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Braces for a decision from the grand jury in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The point wont be made until that cop is indicted. Strategy in the war against i. S. I. L. Theres no expectation that we are going to enter into an alliance with assad. A surgeon who contracted the disease has died. A scientist has landinged a ship on a moving comet. Nfl knowingly supplied players with a seemingly endless amount of painkillers to get them ready to play. They were getting shots on game day. We begin in ferguson where the governor has declared a state of emergency and called up the national guard. Ferguson is bracing for the grand jurys decision, on whether or not to indict officer wilson. Many protestors predicted that officer wilson will not be indicted. Shut it down shut it down. Shut it down shut it down. Meanwhile the fbi has issued a bulletin to Law Enforcement officers across the country that the grand jury decision could lead extremist protesters to threaten Police Officers and federal agents. For more were joined from ferguson by al jazeera correspondent jonathan martin. Jonathan good to have you with us. In declaring a state of emergency governor jay nixon cited unreasonable arrest, waiting a week after the shooting of Michael Brown to declare a state of emergency. So how are people there reacting to his move . Antonio, it certainly has fueled a lot of speculation that this decision from the grand jury could come sooner rather than later. But again no one knows at this point. But a lot of the businesses at least in ferguson are glad to hear that the state of emergency has been put into effect. As we have been showing you all week a lot of the business are bordered areboarded up. The st. Louis mayor is very quick to say today that this does not mean there will be a militarization of the Law Enforcement but they want to be prepared and make sure everyone is working in a unified way and appropriate way in dealing with these protesters. Talking about precautions there are real concern about the protests getting in the way of wilson who is not indicted and local officials are urging people to stock up on water food and medicine. Yeah not just here in ferguson but some of the surrounding counties and suburbs they are telling the residents to prepare as you would for a storm because they really dont know how large these protests could get, how long they could last again if theres no indictment. Over the weekend, the st. Louis postdispatch potioned new audiovideo from the day of the shooting it included audio and video of darren wilson, had no obvious injuries but the video is not that clear. The brown family though has reacted. The brown family did issue a statement. As you said the video is not very good detail but it shows that some of the information that perhaps came early on from the Police Department about the officers injuries, officer wilsons injuries being severe, he had a wound to his eye socket, they believe that was exaggerated based on the video. The audio recording does perhaps provide a better time line doesnt answer exactly why the officer stopped Michael Brown in the first place on that day, antonio. Its not completely clear whether he knew or didnt know about the robbery that Michael Brown is accused of being involved in. Exactly. Its not clear. You know he did call for backup in that audio, the parents are saying that it shows based on the audiofro audio, from what theye heard, that it is not the audio they are stopping him for. In 90 seconds the altercation but exactly why he was stopped the family says at least thats not exactly clear. I know there are a whole bunch of groups that are calling for peaceful protests, they have been organized but they have called for the protests, while peaceful, to be disruptive. Outside agitators will come in and hijack the demonstrations. Right. Antonio we were out today and there was a pretty sizable protest, 200 or so protesting in clayton, a suburb right outside st. Louis. Protesters say we have had 100 days to prepare for this. They are concerned Law Enforcement fbi just issued a bulletin saying they are concerned about outside agitators coming in. There has been a lot of talk on twitter a lot of speculation, the people here who have been here the whole time say they will be peaceful. They are concerned what will happen if people come out here and exploit the situation and turn otherwise Peaceful Demonstrations to something else. The people whom you have talked to how worried are they if things get out of hand fast ai if theres no indictment . A lot of the people are concerned. You drive down the street and you see businesses boarded up in ferguson but even in some of the nearby communities theyre concerned, not just here in st. Louis or in missouri. A lot of Law Enforcement in other states and cities are preparing. A lot of Police Departments are getting in touch with their officers and letting them know how to handle potential mass demonstrations if theres no indictments. People here in ferguson as well as beyond this community. As we mentioned the fbi has issued the warning to Law Enforcement organizations across the country. Turning from the state of emergency in ferguson missouri to americas war with i. S. I. L. President obama struggled to form a coherent Foreign Policy and keep it on track. Outside the embattled town of kobani again on monday, i. S. I. L. Also right release released a ve showing it had beheaded another