>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. training day. 300 u.s. troops arrive in ukraine and russia reacts. fighting hiv in indiana. two dozen new cases in a week. the causes and controversy over how to stop it. standard-bearer. she was involved in the early days of common core. now she's one of its fiercest critics. plus unforgottable author and

journalist scott simon who turned to twitter to share his final moments. we begin tonight with the powder keg that is ukraine. a ceasefire is in place. but each side accuses the other of provocation. now hundreds of american troops have arrived in ukraine to train government forces. that has sparked criticism from russia and a warning that could escalate. 300 mayor paratroopers are in ukraine to help train government forces. from the force based in italy it has served in iraq and afghanistan and the first army unit to serve in vietnam. their arrival comes as the fight

against the russian backed sprachtsseparatists flares up sporadically. in this village near the border. >> evidence that the ceasefire is not holding and weapons are used that should not be used. >> each side is accusing the other of wanting to resume the conflict. russian president vladimir putin went on national tv thursday and denied there were russian troops in the ukraine but the u.s. is skeptical. >> i expressed my strong belief that the european union council european council needs to continue the current sanctions in place until we have seen full implementation of the minsk agreement. >> ukrainian prime minister

petro poroshenko has been pleading with nawght nato for more support. sparking a reaction from russia. >> united states and its allies have crossed all possible lines in bringing kiev into their orbit. that could not have failed to trigger our reaction. >> the u.n. says the conflict has claimed over 6,000 lives so far, mostly civilians. >> nina kuscheva associate dean, associate professor of international affairs at the new school of new york. nina welcome. how does this compare to other tension between ukraine and russia? >> this is actually small attention than what it used to be.

before it used to be, the old war was going to blow out any minute. and putin was saying, we're not really promoting we're not really, we don't want war we want to have reconciliation, however, it is up to our partners to actually make it happen. so i don't think this is close to real confrontation. however, putin is leaving himself some room to say i was conciliatory, however the united states brought the troops and we have no other choice but to have further fight. >> what struck you about putin's tone yesterday? >> it was milder than it used to be for a month and even the whole year. i actually think because they received putin's cabinet received about 3 million questions or so they say a lot of questions were about economy not about the war. putin is very sensitive to his

public's mood. and the mood probably suggested to him that the war nation should not be such a good idea, they need to take care of sanctions more than anything else. >> the concern you hear from some people is that if the united states inserts civil into this conflict that it's pushing pushing -- civility itself into something what is it saying? >> this is not way to deescalate the conflict. >> and russia will have to respond? >> and russia will have to respond. the thing about putin he's his own boss. there's no really checks and balances out there. if he decides to pretend he's deescalating despite united states efforts to escalate, he's going to play that card. or he can respond in military terms, it's up to him. >> does this situation take the pressure off him whether it

comes to the economy in russia? >> it is, but the four-hour question show that it didn't, that's why he so pointedly said, sanctions are not to be lifted any time soon but economy is going to pick up, in two years we're going to pick up, it's going to be great ukraine is probably going to continue but it's not our fault it's somebody else's fault. >> give an idea of this situation, has it changed in the last year? >> we as russian he always want a great nation. actually the fighting has gotten a little too far i think russians feel for about six months now. they don't really care. russia is a great nation but their own wallet and their own products and their own jobs are very important to them right now. that's the reason for putin's

tone very even keel to where it was in the past. >> do you think putin will be careful as he move forward and not try to -- >> putin is putin. so he's going to be careful today and tomorrow he decides -- >> he gets stuff. >> exactly he gets stuff. right now he want to be a uniter if we use the old american language. but then two days from now he would decide it's more convenient for him to be divided because the economy is not going to duet better. but if the economy isn't getting better the conflict would ramp up all the way. >> nina thank you for coming. nice to see you. >> thank you very much. officials say at least three people were killed when a car bomb explode near the u.s. area of erbile, capital of iraq's kurdistan region. in baghdad at least 27 were killed in a series of bombings

across the iraqi capital. the deadliest was at a car dealership in the eastern part of the city, dozens of people were killed in a car bomb in baghdad earlier as well. now he may be dead, iraqi officials are trying to determine where izzat ibrahim al-douri was killed, in tikrit. suspected of being an ally of i.s.i.l. jamie mcintire is in washington. what did al-douri as a role in the regime? >> he was considered i.s.i.l.'s number 2 man. he was also notably the king of clubs in the famous card -- deck of playing cards that the u.s. military distributed to members of the military so they could keep an eye out for iraq's 52 most wanted. so he was right up there right

