What executive action hell take. The president will make the subject of immigration toxic for a decade. Tensions between israelis and palestinians. Violence is increasing. Both sides fear theres no end in site. Defenders of islam say it is peaceful. Others disagree. We are two or three examples to justify a generalisation, and it becomes easy to paint them with the same brush. A book that unveils a secret history. Many became u. S. Citizens, many honoured for their work in the United States. Your difficulties are due to alzhiemers. Theres no cure for the ryan stone cowboy, who is heading into the sunset. We begin with the Lame Duck Congress under way as republicans prepare to be the majority in houses next year. They are preparing for a new round of battles with president obama. The president continued an asian sweep on thursday. Back in washington. The Senate Majority leader in waiting Mitch Mcconnell says he was disturbed by president obamas moves on net neutrality, the environment and changes to immigration that could come as early as tuesday. I had maybe naively hoped the president would look at the results of the election and come to the Political Center and do business with us. I hope he does at some point. But the early signs are not good. In the house, Speaker John Boehner said all options would be on the table. If the president used his executive authority to allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay and work without fear of being deported. Well fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. This is the wrong way to govern. And the fight over obama care is heating up against as republicans get new ammunition from a former president obama consultant. Im joined from los angeles. Center fellow and resident scholar at the think tank, and professor at george mason university, also with us is al jazeera Political Correspondent michael shure. After the g. O. P. , both parties talking about getting along to legislation. I dont think anyone was surprised it took a week for both sides to head to the treftengs and get trenches and get into the battle it is already in. Yes, the truce lasted a week. No one expected it to last very long. Now on immigration things escalated quickly are some republicans of the house threatening to shut the federal government if the president issues an order that allows that postpones or caps else the deport cannes else the de cannes else the deportation of many citizens. Its a serious threat. Lets listen to what Mitch Mcconnell said when asked if they would shut the government down. We are not shutting the government down, threatening to default on international threat. We will not shut the government down, or threaten to default on international debt. So majority leader harry reid says he may not buy it, he asked the white house to delay an executive order on immigration until a spending bill passes to keep the government running. Michael, can the president keep putting this off . This is a very important thing for his base. Well, you know, this is not putting something off for months and months. He has a certain amount of finite period of time during which he can put it off. If it makes sense to put it off, until senator reid says, they are able to get the budget and the spending bill passed, it makes sense for him to wait. What the congress can do is say listen, we are not going to spay for it or approve a spending bill. Thats why it makes sense to do it. This is not going to be one of president obamas put it off. This will happen. Those are the threats coming from the republican side. They will not pos bills to allow the spending. Lets go on to another topic, the Keystone Pipeline of the the senate could vote tuesday. He is allowing it to help Mary Landrieu hold her seat in a Runoff Election in september. She was the sponsor of the bill. If it doesnt pass, wont it pass in january, when the g. O. P. Takes over. Thats right. It will pass in january, its a top piece of legislation. The president said he hasnt made a strong commitment. This bill, the Keystone Pipeline is no big deal. The number of jobs, maybe a few thousand would be temporary, and the extraction of oil will take place, whether it passes or not. Thats where the damage comes from, the greenhouse gases. The president would like to say its not a big deal. The fact is its a huge symbolic issue, particularly to the Environmental Community and Mary Landrieu, trying to represent an energyproducing state. Its symbolic. As bill said, not clear what the white house will do if Congress Approves the Keystone Pipeline, hes only vetoed two bills in his president si, do you think keystone will be the third. Hes had one house of congress for a while. He had the white house obviously in one house of congress, he hasnt had to do too much vetoing. It will start in earnest, and if you listen to josh ernest and the way he is hinting at this, it seems hell veto it at a certain point. Theres a couple of things that the president said you have to keep your eye on with keystone, one is a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling. The pipeline will go through nebraska. That is one of the things that hes waiting to hear on, as well as the state department study. They could be delay tactics, but things that the president takes seriously. 