♪ ♪ >> hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. >> deading the deal. selling the iran agreement to senators. >> so here is the next question, it is a question of how do you hold the program back. how do you dismantle their weapons program not the wheel program. >> secretary of state heeded testimony on capitol hill. wac to baltimore after the proo test it is shake up and the troubling surge in crime. >> we are averaging five to

ten murders a week. >> we return to a city on the edge. border batting beyond donald trump's visit a sobering check. >> . >> i just wanted to help him out. >> on helping migrants cross over. plus, purge lines. shaping their experience, and material that's the last thing i want to do walk around new york city. >> what it means to be a muck limb comedian in america. we begin with the iran nuclear deal. and that may be just as hard for the white house. secretary of state was front and center before the senate foreign relations committee today. he faces republicans who were

skeptical. libby casey is in washington, libby? >> i don't know, the team that stood toe-to-toe with international negotiators hashing out complex details certainly has it's work cut out right here at home. today's hearing was an opportunity to dig into the deal but it was also a chance to score some political points. it was the first opportunity for the chief negotiator to defend his iran deal before congress. >> the alternative to the deal that we have reached is not what i have seen ads suggesting, it isn't a better deal. some sort of unicorn arrangement. involving iran's complete capitulation. that is a fantasy. >> the secretary of state made his case to the senate foreign relations committee. planned by fresh surery

secretary. >> irans ties are exactly who we must keep it from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. the combination of those two threats would raise a nightmare scenario. >> also making the administration case, a nuclear expert who sat at the negotiating table. >> to be clear the deal is not built on trust. it is hard nosed that will limit activities and insure inspections. i can assure you that is not what iran wanted. it is a substantial dialing back. >> but republicans were harshly critical. >> i believe. >>s to able to walk away from this and stay that this is a good deal, is ludicrous. with all due respect you so been bamboozled and the american people are going to pay for it. >> republicans question many aspects of the deal,

including the time granted before inspectors can access the site, and they denounced the treatment imprisoned americans. >> nothing holds them to account. quite the opposite. the iranian regime is being rewarded. >> democrats asked points questioned about the deal, but also defended. >> if you were bamboozled the world has been bamboozled that's ridiculous. and it is unfair. and wrong. >> president obama's team needs to win over domes con has 60 days to review the deal and if they push a disapproval vote the president can street toe but it will take democrats stand withing the white house to prevent a override. the three cabinet secretaries are said to continue player campaign. with closed door briefings and an appearance before the house foreign affairs committee, another panel of republicans are guaranteed to push back against the iran deal.

john that 60 day witness has already started. and members go on a month long recess in august, so in the grim you can expect a lot of tough rounds of questioning, certainly more fireworks and more mentions from the administration that there is the best way to ensure a nuclear free. >> jamelle is the former chief consistent and senior advisor, in washington again for us tonight. jamelle, so on the other side, if it is a bad deal, what should replace it. >> thank you for having me back. i think what should replace it is a better deal. secretary kerry said that's a unicorn, but the truth is when you look at this, if they had been willing to walk away, they could gotten a better deal. the most likely the outcome is not war, it is not the

europeans walking away without us, they can't do that, it is not even possible. what it is is is iran and then coming back and us getting a better dual. >> how do you know that? isn't iraq close to a nuclear weapon, and if you justify them more time -- you have to a deal now if you don't have a deal, then doesn't iran move ahead and. >> well, i don't think so. we have a history to look back on. you can look back and see what happened. in 2010, we saw congress praise sanctions against the administration, against the advice of the europeans and iran didn't break out. and the reason is they don't have a stroll id design, or the 80 to deliver it. >> so they aren't that close? you don't think iran is that close? >> they are two to three months of break out which means they will have the quantity that duhn't mean they can build the weapon and