american captive. Peter kassig. His father ed spoke about peter. Please pray for abdul rahman or pete if thats how you know him at sunset this evening. Pray also for all people in syria and iraq and around the world that are held against their will. For more im joined from the council on Foreign Relations in new york by leslie gelb, president emeritus, and columnist for the New York Times. He is former assistant secretary of state and director of policy arm control at the department of defense. Les, thank you for joining us. Lets start with i. S. I. L. And how it continues to murder its foreign hostages, mass massacres syrians. Defeat i. S. I. L. Under the work principle that first threats need to be dealt with first. Here though is what president obama had to say about working with syria on sunday. We have communicated to the Syrian Regime that when we operate going after i. S. I. L. In their air space that they would be well advised not to take us on. But beyond that, theres no expectation that we are going to in some ways enter an alliance with assad. He is not credible in that country. What do you say to the president les . How can you go back on that now and work with assad after assad has killed and tortured so many tens of thousands of his own people . Id say he is going back on it even as he talked. Of course were not going to have an alliance with assads syria but we are informally sort of cooperating with one another. For example we arent hitting the oil wells that are controlled by i. S. I. L. And these oil wells are supplying assad with oil. Assad doesnt want us to hit those oil wells. Theyre safe. In other cases, were operating against i. S. I. L, and where assads troops are operating against them, we dont attack assads troops. So there is kind of a de facto you should partnered the expression cooperation going on. But what would happen if we went beyond that de facto cooperation . Wouldnt our sunni arab allies in the gulf, werent they to object if we made a deal that would strengthen syria and also its allies in iran . There would be a lot of objection if we simply made a deal to strengthen assad. But that is not what i would propose. I think if we extend our cooperation with assad, its got to be directed entirely against i. S. I. L. Because theyre the biggest threat to him, to us, and to our friends in the region. And weve got to say to him, here are the terms of cooperation. And by the way, we say that through the iranians and through the russians who happen to agree with what im about to say. We say, look, you got to focus much less on beating up on the rebels, the sunni rebels, and much more on beating i. S. I. L. Thats the main threat. Secondly, in the area where the sunni rebels are, lets declare a safe zone. Humanitarian zone. So we can begin to deal with the humanitarian disaster there. And we say to the rebels, were not going to stop arming you. Well continue to arm you. And youll have a chance to get your act together. So were planning for the future. And whats in it for assad . Whats in it for assad is the chance to be a part of that future bargain, and to deal with the i. S. I. L. Threat. Because thats going to be the biggest threat to him and to his iranian and russian friends as well. You dont seem to have much confidence that the white house is going to manage this well. Ha ha. You wrote a recent article about the prospective white house Foreign Policy shakeup. Before ditching his top aides, obama should look in the mirror. You talked about his team and you wrote that where the president is concerned the essential fault lies with not the stars around him however dim but with himself. Wouldnt a shakeup help though . Antonio, you know, as all the people know who really cover washington, this is the most centralized, and personalized, decisionmaking presidency probably ever. Mr. Obama is the man, on almost every issue. He calls the shots. So the absence of strategy really, in almost all cases, comes back to him. Just look at what he said two weeks ago. He got up at a press conference and said, much to my astonishment, we have no strategy for syria. Now, whether or not he had a strategy, i dont think he does, he never should have said it. Because all it did was to confirm to everyone in the region that we didnt know what we were doing. But you see, it all comes back to him in the end. And he didnt and talking about him, you say that the president is clueless about how to get things done and you talk about the stories criticizing the white house from congress and the state department. You seem more critical from the defense. Do you think theres a significant split between the white house and the pentagon . I think theres a growing difference of perspective and a growing lack of confidence between the generals on the one hand and the white house. And again, im not saying anything, people who discover washington dont know. They just dont write about it. Its just that these generals are now coming out in the open a little bit more. And telling reporters and congressmen about their concerns. I want to bring up ukraine and russia briefly. We saw Vladimir Putin leave the g20 meeting early but the president still seems to think that the sanctions on russia are somehow having an effect on the russians but it seems that everything is intensifying in ukraine rather than deescalating. So do you think sanctions are enough . Well, theres no question that the sanctions are having an effect on russians. Theyre just not having much of an