70 of americans support the pipeline, it will be a big issue going forward. Lets move on to obama care, Mitch Mcconnell said that American People want obama care torn out root and branch. Republicans have gotten very upset, and peble by a serious of comments. Made by an architect of president obama, jonathan gruber, and made the comments at a conference 13 months ago. This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure c. B. O. Did not score the mandate of taxes, c. B. O. s mandate is to build ice. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Basically calls for stupidity of the american voter. It was critical. He apologised, saying he was speaking off the cuff. But there are more tapes of him saying three other things. Do grubers comment about using deception to get obama care past, and calling the American Voters stupid, put Affordable Care act in danger . They rally the critics, and point the finger and use the sound bite 1,000 times. The fact is this is an academic economist who has contempt for politics. Who heard of such a thing. He has contempt for politics, the administration will distance himself, will to do damage, i dont think americans will revisit the political process by which obama care passed five years ago. I think they want to move on. They may want some things changed. I dont think they want the whole thing destroyed. The poll Shows Americans are split. Half the public wants it killed. About a third want is to be killed, a third improved or revised, and a third the way it is. Thats a division. It will continue for some time. Isnt it a big political problem for the white house. This is a white house that said it would be the most transparent ever. If people understood obama care, gruber says it would never pass. He said its not just voter stupidi stupidity, but the Obama Administration wept further and lied about people keeping doctors and health care plans. Some people have to say that, we have to wait and see how it plans out. This is economist stupidity to say these things. The point is the republicans have to be careful what they wish for. Obama care decided it was not an issue. It worked well for them. Democrats didnt come out to vote, you know, against republicans to defend obama care. The republicans have to be careful about how hard they go after obama care. It may creep up. Its in the next Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said theyd hear to this weekend. I think that is where you might see gruber matter. They have to be careful because it worked for them not talking about obama care on the trail. There has been mixed signals about how far theyll go. Good to see you. Thanks. We turn to the ebola crisis. On thursday we learnt a surgeon working in sierra leone, who contracted ebola would be treated at the University Medical center. Martin salia will be the third treated there and the third in the United States. And comes after dr Craig Spencer was released from the hospital. The only fatality was dr eric thompson. More than 5,000 have died from the virus in west africa. Still, we saw a lot of anxiety here, and wall to wall news coverage. Could or collective concern about what might happen with ebola in the u. S. Be nor virulent than the disease itself. Earlier this week i spoke to dr william schaffer, a professor of medicine at vaneder built university, and a past president for the foundation of infectious diseases. My first question, did we, as a county, including those in the news media, overreact to the ebola crisis in america . Its nice to take a deep breath and look back a little. Yes, there was hype, a great deal of hype. We did have a small outbreak of ebola, if you will, and a large outbreak of ebola anxiety. Ebolapalusa if you will. Both had to be attended to. Im grad to say the ebolapalusa has reseeded, along with ebola also. After the debacle in dallas, did the attention help to wake us up to what needs to be done to stop the spread of the disease like ebola. There is little doubt that most of our hospitals were not well prepared to deal with an epidemic of a contagious disease. I have to be partly guilty. I thought the hospitals were better prepared. Certainly we all learned from what happened in dallas, and i think every hospital around the country now is preparing or has prepared itself for an ebola visit if it will take it that way. I think we ought to be gratified that all the contacts of the ebola patients in the United States ran their course. People kept them under surveillance, and there has been no transmission except for the nurses in the dallas hospital. We learnt from it. We know that this is a virus that is not going to spread widely in the United States. Theres little doubt that ebola is catastrophic, something that we should never forget in the discussion. Even there, has it been overhyped. We saw estimates of 1. 4 million cases. Another estimate said that 10,000 cases a week by late november, early december. A lot an aerobars around them. One tends to go to the higher number and report that. Theres no doubt that the epidemic continues in the west african country. We seem to get our arms around it and starting to turn things around. Its still going to be a long hall. Those numbers, they are underestimates, a lot of patients were never diagnosed or counted. Lets talk west africa, wednesday the pentagon announced a cut in ebola troops. 