>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. history in the making. the presidents of the u.s. and cuba meeting after five decades of hostility. crime stopper. >> you would really hope that what we're doing is the same thing a good parent would do. >> a life-changing program in dallas and the texas judge giving troubled young men hope. >> police peating in california. >> they beat the crap out of

him. and now they're trying to do everything they can to not being in trouble. >> disturbing allegations of excessive force. be and comedy and traj tragedy. the daily show fighting prejudice with punch lines. and we begin with a half century of official hostility about to come to an end for the united states and cuba. president obama and cuban president raul castro will come face to face this weekend in panama. it's the first publicly planned meeting of the country's presidents since 1958. a part of the new effort to restore diplomatic ties but there are still hurdles to clear. >> president obama arrived in panama thursday night for

seventh summit of the americas. what's most anticipated is the president's informal meeting with cuban president raul castro, expected to happen on saturday. >> as the united states begins a new chapter in our relationship with cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the you cuban people. not because it's imposed by us the united states but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations of cubans. >> bruno rodriguez and representatives of our country met, the high level detenente. >> the next step cuba is looking

for to be removed from the u.s. list of countries of state phenomenonsponsored terrorism. a recommendation will i be given soon. >> the president will be guided by the facts by the specific question of does cuba act as a state sponsor of terrorism and look there may be instances in history where cuba certainly has done things and supported acts of violence that the united states strongly objected strongly objects to. but we need to strongly assess whether a country should be on the list. >> full relations will take time and while president obama has eased travel and trade restrictions the decades old trade embargo can only be removed by congress. >> paul bona beingsceli,

welcome. i understand you are not for this warming relations between cuba and the united states. explain why. >> well, i would love for there to be warm relations. but first you have to have a change in the government there. the government hasn't changed a bit and the president got nothing out of this policy change. if one looks hard to find out what the united states got out of this, what's in our interest, we gave up everything, and the cuban people continued to be arrested even as the president was making the overtures to the castro brothers and actually having his assistant secretary jacobson make these arrangements. nothing has changed. the cuban people can't participate in the economy no promise they can. all the things that a democracy is. >> why do you think president's doing it? >> i think the president is looking for a legacy. i think president's demonstrated here in six years seven or

eight if you count his campaigning that there's a ideologic point that the foreign relations have been done wrong. we need to be a lot nicer to people we need to be the ones to sorts of cow to you kowtow, and we need to mean well and everything will work that out and using iran as a perfect example of why that doesn't work. >> do you think that embassies will actually open? >> it's hard to say. senator rubio of course has been very vocal about this, a number of other republicans senator menendez. it's hard to know if they will. i believe the president technicallytechnically has the authority and he could certainly find the money if he wanted to do it. but i think this is beginning of this tension. i don't think tension is easing, i think it's going to get a lot uglier before we get a

resolution to this. if there's a republican president in the next two years i don't think you'll see movement forward on this. i don't expect the castro brothers to change their tune. we have no illusions we don't expect them to change anything. >> what is president obama risking in your opinion by moving forward with this? >> i don't think he's risking a lot because i think this is a play for his legacy. what i do think he's missed is a tremendous opportunity to get the business community in the united states, those of us who support democracy in cuba, sit down and expect, this is what we expect from the cuban dictatorship before we move forward. here is a list of wonderful things that could happen if you will simply declare free and open elections if you will let the average cuban use the dollar steph making them use the cuban instead of making them use the

cuban peso. >> paul, thank you very much. ambassador jalisa reynoso joins us from the summit of the americas in panama city. ambassador let me just can is youask youthis. you know there is being enough concern about opening up the relationship between cuba and the united states. what do you say to them? >> it's a -- obviously this is not a perfect situation. you do have a -- there is serious concerns with respect to the situation in cuba. obviously cuba an americas have been directly affected by the history of the relationship and what the situation in cuba has been over the last several decades. we the president has taken steps to move forward with respect to the relationships

