>> 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 have done that before he had the opportunity to kill his c

. >> 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 sout

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. >> a political writer says that's a democratic strategy that backfired and reignited the 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

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 assistant coa

. >> 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 week. so, i think that we need to get this policy changed. if everybody would

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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 that makes people at once take t

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. >> mommy love. daddy love. >> mommy and daddy love. just loved one's love. you also talked about academic achievement. you said, you know, grades, friendships mattered more than grades. but academic achievement and other achievement, that gives us some degree of happiness and fulfillment, right? >> but it doesn't in adult life. if you compare it to adult life, those kids that kicked butt and got high grades didn't necessarily report as a group as a statistical probability the amount of adult well being as those who had good, secure attachments. that's the main thing. >> what did you think about that happiness? a while back when i was working at another network i did a thing on what makes you happy and, you know, sort of this similar thing. but what about that happiness index? there was a story earlier in the week. what do you think of that? >> you know, i think that a lot of -- in our modern capitalism not to put down our system because it's good in many ways, but it doesn't really support family and relationships like it supports, you know, traditionally wh

it never happened to your mommy when she went to school. but it obviously happened here. and we're going to do our best to try and keep you safe. but, yeah. i was just very honest i think with her. i think not being honest probably is the wrong answer. as much as it's maybe your tendency to try and protect as a parent. but it just doesn't seem to be the right way to deal with it. >> my kids always want to know if someone died. did anybody die. that's always their question. >> and i told her -- yeah, she knew that. and i confirmed that for her. >> such a terrible story. sanjay, thank you. we appreciate your insight on this. >>> a couple things we now know about this case. police are telling us the gunman forced his way into sandy hook elementary school. no one let him in voluntarily. the school installed a new security system. the principal who came to the school in 2010 created the new security system so doors would lock at 9:30 a.m. visitors were supposed to ring a bell and then they would have to get clearance from the front office to walk through those locked doors. th

the mommy blogosphere went nuts. sure, she could be woman in charge, but what message was she sending by in the staying home longer with her baby? number eight, south korean rapper psy. ♪ >> say what you want, his lasso inspired dance style first discovered on youtube had everyone going gangnam and we mean everyone. >> the lasso again, then the horseback. ♪ >> psy was riding high in 2012, star performer in the most watched youtube video of all time. number seven, republican presidential candidate mitt romney. >> this election is over. but our principles endure. >> romney ran on his impressive business credentials but it was his multiple gaffes during the campaign that analysts say helped seal his fate. remember the 47% comments. >> 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government. >> and this one -- >> binders full of women. >> number six, ex-cia director general david petraeus. >> breaking news now coming in regarding the chief of the cia, general david petraeus. >> general petraeus, can you talk with us,

you need to call mommy. they will help you. anybody will help you. call mommy. >> just minutes after that interview tonight, the boys called their mother. told her they were safe and that they were in austin, texas. police there tell cnn that someone at a hotel recognized the boys from the amber alert on our program. and contacted police. here's austin police just moments ago. >> the law enforcement community nationwide, we take these amber alerts seriously when it deals with kids, with children. this is one of those cases that it was activated and it worked. we're thankful for that. the other thing, component to this, we had a citizen that paid attention to this, actually saw it on cnn news, recognized the kids on there, recognized the kids here at the location. and in turn, called 911 and that is what prompted our response out here. >> i spoke to theresa just a short time ago as she was about to board a plane to texas. she tells me she's ecstatic, she's in shock, she calls it amazing and credits so much of this to the media. attorney holly hughes i

and please call your mommy. she wants you home safely. and children, please call mommy. you know my phone number. i've taught you how to do it. if daddy doesn't have a phone, you can ask anybody you see, everybody you see has a phone. you can ask anybody. remember my number and call mommy's number. you can ask people at stores, you can ask people at the gas station. you can ask people anywhere you see, you need to call mommy. and have a phone. they will help you. anybody will help you. call mommy. >> i am big on social media, facebook and twitter. this story has been trending, i've been seeing it all over. any leads there? >> yeah. we are this story has been trending all over. any leads there? >> yeah, we are working together with dan's family. we're all working closely. this is a nationwide response. we're looking across the country for dan and the kids to bring them home safely. and your mom and your uncles and your family out west are fully participating. >> this is a facebook page. what is it? >> this is a facebook page we started yesterday. >> what is the address? >