deploy it. >> they move ahead with that. >> they are already moving ahead, it is true we will walk that wac a little bull taw we are doing is buying them time. >> you are saying ten to 15 years down the road. >> as long as they have some time and more money, they can walk away from this. >> what you are saying is they may have the material but don't have the way to deliver it but if we get into this deal, they can make a bomb and deliver and it that's just going to give them extra time. >> right because they already know how to make enriched uranium. >> based on what question hear, they have not been able to create enough of this material to make a bomb. >> right and we are letting them go forward with the advanced and giving them more time, more time for

missles all the while sanctions are being relieved, so we have to get a better deal and the only way -- it is like negotiating for a car, is if you have the ability to walk away, and they have never been willing to walk away. >> and if they walk away then what? >> at every turn they have used that fact, this deal has t goen worse since april john. >> it's always good to have you on the program we will have you wac soon. >> appreciate it. >> defense secretary ash carter made a surprise visit to iraq today to discuss the approaching assault on rahmad day. carter sat down with the generals in charge of the campaign, 3,000 u.s. trains troops are joining the fight for am bar prove sprain, it is the first time train willing be put to the test.

militias will not take part, but some 500 sunni tribesman will. from iraq to the home front in fears of an attack, fb, i director staid he worried about that and considers isil a greater threat, mike. >> john you are right, the fbi director has been sounding the aarm la, he considering it a growing senate to the homeland, and says he needs new tools to block the message here. but critics accuse him of fear mongering and saying by emphasize the threat he is helping isil and playing into their hands. as a threat to the homeland, has eclipped the group behind the attacks. >> isil is not your parents al quaida. it is a very different model and by virtual of that it is

the threat that we are worrying about in the homeland most of all. >> they say it is all about social media enabling to reach what he called troubles souls. that may be receipt i. >> he outlined the threat to a senate panel earlier this month. >> they want people to be killed in their name. and they are coming to us with that message with their propaganda and their treaty to action. and that is a very different thing that al quaida ever did. >> according to them, the f bii has invested hundreds in all 50 states. and to potential isil

inspired attacks. but critics call the stance disden genius. >> i think it is an unhelpful way of discussing this problem, and. in provides the american public. -- the different threats or the central . >> the available has changed the method of operation what isil is able to do, in terms of outreach directly to the american public is what they can dream of doing. what they are doing is taking advantage of a new tool, it

happens to give them access, that we as a three stoat find it very very difficult to block. but about how the technology has changed since 9/11, and the attacks brought a military response by the west. as al quaida has weakened the rise is coincided with the explosion of social media. still they say the rhetoric is misguises. >> these fear mongering comments about isis's use of social media and the internet you can find back in division, 2007, 2008, can talking about al quaida. they point to differing goals of the group, al quaida has been intent on multiprongs attacks.

>> in terms of isil wringing the fight to america, i am not sure that that's part of the plan. >> as it pushes up against shia groups they may be searching for ways to maintain momentum by instating attacks. >> and john critics point out that handing the gun back door keys may pose a security risk in and of itself. may say look no further than the o.m.m. breach, where the data of 20 million americans was exposed. >> request you give me some idea, why he has chosen to make this statement. >> not exactly what that locution for symptom weeks now. as we said in the piece what he is campaigning for both from congress to give him permission or to do it unilaterally, was a back door keys keys to this encryption technology. the government is flying

behind. they can see when isil and others are making contact here in the united states. and directing them zolac sites are the encryption technology blocks the fbi and other law enforcement ability to see exactly what is going upon, he stays they are thwarted hundreds of apacks over the course of -- hundreds of investigations zoo disrupted several attacks just in the last few weeks. >> all right mike, thank you very much. turkey has agreed to allow the military to use that key air base. the turkish government authorized the strikes today the move comes after a surge in isil violence near the border syria. the u.s. air force has been using the air base for drone strikes against isil for months. mike loy i don't knows is al jazeera national security contributor, he joins us tonight from newton massachusetts mast, how

