>> president obama's bid for a trade deal is defeated by his own party. our first person report of the smugglers between iraq and iran.

plus works of art. extraordinary photographs everyday people. august sanders timeless pictures. we begin tonight with a security breach that is shaking the federal government to its core. today we are learning about another hack. this one though potentially more damaging. it's the apparent theft of sensitive records and deeply personal information about millions of government workers including high level military personnel. our john terret is live in washington. john. >> reporter: jonathan, those numbers are going up by the hours. it was first 4 million americans affected. now add a one to that, 14 million americans affected, now members of the military and

intelligence community seeking security clearance may well have been dragged into this as well. 24 hours after the biggest federal employees union warned, that last year's hack of federal employees was far wider than had been led on comes confirmation this might have been a deeper breach. white house spokesman spokesman spokesman josh earnest, suggesting that there had been a wider breach. >> i don't have any further information about this matter. >> the newly revealed hack may have targeted the forms that be employees, arrests and even bankruptcies. the apparent breach and the one revealed earlier could add up to 14 million records being compromised. on thursday, the biggest trade union, the american federation of government employees wrote to

the administration accusing the government of hiding behind the ongoing criminal investigation as a reason not to give out too many details. but earnest was adamant protecting government employees given the size of the network involved. >> it is a daunting challenge and it does require the federal government to be nimble, something that's difficult when you talk about an organization this large. >> reporter: j. david cox said we believe the central file was the database and the hackers are in possession of all personnel data for every employee, every retiree and up to 1 million form he federal employees. he backed up his accusations with specifics, social security numbers, birth dates pay data such as health insurance life insurance has been stolen.

terse exchanges between mitch mcconnell and harry reid, as to who was to blame reid saying openly, for the first time, it may be the chinese. either the hackers went in just once or visited two rooms as it were and installed two tranches of forecast information or went in twice. nobody knows, everyone is being very tight-lipped on that. blaming the chinese that's the way the government is thinking. the state department won't comment one way or the other. one thing i will say, of course, is we know this hack was intended to find potential future spies in this country for whatever entity is behind this hack. there were two recently, one in the white house one in the pentagon and those are blamed

not on the chinese but the russians. >> let's bring in patrick tucker, technology editor for the website defense 1 which reports on u.s. defense and national security. he's in washington tonight. patrick, break it down. how much of a threat does it pose for u.s. workers? >> potentially a very large threat, to members of the u.s. intelligence community. i called a former covert operative and asked him a bit about the standard form 86, incredibly long incredibly detailed. it is information that for those who want to or intend to in the be intelligence community everybody you know, your family, their addresses even high school acquaintances. details like recent foreign

travel, who you contacted on those foreign visits. it is a treasuretrophy of biographical information. every member of the intelligence community that has filled out this important and required form for the opm. >> what would the hablgers do with thisharkershackers dowith this information? >> nothing specific to any assignment right now it isn't going to include the covert name or cover or something like that. if they were on an assignment or part of an operation right now in a dangerous country the authorities in that country couldn't just do a quick match and go and grab them. but it could be very useful if you were able to find out where they were outside of some sort of covert identity and you wanted to target them, you wanted to sort of become friends with them, you wanted to use biographical information, or potentially blackmail them.

one of the fields in this form sf 46 ask you to list any disciplinary actions you may have had with a tomorrower employer. that is blackmail information. what a potential enemy or be foreign government could do to blackmail or coerce or potentially to target families or relatives of an intelligence professional for some kind of crime. >> patrick, explain to us why we keep hearing about these hacks. is it testimony as to how skilled these hackers are or a case of the government not doing a good job of protecting information? >> that would probably be a bit of both. this was fairly sophisticated hack, the level of sophistication suggests it was funded buy state not something that a few fellows in a garage could pull off on a weekend in a ddo attack or something like

that. state bridge that seems to be government-funded. but there are questions being asked. why didn't they take simple cyber security, encrypting data on the bases. when you attempt to open it, you have to have a password. that is sort of an inconvenience for office of personnel people that have to open this information. they've got to go through an extra layer of security but a lot of people are now asking why didn't we do that before? it's a bit of both. sophisticated hack but government mismanagement too. >> why wasn't this handled before? good question. patrick tucker, thank you for your time tonight. now for a dramatic defeat for the president mr. obama made a rare visit to capitol capitol hill.

