stevens. so let me begin now with dr. cooling. [ applause ] >>> good afternoon, folks. pleasure to be back in this lovely facility even if every time i come here i go in the wrong entrance to the national archives. as a researcher, i became very accustomed over 30 years or more of going in the other side. well, you don't want to hear about that today. i'll mention the national archives in just a second in a different context. i am happy to say that for four days now i have listened to the national park service and the city in frederick county regail me with how the battle of monacassy saved washington from federal capture. now having been privy to this -- or also is a developer in this, a couple of books on monacassy i fear that i am part of the problem. today i want to tell you the real battle to save the city of washington is what we'll talk about. we'll talk to you about fortress washington, abe lincoln, fort stevens and the battle that really saved the union on the 11th and 12th of july 18

whereas fort massachusetts was renamed fort stevens after the death of general stevens at the battleevens occurred and was the only civil war battle to take place in the district of columbia. whereas the union army's sixth corps brought reenforcements to fort stevens where president lincoln met them and became the only sitting president in our history to come under hostile attack. and whereas on the evening of july 12th, 1864, confederate troops began to withdraw from fort stevens and from the district of columbia. this victory saved the nation's capital, helped ensure president lincoln's reelection and aided in the preservation of the union. following the battle of fort stevens, the military road school, one of the first schools in the district to educate african-american children was established on the grounds of fort stooeevens. whereas the military road school although closed in 1954 remains an essential part of the history of fort stevens and the civil war history of the district of columbia. fort stevens now serves as one of many civil war defenses operated and maintained by th

stevens is a marginal figure in that book. you know, we all acknowledge his importance, but in the narrative of the movie, he is so central because he's straight out of hollywood central casting. you know, with the wig and the club foot and the crusty demeanor and even the black mistress. you've got it all working. it's perfect. but that's why he's there. and that's why this is there. you know, i think the kitchen scene has another profound truth in it. i wanted to point this out and maybe if someone wants to follow up, we can talk about it more in questions. you know, the kitchen scene is really about the politics of reconstruction, and i think that that's an underlying theme in the movie that they bury. they can't really address because they're talking about the abolition of slavery. that's why the peace negotiations seem so important, although i think of them more as a side show, unimportant to the final narrative of the war. there are historians who disagree with this, but the reason why i think the abolition amendment is

stevens. you can get the flavor of what it was like back then. it's well worth a visit. cannons, a magazine. the boulder. sorry i didn't get a picture of the boulder. it's there, too. it's also important in african-american history then and now. it was the earliest black settlement in d.c. this woman, elizabeth thomas, she was a free african-american, owned 11 acres. i think back then women didn't tend to own land at all. free black woman was really unusual. her land was taken for fort stevens. just down from fort stevens is this land right here. goes right up behind the trees. this was private property. it was threatened with townhouse development. it was awful. some of us got together and said we've got to do something, national park trust to get it out into fort stevens. down here two african-american historically significant properties. i encourage you later to read about them, the military road school. here is a map. this will help most of all knowing around fort stevens. the battle all t

stevens. ft. stevens had been set up as ft. massachusetts, based on a camp brightwood out here in the brightwood section of washington, as early as 1861. after the previous invasion of maryland in 1862, they expanded ft. massachusetts, who obviously had been built by massachusetts soldiers into ft. stevens, you can still see and we'll talk about that, the restored pa parapet, but otherwise everybody goes out, where is the fort? either thinking they're going to find a western stockade or more like ft. member hen re, ft. washington. ft. stevens was an expanded earthen fort with a stockaded back side to it. that saved labor, money and all that sort of thing, 19 guns, manned this time not by veteran artilleryists, but 150 day men out of ohio, who had come to engable them to be shipped to grant as cannon fodder for the battles in virginia. interestingly enough the 150-day men were equaled for the heavy artilleryists, because the re-let me just tell you, one moment in time before i kind of wrap this thing up. early afternoon of july