call mommy. >> joining me now on the phone is holly. >> don. this is what it's all about, my friend. >> yeah. >> this is what it's all about. >> she is on the phone with them now and she said that she is going to call us whenever she gets a minute. you can certainly understand that she is taking other own sweet time with the boys. what happened? >> oh, yes, well, you know, her boys are really smart. they are intelligent. they are with a father who loves them, don, and she was very clear about that. but she misses them and it's time for them to come home and so either they saw the program or their dad saw the program and allowed them to phone home, we don't know all the details but we do know that they are alive and well. and they are talking to their sweet mother right now who has been missing them so much these last couple of days. so once she has the opportunity to tell them meryy christmas and she loves them and happy birthday. this is a little one's eighth birthday, can you imagine a better birthday present, don? >> holly, you have been inv

. >> did you miss mommy all that time? >> very much. >> we didn't know. we had no idea, we didn't know. so we were kind of worried about you. did you know that? >> no. >> no? now you do? >> yeah, now we do. >> do you feel bad that you worried us? >> kind of. >> oh, come on, i'm kidding with you. i'm kidding with you. >>, mommy, how do you feel? >> more grateful than i ever thought possible. grateful to everybody, grateful to you. it was this show the gentleman had just seen on my way home yesterday from taping. i got a call, and i'm answering every call and it was a gentleman, hello, my name is -- i don't know what his name is, but the fbi is going to let me know -- i'm sitting with your sons and they would like to talk to you. >> and? >> i said oh, my god, no, no, no, no, no. because i was so afraid it wasn't true. but all of a sudden henry was on the phone and he said, mommy. and i said yes, and he said yeah! right? yep, yep. >> best sound you ever heard. >> oh, my goodness. >> what are you sharing with the boys, just that they couldn't get the receptio

remember my number and call mommy's number. you can ask people at stores. you can ask people at the gas station. you can ask people anywhere you see. you need to call mommy and vf at phone. they will help you. anybody will help you. call mommy. >> just minutes after that interview, the boys called their mother, told her that they were safe, and that they were in austin, texas. police there tell cnn that someone at a hotel recognized the boys from the amber alert and our program and they contacted police. >> the law enforcement community nationwide, we take these amber alerts seriously when it deals with kids, with children. this is one of those cases that it was activated and it worked, and we're thankful for that. the other thing, we had a citizen that paid attention to this, actually saw it on cnn news, recognized the kids on there, recognized the kids here at the location, and in turn called 911, and that's what prompted our response out here. >> teresa jumped on a plane to texas and was reunited with her sons just hours later. tonight at 10:00 p.m. east

>> mommy will. >> you're not going to kiss me good night anymore, will you, dad? >> no, i won't be able to do that but i'll get to visit. it's going to be okay. really. >> remember cramer versus cramer, 1979? an award winning film starring dustin hoffman and merrill styl. i've got a story that is kind of the same but a lot more complicated. it involves the custody fight of a 5-year-old girl and an international treaty. plus, a supreme court decision that could decide which parent that little girl ends up living with. cnn's correspondence joe johns with the details. >> reporter: chafin is in the middle of the custody battle between two parent at the end of the a rocky marriage. >> my daughter, she's my sparkle. she's everything. she's everything for me. >> i believe i will never see her again. >> reporter: it's a complicated legal fight dealing with international borders and treaties and important enough that the u.s. supreme court has taken the case. the last time she was in the u.s., her father shot this video of her. but now she lives in scotland where her more

this is mommy. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> hours to go until tomorrow night's republican debate in arizona. the positives is flooding for rick santorum. santorum brought in twice the money last month than he had the entire campaign, $4 million. mitt romney, on the other hand, took in 6.5 million, and his cash dwarfs santorum 5-1. so money aside, mitt romney has some heavy-hitting endorsements, including new jersey governor chris christie who will run tonight. here's just part of it. >> why are members of his own party in love with mitt romney? >> the first is he's a very reserved guy. so in the time that we're in right now, which is very tumultuous, angry

