foreman was the strongest most powerful boxer of his generation he was heavily favored against muhammad ali and what ali ended up doing in that fight is cowardly against the ropes and sometimes he even whisper a horse time it's towards george foreman saying george you ain't hit a nerve george you disappoint me foreman bit is unleashed a furious flurry of blows against muhammad ali and to the crowd that was watching and to form an unselfish almost certainly seen that foreman was winning the fight because he punched in the punch and he punch what they didn't realize is that the elastic ropes were actually absorbing the majority of the blows and so foreman succeeded in tiring himself up and then in the eighth round muhammad ali knocked him out what this article in international security argues is that this is how do we win wars that you turn the stronger opponents strength against it so that the harder it hits the more ramped up it becomes the more it simply exhaust its own resources and while it is certainly hasn't fully replicated mohammed on the successful strategy it's actually a very good

he totally embraced muhammad ali's stance to it i could go on with the disputed >> host: muhammad ali is viewed as a hero. >> guest: but of course of the time he to get into -- ki took a very different stance. my point is my father's views were not the conventional patriotic reviews, and i wanted to alert the readers of the fact that there are black people who have views that are like reverend wright's these people are not kooks, they are, you know, smart people, they are admirable people, they are loving people but they view the united states differently than other people because their experiences. does this mean i agree with my father? no, i love my father but i disagree with various positions that he took just like i disagree very strongly with various positions that reverend wright took. and i say that in my book but i wanted people to understand that conventional view of reverend wright really simplifies things and i wanted to make things a little bit more complex and show reverend wright in a way that i think hadn't been done or haven't been done sufficiently. >> host: let's fas

he totally embraced muhammad ali's stance. so i could go on with this. >> host: muhammad ali is now viewed as a hero. >> guest: but of course at the time -- >> host: >> guest: he took a very different stance. my point is that my father's views were not the conventional patriotic views, and i wanted to alert the readers of the fact alert the readers of the fact that yeah, there are black people that have used -- that like reverend wright to these people are not kooks, they are smart people, they are admirable people, they are laughing people but the view the united states differently because of their experiences. now does this mean i agree with my father? no. i love my father. i disagree with various positions that he took just like i disagree very strongly with various positions that reverend wright took, and i see that in my book, but i wanted people to understand that the conventional view of reverent right really simplifies things and i wanted to make things more complex and show reverend wright in a way that i think hadn't

so i didn't hear that from muhammad ali. i heard that from charles white. >> ifill: as you have watched children grow through this effort, have things changed? has it gotten tougher for this generation of young people? are they different than they were when you came along? >> i think us older people are just cynical, because we've got more years behind us than we do in front of us. you know, i remember speaking. i was doing the movie malcolm x and we were shooting at columbia university. and between takes, i was-- we used students. and between takes we were talking about all the issues of the day, and oh, it's this, and the world is and this was 20 years ago. i can imagine what the conversation would be like now. and basically, i said, so what are you going to do? you're going to give up? and they're like, no, no, we're going to change things. that didn't even come into their mind. i said, oh, that's me, the older, cynical one that's thinking like that. so i enjoy working with young people and listening to young people becau

over 15,000 episodes where the interview everyone from muhammad ali to hugh hefner. you want to see a creepy hugh hefner check him out when he was 30 years old. definitely interesting. those other three books. the conservative intellectual movements in 1945. lee everett's the conservative revolution and bill buckley's milestone by his autobiography, he talks about how he got the movement started. getting into the three of the conservative movement roger hit on a lot of these but there are other books that are pretty good. if you are more the fiscal type he hit on the road to serfdom which i couldn't agree more. that book is probably kicked off the modern conservative movement. that book came out in 1944. world war ii was still going on. the book was not that popular when it hit bookshelves. reader's digest decided to take that book, digest a form of 100 pages. it is like people magazine but a lot more intellectual. they were able to -- people could understand free market ideas and principles. it is still around on the internet if you looked it up. you don't have to b

