>> guest: i want him to show them the animals because he had a red squirrel, tarantula, jack dempsey fish, all these things. he said oh, we had to get rid of those things a long time ago. >> host: did you have a relationship with your father? >> guest: not a strong relationship. we would see them periodically. the last time muslim was the day i got married 39 years ago. >> host: did the second, he had, did you have a relationship with those half-brothers come half-sisters? >> guest: no. >> host: did you ever forgive in? >> guest: absolutely. i kind of look at the big picture. my mother tried to make up for all that. and my father, you know, he was involved with drugs, alcohol, women. nothing wrong with women but you can't have more than one, okay? that's the problem. that probably would not have been the best influence on me. in retrospect even though i was devastated as a kid, i was praying let him come back, now i realize that perhaps it would not have been the best thing for me. >> host: detroit today, what would you be doing? >> guest: first of all, the same thing i would be doin

dempsey clearly said en route to afghanistan they don't now see an active threat against the united states. which probably is correct assessment. this is a regional ethnic and religious war so far. >> colonel jackacobs when he was on last hour suggested that perhaps dempsey had gotten yelled at by the administration for sounding so hawkish and was forced to walk it back. do you believe there's politics involved? >> well, i think they're all in very close coordination. they've -- they're having daily meetings the national security council. i don't think there was any missed signaling on the part of anybody. i think they've thought more carefully about it. the brutal murder of this one brave journalist really was not something that should have called into question a fundamental policy. if we attack these isis rebels, in syria, essentially mr. obama ends up supporting the assad regime. so it's a real dilemma, and i'm sympathetic to them. they're doing the best they can, which is so far protect the kurds. and that's about as far as they've gone. >> darrell, have you been able to offer an explanation for -- i mean, grateful that it happened with this other journalist, but, you know, if it's an al qa