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byas we go out, troubled man john mellencamp. ♪ >> ♪ it's the wake of all evil a universal mess i'vefound trouble even at my best no hopes to get better until they put me down to rest i am a troubled man ♪ ♪ ♪ anxiety and sorrow underneath my skin ♪ self destruction and failure have beat my head in ♪ i laughed out loud once i won't do that again ♪ i've always traveled the hellfire road and tasted the sweet smell of sin ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ so many things ♪ have gone through my hands ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ people up on the east side ♪ people on the gravel road ♪ people of many colors ♪ whose stories have never been told ♪ too late came too early ♪ for me to face myself ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ i am a troubled man (oh lord) ♪ i won't do anything but hurt you if i can ♪ i am a troubled man ♪ >> i'm mark halperin. >> i'm john heilemann. with all due respect to jay-z, i've got 99 problems but a cold open ain't one. hit me. in our lineup tonight -- america as cops, hillary's chops, and washington, d.

. >> those comments coming through unconfirmed bya, bloomberg this morning to get your update on theing her back later in the program and continue to monitor the developments as they take place in sydney. >> coming up, an exclusive interview. one of vladimir putin's staunchest critics talks about the chances of his -- of him being ousted from power in the next decade. ♪ ♪ make the best entertainment part of your holidays. catch all the hottest handpicked titles on the winter watchlist, only with xfinity from comcast. "countdown" >> you are watching -- >> you are watching "countdown" this monday morning. let's see how the foreign exchange markets are doing. aussie dollar down 11% since the february. more news from sydney in terms of the development of that story. the aussie dollar hit a 4-year low earlier in trading. -- joe hockey -- h awkey saying you are seeing the biggest slump in years. for $30the estimate was billion. bloomberg has a poll of foreign exchange analysts and where they think the aussie dollar will go to. stevens, the central bank governor, says $.75 is preferable to

and bya that islam extension mormonism devalued women reverberates even into contemporary discourses the islamic world and the place of women in it. the conservative christian evangelist franklin graham and bill mark have used american notions about the status of women in majority muslim countries to fuel islam a phobic rhetoric. i can talk more about this in the q&a. american islamist schism was a complicated interplay of human experiences of the muslim other accompanied by rumor, stereotypes, and the ever present threat of violence here hadwhile americans difficulty seeing enslaved muslims in their midst, they had and continue to have no such trouble understanding islam as inherently tyrannical and misogynistic. barack husseinlk obama, america's first muslim a satiricallays in way on the ways in which americans doubt the president's religious affiliation and use to supposed muslim-ness demonstrate his on-americanness. barack obama became, however unwittingly, if focal point of islam a phobic commentary in the united states. this denies the complex histories of american muslims, but