i really liked. with fine and then to find myself in sierra leone fighting really gospelly rebels who were committing terrible atrocities was also fine. but. i just wonder why did you leave the british army in the first place i mean you know you guys are paid to to to fight for a good cause is i mean british army certainly positions itself to be at the rescue of democracies in crisis. joe. well i mean i actually joined in fact i was asked to stay on in the british army that time and i was asked to do another job with my regiment which was then especially with or had been the special . and i was very tempted to do that job but my friend who was the owner and chief executive of heritage oil and gas said come on simon it's time you made some real money you got kids etc etc join my old company so my new career was as an old man it was accidental that we then became what we did become which was you know the number one private military company in africa so it was a manufacturer the main difference between your work as a mercenary and between being an officer in british special forces. i would actually say

kids with the guns what is it like facing your enemy but there are kids with the guns yeah i mean like in sierra leone i never got close to fighting when the word. child soldiers involved. but these child so do is. i mean they're very often on drugs. that were being committed by them were dreadful oh yeah absolutely but i mean i'm just assuming that like it here appear in brad man when he sees a child soldier even if that child soldier is on drugs probably has a moral dilemma whether to shoot at him or not yeah i was never in that position but i guess some of the guys. what happened there that must've been pretty tough for them they did you guys ever talk about it did any of your colleagues tell you about this movement you know because in a very often the fighting is not sort of you don't know in direct sights of the enemy it's a case of isn't coming from. you can't even really tell whether they're children or whether the adults put it. coming towards you either way so for those who are actually fighting on the front lines day considered as child rebels to be a full fledged soldiers and full fledged e

or in sierra leone. so i did help him. i helped him by writing papers of my own which he then used in his papers as to how . they were fools of the iraq war can i ask you something would you if you were right now offered a contract to topple bashar al assad would you go for it i would absolutely not for that. i think that situation is so horrific and so complex no that would be and i must be getting old but also these are your words toppling foreign governments is what democracy is all about do you still think so. democracy is about changing governments but it's about changing governments in a legal and hopefully no military nonviolent way. we don't see much of that lately i mean we're. once again the what they're trying to do in syria you know we can also talk about all these countries an arab spring but it's going to take us to a whole new subject but general you know toppling governments for democracy sake doesn't usually bring democracy nowadays because those countries where the governments were changed are really much

expectation of the public to be notified and there's no disclosures this is a courtesy e-mail so i. leon to the fellow commissioner. >> now that i think about it i've been procured by my mel fell commissioners it doesn't bear the facts are different in crown castle i'll move to grant the jurisdiction requests for the city invesical failings to notify. >> on that motion commissioner fu fung. commissioner hwang. the president is absent. commissioner honda the vote is 4 to zero and the jurisdiction is granted and the appellant has 5 days to appeal this coming monday >> item 5 is two jurisdiction questions q requests on 9th street requester asking that the board take jurisdiction overbuilding permits which were both issued on may 20th it end on may 2nd and those jurisdiction requests were filed on may 3rd the permit holder is stanley to demolish a one story warehouses to a rectified residential building with one commercial unit. >> commissioner upon advise from the city attorney i am in a business relationship with the permit holder and i anticipate being in contract with them shortly i'm as

i know leon panetta was against releasing these five prisoners.re high-value prisoners who could cause a lot of national security problems for the united states. so we have to look at the bottom of this. we have to ask ourselves, was he trying to do this -- was the president trying to do this for political reasons. was there something he wanted to get off his plate? many are making that charge. not just republicans. the fascinating thing is, the president thought he would win on this issue and it's really becoming a problem for him. >> i think he thought he was doing a good thing by bringing a soldier home. >> many are admitting the rose garden may not have been the right choice. we may come back to both of you on this, because it will be a story that keeps on going. appreciate it. >>> up next today, you can't spell pig castration without tea, the tea party favorite makes a giant leap toward washington, d.c., right up ahead. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple ameri

i want to hang real pearls on my wife's neck. ain't she supposed to wear pearls? >> raised down south leon didn't know it and he won't forget it. >> my grandmother told me, no matter how much money you make, you're a country boy from tallahassee, florida. >> i think august wilson was the greatest artist in the last 20 years and he gave so many opportunities to us as actors and directors and he wrote stories for and about us. >> they're just trying to be on. >> i don't want him to be like me! i want him to get as far away from my life as he possibly can? >> that partnership between a director and a writer that's a sacred bond, and i love that. so i had the experience of working with august wilson. i had the experience of working with pearl gray and now i'm working with lidia diamond and catori hall. writers write, directors direct, actors act and when you have all of that happening at the same time in the same show, that's a beautiful thing. >> didn't your mama tell you to be still when it's thundering and lightning? >> didn't i tell you i was hard headed and didn't mind her one bit? >> god

