>> hi. , thiseveryone, this is aljazeera america i'm john siegenthaler. >> we talk to a gay lawmaker on the front lines. >> hands up don't shoot. >> ferguson six months later has anything changed? tax shelter over new york's most expensive apartments, handouts for the richest of the rich. and the color of money. a record sale for the art world.

why this gaugin sold for $300 million in 45 seconds! a new decision from the u.s. supreme court today. it's going to have a big impact on alabama. a southern state now at the center of the legal battle over same sex marriage. it's pitting state judges against federal judges an in a moment, we'll talk to the state's only openly gay representative but we begin with robert ray in montgomery. robert. >> reporter: john, good evening indeed. perhaps the best day ever for some same sex marriage couples in the state of alabama. for others, another fight for their equality. dozens of gay couples lined up at courthouses across alabama.

some had waited all night for this, marriage licenses. >> extremely, extremely excited. we waited a long time for this now we had no conflict no issues and no one to stop it. >> that wasn't the case in some parts of alabama. alabama chief justice ray moore sent out letters to many in state of alabama where gay marriage was supposed to be legal on monday that he still felt it was unconstitutional and the federal law did not apply to what was happening here. >> swam preference is that a constitutional right? sexual preference that you could be bisexual or transgender? is that a right? it's not a right found in the constitution. the right to enter a marriage relationship is a right given by god. >> reporter: according to the aclu some of the alabama counties refused to grant licenses to gay couples today.

voting that alabama's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional and the supreme court refused to step in. >> they said there was conflicting rulings and they had to do research and they would be calling us. >> it's not the first time ray moore has challenged federal authority. in 2003 he refused a court order to take down a ten commandments monument he had installed in a state judicial building. he was removed from the bench from a state ethics panel but he was reelected. >> we are looking for a way to court, to get this settled we are going to have to see legal action in the state of alabama so that the probate judges know what they need to do. >> my opinion is since there's nothing in the supreme court or in the constitution of the united states about marriage or

nothing about family, they have no right to redefine those terms because if they can they can make a family out of a whole village. >> reporter: but for many gays and lesbians in the state nothing got in the way. >> we are happy. >> very, very happy. we do everything as a couple anyway. >> reporter: the debate over gay marriage is far from over. the u.s. supreme court will settle the issue for the entire u.s. later this year. >> reporter: john you know maybe some irony in the state of alabama as they're approaching the 50th anniversary of the selma bridge walk just about 50 miles from here. and although judge moore thinks that same sex marriage is not a right many people here would disagree. i can tell you outside of the court we asked one of the same sex couples whether or not they had had any protestors that had been saying thoings them things to

them verbally the gentleman replied not at all. they were just expressing their first amendment rights and being completely nice and not ridiculing them by any means john. >> robert ray in alabama robert thank you. alabama state representative patricia todd is the first and only openly gay elected state official and she joins us from birmingham tonight. representative welcome. it's good to have you on the program. >> it's good to be here, thank you for having me. >> let me ask your reaction to all of the events that are happening today. >> i'm ecstatic. i never thought i would see it. alabama, being the 37th state many thought we would be the 50th. it's a great day. >> can you explain why alabama would be the 50th? >> alabama is conservative, one of the most conservative in the

united states. it is in the buckle of the bible belt so many people are really driven by the bible instead of the constitution and we never thought we would see this. it took the federal courts to mandate this recognition, it would have never been done by the citizens of the state. >> you see some similarities here to the civility rights movement? >> well, only in that there were both social change movements. the civil rights movement was different because everybody could see who was african american. and gay folks in america are everywhere every color every gender, we're in families, we're your neighbors. and we can hide. that wasn't necessarily the case with african americans. also african americans were really discriminated against as a class. many of them were very low-income and we're in all income classes. so there is some similarity but a lot of differences. >> and i understand you've had

