i just want to mention something about chris, there is nothing compare to chris kyle story. bless him. i love him. >> indeed, chris is an american hero. jim, what was the hardest part of the book to write? >> i think that once i got to know johnny, it wasn't hard at all. but because of the language barrier, we -- i wouldn't say it was hard. we had to spend a lot of time together. sometimes his family got a little tired of me hanging around and taking him up. but it was always my pleasure. hopefully they'll forgive me now. >> they love you. >> johnny, jim, thank you so much for everything you've done. next, the new hbo doc examines darwinism from a creationist point of view and vice versa. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security for just $29.99

while i was working on "american sniper" which i wrote with chris kyle, whose another great, great american. one night chris and i were hanging around in his den and we're looking at some pictures. a picture came up of some guys who were about to go out on a seal mission, and i noticed that one of them was a lot taller than the other people in the room and was wearing slightly different uniform. i said, who's that big guy? chris, chris the texan, said that's the only iraqi i ever trusted with the gun. that's pretty interesting, man. tell me about that. he told me that was a translator they called johnny walker. chris torbert talk about some of the missions been. i have to say that i write fiction, and the stories that chris was telling me sounded so much more remarkable and more fictional and more thrilling than stories that i've ever come up with that almost stopped writing novels. we ended up putting johnny in the book, in "american sniper." he is in about a paragraph. he changed his name and his background because we were very wary at the time we thought, johnny, we thought you were stil

while i was working on american sniper, which i wrote with chris kyle who's another great, great american, one night chris and i were hanging around in his den, and we were looking at some pictures. the picture came up of some guys who were about to go out on a seal mission, and i noticed that one of them was a lot taller than the other, than the other people in the room and was wearing slightly different uniform. and i said who's that big guy? chris looks at me and says, well, that's the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. [laughter] i was, like, oh, that's pretty interesting, man, tell me about that. so he told me that was the translator they called johnny walker, and chris started telling me about some of the missions. i have to say that i write fiction, and the stories that chris was telling me sounded so much more remarkable and more fictional and more thrilling than stories that i've ever come up with that i almost stopped writing novels. we ended up putting johnny in the book, in "america sniper." he's in about a paragraph. we changed his name and his background because we were v

we worked on american sniper with chris kyle and that was in the end of the long day and we just kindack a little bit and started to look at videos that chris had of people he knew in iraq and all of the sudden, the video picture came up of a really tall odd looking fellow and dressed in a different uniform than the rest of the seals and i hadn't recognized him and i said chris, who is that. a big texan, well, i tell you what that is. that is jim, that is the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. and after an american sniper came out. chris happen to run bo him and chris got a hold of a publisher and said you have to write this book. because johnnie walker saved more americans than any seal did. >> johnny that is a remarkable thing. you saved a lot of american lives. they loved you for that and trusted you for that and honored you for that and you were still there, and how did you end up getting to america and tell me, were you afraid not to come to america? >> no, i love america, my background, i play basketball when i am young and high jump and so to have this dream in my mind. i wa

them up and made a stand up in front of the room and told everyone the truth, that johnny walker, chris kyle is known as the man who saved a lot of seal lies, a lot of iraqi lives, and chris told that crowd, told me nobody could that johnny walker saved more seals, more americans and more iraqis than chris ever did. it's just a remarkable story, not sure if it was it the next day, but soon after chris got hold of our publisher, our editor actually, peter hubbard who's really been a big help for us and said, peter, you are doing this book, boy. this man is really important. that's kind of where we started. johnny, why don't you tell us a little bit, you were born in a city in transit? >> my first time, i want to thank all of you guys are all of your support, and i apologize for my broken english, but jim will explain that. i want to thank matt, that guy, imagine in 2003 in mosul, and this is the first time i saw them after all these years. >> matt, why don't you stand up? matt is an army veteran and -- [applause] >> really put himself on -- put his life on the line for us. so tell us about yo

when the enemy is nonviolent dissenters and the first amendment becomes the enemy, as our expert chris kyle put it, amendment, aren't in convenience to the army. they ignore them. inconvenience to the army. they ignore them. it becomes a very dangerous situation. and they're way over into illegal conduct. there into entrapment operations, into trying to silence dissent against them and, apparently, much larger. this case just keeps getting bigger as we go. we're separate trial june 2. >> and we will continue to cover this. larry hildes, lead attorney representing the activists by don by the military, speaking to us from seattle, washington. glenn crespo, thank you for being with us, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, community organizer in the bay area of california. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. back, spies and the movement. we will go back to the civil rights movement. stay with us. >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to another story of government spying on activists, this time