i want to get to the guys who were released. even our former defense secretary leon panetta was against this not to release these soldiers these taliban soldiers given the ongoing war and i assumeled it would never happen. >> well, that doesn't surprise me. i have been around leon panetta for a number of years. he's an abc slults straight shooter. here's the issue. general mcchrystal and general petraeus and general alston and general allen have all made recommendations to this administration on war policy issues in iraq and afghanistan. the president has rejected summarily every single one of them during the residual forces, et cetera. it doesn't surprise me on an issue as essential as this is those who posted a fight made a recommendation we should not make this trade and provided the rationale for it. that was ignored and rejected as has all of their other recommendations over the past four to five years. >> general, thank you for being here. >> it is an under statement to say the administration has taken a lot of heat on this deal. a lot of that has fallen on nat

i don't see is a basis to over turn this predicament. i'll be leon towards denying the appeal. >> you know the and i think i probably voted more than some of my fellow commissioners to approve some of the issues initially we thought it was more of a process issue but if i look like this as a technical document then i'm concerned now about the accuracy of what they have specified as infeasible a technical infeasibility and i'm wondering whether there are other issues is it the fact their 18 feet from the nearest box. you know, showing a infeasible site based upon constraints of the dimensions it's relatively easy you know, i have staff doing that all the time when things don't fit right. and see if i'm going purely on the basis of whether the appropriate information have been provided in a process they've already concurred and agreed on through an mou through their own agreement with various sites then i have a lot of doubt as to whether the technical feasibility has been proven >> i want to add i remember, if the last time this permit holder was befo

but just as, you know, i think 2009-2010, leon panetta said these individuals pose a. -- serious threathould never be released. neil: leaving aside the monies that might have gone back and forth, when susan rice has trouble even calling them terrorists, listen to this, i think it compounds the problem. susan rice. >> point-blank, did the u.s. negotiate with terrorists? >> with the government to who won the zero agreed that. neil: okay. the bite went on longer but made less sense -- less sense. bottom line, she did not even use that term. >> well, first of all, consider the optics. why would you bring out susan rice, the last time she may several sunday talk show appearances she was talking about an anti islamic video and the end of this for what happened in benghazi. her credibility is absolutely shot. for her to sit there and try to make the american people believe that the obama administration did not negotiate with terrorists, that is exactly what they did. alabama is a non state, nonbelligerent organization. they're not a nation state. we have established a very bad precedent. neil:

had a good idea of what they were going to do i'll never forget the phone kale i got from an excited leon panetta telling me that bin laden had been taken down. those types of things are briefed to us on a regular basis. not a day goes by, bob, that i don't get briefed on some classified aspect of our intelligence community. a lot of which is ongoing operations. secondly when bergdahl was let go, what we were told and what the public was told is that because of a video that was made apparently in december of last year and viewed by department of defense in january of this year that bergdahl looked like he had lost 10 to 15 pounds, he was in poor health and they were concerned that if they did not make this exchange that his life would be in danger as a result of bad health. well, no intelligence supported that. and now they come back and because he is in decent health considering where he's been, they changed their story. they said, no, we suspected his life may be in danger if word got out of this pending possible trade that his life may be in danger. again, i can just tell you there is

in my watch i can say carrie swan, some of the wutang crowd. leonsell played here, the english beat played here. i believe i'm the only roadhouse left on the west coast, on ocean. [ ♪ music ] >> welcome to caspe. home of the super onion rings. no matter who is here, 10, 20, 200, is it the same feeling? >> there's many different kinds, a common thread. you are playing in a place with history, you can't walk in and not acknowledge the fact that thousands people as cool as can we have walked no the same building. [ singing ] >> this is the outskirts. we are in the middle of nowhere. there's nothing between us and 30 miles to pure for of the and highway 101. [ sings ] . >>. >> you can play your music, do what you want and go to bed and wake up by the ocean. it's totally unique that way. [ singing ] >> i have to say as time goes buy, this place has something that hunkers back to older times >>. >> you're not playing here because you want to be famous. >> yes. >> you play because you want on experience. >>. >> you want to experience the thing that other m