effect on putin. He continues to get worse and the situation for the russians continues to get worse. Look, heres the problem. Obama, mr. Obama is criticized constantly from the scefts for conservatives for not doing enough. They want stronger action on his part. But yet you look at what theyre proposing. What are they proposing . Theyre saying well, arm the Ukrainian Government more. But the fact of the matter is, the conservative critics know as well as anybody else that even a much better Armed Ukrainian army would not be able to resist the russian army. You dont take the first step without knowing what youre going to do in the second and third step. I dont hear any of them saying that when they argue we should get tough with putin to say that we should get into a war with russia. Yes, so the hope is that the sanctions will affect the russian people and that that will end up making putin behave a little bit better. Leslie gelb, thank you very much. See you antonio. Now for more stories from around the world. We begin in nebraska where the ebola patient flown to the u. S. This weekend has died. 44yearold dr. Martin salia a maryland surgeon contracted ebola while working in his native sierra leone. He had received a negative ebola test days before coming ill and was already in Critical Condition when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on saturday. Doctors say they used ever treatment available. Including zmapp. Dr. Salia is the second person to die of ebola in the united u. S. State department had to shut down its entire unclassified email system after a state Department Official mentioned as affect by the attacks. This follows the hacking of the white house email system which is blamed on russia. The chinese are blamed for two other recent attacks. The breach of post Office Employee records and systems at noaa. The vatican confirmed on monday that pope francis will visit philadelphia in september to attend the Roman Catholic churches meeting of families. Also to visit the Philadelphia Museum of art. Millions will flock the the city of brotherly love to see the pope. He will be only the 4th pope to visit the United States. And thats some of whats happening around the world. Coming up is our best option to secure afghanistan, a partnership with the taliban . Also, concerns that nasa is outsourcing too much of its operations and making the u. S. Space program lose ground. And what do you think . Join the conversation on twitter ajconsiderthis and on our facebook page. On techknow, we should not be having earthquakes in texas the true cost of energy hits home. My yard is gone. Are we destroying our way of life . Contaminated water from the fracking activities come here they stick it to the core of the earth but this Cutting Edge Technology could be the answer the future of fracking is about the water protecting the planet, saving lives. How do you convince a Big Oil Company to use this . Techknow, only on Al Jazeera America the war in afghanistan was supposed to be a good war, destroying al qaeda and freeing the country from the talibans brutally repressive rule. But after 13 years of fighting, about 2300 american deaths and nearly 800 billion in spending, will the good war be remembered as a failure . Taliban suicide bombers are still targeting nato convoys. While u. S. Troops are being cut from 18,000 to less than 2,000 at years end. Meanwhile, opium is at an all time high. For more im joined by jack fairweather, author of the good war why we couldnt win the war or the peace in afghanistan. Good to have you with us jack. Really thought provoking book. This war was supposed to be fairly straightforward. We got rid of al qaeda, put in a relatively good government. You thought that was nigh naive te. Dwr . Why . The problems was we got rid of al qaeda and then by the mistake of then tacking on the taliban into our war objectives, and the taliban is no single entity its a bunch of tribal affiliates with different loyalties, different motivations and we very quickly found ourselves drawn into a battle in afghan villages against the afghan people. And you published an editorial in the New York Times entitled give the taliban a chance. Because you say that its important to bring them into the talks and to be able to figure out a way of having the taliban be part of whatever afghanistans future is. How, especially you know weve seen them waging guerilla war, weve seen them killing americans weve seen them committing terrorist acts so how can we possibly bring them into a government in afghanistan . Youve got the taliban leadership in pakistan. Dealing with them is a long term process, theres no quick fixes. But what weve seen over the past decade is in the ground in these villages there are tribes where local accommodations are possible. Afghanistan is like a patch work quilt. You can full together the fabric and you keep stitching, you can hold something together. Whats happening on the ground now is u. S. Troops have pulled out. Afghan forces have moved in and slowly they are ceding ground to the taliban. What should be happening is a process of Political Engagement of local negotiations that u. S. Troops have who have Incredible Knowledge on the ground of these politics, they need to be playing a role in helping bring these sides together. But couldnt that help bring the bad guys from pakistan into the even the taliban who were the leadership that may be in pakistan into afghanistan with more strength once any foot hold exists for these