bilateral relationship and the interest of the cuban people, primarily the cuban people in cuba. what we have been doing over the last seven decades has not worked. here at the summit is an unusual situation, the fact that raul castro is participating you do have also a lot of cuban americans actually here also participating. and there is a significant number of cuban americans participating and trying to engage with their counterparts, obviously there's a high level political presence here but there's a dialogue among americans going on here as well. >> but what we've heard is the governmental hasn't changed raul castro hasn't changed and the united states doesn't think it's going to change. but in the meantime, the crack downs continue on any free speech or open criticism of the

government there shouldn't that change before the united states gets together with raul castro? >> that is obviously -- human rights situation in cuba, and the questions and differences we share with the ceun cuban government with respect to democracy which are quite extensive are issues that are going to continue to be part of the ongoing dialogue and the ongoing discussion between the u.s. government and the cuban authorities. that is not something that's going to change in the immediate future but the theory and logic i think we have seen that in the context of other countries that if we actually have conversation west folks and we actually have dialogue that is a more constructsive way of facilitating change than creating a situation of ice lakes. especially in the context of the region of latin america and

caribbean where we have essentially every country in the calling on the united states to engage, to engage in a dialogue, to figure out a way to move forward with the bialarm relationship in a way we can see better results than we have seen in the last several decades. >> you are at the summit in panama city, give us the idea how the fact that president obama and raul castro are going to meet, how that has affected the summit? >> it is a very pofer positive sentiment, a historic diplomat for the western hemisphere, and i think there is a uniformity in the positive sentiment that's shared 50 region with -- shared by the region we have significant differences going forward that

we will work to resolve but at minimum, there is a sense that the united states, as an important player in the region and as a partner and a good neighbor is trying to take serious the concerns of the rest of the hemisphere that we need to engage with cuba in order to help cuba move forward. >> ambassador it's good to have you on the program, thank you very much. the governor of illinois declared two counties disaster areas today. this tornado caused widespread destruction thursday as it cut a deadly path across the western part of the state. emergency shelters are open and rescue crews still searching tonight. in the small town of fairdale two wims were women were killed. diane eastabrook is there diane. >> hi john, crews have been cleaning up all day today from a

very violent theernd killed two tornado that killed two and injured 20. >> salvaging pieces of his life. >> anything we can save, that's all i'm requesting through. >> reporter: a powerful tornado barreled through illinois thursday night the tiny town of fairdale bore the brunt of the storm. >> you know residents and everyone is being told they have to wait until search and rescue is done. >> reporter: authorities kept the area cordoned off so police can search for victims. susan meyers considered herself qulik. >> i just hunkered down at the bottom of the stairwell and waited. it was like 30 seconds. >> this storm cut a 50 mile wide path through northern illinois. to give you an idea, it split

tree trunks in half and tossed around farm equipment like toys. eva and 11 others took shelter in a storm shed. >> it was that fast. >> fairdale has no sigh troans alertsirens toalert residents to approaching weather. the de cobb county center, hopes residents can return to their homes and begin the small process of rebuilding their lives. >> it's the worst thing eve seen much worth worse anyplace, but

it's obviously distressing and our hearts go out to the finally. >> jeremy thinks it will be a hard road back. >> the house was picked up set back down, it's gone. >> the de cobb county sheriff's offers is confident everybody is accounted for but will bring in cadaver docks tomorrow to make certain. john. >> diane eastabrook, thank you. hillary clinton will again it is expected, her campaign for 2016 presidential race. ash-har quraishi is here with more. ash-har. >> democrats in iowa have been

eagerly awaiting. presidential politics is taken very seriously in why. >> if hillary clinton were the democratic party's candidate ... >> in a coffee shop in avoid city a group of democrats have gaited to talk what, politics. liberal massachusetts senator elizabeth warren to run. counterbalance two perceptions that hillary clinton is the front runner. >> that in the end i think will energize more voters than this oh well we're just going to have one candidate and that's all there is to it. >> clinton enjoys name recognition in iowa. but some like johnson counties

