given the sale of current to the people who sold it to you perhaps it's pronunsed algore. al jazeera. you've taken a lot of guff for that for selling to qatar. >> i'm proud of transaction. it's going to be a positive addition to the u.s. media landscape. they do a great job. >> jon: are they keeping some of the current programming? are they replacing it with other things. >> they are keeping a lot of the same people. they have all news all the time, no commercial breaks. they have a terrific reputation. they've earned respect. >> jon: you know who else does that, no commercial breaks cine dlrks max though the news division is not as tight. >> pbs newsed to do it without commercial breaks. >> jon: but enter this macarthur foundation came n. qatar is -- they are the guy -- you are poster boy of sounding the alarm over global warming. how hard is that when you see manhattan flood do you sit back and think to yourself like, i told you. >> no, no, no. [ laughter ] >> jon: is that i a difficult think to wrap your head around? >> look, this thing is so serious and so beyond the t

we're joined live from california now with professor algore. welcome.e obama approached the role? >> i think she is doing a good job. i could give her an a-plus. we study the first ladies and we study women, actually. so we get a sense of how politics operates on another sort of sphere. and one of the capacities that the first lady, the role of first lady, has is that it offers the person who steps into it the chance to be a symbol. to have a kind of symbolizing function. so if she chooses, the first lady can decide whether she wants to be the face of her husband's administration. personifying it and sending out messages that are psychological and emotional in nature. and i think michelle obama has done that. >> you wonder about, you know, a sense of freedom for the second term. you see her, her new hairdo. do first ladies tend to express more freedom during the second term, once a campaign is over? is there less pressure to conform? >> oh, i think there's a lot less pressure all the way around. but i do have a piece of advice for mrs. obama. not that s

welcome back to spotlight i'm algor knob and just a reminder that still even to saw a french writer journalist and a traveler is here in my studio today this is a song you told me that you're in moscow now but you will be leaving moscow in a couple days and going to france back on a motorcycle and you'll be following the route of napoleon bonaparte city in the eight hundred twelve when he was a new trade from us. back to paris it will be practically the same season and exactly the same route why did you decide to to make such as well i'm told the sad journey for a frenchman. of course it's almost more self or a phrase and for russia. i do it because a for several reasons the first one is that i think that it's it's a very very huge campaign and the french were three hundred thousand more than three hundred thousand who died in this russian joining and i think it's a sort of commemoration we want just to celebrate the memory of all those people who made this a this big tragedy where world men who died in the seal of russia in the river of because you know many of those died old on the way back