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>> just hours after we left prison, we were able to swim in the waters of the gulf. we stayed up all night with our loved ones and we watched the most beautiful sunset we've ever seen. these experiences will be with us for the rest of our lives. we would like to thank oman for welcoming us and hosting our families. >> also present at the press conference were both men's families as well as sarah shourd, bauer's fiancee. while they refused to answer any questions, they were all smiles when they were presented with gifts given by omani officials. both men made their way to the tarmac where they said good-bye to omani and u.s. officials before boarding the plane that will start them on their long waited journey back home. muhammad jam june, muscat, oman. >> let's go to politics now and a shocking finish in the republican battle in orlando, florida, this evening.

>> tonight's winner with 986 votes, 37.1% herman cain. >> and there you heard it, herman cain surprised many by winning the straw poll at the presidency five event. it wasn't even close. cain received more than twice as many votes as texas governor rick perry, considered by many to be the front-runner in this race. cnn political reporter peter hamby is in orlando for us. peter, how unexpected was this? >> it was very unsuspeexpected g into today, don. things started to shift in the middle of the day once we started talking to some of these activists who participated in the straw poll here in orlando. and it seems that perry kind of turned off a lot of people during his debate the other night. some of the party activists here had questions about his record on illegal immigration. so a lot of people's second choice was herman cain.

it's hard to find a republican than doesn't like herman cain. they might not think he's qualified to be president but they like herman cain. so you know, when perry kind of makes people unsure about him during the debate, people might be parking their support with herman cain as they kind of figure out am i with perry, am i with romney or somebody else. it was pretty sacrificing and the reaction of the crowd in the room i got to tell you was he can static. people here were definitely for herman cain. no doubt about that. >> you know, you like a lot of people but it doesn't mean you want them to be president. being qualified for president, that's the important part here, peter. so what does this do, if anything for cain's campaign? >> it gives him a much needed boost. cain entered the race earlier this year and kind of soared to, you know, to double digits out in iowa, a key state for him. conservatives like him, a phrase that keeps coming up with herman

cain when he talks to vote ares is common sense. >> does this do anything for him in terms of raising money, in terms of polling, in terms of the possibility of actually becoming president or is it just something that he won and it sort of helps him being able to it out that out on the campaign trail. >> like most straw polls, i think there's not a ton of value here. it does help him raise a little money. at the end of the day, i think a lot of republicans will tell you cain probably will not be president. this is cast almost as a blow to rick perry who tryied to -- he' going to have to go into damage control mode in the next couple of days, don. >> and actually do better in the upcoming debates. you're seeing the results of the straw poll. cain 37%, perry 15%. he didn't really run that hard there, didn't really put his name in, romney 14%, santorum

11, paul 10, gingrich 8, 2% for huntsman, 1% for bachmann. thank you very much, peter. the two runnersup in the florida straw poll have their sights set on another state right now. you're looking at live pictures. take a look now from mackinaw island in michigan where former massachusetts governor mitt romney will speak at any minute at a dinner for the mackinaw republican leadership conference. he's a native of the state and his father served as governor there in the 1960s, but texas governor rick perry isn't ready to cede the state to his rival. he spoke earlier in the day during a lunch at the same republican conference. here's what he had to say. >> i don't dislike government. i just want government to work. and work for us. i'd like for the federal government to do some of the things that it's actually supposed to do in the constitution. like defend our borders.

>> let's gets to washington now where at this hour, president obama is going to speak at a dinner hosted by the congressional black caucus. african-americans are among the president's strongest supporters. they're also suffering, and unemployment rate close to 17%. some members of the cbc say they want the president to fight harder for his proposals and in just a few minutes, you're going to hear my conversation with emmanuel clear of, the chairman of the cbc. conservative analyst drifd frum4 has a lot to say about the nation's economic situation, as well. this week, he called a national emergency that's more urgent than the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. earlier i spoke with him about the latest threat of a government shutdown, highlighted by the block a house budget plan. here's what he had to say. >> they see a future that is trending in ways they don't like and that i don't like either. but on our way to the future, we have to get through the present.