hill. libby casey is here with that libby. >> president obama is pressing to get democrats on board for his trade agenda and this turn of events is nothing more than stunning. the a major defeat. >> the motion is not adopted. >> against the president's wishes democrats torpedo ed hised his fast track authority on trade. without the risk that congress could change them after the fact. to stop fast track democrats had to vote down a bill to train and help americans out of work because of globalization. that's something democrats normally support but not this time because it's linked to the bigger trade package. >> we should not pass. >> the top democrat in the house had been mum on the issue but nancy pelosi declared she was a no vote. >> i will be voting today to

slow down the fast track to get a better deal for american people. bigger check bigger paychecks better infrastructure help the american people fulfill the american dream. >> reporter: the white house pushed hard for democratic report, president obama swung by the yarng annual congressional baseball game thursday night and a trip down smol capitol hill. >> he ignores the possibility that we can stop pressing our trade being partners for a fair trade deal. so we're stuck with nafta. >> sign off later this year on a massive trade deal with asia. and not all democrats are opposed to giving him what he wants. >> there are this is how we create good jobs here in the

united states, gentlemen ladies, let's support trade fair trade and again i ask you to support the trade bill today. >> republicans found thems in the rare positionthemselvesin the rare position of agreeing with the president and supporting him with their votes. >> for freedom and free enterprise, we are allowing in fact essentially inviting china to go right on setting the rules of the world economy. >> gop leaders pledged it's not the end of the road for trade bill. >> we are not done with this. we have the opportunity to bring this back. >> and the white house plans to reapply pressure. >> well this will be the subject of a lot of conversations between white house officials and maybe even the president today and over the weekend and possibly even into early next week. >> reporter: one more chance to rescue the president's trade agenda. jonathan for what it's worth

fast track authority passed today, but the way congress has set it up, it is tied to this bill, and since that went down to defeat the whole thing is scuttled. if the house does take this up next week, democrats will be faced with a tough choice, workers bill at the expense of the trade agenda to go through republicans on the other hand might have to decide if they're going to be support a bill they would ordinarily despise to get the issues passed. we'll see how they do working the phones this weekend jonathan. >> libby casey, thank you. a libertarian public policy think tank, he joins us from washington, d.c. tonight. bill, why the revolt among

democrats, why were they so resistant to the trade bill? >> one of the reasons is because it's being tide to the tpp. the transpacific partnership is particularly controversial among democrats. the base doesn't really like it. there's been a lot of talk about it over the years. because the if the is pursuing the fast track authority so close to the tpp we're seeing a lot of overlap where democrats are choosing not to grant authority to the president just to negotiate the agreement because they already know they don't like it. >> let's talk about the tpp the transpacific partnership a big item on president obama's wish list he says it will help the economy by encouraging more trade with the far east. why would democrats have an issue with that? >> democrats are particularly skepticallal aboutskeptical about trade. they're worried about imports and how imports would affect the

economy. particularly about free trade where democrats would prefer a much more managed approach acknowledge is and the tpp andthe tpp kim, there are lots of the be democratic constituency, labor advocates that are not much on board with that model. they have been running the debate in democratic circles for a while now. >> we've heard that the president might be working the phones this weekend does this show he may not have lobbied as hard as he should have? >> it looks like the president has done a lot of lobbying recently in the last few months. he certainly apparently been running the phones and all of that. i think maybe it's too late, you know trying to switch 1 no 100 no

votes to yes votes over the weekend is a monumental task. president could have been, you know working on this maybe a bit over the last few years rather than trying to do it at the last minute. i think that's probably the lesson that he learns but it's too late now you know if that's the case to help fast track. >> you feel this is pretty much dead then. well, maybe we'll get that answer later bill watson, thanks so much for your time with the kato institute. he spent decades in isolation. fight to release one of the so-called angola 3. and be on the lookout for the mers virus.