loose elements of the taliban . Granted but the taliban leadership in qatar doesnt speak for all these groups. That leadership is playing to an audience, these tribal groups that Afghan Government needs to be reaching out for, thats a battle for Popular Support and we are not trying to win that battle. With 2300 american deaths in afghanistan, do you think theres anything for the Afghan Government to deal with the taliban . The reality is the taliban are back in places Like Northern where american troops fought for long periods of time. Even outside kabul . Even outside kabul. Its a reality. U. S. Troops are not going back into afghanistan, we are not doing another surge, youve got to deal with the reality. Thats one of the key take aways. Youve got to embrace the reality thats there, not try build your own bubble. What you hope might happen. Right. The taliban did turn afghanistan into a much more backward place than it ever was, not that it had moved into the 20th century much less the 21st century but since we went in youve got you know tremendous advances, 85 of people have access to some sort of medical care. Whield under the taliban it while under the taliban it was less than 7 . Third of the kids going to school are girls who the taliban wouldnt even allow to educate. So when you ask the question whether it was a good war, did we win it at all the war or the peace are there things that we did that certainly have been good for that country . The removing of the taliban was a good thing. And i think what should have happened in 2001 is that they would have been incorporated in some level into a comprehensive peace settlement. What we did in 2001 was, seclude them, and sow the seeds for discontent, persecuting tribes, and leaders ready to lay down their arms that is our mistake. There is something to build on there as you say, education is a giant and the inclusion of girls in school is a giant leap forward. But that gives you an idea of the scale of the changes. Its generational, its going to take 20, 30 years. Because afghanistan is predominantly rural country, 80 live in the country side. In those environments conservative forces prevail. In the cities, is were slowly bringing the country together. You wrote that the wests good experiment was effectively lost when president obama stuck to his decision three years ago, to end the surge. As you know, you know, we are winding down even further now. What hope, are you hopeful for the future . Im hopeful in one sense. That as long as the u. S. Remains engaged, the Afghan Government is going to be able to hold the major cities. The country side will return back as it is already to its sort of tribal governorships. What the u. S. Needs to do is help bring together the city, and the country side, in a accommodations. As long as we remain engaged thats possible. As long as you keep the money flowing and the support there, thats where afghans say that they want and its time we actually listen to them. And a lot of money has flowed that way already. Thats true. We need to scale our effort to the needs of afghanistan, not to the needs of the state that we wanted to create. Certainly very thought provoking, jack, pleasure to have you with us. Again the book is the good war, why we couldnt win the war or the peace in afghanistan. Turning now to space, ever since Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for man kind, nasa was first to successfully fly bay and land on mars. But the are breathtaking photos of philae lander, we are currently hitchhiking rides to the space station with the russians so is nasa falling behind . Joining us here in new york is michael lega lemonnic. And spate. Com. Guys good to have you here. Theres some croag out of europe about the European Space agency managing that marvel of landing on that comet. Is that an indication that they somehow have leaped ahead . I wouldnt go that far. We have big missions coming up but we are no longer the only game in town when it comes to these things. David, we have no unmanned flight anymore. The former nasa administrator Michael Griffin says we are held hostage by the russians when getting to the International Space station. That may be true but all congratulations for europeans for that spectacular mission. But dont forget there was some nasa participation in that mission as well. It is a species, for us to attack that as humanity, not just individual nations. Nasa not only participated, it was the original nasa project but it was the funding cuts for nasa that led for the European Space agency to taking it over. In the 1990s the u. S. Backed out of. Not the first or the last time that the United States has done that to the europeans. If theres a lesson to be learned lets respect those folks across the pond because they can really do space and do it quite well. Not just the folks across pond. Serious competition from china some from india, there are Space Programs from around the world. Lots and lots of countries are intending to go into space and trying to do it and increasingly they will do it. Theyve got along way to catch up to us and to the europeans. But theres no reason why some of them cant. Theyre doing it more cheaply. One of the Amazing Things i read was china getting a ship to orbit mars. India, i mis misspoke. Very well trained people who are increasingly able to do these things. What were doing in the United States is handing a lot of this over to private industry. Is that a good idea . Depends what youre talking