions. >> that was so important, that he said i'm going to help you set up your publishing company and that he told me, don't give the publishing rights to the record label. when he first put me together with alfred lion anded from wolf, the founders of blue note records. he said they're going to insist

you do that but tell them no. i actually took his advice, even though i thought, i was afraid that then they weren't going to make my record and evidently they wanted the record. >> and one of the records they wanted was watermelon man. right? >> that's in the book, right? >> i have to ask you about miles davis who was so important. >> and donald introduced me to miles too, that's another way that donald helped me but yes, go on. >> you learned so much from miles. i wrote down some of the phrases, don't bring your girlfriends to gigs. stop using your left hand. if you could summarize what you learned from miles days of, how would you put it in a nutshell? >> miles was this incredible teacher. because a master teacher doesn't give you the answers. they provide a pathway, so that

you can find the answers yourself. and miles always did that. >> thank you sir for sharing your time with us and thank you for sharing your philosophy with us in your new memoir, possibilities, herbie hancock. thank you. >> thank you. >> and finally, our picture of the day, president obama and mitch mcconnell deep in conversation at the white house, president obama met with congressional leaders hoping to find a meeting of the minds. mid terms starts right now.

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