>> tonight, a new york state prison employee has been arrested for allegedly helping two prisoners escape.

joyce watson did not provide the power tools to help richard matt and ronald sweat. cut through their cell walls. biker gangs outside a restaurant officers fired 12 rounds during that exchange of gun fire. >> i did not file indiscriminately into the crowd. our officers were restrained. they were courageous in what they did and i believe they fully contained the situation on the parking lot. had they not done that, not just my officers but other officers had responded and reacted that that would have escalated into parking lots surrounding the twin peaks establishment. >> also today the million dollar bond was reduced for several of

the 177 suspects arrested last month. one was waco motorcycle salesman, and that could be a major problem trying to keep his shop open. judges in louisiana have ruled he against the immediate release of albert wood fox the last imprisoned member of the so-called angola 3. he has spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement. the state is appealing. jonathan martin is on in new orleans. jonathan. >> albert wood fox was extremely disappointed, according to his attorney. he will remain in custody at least for now while the state continues to challenge his release. after four decades since solitary confinement albert

wood fox will remain in confinement for now. >> we are deeply disappointed that mr. wood fox will not be released today. >> reporter: his supporters hoped he would walk free after a federal judge ordered his immediate release. but louisiana's attorney general challenged that ruling, calling him a murderer. decided wood fox must stay behind bars while the state continues to appeal his release. >> i would love for him to stay in prison. yes for the rest of his life. >> and maybe we finally will get closure. >> convicted twice of killing a prison guard both convictions were overturned on appeal. miller's family says wood fox should be tried a third time. >> what is that sympathy? i don't understand that. whenever you murder somebody or do something wrong you pay the

price for it. >> reporter: on monday a federal judge ruled wood fox should be released because the state could not provide him a fair third trial because witnesses were no longer alive and the judge found had was prejudice disfor keeping wood fox in solitary confinement for so long. also mentioning the 68-year-old's poor health. >> do you think he can still get a fair trial? >> i do, i do. >> he needs to be freed. >> cornell herbert is a long time supporter of wood fox. he cawrls calls him a political pridz prisoner. he was a member of the black panthers, along with wood fox robert king and herbert wallace became known as the angola 3 for their long term in solitary

confinement. >> for the prison administration to continue in the federal efforts to destroy the black panther movement. without getting albert wood fox out of prison however long it takes. >> al >> albert wood fox fox is the last one, wallace was set free in 2003 and died a few days after being set free. video of a black teen being taken down by a white officer at a pool party the officer resigned but melissa chan says that's not enough. what do you see there tonight melissa? >> we are in front of the mckinney police department and a counterrer rally has appeared saying chanting things like

"don't mess with texas" and they are here to support the police officers and erlzier they were earlier they were chanting and saying, this is not about race. if you turn to the other side, then you have the protesters, talking about stopping police brutality. the was the main protest planned for today. and then there's that counterprotest you saw just moments ago in response. what's really interesting is that on facebook, for both of these simultaneous events, five or 600 people have said they would show up. so all told it should have been about 1200 people. but right now we're seeing 100 120 people at most. back to you jonathan. >> so melissa the ones out there, protesting, what exactly do they want now? >> reporter: well, one thing they say they want is that yes the police officer in question has resigned, he was first put on administrative leave and then