about. Like an orchestra you need the right instrument to play the right voice. You dont ask the piccolo player to play the tuba. Thats absolutely something that the private sector can do and has been engaged by nasa to do. When you are talking about maintaining National Reconnaissance satellite thats an entirely different proposition. But nasa did so much and it was such a glory of american technology. Why if it was so successful for so long, should we hand this over to private industry. Because it cost a huge amount of money and congress is increasingly reluctant to spend that money and its a fact of life. When it does spend it, if i may interrupt, it tends to tell where to spend the money. Congress was not populated by scientists. And private industry is much more nimble. And not that a bunch of influential congressional districts each get a portion of the project. Which is exactly, in the space launch system that nasa has been tasked with developing, its a big rocket but is that really the best and most Cost Effective way to do space . Many refer to it as the senate launch vehicle. And competition can make things cheaper. Leading to greater innovation. The aviation, modern Aviation Industry as a private industry and if you try and imagine that the government ran all of our aviation, and all of our airlines, it might not run so well. Right, youd have six or eight Government Employees going to explore air three or four have. On the other hand, we saw what happened to the orbital science rocket that crashed soon after takeoff and what happened to Virgin Galactic so are you concerned about how private industry is doing . Yes and no. Space is really, really difficult to do, and the way it is learned to do the better we all will do it. Nobody remembers or talks about the fact that jet fighters are flown initially by test pilots and they have been all along the way. And those pilots sometimes die in crashes. And they just werent publicized, thats the difference. The idea that we can go to space without casualties in that very dangerous and complicated environment its just not realistic. But weve kind of been led to believe that somehow it can be done. Its just not possible and were never going to make any progress. And we should say that nasa has had its problems too. Its had issues with the telescopes, with how its dealt, how poorly it has done in asteroid identification project that they had. Space is difficult. And bureaucracy, chances are multiplied because people are looking at tiny pieces of the issue. We tend to do things better in smaller groups which is what do. On the other hand is it important to have nasa there for those big projects to focus on that next leap to get humans to mars or to figure out how to stop an asteroid that may threaten earth . An agency overseeing those projects, or the hubble space telescope, it would be hard to finance it because theres no profit in it. Big science asteroid landings and the new Horizons Mission reaching pluto in july, has nasa has to see. Inspirational for people, do you think this new environment will be similarly inspirational . Even more so because lets look at the population that is funding these things. They are the ple millenials. They are all about these idea that High Net Worth individual can realize his or her vision, and actually get somewhere, in the universe. Do you agree . Yeah, i do. And in fact look at elon musk who is in fact a tech billionaire. Richard branson, also a billionaire but not a tech one. Lets hope this one does work program. It is a pleasure to have you both here. Good to see you both. Straight ahead a fight for funding. Americans are more terrified getting alzheimers than any other disease so why is funding lagging. The dea goes on the offense against the nfl just as the league is forced to defend itself against another case of domestic violence. At the height of the cold war were spies. Intercepting messages from embassies, military bases. One of the americas closest allies. We were not targeting israelis. Suddenly attacked bullet holes. Just red with blood. 34 killed. We had no way to defend ourselves high level coverups. Never before heard audio. A shocking investigation a conscience decision was made to sweep it under the rug. The day Israel Attacked america only on Al Jazeera America a rient poll found that americans recent poll found that americans are more fearful of developing alzheimers disease. November is alzheimers Awareness Month and to discuss the latest efforts to fight the disease were joined by geriatrician. One in nine americans at age 65 have it, one in three at age 85. This could be a more terrible burden on the country as baby boomers age. How are we where are we right now and have we made progress . Weve made enormous progress. When i went to medical school i started in 1970. Throughout the entire time i was there i never heard the word alzheimers disease, it was discovered in 1970 when some doctors were discovering people who died of disease, had what alsheimre described in 1976. Come a long way in a short period of time. Theres no cure, we really cant do much to delay onset and we cant make the symptoms any better. So how much can we do . Well, actually we can do a lot. I think that one thing we have to remember is that the role of doctors and Health Care Providers is to take care of people. And many people get chronic diseases that dont have cures but they need to be taken care of and more than anything i think families and patients with alzheimers