huge protests around the country calling for police reform. reverend jessie jackson joins us. an american hostage threatened. an inside look at the bernie madoff as told by his former secretary. welcome to "consider this." those stories and much more straight ahead. americans upset that a new york city police officer was not garner. >> it deserves to end.

>> an american citizen kidnapped a year ago in yemen may have days to live. >> we are aware of the video showing luke somers held hostage. >> police in abu dabi, a suspect plans to plant a bomb in front of an american home. >> not only are they spending a lot of money to inflew ince the political process. much is in correct secret. >> parts of the chechan capitol. >> bernie madoff's company was handling almost 10% of the stock traded every day on the new york stock exchange. >> bernie was stealing every nickel. >> we begin with large growing protests across the country and calls for police reform following the grand jury decision not to charge a new york sister police officer in the death of eric garner. >>

i can't with breathe. >> new york city bill diblasio, the entire new york city police force will be retrained to improve community relations. >> reform is happening here in new york city. it is happening already before our very eyes and it has only just begun. >> on staten island, eric enough. >> they had a video that represents a body camera. it did nothing. try something else. >> did diblasio's comments anger the head of new york city's police uniform. >> he needs to support new york city police officers and teach our children, you cannot resist arrest because resisting arrest leads to confrontation. confrontation leads to tragedy. >> that's the support we

need. >> the garner case has sparked a conversation that is unlikely to ends any time soon. >> a federal review of policing in cleveland, ohio, found use of unreasonable force was part of a pattern, in some cases endorsed by supervisors. president obama weighed in. >> when it comes, as we have seen unfortunately in recent days to our criminal justice system: too many americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are apply odd a day-to-day basis. >> joining us from downtown manhattan is patricia sabga, who protesters. good to see you. you were there outside city hall and that's where the biggest protest began tonight. >> reporter: earlier, thousands of people were crowded here in

foley's square. some of them inside crowd control barricades. the crowd was so strong, hundreds of more were spilling out on to the pavement. they came here to express their anger, their frustration and, indeed, their anguish with the grand jury's decision. they came seeking justice i see are a chance go into the crowd. live me give you an idea of the make up. this was a racially diverse crowd that cut across all ages. it was really representative of new york city and of a community very, very frustrated with their relations with the nypd. now, i did have a chance to speak to some of the protesters. one young woman i spoke to expressed her concern she says coming out and chanting and holding up placards is not enough. she wanted to see the brooklyn bridge close.

as this crowd started spilling out, they headed toward the brooklyn bridge and managed to close it down. >> what about the police presence? it was a significance presence there. what was the interaction like between police and the crowd? >> emotions were high. it was a peaceful protest. as you mentioned earlier today, we did have the mayor of new york and the police commissioner announcing that the reare training of the police force would start to happen this month. i did ask some of the protesters here whether that was enough or whether they thought that that would be enough to make a change, and the over bheming feeling here was that it's going to take much more to menned relations with the community. >> patricia sabgra in downtown new york, thank you for joining us. >> joining us is jessiejas jackson, founder and president of the rainbo push coalition. always good to see you. there is, of course, an incredible amount of outrage in

the eric garner case. what do you hope will come from it and from the efforts that i know you and others are having all over the country? >> the way the department of justice has had a rain of terror. diabl in new york and rodney king being beaten in california and those who beat him set free. trayvon martin s's shooter and michael brown in ferguson. there is a pattern of terrorism that puts a weight on the department of justice. >> has it gotten that much worse? i say that coming from someone who has seen african-americans mistreated by police. if you look at the statistics, it seems like it is really during the epidemic in the

1990s, we have had about 30 years where things haven't changed much. we are seeing terrible recent worse? >> well, the individualsuals of social media. eric garner being choked and the police walk free. and i am sure it's a factor. you also have, we have put so much focus on police. they are just gate keepers. behind the indicate is three times more unemployment than whites, 12 time more arizona and credit card debt so behind the police, we should put cameras on the backs of bankers. the bankers are the wrunz who have rond our communities. >> that's a whole other conversation. on this one, what specifically do you want to see done