significant is this? >> it is a game changer they will be able to make manned aircraft, and using drones that will now operate 24/7 and be able to respond quickly. they are making what the risks. >> you know, the risks are low, and i i think that's probably why they are doing it now. we all argued for it back then, i think the reason why turkey did it is they news the risks were lower they can't necessarily respond like it could have a year ago. so i think that was part of the equation for poping up this front as you know, there have been many complaints and, anger about drone strikes that missed. >> no question. and the fact that we took a

phone strike, and the leader out last week, for example tells me we have better intelligence on the ground. so we are getting information there on the ground you combine those with the air strike. you have now a much more powerful response tool we didn't have before. >> what does it say about turkey's regime, and where they stand for or against isil. >> quell i think this is still about the asaad regime, and the fact that this will force the obama administration, at least have something to thanked over, it readily admits it doesn't have anything. now in this case if turkey has agreed to do this, down the road, if united states gets more involved, that will be the pay back. >> this is a dwayne -- do you think this is a win for the obama administration.

>> no question. the fact they were able to convince turkey to do this, become more part of the coalition, flying symptom of these missions along marry border, this is something that general joel an len had been involved with, this is a win for him, he is the guy that is supposed to be putting this tot. this is finally coming to fruition. >> live an anthrax spores shipped around the world for more than a decade, that was the finding of a report released today. investigators point the finger at a single lab. and said red flags there went ignored. jaime. >> this report from a special commission which has been investigating the shaping of lye an flax around the world

lays out what is call add shocking series of failures. it steams to blame the plaquing knowledge dealing with deadly anthrax that does not mean that no one will with held accountable. >> stern weeks after he promised total transparency, deputy defense secretary bob work was back at the same a lecturn, pronouncing himself shocked of what the initial investigation concluded. >> this was a masstive institutional failure with a potentially dangerous bio toxin. >> investigators found that one facility, the army's dub way plewing ground, was drowned zero. the only lab whose protocols failed to kill the anthrax and whose testing procedures failed to detect the problem before the live stores were shipped out for research and testing.

it's key end fooing there was insufficient technical information there the scientific community to develop effective protocols. francelation scientists don't know enough about an flax. >> there is no national standard at all, can for or any standard to guide us in the preparation of an activated spores they just do not exist. >> but the pentagon is troubled by the fact that only doug way standards failed to neutralize the snores all the samples it tested positive came from there, no other labs had a problem. the pentagon said there were red flags. >> the thing that stood out for us is a fairly large poor organization purposed out to be positive.

the army will now begin an investigation as to whether there's a failure or anyone was negligence, and should be fired or disciplined. the one protocol that did work, the one that required that anthrax samples be shipped in tiny doses and only in liquid form that can't be inhaled. that means they were so mine newt that even if someone were exposed they wouldn't get sick, and it is for that reason that despite following flawed procedures for 12 years no one ever contracted anthrax. >> jaime mcintyre, thank you. coming up next, what a preliminary autopsy says about the woman who died in a texas jail after being pulled over in a traffic stop. and why traffickers are now recruiting american kids with a dangerous work of smuggling

people across the boarder.

>> at air force one the president is headed for kenya, and then on his way to kenya, the homeland of his father, mr. obama is also the first sitting u.s. president to visit kenya. while there he will attend the summit, the president and also going to visit ethiopia while he is in africa. the initial report from a texas medical examiner and that sandra bland killed herself. bland was found dead in her jail cell last week, after being arrested during a traffic stop. also, a county judge went on facebook to clear up what he called misinformation about the case. dianne is in texas with more, dianne. >> all right walllor county officials said there had been so many rumors that they are

trying to dispel those. and that's part of the reason they released the results this afternoon. >> this autopsy photo shows a straight leg cachou mark to her neck. still another shows a knotted trash liner walllor county prosecutors say all are indications she was a likely victim of suicide not murder. >> the only injury which was present on her neck or head was what and called a leg rah churr thorough, or a leg rah churr mark. this is consistent with a suicide. >> results also found marijuana in her system, additional tests can determine how much she may have ingested and why. the drug could have effected bland's state of mind. it may be relevant to her state of mind, it may be relevant to her state of mind as to how or why she

