and the new york times wrote an article on the battle between the author and the pentagon now the publisher random house told the agency that he would be glad to sell all the copies to the book of the book to them and then to print even more so i guess what is have to see where this saga leads but something about this story is definitely fish. well it looks like retired general stanley mcchrystal has got a new job that's right he's going to be a professor at yale believe it or not he's going to be teaching a graduate seminar called leadership in operation now the school's paper the hold of the ten of the syllabus and it's definitely got people talking take note of some of the topics and professor mcchrystal is class and the first few classes seem pretty standard with leadership is the main topic but if you look to september twenty seventh well that's when he's going to talk about coping with failure i wonder what he's going to talk about there then november second will be about loyalty trust and relationships and on november sixteenth there will be

a particularly interesting topic of communicating the story the media environment maybe he'll talk about the importance of giving good interviews and how you have to articulate when you speak with reporters now i do have to know that he conveniently has not written in the rolling stone article the end of his career into the syllabus we don't knows maybe he'll change his mind now if that's not enough to get any graduate student interested in the class check out some of the case studies first case study we have the career of stanley mcchrystal himself and the third case study is about the decision to invade iraq and ask for the primary reason for the class well that would be dexter filkins piece for the new york times magazine called stanley mcchrystal zx long war. there's just there's just so much i want to say about this in clearly mcchrystal is formed the entire course around his personal experiences so maybe he's just called the class. me me me me me maybe

general mcchrystal still hasn't really gotten it you know like the whole notion of humility maybe sometimes constraint either way i'm sure it's going to be a popular course and i really can't wait to hear what the students are going to have to say about it. now we're taking a break but still to come on the show some of the first nine eleven responders in new york city help save lives and now nine years later they're fighting for their own party is really important i has a report and we come back and then we'll speak to a nine eleven first responder who's a muslim we'll get her take on all the islamophobia that's swirling around here in the u.s. we're back in a moment. this is all see the headlines. near enough when you did president medvedev told the

global policy forum and that the u.s. shouldn't big jealous about russia's proposed new security treaty with europe as it would help everyone and you also above criticism democratic standards in russia saying that adoption of a problem then treat democracy for the country would be a catastrophe just as it would stop. you know processions have been lighting candles of poles the russian republic to mourn seventeen victims of a suicide car bomb us michael says the fast funerals have already taken place while some of the one hundred sixty injured are being treated in moscow. investigates the growth of islam in america with a number of the nine eleven terror attacks increasing just fine claims the media fuels and islamic sentiment. those are the headlines from let's now go back to the . nine years ago nine eleven first responders were hailed as heroes people who risked the. our lives to save others but those risks came with consequences that still

linger nearly a decade later their struggle is reflected in the health crises that they're now facing with not much government help or media attention artie's main important i has more from new york. gary white was an american hero in two thousand and one to actually the diagnosis being directly since the nine eleven in two thousand and ten the nine eleven first responder represents an exploding health crisis u.s. officials have failed to address it's told the across the page cost enormous all call my gall bladder cancer liver cancer the retired n.y.p.d. detective spent six months sifting through world trade center debris and clouds of toxins later resulting in asthma sleep apnea post neurological problems and two strokes the first one is massive. i was paralyzed i lost command of my

speech. i had to learn to walk and talk again the police department denies his illnesses are linked to nine eleven still fits leaving the twenty three year veteran with mounting medical debt this one wants fourteen over fifty three and a daily dose of fifteen medications and inflammation pills pills to stop the cramping in my legs like walk blood pressure medications the worst top on u.s. soil took place here on september eleventh a day when nearly three thousand people lost their lives in a matter of hours and in the nine years that have followed nine hundred first responders have died victims of their own courage and why p.t. sergeant michael ryan was diagnosed with three types of cancers before losing his battle at just forty one years old i leave ryan is just one of many widows who lost her world with husband post nine eleven who are these men and women that are

fighting for their life right now it's a progress it's it's time it's watching a loved one. disintegrate in front of your face and just the fight to stay alive and it's a fight that can break even the strongest john just when he was diagnosed with cancer hospital bills cost one million dollars. more shows you see and i'm not saying not to do it we're a powerful nation we should lead by example but we're not leaving my example here. we're not leading by example here when you turn your backs on the nine eleven emergency responders those who sacrificed for the country now left struggling alone merino port r.t. new york. first responders are still waiting for congress to passes a droga nine eleven health and compensation act still waiting for the government to help them pay for medical expenses for the illnesses that they've become afflicted

