Dont play dumb. We have covered in shake and bake and the entire cast of the untouchibles there too. This hollandaise smells like burnt rubber. God, its hot in here. If i first day as a woman and im getting hot flashes. Ill take mork. Give me mork. Any day. Comic relief, look at his body of work. As if mork was not enough, Robin Williams also gave so much back to the community as well. He helped to raise 50 million to benefit the homeless comic relief. He entertained troops. He often visited with Cancer Patients as well. Robin williams leaves behind three children. Last night his daughter zelda posted a message i love you, ill miss you. Ill try to keep looking up. I think she speaks for all of us. Joining us is comedian chuck nice, a 16 veteran of standup comedian. And i know you didnt work directly with mr. Williams, but you had met him and i imagine that you are like many other comedians out there who can say you feltd his influence. Absolutely. The entire comedy world, all of entertainment felt his influence. He was such a force and as you mentioned earlier at the top that he was a classically trained actor but more than anything he brought a spirit and an energy to everything that he did. When you saw that clip from mork from ork, you can tell thats him improving. We were there and we were all covered in shake and bake. Who writes that . Who can make a character like mork which is so silly on its face, so compelling at the same time . Absolutely. A lot of what he did was like that. There was a depth and humanity to much of what he did. Even his standup where he talked about the struggles that he faced with drug addiction and depression, and he made it funny, but he also made it poignant because he was giving us a look inside what happens when a person is in that kind of painful situation. I want talk about that. Because one of things that has struck me and weve been talking about it all morning, how aware Robin Williams was of the issues he was dealing with, he tawlk about addiction so much. I want to play a clip for you right here. What happens in rehab . What happens . You dry out. I mean, what happens, people basically start the process of, you know, just saying no and being among others, you know, and learning that you are not alone and working on giving up, you know, giving up that you could do it yourself because everyone is saying, i got this under control, gary. Do you think youve beaten it . No, larry. Its always there. Yeah, i kicked it. Im fine. No, the idea is you always have a little bit of fear, like you just have to keep at it. Hes talking about addiction there and recently been battling depression as well. How can you be so aware and so eloquent about Something Like that and also so powerless against it . What were seeing with robin, his whole act, the act being the comedian, thats him. Those are the demons hes expressing. Thas his selfmedication. Thats him working out the deep depression he had. And very honest that the fact that drug addiction and recovery is a lifelong process and for him, it got to be too much. The depression was too deep. There were other medical problems going on, and i think it pushed him over the edge and he made a decision that we see as being the wrong decision, but when you are deep inside of a depression, when you are having those drug abuse issues, it makes sense to you at the time even though you leave so many people that are hurt and you know whats going on. You know what your issues are, but yet you are powerless to fight them yourself. I think we cant miss this opportunity to talk about this notion, chuck, of the sad clown. Weve talked about this before. I know a lot of comedians that have their own, you know, demons they struggle with. Thank you for saying were all messed up and you are right. No, no. We are all messed up. Were all messed up in the head. But they have an opportunity to work it out on stage. We become their therapist when we listen to comedians because they are taking the deepest, darkest, most painful things and putting it out there and making it funny. This is a very sophisticated coping mechanism that we see in psychoanalysis and psychology, so it is brilliant. You are absolutely right. I often would like to go see a therapist, but instead i just get on stanl and it works. You know. Because what you are doing is you are taking theres a saying, all comedy comes from pain. Okay . Very rarely will you meet a standup comic who is good, okay, who is just like i have the happiest life ever. My life is awesome. Thats not necessarily funny. Right. You take pain and you make it into something funny in hope somebody will get a deeper message. Its really a pleasure to have here to talk about what so many is struggling to understand. I know we have to go, but i think one of the things we have to do is take this opportunity to educate ourselves on the fact that depression and addiction are brain disorders. People fight cancer and we say, hey, man, im with you, im behind you, fight cancer. Well, guess what, its the same thing, these are brain disorders. These are chemical malfunctions in your brain and the more we know about it, the less stigma well attach to it. Which means you got to get treatment. You got to get help. And to that end, i want to point something that cnn has put together, there are a lot of folks right there on our panl, cnn. Com impact, there are a lot of tools and resources, if someone you know is suffering and struggling trying to find some help, thats a good place to start. Thanks so much, gentlemen. 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Were just getting word right now that the u. S. Could be sending as many as 75 more military advisers to iraq, upping the u. S. Participation there. One front line in this dead lie fight, sinjar mountain, thousands of people have been trapped there by isis forces. Some have been rescued. Airlifted by helicopter. Our ivan watson was part of such an aid mission. Joining us now from the iraq syrian border. Well talk to you about that situation. Ivan, why dont we start with you. You can tell us about the situation where you are on the ground right now. Reporter michaela im at the Iraqi Kurdish border with syria. Theres a river in between and a bridge. Weve seen throughout the past couple of hours that weve been here, a constant stream, now somewhat dwindled to a trickle, but it ebbs and flows of iraqis fleeing the isis offensive and they have taken this long journey to get here. They flee across the border to a kurdish controlled part. You can see these people stumbling up the banks of the river. They flow to syria where they are transported to this bridge and brought back into Iraqi Kurdistan. These people have fled their homes, quite literally in a matter of minutes. They are carrying little more than the clothes on their backs. We see have seen elderly coming, weve seen women leading their children, people look exhausted as they make this jurn in and they have nothing because as