>> anywhere 1, those who kill people who are notices should face the penalty of law. >> that's number 1. no. 2 in those areas where you have the most crisis, you have the most unemployment. we need some targeted jobs in healthcare and skilled training because those are in whole. they should be lifted up on an even playingfield. its requires not only an analysis but a bucket. the commissioner report gave us, as you know, an analysis, also, a budget, people who are in the hole, to be lifted up on an even playing field. >> what about possible unintended consequences in dealing with police and changing the way policing is done. the crime rate in new york city has gotten infinite ily lower to great ex tent possibly because of aggressive policing and some would argue that the biggest beneficiaries have been people in minority

communities. they need more jobs, more training? we don't need to be pleased or locked in these ghettos. we need to be educated and inspired to do better. we do well on the athletic field. we are the best at it because the playing field is en and the pubs are fair. the school is transparent. policing. >> you know, we have heard on that broader skwiel, we have heard attorney general eric holder and the president talk about how all people need to have confidence in police. going back to when you were a civil rights act visit back in the '60s. i don't know. did you inspect back -- expect to live long enough to see a black attorney general and president? are you satisfied, begin that add vancement with the job they have done on race relations?

>> their success has triggered a huge backlash unfortunately against them and against the rest of us. after all, these kind of high profile killings, the domestic violence and intra racial is one thing. domestic violence is another. when police are sworn to uphold the law shoot unarmed people and walk away, that's a bitter pill to swallow. many people don't want to swallow that pill. we need the department of justice to operate quickly and give people confidence again in the jury system. maybe it should be lights on the police. >> anybody who saw the garner video and who heard him sawing he can't breathe repeatedly it's hard not to be outrage did by this. i don't think congressman peter king of new york isn't outraged, himself. but he defended the grand jury decision.

he said the outcome would have been the same if garner had been white because police, in this case, garner had all of these health issues and the police would have gone after a white person who had resisted arrest in the same way. >> you know, he is being hype hypethetic hypethetical. the reality is that you have this wave of black unarmed being killed by white police. if you had the same wave of black police killing whites, it would be a totally different reaction. there is that racial componherent that is consistently clear and it needs to evened. we deserve better. >> ref rend jesse jackson, as always, good to see you. thoughts. >> thank you, sir. >> joining us here in new york is elizabeth holtsman who served as district attorney in brooklyn and is the co-chair for the herric law firm. great to have you with us. >> thank you. nice to be here. >> you are a perfect person to talk about this because you certainly dealt with gjz, dealt with new york city police. we om got very limited release of information of what

the grand jury saw. do you think this process has played out failure? >> most americans are bothered by secrecy which is a good thing because we are encouraged by and we are accustomed to transparency and openness. grand jury process which is secret is something americans are not comfortable with. reasons. it's always been secret are historically. it was there basically to protect the public against the prosecutor. it was supposed to be a check against the prosecutor. people say a prosecutor can indictment a ham sandwich. the prosecute is not allowed to make a recommendation to the jury. i don't know what the story is in missouri. in the federal government, a prosecutor can recommend indictment. in new york state, the prosecutor recommendation.

>> in a case like this when are i have video that clearly shows a man in distress and a grand jury returning no indictment, does makes people think there is an inherent bas? >> that's one of the problems with the grand jury system is that it creates these questions. perhaps there would be a release of the minutes. i know that the da has asked a judge to do that in new york state. you can't do what happened in mission your e. you can't just release it. you have to get permission from the judge. >> that's rarely granted. but i think to give the public confidence in the system, which they are entitled to have, those men haminutes should be made public so they can say we don't agree with it but we didn't see someone putting their thumb on the scale. we didn't see that kind of thing happening. i think that's very

punished for going ordinary they knew, dopz stopped to ask me what i was doing there. i was holding grocery bags. george says cops entered my house while i was napping. white neighbor claims i had broken into my house. what do you think about these hash tags? tweet us at aj consider this. i suspect there is exaggeration on both sides. these hash tags have sparked a very interesting conversation. >> silver rights leaders are calling for a march on

washington on saturday, december 13th. thanks, hermella. coming up, an american commando raid fails to save an american hostage of al-qaeda as a new terror tape threatens his life. going inside bernie madoff's historic fraud with the woman who spent 25 years at his side. what do you think? join the conversation on twitter at aj consider this and on our >> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news.

>> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... two stories of americans facing terrible violence in the middle east. an al-qaeda group is threatening to kill an american hostage in three days unless certain demands are met. 33-year-old luke somers and in a video released by al-qaeda on thursday asking for help.

the white house confirmed a commando raid to free somers last month managed to rescue eight other hostages but somers had already been moved. meanwhile, abu dhabi police arrested a suspect, saying they killed ryan because of her nationality. the suspect was charged with planting a bomb in front of an e egyptian american doctor's home. for more, i am joined from washington, d.c. by douglas ol i have a nt, senior and a former council. he served and was an architect of the 2007 iraqi surge. always. >> good to be here. >> let's start with this hostage situation in yemen. luke somers was kidnapped last year in september. the video of the first time he had been seen since then.

the death threat is clearly al-qaeda's response to a failed american commando raid which ended up killing operatives? >> well, maybe, but on the other hand, it's not as if his life wasn't in danger before this raid happened. him. >> so, what other reason do they have to kidnap an american given that we don't pay ransom but to hold him for some type o propagranda purpose to try to extract something from the united states or make a propaganda statement. >> what are the chances of his being rescued? they rescued, you know, these eight other people. how difficult is it to operate inside yemen? especially because it's really become a country in chaos. >> it's very difficult to operate in yemen, even before the recent overthrow of the government, it was still no garden spot. it's very difficult. as to whether his -- he might be rescued, you know, our joint special operations command is

very, very impressive. yemen received nearly a bi complon dollars in american aid in the past three years. in september, you know, this chaos, yemeni forces were routed by shiite rebels supported by iran. the only reason there they are there is they are fighting al-qaeda. other. >> right. >> are we losing an ally in the war against al-qaeda? >> yemen has been a shaky ally. as this points out, the regime was not very stable in the first place. you know, it's the middle east. sometimes you have to choose sub optimal allies. i think all of us would say the last yemen regime while we had to work with it was nothing we would want to write home about. >> are we seeing paralegals to iraq where we poor money into a country and then, you know, some

rebels take up arms and end up overrunning the country? >> again, these are, you know, weak and fragile governments differently each case. i think that the dine amics driving into these cases different. lease move on to the united arab emirates that include due by. they haven't sign much violence against westerners. were you surprised a killing like this happened there? >> absolutely. you know, the emrates are, you know, one of the more sophisticated and peaceful spots in the region. you know, due by likes to at this itself as the singapore of the region where commerce is done, a cosmopolat that time city and abu dhabi is the second city to it. >> this woman, the suspect, was

taken down very dramatic police action that was videotaped. she is a 38-year-old emrates citizens of yemeni origin. police described her home as a base of operations. do kuwait al-qaeda and -- to al-qaeda and other groups despite what we were just talking about. do you think they have active cells in the uae? >> i think al-qaeda has cells almost everywhere. any time you are going to get, you know, it only takes a small group of sympathizers. it doesn't mean they have a lot of capability all of these places. and in some ways, this shows how little capability they can have. they have this cell. it's evidently, you know, banded together and trying to do things, and, you know when we all feel badly for this poor kindergarten teacher and her family, this is not a high-profile u.s. target. this is a middle-aged american kindergarten teacher. it's not like you are taking on an ambassador or striking a military target.

it doesn't really -- i am still trying to figure out exactly here. >> you know, there have been a series of attacks on westerners in saudi arabia as in recent weeks. ms. ryan's murder follows some postings on message boards apparently urging western teachers in the area be killed, something that the american embassy had highlighted because they were concerned. are risks starting to mount for westerners in the arabian peninsula? obviously, they had already been terrible throughout many of the middle eastern countries. >> i think the threat is something that americans should take seriously without overreacting or panicking. clearly, there remain islamic which there is an intent to make this part of the world inhospitable for westerners. at the same time, we have a lot of friends in the region. it's not as if we are not wanted there in many cases. i think lots

of caution. precautions, check in with the u.s. embassy. make sure they know you are there and you are listening to the warnings they are putting out but don't panic and there is no need to overreact. >> good to have you with us? >> thank you. >> for more stories from around the world. we begin in chechnya where government security forces and a conflict has left at least 14 people dead. militants stormed a publishing house and a police post. the bloodiest fighting the region has is seen in months erupted hours before president vladimir putin said in a state of the nation speech that he would defend russia against attempts to dismember t the attack is sparking concerns of a new cycle of violence in chechnya, that was ravaged by battles between the russian army and

islamic separatists more than a decade ago. next to the nation's capitol where the house voted to block president obamaths executive the bi the bill passed along party votes with a final vote of 219 to 197. it calls the president's executive action null and void and without legal effect. only three democrats voted for the bill, which is largely symbolic because there is virtually no chance it will pass the senate. this comes a day after a coalition of 17 states led by texas governor elect greg an bot filed suit against the obama administration's use of executive action. >> we end in florida where the highly anticipated launch of nasa orion spacecraft was delayed by wind gusts and technical issues. the space capsule is an important step in a new era for nasa. it has the goal of sending manned missions into deep space. the asteroids and eventually to marches.