cassius clay famously changed his name to muhammad ali.hen, became the greatest boxer of all-time. >> i must be the greatest. >> reporter: and johnny cougar, slowly worked his way back to his real name. to john cougar mellencamp. then, just john mellencamp. will the new name bring new levels of success? time will tell. but one thing's for sure. with a labor lockup threatening the start of basketball season, maybe a little world peace is exactly what the nba needs. for "good morning america," dan koeffler, abc news, new york. >> can refer to him as mr. peace. all right. >>> coming up on "good morning america," kiddie catwalk controversy. >>> and can you turn three news anchors into an actual band? keep it here. with a whole serving of fruit, it's parfait our way. and a delicious treat you can enjoy any time of day. subway. eat fresh. this flat-out delicious -- the new $3 flatbread breakfast combo. a toasty 6-inch flatbread breakfast sandwich and a 16-ounce cup of freshly brewed seattle's best coffee. all for just $3. build your better break

they include the actor sean penn, the great muhammad ali, the singer yousef islam, cyndi sheehan andrchbishop desmond tutu and we will always remember you stood by us. there were also u.s. government officials who worked for our release. and some of them found creative ways to try and lessen the tension between the u.s. and iran. consular officials at the state department supported our families throughout. our members of congress spoke up for us. publicly and privately. and ambassador richard smear, his wife sandy and the staff of the u.s. embassy in oman were most gracious with their time and hospitality, twice now. they have our gratitude for their support and kindness. the sympathy and support of many muslim and other religious leaders in america, the iranian people and elements within the iranian government that worked for our freedom were also all invaluable. thank you. finally, we want to thank the media in the united states and around the world for keeping our case in the public eye. it means a lot to us. and now that we are home, we know you will give us the time we need to r

he's the muhammad ali. he is big time. he got 1.5 million facebook fans. >> 1.6. >> it's huge.og, not an exotic bear, something like that. people sometimes get confused. he's actually a bomb iranian with a funny hair cut. as we found out, he's legitimately famous. check this out. >> a few years ago, boo's owner started a facebook page, posting videos of boo taking care of urgent business like trotting, eating, rling around adorably, and licking his chops. frequently the page took off. when one of the kardashians gave boo a shoutout, he truly went viral. he has 1.6 million follower, a catch phrase, world's cutest dog and a new book coming out. we decided to test how powerful boo's appeal really is. >> we're in a top secret locate, a hotel in manhattan. on the other side of this do, boo. >> hey, boo. let's go out and meet some people. want to do that? >> you guys like this dog? >> can i take his picture? >> we're getting quite a reaction. >> oh, my goodness. >> oh, boo! >> how do you know boo? >> from facebook. >> want to bet your dog? >> he's cute. >> you like him? >> he's like

she, of course, is the daughter of muhammad ali, who became a boxing champion, in her own right.s all around the country. "everyday health." laila, good to have you back with us. you did not have a baby six months ago. >> i did. i'm so excited about that. >> you're looking great. and you have a baby in this show, "everyday health." what can you tell us about it? >> i'm excited to be hosting the new show. and "everyday health" we focus on individuals who are ordinary but doing extraordinary things. most people on the show have been through a health crisis or they're close to someone who has. and they're paying it forward by helping to inspire and educate others. >> and we have an example of that right now in this clip of "everyday health." >> before we do that, i have one more thing. lauren? >> lauren? ♪ >> hi. >> oh, my god. oh, my goodness. >> lauren? >> oh, my goodness. >> all right. i thought i would bring in my friend lauren potter. you might recognize her from "glee." >> that was the sparkles cheerleading squad, which is a program for girls with disabilities, to be able to c

rope a dope may not work with muhammad ali, but in politics it doesn't work. bill: you say they have a target and placed that target on the tea party. >> of course. bill: that's what can get the base motivated. it's been three years since they've had much to motivate on because there's been bad news after bad news. >> they hate the tea party, they consider it illegitimate because it stands in the way of their progressive dreams so they consider any language or tactic legitimate against it. mary ann, i think this is where you're barking up the wrong tree. if you think what president obama needs to win the country back is a bunch of bullying rhetoric, you're totally wrong. he needs a jobs program that will actually work. that's what he doesn't have and that's what he hasn't had over the last three years and that's why he's so low in the polls, not because he's been too polite. bill: last word, mary ann. >> the fact is the bullies in this fight have been the republicans and we all know bullies are cowards and when you hit them back, they buckle. the republicans w