you go up the banks of the river from here, there are makeshift camps cropping up of tens of thousands of newly Homeless People who have no place else to go. The Kurdish Border guards here, michaela, they say that the stream of people that have crossed and weve seen thousands in the last hour or two was much more in the past two days. This is a part of a massive displacement of people. I spoke with an elderly man who said his family walked more than ten hours to escape. I asked how could they do it . He said when you are running for your life, youll do it. You have no other choice. To bring some context to this, im joined by a kurdish businessman here. His father was deputy Prime Minister killed by a jihadi suicide bomb ten years ago. I knew him. He was a good man, and were watching these scenes here, this crisis now has occurred. First of all how does it make you feel to see these hundreds of thousands of people on the run . Its beyond words how upsetting it is for us. Its not the first time. Weve had multiple attacks on the kurdish nation. Weve had genocide in the 1980s, where 180,000 people were wiped out. We had chemical attacks, and we fled in 1991 after saddam husseins gulf war i and now we are again, its profoundly upsetting and very worrying, im actually from the town of sinjar myself. It brings it home for me. Its not just kurds, Iraqi Kurdistan is welcoming christians, turkeymen, people of the arabs of different religious and ethic groups. It looks like a policy of ethnic cleansing. If you are not an arab sunni who follows isis ideology, theres no place for you . Yes. You have to subscribe to their belief system or you are dead. Thats effectively what happens and kurdistan is accepting everyone. Many minorities, its a rainbow of religious groups, and they are all part of of kurdistan. It must be traumaticizing to watch this all come forth. It is. Thats just a bit of a touch of this and i have to stress this, john, and michaela, we have seen other people on the move in other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan. More than 100,000 Iraqi Christians and all of these people across this region are going to be leaving, sleeping on the side of the road tonight. It is a humanitarian crisis. Its literally an odyssey, and tragedy playing out in front of your very eyes and thank goodness we have you there to show the world what is going on right now. This mass of humanity running away wherever they can, even into syria and back into iraq. Professor, let me ask you this, what more can be done . Are these air lifts enough . Are the air strikes enough . We got word that an iraqi chopper went down while out on sinjar mountain trying to bring aid to people . Its dangerous. More can be done. Its going to take quite a lot to turn the tide against isis. Air strikes will help. Humanitarian air lift will certainly help the refugees but isis is an inl incredibly powerful organization. It survived basically everything the United States thrown at it when it was al qaeda in iraq. It seems like an organism has strengthened and emboldened and gotten more wild. Absolute. In 2011, it was 2007 it was being pushed back by the United States. Pushed into the fringes around moss sewell, since the war in syria began, its drawing strength from that, its converted that strength into effective firing power. What it needs is an iraqi sunni saying no, not here . I think you are right. Thats exactly what turned the tide in 2007. The problem now is the United States isnt there to help them. Professor, thanks so much for being with us. Again, were going to leave you with these live pictures on the border. I can give you an idea of the desperation to walk at least ten miles. My goodness. Were going to take a short break here. Ahead at this hour, were going to take a look at hour the veterans of iraq and afghanistan wars are now battling at home from post traumatic stress, to addiction. Many of them are in the fight of their lives. Were going to speak with soledad obrien. And were going to be remembering the life and legacy of Robin Williams at 11 30 right here onnen cnn. During the cadillac summers best event, lease this 2014 ats for around 299 a month and make this the summer of style. Thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. 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Made sure it was loaded. Stuck it in my mouth and was going to pull the trigger. The next thing that crossed through my mind was my kids, my two sons. At that point, i was like, i dont want some other [ bleep ] raising my kids. I put my gun down and i called the v. A. Suicide hot line, and that is where i can tell you a 40minute wait on hold with a glock pistol sitting on my desk. Funny isnt it . A glock pistol sitting on my desk and im on hold. Joining us is soledad obrien. The ceo of Starfish Media Group behind the powerful documentary. Shes here with me now. The power of bobby parmer and guys like him is their ability to a program and called save a warrior, most of them veterans. And say i was there. I am this guy who was well respected. I am, you know, a veterans veteran and i was there too. I was suicidal also, and you can come back from the brink and i think its guys like bobby farmer who is one of the most impressive human beings ive ever met sharing his story with those guys, its made a big difference. What they need is a map in some cases, right, in how to deal with the different situations, situations like people saying, thank you for your service, something as simple as that can be difficult . They describe it a lot as a toolbox. Thats what they actually teach them, tools to manage these stresses. For example, meditation is a great tool when you feel you have these all trushing feelings and you dont control them. All these things to manage how they are dealing with their daily interactions which sometimes can be stressful, sometimes can have anxiety. These are guys, the two that we profile, have very loving families. They are really lucky guys who just lost the ability to feel anything. And they cant even feel the love of their families, which is like this terrible irony. This is a powerful, powerful program. Hopefully its going to expand, save a warrior . I think they are run on a shoe strange string. It costs 1,600 per guy. They have just done their first womens cohort. Its small. Its one of those things they have to decide how maybe youll be airing on this documentary. I would say they would say from your mouth to gods ears. Its called save a warrior and its based in malibu, california. You can see the determination in some ways in their faces. They are there. They are determined to get there. They are warriors. These are guys who have been through a lot. We have to support them fully. Lets do that. Lets give it the due that it needs. The war comes home airs tonight 9 00 eastern right now here on cnn. Set your dvr right now. And in just a few moments were going to have a special cnn spotlight, remembering robin. Coming up