death threats recently. >> i have. and they're really vulgar and hateful and they're usually followed by a bible quote which actually makes me laugh. how can you be that mean spirited and say you're a christian but that's what we encounter in alabama every day. >> what's going to happen and how does this stand right now as far as actually getting married in alabama? >> well, lots of people got married today. i was at the jefferson county courthouse and saw maybe a dozen couples get married. it was a very joyful occasion that happened in many of the counties but not all. our stat supreme court justice roy moore was removed from the bench a number of years ago for defying a federal order so it looks like he is trying the same thing. i home they do remove him. he wasn't elected to uphold his principles of the bible. he was elected to uphold the

u.s. constitution and right now he's not doing his job. >> not all the counties of the staif alabamastate of alabama are not following the court's wishes are they? >> they are not. in a state like alabama where we never expected this to happen the last two weeks have been a whirlwind. and i think a lot of conservative elected officials are sort of in shock and trying to figure out what the next step is. hopefully the next step is to just get back to the business of a state. but i feel we will have legislation introduced that will somehow you know lay in extra layers for gay people to get married. i don't know what they're going to come up with but i'm sure they will. >> you're a state representative and i understand you're ecstatic about the decision. but at the same time when you talk about receiving death threats and the ugly horrible

thaings people have said, has this -- i mean, you've won in the courts. but what about winning the people of your state the hearts and minds of the people of your state? >> well, that's happening every day and it will continue to happen. what we saw after the last supreme court decision were that a lot of couples or people came out to their families and friends, we'll see more of that in the next couple of weeks. and what i've learned when people get to know somebody that's gay just like anybody else that's different you sort of change your opinion about that group of people. and my hope is that will happen. there will be open conversations in families and among friends about this issue. but we all have to remember, this is about love. and what's happening today has nothing to do about anything else than the two people who wants to get married. >> that was patricia todd state

representative from alabama. president obama says he's considering arming ukraine. german chancellor angela merkel was at the white house and jaimentjamiemcintire is at the white house. jamie. >> forces at kiev could ever prevail over forces backed by moscow. >> as forces continue to gain ground no additional weaponry could turn the tide of battle. including mass or surpass any lethal aid supplied by by ratcheting up the cost to

russian president putin. >> if in fact diplomacy fails what i've asked my team to did is look at all option he. what other means can we put in place to change mr. putin's calculus. >> reporter: the so-called lethal defensive weapons the u.s. is considering include antitank weapons directing return fire to the source and antiaircraft systems that can shoot down spy drones that have been providing intelligence to russian backed rebels. at the munich conference on security over the weekend arms services committee chairman john mccain argued, while there is no military solution, there is a military component to the problem. >> that's why we must provide defensive arms to ukraine. >> at the same conference.

german chancellor angela merkel defend her decision to not send weapons to ukraine. but two leaders could agree to disagree. >> the alliance between the united states and europe will continue to stand will continue to be solid even on certain issues we may not agree. >> the u.s. which was signatory along with russia to the 1993 agreement, in return to its assurances that its sovereignty would be protected. >> we can't get missiles from the united states there's something wrong there in the picture. >> now merkel and french president francois hollande met with putin last week along with ukrainian leaders and they announced a new summit for this

week in minsk. but given the failure of the previous agreement in minsk the prospects seemed to be dim. the german chns chancellor said she could not live with herself if she didn't make the attempt. john. >> thank you jamie. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reuters reports that he might speak to closed door session of congress or meet with smaller group of lawmakers. president obama defended his decision not to meet with netanyahu. >> we have a practice of not meeting with leaders right before their elections. i think it's important for us to maintain these pret protocols because the u.s. israeli relationship is

not about a particular party. >> house speaker john boehner invited netanyahu to speak to congress about iran without consulting the white house. now to the weather, new england is getting walloped with snow with ice and though. about 200 flights cancelled over the northeast. rebecca stevenson. >> mother nature has decided to split the two coasts, on one coast, very cold weather extended schools all the way to the month of june to make up the days they've lost due the snow and also the ice that's cancelled flights all the way to newark. that's continuing to track off shore through tomorrow morning. we remain with winter storm warnings pennsylvania, new york and massachusetts.