inside saddam hussein's inner circle the highest ranking member of the inner circle that hadn't been accounted for sins the invasion in 2003. -- since the invasion of 2003. he was september of running a baathist group group made up of former baathist and some of the elite troops so he was considered a big deal at the time but interestingly the u.s. military had pretty much given up worrying about him. when i can'ted the u.s. central command to ask them where he stood on the list of suspects they told me they weren't even tracking that anymore. and they had no idea how many of the 52 in that original deck of cards were still out there. looks like really only one or

two very low ranking cards are still unaccounted for. >> there were plenty of questions concerning his connection to i.s.i.l. as well. came on the same day that the pentagon released a new assessment of its fighting ability. do they think they had been able to damage i.s.i.l.'s fighting capabilities? >> that's a point they made, i think they're trying to counter the impression that i.s.i.l. is resurgent as it's moving into areas of ramadi that is contested. they released a map four areas where they are focusing along with iraqi forces to blunt the offensive. they made the argument that although it may seem that i.s.i.l. can take a territory here and there it's a shadow of where it was a year ago where it could move with impunity

across iraq and has been curbed into isolated attacks. i.s.i.l. forces breaching the parameter of that key refinery at beiji there had been no challenge to the facility for the last couple of days now. the u.s. is trying to make the case that if you take the long view it's unfolding the way it's expected. >> jamie mcintire, thank you. the u.s. department, deadly oil train explosions, today the d.o.t. announced trains hauling crude oil must slow down as they pass through urban areas. the department also announced more rigorous inspection

standards. so far this year there have been four derailments in the united states and canada. now to the battle over the approval of loretta lynch. 60 days ago. it's the longest wait for a nominee to leave the justice department in three decades. today the president said, enough is enough. >> and yet what we still have is this crazy situation where a woman who everybody agrees is qualified, has now been sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined. the dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. this is an example of it. it's gone too far. enough. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has held up the

nomination trying to stop democrats from blocking a vote on a human trafficking bill. gathering outside the federal courthouse, court will decide whether to lift a texas judge's temporary hold on the policy. obama's executive action would protect millions of immigrants from deportation. the government calls it standard operating procedure. the government has the right to shut down cell phone service. it was created after the 2005 london subway bombings. could be used to shut down dissent. now there's a lawsuit seeking information about the program. >> what's critical and what is the underlying purpose of this case is that the rules for when the government can and cannot shut down these networks should be public. >> coming up the next half hour we'll have much more the

standard operating procedure and the techniques behind it and backbacklash. now, more for syrian refugees, we continue to follow the crisis one that's not just limited to syria. here then are some of the faces of the displaced men women and children around the world.

>> this week millions of american schoolchildren took standardized tests. but many americans refused to allow their children to be tested. it's part of a growing trend we talked to one mother who support this system. >> this sort of emphasis on testing in the last 20 years and specifically in the last five years we are the only country that tests our children every year between grades 3 and 8 and all the countries that are at

the top of the international rampings theyrankings they do not test yearly. >> there is a rigorous standard, to pull these kids out is a wrong standard. >> do you think the tests are fair? >> i do think the tests are fair, there are places where the tests are not as good, but we have to go through this change and we have to put in better tests in order to get the information we need. >> some parents have expressed frustration with questions like this base 10 numerals does the digit in the thousands place represent a value ten times the value represented by the digit in the hundreds place. by the way the correct answer is d. san trasandra stodsky was on a

valuation committee for the common core we she voted against. why did you vote against the common core? >> i was focused primarily on the english language arts and language standards, my area of expertise and i didn't think they met the criteria for signing off of them. they were benchmark weren't research based and weren't rigorous. >> other than that what do you think of the place of complaints have that the parents have, do you think they are valid? >> i think the parents are hitting a raw nerve. they certainly have many valid complaints. one is the frequency of the test but the other is how long these tests last. >> would parents opt out? >> i would indeed, as a way of

showing that they disapprove of this very heavy handed, top down effort by the u.s. department of education. >> that's great if you are protesting and you want to use your children to protest. does that do anything to further their education and in fact may they suffer later on because they don't take these tests and won't be benchmarked against other kids? >> they frankly don't need to be benchmarked against other kids. >> that's the system. >> that hasn't been the system for individual comparisons for a long, long time. we have had national assessment of educational progress testing random testing stratified random testing that shows how states compare to other states. and we have a pretty good idea always of the differences among states and we didn't need to have grade by grade testing which was introduced by no child left behind.

