montel williams back with me.nt to get your reaction to an interview that sort of exploded last week with charles barkley. i sat down with charles barkley trying to get different perspectives on what happened in the wake of the nonindictment in ferguson and in new york a general sense from different young people and so many i talked to when we were marching and i was covering them last week. this is charles barkley who is backing police. he has a lot of law enforcement friends over the outrage here that the protests are still going strong. take a listen to what charles told me. >> all these race baiters, white and black, race baiters, white and black, are muddying the water and i want to make clear the notion that cops are out there killing black men, i think that's ridiculous. let me tell you something. i'm not worried about what people think about me. i have always known as a black man any time you disagree with black people, you're an uncle tom or a sell out. >> people have called you an uncle tom because of co

i've tried to keep this off of montel, and onto andrew. we spoke for a few minutes in him, this i said to is an ignorant question, but as marine to marine, how are you doing? he paused and said, i have a hard time keeping the bad thoughts out. this was two days ago. this is a key statement from someone suffering right now. he was sending that message clearly to let me know, and what his mom know, it is not going well. -- say it say any of any other way. this is not about me, but most i suffer from at in my brain.rs these symptoms, i recognize. well, by no ng very one day or two days without treatment, these things come back. have tunately, we determined that andrew has traumatic ptsd, but they had brain yet -- his there may be residual effects that will take this even longer to be treated. i know we are hesitant to say but there are rumors that has been beaten, he is being treated like a pow. history may here is worse than being in afghanistan.

back to the theory, montel, some have a theory you change so much.ot the same person i was when i was 20. >> you look the same. >> thank you. you're a very kind woman. you also need glasses. what about the theory that says longivity is not possible? it's not realistic because partners change so much. >> try to embrace the change rather than look at it as something that's offensive to your relationship. i embrace every change my wife has and i'm lacking forward to the ones she's going to have five years from now. hollywood romance movie. it's about the first couple. their first date. actress has already been picked to portray michelle obama but who will be cast to play a young barack obama in his days of courtship? hmmm. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. the

. >> our hashtag one lucky guy montell williams will be packedo weigh in on all of that and more.on: you are kicking u cooka lot of fun for a monday. thanks. jon: new analysis of the rolling stone article on a gang rate alleged to have taken place in a fraternity house in virginia, some conservatives blame a liberal narrative for driving that story as a magazine issues and no apology accepting blame for the flawed recording. alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show. and radio talkshow host and fox news contributor. you say okay, the magazine got the facts wrong but still a bigger story at play here. >> her ex-roommate coming out now saying the story is true and some who know her safe even the magazine got some of the facts wrong, rolling stone did not that it, they made a lot of mistakes, but a liar, go after her because we have statistics that show one out of six women or so claimed a victim of rate or sexual assault. we cannot ignore that and should not try to make women victims because one person and what they did or did not do. jon: even that statistic is under fire. >> i don

what we are trying -- >> a look at 2014 celebrity activists continues now with former talkshow host montel williams, who testified about marisi,sergeant andrew ta who was being held in a mexican prison on weapons charges. and the obama administration further addressed veterans health. this is 25 minutes. members of the subcommittee and full committee, it is critical that we are holding this today, and i cannot thank you enough for doing so. thank you to all the members who made it a point to come back for this hearing. you have to understand, your peers must understand that veterans are watching today. for those of them who did not come back, this will be remembered. while the scope is limited, i reminde remiss to not that this is just a symptom of a greater policy failure in how we address the needs of all returning soldiers. the failure is unfortunately even more pronounced when it comes to ptsd. we throw this term around lately. we have to recognize, 30,000 new cases of traumatic brain injury occur every year in our services. and it does not matter whether it is a combat situation or no

our coverage of 2014 celebrity activists continues with talk host montel williams. he testified about marine tahmooressi.rew he criticized the obama administration and gave further testimony about the veteran's health. >> members of the subcommittee and the full committee it is very critical you are holding this today. i also want to say thank you to all of the members who made a point to come back for this meeting today. your peers must recognize that veterans are watching today and for those who did not come back, this will be remembered. remiss to remind this ammittee that his case is symptom of a greater policy failure. this is even more pronounced when it comes to ptsd. we throw this term around lightly, but we have to recognize that 30,000 new cases of traumatic brain injury occur every year in our services. and it does not matter whether or not soldiers go into a combat situation or not. the majority are for training exercises. we currently have over 600,000 veterans suffering from residual symptoms from traumatic brain injury right now in the v.a. system. ou