3,000 down to 4,000. The incidents of the virus is not increasing there. But the World Health Organisation came out with new numbers. The death toll is in the three hardest hit countries, guinea, liberia, and sierra leone. Rising to 5,147, more than 14,000 cases total. Sierra leone, however, importantly there are steep increases. Are you concerned we may let our guard down . Well, the International Community need to continue to respond. Our response has been focused principally on liberia, and we are beginning to get our arms around the outbreak. The c. D. C. Has people over there doing the Public Health work. Our troops have been building hospitals. We have opened up a new treatment center, a large one, that will be staffed by App International group of health care workers. We are making progress. As i say, this is going to take a while yet. And the whole International Community really does need to participate. Final question for you, you know, we have always since ebola showed up a few decades ago, its been a scary disease, where, you know, at times 90 fatality rate. Is what we have seen with how ebola victims who have been in the United States, their survivability, how well they have done, is that changing the way we look at the disease still a dangerous disease, but with proper treatment it can be survived. Well, antonio, i think you said it well. But the proper treatment is the elaborate care that we can do in our open hospitals, intensive care units in the United States. Its difficult to translate all of that sophistication into a much simpler, a much, shall we say, less elaborate environment in west africa. It will still have high mortality in west africa. We are working to bring that down. Here in the developed world and europe, we can do much, much better. Dr william schaffer, always a pleasure to have you and have your insights on this important story. Consider this will be right back. Weeks of clashes in israel and the west bank have israelis and palestinians worrying the violence is spinning out of control. With some wondering if we are seeing the start of a worse case scenario, the spark of a third infit adda. The president Binyamin Netanyahu accused israel of fuelling a war, by allowing jewish activists to visit holy sites. Binyamin netanyahu hit back blaming mahmoud abbas. Translation these steps include reenforsments of forces on the ground across the country to ensure your safety. Demolition of attackers homes a firstly hand. Fire crackers and all kinds of petrol bombs, finding the parents of a stonethrowing, outlawing, as well as other steps. Joining us to discuss the recent violence, our ambassador, former israeli consule general and advisor to israelis mabar abbing, and an executive director of the Jerusalem Fund joins us. It is good to have you with us. Youcef after Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu spoke on tuesday, you tweeted sarcastically sure to fix things, i assume you think hes fanning the flames. Obviously. The reason you are seeing what you are seeing today is because of a problem that lies at the foundation of all of this, and that is the ongoing Israeli Occupation of palestinian territory. The denial of selfdiscrimination of palestinians, and the situation that palestinians have been dealing with for the past 66 years. So the you know, the israeli Prime Ministers plan is to respond to the acts by demolishing homes is going to poor gas on the fire, and is obviously not going to address the problem in any wholistic tore appropriate way. Clearly, you know, he does not seem to be interested in finding a genuine solution. Electioneering and campaigning. Your reaction. I know that within the israeli government, there has been dissent about the harsh line that Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu is taking. You know, no one is contributing anything positive to this situation. Or, for that matter, to the argument. Theres ongoing incitement originating from the Palestinian Authority, unfortunately. Mahmoud abbas, who i think has the capability and the faculties and the experience of being statesman like is inciting. And on the israeli side it has rightwing lunatics within the government and outside the government, who, too, are fanning the flames. The Prime Minister i would not fault him for this, i do fault him for one single thing, hes no longer in control of his politicians and members of, indeed, his cabinet. Nothing good is going to come out with either side. Doesnt the ambassador have a point. If the moderates like mahmoud abbas, are they fanning the flans, being inflammatory, saying israel is igniting a war was of actions on the temple mount. How could it be helpful to move things forward . We can have a conversation about specific language on each side. But i think theres a false equivalence presented between, you know, a language that might be inciting as it has been termed, and the largest single contributor to invitement, which is this Israeli Occupation, and the denial of palestinian rites. There is no language that will motivate a resistance to an occupation more than the reality