as recently as christmas the boys were talking about mommy and the mine in utah and their father. the boys were talking about that, at least the older boy was to their grandparents. >> listen, if he is as you believe and law enforcement said he is responsible for this, do you think that is what happened to his wife is going to go with him to his grave or do you think it will be revealed? >> i firmly believe and i practiced law almost 30 years and i never have seen anything like this. i think that what we saw today tells the story. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> we want to go to the big stories in the week ahead from the white house to wall street. we tell you what you need to know. we begin with the president's plans for the week. >> at the white house, the euro zone's third largest economy deals with the economic woes. president obama welcomes the prime minister to the white house and talks about a range of issues and in particular, what the italian government is doing to restore confidence. on tuesday president obama will host the second white house science fair, a

and said that mommy is in the mine. go find mommy. and suzanne, in that area, in utah there are mines. this is the area where they believe the mother could have disappeared. this is the area where the father, josh powell, had taken his young sons camping after midnight in sub-zero temperatures. so they're looking into that right now. >> do we have new information about josh powell's father? >> reporter: yes. i just talked to the sheriff spokesperson here in pierce county, and i asked him if mr. powell knew what had happened to his son and what had happened to his two grandsons. he said that he had been informed. he was told of their deaths and that he only shouted at them that he became very uncooperative and that now he is in suicide -- on suicide watch. he is in custody being held on 14 counts of voyeurism and also possessing child pornography. >> this is just a terrible story, just a big mess overall. josh powell, i understand, sent an e-mail to his lawyer and to his cousin before he set the fire. what did he say abo

seeing mommy was on a camping trip. and when we told them -- when i would say, well, daddy said mommy stayed home, then they would go back to, well, i don't remember, a rehearsed or coached statement. but at one point braden did draw that picture with mommy in the trunk of the car, correct? >> yeah. that was the summer after she went missing. >> 2010. >> in 2010. >> now, the kochs' daughter that they expected the police to arrest josh soon. >> they were working on the case without a body to go after him for murder, and it was within a few weeks, it was going to take -- the arrest was going to take place, and we were all excited that something was going to happen. >> there are so many layers to the story. next hour i'll be speaking with the attorney for susan powell's family who was there when her father found out charlie and braden were gone. >>> innocent men, women and children slaughtered in syria. we cannot say enough here on cnn what an absolute humanitarian crisis this is in the midst of the middle east. the man be

and also they said mommy is in a mine. and as recently as christmas they were saying things like, if we go to the mine, we can find mommy. they've done searches in utah and nevada. out of the mouths of babes. they were vocalizing things that happened to their mother. and the police knew this. this was also part of when we look at the other case for custody, and in the custody case, chuck and judy had said in declaration that they believe josh killed their daughter, the mother of these children. >> again, our thoughts with this family. absolutely, absolutely evil. ann, i appreciate it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you so much. >>> hear why one college has lost tuition, 22%, after a troubling discovery. >>> a man accidentally shoots himself in the head with a nail gun. find out what he worried about the most in that moment. >>> and the what americans rely on most from the government. the funny thing is, it's not just support. that's next. selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ but w

sophia is just cool as a cucumber saying, mommy, what's he telling me. listen to how she and the dad responded. >> clearly it felt threatened. he preferred to eat her. >> what did she say? >> what would you have done? yeah, she said, i was brave, wasn't i? kind of like, yeah. yeah, she was though. she didn't flinch. she just said, what is the lion asking me? why is it behaving this way? >> why is he so upset, simba in the cage. >> cheers, mate. >> cheers. >>> get out your plastic now. you're going to want to drink when you hear this story. prices going up on all your favorite things you're going to want to buy. christine romans is breaking it down. how many items in 2012? can you even put a number? >> we've got six. cnn moan.com does a great job. be prepared. airlines. airfares are going up. they're going up a lot in some cases because airlines are cutting routes. expect hikes in ticket prices. they went up last year. they're going to go up this year too. meat and fish. this is the center piece of your table. the cost of moving all of these things is goi