> tonight on c-span we feature programs with celebrity activists, including former talk show host montel williams testified a military veterans, and singer demi lavoto. >> next on booktv, president george w. bush discusses his biography of his father, president george h. w. bush, with andy card, who served as white house chief of staff for president bush 43 and sector transportation for president bush 41. this is about 50 minutes. >> today i is a very special to invalids of the george bush presidential library foundation. it is special because we gather for the national book launch of "41: a portrait of my father," fittingly on veterans day. to date we have both the author and subject, son and father, the 43rd in the 41st president of the united states here at the bush library center. this morning will consist of a moderated discussion about "41" but are matters should as deputy chief of staff for the 41st president and later as the 11th united states secretary of transportation. he also served as chief of staff to the 43rd president of the united states, and most recently as acting dean

here to talk about it with us is montel williams. it is great to meet you. admired your work for years. your advocacy on this is outstanding. what do you make of this? >> i'm completely baffled and i can't believe someone would allow their ego to get in the way of our nation's responsibility. i'm so sorry. he's leaving so he wants this to be his legacy, dr. no. by saying no you have disgraced the service of every service member who served in the afghan, iraq war who put their lives on the line to allow him to stand their hypocrite -- doesn't even turn for a vote. last night i was in a room with so many veterans, talking with a guy who was pushing to get this bill passed, he said you're not going to believe this, but that is on the -- is on the floor shutting us down. and you could see the sigh in the room before the movie started. how dare he do this. >> someone might say the republicans who get the control will bring it back. >> a hundred days from now is probably the best shot. 22 lives a day. 2200 more soldiers have to die. thanks for the christmas presen

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one person who is a staunch supporter of his is montel williams. >> to me this is an abomination.he didn't hesitate to say aye-aye, sir, to go off and serve. how dare we -- how dare we as a nation hesitate to get that young man back. >> what do you say after that? >> first of all, thank you to montel williams and your colleague greta van susteren and others in this country who lobbied for sergeant andrew tahmooressi's release. as you know, kelly, there is a code in the military leave no man behind. i just want to give a candy cane to many of them and a big hug and heartfelt thanks to everyone who lobbied to release our soldier and return him safely to his family. >> adriana, we thank you so much this morning and have a wonderful christmas and beautiful and safe happy new year. >> thank you to you. the same to you. >> stolen valor, a military member catching a fraud on cam ravment >> that is an army uniform. why would you have an army uniform? >> i served in the army. i don't believe this guy either. why was the grinch so mean? think about it. the answer is coming up next. ♪ >>> so

avenue celebrity bash tender nate rogers, nate now, you have worked with montel williams. >> right. >with -- you even work with mike jerek. >> gentlemen, mike is the man. >> so what did you make for mike? y? made micah anti-oxygen mow heat owement blackberry based raspberry based will ill bit of rum lime juice. >> okay, so if i'm hot tonight, and i have a couple drinks i want to make, we have three here. >> first one we have the black velvet. a combination of guiness style, very dark, very rich, then we use prosecco. >> now what's prosecco? >> pro second sore actually sparkling wine, so great alternative to champagne. where champagne retails for about 25 to $30 but pro second sore 9.99 in the store. so actually dry, which is good. mixed with guiness it, makes like a chocolate champagne type of drink. so for your men your manually men, you know what i mean? >> right. >> i feel strong ya. >> you look strong already. >> okay, what's the second thing we have? >> second thing we have, this is called the pro second or grand, we use our pro tech sore we put 1 ounce of gram monday yeah, orang