of that occupation itself, in the way that it denies rights to people on the ground. You dont need to hear the comments of leaders to be outraged by the denial of action, the denial of freedom of movement, the continued Settlement Expansion on palestinian territory. That is the incitement here. To ambassador youcefs point. Isnt a great deal of the problem that the occupation is getting bigger. The settlements continue in violation of u. N. Resolution. Not just in contrast to u. N. Resolution, in contrast to u. S. Demand. American demand, and its not good policy. Thats not the point. The classical palestinian argument is being made, and im respectful of that. They are not a good policy. What you have now is a huge gap of mistrust and fear and loathing that is helping no one. Saying this is all about occupations well, here is the reality. 770 of israelis understand the twostate solution is the preferred model. On the ordinary hand you have 60 or 70 who say the same. At the same time its the 2030, 25 on both sides that call the shots. That is a tragedy. If we religionize an Ethno National conflict. There is no solution in site. As for the equivalence, you know, we have zealots and luna takes, and some tragically and unfortunately are in the israeli government. But they do not stab people to death. The palestinians have been stabbing people and killing people. If it doesnt stop. It will escalate into something the world and, in fact, both israelis and the majority of israelis and palestinians are fed up with. This rhetoric of the occupation and its not occupation, and settlement, its true and valid. The question is what do we go. I do not see a Palestinian Authority or leadership ready to go the length to resolve this, and i dont see the israeli leadership doing the same. How can the violence that we are seeing in these past few days, in these terrorist attacks, these killings, how can it help lead to peace . I want to respond to the point about palestinians using knives. One does not need to use a knife when theres f16s and apache helicopters and a system of control that is effectively controlling and repressing a population that is effectively stateless, when you have one of the largest powerful militaries in the world. The fact that palestinians are using knives is more of a product of the imbalance of power than it is in relation to tensions or anything else. Does it give attention to the lunatics that the ambassador is mentioning on the israeli side, the extremists . No, it doesnt. And the reason it doesnt, when you kauk about the 77 of the israeli population that wants to see a 2state solution, when you ask them about the details, they are less inclined to support people, like a just resolution, all necessary components of a 2state agreement. Theres no large scale support in Israeli Society for that, and the government that we see today reflects that. Look, we can talk about a 2state solution, but the reality is there is only one side of this conflict that is actively changing the map in terms of building settlements, demolishing homes, removing peep, revoking residency in jerusalem. Its not the palestinians that are occupying and settling in israeli territory, its the other way around. Well have to leave it there. Its obviously a discussion that has gone on for generations, and its just a shame to continue to see the violence. Ambassador pinkess, and youcef, thank you for joining us. Turning to the conflict from israelis and palestinians to islamaphobia. Bill marr, a talk show host called islam a mafia that will kill you if you say the wrong thing or write the wrong book. A july poll showed 40 of americans have a favourable opinion of muslims, compared to 45 who have an unfavourable opinion. Im joined by a religious scholar, adjunct professor of create if writing in riverside, his latest book is great to have you with us. Before we talk about islamaphobia in america, i want you to weigh in on what we were discussing israelis and palestinians may be heading to a fullscale conflict with religious rights in jerusalem at the heart of problem. Is religious tolerance there on both sides. I wish that it was a surprise that we are seeing that surge in religious extremism on both the israeli and the palestinian side. Unfortunately, when you have a failure of the political infrastructure among the palestinians, and the israelis to come up with some kind of meaningful end and snegs, its a matter of time before religion rices up and fills in the vacuum. Its an ongoing problem with the palestinians since the 180s, but less reported is the surge of religious violence and extremism, particularly among the settlers, the price tag terrorists, which the government of israel refers to as jewish terrorists, i see the problem as getting worse before it gets better. Its a terrible situation. Its sad. Lets talk about what we are intending to talk about, islamaphobia in the United States. You said that antimuslim sentiment is . What media are you talking about, do you think its worse now than in the months and years after 9 11. Its definitely worse than in the months and years after 9 11. Polls show that antimuslim sentiment it far higher, upwards of 1012 higher than it was. Even in the months after 9 11. Its an indication that