my lawyer hat is on, my mommy hat is on as well. i'm just fired up about this. this is unbelievable. i mean, is this where we are in the state of special education, because that's what this is dealing with. these are kids with special needs, kids with disabilities. and they are being put in these time-out rooms and allowed to just scream their heads off. and this is a story that i think is just remarkable, remarkable that this is happening in our education system today. >> when i was in school i had never heard of putting kids in a coat closet. i know our producer said that's what happened when she was young. i mean, this s. this the equivalent? is this legal? >> i think it's worse, certainly i can't even believe that's the state of things, going from coat closets to time-out rooms. and believe it or not i did some research on this, it is legal. the department of education says under state law, if you have a child with disabilities and that child has what's called an iep, an individual education plan that's made apparently in conjunction with the parents, you ar

this is mommy. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> you may recognize our next guest, r.j. dickey decided to climb mt. kilamanjaro. he just returned from a trip up the mountain and he did it to raise money and awareness for this charity right here, bombay teen challenge. r.a. is joining us from nashville. so nice to have you on the show. i have to ask, why did you decide to risk your career as a professional pitcher to climb the tallest free-standing mountain on earth? >> i think first off, i kind of just weighed the options as far as what was risky and what wasn't. this was something that i felt logically didn't carry the technical climbing skills that an average

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this is mommy. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> a massive international aid effort is under way this week d weekend. two rival tribes are fighting there. u.n. negotiators mediated a cease-fire but thousands of people have not yet returned home. emergency officials fear the food shortage could reach crisis level. south sudan became an independent nation last july. >>> about 15 million people worldwide have fled their homelands permanently. these refugees often spent years waiting in camps until they find a new country. >> reporter: raising five children is hard work, especially when one of them is disabled. for this man, a 44-year-old refugee from congo now atl

. >> she said, hi, mommy! hi, daddy! she sounded really excited to hear us. she said, i love you, i love you, numerous times. >> reporter: their daughter starting the new year with an entirely new family, the only family veronica has ever known starting the year without her. >> george howell joins me live in the studio. george, outrageous story. i'm sure people are reacting in-kind. >> don, we've gotten a lot of calls. we've been covering the story all day. a lot of out rage, as you can ma jinl, a lot of people upset with what's happened about this family. a lot of concern about veronica in the middle of this tug-of- r tug-of-war. we spoke with dustin brown's attorney and she tells me veronica has transitioned well, she's dog okay. she got to speak to the couple a day after the transfer, but they have not heard from her since then. >> can you imagine? your heart -- right around the holidays. >> either way you look at it, it tugs at your heart. >> what's next? new information? >> i did get a new statement moments ago. this is from the family. it says, the issu

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. >> reporter: "fifty shades of grey" has gone from mommy porn to musical, but at least the musical won't make you blush 50 shades. it's relatively clean. ♪ fifty shades of gray ♪ how could i refuse in a boring live as a house wife ♪ ♪ i can dream of being sexually abused ♪ >> reporter: musical pits a reader who loves the book against a reader who hates it. ♪ every page i read mike my eyeballs bleed ♪ . >> reporter: the maker of this video is brothers. >> i saw all women reading it on the subway, literally teenage girls to grandmothers. ♪ this the so well written ♪ who the [ bleep ] who write this ♪ >> reporter: eventually a gay character makes his ent try. ♪ fifty shades of gray i pray that no one realizes that i am loving it, every bit ♪ >> reporter: there have been other musical tributes to this lady porn fetom none, turning the words into music. jimmy fallon featured "fifty shades of grey" karaoke. seriously, that's from page 277. honest, comedians mockly vie to record the audio book version, from gilbert gottfried. >> he scrunches my panties. >> reporter: to e

. >> one day, my 11-year-old daughter came to me and said mommy, did you know that there were girls my age in the united states that are being trafficked for sex. and i didn't. >> having your 11-year-old daughter come to you and talk to you about sex trafficking is probably seemingly unusual for most. i think for my daughter and the kinds of conversations that we have and engage in, it wasn't shocking that willow would approach me with the idea of sex trafficking and approach me with the idea that she wants to lend her voice and her face to a cause like this. what was shocking was the idea that there were children her age being the exploited in our country. any of us could be any of these children that are having to endure this violence and this enslavement. when i was growing up, luckily enough, i wasn't really exposed to trafficking of human beings. i was more exposed to trafficking of drugs. that was the biggest issue in baltimore, maryland is that we had a huge, huge drug problem; big time heroin, heroin and crack. i feel bless today haed to have on the streets of baltimore and sur