i want to ask mr. leonebout the poison pill senator shelby put in the senate bill requiring the commercial crew people to use federal acquisition rules accounting rather than the -- they sign their contracts for a fixed price. in other words, the whole thing is the government gets a big savings from three to 10 times if the government did the work, it would be three to 10 times more than the commercial people. but in that process, they lose the right to go to those companies and say give me an accounting, a detailed accounting. the commercial crew people have the right to say well, that's not your business. that's part of the deal. you just give us this fixed price that you said you were going to give and we'll give you the equipment that you said you needed. host: gerald, thank you. you may have to set it up for the audience who haven't been following that closely. guest: gerald's question, he asked about a poison pill in the commercial crew competition. to back up a bit, nasa has awarded contracts -- or na

so that continues and i think will continue into next week. >> leon, you have some big positions in energyetty well this year. i think leading the market. do those gains continue? >> i would say selectively. but i don't like to buy into war scares and things like that. but you know, rig has been a very disappointing stock. we've owned it for a couple years and we're holding on because it's cheap relative to underlying asset value and if yields 7%. it's not been a good stock. >> 7% ain't bad. where else do you see opportunity? >> we're in some of the mlps, atlas energy, atlas pipeline, lynn energy, anadarko, we have about 15% of portfolio in energy-related companies. >> and wayne, i know materials is a sector as well that you've been spending a lot of time on. >> well, we're pretty positive on energy. we've been surprised at the strength in oil prices but we valued companies at about an $85 oil price and they're still cheap to 85 and you get 105, $106 oil and the middle east is a real mess, you know, we think there's some real good high-quality companies. eog, devon, new fields, afflon ener

in my watch i can say the swaps played here, some of the wutang clan. leon russell plays here. english beat played here. what i believe is i'm the only roadhouse left on the west coast, on the ocean. [ ♪ music ] >>. >> home of the super onion rings. >> what is it like plays, no matter who is here? >> it's the same feeling. >> there's many different kinds. there's a common threat. you can't walk in and not acknowledge the fact that thousands walked into that same building. [ singing ] >> this is the outskirts. we are up here, we are in the middle of nowhere. there's nothing between us and, you know, 30 miles to pure forest to highway 101. ♪ she was born to rambo ♪ daddy would not let her go >> you know, you can play your music, drink to your heart's delight, do what you want and go to bed and wake up by the o. totally unique that way. ♪ she hopped aboard a freight train ♪ ♪ bound for mexico >> as time goes by, this place has something harkening back to old time. [ singing ] >> thank you. >> you're not playing here because you want to be famous. >> yes. >> you're playing here beca

transpired and we have this deal and early on it was something that i was told that they didn't even consider. >> if hillary clinton and leon panetta and bob gates had accepted this do you think there would be this problem? >> i think if you had a hillary clinton and leon panetta who had a lot for service and friends, if you will, in congress and including some republicans and a lot more standing on some of the national security issues, not criticizing secretary clinton but congress said perhaps. and more liberal, less cautious and less likely to have a debate in the oval office about these big decisions. they think secretary hagel and president obama are three people who, forgive me, this is a republican perspective, who think they can talk you into about anything. they think there's power in persuasion. they don't view susan rice with national security standing. i'm not saying that any of those criticisms are fair but that's how they perceive this team as being the "b" team. >> they view this as a president looking at his legacy and the war in iraq and war in afghanistan got osama bin laden, no left man behind. also, ther

i want to say a word about the society's work. it engages its members, including me, with educational tonight'such as event, as well as the annual leon silverman lecture series. publish tess journal of supreme court history. i know many of you are avid it, as i am. it is the most engaging legal journal out there. historical treasures including many of the portraits throughoutn display this building which guard and promote the understanding of the supreme court. runs the summer institute, which has introduced more than 1,000 secondary school the country to en no straightive methods for guiding middle and high school students in learning about the constitution. i participated in that when i was making an honest living as a practicing lawyer, and it is a wonderful program and there are to the people in debt historical society for their that.n connection with tonight's program is cosponsored by the white house historical association and the united states capitol historical society. fromit comes to hearing mr. swanson, apparently the separation of powers does not way. in the tonight's event is tighted the arren commission at 50, reexamina

i want to say a word about the society's work. it engages its members, including me, with educational programs such as tonight's event, as well as the annual leon silverman lecture series. it publish tess journal of supreme court history. i know many of you are avid readers of it, as i am. it is the most engaging legal journal out there. it collects historical treasures including many of the portraits