damage reports because of collapsed roofs because of weight of though, highest damage reports from the state of vermont into eastern massachusetts. impressive records set well above 30 days of snow, and well bofer snowfall. now to the west coast mother nature obligate you record high temperatures and the rainfall has been impressive. we did have record rain from sacramento yesterday all the ways up into areas around seattle. so as we get into our tuesday that turns into freezing lain in the inner part of the state. here is the red and blue, looks like the climate outlook continues to be the same. >> okay rebecca thank you very much. up next an enormous tax break for some wealthy new yorkers. it's supposed to spur affordable

housing but we'll take a look at what's happening. the most expensive painting ever sold what makes this gauguin so valuable. fches fches

>> it set a high priced high water mark in a city already off the charts. new york's motion expensive apartment, sold for $100.5 million. critics say it's being exploited by the richest of the rich. here's randall pinkston. >> reporter: new york city is practice cli growing luxury condominiums. 157 in the heart of midtown where a penthouse duplex sold for just over $100 million. the city's most expensive apartment. but it's no bonus for the tax rolls because of the 421a exemption. it gives new york developers a huge tax break as an incentive to build affordable housing.

with 421a, the owner's first year are tax bill plummets in half. >> not a problem we have nowadays in new york city. >> 421 dates back to 1971, where new york city's construction came to a halt. >> in 1971 it makes sense to have this program. you know we got to get things built. in 1984, the market's a little hotter it makes sense to modify the program but we're behind the times. >> developers say the 421a tax abatement program is an incentive for them obuild affordableto buildaffordable housing. but builders have received $4.1 billion in exemptions. off that number only about 12,600 are defined as

affordable. >> if we eliminated 421a and just took that $1.1 billion in taxes we could probably build if not 12,600 units which is the total of 421a affordable housing units now probably close to it. >> in one year financing the same amount of affordable units it took 421a to build. we met him outside of a 221 unit building he says is a second story. with the 421a tax abatements, 21% are for low income families making less than $21,000 a year. >> i think it would have been constructed as luxury housing if there were no 421 requirements to build affordable housing. >> reporter: we just came from a building where the penthouse

went for $100 million but the owner is getting a 95% tax break. does that make any sense? >> it doesn't to me, and i know it doesn't to you. but that's what we live with. remember, a lot of this is political, too. >> it's just a complete give away really to wealthy developers. >> reporter: kenny schaeffer the vice chairman of a watchdog group says greed not affordable housing is the main factor at play. >> we did a program a few years ago called tax breaks for billionaires, and some of the biggest breaks were given to those that contributed hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to the powers that be meaning the governing and the state senate and state assembly. >> is it a reason to pass to 421? >> there's no policy reason to

pass those tax breaks to billionaires. the only reason they would do it is because they are getting a quid pro quo. is it a smoking gun legal illegal, possibly not is it wrong? yes. >> reporter: we reached out to several developers, none of them responded. new york state's attorney is investigating, the 421a principal expires in june. state lawmakers will determine if the tax program will continue. john. >> investigating public corruption what came of that? >> that is that moreland commission. it had a broad mandate to look into all kind of corruption. it did uncover a possible smoking gun of the possible action of the legislature of 421. the governor shut down the commission before the commission finished its work and now the investigation is in the hands of the u.s. attorney.

>> a lot are concerned about this type of program. could it be modified to avoid embarrassing deals? >> they will present that to the legislature before it expires. the percentage of low income housing in hot neighborhoods like manhattan. developers are going to need some kind of incentive if we're going to rely on developers to provide affordable housing because the government for the most part is out of that business now. >> randall pinkston, randall thank you. in the city's affordable housing lottery they're grateful just for the chance to stay in new york. annette christopher was more than 48,000 people who applied for just 98 affordable units inside one manhattan building. mid morgan radford reports on what they did to get inside those coveted apartments.