a lot of antimuslim sentiment isnt a result of a sense of fear or threat as americans have, its a mainstreamization of antimuslim rhetoric. That is what has changed. The kind of things you hear about muslims, that they are unamerican, here to take over the country, to destroy america and democracy and establish islamic law. You heard these things in the past. What is different is that now you are hearing them from mainstream politicians, from main dream media news outlets, that is different. You said that many of the chrissics and many on the Mainstream Media that you are referring to criticize islam because they believe the violence we see is inspired or derived from the koran. Your argument is that religion is like an ideology, its up to the individual to interpret it. Its not just my idea, its basic religion, that people insert their own values into their text. We assume that every individual comes away with the same interpretation, and that is looun assy. That is empirically false. Nevertheless the notion that there is a one to one correlation between belief and behaviour, that the extremist versions of religious faith across everywhere in the world, simply for the fact that it shared a measure of belief with the moderates in that religion, is essentially equivalent to the entire religious community. That rhetoric is so normal, that for the vast majority of americans they believe that islam is different. It is not privy to the same culture or historical or nationalistic revolution. No person would say all 2 billion christians in the world think or believe in the same way. But its commonplace for people to look at islam as monolithic, as static and unchanging. The argument that some make is that if people define their religion with their own interpretations, why is islam so often interpreted to justify violence . I do think that its true that islam right now is at a place that no other religion is facing. That there is a level of instability and violence and destruction taking place in muslim majority countries, particularly in the region of the middle east. That cannot be denied. What cannot be denied is the groups like al qaeda, i. S. I. S. , claim to be muslim and acting in the name of islam. We shouldnt dismiss it, we somehow take it seriously. The issue is is it something unique or inherent to islam. That argument falls flat when one considers that you talk about a community of 1. 6 billion. And to brush all that country with the same brush of extremism is to misunderstand what the root cause of the extremism is. Talking about i. S. I. L. , it claims to be an authentic voice of islam. Support may be growing. It may be part of an increase in islamaphobia. You take a hard line, saying theres no reasoning possible with a group like that. I. S. I. L. Is a jihadist organization, as opposed to an islamist organization. I. S. I. L. Has no national agenda, they are fighting a cosmic war. In a cosmic battle theres no room for negotiation, because they dont want anything that is measurable or achievable. It doesnt mean theres not a political aspect to the fight. There is. The idea that youd seek i. S. I. S. The way you treat the taliban or hamas, is not the case. You have to treat i. S. I. S. Differently. Theres no other response but a military response. An important discussion. Thank you for joining us. Well be back with more of consider this. Juror as we hearingsed the debate over heard, the debate over islamaphobia ranges on. It reached fever pitch when our next guest published 12 pickets of prophet mohammed in a paper. Despite a believe that it should not be depicted. Violent riots followed. Danish and other embassies were damaged. 200 died. It sparked a worldwide debate over freedom of speech. Fleming rose decided to publish the cart oops, including a drawing of mohammed with a bomb in his tur bin. Hes the papers Foreign Editor and outlined a decision. The tierony of silence in one cartoon ignited a debate on the freedom of free speech. Fleming. A pleasure to have you with us. Lets set the scene of happened. There was a Childrens Book author that wanted to write about islam. About the prophet. And wanted to have someone draw the prophet mohammed. He couldnt get given to do that. Thats what he said. That was confirmed. Three illustrators turned tonne his cover, and the one that said yes, insisted on anonymity. Later, referring to his fear, referring to the same fate as salman rushdie, received a fatwa. That was self censorship. Out of fear you dont want to appear upped your own name. Because you felt that censorship was going on, your paper decided to get the cartoonists in denmark to you approached them to see if anyone would draw cartoons. I invited them to draw the prophet as they see him. It was an open conversation. It was an open invitation, and the cartoons were different. It was not only this example. In fact, we held the cartoons for two weeks, we were not sure about the documentation, but in the course of those two weeks several things happened. At a gallery in london an installation god is great, was removed out of fear of offending som some. You felt it was important given what was going on. There was trends thats why we decided to take office. I am sure most in the west would argue you