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ays and get this document shredder free -- a $29 value -- when you use promo code go. call now. >> welcome to "morning joe." earlier this year we had the pleasure of speaking with former president jimmy carter what he calls the greatest threat to mankind. >> in his latest book the 39th president calls for an abuse against women. >> it's a great honor to have the president here. we tried hard because he's traveling all the time, traveling with his last book to have him here. you came here. when i met him, i didn't talk foreign policy, i looked at him, i said why do you keep getting younger. he keeps getting younger. >> his smile is so vibrant. as you all know my father served as your national security adviser. i put together a look back as
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what it was like from my eyes seeing the 2005 you work together. take a look. that's me along with my big brother mark the future ambassador to sweden, my other brother a republican who will work for president bush and my mom and dad at many white house events. we didn't get it at the time but what we had was a front row seat to history and the 39th president of the united states. from a private dinner joining john paul ii's official visit in 1979 to hosting world leaders. wherever jimmy and rosslyn carter went there was amy even to celebrate a birthday on air force one. if my dad was there, chances are he brought me. i had greasier hair than amy carter and i'm looking at a picture of her and me. please proceed and tell us the story. >> the security guard was there
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by accident but maybe historically involving divine foresight because you almost killed the prime minister of israel. >> bebegin? >> yes. >> it would have looked like you put me up to something. >> the president's daughter was involved. >> world events were my childhood. i named my pet rabbit after the man who became the first president in iran in 1979. we took family vacations wherever my father had to work like rural china and southern and very rural ukraine. we even hosted the leader of china at our farmhouse in mclean. my mom cooked and handled everything that night. but there were many state dinners at the white house too where my mother put aside her art career and gracefully while
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not so dutifully pulled off the role of white house wife. she hated the rules of the washington social bubble but thrived regardless as my father's chief adviser. and my dad will now concede he didn't follow all the rules of the west wing either. so let me ask you about the energy crisis, i think we had cars lined up at gas stations and the white house had a policy at what level the air conditioners could be at. would you like to come clean? >> yes. okay. i'll make a public confession. >> please. >> the president said the air conditioning, the units that activate them, the thermostats at 80. air conditioning couldn't go on until the temperature in the room crossed 80. so, of course, i respected the president's decision. but i merely placed a lamp on a little table underneath the
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thermostat which i turned on because it helped me read my materials sitting near there. and, of course, since the lamp created heat therefore in my room the thermostat was activated at 80 but 80 was reached somewhat earlier than was the case. >> so you were surprisingly cool. >> i was cool. therefore more effective serving the president. >> in the eyes of a daughter the carter white house culminated in a vision of her father receiving the medal of freedom from the leader of the free world. but to dad jimmy carter wasn't just the commander-in-chief, he was his confidant and his jogging partner. >> i got pictures of you jogging with the president. >> he wrote on that picture when he gave it to me -- he and i were also personal friends. i liked the guy. i admired him. he was warm. and he was funny. he wrote on this photograph, it's big, at least once we're in step. which is an illusion to the fact
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that in privacy i was sometimes at a different position than his and then we would discuss it. >> in other words, the president of difficult? >> he was difficult. >> it's such an honor to have you here. >> his daughter is also difficult. >> really? >> she's -- >> you already filled him in? >> she's meaner. >> let's talk, we have so much to talk about. let's start with the call to action. this is an extraordinary book. you and mrs. carter, you guys have visited 145 countries because of the remarkable work that the carter center has done through the years. remarkable work. won a nobel prize for your post-presidency. talk about what you now call the greatest, really the greatest moral threat in this world right now? i think you said it's the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge that we're facing. >> well, listen most gross abuse
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of human rights on earth and it's basically unadressed because a lot of people don't want to look at it or want to admit what's going on to people. it's bad enough when we look at the united states and there's multiple rapes and sex abuses on the campuses of our great universities and military as ewell know. women get about 23% less pay than men for the same job. of the fortune 500 companies, only 25 of them have women as executive officers and they get about 42% less pay than men and so forth. in the united states it's very bad. human trafficking or slavery is worse now than it was during the 19th-century. the state department has to make an official estimate every year. they claim that 800,000 slaves are sold across international borders every year and about 100,000 slaves are sold in the
