in india, freddy mercury, balsara, a very common farsi name. he is a great performer. i'm not at home with his music. which is not also a criticism, it's just not my stuff. but he's a really great performer. and i'm sorry, i didn't meet him. >> rock 'n' roll you described as predictable. but what do you make of how popular it is and the effect it has on pop culture? >> while it has had a pretty long life, when it first started some of us didn't think it would last but it has lasted. but recently in new york, i went to a theater where i saw a musical, dedicated 90 minutes to jazz. now, jazz is a style which has been dying out. and people like winton marsalis has reinvigorated this old style. 90 minutes of jazz, i was in heaven. that was the pop music that i grew.with. when i was a student in vienna i would go to concerts of louis armstrong and suddenly my youth came back to me with this marvelous performance of winton's band on stage and excellent singers and tap dancing. so in other words i'm not falling into that world. >> do you ever watch mu

i whisper in my ridiculous infantile farsi. please phone mother sarah. sarah. sarah love people.arah teacher, damascus. please, use freedom, phone mother, sarah. ok? the woman looks at me. she says, i know you, sarah. i'm sorry, but i am not free and i cannot help you. >> talk about who she was. >> i actually never saw this woman again. it was one of dozens of interactions i had with other political prisoners. and muchhem were brief more brief than this. they would shout, i love you, down the hall or say, just wait and you will be free. or give me information about my mother and news from the outside. one of the most profound and lasting interactions i had was with a woman who was dutch-iranian, a dual citizen. she was arrested during a protest, which was following the huge protests for human rights and democracy that exploded in iran in 2009. shortly before we were captured. it was over, the green movement, but the protests were huge and very intense. there was a lot of violence and repression. people died in the streets. a prison filled with new people. she was one of them. in

the baby's middle name is azad the farsi word for "free." >> >> osgood: still to come, steve hartman. knew that this was the year to do it. >> osgood: on the good fight. and enrique iglesias. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> devote son will go a long way to show his love for his father. steve mart man has the story for you. >> after 50-year-old steve mckee was diagnosed with an incurable form of can see last year his older son mitch took it upon himself toe try to make the disease disappear. >> thank you. >> if only for a moment. >> flush it all the way and have him forget about it for that moment. have everybody forget about it for that moment, just be happy. >> it was a plan only a 15-year-old boy could hatch. knowing how proud dads can be when their sons do well in sports, mitcha wrestler, decided he would try to win a minnesota state high school wrestling championship. for his dad. even though mitch was only a freshman at that time. >> he might not be here next year i knew that this was the year to do it. >> this ambitious undertaking began in the weight room. all summer, mitch got up every mornin

elsewhere too, and we're not that many of the folks to go around, and they don't speak pashtun or farsi or what they need to do. can they give that? >> i'll give an answer, but i'll tell you i did not bring you up to be a prop for the last answer, but it was how i wanted to end. okay? this book is 70% about what our troops are doing every day. it's not about strategy. i bring that in. i try to show what's happening on battlefield after battlefield, and the grit of the young men that gets to the military ethic, there's going to be another point -- if i can figure out how to calibrate it. there is an america, a military ethos, and you cannot be a strong superpower if you can't have it, and no one in western europe has it, and it's now gone from the united kingdom, which breaks my heart, but it's in the united states. i don't know where it comes from. the grunts that i know are one-half of one-half of 1% of the eligible population. 75% of all males the ages of 18-20 are not physically or mentally capable of being recruited into the military. scary to begin with in our country, and of -- so