stevens is a marginal figure in that book. you know, we all acknowledge his importance, but in the narrative of the movie, he is so central because he's straight out of hollywood central casting. you know, with the wig and the club foot and the crusty demeanor and even the black mistress. you've got it all working. it's perfect. but that's why he's there. and that's why this is there. you know, i think the kitchen scene has another profound truth in it. i wanted to point this out and maybe if someone wants to follow up, we can talk about it more in questions. you know, the kitchen scene is really about the politics of reconstruction, and i think that that's an underlying theme in the movie that they bury. they can't really address because they're talking about the abolition of slavery. that's why the peace negotiations seem so important, although i think of them more as a side show, unimportant to the final narrative of the war. there are historians who disagree with this, but the reason why i think the abolition amendment is

stevens. ft. stevens was an expanded fort. had 19 guns. it was manned bring 150 day men out of ohio. who had come to enable the article till risk-takings to be shipped to grant as cannon fire. the remaining garcons had trained these 150 day people. let me tell you just one moment in time before i kind of wrap this thing up. it's early afternoon, july 11th. the moment when the two forces will meet. ft. stevens. there's early men coming in from frederick. at this very moment, he rides down the seventh street road. walter reid is set on the only battlefield in which would he peers through the binoculars and he senses the moment of opportunity to change the course of the war, my career, american history and the future of the confederacy who beckons right then and there. and he turns to bring up his army and there's no army that he can bring up because of the heat and the dust and they're straggling all the way to get back up, almost to the monokasie. would we have press ds that issue? would we have pushed the momentum through those thinly-head

stevens. my name is kim elder, i'm the program manager national parks t service for civil war defenses t of washington. i'd like to welcome and thank each you for joining us for thei commemoration of 150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of colors and singing of the national anthem by miss fraziera ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ what so wo proudly we hailed ♪ at the twilights last gleaming ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ through the perilous re fight ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in eb air ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ oh say does that star spangle banner yet wave ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪was stil [ applause ]es that >>> you may take your seats. the in vocation will be delivered by the senior pastor of saint luke's church, the r

whereas fort massachusetts was renamed fort stevens after the death of general stevens at the battleevens occurred and was the only civil war battle to take place in the district of columbia. whereas the union army's sixth corps brought reenforcements to fort stevens where president lincoln met them and became the only sitting president in our history to come under hostile attack. and whereas on the evening of july 12th, 1864, confederate troops began to withdraw from fort stevens and from the district of columbia. this victory saved the nation's capital, helped ensure president lincoln's reelection and aided in the preservation of the union. following the battle of fort stevens, the military road school, one of the first schools in the district to educate african-american children was established on the grounds of fort stooeevens. whereas the military road school although closed in 1954 remains an essential part of the history of fort stevens and the civil war history of the district of columbia. fort stevens now serves as one of many civil war defenses operated and maintained by th

stevens which is right here. so to give you an idea, see these black marks point out where the different forts were. so to give you an idea on the map. and the city more or less imposed on the map, itself. we're coming up on one of president 15 inch rodman guns. you can see how large it is. there were guns like this that had actually a 360 degrees shooting area because you can move it all the way around this ring. now, these guns were left here when they left the fort and when i saw them they were off their carriages sitting on the ground. what had happened was during world war ii when they were scrapping metal for the war, they came out here and started dismantling the guns. they took them both off the carriages. they cut up one of the carriages. and then a national parks service ranger showed up and said, wait a minute, what are you doing? and they said, and they said, no, no, no, these are protected. this is a national park. we don't want these guns cut up. so they left, but they just left them sitting here on

stevens which is right here.so to give you an idea, see these black marks point out where the different forts were. so to give you an idea on the map. and the city more or less imposed on the map, itself. we're coming up on one of the 15 inch rodman guns. you can see how large it is. there were guns like this that had actually a 360 degrees shooting area because you can move it all the way around this ring. now, these guns were left here when they left the fort and when i saw them they were off their carriages sitting on the ground. what had happened was during world war ii when they were scrapping metal for the war, they came out here and started dismantling the guns. they took them both off the carriages. they cut up one of the carriages. and then a national parks service ranger showed up and said, wait a minute, what are you doing? and they said, and they said, no, no, no, these are protected. we don't want these guns cut up. so they left, but they just left them sitting here on the ground. and for many years,