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united states, about 80% of whom are women. atlanta is the worst place to sell little girls in slavery, about 200 or more every month are sold in atlanta. these are the things going on in our country. with the great respect we have for our universities and military you can imagine how bad it is, how much worse it is than other countries. >> you talk about across the world, you also tie in religion. and how people have for centuries you selected texts just like people did in the south 50, 60 years ago to justify racial discrimination, now you talk about religious texts, selected texts being used to justify rape, slavery, honor killings, and one abuse after another against women. >> well, the fact is, i happen to be a christian and jesus christ was a very wonderful leader who never discriminated in any word or action against women. >> women actually played a very
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important role in his ministry. >> extremely so. but with the writings of st. paul, you can selectively take verses out of the bible and justify women not being able to be priests and so forth. so catholic church and others can say women are not qualified to have an equal role in service as men. men all over the world take this as proof that they can abuse their wives or pay less pay, you know. >> isn't it amazing, as a sunday school teacher for 70 years, i'm always fascinated and a bit disturbed by people that will focus on something that paul wrote instead of looking at those red letters and the gospels and look at the life of jesus and look at the fact that women played you an important role in their ministry and twist those words. >> for about the first three centuries of the early christian
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church women did play an equal role as paul proved in the 16th chapter of acts. men soon decided why don't we take over the church. why don't we control. they selectively began to apply certain verses in paul's writing to say women can't be leaders in the church. now, of course, in some of the denominations of our church and some of the christian elements women are not permitted to play equal roles. of course in the islamic faith as well. i studied very carefully the koran, particularly since the hostages were held when brzezinski was my national security adviser. there's very few verses in the koran that doesn't say women aren't equal but in local interpretations particularly in the remote areas women are horribly abused with honor killings and genital mutilations. >> president carter, as we talk about afghanistan and whether or not we should get out of
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afghanistan, a lot of questions a lot of people ask what happens to the women there if the united states and the west leave that country, the taliban comes back in, we know what they've done to women before, we know what they will do again, is the treatment of women in afghanistan enough of a justification for the united states and west to leave some force there to protect women? >> one of the things we learned at the carter center in the last 30 years is that when outsiders like westerners go into a country and try to get them to change their customers it's counter productive. the men react otherwise. so i don't think there's anything the united states or europe can do to change the policies in afghanistan. but with the demise of the taliban or putting down of them to some degree i think women will play greater role. there's one woman in afghanistan that i referred to in this book who i did know very well, went to college and was a teacher but
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taken by a very powerful man and made to be his wife and it's a very interesting episode i put in this book. i know her personally. she now lives in plains, georgia with her new husband and son. that's something that can't be changed from the outside. we have to let them do it. there's flow vision in the koran, for instance, that women should have their genitals cut when they are little girls. this is something mothers do because mothers had their genitals mutilated and they feel it's a custom but husbands and islam imams don't mandate it. >> the book, obviously, look towards way to prevents and call for action to prevent atrocities to women, if i may but also the important concept we've been stew dig over the years and that is if you build up a woman in a third world country, you're building a community. >> that's the best way to let a family know not to kill their baby girls.
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one of the most horrible statistics is although there were 6 million jews killed by the nazis in their holocaust there's 160 million girls missing on the face of the earth now who were killed or strangled by their parents at birth because they didn't want a girl they want ad boy and now with the advent of sonograms they can detect a fetus is female and abort the girl fetus selectively to prevent girls being born. and that's the kind of thing that has to be corrected. but to let the family know their girls can be a productive element in the parents' old age by educating her and giving her a chance to earn a living is the best corrective -- >> the center of the family, center of a community. >> still ahead. >> our conversation with martin short and sergeant ryan pitts and graham nash. keep it right here on "morning joe".
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♪ ♪ my little buttercup has the sweetest smile ♪ >> this i don't do any more.