in maine there is plenty of housing but not enough people. many along the coast are struggling with the problem of population decline. tom ackerman reports from bucksport. >> this paper mill gave the people of bucksport maine a steady income and an identity. but it shut down and threw over 100 people out of work. >> now there's no mill. >> you think of bucksport you think, they make paper. that's what they do and that's what bucksport was about. so now we have to find something else to be about. >> reporter: in this rural state the decline of such natural resource industries compounds its demographic dilemma. more deaths than births and a shrinking workforce. >> the truth is not that we drove young people away, it's that we didn't make enough of

them. >> reporter: but in places like the city of ban the problem problem -- in the city of ban bangor. >> you could buy a house for $125,000. that's a great deal and that combined with the strong job opportunities that a lot of young professionals are looking at maybe for the first time. >> but prime factors for growing america's population. hispanics whose birth rate is higher than other groups and immigrants from overseas. but in the state's largest city, portland hundreds of refugees are settling from asia and easterneastern europe. >> despite the cold and the severe winter, people really love maine. they love this because it's small.

our people are really welcoming you know, refugees and immigrants here. it's a very safe place. >> it's a good place to raise the children. >> safety is one of the reasons that iraqi refugee faisal ali says he's happy to call it home. he runs a grocery store that draws comirs from around the customers from around the city. >> a lot of crime around the united states but maine we don't have. >> reporter: if maine can capitalize on its assets it has a good chance of reversing its reputation. tom ackerman, al jazeera maine. >> coming up, six months after ferguson. we'll hear from an african american father on why he wants to join the police force there. plus a new danger on the

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>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. car hacking. how new wireless technology could put millions of drivers at risk. war story. film maker rory kennedy on her new film, the hor days of the vietnam -- the horror days of the vietnam war. six months after the death of michael brown the impact across the nation. his name has become snom must withsynonymouswith the movement. michael brown lost his life six months ago today. shot to death by a white police officer in ferguson, missouri. we've heard the protest and the call for change. race relations across america.

we begin with ash-har quraishi. ash-har. >> questions about race relations and distrust for the police persist in ferguson but there are still in the community who are look for a way to move forward. nothing is more important to 28-year-old single dad carlos ray, than raising his daughters in a safe community. >> how was your day at school? >> working as a jail guard carlos session he could be an asset to the ferguson police department. >> why would you want to be a ferguson police officer given what's going on there? >> i want to be there to help them because i believe a lot of community policing is very important in restoring the trust between police officers and the community. >> hands you don't shoot. >> during the months of protests and violence that erupted after

the police shooting of michael brown in august, many criticized the down for its lack of diversity. only four out of 53 police officers are black. >> being african american, i know how it is being targeted, trying to be a police officer i know how it is to be--- i can imagine how it would be to be out on the street and you're by yourself, and how the scenario played out for officer wilson. >> six months after the michael brown's death there are openings including the one by officer wilson. >> we have a test to use which looks at a lot of different factors including a tendency to be biased.

>> chief tom jackson says body cameras are one of the tools that the department has been using to fend off accusations of bias or misconduct. >> what would have happened if the officer was wearing a camera? >> we know the answer he no these questions. >> the department remains under the microscope. they have instituted more intense diversity training, focused on racial bias, reformed theirs ticketing and avoiding using lethal force whenever possible. >> here is the standard, the -- >> attaches to a handgun and shoots ping pong ball size devices. >> embedding itself within the alloy projectile with no chance of escaping.

>> i think we've done a lot in that amount of time given the amount of unrest that's been going on and the pressure and workload on the officers. >> there were reports that there may be a resignation. how do you respond to that? >> i'm still here. we've got aa lot of work to do but we've done a lot coming up to this. >> any singular thought in your mind? >> unfortunately you can't "should of." all we could do is take that in and move forward. >> race relations in the community are frequently discussed at public meetings. at ferguson schools engaging with teens to cultivate relationships early on. ferguson youth initiative aimed at bringing at risk youth into the fold before it's too late. >> i always thought people had had