disease needs to be taken care of by competent and adequate doctors, because there are behavior disorders that need to be taken care of so people dont get too many medications. There are four medications for alzheimers disease that are effective and safe and they do work to a modest degree but we certainly neat better drugs and we need disease modifying drugs. But more importantly we have found out more about prevention of alzheimers in the last ten to 20 years. In that context you mentioned chronic disease, what is the relationship between other chronic diseases and the onset of alzheimers . We learned that hypertension and diabetes, very powerful so they should give incentives for people who have hypertension and need to take their medication every day that they need to take their medication not just to prevent a heart attack or kidney failure or major stroke when theyre paralyzed but to prevent them from losing their minds. And you wrote recently that developing countries seem to have a lowering incidence of alzheimers. So do you believe that lifestyle modifications aside from chronic diseases we are talking about can also have an effect . There is no doubt about it, actually in the developed world where we have a big lifestyle im sorry i meant developing. There are more people in the developing world with alzheimers just because of the sheer numbers and the developing world is really aging. It is a problem of the developing world as well as the developed world. But weve had a huge change in lifestyle. People are not smoking as much theyre examining. So cohort changes, people in their 60s smoked didnt exercise and they were at risk for heart attacks and strokes and dementia. People in their 60s day are going to be at lower risk and perhaps delay the onset of alzheimers average beige 78 to maybe 80, 82. And that will be a good thing. Very good thing, yes. What i heard about was systemic inflammation could make a difference, people who have that could have a bigger risk of getting alzheimers. The obvious question then should people be popping advils and aleves . Risk factors, ep epidemiological factors, Clinical Trials of advil and motrin, they dont work. What our foundation is funding is the development of brain specific antiinflammatory drugs that will really work better in alzheimers disease. There is no doubt there is inflam aches in the brain with people with sliermings. When people get pneumonia, the huge amount of inflammation all the chemicals that are released go to the brain and can kill brain cells. Polls show 82 of americans want some major comprehensive effort to deal with alzheimers disease. Its costing us more than 200 billion a year, families are burden he by this and tremendous ways as you know because i know you have had to deal with it yourself. Theres talk that this could reach a trillion dollars by 2050. So this is massive. But were the funding is just not there. Is this a question of ageism . I think its partly ageism. I think its also less value to life in old age of our society but i think its also a matter of the delay that we had. As i mentioned the nih was started in 1948 and its primary purpose was to cure cancer and heart disease. In those ages where alzheimers was just being recognizes as a disease of old age, at a time when we are spending billions and billions of dollars on cancer and heart disease, we spent 625,000 on four plans for, we are 20 times underfunded for alzheimers as we are for hiv aids on a per patient basis. We really need to gear up our research efforts. In the issue of ageism, what it does to families, its very important, to have you here to bring attention to this, its a real pleasure to have you. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Coming up the dea blitzes nfl teams with surprise inspections for drugs. But first the changing nature of what kills americans over the past century thats in our data dive next. An american tonight investigative report i want the schools to want me no matter what. Im still equal. What if you had a brilliant mind . I want to get into a competitive school. But life has been a struggle. Black and latino kids. They feel shut out of these schools and shut out of the opportunities that they offer and you only have a solitary chance to turn your world around the way to get entrance is through taking one single exam. Testing under fire an america tonight investigative report only on Al Jazeera America music doesnt change change the world, but it does influence that way people think rock icon Peter Gabriel believes we can all make a difference get technology to people. To empower them. To become more effective giving a global stage to important issues climate change. Weve gotta take action every saturday, join us for exclusive. Revealing. And surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. Talk to al jazeera only on Al Jazeera America the nfl is getting blitzed by more headlines for action off the field. Dea agents conducted surprise inspections of the medical staffs of at least three teams on sunday. They were looking for possibly illegal use of prescription painkillers. Adding to the nfls troubles it faces new Domestic Abuse allegations for another treatment. Special relationships between the Miami Dolphins and local Law Enforcement. Dave zyron, host of edge of sports radio. Good to see you dave. Lets start with the deas surprise inspections. Part of an Ongoing Investigation into drug abuse in the league. They searched bags, questioned team doctors, the