mission to serve. starting with the woman in charge of america s humanitarian response around the world. samantha power on helping ukrainians devastated by russia s war and why she thinks the u.s. needs to stay involved. the stakes for me as an american, mother, citizen are very, very high as they are for all of us. actor turned activest gary s role led him on a mission. was it fate you would play lieutenant dan in forest gump? can i have a hint? i find cooking hard and stressful. do you feel your life is in danger. what was the worst? there is a long list of really bad ones. i cannot tell you how difficult this is feeling. a humanitarian crisis unfolding right now. 8 million ukraine ians leaving their homeland since the war started. while russia destroyed much of the country, civilian infrastructure. samantha power heads the u.s. agency helping on the ground. i m here at the crossing point where ukrainians are entering poland. she knows war all too we
becomesless important to twyou d service to the military and veterans and first responders becomes more important. in 2003, you formed the lieutenant dan band and end up playing all over the world. was 9/11 gary a turning point for you? no doubt. that s the chapter in my book that references what happens on september 11th and how that affected me as indeed called turning point. the big first trip i did to iraq was in june of 2003, it was a big, big uso sponsored tour called project solute and there were 180 people on a donated
yeah, in geneva in 2003. of him? in june of 2003. of him. why? because he felt he didn t have a lot to live for. at that point he was pretty much paralyzed in his legs. he was in neurotic pain. he was on pain meds. and he needed something to live for. he s a very strong, but giving and friendly man. why were they out to get him? well, he had been critical of the kingdom as he told me. from not only him but from others, when he was in geneva between october 2002 and june of 2003, criticisms involving human rights, economic reforms. he was told to stop it. sounds very familiar with what we are living through right now. yes. and he was told to come back to
korea denuclearization working out. and pointing out to the idea of what happened in libya in june of 2003, when they gave up their nuclear program and it was all shipped to the united states, listen here. we have in mind, the libya model from 2003 and 4. there are differences, the libyan program is smaller and that was the agreement we made. we want to test north korea in the first meeting for evidence they have made a strategic decision. reporter: what north korea is worried about. gaddafi gave up the nuclear weapon and he was thrown out of power and executing in the streets. north korea leaders don t want that to happen. there is no connection between
growing up on the south side of chicago. at the age of 3, he was taken from his mother after charges of neglect and placed in foster care. between 2000 and 2002, mcdonalds moved three times before being sent back to live with his mother. his time in foster care wasn t other. in june of 2003 at the age of 6, he s taken from his mother again after state investigators find his mother s boyfriend abused him by leaving cuts, welts and bruises on his body. mcdonald s life appears to stabilize when he s placed with a great-grandmother. as she becomes his legal guardian. at the age of 15, his great-grandmother dies, leaving his life in limbo again. just several months later, mcdonald is arrested for marijuana possession and spends four months in juvenile detention before moving in with his uncle in may of 2014. five months later, with pcp in his system, and a knife in his hand, mcdonald was gunned down by officer jason van dyke on the night of october 20th of 2014.