with while coming to their countries aid and its time of need and yet there are other responders the nine years later struggling with a little bit of a different problem that islamophobia by looking at the debates in the attitudes around the country today you would think that many americans might forget the hundreds of muslim americans also died on nine eleven and also came to help as first responders on that day well today president barack obama when asked about the planned islamic center near ground zero trying to remind us that muslims in this country are just as american as everyone else the other reason it's important for us to remember that is because we've got millions of muslim americans our fellow citizens in this country. they're going to school with our kids. there are neighbors they're our friends they're our coworkers. and you know when we start acting as if their religion is somehow

offensive. what are we saying to them. so what does this struggle feel like for a muslim first responder or earlier from our new york studio i caught up with one for dina o'day ramadan and i first asked her to recall her memories and feelings of that day september eleventh two thousand. yeah you know. you think about it often any time near the area or again from my office window i can see i have a direct view of the area. everything from that day comes right back as if it was yesterday you hear the same sounds you feel the chaos you smell the same smells those those sights the sounds the smells they never leave you the feeling of devastation whenever i look south i get a gut feeling of that and you never really forget and i don't i don't think we

should forget but it is always with you know as this as if it happened yesterday and now if you look at where the country is now in the way the attitudes have perhaps change in this country now that there's a huge debate over building an islamic center two blocks away from ground zero now that there's a pastor in florida wants to make september eleventh international burn the koran day. how does it change for you as a muslim american do you think that islamophobia has been on the rise since nine eleven. well certainly there is there's a heightened awareness of it and you know it's it's it's unfortunate it's very disturbing and as an american i feel that it's taken us back a giant step which is the most troubling part i feel as if we are now looking because of the issue we're seeing an us against it day and this is truly troubling because we are all americans all americans are afforded the same rights the same

civil liberties that the constitution offers the attacks on that day. a very very tragic day were carried out by nineteen extremist one thousand villains that again defiled the religion and practice a perverted form of that religion to carry out their own political agenda it's not representative of it's not represent of this that i that i know that i grew up with and extremely troubling that now those who oppose establishment of the center as sensually are assigning the responsibility of the acts of those extremists on the one billion muslims that practice this faith also shows a true misunderstanding in exemplifies the misinformation that's out there regarding the religion and that islam is a religion of peace not a religion that condones suicide not a religion that condones violence and not a religion that condones murder just as no religion condones these acts and no

religion condones the acts of of terrorists so it is truly disturbing and as an american it hurts yeah you know like you sent me we are all americans here and so do you think that people sometimes forget that there were also two hundred muslims that died in the world trade center bombing on nine eleven. absolutely i think again it's misinformation and i hear often people say do you know a muslim and they said no i don't know muslims but you do know muslims i'm a muslim people know me and it's i think again it's the perception of what is a muslim and i think because of the fear there have been some groups out there that are taking advantage of the fear and the lack of information that's out there and instilled additional fears and i heard as late as yesterday i heard a comment on the local news that said you know they may take over this country and in this very troubling it's a slam it's not

a new religion it's not new to this country but i think the awareness of the religion is new. it began after nine eleven and i i again it's very hurtful that we're going to that these opposers essentially are signing collective guilt on all muslims i am a muslim i am an american and i'm a new yorker and i responded on nine eleven as as a human being as someone who wanted to help not as a muslim i wanted to help anybody i could and i think everybody would have the opportunity on that day would have done the same very quickly on that years later when you look when we look at this controversy and those saying yes you have the same constitutional rights we all understand you have these rights but just not here this is now saying that we're blurring the lines of the constitution and that there are portions of the constitution the united states that are gray areas when it comes to muslim americans and we can't we can't go there we can't do that we're

really taken ourselves back several steps and you know a person asked me well why not just in the name of peace move it we know you have the constitutional rights and again it's begs the question yeah why didn't the parks just move to the back of the bus it would have been easier for everybody else we can't do that most americans are americans and we all are afforded the same civil liberties under the constitution i read and i want to thank you very much for joining us and sharing some of your personal experiences like you said i think this is probably a day that anyone that was in new york on that day will remember and can still feel can still smell especially for those like yourself who were the first responders there. thank you. now since nine eleven muslims across the u.s. have been speaking out about discrimination and racism but despite all of that there are some americans who are becoming attracted to islam and converted every day archies went to a mosque just outside of washington d.c.