i think there are conservatives who feel if you don't prevail on the ideology today, that's it. it's gone forever. well, nothing is forever. except for the lives of the people who are affected by this recession. that their 20th or 21st year is not going to come back. if their house is foreclosed, they're not going to get that back. let's have government do what governments can do and in a calmer time, let's have a calmer discussion about the shape of government. >> i spoke with a member of the congressional black caucus. she said listen, we've got to get the republicans on board to do something. and her estimation, a democrat's estimation, the republicans are not budging even when the president proposes policies that they have proposed before. do you agree with that? what do you make of -- what do you make of when i ask you the president's handling of this economy, the democrats and what sheila jackson lee had to say about the republicans not budging on it? >> well, when the president

unveiled that job speech, i think that was not one of the high points in his presidency. it's true as lee said, jackson lee said, that there are a lot of elements of that proposal that are acceptable to republicans. but the president put a lot of hooks in it that were designed to force the republicans to say no. the battle so often is not only what do we do, but how do we pay for it. and the president then inserted into his plan for what to do next a series of ideas about how to pay for it that aren't acceptable to republicans and that he knew wouldn't be because he now is trying to push them to say no. it's too late for him to have a strong recovery in time for his election. what he wants to do is defray a strong choice and that means he needs the republicans to say no for his own political purposes. >> david frum. you know, we're about to talk about something that you parents might not want little ears to hear. it's our conversation about controversial behavior from kids fighting in cages to adults shattering the dreams of

children. >> don't think that he would just made a mistake. he was just being a mean-spirited person. >> well, this father is furious at one of his daughter's teachers for telling her the tooth fairy isn't real. the school supporters, the school supports the teacher. we'll talk with wendy walsh about this and let you make your own decision. down the hill? man: all right.

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so usually when kids fight, grown-ups try to break up the brawl but this video shows the adults jeering on 8 and 9-year-old boys as they go at it in a cage. the footage is from a british

mixed martial arts group who told the daily mirror the cage fighting is all in good fun. but now there's talk of child cruelty charges against the parents. lets bring in our human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh who co-hosts the doctors. this looks too violent for a child of 8 or 9 years old to be doing. but school wrestling matches look a lot liking this video. do you think that kids fighting in cages is harmful? >> i think, don, i'm going to say something that's going to surprise you. boys are socialized very differently than girls. and these days women are saying where are all the real men. it seems like we've taken away so many.male reitz of passage. men organize themselves by sparring and creating a hierarchy. a navy s.e.a.l. and his kind of childhood and the training he went through turned him into a hero. yes, there might be somebody sent me an e-mail who says i'm a sensitive artistic guy and my

father made me do these hyper masculine things that abused me just as there's going to be a marine or navy s.e.a.l. who will say now you get it. so the point is, whether it's child led or whether 80s parents led. if a child really doesn't want to do it and the parents aren't paying attention, then it's abusive. >> people are socialized differently, especially males and some men in some places it's expected. very good analysis on that. let's talk about the rejection of redheads? the global post is reporting that the world's largest sperm bank, denmark's cryos international is turning it away head head sperm donors. it's managing director to a danish newspaper says there are too many redheads in relation to demand. is that ethical, dr.? >> well, you know in some ways it certainly smacks of ugenics and sort of points to the die

kay of our culture. in i'm choosing sperm, i want to know what it looks like. i might choose a redhead. the point is, it's about supply and demand and this is a business. it's probably no different the way people choose than how often they click, the same patterns that they click on dating websites. people who want to connect and create offspring have a visual connection first and who wouldn't want to know what your baby's going to look like. >> what's wrong with redheads? i like redheads. >> exactly. >> listen, tell me about this new study showing how dad's stress can be passed on to his kids. >> up till now, most of the studies on what goes on genetically and invit tro had to do with a woman's health and what a woman does during her pregnancy. we're seeing new research coming out looking at sperm and what kinds of sperm create wa kinds of fetuses. this is only a mice study at this point. hopefully we'll eventually start to see patterns in humans. but in the study, it showed that mice exposed to chronic stress

basically had offspring who were very suppressed as well and showed anxiety and depression. >> finally from our affiliate wbbh, a each in florida ratted out the tooth fairy tell ag11-year-old sund that it doesn't exist. her father complained to the school district who backed the teacher. what's your take on this, dr. wendy? should the teacher have ratted out the tooth fairy? >> i say kudos to these parents because highway the parents of their kids' peers are worrying about that their child is learning to sext, these parents basically told their daughter that there's a bunny and we know how promiscuous bunnies are will come into her bedroom and lay multicolored chicken eggs. i'm upset that a teacher would challenge this. i think it's amazing that they've been able to keep this for so long. now we need to stop talking because i think my children are talking. >> and santa claus is real. >> uh-huh. >> in my house, is he. >> we love you on the doctors,

as well. i saw you all this week. great job. thank you. president barack obama is about to make a speech to the congressional black caucus. coming up, i'm going to talk with the chairman of the caucus, representative emmanuel clear of about what he kuls a job crisis for african-americans and how he wants urgency from the white house in dealing with the problem. and a florida millionaire convicted today of shooting and killing his wife. we're going to have the inside scoop on why the jury had no choice but to convict. but first, remember how it was when you were in school? the teacher always in front, students at their desks taking notes? in tonight's perry's principles, contributor steve perry takes a look as kids take charge at least for a day. >> when the synapses in my brain connect, then i learn. >> the students are teaching class today at the beardsley school. the pupils, they're teachers.