he loses the initiative here at fort stevens. well the next day, in fact that day a man calls conference to waste development. abe, the adolescent comes out to fort stevens to see what's going on. he also wants to come out to be with his boys. they vote. if you think lincoln wasn't a consummate politician maybe you're a little idealistic. second day he comes out to the fort and horatio write says mr. president i'm so happy to see you here. would you like to see a battle. he realizes oops he real is that could be his career. he gets shot. think about it? who becomes vice president? what happens to the city, et cetera, et cetera. abe goes up there, nearly gets shot maybe not where that boulder is placed to go. the great what ifs of history that are based on the records and myth and story telling much like i'm telling stories today. hifton i onstorians are -- hist repeated itself historians jfrt repeat each other. lincoln is almost shot. insurgents from the 102nd pennsylvania are cut down near by. yes, lincoln was nearly shot. the e

and that's when lincoln was ordered down at fort stevens. lincoln, you know, 6'4" and a stove pipe hat made a pretty tempting target. now the legend has grown up it was oliver wendell holmes that yelled at lincoln, get down you fool, or get down you damn fool, and instantly regretted saying it. i have a whole chapter in the book about that incident, and basically, well, i came to the conclusion that's a hi pockriful story, didn't come out until 1928, it was published in "atlantic monthly" in 1928. supposedly holmes had been telling it privately. i looked into it, i have a whole chapter in the book and going back to letters at the time, memoirs written shortly after the war, and, yes, lincoln did stand here, and, yes, someone yelled at him to come down. more than likely, it was general horacio wright, who said this in 1866, didn't say get down you fool or say that he said that, but i go over that in the book. it's an interesting story, and it's not true. early is at the gates over here outside fort stevens with the capitol dome in his sight.

story happens, outside of fort stevens. but these forts were very well built. they were all connected by fortifications and berms, and they were designed to be manned by about 35,000 troops, but now we're in the summer of 1864, just about every able-bodied union troop is down outside richmond in petersburg in the eastern theater. we don't know the exact number, but we think only about 10,000 troops were on the barricades at washington, d.c. who were these 10,000 troops? well, they were members of what was called the veteran reserve corps. the veteran reserve corps had just changed its name before that. before that it was known as the invalid corps. they changed the name for obvious reasons. who wants to be named the invalid? most people, i think, know there were so many causalities that washington, d.c. was basically one giant hospital during the last years of the war. as troops got better but couldn't go back to the field, they were given these pale blue uniforms and did rear echelon duty. so that's who was defending washi

stevens which is right here. so to give you an idea, see these black marks point out where the different forts were. so to give you an idea on the map. and the city more or less imposed on the map, itself. we're coming up on one of president 15 inch rodman guns. you can see how large it is. there were guns like this that had actually a 360 degrees shooting area because you can move it all the way around this ring. now, these guns were left here when they left the fort and when i saw them they were off their carriages sitting on the ground. what had happened was during world war ii when they were scrapping metal for the war, they came out here and started dismantling the guns. they took them both off the carriages. they cut up one of the carriages. and then a national parks service ranger showed up and said, wait a minute, what are you doing? and they said, and they said, no, no, no, these are protected. this is a national park. we don't want these guns cut up. so they left, but they just left them sitting here on

that's one story, the stevens case.the second-story sidney tells us about her client jim brown was a merrill lynch executive involved in dealings with enron corporation. sidney alleges very serious whipping prosecutorial misconduct in that case and i don't in any way question her since saturday and she she lays out her argument angry deep -- great detail in the book but unlike the stevens case where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct in the brown case, the adjudication found exactly the opposite. that is the federal district court judge presiding over the case rejected the arguments. the fifth circuit which i must say as a sidney points out dismissed many of the accounts of the indictments but not all of them. nonetheless rejected the claims of prosecutorial misconduct and that judgment was an appeal to the fifth circuit where a panel of independent judges rejected it. the supreme court denied served, denied certiorari and sidney says three separate state bar associations declined to find these prosecutors