he resigned. but they want more accountability. they want the district attorney to investigate the matter and file charges. now on the other hand, the other side they are the ones who show a lot of sympathy for the police officers. it's important the point out that we do know at this point that the police officer dealt with two suicide calls before the very well-known incident that we know about right now. having said that, the protesters here say it doesn't matter what the police officer experienced. he had no excuse to pull out his gun and point it at the teenage are jonathan. >> melissa thank you. policing is reportedly down and murders have risen at an alarming rate. anna may looks at a community in crisis and the families torn apart from the violence. >> his name was kevin jones

number 123 on baltimore's growing list this year many another statistic another homicide another father's son. reginald jones carries no pictures of his only boy just a high school diploma. >> why are you carrying this around? >> it's the only thing i got right now. >> reporter: just before dawn on the morning of the preaknessatics, kevin jones was walk to his job as a guard at the pimlico race track. he was shot dead in the parking lot. >> what made you proud of him? >> walk across the stage. >> were you there when it happened? >> no, i was incarcerated. he started coming to see me when i first went to prison.

he couldn't even walk. >> reporter: yes reginald jones was largely absent from his son's childhood serving time in prison for murder. but even with his father locked up and his mother out of the picture, kevin jones found a way to beat the odds. he graduated high school. worked full time for two years. and applied to community college. >> he talked about being an engineer. he was interested in a lot of stuff, electronics. >> to hear your son say he wanted to be a engineer, what was it like to hear that? >> for me it was positive. and you know when he said that i looked at him. i said man that's for something man, you know that's what's up! he said hell, yeah! >> reporter: it's been a terrible year. may saw 42 killings in baltimore. the deadliest month in decades.

in april there were riots protesting the death of freddy gray. it was during those riots that we met peter hayman, a young man armed with a broom cleaning up the city that he loves. >> man, if you don't stand up for yourself nobody will. >> now we meet up with peter again. kevin jones was his best friend. they both worked security at the race track where kevin was killed. but unlike during the riots there's nothing peter can do now. >> you can clean up after a riot but you can't clean up and undo a murder. >> no, you can't undo that. >> reporter: adam may, al jazeera, morning. >> you can see more at 10:00 p.m, 7:00 p.m. pacific.

a look at hillary's campaign. and the naacp leerld accused about being black.

>> you're watching al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz. john siegenthaler is off. off to the races. >> the nice thing about iowa, everybody wants to meet the candidate two or three or four times before they make up their mind. >> democrats and a head start on hillary clinton in iowa. women in science nobel laureate sparking controversy. the prejudice that remains. portrait of an artist, the be portraits of august sands. plus, beth hart. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the bluesy, brassy singer with the voice you won't forget.

hillary clinton will hold her first formal campaign rally and then off to iowa. there are still more than seven months before the iowa caucuses but it could be a tougher fight than many first thought. ash-har quraishi is on the campaign trail with more. ash-har. >> good evening, jonathan. we are at drake university, where you can see behind me, the presidential hopeful bernie sanders is speaking to the crowd. we're at about capacity. sanders arrived here just a short time ago to loud applause and a standing ovation and it is that kind of energy that these candidates are trying to generate moving into caucus season. for presidential candidates, the run up to the iowa caucus is all about momentum. trying to build it when you're behind. trying to maintain it when you're ahead.

>> i'm going to do something extremely radical which is to practice democracy how's that? >> reporter: out of nowhere vermont senator bernie sanders has be captured that elusive mojo looking on capitalizing on that with a slew of events this weekend. >> senator how does it feel about being back in iowa? >> it's nice to be back in iowa, everybody wants to meet the candidate two or three or four times before they make up their mind and that's good. >> if sanders has momentum then former governor martin o'malley is trying to get it. he's making the rounds in the hawkeye state. >> i'm running for president of the united states and i need your hel is iowa's third of the day. to establish more name recognition. >> candidate has to be willing to have hundreds and hundreds of meetings like the ones we have today and more that will follow