and found out why so many americans have turned to the. for home. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian converted last year the first of ramadan my mother. she was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was crying a lot to fought that i was returning her by changing my religion to something that she didn't know about backtrack almost a decade ago to nine eleven today our fellow citizens our way of life. our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists many

americans like caitlin billings remember that time in the united states very well you know i was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what was going on if that really was you know people thought it was so i believed just like everybody else but as billings got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the mistah office center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings who have found allah a new poll found that almost forty percent of americans believe that muslims should carry identification cards despite that twenty thousand americans every year decide to convert to islam be a convert say they don't regret their decision at all it's a choice that they must think about every day around the world since nine eleven muslims have battled bands of their religious clothing profiling in airports and discrimination in their everyday lives people that are new since i was very small

and i've changed personalities because of us don't see past the scar they just knew the fact that i've changed. after joining a class to learn more about islam carl dodge also decided to become a muslim one of the big jokes that i've always made is before i actually sat down the class an open microphone everything i knew about islam i had learned from c.n.n. you know hope and a lot of people are like that so. in there were some negative reaction. and when it comes to the mainstream media the depiction of converts can be somewhat extreme that pakistani officials have arrested adam gadahn this is the american born spokesman for al qaeda fox's war first there was john walker lindh the californian who converted joined the taliban and then did up fighting one. in afghanistan and then more recently it was jihad jane the blond haired blue eyed convert who allegedly recruited people to wage violent jihad and for many american muslims like

dodge and billings the portrayal of converts is disturbing if those upset me a little bit because there's a lot of preconceptions people have and until i actually took the time to open a koran and see what was written. you know that was my only impression of islam as what i had seen on t.v. and in the united states they say a culture of islamophobia just doesn't make sense it's a rights of proper us your religion that's what this country was founded on not only you know is it supposed to be that way here this country was founded on those principles that you know people that started this country were fully religious persecution i just had somebody asked me the other day is also are you against america now and it's like ok. i mean you know us veteran as well i served in the u.s. navy and so i do believe in this country i volunteered to defend this country i volunteered to you know stand up for what the cost to she says. no matter what unfolds around

her billing says she's proud to be a muslim if no one in the world wants to talk to me and my friend i still don't regret it you know i am completely happy right now happier than i've ever been in my entire life happiness that might not make sense to those around her a little over three assure you there are tea annandale virginia. still to come on tonight's show we'll have our friday fireside chats and comedian seton smith checks in to discuss the hilarious and the bizarre events of the week well look at playboy for the blind and then a computer generated man that shows guys how to bust a move. of

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it's nice fireside with your. this friday a certain report caught my attention compiled by the former heads of the september eleventh commission they wrote that the u.s. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and that the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon and as a result there is still no federal agency specifically charged with identifying radicalization or working to prevent terrorist recruitment of u.s. citizens and residents now this is clearly a valid concern this year the white house for the first time added combat in home homegrown terrorism to its national security strategy just weeks ago with the leaks released a cia red cell discussing examples of homegrown u.s.

terrorism who are being export of the broad and they discussed what that might do to the u.s. image around the world but i have just one question here actually make out like ten why has this report just come out why does it always take the government years to catch on to something or at least for ten do and most importantly is a federal agency specifically designed for this really the best idea if you haven't focused any of your attention on this then why do we have a homeland security department was created after nine eleven why did the bush administration wiretap its own citizens why do we now have a top secret america with an absurd number of individuals who have top secret clearance to listen in on our phone calls monitor our websites and our e-mails and yet they can't keep track of who's monitoring what or who or figure out how to communicate with each other. don't tell me that spying on your own citizens was no way of trying to track home grown terrorism or whatever else want to call it and

that now you need to do more and don't tell me that you need another agency more bureaucracy more waste to do it and that's all i can say. well this is definitely not been a light news day so since it's friday we just had to end the show on a happier note so you don't all go to bed with nightmares but then again so it's funny and bizarre stories still might give you nightmares but don't blame it on me now we've got everything from what scientists deem are sexy dance moves to a playboy channel for the blind and all the political front there's a candidate out there that's making sure that his voice is heard perhaps as an expense but what if all politicians are that fired up well here to give us two