stevens is a marginal figure in that book.ow, we all acknowledge his importance, but in the narrative of the movie, he is so central because he's straight out of hollywood central casting. you know, with the wig and the club foot and the crusty demeanor and even the black mistress. you've got it all working. it's perfect. but that's why he's there. and that's why this is there. you know, i think the kitchen scene has another profound truth in it. i wanted to point this out and maybe if someone wants to follow up, we can talk about it more in questions. you know, the kitchen scene is really about the politics of reconstruction, and i think that that's an underlying theme in the movie that they bury. they can't really address because they're talking about the abolition of slavery. that's why the peace negotiations seem so important, although i think of them more as a side show, unimportant to the final narrative of the war. there are historians who disagree with this, but the reason why i think the abolition amendment is a story

he asks stevens, i'm about to start for home.desire the experienced opiniok of a politician as to how the o vote of that state for governor and president is likely to go. and listen to how smooth this is. in casting about for such a man, i have settled upon you. and i shall be much obliged if you could write me in u et springfield, illinois. this is abraham lincoln workingh his network, and stevens braham responds just as fluidly. he responds by calling abraham lincoln the wise one and asking for him about information for ot his state, and stevens at that time was a abolitionist, a supporter of the underground railroad, but his advice was utterly pragmatic. we have to reach out to the know nothings, the nativists, the kw anti-catholics and infuse with them. this is a footnote, but it's worth mentioning.-cat 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like thaddeus stevens, abraham lincoln and alexander steven are all young,o rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. it was stevens who was one of co the confedera

so that's one case, the stevens case. the second story sidney tells is about her client, jim brown, who was a merrill lynch executive involved in dealings with the end on corporation. sidney alleged very serious, sweeping prosecutorial misconduct in that case, and i don't in any way question her sincerity, and he she lays out her argument were vel. but unlike the stevens case where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct, in the brown case, the federal district court judge presiding over the case rejected the arguments. the fifth circuit which, i must say, had as zitny points outty missed many of the counts of indictment, not all of them. none the less, rejected prosecutorial conduct. that an -- a panel of incompetent judges rejected it. a and then, as sidney says, three separate state bar associations declined to find that these prosecutors had engages in misconduct. you know, i don't know have to say. we have here is allegations by one side in a dispew. as i kept reading the book, i wanted to ask what's the othe

he asks stevens, i'm about to start for home. i desire the experienced opinion of a politician as to how the vote of that state for governor and president is likely to go. and listen to how smooth this is. in casting about for such a man, i have settled upon you. and i shall be much obliged if you could write me in springfield, illinois. this is abraham lincoln working his network, and stevens responds just as fluidly. he responds by calling abraham lincoln the wise one and asking for him about information for his state, and stevens at that time was a abolitionist, a supporter of the underground railroad, but his advice was utterly pragmatic. we have to reach out to the know nothings, the nativists, the anti-catholics and infuse with them. this is a footnote, but it's worth mentioning. 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like thaddeus stevens, abraham lincoln and alexander steven are all young, rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. it was stevens who was one of the confederate peace commissioners lin

she was a steven king fan and talking about steven king. her grandma who raised her said her vision was that blair would become a lawyer and she certainly have those talents. blair dropped out of school and she dropped out in ninth grade. she just couldn't finish high school and then she ended up trying and trying to get back and get her ged and was able to do that so currently the last i checked in with her she was working the night cleaning job and an office building so something like a big urban office building cleaning at night on the night shift. >> host: maria? >> guest: maria is -- got married, divorced, had another relationship and had two lovely children, finished high school, is trying to go back to college and become a nurse's assistant, has not quite gotten there yet. left her partner who is now a single mom raising these two beautiful children and she is doing pretty well. >> host: elizabeth? >> guest: elizabeth has struggled as well. elizabeth has a very young child. she had a baby a little over a year ago and has a fiancÉ, a