the launch has been tentatively for friday morning. >> that's some of what's happening around the world. straight ahead, the koch brothers are among several billionaires from the right and the left flooding american flicks with money, but it's not paying off for many of them. also, 15 feet from historic fraud, bernie madoff's former secretary goes inside the multi-billion dollar scandal. later, why america's economy taking a hit from a declining primetime news. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. >> i'm back. i'm not going anywhere this time. >> only on al jazeera america.

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>> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes only on al jazeera america a third of the world's billionaires live in america according to forbes magazine. while not are all politically active, many are spending big bucks. charles and david koch are the biggest spenders but they are just two of the well known billionaires who have spent billions of dollars to benefit mostly republican. jors soros is one of the leftists who have put their

money behind the democrats. i am joined by darrell west, vice president and director of brookings institution. crust. good to have you with us. you quote forbes that american billionaires who controlled a trillion dollars in assets 10 years ago have seen fortunate more than double since then. they feel a lot to spend on the candidates and the issues that they care about. but there has always been wealthy people interested in influencing politics. past? >> today is different from the past in the sense that there are more rich people. the people who are wealthy have more resources and these individuals are pioneer can much more actistist models of politics. for example, the koch brothers spent an estimated $290 million just on the 2014 election and helped to get the senate back for the republican party.

>> but as you said, there are more of them than there used to be. do these billionaires have interests in common? you have a list of the 20 billionaires you consider most influential. looking through it, there seems to be a pretty even split among con searchtives and liberals? >> there are liberal billionaires, conservative and libertarian billionaires but if you look at the 2012 presidential election in terms of who con tribbuted to the super packs, 80% of the big money that came into that election came in on the republican side that came into that election came in on the republican side. the one policy issue where liberal and conservative billionaires tend to agree is in opposing tax increases on the wealthy. even though there are differences of opinion among billionaires, on some issues, especially the tax issue, they have been united. >> i want to talk about that tax issue. i want to stay a little bit on the bill yon airs and their influence because they can spend a lot of money, but if it

doesn't work out, the money of wasted. you know, we've got gambling magnate sheldon adelson according to propublica, he and his wife spent $98 million on the 2012ly cycle including 30 million to a pac supporting mitt romney and gingri gingrich, so we know how that turned out. example. bill yon airs are spending tons of money and not getting a times. >> certainly in 2012, there are a number of conservative billionaires who spent a huge amount of money but ended up losing. president obama obviously was re-elected. these are smart business people. what they did after 2012 was to go back and analyze their failure and draw lessons and one of the reasons they did much better in 2014 is they figured out better ways to communicate with the american public, for example, in some states, they ran ads putting ordinary couples

around a dining room table and having them talk about the problems of obamacare for their particular family. so they were able to personalize and humanize their message in a way that really resonated with the average voter. >> so it world better. better. it's also been more effective in smaller state issues and state campaigns. being a billion air can work against you, especially if you are the candidate. meg whitman spent 144 million to try to get herself elected governor of california. >> mike bloomberg got elected but spent millions on gun control efforts that have gone nowhere. mitt romney is wealthy and wealth does not work. >> money does not determine outcomes but what having money allows you to do is to figure out how to communicate.

it helps you define what are the issues that are most likely to resonate with the average voter. you can figure out how to frame the message. just having money gives you a lot of advantages. and particularly, at the state and local level in the united states, the money that comes in each be comes in on one side. those are places where big money has shaped the agenda. >> your last chachter talks about hope for the 50. you have many ways where you suggest billionaires could be a positive influence on the future of the united states. how big of a problem do you see them, though, as being today, and if they are a big problem, what should the solutions be? >> sthernl are a big problem today because not only are they spending a lot of money to influence the political process. much of that spending is taking place in secret. there is the so-called dark

money that's not disclosed and not accountable. in a lot of respects, we have returned to the pre-watergate area of great secrecy and big money. >> that's toxic for any type of democratic political system. >> is there an issue just, you know, the income ine quality. are billionaires in some ways their worst enemies that at some point there could be such a backlash against them that you bring up a we can't tax that was justai just by french author that's a popular book. i don't see that in the united states but is there a chance there would be a backlash and that there will be higher taxes on the mega wealthy? >> it there certainly has been a backlash already. it's one of the reasonsp president obama was able to win reelection in 2012. he was able to position himself as caring more about the ordinary person and doing more to help the middle class.