had every right to do it. On the other hand your paper would not publishing hate speech, vulgarity and pornography. We would. In fact we published a full page in order to make a point. To make a point. Under normal circumstances, where do you draw the line. Im against hate speech laws. You have the free speech it has a special position in american system. In most European Countries we have hate speech laws we have them in denmark and other countries. Im in favour of removing the laws. I dont think that you can fight hate by outlawing a hate speech. I think you fight it with words. In the by suppressing it. We chose not to show the inflammatory cartoon. And your book, the english version, does not have the cartoon in it either. Why. You have to ask my publisher, i distanced myself from the publisher. It was important that they were published in the danish version, because they were published in denmark from the part. I said to my agent i will not be part of the decision process, whether foreign publishers would like to put the cartoons in the book. Quick final question you were threatened, the cartoonist needs protection all these years later. Would you do it again . If i say i would not do it again, i send an unfortunate signal to those that threatened and intimidated me, basically saying if you intimidate and threaten enough, ill do as you please. Id tell them in you intimidate, ill do what you ask me. And it will mean that you do not get less intimidation, youll get more, because you tell people that it works. Yes, thats a good point, a strong point, an important point to take. Pleasure to have you with us. Rr consider this will be right back. We are learning about a shameful ep episode in americas history after the aftermath of world war ii. After the nuremberg trials, dozens were allowed in the u. S. Some from spies, actively recruited. Many hid their past, coming to the u. S. As refugees. America opened its doors to the thousands of nazis, while former prisoners remained in displaced persons camps. Even after being supposedly liberated. Joining us in new york is eric, a pull itser prizewinning reporter for the new york times, and author of the book the nazis next door. Great to have you with us. We recently had Annie Jacobsen on the show. We talked about that operation, where the u. S. Actively recruited top scientists from jeremy. Some werent. In order to develop our rackets and missile systems. But what you found is that our activities went further than that. It went way beyond the scientists. We focussed on the c. I. A. Spies. Nazi spies warn active nazi members, and were hired and recruited by intelligence agencies like the c. I. A. , army intelligence, with full knowledge of involvement in atrocities. One of the episodes that you described is a meeting between allen dulles, the head of the c. I. A. And heinrich himmler, head of hitlers staff. His ssa. Dules, the top u. S. Spy in switzerland at the time was meeting by a fireside, drinking scotch with himmlers chief of staff, setting up the system to take millions to their death. People like the general wolf were seen as moderate nazis. Thought that they were a value in the upcoming cold car. The new enemy was the soviets and the soviets left behind. A lot of people were not much help. They were bad spies. Not shockingly in hindsight. They turned out to be distrust worthy. In that few cases they are soviet double agents. I tell the story of a book, a top aide, who went on to be a c. I. A. Spy. He was on a spy mission from the c. I. A. And is taking spy documents and photos on a train in austria. He switched a satchel with someone else, got to whom burg and realised there was pyjamas and toiletries instead of spy photos. Instead of heavily classified material. You and i would be fired. Not only did he get fired, he was brought to america. A lot of this happened in violation of american law. Truman, for the scientists, said there was a decree that no nazi Party Members should be allowed to come to the United States much. The word was no artent nazis, your definition of what is and isnt a nazi. The c. I. A. Was knowingly using guys known in atrocities. The fbi used guys, not with a straightforward acknowledgment. They would use nazis as informants, but say they are not really nazis, the evidence against them is doctored by the soviets. They were not so straightforward. We talk about a guy named arthur rudolph. Who ron the factory. He was later brought to the United States. Who nose how many died. The way they were treated. They were worked to death, and thousands and thousand of p. O. W. S killed building their rockets. Its part of the american system. He was probably the most famous nazi scientist in the space programme. He had a great quote. You described it that he served at the depth of nazi depravity and the height of american achievement. He was recorded as a father of the saturn five space programme. It was in the early 1980s, that the Justice Department went after him, and confronted him about his horrible involvement and his story before then was that he wasnt involved. He admitted. You describe how the federal bureau of investigation and c. I. A. Obstructed justice when many were pursued later in life. The biggest tragedy in all of this is