he asks stevens, i'm about to start for home. i desire the experienced opinion of a politician as to how the vote of that state for governor and president is likely to go. and listen to how smooth this is. in casting about for such a man, i have settled upon you. and i shall be much obliged if you could write me in springfield, illinois. this is abraham lincoln working his network, and stevens responds just as fluidly. he responds by calling abraham lincoln the wise one and asking for him about information for his state, and stevens at that time was a abolitionist, a supporter of the underground railroad, but his advice was utterly pragmatic. we have to reach out to the know nothings, the nativists, the anti-catholics and infuse with them. this is a

some of ted stevens and some of the prosecutors, and maybe more than just one. it tells the story of the arthr andersen debacle post every one thought he was horribly guilty. i have to confess as soon as i started hearing about the enron disaster i knew the occasion on people throughout the country millions of people lost a lot of money. some people lost all their savings. it was horrible. it was an outrage and most of us assume that everybody that had everything to do with enron was guilty. i was one of those until i dug into the record of the arthur andersen case when arthur andersen asked me to consult when the hearing was due another petition that reply was doing the fifth circuit so they already filed the opening brief to consult additional counsel. we have 14 or 30 days to get it retitled. maureen was the lead counsel because they had a staff to divide it up and dive into the record at the time. but it didn't take me time to look at life the indictment charged what it charged. the actual offense against andersen was alleged as witness tampering which requi

and stevens is race baited on o.january 5th and he responds, ale i support is equality under thes law. he did that without prompting by lincoln. in the movie, lincoln is the kig hero.anyb in the movie, stevens is, you ou know, an important foil.ls, he has more speaking parts thanr anybody else but lincoln.ndex if you go back to team arrivals, there's only four index entries for thaddeus stevens. if you look at mike's book, stevens is there more evens frequently, but far less frequently than the senate author or james ashley. senat he doesn't play the same pivotal role. a or if you look at a new book, stevens is a marginal figure in that book.he you know, we all acknowledge hi importance.he but in the narrative of the movie he is so central, becauseg he's straight out of hollywood t central casting. you know, with the wig and the club foot and the crusty demeanor and even the black ti mistress. you've got it all working. it's perfect. but that's why he's there. kitcn and that's why this is there.nor you know, i think

some of text things -- ted stevens. most everyone thought arthur andersen was horribly guilty. i have to confess that i did also as soon as i started hearing about the enron disaster i knew that ramifications on people across the country, millions of people lost a lot of money and all their savings. it was a horrible outrage and most of us from everything that was reported in the press assumed anybody that had anything to do with enron was killed. i was one of those until i dug up the case of arthur andersen when the petition for the read hearing was due, and other petition for the fifth circuit's appeaappeal for the file to the opening brief but decided to consult additional counsel in the preparation of 3.17 i got involved. we had 14 or 30 days to get a t. the record was massive. they have a staff to divide it into the record at the time but it didn't take me long to wonder why the indictment charged that charged. the actual offense against andersen requires an element i couldn't figure out how they were going to prove and then when i read the instructions they had persuaded

steven seen here in the same video after this sickening murder of james foley. >> my son steven is inirley sotloff desperately appealing directly to the isis

i think it was justice steven briar and steven briar said just a second. i think there's about 200 million americans in the workplace and according to your definition of the honest services criminal statute, about 150 million americans fall on the wrong side of that line. and this was a point where the attorney from the solicitor general's office kind of hemmed and hawed. now, consider that just for a moment. in the eyes of the federal government, we have 150 million americans that they consider to be criminals. and that's just one of these federal criminal statutes. as i said, there are thousands more. the spider web of regulations is now so vast that it's really hard for an ordinary citizen to go about their lives without breaking some rule or regulation. you know, this is just not the same america that we grew up with. a lot of us in this room i think can remember an expression when we were growing up. it said something like, let's not make a federal case out of it. but that expression is really losing its force given the growth of our federal criminal