supervisor mike carbury are not convinced clinton is the anoint anointed candidate. >> i don't want to be told by the national media that our candidate is going to be hillary clinton. so the person that i think best represents my values as a progressive is elizabeth warren. >> warren has so far ruled out a run and without clinton or any other democrats for that matter officially in the race, activists are fretting. they want a candidate now. >> hello avoid. >> clinton has only visited avoid once since 2008. when she finished a disappointing third to barack obama. she came to the hawkeye state to bid good-bye to outgoing senator tom harkin. >> i know in your state that you will listen at a you will actually insist meeting the

candidate -- >> another possible candidate are trying to fill the void, martin oem malley of maryland is getting buzz. >> i get the sense that people are tired of seeing so many candidates in the republican party, without hearing a conversation on my side. people have been very kind to me and very encouraging of mi potentialmypotential candidacy. >> all around they can press the flesh and make direct connection with iowans. here in iowa city that is that is the hamburg in. >> came in for acouple of pie shakes. >> the coffee's hot and here it's never too early to talk about looking ahead to 2016. >> there's a couple of

democratic hopefuls out there besides hillary. the woman from massachusetts. i like her. >> iowa democrats seem to be keeping an open mind about whom to back even though they might be leaning towards clinton right now. >> i may have to be learn about the candidate there may be somebody better but i wouldn't be sad if she was elected. >> democrats in particular just love hillary clinton and there's no one that compares to her. >> jennifer has been covering ohio presidential politics for years including clinton's campaign in 2008. >> if clinton doesn't come and create that rivalry and you don't see other candidates jump in you'll see voters dissatisfied and be a smaller turnout. >> her fairvelgt stands at 45 --

fairchlts stands at 45 be favorability stands at 45%. none of this may matter. political science professor tim hagel says at this stage name recognition is really what matters. >> whether it's governor sanders, secretary webb, none of these have jumped in and fought against her and don't have a chance, and until they are willing to take the fight to her she doesn't have to come to iowa and do that personal touch. >> still some democratic activists like mike carbury are pragmatic enough in order to support clinton. >> if she is your best shot at retaining the oval office you'd support her? >> absolutely. i will support the democratic candidate whoever it may be. >> reporter: because in the end it's all about victory.

and john one of the things we have been hearing from iowans over the last couple of days, this time they hope that hillary clinton gets out from behind the podium to engage people face to face. people hope she will connect with iowans in a different way. john. >> ash-har quraishi, thanks. tens of thousands of members are in in town for the convention of the national rifle association. >> eric holder was asked what his greatest failure was as attorney general. i could think of a few if he needed any guidance on that. but here's what he said. he was sorry he didn't impose

enough gun control on america. if eric holder calls that a failure i'll take it as a win. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal called the nra the most effective civil rights organization in america. he also called for civil rights protection is for all legal gun owners. they call it the cradle to prison pipeline, according to the children's defense fund, one in three black men will do a stint in prison. for latinos one in six. now a dallas judge is hoping to change those statistics. >> you would really hope that what we're doing is the same thing a good parent would do. >> coming up in just a few minutes, heidi zhou-castro looks at that program. and why an ohio town is being

sued over reservoir rights. rights.

>> in tonight's special report on our fragile planet a fight over water pitting a small community in ohio against big energy. it's barnesville ohio, population 4141. when fracking came it brought new jobs and new opportunity but now series concerns about its impact on the town's water. bisi onile-ere reports. >> reporter: what did you see last fall? >> i saw the lowest water levels i've ever seen and i've lived here most of my life. >> joann lives right off the reservoir, providing water for the small town of barnesville ohio. it also serves as a source of water for ohio's burgeoning oil