>> i mean, i understand that. but what i'm saying is, it's in the system now. and kids are taking it and parents measure their kids against the rest of the class based on those tests. they get reports every year, they take a long time to take. teachers help other students in some ways, sometimes they teach to the test, sometimes they don't. but if they are moving forward to a system where they want to go to college isn't that part of the system and doesn't whole system have to be changed in order -- just opting out that's not going to change the system right? >> it will send a powerful message because if enough students opt out it renders the test results invalid. that's the point the parents all understand. 95 participation rate is required. a 95 percentage participation rate. if percentage participation goes below that, test results are

invalid. these tests by the way have almost very little to do with learning which is why parents are very concerned about them. teachers spend a lot of time teaching othese tests. but no one -- to these tests but no one has said these test results have much of a relationship to learning. teacher-made tests are much better from that point of view. >> don't teachers vary from class to class and grade to grade and you don't know if they're teaching one thing and the teacher down the hall is teaching something entirely different. >> that is something that a school system has supervisors for. but teachers do differ. and children have always, through the ages and all countries, learned to understand that teachers have different teaching styles. some are stronger than others. some are weaker than others. but if there's a curriculum and there are many sections class or course then it can be straightened out within a school

system. but we've had much better results -- >> so it is okay if there are different levels in your opinion? >> of course it's oscar if there are different levels. students do take a college admission test which has been worked out and standardized. in all countries. many countries have matriculation tests which i think we should be doing much more of and those are the tests they use for deciding upon entrance or admission to a university. >> does this test hurt the kids? >> it certainly looks as if it's making a lot of kids very unhappy. the time involved in teaching to the test robs kids of instructional time and the time to take the test itself is excessive. it is not clear that the information is useful for classroom teaching purposes. so what can you say for test? >> i give props for the test

that it does make kids happy because of the last 12 years of school, my son's in high school, we've experienced that. and the kids don't like it. but the question is whether or not it is valuable in any way. it's great to have you on the program sandra thank you very much. thank you for inviting me. >> we're going to have more about the conversation about standard literacy, deeper look, what can be done to make sure american students measure up to their peers around the world. that is tomorrow 8:00 eastern 5:00 pacific time. the e-cigarette issue e-cigarette use among middle schools and high schools tripled between 2013 and 2014. critics say the u.s. tobacco

industry has done much to do much. >> a teenager today has never seen the marlboro man. has never seen a cigarette ad on tv. our big concern is both the product and how it's being marketed. has the potential to undue literally 30 years of progress. in reintroducing tobacco use to children. >> no one knows what the results are. >> thomas farley is the new york city health commissioner. >> we work very hard to counteract the cool factor for smoking cigarettes. the concern is if e-cigarettes become cool, regular tobacco cigarettes well become cool. >> part of a new phenomenon

known as vapping. peter denholtz opened this business. part of a culmination for his own smoking. >> i was a smoker for 30 years. i went out and bought myself an e-cigarette, did research, saw an opportunity in which i was able to do and then i thought it was a great business opportunity. and we have just exploded. the world's found out about e-cigs there's an alternative to smoking and we've learned more about that, to experience it try it and hopefully go home with something that is a better alternative. >> you sell a lot of flavors. >> i do. >> the idea that you could sell to minors do you does it appeal to minors? >> does strawberry vodka appeal

to minors? >> what's inside depends on who ask but in the absence of hard science what happens in the long term is fueling passion and politics on all sides. >> i don't think anybody knows where this is going to go in five years or ten years. the tobacco companies are businesses. they want to make money at whatever they can sell. if they can create a whole new market for people who are afraid of tobacco cigarettes but not afraid of e-cigarettes, the only way we are going to prevent them from marketing irresponsibly is. some other way. >> christof putzel, al jazeera. >> coming up next, indiana's spike in hiv cases two dozen cases in just the last week. how health officials are continuing to be the problem. plus the government shutting down cell phone service, where it's happened and why it's

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>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america i'm john siegenthaler. new hiv cases fighting disease in indiana. california's malescalifornia's measles outbreak declared oarch. over. kill switch, a federal program that shuts down probably phones. does it shut down dissent. plus scott simon talks about his new book. >> we don't fully grow up until we lose our pairns. parents. >> and his twitter campaign. ness indiana is seeing a dramatic increase in hiv cases. health officials say in one week there have been two dozen cases. jonathan betz last more.