> to be honest with you, when i first heard about johnny, i was working on american sniper with chris kyled of a long day. and we just -- we just kind of laid back a little bit, and we started looking at some videos that chris had of people that he knew in iraq. and all of a sudden, this video, this picture came up of a really tall, odd looking fellow. dressed in a different uniform than the rest of the field. i hadn't recognized him. i said, chris, who is that? chris, big texan, well, i tell you who that is. that's the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. after american sniper came out, chris happened to run into him, and chris got a hold of the publisher and said you have to write this book because jonny walker saved more americans than any s.e.a.l. did. >> wow. >> and that's -- >> johnny, that's a remarkable thing. you saved a lot of american lives. they loved you for that. trusted you for that. honored you for that. but you were still there. how did you end up getting to america and tell me, were you afraid not to come to america? >> no, i love america because, you know, my background

i will wear this bracelet today in mondayor of navy seal chris kyle.s tweet, there is actually an image -- there it is -- of chris kyle's bracelet. so what joe namath did yesterday, #fantastic. >> agreed. i'd retweet that. >> good man. >> one of the biggest games was bill o'reilly's interview with the president of the united states. he actually wanted to get on record about some of the biggest scandals, particularly with it came to the irs and their targeting of conservative groups. listen to this. >> you're saying there was no corruption there at all. >> it's not what i'm saying. >> you're the leader of the country. >> absolutely. >> there was some bone headed decisions out of -- >> but no mass corruption? >> not even mass corruption. not even a smidgen of corruption. >> but the person in charge, he talked about conferences. but the person in charge was lois lerner that when we asked how far this went, she took the fifth. how could that not -- the president not bring that to light? >> and when bill o'reilly asked him, so it seems like the administrati

you cowrote with chris kyle, number-one bestseller.cterize the seals as you know them. >> i would like to address that initial comment. it is not an argument in our book that they're trying to make them, quote, white. this is one of the most diverse groups in the united states just like our military in general. there's every ethnicity, if you will, in the seals and that is not our argument that they're trying to make them, quote, white. what our argument is they're trying to make them politically correct. there is a big difference between the two. >> what do you mean politically correct? >> they are trying to make their whole culture be a different group of people in the ways they do their rules of engagement, the way they handle themselves in different situations and the way the white house is looking at also integrating different areas including female soldiers. >> the white house is also politicizing the seals. first of all, they never should have been announced by bin laden was killed by seal team 6. a lot thought this put a target

read it to despise his discontent in many parts of korea and that they can carry on though as chris and kyle was in some of the monday show on hand to convert to the kind of a two one two to fifty two. hence it to good use of data to prove sprint to the coast country. hope that my nbn co will the stricken continue with the kitchen for a long your opinion. why did g status as the partitioning of funding for mine and cousin survive. and to know what time to sing to the two time so of that duty don't want to see how many people i didn't spot it too though. take a stitch and ten ft defiance of many. when the new continuing soak up the fire is still in the containment and i'm trying to penetrate into a movie ticket or bye bye to know what time connected to it to maine on one doesn't he punches me sees it as just need to find a note to switch on and so now i mean death to feel pity for my day as they can confidently move it decided to dump don't believe ticket to a specific tool kinda like one caveat authorities that gets to intensify the exact cause of the outbreak that is assuming that my victor

this is what chris kyle, who was gunned down, johnny is responsible for saving many american lives, especiallyeel needs to be told which touched the hearts -- which should touch the hearts of all american. how did you win the respect of the navy seals? >> you know, i believe what i'm doing. my goal is to save iraqi innocent people and to save the teams and every day i build my trust until they start calling me brother and part of the seal community. >> grew up in mosul, you knew the area. and when did you join our side and how long did you go for? >> in 2003, after i try so hard to work with americans and i couldn't find any chance. by accident i start work with military police and from there we have a lot of successful mission and the seals, they hear about my name and they let me join them. >> how did you get the name johnny walker? >> johnny originally was called walker and the americans don't want to use the real iraqi names 'cause it's very dangerous for the interpreters. so they started calling him walker, which is just kind of a basic name. i think one night someone saw that maybe johnn

kyle. let's go back to chris meyers. >> yeah, he was talking about that halfway point, if you're him, and youreammate is toward the front, is the front the place to be? >> that's where you have to be now. you don't know how long this race will go. there are showers off to the west. kyle would be in the lead and get the win for the race. now there is a bunch of people in the back saying we were riding early and we're coming to join you. we're going to fight for the lead, too. >> are you one of them? >> i go where jimmie johnson goes. i have been following him all day long. i will follow him to the front. >> we will hear from him in just a minute. joe gibbs racing is standing by with matt yokem. >> trying to steal the headlines one more night, has this turned into more like the july event, 400 miles, and will the sense of urgency pick up? >> everyone will know within about five laps of where the urgency is. i think a lot of it will be with the crew chiefs and what they tell the drivers for how big of a window we have here to get some laps in. we're going to try to continue to do everything we we