league is looking at possible distribution of drugs without labels, and trainers not doctors are illegally giving drugs out. This is all linked to this big collaboration lawsuiclass actio0 players. True, the big story is that the dea got involved at all. Today i was doing research and you have players giving testimony of things like toreadol and painkillers given out like m and ms for 50 yeerms yet here for the first time the dea, interseeds, which speaks to the bigger issue that the relationship between the National Football league and the federal government is so toxic, not just about the dea, but people in Congress Talking about stripping nfl about its nonprofit status, the name of the washington football team, i mean it is a wild west right anonymity on capitol hill and i think thats what the nfl has become reeling, they have lobbyists to keep the feds off their back. And the feds say wait a minute you do not live in rarefied air National Football league. When you have 1300 former players saying they were getting per perkocet and vicodin, being handed out like candy. After that lawsuit they didnt thy at some point somebody wasnt going to investigate. You said stupid, another word in the thesaurus was arrogance. That it exists in a constitutionfree bubble protected by antitrust exemptions and monopolistic exemptions that allows it to operate outside of the law. No matter what party was in power in washington they gave the nfl reason to believe that it could be the wild west and whatever they had to do to get players on the field they could do it. Whatever practices took place in the personal lives of players they could make it go away without the federal governmental saying wait a minute whats going on in these local communities. Theres all kind of skulduggery thats gone on that the nfl has said to the world we are too big to fail we cannot be touched. And i think you are seeing a new era now where a lot of people in the federal government are saying wait a minute. This will not fly any longer. And if the players are to be believed this is really serious, the amount of drugs that they were given was really dangerous and there is evidence that theres whatevers happening today, that after people leave the nfl the misuse of opioid painkillers is four times worse among former players than it is among the general population. So clearly terrifying. Somethings happening. Its terrifying and i would encourage people to read a players memoirs like out of their league by dave nemesee which came out in 1970 which detailed same things. What is accepted practices in the nfl frank reply i dont think is surviving in the 21st century. What about the players though dont they have some responsibility because they obviously want to get on the field they want to play and they might have been willing to do whatever they needed to do in order to play. This is a really facinate of fascinating discussion one that belongs in a philosophy class with the idea of responsibility when it comes to National Football league. Players play on average three and a half years. To get to a point where you are playing such a sport at such a high level ilt tends to attract people who have a certain reckless attitude about their bodies in the first place. What is the gap between going out there being able to play with a separated showered or multiple concussions or man up and doing the same, in that locker room based on interviews ive done with players and things you can hear all the time on espn when players talk about their past is that theres no real gap between being tough and taking that shot. Want to go to this other controversy for the nfl. The ex fiancee of a form he miami dolphin, Phillip Merling said she was beaten by him when she was two months pregnant. Despite constant pleas to the nfl they did nothing to stop harassment that continues to this day. This is happening during the league waiting to make a decision on the Adrian Petersen child abuse and the ray rice Domestic Abuse problems, a decision is expected this week. So yeah and its important to say this is not only an issue of say your local Police Officer who is a big fan of the team and gives a player a break. There are so many financial ties that exist between Police Departments and franchises, particularly, in cities that are somewhat smaller and more cloistered in their football culture. Im not trying to single out the football communities in south florida especially to you antonio it seems almost unfair but it is a fact that you have not only these financial ties but hiring Police Officers to provide security at parties, and security guards, ben roftsberger roethlisberger and a woman in a bathroom, that led to a suspension for the steelers quarterback. On the wake of what happened with ray rice and genae rice. Coverups involving the nfl but coverups involving Law Enforcement. Thats more frightening than a league that just turns a blind eye to abuse. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thats it, we are on facebook and twitter ajconsiderthis and can you tweet me amoratv. Well see you next time. He two palestinians armed with actiones and knives attack a synagogue in jerusalem. At least four worshipers are killed. Hello. In our headquarters in doha with the latest on a developing story out of jerusalem. Police fire tear gas in clashes with palestinian protesters. And Colombian Rebel Group confirms it has captured an army general placing peace talks in jeopardy. Plus a grand jury decides whether to b