hatred against each other but in ferguson i haven't seen that in the community. >> issues spotlighted by the oven rest, but here along florison it's up for debate. >> they have stopped harassing people so much but at the same time you're still looked at like you're a suspect. >> do you think things are going to get better in the community are people going to move forward? >> some people can move forward some will not but it's going to start with us, start with the people. >> police hopeful carlos, working as a peer who shares a common experience. >> i'll probably talk with them and say we're not out here to get you all that's not our job. our job is to be serving the community, helping and protecting them, not picking

them off. >> reporter: it's a challenge some in ferguson are trying to meet. john the challenges continue. 15 members of the community filed a lawsuit today against the city of ferguson, saying jail detain east were kept in unsanitary conditions, and ferguson called this unwarranted and not based on fact. >> amanda seels is a seals and dante amanda you first. >> where is the country, where is ferguson six months later? >> i think where the country is, is in a really good place in terms of awareness. i think prior to ferguson, according to my facebook, there

were people who didn't have idea police brutality was a thing like dave says, beating up people like hot cakes. that it's growing consistently growing, people like dante berry, there is a consistent movement towards change. i think we're in a better place than we were six months ago. >> but at the height of the protest there was a lot of attention. do you think you've lost steam? >> yes, the media has gone away from the streets of ferguson and moved to other pieces, right? when we look today looking six months after the death of mike brown we have to come back to this piece right here and we've lost a lot of traction from the day mike brown was killed to this day to really scrutinize some of the conditions that are here today. >> obviously it's gotten some attention but what does mike brown's death mean? >> oh, we need a whole show for

that one. >> yes. >> i think it meant a lot of different things for a lot of different people, right? for a lot of black people it meant that there was no more time to just go along with this, it meant that there needed to be a call to arms. and i think that's what confused a lot of folks that are not necessarily understanding why there was such an outrage. we don't know what happened and you got to look at the fact. it's the fact that this type of situation where we don't know the facts is continuing to happen way too often. i think what it means of in a bigger picture is that this is not just a black problem. >> you have both been on this program and dante you came on this program a couple of times said big moments in this story it was extremely emotional for you. >> yes. >> i don't like to ask the question how do you feel but how do you feel now six months later? >> there is a lot of emotions.

i think about the ash mri yates the jeanette, the alexis temple templeton. i met a lot of brave and courageous folks who have organically risen to leadership. i think about them i think about mike brown and his family and his friends. i think about the trauma, the everyday trauma that folks are experiencing not only of just living in ferguson and st. louis but constantly of a trauma of being a black person in the united states. and having this spectacle that we've moved forward on race relations and police brutality when we really haven't. >> you talk about rising to the occasion. in some ways you've rejected leaders when we've had this conversation that you don't need big leaders in order to continue this fight.

but in some ways the torch has been passed to a new generation and you're that generation. what can you do differently that some of the past leaders have not done? >> i think a lot of the issues that people have on past leaders is their focus on themselves and their inclusivity. this is like an inclusive movement everyone here has a voice which can become problematic, at the same time you need to have leaders. there is a semantic issue to it too right? there's leaders and some people think, the person in charge, handing down orders. those are the people who have listened to the people and who are now creating what needs to happen with their input and that's what we're looking at. >> you both came in the studio with your devices and you were tweeting and taking selfies. it is a big part of this movement. talk about how the technology has changed for this whole

effort? >> from the start right from uprising in ferguson happened it was amazing to see the response by the police. folks went immediately to social media and communicated what was happening in real time. >> around -- >> around the country and around the world. >> to rally protests. >> i couldn't even find protests without twitter. >> not only that, folks in ferguson received communication for folks in palestine about how to protect themselves from tear gas. when we look at this, this has a tremendous impact on the way we organize today. >> you brought a prop. and -- >> this is part of it, you know? this is part of it. >> for those who don't know million hoodies. explain what million hoodies is. >> million hoodies for justice came out in response of trayvon

martin. mostly because of the media's failure to adequately portray the events leading up to his death and after his death. we do events on social media and grass roots organizing. >> did you have any idea you would be here now not here in the studio but as us as a country that we would be here? >> yes. >> we've been here. >> yes. >> that the this would have moved. >> talking about this -- >> keep going. >> martin luther king was talking about police brutality. police brutality has just changed its face. police brutality used to be done by klansmen. as we have morphed to other things so does police brutality. now they're coming out in riot