in the days ahead and if you do that and you make your case the people of iowa take their voting responsibility very, very personally and very seriously. >> even though the iowa caucuses are eight months away, the democrats are deeply into vetting process. >> i don't think there's any inevitable candidate and i think it's democrats are interested in solutions to the problems that our country faces and i think that the more candidates we hear from the better for whoever that eventually candidate will be. >> two months ago we came to take the pulse of iowa democrats before any candidate had officially entered the race. back then, run warren run were confident that elizabeth warren would become their dream candidate. mike carbury was one of them. >> the one that most represents

my values as a progressive is elizabeth warren. >> that was then. but they became convinced that warren would not run and shuttered operations. >> we're still looking and the people that supported warren are now shopping for a presidential candidate. >> reporter: so far four democrats, senator sanders -- >> where bill airs are literally able to buy elections and candidates let's not kid ourselves. >> governor chaffee of rhode island. form he secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i'm running for president. >> and governor o'malley have announced. the front runner hillary clinton who has spent little time here so far. but time away from iowa, outside a heavily scripted listening tour after she announced her candidacy did not seem to hurt

clinton. they said she would be their first choice for president. >> what would it take for another candidate to come out on top? >> it looks like she would have to stumble badly. >> tim hagel also says a bruising battle is just the kind of fight clinton needs. >> it is important for oem e-mail oro'malleyor sanders so she can get into shape for general election. >> what we have got to do is create an economy that works for all of us. >> reporter: so far some serious competition is coming from senator sanders whose progressive politics appeals to iowa's progressive base. homing the vermont senator can carry the torch. and jonathan it's a very busy and important weekend coming up

here. senator bernie sanders is here and also hillary clinton arrives in iowa where many say she will ostensibly kick off her campaign in earnest. >> ash-har quraishi, live in iowa, thank you. coming up. al jazeera takes a look at political dynasties in america. sun even 8:30 eastern 5:30 pacific. the head of the naacp in spokane, washington is at the head of a heated discussion on racial identity pfn. rachel dolezal gave the impression she is african american. her family heritage is almost entirely caw caucasian. jonathan. >> she was just elected to head

the spokane chapter of the naacp and is currently serving a two year term. by all accounts, a very effective very passionate civil rights advocate. the regional and national naacp organizations have stood behind her, saying they appreciate and support her be efforts. the national group released the statement, saying in part rachel dolezal is enduring a legal issue with her family. we respect her privacy this this matter one's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for naacp leadership. dolezal also chairs a police oversight commission in spokane and she teaches at eastern washington university in the africana studies department. here's what happened when a television reporter asked her very directly about her race. >> are you african american? >> i don't -- i don't understand

the question. of -- i did tell you that yes that's my dad. and he was unable to come in january. >> are your parents are they white? >> i'm -- >> now, what they were referencing was a picture that had been posted on the naacp's spokane chapter of facebook page rachel dolezal with an african american man who was referenced as her father. larry dolezal and ruth ann dolezal the people who are apparently her real parents dispute that of course. she is now involved in a legal dispute with those parents it has to do with the status of her adopted brother much younger than she is who is one of four adopted african american siblings in that family. so far today rachel dolezal has not made any public appearance or statement. jonathan. >> okay but allen as you mentioned naacp is standing behind her but as you also mentioned, dolezal holds a

public post for the city of spokane and that job as you mentioned pay have her in more serious trouble? >> it might. on the application of that post on the complete oversight commission she referenced she was african american, white and native american on the application form. her parents have said that it's likely that she does have traces of native american blood but they are saying that she is basically swedish german and czech in her ethnic heritage. >> okay, allen schauffler, live in washington, thank you. the outbreak of middle east respiratory syndrome is waning. the south korean government is taking sears steps to serious steps

to exat combat the disease. >> it starts as a regular virus you might get more upper gi symptoms, it causes severe knew yoanpneumonia and could cause kidney failure. >> more than 3,000 is in quarantine after a south korean businessman was first diagnosed three weeks ago. he had returned from a trip to the middle east, south korean officials aren't taking any chances. officials are disin effecting public areas while south koreans try protect themselves by covering up with face masks or staying home. >> after the mers outbrak the outbreak,