committeds is. >> blander was found dead three days after texas state trooper stopped her for failing to signal. the officer's dash cam reported a physical struggle between the two. and an autopsy photo shows wounds around her wrist consistent with cuts from handcuffs. they argue that the 28-year-old was not suicidal, and is looking forward to starting a new job. wall already county district attorney says while these point to suicide, he isn't ruling anything out yet. >> the investigation that's being conducted by the rangers, assisted by the fbi is on going and in real life, in real time, things take time. mathis says the full report could be releaseds that early as form. >> a long history of problems

with race relations some leaders say it is the most placist county in all of texas. america tonight reports. >> question traveled, to the county seat and the town, where bland allegedly hanged herself in her jail cell. question met with an elected constable. a former judge from here has call fire department most raisin's the state. >> would you say this town is more racist. >> the reason why this -- they have got son much attention and all the rural areas pretty much have a lot of racism in it. walllor county believed in the shadow of a racist past. only two counties had more lynchings between 1877 and 1950. according the the equal justice lynching report, 15

african-americans were lynched during that time period. scone stability smith says he has even encountered racism as an elected official. >> what was their reaction to you becoming constable? >> the reaction, was how kid he do it. how did you let him do it. it still is, it took me 2 1/2 years to get in office. >> he persevered partly because of what he called a noneconomies tent relationship. he believes he is showing his deputies there's a better way. >> like i tell my deputies there's two words you need to remember, respond and react. and if you react to things you will make wrong decisions but if you respond you will think about what you do get out of the car. i will light you up. >> wow. >> now. >> experts have said it is

clear that the trooper contributed to the escalating situation. a criminal investigation and his actions has been launched. you can see more of the report on america tonight that's t a ten eastern time, 7:00 pacific. coming up next, on this broadcast, growing violence in baltimore, three months after freddie gray's death, a look at the turmoil inside the police department and donald trump at the border, why he says he will win the hispanic vote.

hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. >> baltimore now. a return to the wounded city. >> trust is a big issue right now throughout the entire city. >> the top cop is gone, be uh the crime and the anger haven't gone away. >> paying the price the risky business of ferrying

migrants across the border. >> i just wanted to help him out, the cautionary tail from one young american. >> let's go ahead and address. >> plus spot lite on muslim neighborhood comedians. beyond the fight how they are making people laugh, and think. the protests have fading there baltimore but the anger has not, nor has the violence, three months after the death of freddie gray, the city continues to struggle the summer has been a difficult one. overnight, seven people were shot in that city, three of them teenagers. crime is rising many are demanding answers from police john tarot went back to baltimore and filed this report. political 27th and the vvs store, in west baltimore is

stet alight, it becomes the epicenter of a night of violence over the death and police custody of unarmed african-american freddie gray. >> this is the c, haves store today the visible sign of the many stores yet to burn. >> worlds like turmoil, and civil war have been used to describe what is going on inside regarding how best to police baltimore in the wake of the riot. the commissioner in charge has been jetson supposedly for losing the trust of his offices. >> we feel like we humiliate them. >> he hopes the radio show and was the police commissioner from 2000 to 2002, he even acted the part of a regular cop in the popular t.v. drama the wire, which was set in baltimore. >> that is a terrible effect,

you don't feel like you are supported you won't be the first car on the scene. norris says with police morale at rock bottom the gangs are having a field day. >> . >> nearly doubled last night's figure so may was the highest in 40 years. >> we are averaging five to ten a week. can be pinned on police dysfunction. >> how do you get any type of training and procedures and policies. and any last duration if you go through six commissioners every time you turn around there's a new commissioner,