problems obviously at the start and of the project whenever they framed i believe nooindz is that the appellants that building could be leon leaning and when they started the frame at the bottom so when they went up the wall the leaning of the building meant they suddenly had a problem >> the appellants building. >> yes. possibly that's one of the photographs i can see that on top of the trim in san francisco there's a settlement this lean. when you allow for the frame at the bottom as you go up urge to go build it out of the plump or hit the lean of the building. i'm not sure how they started off on the wrong 2009 foot's there was the issue of a lot of the buildings in san francisco are flashed off each other where you have a picture tatdz wall sometimes, it's not to code but stops a lot of like rain and water problems getting in so that flashing was caught from working at dbi we encourage i know planning don't is the preapplication stuff meeting with people and neighbors talking if you're going to build a building having the discussion with the neighbors is also good something is going to leak if you don't take care of t

i came with a plan that had been road tested by dave petraeus who was then director of ci, and supported by leon, but the president as i sa said, he gets to make the decisions, and he was not convinced that it was right for any kind of an american involvement no matter even a small, you know, support program. so what we did was try to help with the humanitarian disaster, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into the country. >> well, it seem nos better. >> well w it is worse, because syria is a battleground for jihadists, and it has become a magnet for the extremists, and the poor moderates are badly outgunned, and are fighting literally to stay alive, and with iran supporting assad both through the revolutionary guard and most importantly sending units of hezbollah into battle on behalf of assad, it has set up this sunni shiite al low wit battle. >> and cynthia conducted that interview four days ago before iraq blew up literally and figuratively with the issue, and with the syrian answer, that is a whole lot more complicated, because now essentially, there is no border between sey

i went out in the early days as a young vocalist. harry belafonte, lena horn, leon hall. people. >> oh, yeah. in fact, i remember we were talking in detroit. you were talking about harry got you to do a tour. you did it for nothing to help dr. king make payroll before he was killed. people didn't understand he didn't always have the support we thought about later. >> sure. in the early days there was no money. i was just coming out of school. i listened to dr. king on tv. i saw what he was trying the to do and i thought it was important and relevant. i asked my father, could i go on tour with him. he said, yes, if i wanted to, sure, i could go. >> now you sang at the first inauguration of president obama. >> yes. >> i think the only thing that may equal your fame as a vocalist is the hat you wore. everybody will always remember that. what was it like other than the bitter cold day for you to be standing there after your father marched, after you helped raise fundses for dr. king. you were born in tennessee. to be standing there and being asked to sing at the inauguration

prosco leon e-mails in that time i had no intention of negotiating a stance of force agreement.of tweets. karen tweets in is very early to ever going to ask american people as a whole to pay for continued prosecution of wars in iraq and afghanistan? there is that federal ledger and then there was richard who want to know representative perry the surge worked because we paid sunni not to kill shiites. do we have the money today? >> guest: during the iraq and afghanistan where we borrowed the money and so not only are americans in the past paying for but americans in the future will be paying for the worse of the past. i think it's a great point. part of going to war and the policy is galvanizing public support including the cost of the poor. we literally can't afford to do these things treat that's a circumstance and that is why our debt and deficit is actually a national security issue. that is why because we can't afford to do the things we want to need to to keep our nation and our nation's interest around the world safe. >> host: another viewer asked in the e-mail doesn't thi

if she spoke to leon pinneta and got around when pressed. i can't recall. >> when a lawyer becomes a politician and in the public eye for 25 years and she was a senator and secretary of state and president and used to hearing tough question. answer the question you want to be asked. you i think over all the question that i got. y do media analysis and a lot of people say particularly left media analyst that this was an ambush and disrespect excel what i saw was a fair professional methodical interview with gretta and brett. and i would hope to put to rest the allegation that fox doesn't give fair introduce to democrats. that is simply not the case. >> if there is a presidential campaign in her future. >> we know, john. >> you know? >> she's doing the media tour. she doesn't need the money. >> she doesn't need the money. but there may be attempts to well, address some of the questions put to her about benghazi and other things. you think it is part of a presidential run? >> no doubt about it. this is a book tour and she doesn't need the money.