jonathan. >> health officials say the spike is from convincing more people to get tested but critics worry this outbreak is far from over and that the state's response may not be aggressive enough. >> most of this is oxy contin track marks. >> the marks of addiction scar kevin's body centered around rural scott county, 130 cases 24 new once in just the past week, a stunning 18% drug. stemming from drug users like paulyto sharing a needle. >> it didn't matter. >> to help stop this hiv outbreak in its tracks. >> the participants there were

ready to become the solution. then the local health department came, severely limiting the number of syringes they could get, a huge mistake. >> reporter: users can chain exchange dirty cringes for syringes, for clean one no questions. but officials are arresting them. even al jazeera was there when the county prosecutor told police not to make arrest. >> certainly if you find somebody with clean needles and that's all they got you've got to let them go. >> reporter: syringes are illegal in indiana unless you have a prescription. yet pauly said officers raided his home, seized his needles and arrested a friend. >> they are taking new syringes

away from people, i heard reports of that and that is incredibly disturbing. >> the the scont county scott county official didn't respond to our requests for a comment. >> they are implementing a model that they are comfortable with. and will work for the population that's here. >> reporter: critics worry the approach is too timid. and pauly says the fear is that the policy is targeting users. >> they are going to continue to share, and the hiv is going to continue to be in scott county. >> reporter: indiana lawmakers are considering expanding the program to more places but that faces stiff competition. even the research shows a quarter of indiana's counties are at risk of the outbreak of hiv. >> the state says the program is

going to work, how could that help last? >> when the governor announced the help was coming, all these researchers, the order was only for 30 days. there is a lot of concern within that town within people i spoke with that just as quickly as help arrives it could leave again. the governor could extend but no particular indication of what he might do yet. >> jonathan thank you. the measles outbreak that started at a california theme park last year is over. last new case was reported six weeks ago but with several pockets of unvaccinated residents, officials say it could happen all over again. robert ray reports. >> reporter: john, health officials say that disneyland was the perfect place for a measles outbreak to start. now the state and the cdc are looking at practices to make sure this doesn't happen again.

according to officials at the california department of public health the meals outbreak at disneyland is officially over. >> patients range in age from six weeks to 70 years. vaccination status was available in only 62% of cases. among them, 70% were unvaccinated. >> reporter: the declaration is based on no new infections having been reported in 42 days. that's two incubation periods. the outbreaks started in december when 42 people were exposed to measles at disneyland and they spread the virus across six states, canada and mexico. here at the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta, health officials helped

this california, set out contact tracing, set up a perimeter in california and tried to figure out who the people were who had the measles infection. dr. greg wallace leads the team at cdc and says since the outbreak they are stepping up communication about the virus nationwide. >> just increasing the awareness not even so much the health departments but clinics who are seeing a lot of rash illnesses in their practice, to make sure they ask about rash history vaccine history travel history as a reason for their illness. >> reporter: while the disneyland outbreak is over there are still other measles cases in the u.s. so far in 2015, 159 cases have been reported. in comparison, 2014, the numbers are low 668 cases in 27 states last year. that is the most this century. >> you think about it, on a

global scale we're a very small problem. even with our larger outbreaks recently on a global level these are very small outbreaks. so the global effort is really the emphasis. >> officials say most who contract the virus in the united states are not vaccinated. >> small outbreaks here to a place where it could create havoc where people are not immunized. >> that's a bigger problem. >> now that the outbreak is over, several states, including california, to stop the anti-vaccers. >> has disneyland or disney world come to you guys to say what can we do to make sure this isn't happening again? >> i think those conversations are actually happening at the

state level. so we would just encourage what we say for anyplace that would have lots of workers lots of possible exposure to foreign travelers, is that everybody be up to date on their vaccine. >> reporter: now disease detectives say they never might find out who patient zero is or exactly how the measles outbreak began. but officials do say it's likely it was brought in from another country. >> robert ray in california. new legislation is designed to get more children immunized. a vote on the bill is delayed but if it does pass it would force more parents to have their kids immunized. jennifer london has more. >> just for the benefit of everyone's children, they should have their kids vaccinated.

