john goodman is here, one of my all time favorites, john goodman. [ cheers and applause ] also, stoppingk about his new book "no land's man," very funny comedian aasif mandvi is joining us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] lovely guy, very funny book. and we have music from a band i love, interpol and interpol -- [ cheers and applause ] a few things, i moved to new york to work on "snl" in 2001. the first concert i went to in the city, horatio sanz took me to see interpol, so i'm so happy they're here. also, i don't know if you read, their tour bus got stuck in the snowstorms in upstate new york. true story. they were stuck in their tour bus for over 50 hours. and yet they made it here to be with us tonight. you'll see five of them on stage, there were seven. [ laughter ] there were seven so -- [ cheers and applause ] enjoy their music. share a thought. share a thought for those two dudes they ate on the bus. [ laughter ] guys, if i may, that was after all that that business, there's something i have been meaning to get off my chest for awhile now. i usually don't air my personal opinions

>> no. >> called john goodman. they don't know about the mr. goodman thing.ecently in a horrific car accident we personal went broke so you couldn't go to the college of your choice. i'll make sure you never kill in this town again. >> i could watch that on a loop all day. i love that. >> i think i will. >> it's like you're a volcano, waiting to erupt in all these roles. it's cool. do you have fun with this part of it? you've done so much on television, so much in the movies. now that you get to sink your teeth into these juicy morsels, do you love it? >> absolutely. that's what i'm here for. that's what i do it for. >> you're also having fun on house to house? >> yeah. great cast. great writing. >> what's on the bucket list for you now? you've done everything -- i don't mean to make it sound like -- >> well, after five years -- >> what do you want to do? what haven't you been given an opportunity to do in this business? >> more theater and maybe relax for a couple of days. >> yeah. >> yeah. travel. travel, yeah. >> spend time with friends. >> yeah. >> you're

i know this has come up before, but i'm seeing john goodman. >> i think somehow -- why that comes on our horizon, i'm not sure. >> robin williams has already played teddy roosevelt. >> i know at "night at the museum." >> work is done, send a check mr. spielberg. >> he's a great guy. it will be a great journey. >> the phenomenon of lincoln the film and 0 of the book itself, but really of the film makes me want to ask you about the ways in which presidential histories or histories of eras like this one have become really part of the popular conversation. everybody is a historian. everybody's got a book about a president or presidents. not only people who have the actual background or credentials or have done the work, but almost what used to be paraplegic back books about presidents, now cable tv hosts, not that i'm thinking about anybody in particular, chris matthews, seems to have a book out about this one, or bill o'reilly, every other book on the best seller list seems to be a popular history. is that bad for the profession? >> you know what, my feeling is if you get somebody to li

ted is the co-star played by john goodman.he is the guy that is like, yeah, honey, can you just stay inside? i love you and everything. i love you and totally agree with you, but do you really have to go on the bike ride? don't go on the bike ride. i don't have anything to wear. >> now she is free to go where she wants. where will she go? she is in the rural area. there is no whole foods there. >> i like something you said. >> what's that? >> i haven't heard somebody make this point. you are perplexed by some of the conservative reactions. >> as a spiral dancing liberal. it looked like big government coming down on this one woman who you have to admit has expertise when it comes to ebola. she saw it. she saw it up close. i'm wonder yg some conservatives -- i am wondering why some conservatives aren't wondering with her. i looked at christie and cuomo and they looked like they were paranoid. >> are you saying people shouldn't be forcibly detained because of others' fears. >> that sounds good. >> you should wear the scarlet e. >

john goodman is to be resentenced today.nvicted in the death of a young man he smashed into with his bentley. the other guy a car went in a canal and the 23-year-old driver drowned. goodman tried to adopt his girlfriend as his own and that was shot down by the courts and the jury convicted him on two counts and there is confusion on over whether he can be sentenced to both charges, is you explain that? >> in the first trial, the state dropped the vehiclear homicide charges. and they reenstated the charges and he was tried on vehiclear homicide and killing a guy while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crime. what do you do with the other charge? under the law you are only supposed to go up on >> so you just capital kind of leave that charge hanging out there. >> could this -- >> what happens, john, is if the judge dismisses one of the two counts, okay so, that count is now dismissed, and now there's only one count that's hanging out there that he gets sentenced to, and that goes on appeal, and the appeals court finds tha