. >> does he understand that he has two mommies? have you spoken to him? he gets that, right? >> for sure. he has two moms. he has a dad. he has more people to love him than most kids. >> what the scout said is that children shouldn't learn about sexuality at all except from their own families and at a time when tennessee parents or families feel it's appropriate to them. what does that have to do with you? >> i don't know. i agree with that statement. i've never taught anybody's child about sexuality. it never came up. it never came up until the boy scouts of america brought it up. we were just scouts. we went about our daily lives with our scouting and knot tieing and whatever else we do. it never came up. i agree with that statement. i didn't bring it up. they did. >> you sound a little downtrodden and i don't know what your normal tone but you sound a little -- >> i'm not. it's been a day. i'm very optimistic. i think the fact that they've met with me is a huge turning point. i think the fact that they came out with their findings yesterday, to me doesn't deter me in any w

want mommy to hold you? >> reporter: they were thrilled to have their new baby girl. they took her straight from the hospital to their house in charleston and were in the process of finalizing the adoption. four months after they brought veronica home, dustin brown signed a waiver saying he would not contest the adoption. but two weeks later, brown decided he wanted his daughter back and filed for paternity and custody. jessica monday is a friend of the capobiancos. >> it wasn't until this child was 4 months old that he decides he wants to be a part of her life. with no regard to the birth mother, her decision, the pregnancy, the family that's taking care of his child. and to just come and say i've changed my mind, it just doesn't work -- it shouldn't work that way. >> reporter: south carolina law says a father is stripped of his paternity rights if he hasn't provided prebirth support or taken steps to be a father shortly after birth. but in this case, state law was trumped by a little known federal law from 1978. called the indian child welfare act. you see, brown is

. >>> it's being called mommy porn. you heard me mention it before, the 50 shades of grey. it's making waves and making more than that. it's making big bucks. now there are hotels trying to cash in on this. are you kidding me? i'm not kidding you. wait until you hear about the real life experiences they are offering. matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. this message. >>> half men, half arachnid and 100 percent smart allec. >> small knives. >> say hello to our little friend, the new "amazing spider-man." the movie trending hitting theaters today. a new twist on the old hero stars andrew garfield as the wall-crawling web-slinger. emma stone. my kids are going off the rails about this. so you know the popular "50 shades of grey" book? come on, admit it, you do. it's pretty racy. guess what? you could soon get the "50 shades of grey" experience i do declare at a hotel near you. here's our alison kosik. >> hi, ashley, first harry potter then "twilight." now the "50 shades of grey" fren

never been independence from mommy and daddy from that day forward. whatever i have in my possession right now blood sweat and tears i earned it. >> nobody in your family needed help or assistance from anyone? >> not really. never social programs. obviously, the older senior social security and medicare and but when you're 80 not much you can do from that point on. >> you have weighed in on the trayvon martin killing. george zimmerman was released on bail yesterday. here is what you said on that subject. who is promoting victimology. what do you mean by that? >> right back to the -- the basis what we talked about during the break, that will end the one word to end all discussions, racism. if trayvon martin had been killed by a black man we would not know who trayvon martin because george zimmerman has less pigment in his skin than trayvon martin did, it's a big deal. like the duke rape case both turned out to be hoaxes and obviously, trayvon martin is dead and no hoax there. >> i think you're right on that that we wouldn't be talking about it because

. >> reporter: at home, she is a rising star of the gop, but at home, she is simply mommy. >> what does this say up here? >>> and lisa sill vylvester joi us live from washington, and lisa, the bill she is talk about tax free accounts for disabled children, where is it at? >> it has been introduced as the achieving better life expected act, and it has been introduced the the the house and the senate, and you have chris van hollen lining up behind the bill, and representative kathy mcmorris rodgers and the one hiccup may be the cost because it is raising eyebrows and takes away money, federal dollars out of the coffers, but whether it is the autistic or the down syndrome community, there is a lot of support for this, and that is one of the number one issues there, michael. >> well, we mentioned she is a rising star in the gop, but what are realistically the chances of her becoming mitt romney's vice president? >> well, she is not in the top five, and you don't hear her in the top five, but there are a dozen or more people's names who are mentioned, and she one of them. when it comes to wo

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