industry. >> i used to be able to only hear the creek like today through yard. but there are lots of times where it often feels like i'm next to an airport. >> reporter: and when water levels dropped to a dangerous level after a dry year last year she became concerned. >> we need water to sphierve. i know the industry has to have it but i wish -- to survive but i wish they could find it somewhere else. >> gulfport energy a fracking company. >> they recently offered me $7,000 an acre. >> how many acres do you have? >> i have four, i have a leaking roof and my water system's messed up. >> reporter: what's stopping you? >> i value clean air clean water, my trees my land animals

habitat, to me that's more important than money. >> reporter: fracking has provided the village with millions of dollars some have made money through land lease agreements but there's growing concern about the negative impact of fracking wii some environmentalists have linked to environmental contamination and earthquakes around the country. >> do you think there needs to be more regulations when it comes to fracking? >> david leads a group called the concerned barnesville residents. they recently asked dwufl port togulfport tomove their fracking rigs further away. >> less stringent before the oil and gas industry even came. >> in 2012, the city of barnesville signed a multimillion dollar contract, the village also played a second deal in 2014 with another

fracking company antero resources to draw water from the same source. >> but if you go forward and allow dangerous situations to potentially happen, it doesn't seem like you're protecting the watershed or the water. >> reporter: antera'sa'shunkler. >> who has the final say over what is actually in the plan is it the community? >> it is, but it's more the village of barnesville. >> what is your response then to residents who feel that the epa has dropped the ball on this and has waited way too long to finally form some sort of solution to this problem? >> what would i say is we came in when the village asked us to come in. these things are something

communities around the state can do voluntarily. >> after several attempts we finally caught.with barnesville's mayor at that same meeting. >> a little too late now to think of a plan? >> no, this has been going on for several several months. >> gulfport energy is now suing barnesville over the water deal it cut with antero resources because gulfport says it is offering antero water below barnesville's health and safety level. >> why not leave it as it is if there are concerns over water levels dropping? >> well that's something we have to look into. we have signed contracts, we are going to court over it, we see what the judge says and go from there. >> reporter: anteroro resources would not comment for our story. the company eventually released

this statement that reads in part, the slaw clear that barnesville cannot suggest as it last that it will not comply with its agreement with gulfport because it entered into a subsequent and contradictory agreement. >> it just seems like a joke to me because so many case wrest the village or people in authority are just tiptoeing around and they don't want to offend the industry and they really are not putting the people first. >> reporter: two fracking companies, one reservoir and residents worried they will be left high and dry. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera barnesville, ohio. >> still ahead on this broadcast: more scrutiny for police. >> this is as bad if not worse than what they did to rodney king. >> deputies investigate their own after a news group catches a beating on camera. plus this: >> that i might have done something even more serious.

>> a texas judge giving trouble teens a second chance.

>> this is al jazeera america and i'm john siegenthaler. use of force tased punched and kicked. dozens of times. >> i am disturbed by what i see in the video. >> the disturbing new police video in california. dallas detention. a texas judge that makes his point to keep them from coming back. >> we'll talk about the new role on the web. tough questions for another police department. this time it's in san bernardino county california. ten deputies have now been suspended and investigation is underway about the savage

beating of a suspect all caught on camera, erica pitzi has the story. >> the fbi last launched its own investigation to determine if the suspect's civil rights were violated. >> here we go, the deputy chasing him. >> reporter: it started with a chase and ended with a brutal beating caught on camera with local substantiation knbc. >> suspect being tased. suspect being tased. >> the suspect falling off the horse, seconds later the sheriff fires his stun gun. one of the deputies delivers a direct kick to the head. the two deputies beat the men repeatedly. 20 seconds later 11 more deputies swarm the scene. the beating lasts for more than a minute. pusock appears to be punched

kicked and struck with a baton. deputies say pusock is a some in an identity theft case. they were serving a warrant when he fled by foot, car and on the back of a stolen horse. >> this is >> this is bad if not worse than what happened to rodney king. >> they beat the crap out of him and now they're trying to do everything they can to avoid them being in any trouble. >> san bernardino county schaeffer john mcman promises a complete investigation. >> i am disturbed by what i see in the video. i.t. doesn't appear to be in line with our policies, at least a portion of it. >> reporter: the video drew a quick response from the american civil little bit liberties union.