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and this is fabulous. >> welcome uncle jack. >> a stupid, stupid hire. not higher. eye level. >> always been a fan. i've watched your show for years. even thoits been kind of hard to find sometimes. >> i think primetime is the better time for us. >> you've been such a great supporter of all of us in show business. you, of course, are not. >> right. and now with an attitude. hello. ♪ sweet little buttercup ♪ smoil littile little buttercu♪ ♪ i love you . >> my favorite person of all time. >> i got to put jesus one. but he's number one. >> comedian genius martin short is out with a memoir. >> on the back, the reviews are
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incredible here. >> wow. >> larry david says what a wonderful book if only it was about someone else. >> oh, larry. >> how are you? >> nice to see you. i said this earlier and we met tevanity fair party this year, this show i watch every morning of my life. >> that's great. >> i tape it. i wake i want to. i find it absolutely -- i'm endlessly fascinated by political discussion that is fair, truly fair and balanced and has all sides represented and i think -- >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you're at the party and mika sees you coming and runs. like they were running towards each other. i love you. >> no. it wasn't reciprocal. >> let's talk about the book. i must say my life as a humble
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comedy legend, talk about it. >> it's a memoir. you know, this is something i didn't know how to do for a long time and been asked to do it. and then you just dr. norah ephron once said you know how you write a book you just start writing. i realize the it couldn't just be about show business and meeting frank sinatra and stories like that but in my life i had many ups and downs like every human being and you realize that if you -- your natural orientation is to be happy and you can figure it out and you do it maybe without a slew of therapists but do it yourself and you become stronger from it hey maybe you can put in a book too. >> talk about some of the down times. >> i grew up in a big irish-catholic family, and where things happen to other families but never to us. but suddenly when i was 12 my
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older brother at 17 died in a car accident. then my mother died of cancer and when i turned 20 my father died as stroke. now we were four instead of seven and 20i78 embarking on my life and i say how do i figure this out. you ride on your bike for a while and you figure it out and you return to this thing and then i married my wife when i was 24 and we have the happiest and greatest life and at 60 she died of ovarian cancer. i'm in the same position at 60 as i was at 20. >> how did you figure it out after you lost your wife. >> you realize the sun will rise again. the friends who care about you the most will still worry about that scratch in their car. it's up to you. the night before my wife died my youngest son and i sat in the
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jacuzzi, i know this is your worst night of the your life but this is the most important nifgt your life. you're learning something another 20-year-old doesn't understand. you'll be tougher and stronger with a boss because you've gained. there's a ying for a yang. i think when i started off, putting my hair up didn't care whether the audience thought i was nuts maybe because i was braver. >> what did you have to lose? you already lost -- >> you're not going to worry about their rejection. you've already gone through stuff. there's an empowerment. >> you obviously have a lot to share about survival. i'm not sure if that's the right word but moving on when you were speak at norah ephron's service. i got that from you. it was beautiful. i know we're supposed to be making everybody laugh but these
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are great messages. >> i just thought if the book is only about -- there's a lot of funny stories. >> your hysterical. >> it's only about that then it's not much of a thing. >> because you're a full person not just a comedian. >> has it been hard as you go through the ups and downs and especially as you go through the downs and you're in public -- >> that's got to be really hard. >> people poking at you. i'm sure you're very grateful you're successful and 99% of the time it's great but that 1% of the time when you're going through a really terrible dark time and people come up to you with that make me laugh deal -- >> yeah. you know, my agenda is not the aberration of strangers. i'm an actor and i love to do this. if you're not in that space you don't -- you know i stayed a little private for a while after my wife died. but then you kind of -- you're ready and you also have your
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kids who are watching you and are taking the fleed you. that's the important thing. >> we love the idea you're taking struggle and putting ningt and putting it in the book. you talk about the hard times you've gone through but we know you as the successful actor, comedian and you came to the american public through "saturday night live" and characters like ed grimly. what do we learn? the title is great. what do we learn about you as the comedian, the entertainer because this was a life long dream as a kid. >> i used to be in my attic at 14 pretending i had my own television show. i was on nbc but every other tuesday night. >> every other. >> i had to leave enough time for my imagery film career. i would be upstairs saying
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weather wise kuckoo day and somebody would yell dinner and i would say tape later. when i was 15 i recorded an album martin short sings songs and love to go. ♪ it was and she would adjudicate it. she would say well song a little pichly. nobody said get out there and play baseball you idiot. that's a huge part how you can guide a kid if he's inspired let him be inspired. >> here's tom thanks. [ applause ] >> i did one interview with you. it didn't go well. you stormed off. why were you upset. i said something about michael keaton and you went very proud. >> he was a little sensitive.