panetta saying straightforwardly, i'd like to share with our audience at this time, leon panetta on the proposal back in 2012. iaid wait, i have an obligation under the law. if i send prisoners from guantÁnamo, they have to guarantee that they don't go back to the battlefield. i have serious, serious reservations and concerns. what are your thoughts? >> yes, indeed. behind closed doors there are a that have very seriousntagon reservations about what was done. as none of them remember in the loop as this deal went down. kind closely as you might get one story, leon panetta no longer serving this administration, there are people who wish they could do the same. but they just can't if they don't want to be fired as other military men have been since this white house became part of power. people can say what they want to say. all that evidence, all those reports, all of those things that they are coming out with, a lot of people have seen these things. if the white house doesn't like what is being said, they will put a spin on it, including calling these men swift voters for having anything negative to say. >> yes,

he said i will be made to serve a whole nine year sentence or i could be cut loose right away. >> hidoes leond very illegal and unethical. he had everyone involved in the assassination. he was the oil millionaires and then it was the minute men. >> at one point he had 16 assassins in the deely plaza. with that many assassins, i don't know how he made it to the autopsy table. >> garrison said ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. you reconstruct the numbers and that -- and then you subtract 1,300 that gives you ruby's unlist telephone number. >> mr. garrison if the p.o. didn't exist until late 1965. >> well that's a problem that you think to think over because you obviously missed the point. >> who is suppressing all of this information. >> i will tell you who is suppressing it. the federal government is suppressing it. >> who in the federal government, the administration of your government is suppressing it because they know that the central intelligence agency -- >> on whose o

leon panetta. so things change that way. i want to tell one story, if i may. >> you have 30 seconds. [laughter] >> bumming cigarettes, i was smoking at the time. dirksen came up to the gallery and said i am like little johnny where the teacher says, johnny, can you spell straight? ht.nny says, straig she says, what does it mean? ale.the ginger [laughter] one day i walked in and he said, andy, you know about delaware, don't you? i thought he was going to talk about williams. i said what about delaware? one congressional district when the tide is out. no congressional districts when the tide is in. his idea of humor. [laughter] kiko, iame has come up, don't think he is well remembered. a lot of people don't remember he was the republican whip in the 1960's, a very influential senator. i understand he gave you insights. tell that story. whip hads the minority down the hall from the senate a hideaway office. antechambere the for the elevator that went down into the caucus room beneath. it was a big elevator because william howard taft, the supreme court was down there. the elevator was r

leon with. your welcome back to the program the president of belarus alexander lukashenko has been left on linked by i know what explains rang up the administration of the president on the low question to himself during the bellows was there intense it could be handed over to key but i'm content making dissident who never goes away from using colloquial language in public candid station which. then have a hospitality by the president and his family to stay in bellows yes or no question but you're below spoke the reporter with. the piece of the shoe. that was found in the residence he seems to have fought every bit of that prank and he's now angry alexander lukashenko gave his security service a week to track down the russian prankster or else he said he would send the head of but the prankster hacked into the phone call decided it was the real thing and leaked it before the prankster himself we feel the truth about one suspects that it could be the ukrainian intelligence service it's no secret intelligence service to spy on world leaders we remember merkel's phone they may have some interesting bits o

finally, i found a job in a small village near leon in the farm with my friend of mine, we were two boys. and the farmer asked me what kind of religion i was. i said catholic. he said ok you're going to go with us to church sundays. as you can see, i have a very strong german acdent but my papers showed that i was born in the part of france where they spoke german and french and i got away with it. on sunday i went to church with my boss. i didn't know what to do but i was smart enough i went behind him and whatever he did, i did. and i got away with it, too. i worked there for over a year. and i was liberated by the american army and i went to join the american army but they didn't believe me. he said if you are what you told me that you're jewish and german, you had better go back to the organization who can vouch for you. i went back to the organizations to vouch for me but they asked me to work with them because they had thousands of children hidden in convents and so by different catholics. we found many of them. but believe me when i tell you there's two people living in france who

i'm leon phelps, how are you all doing tonight? i'm ready for the show. iniac, and my scented candles, and i'm ready to take your calls. so just dial the numbers that you see flashing below there and you get to talk to me, leon phelps, the ladies man. all right, so go ahead. >> where does that character come from? >> that character came fry used to make crank phonecalls to people radio stations doing that voice. and, ya, would do it all the time, was hiding myself, because i didn't i didn't want e to know that it was me. then i told a couple every writers on the show, dennis mc nicholas and andrew steel about this prank that i pulled, and they asked if they could do this character on the glow my good nets, our ' sitting in a show, it is a hands? >> hand chair. >> where is that chair? >> it is in my home in chicago. >> oh, cool! >> parting gift from s&l. instead of giving me money, they're like here, take this plastic chair, this 20-dollar chair, if the women want to come up, sit in my hand. that's a nice -- no. i haven't done that. >> have you met caste? >>