gear and with tear gas. >> we have heard violence new hampshireinflicted on black people. policing itself, that's why trayvon was important. you have a vigilante who is policing the community. >> can i say this? >> yes. >> i would just love for police to treat our communities as if they're in the community, not as if they're completing the community. >> as you said, we could talk about this for an hour. we'll have you back and do it again. our race in america series continues on al jazeera throughout the week. tomorrow we'll bring you the story of an elderly veteran arrested in seattle. his crime walking down the street using the golf club as a cane and he still vividly remembers his ride to prison displp. >> mows miserable 20, 25 minute ride i had. i didn't know whether i'd arrive

or not. >> william wingate no longer carries his golf club but others are using it as a symbol of change. now a senator warns your car could be next, hackers could take evaporating of wireless systems in nearly all vehicles. our science and technology editor jacob ward is in san francisco. some scary stuff. >> it is john. your car has 50 or more computers on board they are all connected to a sort of central network of some sort, a kind of internet within your car. well this new report from senator edward markey ever markey of massachusetts, all of those are systems are vulnerable, in some cases very vulnerable to hacking.

when you hit the brakes your foot is really only a small part of what really stops the car. a tiny computer called an electronic control unit is actually in control to bring you to a safe stop. the problem a new report says, is that system is vulnerable to hackers who could take control of your car. the report comes from ed markey of massachusetts. the key findings, most new cars on the market use technologies that could be vulnerable to hacking. most makers either didn't know or couldn't say whether they'd been hacked, knowing about hacking much policehacking much less whether they could guard against it. at least 50% of auto makers transmit that data wirelessly, and it may not be secure.

link your smartphone to the car and you've often given vehicle your contacts your text messages your phone history. but the real danger is that driving itself is soon going to involve almost endless amounts of wireless data and we'll be depending on that data to keep us alive. right now we are simulating a scenario where we would be going normally through a green light. but now there's someone running the red and the cars communicate and warn each other basically that that's about to happen. >> some dealers have installed kill switches that enable them to remotely disable a car if the owner has missed too many payments. but that's just the beginning. as cars communicate with each other and drive by themselves, they will give criminals a great daily view of our habits, where we live and a chance to take over our vehicles. john, it's sort of a strange report out of left field.

senator markey is not known as a great technical individual, but the alliance of automobile manufactures and the association of global auto makers in response to this report, put together a set of principles that in theory give us a better chance of what data is being collected and how to opt out. meanwhile, uber has announced a program, and if the auto makers don't work hard enough on security, these vehicles will become a vulnerable part of our lives. >> jake, thank you. >> absolutely. >> coming up next, my conversation with robert f. kennedy answer daughter, rory kennedy, on her oscar nominated film. and rosanne carb on what

inspired her award winning album.

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weeknights at 11:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> it's been four decades since the viet ma'am war came to a close, and today a new documentary, looks at the american attempt to save the lives of our allies as they withdrew from saigon. in the end they left thousands of south vietnamese behind. as advancing on the city. here's a look at the film. >> that warning it must have been at least 10,000 people who ringed the embassy. >> there was a sea of people. wanting to get out. >> they looked up at the helicopters, i could see their eyes. >> there were no words to describe what a ship looks like 200, and it's -- it holds 200

and it's got 2,000 of them. >> i could see the group right where we'd left them. it was just so serious and deep. on the trail. >> director of the film, rory kennedy is in our studio, it's good to see you. welcome. >> thank you john. >> why did you do this, why now? >> well, i feel like this is such an important story and it's a story that i think we all think we know as a nation. what happened at the end of vietnam. i think the truth is, that many of us are familiar with that iconic image of the helicopter leaving what we think is the top of the embassy but we actually don't know what happens. and that was my experience in making this film. i thought i knew the events and i was blown away by what actually happened. and i felt like it's a hugely important part of our history it's a hugely important chapter in american history and that we deserve to know this story.