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>> you carried bitterness. >> what do you want me to do? >> oh. >> oh, my god. that is just incredible. it's martin short. how did you get into that costume? >> just a zip up suit and the makeup is just one piece it glues here -- >> tell me about your character is he mean? >> no he isn't mean, he's a moron with power. he could have been in politics. company have been a member of congress. it's the idea that there are people who have great seats of power and they have stats that are scared to screw up the tuna fish order. >> is' democrat or republican? >> he's absolutely doesn't even vote because -- he once said to
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steven spielberg when are you going to do the big one, you know one that connects with people. he used to say the problem with charlie rose is that he listen. jimmy was self-absorbed. >> where did he come from? >> there was a neighbor i had -- character physician you base them on someone three-dimensional in your life then you can add to it. but the cover it has to be kind of real. and there was a neighbor i had growing up. you stay off his lawn he would let you go to the movies. even at 8 i must remember that and some day i can make thousands. >> so we had a little grimly, a little glick and it's election day. i want to hear fronk talking about the election results. republicans are about to take
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control of the senate. >> i think like chris christie i would like to see him run just to see him run. if he became president be the first oval in the oval office. >> terrible. give me a little jimmy. >> what else do you want to know? >> i love what you were wearing. i wish my fingers were scissors and i would release the hostages. >> i got it. oh, my god. the book is -- >> i must say -- >> release the hostages. >> comedy legend martin short thank you so much. >> i love the show. >> we love you too. >> everything you dream of and more. he's the best. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches?
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♪ valor was every where that day and the real heroes are the nine men who made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could return home. it is their names, not mine that i want people to know. specialist sergio abad. corporal jonathan ayers. corporal jason bogart. first lieutenant jonathan. sergeant israel garcia. corporal jason hobater.
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corporal matthew phillips. corporal pruitt rani and corporal gunner. >> that was staff sergeant ryan pitts speaking about his fellow soldiers who lost their lives while defending a small out post in eastern afghanistan. >> staff sergeant pitts was awarded the medal of honor because of his heroism. we talked to the staff sergeant earlier. >> congratulations. i knew it was a huge honor for to you receive that medal. you take the time to talk about those who lost their lives that day. take us back to that day. >> it was early morning, and, you know, seemed like almost any other day and then heard a burst of machine gunfire from the north and then it was rpgs hit our position and the whole valley erupted as about 200 fighters attacked 48 americans. >> you were 22 at the time. you're now just 28 years old.
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22 at the time. what was going through your mind at that time because this was towards the end of the time that you were suppose tlod to be the correct? >> yep. we were about three weeks from going home. for me what was going through my mind i was wounded early on but i'm watching all these other guys fight, standing, returning fire, stopping and treating casualties, running to reinforce positions that i just felt i had to do my part just like everybody else. >> you know, ryan, you know, obviously, what happened that day never leaves you. the memories of it. the noise. the clamor. the casualties. talk to us about the weight that you carry each and every day. you mentioned your brothers who died that day. talk about how they must be with you at moments of every day. you see a cloud formation, a
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sock on the radio, something that will trip wire your mind back to that day. >> there are different triggers. i think of all of them every day. certain days i think of some more than others. i remember playing poker. but i think of them all the time. >> can i ask what reintegration is like. how good of a job does our army or political system do helping people reintegrate into society after these horrific events and also you obviously suffered injuries, shrapnel in your leg, how has the medical care been for you. how has the medical care been four personally six years after this event? >> there was a lot of support for reintegration. i was at walter reed medical center for a year and there were numerous class we took in preparation to get out and opportunities for us to do
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internship. as far as medical care it was phenomenal at walter reed and my experience has been with the va has been overwhelmingly positive. >> all right. so there are also ways in which you try to move on but keep the men that you lost your brothers with you. we've had some beautiful moments in your life since you came back. including receiving the medal of honor which was also two years to the day, correct, that you got married to amy. >> ah-ha. >> who is standing behind threw. >> hi amy. how are you? >> and i also -- i noticed you had a very firm hand shake and then we have this. this sue. we have individual offyou i think at the stock exchange yesterday. was that yesterday morning, ryan? >> yeah. >> you broke it. >> he told me to make sure everybody could hear it and that's all i was trying to do. >> always a soldier following
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orders. >> let me just say something staff sergeant ryan, everybody heard it. coming up he didn't start acting until he was 36 years old but still managed to play over 90 different roles. >> danny amiello is next on "morning joe". the ford c-max hybrid. with an epa-estimated range of 540 miles on a tank of gas. and all the room you need to enjoy the trip. go stretch out. go further.