because during the day i'm brad pitt, i'm brad -- i'm john goodman.ouring, what do you do to relax? what do you just do to calm down? >> i watch the show. >> jimmy: thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> i do watch the show. of course i do. >> jimmy: i appreciate that. >> i wouldn't lie to you jimmy. >> jimmy: i appreciate that. >> no, but i watch a lot of television. and there's so many television shows and so many episodes of television shows at our disposal. sometimes, i open my netflix and i'm like, i don't know if i can do it. there's so much here, right? i'm not going to make a dent. it's different, it used to be if you missed an episode of a a show you be like, well, i guess i'll never see that. but now it's like, you like that show? you want to see every episode? you want to see all 500 seasons of "law and order"? in this episode, olivia benson's a baby. [ laughter ] you know? you end up binge watching, you know? you don't set out, all right, i'll watch an episode or two -- i haven't showered in a week? [ laughter ] i've actually told myself "a

but it's fun. >> you know an entire youtube clip out there called john goodman. . >> we're having a conversation here! i was recently in a horrific car accident! we purposely went broke so you couldn't go to the college of your choice! i'll make sure you never kill in this town, again! >> i could watch that on a loop all day. i love that. >> i think i will. >> like you're a volcano waiting to erupt in all these roles. do you have fun with this part of it? you have done so much on television and so much in the movies but now you get to sink your teeth into these juicy morsels, do you love it? >> yeah, absolutely. that's what i'm here for. that's what i do it for you. >> you're also having fun on alpuhouse. >> great cast, great writing. >> what is on the bucket list for you now? i don't mean to make it sound like -- >> the next five years i want -- >> what do you want to do? what haven't you been given an opportunity in this business? >> i'd like to do more thetheater and relax for a couple days. >> yeah. >> i'd travel. travel. yeah. >> spend time with friends, fami

. >> jimmy: we didn't have this kind of trouble when john goodman was here last week, i'll tell you thatese words, jim. and the tapes will show i've been a bloody good sport. >> jimmy: wait so all of the words. you didn't go in order. you just randomly got all the words in? >> you didn't explain to me that this was like the dictatorship of language. [ laughter ] you didn't tell me that i was living in some sort of sing-sing of lingo, some prison. yeah? >> jimmy: yeah. well i think, i think -- i think you're a little nuts. >> what i think you've done is you've tyrannized me with your masculinity. but there is an air of femininity to you. you're like a perverse hybrid. like a female body builder. like a person who's neither one thing or another. like a hermaphrodite with a new genital in your armpit. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, i'm just -- >> i'll tell you what -- >> jimmy: i'm just hard to describe. i'm like, i'm like grape nuts. it's a cereal. it's wheat. it's not grapes. it's not nuts. it's a breakfast cereal, and it's good for you. and the more you eat me, the better you're going to fee

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james chaney, andrew goodman, and mickey schwerner. johnoerr died earlier this month at the age of 92. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2012. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we go to cincinnati to speak with a man who was just released from prison this week after almost 40 years, the longest held prisoner ever exonerated. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> nina simone, "mississippi goddam." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with juan gonzalez. >> an ohio man has been freed from prison after spending 39 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. ricky jackson, a 59-year old african-american man, had been jailed since 1975 on a murder conviction. the prosecution's case was based on the testimony of a 13-year old witness. after a 2011 investigation, the witness recanted his testimony, saying he had implicated jackson and two others under police coercion. the witness, eddy vernon, said police had fed h

goodman. chwernerorte receiving on behalf of her husband. the honorable john d dingell junior. mildred s missile half. hargrove.e ethel kennedy. mick.norable abner the honorable lucile allard receiving on behalf of the honorable edward r wrote val. charles stafford. robert m solo. meryl streep. marlo thomas. morris also known as stevie wonder. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. ♪ >> thank you, everybody. have a seat, everybody. everybody have a seat. welcome to the white house. this is one of my favorite events. aside this we set event to celebrate people who have made america stronger and wiser and more humane and more beautiful with our highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. this year we honor 18. sondheimtely stephen could not be with us today. i will present in this award at the 2015 ceremony. give thanks to public servants who have devoted their lives to fellow citizens. o'neill he told tip was starting of hispanic congressional congress there were so few hispanics the joke was they could fit them in a

goodman with aaron matÉ. of thest are lee fang nation and republic report and john nichols whose latest book is, "dollarocracye money and media election complex is destroying america." you way and from madison, wisconsin, john. talk about the significance of the race there, which is very tight, the gubernatorial race, which has great significance not only talking about midterm elections, but what is going to happen in 2016 as well with the presidential elections. >> without a doubt. the important thing to remember about the 2010 elections four years ago is they swept in a wave of republican governors who are very different than previous republican governors. these governors were committed to an austerity agenda with regards to public education and public services, and also committed to a very aggressive anti-labor agenda. wisconsin highlighted that. governor scott walker just weeks after becoming the governor of wisconsin, he implemented a series of assaults on labor unions that led to one of the largest mobilizations of workers and their supporters that we've seen in modern american history back in 2011. the