but there are a number of things i think we need to do in order to stem this flow of big money into the process. we definitely need more transparency. we need to toughen dis closure roles but more to promote seernld economic opportunity. there are a lot of people, 30 and 40 years ago who had the benefits of a great education system including myself but i worry about about young people today have the same younger. >> it's a thought provoking book called "billionaires, flex on the upper crust." us. >> thank you. >> the biggest ponzi scheme in american history exploited six -- exploded six years ago when bernie madoff was arrested. he would spent the rest of his life in prison from ripping off billions of dollars. his unknowing secretary became a major player in the processing cushion's case that brought him down. the doubtary "in god we trust" trails that secretary as she

dedicates herself to investigate madoff's crimes. >> sir, why did you do it? anything to say to your victims? ? >> i know that i didn't do anything wrong. it's just part of my personality to blame myself for things. i blame myself for being there for 25 years and not seeing anything en if there was nothing to see. >> i didn't know what i was dealing with. >> "in god we trust" airs sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. derrick anderson co-directed the film. it's a powerful story telling you followed elenor for three years and really saw her as she turned her anger into action to help the processing cushion. >> yeah. we had the good fortunate of meeting elenor just shortly after bernie's arrest and, you know, while she was still in a state of shock and disbelief

that that had happened, she had the strong resolve that she had to do something, that she had to help. she was there unwittingly, unknowingly and the victims were with. >> she had to deal with on the phone and the people she had come to know in certain ways. so, it really affected her, you know, very deeply and that is one of the things that. >> that was one of the challenging things about making the film, was meeting some of these victims, hard you-working americans, people that had just worked to make a better life for their children. many of them hadn't gone to college and saved money fso their children could go to college. the nest egbs they had with

bernie was a lifetime and. >> this woman speaks heartbreaki heartbreakingly how she had put away money for her kids and grandkids and it was all gone. i know there is an issue as to whether he is technically a sociopath or not but it's hard to believe, as you see all of the different things he did and some of the things you highlighted in the movie including this episode on 911 when the planes are crashing into the world trade center, a lot of people in the financial business died that day, people h he had to have known and when he was told what was going on, his reaction was to ignore it. he didn't watch a t.v. he kept move okay with meetings? >> he continued his meeting and didn't french. elenor said, looking back, she had two or three of those experiences which she, you know, would label out of character for him because normally, he was warm and friendly. >> people liked him? >> remembered people, you know, people's birthdays, how would their children were, all of

those sort of things but she said, looking back, there were a couple of things like sitting through 9-11 and not even caring that were such red flags? >> also, you show how they threw a christmas party as things were just about to come crashing down the he knew things were going to crash. he was out there with people he knew, their life savings were requesting do go away and partying, pictures of him with his wife smiling away. you also talk about a widow, recently widowed, five children and how he reassured her, again, knowing what was going to happen okay. >> not only did he reassure her. she said she should give the rest of her money to him because he would make sure she was fine for life. this was just months before it all came crashing down and he took her money. >> amazing. the good news and its recent news is that the trustee in

charge of thigh to go get money back for the victims has gotten significantly more money back than expected. what have the victims told you about how they are doing, you know? it looks like they may or get more than $0.60 on the dollar? $0.60. that's the principal, the money that they put in not what they thought they earned. earned. it's many years of scandal? >> many. like in the instance of when you mentioned the film, she worked at sears, as did her husband and they invested the small amount of money they had with bernie and thought they had built a nest egg over time, lived frugal, were parsimonious and never lavish. while they will get $0.60 back on the dollar, she will still live a very compromised life years. >> all of those years that money after?

>> it's positive yet there are still a lot of people that will never truly recover. >> derek, it's good to have you with us. again, part 1 of "in god we trust" day because sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the second and final part airs next week. thanks again. colling up, building a better athlete through science. how major advances in technology are making us faster and stronger. but first, america's baby bust, how it could be costing our economy.