the customers have decreased b almost 30%. >> south korean government officials are asking people to stay vigilant. the disease has no cure or a vaccine. and one big challenge for doctors: they don't know exactly how the disease is transmit pedestrian. >> we think it's through contact, basically rest respiratory droplets but they have to figure that out. >> the south korean outbreak is the largest outside the middle east. and south korea's new cases bring the total number of infected people worldwide to more than 1200 people. over 400 have died from the virus. s. tonight we want to take you to the border of iraq and iran where smugglers trade just about

anything and everything while risking their lives. documenting their stories is dangerous but determined journalists do just that. first person report. >> my name is sebastian meyer i'm a freelance journalist. the idea behind the agency that i founded is to top up iraqi officials and represent them to the international media. encouraging well trained and talented photo-journalists from different regions in the world is essential to 21st century journalism. recently one of our photographers aram karim was featured. in 2009 he started photographing smugglers who covered the entire border region from iran, turkey and syria. he documents the lives of the people who do the smuggling and

the villagers who live in this border region. aram brings a unique and incredibly subtle aspect to the story. he was raised in a very small village on the iranian border so he understands these people's lives. it is his life how he grew up. on three separate occasions aram tried to smug himself out of iran, what he is able to do is spend this amount of time on a story. the depth and the humidity that humanity he can bring to this story is unique. needless to say i'm proud of aram, it's important that they continue to do the work they do and continue to sell that work and that work get published. what's extremely important for the world at this moment in time

is for really strong ethically strong journalism to be coming out of the region. we live in complete propaganda especially from i.s.i.s. they only want to provide the images they want to, and it's very difficult to get other images out of the region. having iraqi photographers working at this depth and capacity gives the world gives all of us a much more important subtle in-depth perspective on the region that without them we wouldn't have. >> and spafn is sebastian is heading back to kurdistan on monday to help bring those images to the world. tim hunt is a nobel lawyer ad specializing in chemistry.

the trouble with women in laboratories, is quote you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry. hunt in response from women in the science community was swift they took to social media, with the hashtag distractingly sexy. shini somara, an a advocate for young girls in the science and technology field. what did you think of this nobel laureate? >> i thought they were hilarious to be honest. i loved the responses from female scientists, all the pitches. i was kind of interested to see all the different jobs that women do in science because you never get the opportunity to do it. his comments really kind of spark that reaction. >> shini a lot of people are

laughing and joke going this and being quite clever but is there serious sexism in the science industry? >> i think it exists in science. i think it exists in many industries. and you know i was in mechanical engineering and i -- it's a very male dominated industry. and you know if you are really passionate about the science then sexism becomes kind of irrelevant because you just stay focused on the subject that you are passionate about studying. >> have you encountered any kind of sexism as you have experienced mechanical engineering? >> i probably did. it was a very male dominated environment. they never stuck with me. one of the things i found really kind of character-building was learning not otake sexism on

board and let it affect you. and i've had many years of practice in that. not just in engineering but in television science and communication as well. >> good advice there. why do you think more women and girls don't pursue then careers in technology and science? >> i think science is a really difficult subject to study. i mean it's very complex. you have to have a certain skill set to investigate and experiment and really try and kind of discover and find truth through your work. and that takes a certain set of skills and it can often be intimidating. but science is so fascinating. and i -- i personally don't know why girls are put off it. it's a really we warding career. and just really interesting to study. it's really changed my perspective of the world around me. it makes me appreciate the world

we live in. >> all right some shinzo, thank shinni somara, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> now, to spain looking to make amends for one of its darkest chapters, del walters here. del. >> the ancestors of is he sefardic jews were expelled in 1492. today threr about there are about 12,000 sephaldic jews that live in spain. >> this is an historic emotional day for the sefardic world in general. spain came forth a date with history. >> it is unclear just how many people would qualify for

citizenship when the law takes effect in october. our next hour, what the motive might be. >> thank you del. making the extraordinary ordinary. august sand her. >> and beth hart hart. her music.

