mark levin is up next with guest actor gary sinise. i truly appreciate all your support in the year we've been doing the show and see you next sunday when "the next revolution" will be televised. . mark: hello america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." i have a wonderful guest tonight, gary sinise, how are you, my friend? >> i'm good, mark, thanks for having me. mark: i haven't seen you in five or six years. >> it's been awhile. mark: yeah. well, i wanted to bring you out here. memorial day is not that far from now and do you this magnificent program every year except for last year when your daughter had a baby and that is the national memorial day

concert. i don't miss it, and i want to get into the other things that you're doing too in your acting career because to me, you're kind of unusual for hollywood, because you're an exceptional patriot, you are like a superpatriot. you are involved in veterans' activities. involved in so many veterans' activities, i can't keep count of them. i was studying this over the weekend, over the last weekend. so let get started with this. first of all, a little bit about your background. you grew up in chicago? >> yeah, i was born on the south side of chicago in a town called blue island, which is kind of south, south side of chicago, and then i moved eventually about, when i was nine, just after the kennedy assassination, i remember. i remember that very, very well. i was in about third grade when that happened. and the following year, 1964,

we moved up to highland park which is a northern suburb of chicago. about 25 miles north of chicago. that's where i went to high school. that's where i started acting in high school plays. mark: before you started acting, what kind of a kid were you? >> well -- >> little rough? >> yeah, i think -- i think some of the moves that we made early on because we moved -- we moved when i was nine or ten years old, then we moved again when i was in seventh grade and moved again right after freshman year. there were certain moves. it's disorienting for a kid to get embedded with a certain group of friends and get displaced and have to make new friends and all of that. so i had a little bit of trouble. plus, i -- i might have been

diagnosed with some sort of learning disability back then, if they kind of were doing that, because i had a hard time reading. i had a hard time writing, so academics were always a struggle for me. i was kind of a drai day dreamer kid, you know. there's always some, and i was always doing that. i love sports, i got into music when i was in fourth grade. started playing guitar. that's what i wanted to do. mark: you went right from high school, you never went to college. >> no. mark: how did you go from high school into acting? that's not an easy thing to do. >> i started acting in high school. i was playing in a rock band and the drama teacher turned around and said i'm directing west side story, and you guys look like gang members, so come and audition. so i went in, you thought, well, let's go see what this is about? i went to the audition and lot

of pretty girls going, in so i followed them in and i didn't know what an audition was, they gave me a script and i started stumbling through it, and it was funny what i was doing, getting laughs from everybody, and i was cast in a play. and i fell in love with the play and theater, and i was really struggling in school, so i was having a hard time in school, and yet i found this thing they could do and enjoyed doing. so from that moment on, i just wanted to be in plays all the time. and i auditioned for them and playing music and i would get in the plays, and after high school, incidentally, i didn't have enough credits to graduate with my class. i had to go back to high school and graduate with the following class. i wasn't doing well. but i was good at acting, and when i got out of high school, i started the theater company with some of the kids there, it's called steppin' wolf

theater, been around 45 years now. it's grown into something like a chicago institution and we've been all over the world. we've had a lot of success, and it all started with kids, you know, in highland park who just wanted to do plays. mark: what was your first break? when did that come? >> you know, it depends, there were a series of them. one of the things that kind of helped to move steppenwolf theater, my theater company from a local chicago--based company. that was only known about to a nationally recognized company when we moved one of our plays from chicago to new york and did it off-broadway, called true west. john malkovich was in it, i was in it, i directed it. it was a big hit in new york and ran for two years. we did it for six months. all of a sudden steppenwolf

went from a local theater in chicago to nationally recognized theater. when you do a play in new york, you get reviewed by the "new york times," and international publications, so all of a sudden we went from something small to something a little bit bigger, and i was recognized as somebody who's, you know, can direct and that started the next series of events for us. but then i went out to california. mark: the rest is history. let me ask you about this. i don't even know if this is a fair question. what is your favorite movie that you were in? everybody knows your main movies. but what would you say for you, the most challenging role, the most fulfilling role? >> well, fulfilling, there's a bunch of them. most -- mark: i'll give you mine, one of mine. >> okay.