this role reversal is part of a revolutionary program developed by the national urban alliance or nua. how do the teachers respond to having kids tell them how to teach? >> they love it primarily because it really gives them an understanding of the strengths that the students have. as well as where the gaps are that need to be filled in. >> the training is broken up into two parts. first, an nua representative leads a session on creative teaching methods for both students and teachers. >> ready, set go. >> neurons are the brang cells, the brain cells. >> then the kids take over. >> i'll only give you about two minutes. so go. >> you're working in some of the lowest performing school districts in the country. what is it that you hope to gain. >> it's not just so that the students feel empowered. it's so that the teachers see what unbelievable wealth of potential these students have. >> today you guys were teaching.

was that cool? >> yeah. >> what makes you think you would be a good teacher? >> they always teach us. >> cost for the program are split between the nua and participating school districts. more than 450 students in 15 schools across the country have the participated so far. the nua says those students' performance has improved in the classroom and they're currently sponsoring formal research to confirm that. >> i think it teaches me to know that they should keep on trying and keep on teaching the kids no matter what. >> steve perry, bridgeport, connecticut. we've been dedicated to helping our students succeed in america's most in demand careers. we provide you with instructors who are professionals working in the fields they teach. it's an education designed for today, from a university that holds the same level of institutional accreditation as america's top schools.

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this. this is a big event tonight in washington. president barack obama speaks next hour at a dinner hosted by the congressional black caucus. the group is one of his most ardent supporters and also represents americans hit hardest by the economic slowdown. some members have even taken their criticism of the president public imploring him to fight harder for his policies. and i asked the caucus chairman congressman emmanuel cleaver of missouri if it's hard to criticize this president. >> is it harder to criticize this president constructively as everyone, even you, can stand some constructive criticism, so can i, is it harder for a blank

person whether a constituent or lawmaker to constructively criticize this president because he is african-american and is that counterproductive by. being in that position? >> i do think that for african-americans in politics and congress, it is more difficult. make no mistake about it because all of us would like desperately for this president to have a successful presidency. and the only way that's going to happen is that if we're able to move him in positions that we think are going to be beneficial to him. but we're not going to go out and blast him at press conferences. if we have -- we're going to try to direct those disagreements in a manner that will not end up on the front page of the day's newspapers, and we think that

working with the president in a manner where the african-american community around the country understands that differences are not necessarily disassociation or disaffection. we support the president. we don't always agree with him, and when we don't, we're still not going to blast him. we're going to try to get information to him. >> congressman cleaver also told me that the president can only do so much. that's what he said and that it's important the public get involved if they want to influence policies. a florida millionaire is found guilty of killing his wife. holly hughes tells us why his story didn't hold water with the jury. and we take a look at incredible images of streaks across the night sky as a rogue satellite crashes to earth.

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let's go to florida now where the high profile murder trial of a millionaire developer has ended in a guilty verdict. >> we the jury found the defendant guilty of second degree murder as charged in the information. >> so the trial lasted about a week. bob ward's defense argued his wife died in 2009 of an accidental gunshot to the face. the jury wasn't convinced. they found ward guilty today of second degree murder. ward's daughters sobbed when the verdict came down. the prosecutors had hammered away at inconsistencies inward's story. and then there was this bizarre jailhouse video. take a look just days after his wife died, ward apparently

performing a striptease for his daughter and his sister-in-law. all three acted like him being arrested was a big joke. our legal expert holly hughes says ward presented his defense team with an uphill battle in trying to get an aquittal. >> when you very calmly say five times, i shot my wife and you don't at the time, you're not hysterical. >> there's no urgency, nothing in his voice. >> right. he's not hysterical, not saying get here and help her. they're stuck with the statements their client made. the best they could do is say yes, he already admitted firing the gun. we can now say it accidentally went off. she was trying to kill herself. so unfortunately, sometimes by the time a lawyer gets a case, client's already put them in a bad position. >> the defense is expected to file al appeal. a satellite fauing to earth wasn't deadly but did turn out to be dazzling. stargazers caught glimpses of what appears to be the spacecraft breaking up in the earth's atmosphere.