>> joining us is vincent hill, former police officer with the nashville police department. vincent, give me a react of what you've seen. >> well, i think it's tragic and horrific his attorney said it best worse than rodney king. the thing that's troubling about it john is you see the subject in the prone position in the surrender position. he puts his hands behind his back but yet he's tased and kicked in the head. you had two officers there one could be the cover officer which is standard procedure. one could be the contact officer to place handcuffs on i him yet they continued to beat on this subject, tragic. >> those are a couple of things you've mentioned how they might have handled this differently. what else could they have done? >> i think if you have those two officers handling the scene you wouldn't need the other nine or ten officers there.

it would have taken less than nine or ten seconds to have plagued handcuffs and sumped searched for weapons but the more they cross the line. >> he falls off the horse and he's behind a bush. police can't see him. they've been chasing him for a long period of time. they're all -- they've got the adrenalin going. how does one pull back when you're a police officers proifer from police officer from that? >> human nature, adrenalin kicks in. they violated this man's rights. again they beat him savagely which wasn't called for. i think it was justified that alt ten were put on

administrative leave. >> you see these officers, some period of time for the officers to get there. the final officers begin to hit this suspect as well. explain that to me. >> well, i think that could have been some confusion on the other officers' part. they got there seconds later. they hear words like quit resisting, quit resisting which officers are trained to say in a take down. they could have been confused whether he was resisting. i don't think anyone was knowing what was going on. >> vincent hill, thanks, it's good to see you again. >> thank you john. >> the police beating in california is just one of recent cases across the country. in south carolina there will be a funeral for walter scott when michael slager has been fired

and charged with murder. a police officer in massachusetts was arraigned on assault charges accused of beating a suspect in worcester massachusetts. michael monteith punched a man threw him to the floor and kicked him. there is a program in texas to teach young boys account ablghtsd. accountability. the program is spearheaded by a texas judge. heidi zhou-castro has the story. heidi. >> one in six black boys and one in ten latino boys are at risk of being jailed, according to the american civil liberties

defense fund. after a person's first taste of the criminal justice system, only leads to more trouble down the road. it's so important to catch them early. that is exactly what this dallas program is helping these boys right after their first mistake. steps from the barbed wire, sitting quietly inside a courthouse are boys learning to become men. >> what seems so big in your world is not real world. >> he's doing great in the home. >> you have a test coming up. go with the tu torque. >> no itututoring. >> it is been months since both mother and son called, jack's big mistake. >> why do you think jack did it? >> stupid, peer pressure, that's

it. >> reporter: it started as a normal morning in the seventh grade. kids were still in the hallway before the first bell. and jack decided he and a friend would pull a joke. >> we had a big duffel bag full of fireworks we took one of them out lit it, set it on the ground and took off the other way. >> what were you thinking at the time? >> i was thinking it wouldn't go off as big as it did it would just scare a crowd. >> it went off inside the school building? >> in the hallway. >> three students lost their hearing temporarily another was trampled. and jack was arrested. >> when i saw what they were charging him i was like are you serious? >> what did they charge him with? >> insighting a roid riot and

terroristic l violence. >> the district attorney referred jack's case to a program aimed at reducing the disproportionate number of african american males in the criminal adjustments system. rather than make them pay with a permanent criminal record ranging from aggravated assault lets the boys work their way to a clean record. >> kids want guidance, kids want structure. >> george ashford is the court's appointed judge. >> i got on your case ocouple weeks ago about you taking care of your business. >> he sees each young man wuns wuns week. >> ionce aweek.