>> reporter: opting out supporters say the rise in measles and whooping cough cases is why the legislation is needed. >> we can't have people fearing to go outside go to the store go to public transport going to a theme park because they're worried about getting a disease like measles. >> but opponents are not convinced. >> that's not going to happen until we have safe vaccines. >> i think forcing children to do anything is not right. i think parents should be able to raise the child according to their beliefs. >> reporter: all 50 states require measles vaccinations for students but 19 states give parents the choice based on medical or religious reasons. the california outbreak put the golden state at the center of the vaccination fight high

concentration of parents who have opted out of vaccinations, including the wealthy enclave of marin county. john hicks practices there and blames vaccinations for his autism. >> i have a stepson that developed autism after vaccination for five diseases. he hit 105 for five days. >> the belief piforts persists and dr. hicks is supported by people who support his views. >> what the parents really want and what they believe support them in that. because if a parent believes these vaccines are going to create a problem they may create a problem. >> reporter: but other doctors like nelson branco has decided to turn away children who are

not vaccinated. >> our duty was to the entire community and to the many patients in our practice who could not be immunized against the measles. certainly you have a choice still to decide whether to vaccinate your child or not. however, that choice has consequences. if you decide you don't want to vaccinate your child you can still do that, you will have to home school your child so they're not with oat children where they might be able to infect other children. >> if the bill becomes law california and three other states will have the strictest rules in the nation. jennifer london. al jazeera. >> not much else is known about this law, lisa stark is here with more. lisa. >> well john nearly everyone

agrees that the government should have the authority to kill some cell phone service in some cases to thwart a terrorist attack. how does the government decide if that is really necessary to kill cell phone service? the public doesn't know that and a big battle going on to try to change that. cell phones connect us to family and friends, to the internet, to the world. but what if suddenly the government cut off service? it's called the kill switch. >> right. >> what is that? >> it is basically the ability to turn off cell phones. and turn off the networks for anyone using a cell phone. >> reporter: the department of homeland security calls it standard operating procedure 303. >> it is what the department uses when they decide to shut down cell phone service. >> allen butler has been

fighting for four years. after four years, this is what butler got pages and pages all redacted. >> what is critical the underlying issue in this case is the rules for when the government can and cannot shut down these networks should be public. >> reporter: the federal rules were developed in 2006 after an uproar when new york city officials temporarily shut down cell phone service in the city's tunnels. officials were worried that terrorists might use cell phones to detonate bombs. no one thought much about the rules in the 2011. that's when the bay area rabid transit shut off cell phone service at stations, after the killing of an unarmed man by the

bart police officer. >> most of the communication and most of the organize was taking place through social media facebook and twitter and on the spot people were communicating through text-messaging. so that then of course became well we can cut the protest by cutting off the way in which they communicate. >> reporter: bart said it shut off the service because quote a civil disturbance during commute times could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions. but critics said the action voilted freeviolated free speech. >> fundamentally if i don't agree with you you don't have the right to stop me communicating. >> security expert jerome howard agrees. >> you have to be very sure when you shut it down there is a defensive public safety reason for doing it. >> reporter: now the dpamsdz

isdepartment of homeland security says they're not argue it's classified but it's a law enforcement document, they're arguing that people could be harmed if it was released, if somebody was near a bomb and the dhs could not turn off cell phones maybe that explosive would go. there have been arguments like that. >> where does the court case stand between the government and epic? >> the government won the first round, the court agreed with the government that the document doesn't need to be released.

and there is always the supreme court. >> our science and technology editor jacob ward is here. jake. >> as you move through the day your phone is connected to the nearest cell tower and is constantly moving around to find the strongest signal, usually a jammer some use that device to stop the security, phone is using and that interferes with the signal from the nearest tower. the range of a jammer can be anywhere from 30 feet to over a mile depending on its size and sophistication. now, bin comparison, standards operating procedure 303 is a lot simpler technologically. rather than jamming phones, it tells towers to turn off snrals in -- signals in a given area. the national telecommunications

advisory committee part of homeland security, says that sob 303 can be used to shut down cell phones in a total area or as specifically as a bridge. cell phone towers are designed to send signals in a fudge-shaped wedge and in a place like new york city, their accuracy is a mile or less. it's possible if the cell towers around wall street were shut down, your cell phone could still pick up a call from the lower boroughs, it would mook mean that the government would mean that the government would have to shut down more service. those people could not dial 911 text their kids or really communicate with anyone by cell phone. it is important to remember this procedure is not up for any sort

of judicial review. the whole process represents only representatives of the department of homeland security and no courts in the loop at all. when it comes to turning off phones this isn't some kind of rifle shot. there is a high explosive. >> jake ward reporting jake thank you. coming up next, npr's scott simon, i talk to him about his new book, about love and loss. loss.