mark: and this is almost counterintuitive because you know i'm pro cop. ransom. you scared the hell out of me in that movie. >> the cop run amok. mark: the cop run amok, that was a scary movie. >> it was really, really well directed by ron howard. very tense thriller. i originally didn't not want to play that part, ron asked me to do it, and i just couldn't see myself doing it. i had small children, it's about a guy who takes a child, and i just hated the character when i read it. i kind of passed on it and then it came around again and i took it, and then it was fun to be evil, fun to be the bad guy and, of course, i get paid back in the end of the movie. mark: right. >> that was a good one, certainly. i think forrest gump was a life changing film in many ways. veterans work and i hadn't done that many movies when did that. mark: you hit a point right there.

you are so active now in the veterans movement, but not just that, police, firefighters, public safety. forrest gump really was a turning point for you in that respect, wasn't it? >> well, it was -- it was something that led me to begin to support our wounded veterans because i was playing the wounded veteran. prior to that, i had been supporting vietnam veterans going back to the 80s. vietnam veterans of my family. got involved with vietnam veterans back in the mid 80s in the chicago area, supporting them locally and this was at a time that was very difficult for our vietnam veterans. the wall was put up in 1982. we started to have some welcome home parades and things like that around 1984 and '85, but our vietnam veterans were still living in the shadows. they were still struggling. still having difficulty, and i started to support them locally in chicago, and then in the 90s

i got to play the vietnam veteran, he was a wounded soldier and he led me to start working with the disabled veterans organization back in '94. so forrest gump was certainly, you know, very, very good role to play in many ways. i think if you ask me again what some of the most challenging stuff, i play the governor of alabama, george wallace in a tnt television film directed by john frankenharmer back in 1997, and that was probably the biggest role they had done certainly probably to date. it was a three -- over three-hour, two-night mini-series and took about 20 years of his life. angelina was a young actress. she was 21 at that time. angelina jolie. nobody knew who she was. mark: but you remember that role. >> george wallace? mark: why do you remember that

role? >> well, because i think i was in every single frame. movie, almost. it was -- it was a movie called george wallace and i was playing george wallace. it was very much, and forrest gump, for example, i'm in the movie 20 minutes or something like that. there's maybe 25 minutes. there's four or five segments that are lieutenant dan, but there's a big, big story of all these other people in forrest gump. george wallace and harry truman, i played harry truman as well in an hbo movie. those movies were focused on that character and i had to carry the films in a way that a supporting character like lieutenant dan or even ransom, does not have to do. ransom was starring mel gibson. he was carrying the movie. both truman and wallace were movies that relied heavily on performance and i had to really step up.

mark: and you've pretty much moved on to what is your passion. the troops, the police, the firefighters, the vets. before we get into that, does that mean you are forever abandoning acting? >> no, no, i can't say that. i'm going to do a small part this sumner a film that a director is doing that i wanted to work with, very small part. but it's in hawaii, so i'm going to go there. mark: do you have another part? i'll come with you. [ laughter ] >> but your real focus now is on the other, correct? >> yes. yeah. mark: and you -- and is that a determination you made or this just sort of came about or some point in your life you said i really want to focus on my foundational activity and so forth and so on and can do a little bit of acting but can't do a whole lot of both? >> well, there's a blessing that i've had which is some

success in the movie business and television business. i was on television on two television series, one for nine years, the other for two years. that's 11 years on television, and that put me in a different place in terms of what i could do both financially to support our men and women in uniform and timewise. i can afford to take that time to go out and do these types of things, because i owned a piece of that show. csi new york. so i did well on it. and it came at a time where i was just, it was post-september 11th and i started to ramp up activities in terms of how i could support the men and women deploying to afghanistan and iraq and what i wanted to do to help them through the difficult times, and then things just got harder and harder for them, as the conflict in iraq took a turn, you know, and not in the direction that we wanted it to,

our men and women were caught in there and they needed some support. and i wanted to make sure they got the support they needed, unlike what happened to our vietnam veterans when they got caught in the political muck of that particular conflict and they suffered. and having vietnam veterans in my family and having been involved with vietnam veterans over the years, i did not want to see that happen to this post-9/11 generation of warrior that was going in reaction to what happened on that terrible day. i wanted to support them with everything i had and turned into a full-time commitment and passion to do what i can to help them through. mark: i want to get into this with you in just a moment. folks, don't forget, every week night you can watch levin tv on crtv.com. join our community there, just give us a call, 844-levin-tv.