cents on all these stories is comedian seton smith see it in the scenes the t.v. and it's good to see the incident thanks for being back at it always and ever and i apologize. let's begin today barack obama gave a speech and you know democrats are just probably going to get demolished this november that's why i wrote a saying that's a difference predicting what is the time for obama to come back to be the obama who was on the campaign trail the angry rah rah rah let's take a listen to what he actually sounded like. i was pleased to see the yesterday republican senator george voinovich of ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. so i don't want it said this country is really hurting and we don't have time anymore to play games. i could not agree more. was great i'm sorry did you fall asleep no no the president is somebody that can

blow people up i want people that can blow the world up to be calm i don't want to get on t.v. like a you gotta stop both all right i want them both to happen we could make it work that's what makes people vote that's what he did on the campaign trail no he didn't . like hearing the conflict he was only was called you know the inspiration for the us people rise that want to get out off their butts and actually vote your he forgot obama obama back then was like oh hey. oh is this guy too calm to being president that was his thing this is stick ya go to therapy even vote for a car he grows you get a car may grow right you want crazy negro right here right ok well talk about crazy there's a crazy white guy that's just be in this has this guy gotten viral because of the councilman out of ohio that i think is running for the position of secretary rosary which are very treacherous this guy's leg and it seems like don't stop watching your mates. and see your horses over there for the position of start your treasure

. no one to know you are truly sincere members of the throne. room. where. your faces now that passion i so great that you do this little device or i don't want to tell you how to do your own little speech thing but sir if you want to go up there be crazy don't check your notes go full crazy like a crazy what do i care what you know that i don't know if you're crazy jumbling in the right order who cares let's talk about bears and talk about this is i don't want to see again this example i don't want man that runs the money the treasure to be this crazy all right i don't need as much passion when i'm working i'm not dying to save for retirement right now but i'll say. i did ok well you know what the point is he didn't weigh in so i guess it worked for you know what you're going to see you know what maybe obama does do a little of this because you know what i want to vote more i want to move the county just to vote for this treasure this man this man i believe ok you know my god there's some guy in the crowd too like clapping like he was. a guy once waiting

one person at a time see we have to just you know make you look like a full on live t.v. right now because this is another thing that has been viral because scientists had to figure out why it is that some men have the right. to chicks and men have the good moves so they actually did a study to find out which moves are sexy now this is this is not good i'm assuming you don't dance like this right. why not let's see do we have the good dancing i think i've had enough of the bad. here is a good day i think that we're going to. be one of those years i guess is that gives you goose literally no there's no difference there's literally no difference in the bad and good and this is you know the full body is the first time i'm going to say this online is the thousandth time to say this is the most racist study ever seen in my life everybody is clearly telling me there's a guy right now at twenty ten going to a club doing a running man and getting a black why do you know you're going everybody these dishes these veterans are

saying in this thing in the ladies right here let me move this right i'm not going to are you challenging me. i'm asking you to show as work gets the ladies in the club i need some kind of motivation actually going to get a drink with you. but i do like a move like here some of those are good you know they're scientifically proven obviously but it moved to a what wow really this is going to try to we're ready at a time right go fix don't fix aids scientists do this make this animatronic thing go start ok blind people and marginally can't you know enjoy playboy for all that it's worth playboy has decided to be so kind to them that they're making a play which channel for the blind where it's really just a woman that's reading you know word by word what's in the magazine you know which genius about this because most things blind people have to do when we come by and they have to adjust to it just to braille they're just a walking stick if you're just using a laptop the only sound does know what just material to listen to a woman talk about breasts nothing i feel more signed up for what i read what you

don't like that kind of getting you know i don't know fool here it could be some old lady with a sexy voice and they're there you know envisioning playboy playmate from their head i don't i get i don't mean it like to be lied to when they have sex i don't know about you. and i like for a lot of like you my first yes. if you ok ok ok teaching about the world let's talk about one of the things that came out this week which is your instant this is supposed to be you know the future google thinks that they will just tell you what you're searching for and these days if you type in a word to search it'll finish the sentence for you kind of scary i'm not sure i like it but apparently they're censoring it and if you type it well if you type in vagina or penis they're not recognized i think that's great because i mean how you know it's all going to coffee shop and i look like a pervert you know i say in the art ok i want to do a gang bang and then i suggest or do you want to in a racial gangbang yeah but the person next to me let me walk away so i know you have to type it in eventually anyway i could.