>> ant let i can performance is under going a revolution. he light athletes are pushing their abilities to unheard of heights with records broken seemingly at every term. the revolution didn't just happen through hard work and practice. add vantsz in technology, nutrition and our understanding of the human body have turned the business of creating an elite athlete into a science. >> joining me now to see how technical changes are permeating every aspect of elite athletic training.

you talk how we pack the athletes or the future of sports depends upon nerds? >> we have made such huge advances recently in our athletic ability. in agent of ways we haven't mapped it out. we are approaching some limits as to what our bodies can do without digging in at a super scientific level. now it's an athlete, a psychologist, nutritionist, you know, it really takes a team around an athlete to take them purchasance. >> that is one of the things that struck me. the whole mental aspect of training, how much of it comes down to mind over matter especially when it comes to endurance. i was surprised about this whole thing about the brain having a major role in fighting fatigue. >> we haval always concept ualized as something that happens in themuses.

you lose a muscle too long and it gives up. there is some really compelling research that's been happening over the past decade or so that points to the role of the brain. the role of the central what's called a central governor that really terms how far our body is willing to go, how much our muscles are willing to work because the brain at the end of the day is what recruits those mulsz into their exercise. >> you talked about reaching limits. you know, how close are we to those limits? because you talk about how athletic science conquered most of the big leaps in physical capacity and how most of the future improvements will come from marginal gains. >> yeah. those biningz things aren't available to us so you have to think of the problem a little bit differently. you have to think of it as not one thing that gets me 10% or even, you know, at the elite level. 1% is a huge level but that you look for 10 things that might get you a 10th of a percent.

so, if you can be a little bit -- if your equipment can be a little tiny bit better, that's important. if you can sleep a little tink bet more, optimize nutrition a little bit. each of those individual differences might be small but when you stack them on top of each other, it's like interest accruing in a bank account and you get big gains. >> you look at a couple of interesting cases. more than a couple but one was british olympic rower hell ever glory who won a medal after get sfoour years after getting into a boat and donald thomas who tried high jumping as a joke one day and won a track meet three days later and less than two years after that, he was the world champion in 2007. are some athletes made for certain sports and can we overcome whatever our jeans gave us, our innate athletic ability? >> the balance betweennate and

nurture or between jeans and practice is complicated and tricky. we like to boil those down to an either or. it's not either or. it's and. so, you know, in my view, genetic -- great genetics is the price of entry at the elite level. if you are short, you are probably not going to play in the nba. if you are incredibly tall and heavy, you are probably not going to be a gymnast. there are body types that match up to sports. >> doesn't mean that it's a free pass. somebody like helen glover was an exceptional athlete and that's great for a rower. she worked incredibly hard to perfect, you know, that physiology and those skills. richard luinten, the genes are the size of the bucket you have and the environment, hour hard you work are how high you will fill that bucket up. >> you address enhancing substances and avoiding injury,

which is a big part of this, but of everything we have seen happen, what can, you know, the average sort of weekend athlete take from this book and from level? >> i think the biggest lesson i took from it personally is how imports, it's a mindset. it's a mindset of think of this as like a science ex personal you are perform okay yourself. your agent lettic career if you are trying to progress, hoping to improve, what are those goals and tracking the data around your progress towards those goals. if you aren't tracking the data, if you don't have a clear goal and if you aren't treating this experiment, it experiment, it's really hard to see what's working and what's not working and evaluate what you are doing. i think a lot of weekend war years end up treading water. that's okay. i am sort of in shape. >> that's totally fine if that's the goal. if the goal is i want to run a

faster 10k or my handicap to be single digital you, you need to build toward that. >> strange to talk about science with weekend warriors. it's interesting and a great book. faster, higher, stronger, available on long and in bookstores. thanks. >> that's all for now. the conversation continues our website aljazeera.com and tweet me at amoratv. we will see you next time. former fbi special agent ali soufan. >> if that specific information was shared with to the fbi agent 911 could have been stopped at its early stages. >> the ethics of torture, preventing terrorism and combatting isil. >> islamic state, their strategy differs from al qaeda because for the first time now they are controlling land. >> every saturday join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time.

>> only on al jazeera america. case dropped. the international criminal court says there is not enough evidence to take kenya's president to trial for war crimes. ♪ hello, and welcome to al jazeera. i'm marian, live from our headquarters here in doha. also ahead, he speaks his mind, and has never served in the mill tear, barack obama names ashton carter as his pick for the u.s. secretary of defense. russian weighs in on the syrian war and tries to reignite talks.