and on the other hand, when you have people like leon panetta who are very serious, questioning, i wasosed to this when we were talking about it before, i'm not sure about the conditions. on the other hand, you have people like john mccain who said before that he thought we should look at swapping prisoners from guantanamo bay tan mo. he's now in a totally different position. it undercut's the republicans' argument when they're talking about the fact that we must do everything possible to get him back, and then as soon as the president gets him back, they turn on a dime. but the thing that you're getting at here, josh, is there are legitimate lines of inquiry, and there are illegitimate lines of inquiry. one of the thing that has upset me the most is the character assassination of bowe bergdahl. we don't know what happened. we don't have all the facts. that will be adjudicated. we know that there's going to be an investigation there. and that should not be part of the conversation. is that going to be our standard? we will rescue you, we will bring you back if we decide that we like wh

grassley: today i want to discuss with my colleagues the nomination of leon rodriguez to be director of u.s. citizenship and immigration service. mr. rodriguez was appointed on december 19. he was approved by our judiciary committee april 3 by a vote of 11-7. so i want to explain my opposition. first and foremost, mr. rodriguez lacks adequate immigration experience to lead this agency. i only say that because his nomination comes on the heels of a potential sweeping immigration reform legislation. when you read his responses to my questions, it becomes clear that he has little appreciation for what this job as director entails. he basically says that he has a lot of studying to do. i think with the situation of immigration in this country, the need for immigration reform, that we need to do better than have a director of the agency who says that he has a lot of studying to do. second, his previous experience with casa de maryland is a concern as well. he was a member of the board of directors there from 2005 to 2007. the mission of casa de maryland is to help improve the quality of li

you can see why leon cooper han has so much interest. 20%, this is a large chunk to bite off. i think this name does go higher. what he's looking at, kindermorgan, he loves the yield. that's something he chases all the time. he's going to get it out of this name. >> josh wants to talk wings. buffalo wild wings on the rise as wunderlich reiterates buying on strong world cup attendance. you don't like those wings, do you? >> i don't think the wings are great, but i like the atmosphere off the place. i've been there a couple of times. the beers are pretty good. >> a couple of times. >> this morning. i was there for breakfast. breakfast wins, it's like a thing now. that's right. with syrup. listen, wunderlich securities came out, buy. they've got $180 target. i actually agree with this call in retrospect, we all should have seen this coming. standing-room-only crowds at the bar for all of these world cup games. people are buying a ton of wings, a ton of beer. they actually measured wait times for tables, and they found that they were over an hour at most of the locations. so that sh

former defense secretary leon panetta says he had similar concerns when he had a chance to okay a prisoner swap years ago. >> i had to ensure that the greatest security would be established so that none of them would re-enter the battlefield. and that was my obligation under the law. there were very strict conditions to maintain security on each of these individuals. and those were not acceptable either to the taliban or to the qatarees at the time. and it was for that reason that i did not support doing it at that point, because we just couldn't get them to agree to the conditions. >> as for the president himself, he landed just moments ago in europe, arriving in warsaw, where he is set to hold meetings with allies and some prominent critics about the u.s. role in the region. however, it's safe to say that this morning, at least, this decision to trade for bowe bergdahl will overshadow these meetings there. you can see the president shaking hands upon arrival. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is live in warsaw. jim, what's the administration saying this morning about this bergdahl deal? >> repo

. >> reporter: tony award winning director kenny leon said he spent close to a decade tracking a new way to keep shakur's musache i >> if you look at his music, as written on paper, it's like, wow. look at the phrasing of those words. look at that poetry. you know, this is shakespearean. ♪ >> reporter: shakur's music reflected the contradictions in his own turbulent life. sometimes glorifying violence. ♪ >> reporter: sometimes pleading for it to end. ♪ >> reporter: 17 years ago, he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting. ♪ >> reporter: the musical tackles topics like drugs, violence and promiscuity. and also the "n" word. leon says it gives it the same gritty as gangster rap. but theater critic david cody fears the musical will not appeal to broadway audiences. >> the lowest common denominator doesn't mean necessarily bad quality. it just means it has broad appeal. yes, on broadway, we love to see poor people singing about how terrible their conditions are, but they have to be 19t 19th century french people nget how is groodway going to change if it's not for plays like this then? >> that's why this is a good time