or a new organization, and i don't know how baltimore has survived this long with that type of instability. >> that's the sentiments with which former police commander is all too familiar. >> trust is a big issue right now throughout the entire city. whether it's the police, men and women being able to trust leader ship, or the community the members of the community trusting city hall and the police department. >> based on the time he served he says the way to pus might front and center, is hire the right people from baltimore if possible, and emers rookie cops in the cultural of marry new badge. something that happened on his watch. we strapped aprons on our trainees and sent them up to catholic charities where they had to feed the homeless, and have conversations with the homeless. homeless rah a big part of

the population. >> in order police need to be more enganged in areas like this back at the burned out c.v.s. tv cameras filled the streeting documents every moment, but now the media is gone and little seems to have changed however locals have firm strews on how they'd like to be policed. our police aren't bad, the majority of them, look just like me, how i look, they might think i am a criminal, but i am not. i am an intelligent young man. >> we know people have nothing to do, so they have to find out what is on the people's minds. >> well, we reached out to baltimore police, but they have yet to get back to us, meanwhile, baltimoreians are bracing themselves for a long summer. if the trial of the six

police officers failed to result in convictions and of course it may not. >> such an interesting look after all the turmoil they have been through and now it a appears things are getting worse. >> what we don't know, because nobody knows for sure is whether the police have backed off so they aren't doing what they should do that genuinely does help, or whether the drug gangs really are in charge at the moment. >> ray zellly is the president of the no boundaries association. he is in baltimore tonight you have been on the ground talking to residents as well, what are they saying about the violence. >> thank you for having me, john. really question just feel like it's too late. they are doing -- they are coming up with a strategy while we are still having more than a murder a day.

what is the strategy, how can ewe help we don't know what we can do. >> i understand that people don't want to play a blame game, but who is responsible for this? and then the next question, what do you do about it. >> well, i don't know who at the top is responsible i know they waited too long, for me they waited too long to do anything. we kind of brought this to their attention, right after the riots when we could see in the communities that things were getting tense and we could see people not from the community coming in and selling drugs and we went to the top. we went to the commissioner and said these places will be dangerous, and even then we didn't get the attention that we needed and within a couple of guys three of the places had murdered, so i don't know who is at fault, i blame the

whole administration for just waiting, and for just sacrifices the community. >> i looked at that boarded up c.v.s. store, and i know in ways it is a symbol, it is also very real, and it hadn't been fixed what is that picture say to you. >> for me it is sad because we don't have a lot we live in a food dessert we don't have a lot of access, and if you look -- >> a food dessert tell me what you mean by that? >> well, for some of our residents it is the closest super market is one mile away. we have some super rep type markets and we are having issues with pleshness where we don't actually have a super market in central west baltimore. because you have to either use mas. trance sit, or you

to have a car to to go to a market in our community. >> if you look at. >> gotay head. >> finish your thought. >> >> i was saying if you look at pennsylvania avenue now with the burned out c.v.s., and go further south you will see that buildings have never been repaired from the 68 riot. so we have little. we don't get a lot of attention, and knew we are losing more, and now we are losing our children, and that's the part that is killing us. question want to do what we can to help. sometimes we don't look at big stories months later this is one we will continue to look at. >> thank you very much, i appreciate you john, have a good night. >> now to immigration and a new report. the report says that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants would get some protection under the new

rules a nonpartisan group says after 87% of the people in the country illegally have no criminal record. and immigrant whose recently crossed the boarder, donald trump has been widely criticized for his comments on immigration and crime, and what he had to stay about john mccain, those appear to have propelled him to the front. and jennifer london is lye with more, jennifer. >> john indeed, he did donald trump taking his tough talk on immigration to the border today promising to bring jobs back from overseas. this as it was clear from the moment he landing here, is that not everyone was happy to see the presidential hopeful. >> wheels down at the airport in texas.