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>> will you marry me? >> what? >> huh? >> will you marry me? >> i take that as an insult. >> michael says hello. >> agh! agh! >> i can't hear myself think. you're disturbing me. you are disturbing my customers. you come in to sal's there's no
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music, no rap, no music, no music, no music, capesh? >> that was a very brief glimpse of danny aiello's incredible 40 year film career, thes on near nominated actor is out with his memoir "i only know who i am when i'm someone else." >> danny, i love the title. talk about it. i only know who i am when i'm playing somebody else. >> that's true. playing a character you know exactly what you're going to say at any given moment. you know who the character is, where he comes from because it's built up in your mind but life itself changes in so many different ways. >> amazing the life you had before. >> as a kid i was a very cyclic kid and i think that sort of molded me throughout. i had eczema throughout the child. i sat at the beginning of the class in front where the teacher would be and i was ripping
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myself apart and other kids were looking at me. i would say things like let me sit in the back and start crying. i did that for a long period of time. the only freedom i had in life when i was able to go outside and play sports. i forgot about eczema. >> you were doing great at sports that in your first film with die neniro you can't throw ball. i would say to him because, he was a catcher, all in the dirt. teaching him how to get down and get it but he threw very funny. i said why don't we throw it this way. when i finally saw it he had his elbow attached to his hip. >> a couple of fascinating things. >> great actor. >> you had a part in annie hall. i hope you didn't tell your friends to say come see me.
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you didn't realize your scenes were cut until you were in the movie theater. >> we were told by the producer of the movie that harvey and i did a scene, best scene in the movie. so naturally i'm invited to the premier. had a family sitting there. hour and a half goes i'm not in the film. woody never told me. these things happen in motion pictures. that was early on in my career. >> danny, so much of your work we all love and we think that we know you so well but you didn't start until 36. you had this life before. you worked for greyhound. you can still recital the lines? >> can i do that. may have your attention platform number 3 philadelphia, chester, wilmington, dover, sea forward, laurel, princess anne, little creek and norfolk. this coach connects in jersey
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city from montclaire, mount pocono, wilkes-barre, clark summit, great ben, binghampton, geneva, pitston, almira. mount morris and buffalo. >> whoa. and they fired you. >> that's right. >> greyhound what are you thinking of that. >> i got fired for a wildcat strike. >> you are executing a role. i don't know. >> it's interesting that you say that and it's true. >> you lock into comfort. >> i locked into a comfort zone which is a disfraction all the nasty things that happen out in life being an actor for me is a blessing because it gave me an opportunity to play peters. if i was distraught in this area where it was real life i was able to play a character and escape into something else.
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>> how interesting, one of your most famous lines, michael coreleone says hello. it was ad libbed. >> i'm nervous as hell. i got the part by being interviewed. we're down in the place, going to shoot this scene in rehearsal. i have to come out and put this thing around his neck. michael plays the character. i come behind him and supposed to choke him. there were no lines. now let's rehearse it. i come behind him and i thought there should be a line. so as a schmuck i said michael coreleone says hello. then francis says cut. what did you just say? well i said -- i think i said
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michael coreleone says hello. he said good keep it there. to this day i don't know what i meant by saying that. >> a man with more than 200 songs under his belt. >> the great graham nash joins us and he brought his guitar. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.