. >> the rope-a-dope analogy of muhammad ali and george foreman and what ali did in countering against the ropes. it turned foreman's strength against him. over the past 10 years, the correct thing to do is recognize that al qaeda is a small add versarery and not overspend and make the war broader, which is what we've done. the reason why i say we are not more safe, in that lies what a proper road ahead would be. >> so we now have the closing arguments. david, if you could begin with a two-minute summation. >> five minutes? or the four-minute change? >> oh, ok. >> sorry. >> you'll have two minutes for your summation. >> sure. this is not a debate about whether we should fear al qaeda. this is also not a debate about whether al qaeda is an existential threat. it's a very simple debate. are we safer 10 years later? as i had just said, al qaeda employs essentially what is a rope adope strategy. let the united states hit it and hit and it eventually we get exhausted. $14 trillion national debt. we shall exhausted. peter never answered the question. the intelligence community is not going t

. >> the rope-a-dope analogy of muhammad ali and george foreman and what ali did in countering against the ropes. it turned foreman's strength against him. over the past 10 years, the correct thing to do is recognize that al qaeda is a small add versarery and not overspend and make the war broader, which is what 've done. the reason why i say we are not more safe, inhat lies what a proper road ahead would be. >> so we now have the closing arguments. david, if you could begin with a two-minute summation. >> five minutes? or the four-minute change? >> oh, ok. >> sorry. >> you'll have two minutes for your summation. >> sure. this is not a debate about whether we should fear al qaeda. this is also not a debate about whether al qaeda is an existential threat. it's a very simple debate. are we safer 10 years lar? as i had just said, al qaeda employs essentially what is a rope adope strategy. let the united states hit it and hit and it eventually we get exhausted. $14 trillion national debt. we shall exhausted. peter never answered the question. the intelligence community is not going to be c

. >> the rope-a-dope analogy of muhammad ali and george foreman and what ali did in countering against the ropes. it turned foreman's strength against him. over the past 10 years, the correct thing to do is recognize that al qaeda is a small add versarery and not overspend and make the war broader, which is what we've done. the reason why i say we are not more safe, in that lies what a proper road ahead would be. >> so we now have the closing arguments. david, if you could begin with a two-minute summation. >> five minutes? or the four-minute change? >> oh, ok. >> sorry. >> you'll have two minutes for your summation. >> sure. this is not a debate about whether we should fear al qaeda. this is also not a debate about whether al qaeda is an existential threat. it's a very simple debate. are we safer 10 years later? as i had just said, al qaeda employs essentially what is a rope adope strategy. let the united states hit it and hit and it eventually we get exhausted. $14 trillion national debt. we shall exhausted. peter never answered the question. the intelligence community is not going t

>> i think i used the analogy in muhammad ali and foreman, they absorbed the force and turns the strength against him. over the past ten years, the ideal thing is to recognize that al qaeda is a small adversary and not over spend or make the war broader which is what we've done. those principals can be used going forward. looking at where we've made mistakes, in that lies what a proper road ahead would be. >> thank you. we now have the closing argument. daveed if you could begin with a two minute. >> can i get five minutes or did the format change? [inaudible comment] >> okay. sorry. i misread it. >> you'll have two minutes. >> sure. this is not a debate about whether we should fear al qaeda. this is also not a debate about whether al qaeda is an extensional threat. i read the resolution. are we safer ten careers later. as i had just said, al qaeda employs essentially who is a rope a dope. let the united states hit it and hit it and hit it and eventually the united states gets exhausted. $14 trillion national debt. we are exhausted at this point in time. peter has never answered the argum