>> we will be able to see change. >> gripping.

inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. only on al jazeera america. >> people of the 20th century documented the life of ordinary german citizens. the museum of modern art in new york city has just acquired more than 600 photos from the collection. we talk to the curator in tonight's first person reports. >> people of the 20th century is august sanders attempt to use photography as a cumulative portrait of people of the 20th century, how in the specific elements of each image it could become and speak to something more universal. he looked at all walks of life. at women children, families, professionals, farmers.

and through all these individuals he sawed to convey something universal about humanity. he pointed to this as the path forward. as how a photograph with no seeming artistic pretension could represent a really radical step forward for photography. well, the pictures are just delicious in their detail. everything from the way the collars are folded to the texture of the socks to the background which ranges from being a very simple straightforward white browfned tobackgroundto the works made out in the forest. but i'll say i'm particularly fond of the circus people. i feel in their kind of transient nature and in the extreme sensitivity that august sanders used to photograph them,

those are among my favorites. i think august sanders work stands out because of the range of people he chose to photograph and his ambition which was nothing less than to create a portrait of people of the 20th century. >> and they are stunning portraits. you can see more classic photography at the museum of modern arts art photo show starting on june 27th. singer beth hart rose to fame about the dark side of sunny l.a., critics compared her to billy holiday. then she hit rock bottom. she spoke to john siegenthaler. >> my parents were going through a horrible divorce and i heard what's to this day is my favorite song, moonlight sonata.

there was something that could look over me and help me and start getting me through it. i started playing piano that day. it's remained my church. >> when i listen to your music i feel emotion. you know it's almost like i want to cry when i hear some of those songs. >> oh. >> very powerful. >> thank you. >> you say thank you but i mean it makes me sad. is that the intent? >> i just think that the intent for me, more than anything, is you know like i said, connect with spirits so i can work out my confusion and my struggles as i go along throughout life but also to celebrate the hope that's there. but selfishly i want people to connect to it. i don't want to feel alone i want to feel part of. that's what i want people to

feel. ♪ bang bang my love is true ♪ >> even when you're trying to be happy, you say i might as well smile. >> yes. >> you're down you might as well smile that's the happiest you get. >> (laughing) well on might as well smile the whole idea on the song is a trick somebody taught me, i do suffer bipolar disorder, and so there's a lot of ups and downs. he said, if you feel confused and office, say out loud the opposite. say i'm amazing i feel great it sounds ridiculous and i feel like a dork when i'm doing it but it works it really works. >> it's such an intimate thing those are intimate things oshare. you just talked about mental illness and how it's affected

you. is that tough to talk about and share? >> it's not. it was when i was younger but i've had incredibly beautiful people along the way who taught me that there's nothing ashamed getting lost, falling down. you wouldn't say to someone with diamondbacks, you should be ashamed having diabetes, it's not a blame-game. we should celebrate our strength as well as recognizing that our weaknesses are going to make us feel stronger and fall in love with life. >> you had up when your first songs came out -- you had ups when your first songs came out and this what happened? >> it all crashed. i was unmedicated for bipolar. i had been using drugs since the age of 11. who knows i was overtaken by

the worst of my mental illness very sick, hair falling out. >> how did you come back? >> i came back through a few things. my husband came to my life, scott, came into my life, who i have been married to for 14 years. he saw through illness he said and saw the girl that was beautiful too and i believed him and when you love yourself you don't hurt yourself. ♪ i'd rather go blind i'd rather go blind ♪ >> when you sing you have a powerful impact on people and we hope you do it for a very, very long time. >> thank you. >> it's great to meet you. congratulations and good luck. >> thank you. >> that's hard with our john siegenthaler and beth hart's album, better than home, available on itunes. have a great night. you can always find us on

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