>> shedding his robe and looking the boy in the eyes rather than down from the bench the judge has just learned this 13-year-old is getting his court assignments done early and being teased for it. >> man don't ever let anybody make you think doing the right thing is wrong. >> the boys take turns seeing the judge. the first rule, hold the door for your mother and pull out her chair. >> i sit up and i go, this is a secret. don't let mom hear this, but women love this. >> the boys also write daily essay bts characterdailyessays about character traits they are working on. the boys follow a strict 7:00 p.m. curfew during the six month

program. >> they've got all this stacked on top of each other. and because it's so intensive it works. >> reporter: of the 143 kids who have been through the specialty course only four have reoffended before the programs end. jack is a recent graduate, he's now at a new meld school. >> i think it's changed the perspective i see of myself. because if i hadn't have had that i might have done something more serious and not given a second chance. >> do you fool with fireworks anymore? >> no. >> the program is only two years old and its long term success still remains to be scene. staff says it's little they can do to help the boys once they leave the program. >> very good job and i will see you when i see you. all right? >> they're confident that the young men walk away with prison bars behind them, a more hopeful

future ahead. so all we've acknowledged that the system is pretty impressive but there's little be like it anywhere in the country. >> heidi zhou-castro heidi thank you. nearly 90% of the men behind bars are black and hispanic. several states are making sure the time they serve is time well spent. the goal is to keep them from coming back and one of the programs is the subject of a new documentary that airs this sunday at 10:00 p.m. on al jazeera. let's take olook. >> inside these walls teenage thieves and arsonist, gang bangers, even kids who kill. but this once notorious juvenile lockup trying something new. >> what does playing the piano do for you? >> it's therapy a hobby

interest. >> education counseling. offering a second chance. be. >> put gas on his car and set it on fire and it blew up. >> yes. . >> he used to be an incredibly aggressive young man. >> but to succeed at the j. paul taylor center they will have to control their rage. >> i think this system has made me a better criminal. >> inside the are criminal system where the fight for redemption begins. >> produced by soledad o'brien in the studio tonight. soledad, welcome. >> thank you so much. >> the j paul center in last las cruces. does it feel like a prison? >> it does feel like one but

what they've tried do is make it feel less prison like, in the sense that the guards often act like mentors. they work one on one and if there is a fight, in the past they would separate the two and put them in solitary and maybe write them up. what they do they never allow them to be in solitary confinement ever, they bring the entire group together and have to talk about what happened and sort of does a group when i was young they call it a rap session, they talk about their feelings and talk about their fears and walk through what happened. a lot of the feeling is the kids come into the system draw in tied they need deal with the behaviors but really the thing abrought them into the system in the first place. >> this is a great idea but as we know, great ideas don't always work. >> and it can be expensive. this one isn't cheap.

>> what is the success rate? >> the missouri success rate is very high. but doing this is not exact same as missouri, there are some big differences. i think that certainly when you talk to some of the young people they will both start off and complain about how they feel like it's not working they're just calling them clients but they're really prisoners but there is more happening take a look, this is a young man named kedrick. pretty sullen when we arrived at the facility. >> this program is not helping me. >> why not? >> something i don't need. >> if you think bit and talk about it and work through it you come out the other side better. >> honestly, this place has just made me a better criminal. >> what do you mean? >> i've learned more stuff than being ton outs. >> given that is there hope to this program? >> if you listen to what he says going on he will say yes it's

not working at all it's terrible the only people that helps me is my mom and one of the guards who is my mentor, i miss him but there is another guard helping me too. but all the time he's complaining he is framing all those people that wouldn't have existed under that role in the previous carnation where they didn't work as pseudo counselors or six weeks of training, to help these young men who clearly need a lot of help. >> what surprised you that you saw inside? >> what we want in the end is the 64 thousand dollar question. these young people committing crimes and ending up in an adult facility. we as a society have to figure out what's the plan, making sure they're going to school, getting a ged if they need to, counseling is great but when they get out often for some of these young guys in gangs and