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after more than 50 years in the music industry singer and songwriter graham nash is
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showing no signs of slowing down. >> nash took us behind-the-scenes of his rock and roll life. graham nash his book "wild tales" is now out in paper back and if you want to remy necessa re -- reminesce with the cosby, stills and nash. >> you rock your baby. that's funny. what a book, though. what incredible stories. i thought, though, identify always heard that you're such a good man, such a decent man and that you were the glue that held together a lot eclectic. >> with the holdition i've been through that madness before i
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met david and stephens. >> one of my favorite songs from the '60 aenz you can still feel the magic of it, the beginning of "carrie ann." you guys produced incredible music. it's almost like the second you went to woodstock a lot of great stuff with the hollies got eclipsed "carrie ann," "bus stop." >> for many years after it's almost like you don't talk about a past love or two, your new lover unless you're an idiot. i didn't talk to david and stephens about the hollies but lately i listened to what we did. it was a good band. >> i went back and listed back again because everybody focused on your later work. and you listen to "carrie ann," you listen to "bus stop" it's
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still via electrical. jeff emerick in his auto biography was getting sick of the beatles and their attitude. >> we were happy to thereabout. >> we were five kids from manchester and escaped what your father did and grandfather did. it was good enough for your grandfather to go down in the mill. my mother and father never let me fall for that gold watch theory you work for somebody for 65 years, give you a gold watch and pat you on the head. >> somebody who knows music. knows the extraordinary music that comes out of manchester. what is it about manchester. >> has to be in the water. >> manchester in the '70s, in the '80ss. >> my producer called me and said people from oasis think
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you're their uncle because my mother's name is gallagher. >> oasoasis in the '90s. 1942 in the middle of the war talk about that. >> what happened is that all the pregnant ladies were evacuated from the bombing area. and manchester and liverpool because they were on the canal where all the goods and services came to the north of england they were heavily bombed by the german, manchester and liverpool. because we lived just outside of manchester my mother was evacuated to blackpool to have the babies in piece. after two weeks they brought me back to manchester, i'm not sure about the wisdom of that. like a coney island kind of place. >> let's talk about some of the mates you worked with after the
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holdies. david crosby you said had the best weed, most beautiful women -- >> these were the best tales. >> this is a guy in a rock band you want to hang out with. >> he's an amazing personality. >> neil young had some problem with the drug use. i'm a massive neil young fan. can you tell from a distance he's mercurial, he's a difficult guy. >> he's not a difficult guy. he knows what he wants and he won't rest until you give him the best performance. make it real. do you believe what you're singing. or are you just faking it. neil can't fake it. >> i was watching carnegie hall a couple of months ago and somebody yelled out play "old man." he goes identify done this
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before. >> so he wants to do new stuff. >> you were too. i want to talk about that. you love your fans enough that you play the songs they want to hear but in a recent concert you were watching news, you wrote a song about ferguson and that night with the band you played it. >> actually i didn't do it with the band. i wrote the song with our guitar player in the band and what happened with the almost the execution of michael brown we had to say something and write a song that morning and we sang it that night. david and stephens never heard the song. >> you said there was no way you were going to go on stage without playing that song. >> that's right. >> talk about politics, it's always been very important to you, making a difference in the world. where do you think things stand in 2014. a lot of people are cynical. >> the powers that be that run this world have us where they want us to be. they want everybody to lie down and shut up while we rub you. >> how do you push back against
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that? >> you have to be the best person that you can be. you have to figure out what's going on around you, your complete environment and try to make it better. >> speaking about the environment always a critical issue four, the environment also nukes -- >> absolutely. >> talk about the fight for a cleaner, safer environment. >> there are many problems facing us especially with the acidication of the allegations and rising temperatures and i want stems from climate change. it's appalling how many climate change deniers there are in this world that are paid to make sure that the koch brothers can still sell stuff to us. don't the koch brothers have children? don't they have grandchildren? don't they know what they are doing in this quest for money. they are already one of the richest families in the world. how much more do you need? seriously. it's a terrible thing that's going on but we have to be able to rationally deal with it.
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and when, you know, 90% of the scientists say climate change is happening we have to listen. >> so we know what's number one right now on your chart as far as issues go, political issues. climate change. >> no climate no problem. >> let's do a whole segment on that when you come back. there are many sides to that story. i love hearing you all talk. boy do, i love to hear joe talk. he doesn't talk enough. what i would love to do is hear you sing and play. so play something. how about "teach your children." >> that sounds good. let's do it. >> a little early in the morning. >> i was going to say. >> have you ever played earlier than this. >> yes. on howard stern. >> oh, my god. ♪ ♪ you ♪ who are on the road
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