steven moschcowitz. and in washington, joshua smith, senior policy analyst. and in ne in new york, liz hoffa reporter for the world trade wall street journal. how much goes here and how much stays abroad? >> it's a company's decision. for the most part, we're not talking about a headquarters. that's a slightly different concept. this is a legal idea. some companies are going to move some assets, and some aren't. it depends on how mobile they are. and you will see that some of them have corporate jobs in the u.s., and some in manufacturing and distribution, and most of these companies are still going to need boots on the ground in the u.s., and they need staff and sales agents. and they have little to do with jobs, and more to do with corporate identity and corporate balancing issues. i want you to pick up on the jobs. does it have an impact in america? >> most of these inversions are just on paper. the headquarters are moving on paper. and the headquarters are here, and the manufacturing jobs are here, and the retail jobs are here. but what it means is that t

steven, you may not remember this, but maybe you do. ten years ago, you were on "good morning america" and you said you really wanted to do a musical. and there was a little rumor a few months ago that maybe that musical might be "west side story." any truth to that? >> you know something? "west side story" is one of my favorite broadway musicals. and one of the greatest pieces of musical literature. my goodness, one of the greatest scores and some of the greatest lyrics ever written for a musical. you put it this way. it's on my mind. >> reporter: oh. at the world premiere of "the hundred-foot journey" last night, oprah was all-smiles. she told me she got emotional watching the movie the first time. what was it like to watch the final cut? >> well, you know, you're watching dailies every day. to see it all come together that way, okay. i cried three times. three times. i've been with it since the beginning, to cry when you know what's going to happen. >> reporter: and how many times here? >> and laughed a lot, too. i did cheer up a lit

f st >>> the life of american hostage steven sotloff is on the line.ials believe while reporting in syria last year is held by the same terrorists of those that killed american journalist james foley. his mother is making a direct appeal to the leader of isis. this crisis has many people questioning whether the united states should change its policy on paying ransoms to kidnappers, to terrorists. so what is it like to bargain with terrorists? cnn's carl penhall talked with a hostage negotiator. >> reporter: carol, i've been talking to veteran kidnap and ransom negotiator here in london and he says the type of appeal made by sotloff's mom is very important. what the statement is trying to do is refocus the debate on steven sotloff as a human being and not look at him as a pawn to be traded in some kind of political game. it also should be understood it's an attempt to open some kind of line of communication with isis that could possibly lead to some kind of negotiation for his release. let's take a look at what the expert had to say. >> the life of this

steven seen here in the same video after this sickening murder of james foley. >> my son steven is in your hands. >> reporter: shirley sotloff desperately appealing directly to the isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi eight days after the milttant group threatened to kill her son. shirley demonstrates her knowledge of history, culture and morality. >> i've learned a lot about islam? trying to persuade steven's captors to release him, appealing to the same religion isis says justifies its violence. >> i've learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. >> reporter: she even addresses baghd baghdady but his self-appointed title of caliph. >> you the caliph can grant amnesty. i ask you to spare his life. >> reporter: sotloff looking forward to a homecoming similar to peter theo curtis earlier this week. >> total strangers have come up to me and said hey, we're glad you're home. welcome home. >> reporter: cambridge in cambridge, massachusetts, with his mother held after two years of captivity by a different jihadist group. >> i say a huge than

like what steven does, like how to get girls and stuff.undreds of thousands of views. so there's that. >> rushkoff: thus a generation was empowered through interactive media. >> why on earth would someone spend all those hours to make a youtube video of them doing something absolutely stupid and insane? they're only gonna get a check for three dollars for doing it. but money isn't the only currency. >> this is a condom. >> and when you can see that you have 5,000 followers on twitter or when someone recognizes you as that kid who did that stupid stunt on a mountain bike and broke your arm, suddenly your arm doesn't hurt because you know you're famous. >> everybody desires to be famous. >> facebook famous. >> instagram famous. >> the most popular person on youtube. >> it's way easier to become famous for something outrageous. >> girls will post half-naked pictures. >> make a video and get like a million views. >> get as many friends, as many likes as possible. >> you want to be liked. >> will this get likes? >> it's all about likes. >> let'