844-levin-tv. coppertone sport. proven to protect street skaters and freestylers. stops up to 97% uv. lasts through heat. through sweat. coppertone. proven to protect. you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia.

but what does it take to strengthen our service members? what does it take to let them know that we stand behind them, wherever they are? what does it take to bridge the distance and keep them connected to family, home and country? and what does it take to prepare them for their future, when their service to the nation is complete? what does it take to strengthen our service members so they can be the greatest force for good in the world? it takes a force . be a force behind the forces. share a message today at force dot uso dot org.

dinner date...meeting his parents dinner date. why did i want a crest 3d white smile? so i used crest. crest 3d white removes... ...95% of surface stains in just 3 days... ...for a whiter smile... that will win them over. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn.

. mark: g . mark: gary sinise. let me ask you a couple questions. it's hard not to ask you some

of these questions. national anthem, it's been kind of controversial. i don't know why. what is your take on that? the sporting events, the controversy and so forth, just your personal take? >> well, i -- you know, this is a free country, so sometimes things happen that we don't all agree with. i don't happen to agree with taking a knee and all that. i know too many ghosts in our families whose loved ones' coffins were draped with that flag. when we sing the national anthem, we're supposed to face the flag, put our hand over our heart, and that flag represents something very powerful to the men and women who serve our country. in respect, out of respect for them and those who fight to protect that sdmrag what that flag represents, i stand up,

and i put my hand over your heart. if somebody wants to not do that, well, i don't happen to agree with it, but it's a free country. mark: your activities, your patriotism, has that affected you in hollywood in the sense of getting roles, friendships or anything of that sort? >> no. well, not that i know of. i mean, right now i'm out of work, so i had a television series they finished, criminal minds: beyond borders, finished up december of 2016. i must say i haven't been very heavily and actively involved in trying to get that next job because i've been so focused on supporting the men and women who serve our country and doing the work of my foundation. you know, i'm doing a little bit of sitting back and waiting

to see if something comes along that's going to be interesting to work on. as i said, i'm going to go do six days on a film this summer, but right now, the work that i'm doing is so satisfying, and so rewarding, and it's a blessing to serve and the grace that i have in having the financial security and ability to take that time, to devote to this is something very, very special that it might take something very special to have me go back to work. i'm not saying i'm not going to go act again, because i do like it, and i'm glad they could make a living at it, but i'm very satisfied on where that acting career has taken me. mark: let me read you parts of a letter. this is from jess to melissa.

april 22nd, 2003. he says to his wife, please only read if i don't come home. please put it away and hopefully you will never have to read it. he was in iraq. and in part he says my family, i never thought i would be writing a letter like this. i really don't know where to start. i've been getting bad feelings, though, well, if you're reading this i am forever in debt to you and dakota and the bean, his son. i searched all my life for a dream and found it in you. i would like to think they made a positive difference in your lives. i will never be able to make up for the bad. i'm so sorry. the happiest moments of my life deal with my little family. i will always have with me the small moments we all share. and in the end, he says, i've never been so blessed as the day i met melissa dawn banfield, his wife. you are my angel, soulmate,

wife, lover, best friend. i'm so sorry, i did not want to have to write this letter. there is so much more i need to say, share, life's worth, i married you for a million lifetimes. that's how long i will be with you. please keep our baby safe. please find it in your heart to forgive me for leaving you alone. take care of yourself, believe in yourself, you're a strong, big hearted woman. teach our babies to live life to the fullest. tell yourself to do the same. i will be there with you, melissa. i will always love you, need you in my heart, mind and soul. that letter had a huge impact on you. he didn't come home. >> no. no, and it was kind of a catalyst to get something that started for 12 years called nobody is express, which