i think it's also very relevant, very timely today as we're trying oget out of to get out of iraq and afghanistan. we can learn some lessons from vietnam. >> your birthday is in 1968, why did it interest you? >> my father robert kennedy ran his final campaign in 1968, that's why he wanted to get out of vietnam that's jumped out of that issue. for me, i was aware of a very young age of vietnam i had an appreciation of that war the revocation ofrelevance of that war. what was really exciting about telling that story was when i started to uncover these personal stories. >> the part that strikes me is the american officials who refused to get it. who didn't understand that there were so many south vietnamese

who were vulnerable and needed to get out. >> i think that's right. i think it's telling this larger story because as a nation when we think about vietnam we think about promises made, promises broken. i think it's you know we abandoned our allies. it is not a bright, shining moment in our nation's history. yet despite this wave of history going in the wrong direction these men stood up and did the right thing. >> for some of those people are the feelings still raw? >> extraordinarily so, absolutely. for most of the people i interviewed i would talk to them you know days later and they would say they were still recovering from talking about it. >> talk about this comparison you make between what's going on today and what went on in vietnam? >> we tried to get out of vietnam gracefully and we failed miserably. as a result of that tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands were left behind and faced real

consequence because of that. and i think that one of the issues that this film raises about what we're facing today as a nation is what is our responsibility to the people in these countries? what is our responsibility to the people in iraq and afghanistan who have been our translators maybe our cooks who have worked with us, in our consulates and you know and on the front lines. and when we leave they face greater vulnerability because of their association with the americans. >> congratulations on this film. and the impact it's having, and i'd encourage everybody to go see it. rory kennedy, thank you very much. >> thank you john, it's great to be here. >> and iraq in a different kind of battle in the battle against i.s.i.l. stephanie sy. >> john we have been talking about the propaganda war and now satirical war in a way that

officials hope will undermine atheir opponents. one is the devil and another one rewriting a song that's been popular online. each is a comedic way of undermining i.s.i.l. >> the idea of parody, is to say they don't belong among the most sacred but they are a group of people holding a destructive ideology and their understanding of islam is comical. >> hoping their effort works at reaching impressionable youth. jane arraf reports from baghdad on this creative war being waged against i.s.i.l. couple really a way to take away some of the group's power. >> stephanie, thank you very

much. stay tuned for stephanie and antonio mora. rosanne cash took home three grammy awards and i talked to her about what makes this album so special. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the song called modern blue from rosanne cash's first album in more than three years and perhaps her most personal. >> it's a big wide world ♪ ♪ >> in the river and the thread, cash reflects on a journey she and her husband and collaborator leventhal took through the south. cash is also the best selling author of the 2010 memoir,

composed that details her relationship with her father, johnny cash. that relationship is also explored in her new album. ♪ nothing good seems like it will come your way ♪ ♪ tell heaven ♪ ♪ tell heaven ♪ >> rosanne cash, welcome to the program. >> john thank you. >> you're getting rave reviews a masterpiece. the best of your career. you've had so much success in your career to have this. >> it feels amazing. you put out a body of work and you hope that it connects with people but you never know, particularly in this day and age when people are not buying as many records as they used to.

after all this time i feel like a beginner. it's amazing. i feel like the luckiest person in the world. >> is this family history? >> some of it is history. we want to know what the geography we're connected to. what resonates from them to us as kids. that is important to me. art and music the things we love my mother's recipes my daughter the way she plays guitar is a little bit like my dad. those things are fascinating to me. >> what's the temperature dawning, 100 or more ♪ ♪ the horses pawing at the dust ♪ >> you wrote your father a letter about your love for music and art. >> yeah, yeah. >> what did he say? >> i was 12 years old.

he said the greatest thing. he said i see that you see as i see. >> very powerful. >> yes. >> congratulations open all of this. >> thank you. >> wonderful success great to see you appreciate it. >> good to see you. >> congratulations to rosanne cash on her grammy wins. that's our broadcast. thanks for watching. the news is next.

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