and steven parker is one of those guys who must be separated.m controlled at all times. >> i guess i'm going to go crazy. i don't know. i guess i'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison and keep doing the same things i've been doing. i don't know what else to do. until somebody kills me, i guess. i don't know. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay" -- >> life on death row was a very traumatic experience. death was definitely next. >> eight years on death row can make any inmate question his sanity. >> i feel confused, went through a mental stage where i likened to lose my mind. >>> it's been one week since terry moore stabbed another inmate over a pair of sneakers. he said a mixture of fear and anger fueled his attack. >> if you take something like shoes, they took shoes, i know who it is. the other guys in the block, they know i know. so if i don't deal with it, then that's a weak spot on my point. so they can go, okay, he's weak and we can steal the rest of his stuff and that's what was coming next eventually. it's not my first stab, not t

my son, steven, is in your hands. steven is a journalist who traveled to the middle east to cover the suffering of muslims at the hand of tyrants. steven is a loyal and generous son, brother, and grandson. he is an honorable man and has always tried to help the weak. we have not seen steven for over a year and we miss him very much. we want to see him home safe and sound and to hug him. since steven's capture, i have learned a lot about islam. i've learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. steven has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. he's an innocent journalist. i've always learned that you, the caliph, can grant amnesty. i ask you to please release my child. as a mother, i ask for justice to be merciful, and not punish my son for marts he has no control over. i ask you to use your authority to spare his life, and to follow the examples set by the prophet muhammad, who protected people of the book. i want what every mother want, to live to see he

and steven parker is one of those guys who must be separated.rolled at all times. >> i guess i'm going to go crazy. i don't know. i guess i'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison and keep doing the same things i've been doing. i don't know what else to do. until somebody kills me, i guess. i don't know. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay" -- >> life on death row was a very traumatic experience. death was definitely next. >> eight years on death row can make any inmate question his sanity. >> i feel confused, went through a mental stage where i likened to lose my mind. ♪ start a team. join a team. walk to end alzheimer's. visit alz.org/walk today. in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. which for you, shouldn't be a problem. just another way we put members first, because we don't have shareholders. join the nation. nationwide is on your side. without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. because the b

i'm steven from the headquarters in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes more rocket attacks ande air strikes and more casualties, as a three-day cease fire is over. palestinians head back to u.n.-run shelters and look at why talks at a longer truce are proving difficult. almost two months after afghanistan runoff, the two candidates agree to form a unity government. and the world health organization declares west africa's ebola out break an international health emergency. ♪ but we open this news hour in iraq which is facing the biggest threat to its security since the events which follow the u.s.-led invasion in 2003. we are hearing reports that air strikes have started, now in the north of the country after president obama's announcement on thursday that america would carry out limited action to prevent what the president described as genicide. that is because the islamic state group has more gains in iraq and syria in resent days and threatening people to convert to its version of islam, pay a tax or leave. and it's made worse by the continuing political crisis in baghdad wher

we have a big upset of the day with sloane stevens. the 21st seed was knocked out in three sets by larson. it's the first time that stevens has lost in the fourth round. >>> european football governing body uefa has proa postponed matches. >>> they lost to western in the quarterfinals. tommy urich gave the australians the 2-0 aggregate lead. they pulled a goal back for the home side. injury time strike meant it finished 2-1 on the right for the chinese. 2-2 over the past two legs. western sydney go on away goals. >>> the australian face fc seoul. looking over the two lengths by the side. penalty were needed. they failed to net any of their spot weeks in one. signing samuel eto. leading she willc chelsea at the end of last season. manager of jose mourinho said that he will not renew his contract. he made a yoke about his age, but he feels grateful to him. >> i thank him. it's up to him that i was accepted into the premier league. i want to thank him for that. that's the end of the discussion. >> he claimed that did he not want to leave