started in anaheim, where a few folks wanted to honor that request to take that family to disney, and it turned into about 800 families that first year who had lost a loved one. then there was a second year and a third year in anaheim. american airlines got very, very heavily involved to fly these families to disneyland in anaheim. i got involved a second year. this was 2006. the first year that this was done. 2007, i got involved, brought my band there. i have been involved ever since. we moved it from anaheim to dallas because that is the hub of american airlines and american was ramping up their sponsorship, flying all these children to this event. i mean, they donate 12 airplanes to fly the kids from all around the country to this event, and it's turned into

about 14, 1500 kids every year. it was in dallas for nine years, and just recently, snowball, which is its own 501-c3 organization has been folded into the gary sinise foundation as a program, and we just announced recently our relationship with disney world. we're going from dallas and we're going to bring the kids to disney world this december. so it's obviously going to cost a little more money. we have a lot of money to race at the gary sinise foundation to make sure we can bring the kids. it's not just the fun, it's the healing that happens between the children when they are there all together in a group. 1500 kids. they've all lost one of their parents in the war. in military service, and they come together and they're all going through the same thing. they don't feel like they're struggling alone.

they don't feel like they're the only ones this is happening to. they're amongst all these other children. some lost a parent 8 or 9 years ago. others, maybe they just lost a parent six months ago and they come to this event, and the older children wrap their arms around the younger children and there's hundreds of volunteers, and the healing that happens and the positive energy that happens when we bring these kids together and give them an environment of love and fun is significant. it's huge. we can't forget these unsung heroes that we have who have given up so much. every year we're going to continue to take care of these kids. we need extra money to do it. can you go to garysinisefoundation.org to learn more about snowball express and what we're doing to help these children. mark: when we come back, i want to know more about the gary sinise function on. just a piece of it.

what we can do to help? when we come back. me here, babe. ok. nasty nighttime heartburn? try new alka-seltzer pm gummies. the only fast, powerful heartburn relief plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. ♪ oh, what a relief it is! booking a flight doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%. just tap and go... for the best savings on flights, go to priceline.

i wok(harmonica interrupts)ld... ...and told people about geico... (harmonica interrupts) how they could save 15% or more by... (harmonica interrupts) ...by just calling or going online to geico.com. (harmonica interrupts) (sighs and chuckles) sorry, are you gonna... (harmonica interrupts) everytime. geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. but my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. she said, get the one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's gentle rounded brush head removes more plaque along the gum line. for cleaner teeth and healthier gums. and unlike sonicare, oral-b is the first electric toothbrush brand accepted by the ada for its effectiveness and safety. what an amazing clean! i'll only use an oral-b!

oral-b. brush like a pro.

. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm robert gray. divers getting ready to resume an urgent rescue mission in thailand. hours after they safely extracted four of the 12 boys trapped in a flooded cave with their soccer coach for more than two weeks.

ambulances rushing the four boys to the hospital for evaluation. the threat of rising floodwaters comes days after one of the rescuers drowned. the pentagon identifying an american soldier killed in an apparent insider attack in afghanistan as corporal joseph maciel. he served in the army for two years and had been in afghanistan since february. two other servicemembers were wounded in the attack. the incident is under investigation. i'm robert gray, now back to "life, liberty & levin." , li" . mark: welcome back. gary sinise foundation. we hear about the gary sinise foundation, but it has a lot of aspects. what is the gary sinise foundation? >> there are a lot of steps that led to the creation of the foundation. the military in my family, on my side of the family, i've got

my grandfather served in world war i, 100 years ago in france during the battle of argon. then he had three sons. two of my dad's older brothers both served in world war ii. one was a navigator in a b-17 bomber in europe the other on a ship in the pacific. my dad served in the navy. i met my wife, married her, her two bothers served in vietnam. sister was in the army. her sister married a vietnam veteran who was a combat medic in the army. they had a son who served two deployments in afghanistan. lots of veterans around me. that's where the veteran work began. then i got involved with vietnam veterans and supporting them in the 80s. played the guy in the 90s. after september 11th, those seeds have been planted for supporting the men and women deploying to iraq and afghanistan. i just raised my hand. went out for the uso. started doing that kind of thing, then i started reaching