how you describe that these germans, who were war criminals were brought over from germany, why many of the jews in concentration camps languished not being able to get out. Thats the most stirring thing for me, is that you had the nazis fleeing easily to america and else where. While the survivors, not just jews, jehovah witnesses, roma and others lived in deplorable position. General paton was running the camps, war hero now. He was antisemitic. And left the nazi prisoners lord it over the survivors they lived in decrepit conditions, it was liberation. Its an incredible story on a lot of different levels. Thank you for having me. The book is the nazis next door, how america became a save haven. Well be back with more of consider this. S Glen Campbell is, of course, a legendary entertainer, creating countless memories for fans, but mostly lost his own. The new documentary, Glen Campbell, ill be me follows the singer as he struggled with alzhiemers while on his farewell tour. Glen campbell has been making Music History for decades, and still is. He was the first singer to win in country and contemporary categories in the same year. Who is that . That is billy. Billy . And who is she . Thats your second wife. You were married for 16 years . Really. You divorced. And then you met me. This indicates in all likelihood your difficulties are due to alzhiemers disease. Glen campbell ill be me, is playing in select cities and opens in the next few weeks, james kaech directed and produced the film. Good to have you with us. Tough moment there. You heard he had alzhiemers, and you opened the field with glen looking at home movies and his wife. He doesnt recognise the daughter or himself. Thats sad to watch. His wife kim tells him that its him. Ill be me. The title of their film. You didnt want to make the documentary at first, why . I was reluctant. It was about alzhiemers. And what you discover is when you watch the movie, theres big laughs in this thing, than there is in pretty much any big comedy is so full of humour, and he wanted the film to be made. He asked us to make the film and he wanted to put a face on the disease, and he was told that when he was diagnosed with alzhiemers, he should hang up the guitar. He said no, im not going to do that, i aint done, and im going to do a time tour. We thought it would last five weeks, it went for 2. 5 years, 151 shows, and you she this journey that this guy goes on. Its remarkable. Its amazing. 155 shows, after being diagnose with alzhiemers. There were changes has he performed. Glen couldnt find his way in and out of the room. When he got on the stage, and was performing. It was magic. His first language is music. Hes probably more familiar being on the stage intrb acting with an audience. He forgot things, engined to get through it. One of his songs titled a better place, he sings some days im so confused and the film features his final song. Im not going to miss you. Lets take a look at the music video. Im never going to know what you go through all the things i say or do all the hurt and all the pain one thing selfishly remains im not going to miss you. Its really heartbreaking. A message that i think any of us that had family members, that had close ones go through this, understand that sad message in the song. At the same time the song is written from the point of view that hes okay. Its a reassurance that hes okay. But what it does to people that are going through it with them is that they are not okay with him losing his memory, you know. So its. With so many people, you know, who are suffering from this, you know, we have 5 million americans who have it now. You know, we have untold americans. That number is expected to triple by 2050. And you dont shy away in the movie about showing some of the rough times. No, no, i mean the film glen wanted is to be authentic, he knew what it was up against. Reality television was scripted. This is glen, you know, going through the journey, and his family being incredible caregivers, and humanistic doctors, and the thing that was really, really great too was that the audience, when he was in front of them at his most vulnerable would lift him up. 15 standing ovations. Every show. They knew what he was up against. They cheered him on. They behaved the way people are supposed to be. How is he doing now . Hes in a memory care facilities, and close to where kim and ashley live in nashville and is happy and doing well. Hes able to he recognises his family, and his kids. And he laughs a lot. Loves to laf and goes to the windows. Hes in stage 6. The film took place between stage 2 and 4. And stage 7 is the final stage of the illness. Its inspiring. We wish you the best of luck with the oscars. The film is seen as a category award consenteder. Good luck in spreading the message for alzhiemers, and what its doing for families. Thank you. Glen campbell ill be me, is playing in select cities. The conversation continues on the website. Aljazeera. Com considerthis we are on facebook and twitter. And tweet me amoratv. See you next time. As us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeeras fault lines travelled there. The taliban fighters, theyre running towards the base now. 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