a controversy campaign stop for presidential hopeful republican party donald trump. his arrival dogged by aal but vocal group of protestors. >> the message is this, that mr. trump you provision insubstituting us by being here. that you don't belong here, and you don't have any business running for president, because you are not that type of a man, you are making a mockery a mockery out of democracy. >> tell me, how do you expect to win the latino vote? >> i think it will get great with the latino vote. we just had a poll where i blew everyone away. >> i have thousands of latinos working for me. >> you need more than 1,000. >> i have thousands working for me, they are great people. and i have a tremendous what they want is jobs. i will bring jobs back from all over the place.

believe me the latino street will be easy, i will win that vote. the hispanic vote. the border stir and a tough sell for the billionaire businessman who said mexico sending immigrants to the u.s. who are criminals and rapists. >> this country has built itself on the backs of immigrants and it isn't for him -- it is hypocritical for him so show his face around here, where most of us are hispanic. >> trump says he came here at the invitation of the national border patrol council, the agency union but earlier thursday, before he arrived the president of the local chapter issue as statement, staying they were pulling out of all events involving donald trump. it didn't slow trump down, standing in front of the border with trump transporting goods as a back drop, he met with city officials including the mayor.

>> >> in the border area. we bleed to secure the border. >> thursday trump said immigrants to the country must be legal. but punted again on any type of reform plan, though he continued his hard line on securing the border. >> in certain sections you have to have a wall, absolutely. >> the wall will save you a tremendous amount of money but there are areas that you have to have the wall. >> a call for a bigger border fence, as he fries too mend the guide between him and latino voters. he says he is confidence he will win the nomination, that of course, remains to be seen. all right, jennifer, thank you, there's politics and then there are the people.

human smuggling is still a crisis at the border, and at times a tragedy. junior was raised in this neighborhood, sharing a trailer with his mother, step father, and ten brothers and sisters. this count is like many that got the texas guide to the rio grand, it is a haven for organized crime, and where the promise of $500 turned rodriguez age 15, into a human smuggler. like some on the ground. >> yeah, some on the ground. most of them on the floor. >> on a dark night, two months before middle school graduation, junior picked up 16 undocumented immigrants from a stash house a human smuggling ring has recruited the quiet 8th grader to drive

them deeper into the country and despite having no experience junior has said yes to the $500. i just wanted to help them out, so they could get to the city. >> so you thought you could just drive them, no one would realize what you were doing. >> yeah. >> the swerving van made it less than two miles before it was spotted by border patrol an agent signaled for him to stop, and hen paicked flooring the gas. he lost control rolling the van and killing nine passengers. he escaped uninjured. >> did you look back. >> not really. >> why not. >> i was scared. i was scared. i just ran. two days later he was arrested. he is now serving 20 years

the depravity allowed the state to fry to constrict him as an adult. he leighs behind many peers from the same poor communities, young teen whose believe their status will shield them from trouble. >> human smuggling organizations they know we don't have the facilities to put these in. and they know they are going to end up in prison, what they are doing is recruiting to do the dirty work for them. kids are coming to school and they are wanting to recruit others and they are telling them we promise you will have money, drugs and sex. >> even as police have redoubles the efforts to combat gang activity, cartels have stepped up the pressure on kids police report heavy recruitment activity since the search. and that they fear that more kids are being lured into the trade. al jazeera mission texas.

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the pop culture, they are showing another perspective, that muslims could be funny. >> let's address the i.s.i.s. in the room. >> reporter: they believe comedy can combat fears about muslims. >> what about i.s.i.s. looking at me. looking at i.s.i.s. - i didn't do it >> reporter: he's one of 18 muslim comedians starring in a comedy fest. for them little is off limits. >> my mum is like "is he circumsised." when you get to new york, look for the culture, you'll be fine. he was walking around new york city saying what of the jews. >> >> reporter: for some non-muslim americans, attack like that on the "charlie hebdo" paper in paris, and the shootings in chattanooga, tennessee