out to military charities all over the place, and trying to raise money for them in different ways. played concerts with my band. raise awareness by doing psa's, whatever i can do to raise money and awareness for other organizations so they can help more of our troops, i was trying to do, and all that manifested itself into the eventual creation of my own foundation. having been involved in gold star family initiatives, supporting our wounded, resiliency events, entertainment through the uso. all these different things. i wanted the foundation to kind of reflect all that history. we have several programs with my foundation that cover a lot of different territory. as i mentioned snowball express focused on the gold star families. the families of the fallen and trying to help them through grief. then we have a program called rise, restoring independence,

supporting empowerment. smart technology housing for very, very badly wounded servicemembers. you met travis mills. travis is an ambassador for my foundation. quadruple amputee, we built a house for him in maine. a resilient guy among many extraordinary people that i've met. we've done between 60 and 70 houses already from the beginning until now. we have supportive programs called serving heroes which send messages out to usos and va's all over the country by providing food and entertainment for the veterans that are either coming through a travel hub or living in a va. we don't want them to be forgotten. that's the important thing. i remember that great quote by calvin coolidge, the nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.

we do not ever want to forget our defenders. that's one of the things i learned from vietnam experience, working with vietnam vets years ago, it weakened our nation, it was a shameful period in our history and never let that happen again. mark: how do you raise money for this foundation? >> well, i do a lot of different fund-raisers. we went from one donor in the beginning to over 40,000 donors now. we are approaching the beginning of our eighth year ojune 30th, coming up. that will be our eighth-year anniversary. so it's a fairly young foundation, but we've grown significantly, we have a lot of programs. i am very boots on the ground participating daily in what the foundation does. we've gone from a couple of people in the beginning, my executive director and me to about almost 30 people that

work for the foundation, to help support our fund-raising, our events activities, our awareness raising campaigns, all the different things we're trying to do to keep people focused on the freedom providers. we can never take for granted what they do for us. mark: you give concerts now, your band, is that correct? >> well, my band, i started doing uso tours, i would just go overseas and shake hands and take pictures and just sit down with the troops like this and have lunch with them, i just wanted them to know that somebody from the entertainment business, you know, who they saw on television or movies, was thinking about them. and came over there to say thanks and to make sure that they were -- you know, felt appreciated and supported, and then i got the uso to let me take musicians on a tour, and i played music as a kid and picked it up again in the late

90s and after september 11th, i had musicians i played with. reason i call it the lieutenant dan band is because in the beginning, nobody knew who gary sinise was. they all knew lieutenant dan. i called the band lieutenant dan band. when i started my foundation, you know, i used to fund the band myself or ask friends to give me money so i could go on a uso tour or whatever, because i paid the band, this is my mission, i do it for free. i have to take care of my band members. when i started my foundation, we folded, gary sinise and lieutenant dan band into the program. much like the uso, when you donate to the uso, the uso takes that money and provide entertainment to troops all around the world and things like that. it's the same thing with the gary sinise foundation and the lieutenant dan band. mark: if people want to support the gary sinise foundation,

where do they go? >> garysinisefoundation.org. mark:.org? >> yes, that's the foundation website. you can go to the youtube channel and see dozens of great videos that show what you we're doing all around the country. i'm doing it, but one of the reasons i created the foundation, i'm only one guy and can only be so many places and i wanted to ramp up my activities, i wanted, even if i couldn't be there physically to support, we're doing events, it's the gary sinise foundation, they know they're getting a message from me that we care and appreciate them and sending support their way, and we do that through the generosity of the american people that support us because they want to help our troops. >> i hope this audience will do exactly that. when we come back, there is a spat for a period of time of really awful movies, anti-military and so forth and so on. i want to ask you about that,

when we return. don't forget you can watch levin tv, me, every week night at crtv.com, crtv.com or give us a call and join us, 844-levin-tv. 844-levin-tv. (director) cut! nice, candace, but this time bold. did someone say "bold?" (gasping) starkist jalapeo tuna in a pouch! loaded with bold flavor. just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go bold! try all of my bold creations pouches! no mathere are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪

♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ to and practice... kidlots of practice.tion. get them started right with carnation breakfast essentials. it has protein plus vitamins and minerals to help kids be their best. carnation breakfast essentials.

your digestive system has billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself, with align probiotic. and try new align gummies, with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. jardiance asked: when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you? you got a1c, heart,

diet, and exercise. slide 'em up or slide 'em down. so let's see. for most of you, it's lower a1c. but only a few of you are thinking about your heart. fact is, even though it helps to manage a1c, type 2 diabetes still increases your risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, significantly reducing the risk of dying from a cardiovascular event and lowering a1c, along with diet and exercise. this really changes things. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, and trouble breathing. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of ketoacidosis or an allergic reaction. symptoms of an allergic reaction include rash, swelling, and difficulty breathing or swallowing.

do not take jardiance if you are on dialysis or have severe kidney problems. other side effects are sudden kidney problems, genital yeast infections, increased bad cholesterol, and urinary tract infections, which may be serious. taking jardiance with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. man: ask your doctor about jardiance and get to the heart of what matters. . mark: gary sinise, i don't think it's me, i just think there was a period of time when we had some pretty, a long list of very negative movies. really about the military, even about the country, certain battles, am i wrong about that? >> no. no. i remember clearly in the early days of the iraq war, when things were getting very difficult, yeah, there were some films that were pretty

hard on the military, i think. and you know, in reaction to that, some friends of mine started something called a gi film festival. what they found, they found the same thing that you did. there was just a lot of content coming out. the industry that kind of was a bit harsh on the warriors and what they wanted to do was provide a forum to highlight films that were sort of celebrated, military service. and they started something called the gi film festival. this is back, gosh, it's 12 years ago now, i think. and they were just starting out. they wanted to highlight positive films portraying the military in a positive light, and they invited me to come, they wanted to present me with an award for playing lieutenant

dan. so i came to the festival that first year. they had -- you know, they had some submissions for their festival. they were just getting started, but it wasn't a lot, you know, of submissions to be in the festival from filmmakers that were making movies about, you know, heroism and courage and patriotism, all those things, and military service in a positive way. now, after ten or 12 years they get hundreds of submissions. it's grown into a very, very positive thing. they not only do a festival here that lasts about a week, little less than a week, but they do an event in san diego and got a great website, gi film festival. you can look that up. this year, i'm going to be there for the congressional opening. they do a thing on may 23rd.

it will be congressional reception, highlighting, launching the festival for that year. mark: does it seem to be making a difference? >> yeah, i think so. there have been a lot of great movies that have come out of the festival and, you know what? this was during -- it was during the george bush years, my industry was very critical of president bush in terms of the iraq war and what was happening, and some of the filmmakers were making some films back then that -- mark: fascination films, even. >> well, i never saw that one. mark: i didn't either. i know it was out there. >> yeah, i don't know anything about that one. i just remember some of the industry was putting on some movies that were a little bit, you know, where the soldier looks like a victim, you know? and in more recent years

they've highlighted a few more heroic-type individuals like chris kyle and his story and the tragic thing that happened to him, but he was a brave navy s.e.a.l. and lone survivor, peter burg did a great movie with mark wahlberg about marcus latrell and what happened with operation red wing. so you know, there have been other types of films in recent memory that have been a little bit different for that, but i would encourage people to check out the gi film festival, and their movies are focused on military families and what they go through and how we can support them. in fact i was the executive producer on a documentary the second year called brothers at war, that was made by a brother of two soldiers who somehow got embedded, i don't know how he did it, got embedded over in iraq with the troops and he wanted to see what his brothers

were doing. and he made a movie called brothers at war and won the best documentary feature that year, and he's actually doing a lookback now. he's doing a fund-raising campaign and he's going to kind of look at brothers at war and the people that were featured in it ten years later and follow up. mark: that's great that there is this creative pushback, it was very much necessary. we'll be right back. coppertone sport. proven to protect street skaters and freestylers. stops up to 97% uv. lasts through heat. through sweat. coppertone. proven to protect. so let's promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. surfs up. earn a $50 gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with severe eosinophilic asthma. don't use fasenra™ for sudden breathing problems or other problems caused by eosinophils. fasenra™ may cause headache, sore throat, and allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. tell your doctor if your asthma worsens or if you have a parasitic infection. fasenra™ is a targeted treatment for eosinophilic asthma. that's important. ask an asthma specialist about fasenra™.

