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. >> reporter: so what do you think is going on there. we'll start with mommy because mommy is mentioned a lot. >> i have definitely not told him he can only have friends of one color, so i'm not sure. i'm a little bothered by it. i don't want him to think that or would expect that. i definitely don't instill that in him. whoever is his friend is his friend. i'm not sure why he would feel that way. it just concerns me that he thinks like that. >> reporter: his father is skeptical that his answers are a true reflection of his son. >> i know for a fact that's not my sob the answers he gives. i think he answers the way he thinks people wants him to answer. >> reporter: the study found the majority of sixth graders are optimistic, but at 13, it changes to the same pessimism as their white peers. if the theory goes, by psychologists that kids from 6 to 13 become more pessimistic, do you worry about him? he's starting really pessimistic. >> i'm a little concerned. whenever you have something like this, you get to look at what's gong on. if to you're already approaching it at a pessim

walked out with her sweater on her arm. that's when the first lady went into mommy mode and helped her daughter on with her sweater. being a mom. >>> every journalist has a hero, the one they set for the bar of excellence. for many of us that legend was mike wallace. he died thursday at the age of 93, and with every interview he did, wallace proved he was the best. this is the guy who asked thekh crazy. >> how many blacks are there on your staff? >> i couldn't honestly answer you. >> no, that speaks for itself. >> huh? >> i say that speaks for itself. >> no, because i can't tell you how many people are on the staff. >> but you can tell black from white. >> oh, yes. >> that's only one example. there are many more from a long and distinguished career. ali safer worked with him for a decade. >> a lot of reporters are insistent, but the fact is he was nosier than anybody else, and more insistent, more successful at being those. i mean, if you think of the watergate interviews he did, which were remarkably revealing, mike, you know, someone -- people like mike have an indefinable quality th

. >> cruz, do the other boy scouts or parents give you a hard time about having two mommies? >> no. >> do you think it's cool to have to mommies? >> yes. >> what makes that special? what is special about your two moms? why are you so proud of them? >> it's okay. >> it's tough being on national television. okay. you are by your mom's side showing your support. that's enough said. >> he's a good boy. >> darn right he is. >> did anyone ever complain about the fact that you were in a partnership, jennifer? any fellow scout parents or kids? >> no. it's never come up. it's never been an issue. as i said, i have a very close relationship with my parents, we are a scouting family. it's just never been an issue kyra. it's never, nobody cares. we were just scouts. >> before i let you go, what's next? is cruz no longer a boy scout? does he want to stay in the scouts? what are you going to do? >> he's no longer a boy scout. we are sad about that, but we can't support an organization that doesn't support our family. sign our petition at change.org/scouts. we have 140,000 signatures. that's within a we

left. >> she said, hi, mommy. hi, daddy. she sounded really excited to hear us and she said, i love you. i love you. numerous times. >> reporter: one family in pieces. another trying to make itself whole. and in just three days the south carolina supreme court will hear this case. cnn legal contributor paul cowan joining me once again from new york. thanks for sticking around. i did want to talk to you about this. does the family have a case here since this is a federal law? >> federal law trumps state law but a lot of people don't realize this and generally with indian law in the united states and indian reservations tribes are sovereign nations within the united states. and, in fact, a lot of rights accorded to indian nations are the equivalent of treaties with foreign nations. people that live in places like new mexico know about this. and, clearly, a treaty or a federal law pertaining to indian rights will trump state law. that doesn't mean, however, that the parents, the biological father will win in this case. the south carolina supreme court might find the indian welfare act

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what about the statement from one of the sons that they had gone camping and mommy was dead? >> mommy was dead. mommy did not come back from the camping trip. and this was two weeks after she goes disappearing. let's also point out to the viewers that blood was tested. that blood they found in the living room of josh powell and susan powell's home was definitively hers. we find the blood in the living room. we know from the beginning, when they showed up, there were fans blowing on a wet spot. the carpet had obviously been scrubbed and washed in that area. >> at this point, we haven't found her. the rest of the family is dead. does any of this matter? >> it matters in that the family will want some type of closure. so the police department has said, well, we've reclassified it as a homicide, and it's still an active case. we're still going to go looking because right after the explosion, another piece of evidence came out. they went to josh powell's storage unit, executed a search warrant there, and found a blanket that was bloody with susan's blood. my question is why would you not h

learn. most satisfying is when my five-year-old says don't worry, mommy, i am here for you and i won't let you down. where did he learn this? wow. tweet me and we can get your thoughts. like me on facebook. newsroom conditions right now with brooke baldwin. >> suzanne, thank you so much. here we go. i am brooke baldwin. catching up on everything making news this hour. rapid fire. let's begin. first up the statement that won't start any argument here, there will never be another pat summit. she can counted the presidential medal of freedom that the white house made official among her honors. the ladies head basketball coach retires officially today. summit is the winnings basketball coach in all of college history. i am touking 1,098 victories, 5e89 national titles and sadly a diagnosis of alzheimer's. >>> i can tell you i have loved my work at the university of tennessee. it has been awesome. i can say for almost four decades it has been a privilege to make an impact on the lives of 161 women who have worn orange. i am so proud of them, the lady student athletes. >> her long time assis

? we'll start with mommy. because mommy's mentioned a lot. >> i definitely have not, you know, told him that he can only have friends of one color. so i'm not sure. but i'm a little bothered by it. >> reporter: are you? >> i am. >> reporter: it's upsetting? >> yeah, it is. just because i don't want him to feel like i would think that or i would expect that. you know, i definitely don't instill that in him. whoever is his friend is his friend. so i'm not sure why he would feel that way. so it just concerns me that he thinks like that. >> reporter: david was skeptical that davionne's answers were a true reflection of his son. >> i know for a fact that that's not my son as far as the answers he was giving. and i think, like i said, he answers the way he want people -- the way he thinks he want people to answer. >> if a black kid and a white kid -- >> reporter: our study found the majority of 6-year-old black children are optimistic about race relations. but at age 13 that changes to the same pessimistic view of their white peers. according to our expert, it's repeated messages of rejec

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mommy war. he's going to explain that. >>> and you'll see the only man who tried out today for an nfl cheerleading team, that's right. an nfl team. >>> this is really the outrage story of the week, isn't it? most people outside of politics had never heard of hillary rosen until this week, but after she said mitt romney's wife ann hadn't, quote, worked a day in her life everyone knew her but we wonder if anyone heard what rosen had to say that, which is ann romney has never had to struggle with the kinds of issues such as how to feed their children or get them to school and then go to work all on a tight paycheck. so i asked our cnn contributors and a senior espn writer for their thoughts. >> i think she would have just offended a smaller group of women, wealthy women because i guess that's what she's saying. it's wealthy women who aren't valid to speak on the economy. that's the ones that should shut their mouths and that's i guess what she is saying and we should forgive her. you can go one of two ways in my opinion. you can say housewives should not speak on the economy. for that ma

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