>> the financial world paused today because of a computer outage. bloomberg's terminals stopped working. they are the computers many use to get financial dats. data. bloomberg said it was a combination of hardware and software failure. most of them were back up and

running when markets opened this morning. palestineian prisoners jailed by the israeli army. barbara serra has more. barbara. >> in the next hour we'll take a look at the physical and psychological impact in indefinitely incarceration has on the prisoners and the effect on descra illinois israelis and palestinians. john. >> scott simon as his mother was dying he kept a sort of twitter diary of her last months of life. he's written another book about her called unforgettable. i asked him what he remembers

most about his mother. >> my mother was always very funny, very high spirited, i hate to say irrepressible but she lived through a lot and managed to come out of all of it. when i joined my mother at the intensive care unit i didn't know she was going to die there. the confines of the world i used to see shrunk to the walls of the icu. that was not necessarily confining. my mother was just so funny and interested. >> you say -- you tweeted at 8:00 a.m. on july 27th, 2013, you said mother i don't know why this is going on so long. i'm late for everything, i guess. tweeting what she said. you know, these are the most difficult times we can go through in our lives. and yesterday you found the humor in it and you shared it with everyone. that's a very personal difficult

thing. was it rewarding? what did you get out of it? >> yes, it was rewarding. and i must say i didn't find it particularly difficult. my mother was funny and interesting. i found it iris irresistible to pass along. she said funny and wise things, and sometimes that are both. she said you know baby, you should spend more time talking to people in their 80s they have looked just across the street with death for a decade. >> this is not easy to go through but you found humor you likened this tweet at 2:38 a.m. you said nights are the hardest, i wish i could lift my mother's pain and fears from her

bones into mine. >> yes. >> you did strike a chord and i think there are people around the world who are touched by what you said, and your willingness to be candid about it. >> you know at some point you become aware of the fact, if you're lucky if you're blessed and i was in life, then you wish you could take their pains and their anxieties out of their bones and put them into yours and carry that weight for them. that's how i felt, there's no doing that. just by being there you have the feeling you are sharing it together. i think i was very blessed to be able to share that with my mother. >> when she passed away, you tweeted, the heavens over chicago, have opened, and patricia lyman simon newman has stepped off stage. you shared your mother's death with the rest of the world how do you think you treated death

as different than many others, as a closed quiet confidential way? >> you know, the new york times had me write a piece a cuk of weekscouple ofweeks ago i hate to use the term why i thought the tweets had taken digital wings. i had answers the papyrus scrolls of our times that people can read or ignore or find later. as i say i think my mother was just so funny and interesting. but you know, i'm not -- i suppose i could have kept it all to myself, john but there's a reason why people like you and me are in broadcasting and not espionage. i'm not used to doing that but i think it is absolutely the way of life that we don't fully grow up until we lose our parents. because there is some mixture of

wisdom that we receive only from that mix of grief and responsibility, whether they depart, and we are left on our own. i think parents know this. certainly, the best parents do. and they spend their lives pouring everything they are into us. and they stand us on our own. and at some point they actually become pretty happy to take a seat and watch how we contend with the world. >> having lost my father last year i hear you and i understand that. i guess what i see in this book, and the tweets, in some ways is a person who obviously loves his mother and cares deeply. but who found a way to maybe deal with the pain of losing her, is that fair? >> oh, i -- no, it's absolutely fair. that's -- i think that's the kind of person that i am. and i have to tell you because of course, my mother was not a

bush or a kennedy. or a windsor or even a kardashian. and the whole idea of seeing her face on the cover of a book that's on the new york times best seller list is moving. i got to tell you that, because i think she had a lot of -- a lot of wisdom and a lot of spirit to share. >> thank you for sharing those moments with us. thank you for sharing your mother with us. this is a book that really makes us wants to meet your mother and learn about her. and you tell us about her. thank you very much, scott it's good to see you good luck with the book. >> thank you john, thanks very much. >> that's our show. thank you for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. the news continues next with antonio mora and barbara serra. see you back here on monday. monday.

violence escalates in iraq, a car bomb explodes outside the u.s. cons lal in erbile and dozens are killed in car bombings in iraq. the king of clubs iraqi officials say they have killed the former right hand man to saddam hussein. administrative detention. >> we prefer not to have to use this tool. there are instances when we have no choice. >> thousands of palestinians locked up in israeli