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>> in the 2000s rock itself becomes known and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. >> post-9/11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. ♪ i've been down to the bottom of every bottle ♪ >> nickelback, they had bigger hits than everybody. >> everybody's welcome in the nickelback club. we've got a big club. ♪ yeah, yeah >> a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it's almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you're talking about green day. ♪ don't want to be an american idiot ♪ >> you can't undersell how shocking it was that t...

I've watched what collectiveized fear has done to law and policy in the post-9/11 era, when again, people had good reason to be scared. there's much in that record that serves as a cautionary tale. so the challenge for us as a culture and citizens and political leaders and those in the media, as we choose how and when to cover these incidents is how to be clear-eyed to the threat posed by gun violence and white supremacist extremist violence and the dark nihilistic spree shooters without succumbing to the very sense of fear and paranoia and panic they seek to impose. d panic they seek to impos...

Of fear that mass shootings create will be channeled to ever-more draconian impingements on other liberties. the guns stay, but we want the state to guard every school like a garrison, monitor every chat board, involuntarily commit those with mental health problems and on and on and on. i've watched what collectiveized fear has done to law and policy in the post-9/11 era, when again, people had good reason to be scared. there's much in that record that serves as a cautionary tale. so the challenge for us as a culture and citizens and political leaders and those in the media, as we choose how a...

I don't care. i'm 57 years old and i have a hero. i spent four and a half years with that guy. let him go. he was the best i ever saw democrat or republican. and i just want to let it go. he's a great man. >> you mention him in this book "black site." this book is really interesting. i learned a lot here. it's about what you call the program. which was the use of black sites in interrogating terrorists in the post-9/11 world. why and how did you go back and write this? >> i love to read and write. i wanted to write a book. i realized the story after 9/11, the tension we've faced.

>> in the 2000s rock itself becomes known and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. >> post-9/11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. ♪ i've been down to the bottom of every bottle ♪ >> nickelback, they had bigger hits than anybody. >> everybody's welcome in the nickelback club. we've got a big club. ♪ yeah, yeah >> a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it's almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you're talking about green day. ♪ ♪ don't want to be an american idiot ♪ >> you can't undersell how shocking it was that...