goodman with aaron matÉ. of thest are lee fang nation and republic report and john nichols whose latest book is, "dollarocracye money and media election complex is destroying america." you way and from madison, wisconsin, john. talk about the significance of the race there, which is very tight, the gubernatorial race, which has great significance not only talking about midterm elections, but what is going to happen in 2016 as well with the presidential elections. >> without a doubt. the important thing to remember about the 2010 elections four years ago is they swept in a wave of republican governors who are very different than previous republican governors. these governors were committed to an austerity agenda with regards to public education and public services, and also committed to a very aggressive anti-labor agenda. wisconsin highlighted that. governor scott walker just weeks after becoming the governor of wisconsin, he implemented a series of assaults on labor unions that led to one of the largest mobilizations of workers and their supporters that we've seen in modern american history back in 2011. the

goodman. president obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 troops to iraq, more than doubling the current u.s. force in iraq. pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby unveiled the plan on friday. >> the commander-in-chief has authorized chuck hagel to deploy to iraq up to 1500 additional u.s. personnel over the coming months in a noncombat role to expand our advice and insist -- assist mission. secretary hagel made this recommendation to the president based on the request of the government of iraq. the assessment of iraqi units, progress iraqi security forces have made in the field and in concert with development of the coalition campaign plan to defend key areas and go on the offense of against isil. >> in a significant expansion of the american military campaign against isis, military advisers will reportedly establish training sites across iraq. the $5.6 billion plan will reportedly be presented to congress during the lame-duck session that begins this week. the u.s. military expansion in iraq comes amid conflicting reports over the fate of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. iraqi officials claim he was wounded in an airstrike on isis leade

john gibler, author and independent journalist. he is in guerrero right now. we will be back with him in a moment. [♪] is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman>> we are talking about the disappearance of 43 students at the hands of police in the southern mexican state of guerrero. this is a first year student at ayotzinapa teachers college, who survived the police attack. he is responding to the claim by the attorney general jesus murillo karam that the students were killed and burned by a local drug gang. >> he is just doing this to wash his hands of the problem and appear that he is doing something. it is obvious that it is not that way. it is obvious that he is just looking for something. one problem for me, all the people in charge of looking for them, are looking for them as if they are dead instead of alive. if they took them alive, why are they looking for them dead? , athat was ernesto che cano first-year teacher at ayotzinapa teachers college. this is another student who survived the first police attack. >> we hope the actions get more intense so that it is not all just talk. .e need real action we do not have anything against the b

goodman, and michael schwerner were murdered by the ku klux klan in mississippi, in 1964. other recipients included singer-songwriter stevie wonder, actress meryl streep, nbc journalist tom brokaw, congressman johngell-- who's served longer than anyone, ever- - and ethel kennedy, widow of senator robert f. kennedy. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour: chuck hagel steps down as secretary of defense, homeland security chief johnson on the president's executive actions on immigration, extending the deadline for a settlement on iran's nuclear program, and how squirrels in alaska are helping scientists measure the effects of climate change. >> woodruff: now to a major shake up in the obama administration-- the resignation of defense secretary chuck hagel. the move comes as u.s. expands in mission to go after the islamic state group and just weeks after the after the president's disappointing mid- term election results. >> it's been the greatest privilege of my life-- the greatest privilege of my life-- to lead, and most important, to serve with the men and women of the defense department, and support their families. >> woodruff: hagel's announcement came amid widespread reports that he's leaving

john, good morning to you an independent caller. ahead. caller: good morning, greta and steve. was e watching this show i atching the andy goodmanhow, democracy this morning. this very topic was on. 6 million people were identified in 27 states who are -- who will voting.y commit fraud by not one single person has been charged about anything. tomorrow?ng to happen most likely these 6 million states will se 27 be harassed in some way. the viewers toge go online and watch that program own conclusions. with going on in america voting is abominable. wrong.ust go watch that program and, steve, you're doing a great job. really wrong in this country. >> all right, mr. wright. you.ank you know, i think i referred to always easy for poll watchers who are sitting polls to watching the see voter fraud when it happens but something that definitely i many states take seriously. many state law enforcement take i'm sure the department takes seriously too. of conduct t type may not necessarily be able to day, the on election department does launch post election day free and o ensure equal access to the polls. mary, a republican. good morning. c