have very dysfunctional horrible family lives what is the support they get? otherwise frankly we know what's going to happen, they're going to ends up in a juvenile or adult facility. i think to see the kids you're rooting for and have learned a lot and are flourishing you're fearful what will happen when they get out. >> it airs at 10:00 eastern time on sunday, soledad o'brien thank you very much. >> it's my pleasure. the consequences of ukraine are still being heard today. barbara sarah is sarah serra is here with more. broocial. >> the reactor's massive radiation shield was damaged an radiation escaped in the

atmosphere. died of radiation exposure within three months but even today that radiation still takes a toll with higher than average rates of cancer and birth defects. >> this baby was so big and so strange. not usual. be very high brawbility can be probable can be related to chernobyl disaster. >> funds for in ukraine are sparse. >> hard to remember it was 28 years ago. 27% of americans suffer a positive image of muslims. we have a slightly better image of congress, you know but that's not saying much. >> daily show aa sfertionif aasef

monsi and his decision to call it quits.

>> aasef monzi rose to fame as a correspond for the daily show but he's taking his humor and shartsharp wit.

online. it's called halil in the family. he's best known for his work on the daily show. >> boom that's right. >> where he's covered everything from snow storms in the south to the controversy over fracking. >> see how we feel when we live out of bottle. >> are you hitting on me? >> and his titles include senior asian correspondents, senior muslim correspondent. nowmonsi is taking on another task. the web still called palal in the family. >> we are proud american muslims. >> not taxi-driving sikhs. >> the activity grew out of another daily show segments, based on the cosby show, the new

series will be on the website funny or die. it is a parody of an all-american muslim system. with it monsi hopes he will cure widespread islamophobia by joking about its. in our friday arts segment aasef monvi, talks about his program and i ask him where it came from. >> we did a version of this about five years ago on the daily show and i was approached to do something in the space of you know something i cared about, an issue based sort of thing. i thought the thing that i've been dealing with a lot in terms of the crazy people i've been dealing with on the daily show is islamophobia. i thought it would be great to take that, you know sort of little sketch that we did on the

daily show and turn it into a web series where we actually focused on some of these issues of cyber-bullying, infiltration of mosques and community centers by the fbi but we wanted to do it in a humorous way and take on these is it sit-coms. >> what we're doing here is we're not changing the world. we're starting a conversation, getting people to think about these things. what we are satirizing, is the absurdism of the islamophobia. we are creating a website called hilal in the family.tv. you might click on something can say what can do i here, how

can i get involved, is there something i can do, to be involved more. >> when you talk about this issue on the daily show though what kind of reaction do you get? >> there are many american muslims out there who feel like there's an underrepresentation of this voice out there in the american media. you know? there isn't -- when i got on the daily show i was one of the few sort of muslim americans on national television in the american media dealing with these issues -- assemble that was a big deal. >> it was a big deal. for many muslim americans it was a big deal that there was someone speak going this issue not from the fox news point of view. >> big changes at the daily show. >> i know yes. >> what does it mean for show? >> who knows. it's very exciting, you know, i mean it's sad i mean nobody wants to see jon leave but he's

decided to leave and trevor is going to come in and i think it's going to be interesting. i think it's interesting to see what trevor does with the show, more of a global personality in terms of the -- he's been a known standup comedian around the world for a long time and i think it will take some global perspective to the show. >> he took some heat, some tweets he took considered antisemitic. that's kind of tough right? >> it's not an easy chair to fill. people are going to have a reaction to it. this twitter thing the only thing would i say if i was america's therapist i would say listen calm down. daddy's leaving a new guy's coming it's going to be okay. it's a little bit of a hysterical response to a handful of tweets that the guy did over 8,000 tweets or something you know so i think it's a little

overblown. >> will you continue on this show? >> as of now yes i have no plans to leave. >> aasef monvi, thank you for watching. that's our show. the news continues. tinues.

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>> presidential encounter. >> we certainly anticipate that they will have a discussion tomorrow. >> after speaking on the phone this week, president obama and cuban president castro will meet face to face at the historic summit of the americas. pakistani snub. >> it is desired that pakistan maintain knew traltd in neutrality in the yemen conflict.