perpetuate that image. a poll suggests that americans view muslims more negatively than any other groups. >> those that commit acts of violence are fewer. we are trying to show that your average every day muslim is like you. >> you are not afraid in stilettos, you dance on polls. >> reporter: do you get tired of having to defend muslims in america? >> i'm tired of answering the accusation, not the question. happy to answer questions. >> reporter: he has been answering questions about himself as a child. >> i'm osman. they say what name are you. i'm no it's an arabic name. no one wants to hear the speech. >> reporter: he studied law in minnesota, and worked up the

courage to try stand-up comedy. >> there was one or two times i was heckled early. i was an open miker. looking back i don't know how much was because i was a muslim or how much because i sucked and they wanted to say something. >> reporter: he went on to tour the world with fellow muslim-americans, preacher mosque and mohama and they called themselves allah made me funny. do you think of comedy as a full-time job? yes. >> islamaphobia is good for stand up. we go to places where people think we are not welcome, but we were welcome. that's a powerful thing about comedy in particular. humour is universal. >> some haters within the community and outside of our community. >> i didn't realise indian men

are the most stressed out people on earth. especially if he has a daughter. >> reporter: despite the obstacles, muslim comedians are making progress. >> there has been a couple of people coming up after a show, heart warming, and has been in tears, and said i can't believe that you exist, and i came into this show with so much anger and negativity in my heart towards muslims, and you have destroyed that. >> there's a message for muslims too, illustrated through a story about a white man that eyed him suspiciously at the airport. >> he said he was exhausted from travelling. he told me he missed his kids at home. that's when it hit me "dude, we're the same."

just different teachers the fbi came to his home earlier this year to ask him questions. i asked if he thought agents were in the audience. he said if they were he hopes they found the show funny i talked with a muslim come eidian performing at the muslim funny fest and said it was like a lot of comedy shows. that's the point. >> muslim lives in america is no different. we go to mosque or to people's houses we talk about the same thing - how do i pay my mortgage, what day care centers, my ex won't leave me alone - okay that's my life. >> what issues are you dealing with? >> i'm a single loser in my late 20s, early 30s, trying to

navigate the whole, like, trying to find the one scene in new york. >> the dating scene in new york. >> absolutely. i don't - okay i'll talk about this not about that. i talk about things i'm passionate about. >> what are you passionate about? >> our community. i travel around the country and like to bring a smile to people's faces and talk about the issues people my age are dealing with. most are dealing with job security and relationships, and that's 99% of material i talk about. >> and in the world around you when you talk about that is talking about other stuff, hateful stuff when it comes to muslims. >> that is what is interesting that people hate muslims, and they hate other people. i don't want to downplay the individual cases, but everywhere i travel arrived the country, around the world. muslims leave peacefully and

happily. the narrative i see is not the same thing that i see in reality. it's like wait a minute, i went to the bar where they tried to block them off. it was, like, 10 people that oppose it. wait a minute there's a mosque at ground zero, where is the opposition. there's all these things i see on tv that are very different to what i see in reality. >> do you get hecklers? >> like any comedy club it's not so much race or religion it's a drunk guy that had a few. once in a while you have someone. i've been fortunate, haven't had bigotry or discrimination. people do not give america enough credit for how welcoming and agreeing we are as -- welcoming we are as a society. >> there's a few people that spew hate that exist in our world, but it must be difficult

sometimes to hear that and still smile and be funny. >> i wake up. i'm accountable for what i do. i make a difference, and the community around me. islam is a beautiful religion there's 1.2 - i don't know the number 1.2 billion that follow it. the actions and words of five or six idiots you know i can't let it get to me. what does it say about me if i let a guy halfway around the world ruin my day. >> i would assume at a comedy fest val that's a big topic. >> i am sure and there would be, "muslims are funny they make jokes." that's what we do. >> good luck with the show, thank you for being on the programme. that's the broadcast. thank you for watching. i'm john seigenthaler the news continues next with antonio mora.

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