. mark: welcome back. you're from chicago. the murder rate in chicago has gone through the roof. federal official shot in the head there the other week. i mean, is there a particular environment to chicago or is it something that we're seeing in other cities, the disrespect for law enforcement, disrespect for life? what do you make of this? >> i don't know, it's terribly sad. certainly. i think, what was it, i saw a statistic today about like 50 shootings or something like that just within the last couple of days or something. that's worse than kabul, you know?

when you think about it. i don't know enough about the political scene in chicago or why they can't get this murder rate down. why there are so many shootings. why there are so many guns in the hands of the wrong people there. why they can't go into the areas and change that. why there hasn't been a focus by certain leaders to go to chicago and try to change. mark: you think it's a disrespect for law enforcement? over a period of time, you see things like this happening in baltimore too and other cities? >> well, sure. you know, i'm in the, sort of, support your first responders mission. so i want -- like our military who are put in harm's way, you know, in war zones and have to deal with the consequences of being in those war zones and being in harm's way, we try to

put our hands on police officers and firefighters as well who go into harm's way. we have, unfortunately, in st. louis, for example, we recently built a home for a police officer there who pulled somebody over, routine traffic stop, walked up to him, you know, checked his license, got his license, walked back to his police car, was going to call in the license, and while he was walking back away from the car, the guy got out of the car and put a gun in his neck and shot him, and he's paralyzed from the neck down. his name is michael flammian. michael is in a specially designed smart technology home that we helped to build for him in st. louis. there's another police officer that we're about to build for that, you know, was -- shot in the head. mark: do you feel like there's more and more of this taking place?

>> it seems so, you know? it seems so. it's a dangerousing business. you put on the uniform, drive in your car waiting for trouble, waiting for the call where there's trouble. you know, and then you go and try to deal with it. so it's a dangerous business, you know? it's a dangerous business, it seems in certain areas, obviously, more dangerous than other areas. mark: we'll be right back. ♪ you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia.

...

with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. new fixodent ultra-max hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. so now you can eat tough food without worry. fixodent and forget it.

being empowered starts with getting informed... looking closer. 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime - but many of us don't know there are different types of breast cancer with different characteristics. that was me. learning about the specifics of my diagnosis gave me the confidence to make infomred treatment decisions with my doctor. this meant everything to me and my family. so take another look. ask another question. learn more at notonetype.org mark: gary sinise, is the nation more patriotic, less patriotic, which direction are we heading towards. >> it may depend on what circles you are in. i mean, i am in the military

community a lot and i find a lot of great patriots. there is no question about it. it is an infectious community to be a part of. some of my best friends are in the military and have the respect and love for this country and they're willing to give their lives for it they know they are signing up for t that and i great respect for that and great respect for my country. this is a wonderful country to be a part of it when you girl the world and you stand in war zones instead of places that don't understand what freedom is, border between north and south korea in your freedomta on one side and slavery on the other side you value your freedom fighters all that much. you value your country and what your country gives you that much more. that is one of the reasons i'm so actively involved in

supporting them. mark: it has been a great honor. keep up the great work. thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, don't forget to join us next time on "life, liberty and levin". define who they are. this is... - phil: you have '57 chevy-- - levin: oh, my god! this is my dream! i'm harvey levin. this is the story about a small-town kid who would become one of the biggest names in television. phil: you should be sorry. you cannot be that shallow to make that idiotic comment. levin: dr. phil grew up poor, with a father who terrorized the family. he would get drunk and tear the venting hood out of the kitchen and then throw it through the windows. levin: phil became a psychologist and put the very institution of marriage at risk. i was the worst marital therapist in the history - of marital therapy. - ( laughing ) levin: he would pivot professionally