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twist on suicide bombers and the targets are some of the most important people the u.s. is depending on to bring peace and tablet to afghanistan. cnn's rez acehia explains how the taliban are exploiting an ancient cultural bias to reach their targets. >> july 14th, a suicide bomber kills a senior afghan official at a funeral for president hamid karzai's slain brother. july 27th, a suicide bomber assassinates the mayor of kandahar city. august 19th, a suicide bomber

targets a government building in helmand province. september 20th, another suicide bomber assassinates rabani, the man leading the peace talks with the taliban. four suicide bombings in a little bit more than two months all of them targeting some of the most important leaders in afghanistan and they all had one very unusual thing in common. in all four attacks, assailants hid their bombs underneath their turbans. >> if he's coming here to embrace him, well the turban can get both of them. >> this man is head of the police bomb squad in islamabad, pakistan. his office decoration decapitated heads of suicide bombers. pictures too graphic to show. zahir says turban bombs seem to be the newest weapon in the fight for afghanistan because asking to search the islamic headdress is often viewed as disrespectful. >> would you be comfortable asking tribal elders to remove their --

>> no. >> it's not that easy. >> it's not. >> with powerful explosives like this c-4 turbine bombs can weigh as light as a tissue box and nearly impossible to detect. >> you're telling me all you need to make a bomb is this little bit of c-4, this detonator and a cord. >> that's it. >> the power of those ex-pillows i bes on display in this police training video. last month, president karzai called on clerics to condemn turbine bombings, calling them an affront to islamic values. the bomber was not a follower of god, says this man. i condemn all bombings says malik muhammad rafik whether they're in church, trousers or turbans. explosives experts say the afghan government will have to use more metal detectors, search people in clothing they may not have in the past until then, they say turban bombs could remain the taliban's most

effective new weapon. res za acehia, cnn. >> i want to check your headlines right now. nevada police say motorcycle clubs may be involved in a deadly shooting in reno that began at the gambling hall. ambulances took three gunshot victims to hospitals. one of them later died. authorities say as many as 30 people were involved in the fight. michael jackson's former physician, dr. conrad murray goes on trial next week for involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death. the jury has been selected. the pop superstar died in 2009 from a combination of anesthesia and other drugs. he was under murray's care at the time. the trial which is expected to take about a month will determine if murray was criminally responsible in the death. two american hikers are on their way home after being locked up in iran for more than two years. shane bauer, josh fattal are on a plane at this hour heading for the u.s. iran arrested them for allegedly

straying over the border from iraq in july of 2009. now they were accused of being spies and sentenced to eight years in prison but on wednesday, bauer and fattal left ir iran. a third american sarah shourd was released a year ago for medical reasons. >> swimmer die and nap nyad is not giving up on her dream. last night she the began a new attempt to swim from cuba to florida. this time, the 62-year-old briefly got tangled up with a jellyfish and related for stings, then she took off again. she hopes to make it to florida by monday. i have to tell you about this. an ugly altercation for sarah palin's daughter bristol while shooting her own reality show. a film crew is tracing bristol's move from alaska to los angeles to work for a charity. but things went sour when she saddled up on a mechanical bull and this be west hollywood bar.

she faced up to some very public vitriol against her and her famous family. and i want to bring in maureen o'connor from the website gawker.com. maureen, i want you to show us what happens in the rest of this video. >> so after a middle-aged man begins to crudely heckle bristol. she gets in his face and brings his sexual orientation into the mix. an interesting confrontation. >> did you ride levi like that. >> bristol, what was that about? >> [ bleep ]. >> repeat what you said to me. >> yes, she's the devil. >> she lives. she breathes. >> what did she do to you? >> you know what, if there is a hell which i don't believe there is one, she will be there. >> okay, why is that? >> she's evil. she's evil. >> all right. is it because you're a --

>> pretty much and what did you say about homosexuals? >> it looks like she actually brought it up but she was in a bar in west hollywood. you know? has there been any comment from either of the palins or the man she argued with at this bar? >> both actually. bristol made a comment about evil on her facebook page and her publicist said that she was calmly dealing with the man and she was just standing up for her family and her publicist also mentioned she isn't homophobic at all. the man, however, says that if it happened again, he would do it again. he's not sorry and he also did say that he thinks that bristol is being homophobic although i would say he's probably being a mass sojnist too. >> come on, if you say something like that about someone's mom, most people would be offended. let's talk about another reality show. >> it was awful. >> celebrity wife swap.

there's one pair in particular that a lot of people are going to be interested in seeing switch places. >> the disgraced evangelical pastor ted haggard is going to be doing "celebrity wife swap." with bad boy actor gary busy. ted haggard is the one that was caught. he stepped down from being the pastor at new life church in colorado springs amid a gay sex scandal involving drug use. >> okay. as if there wasn't enough pressure on his marriage already. >> don't you just find that odd? i mean, it's just -- it just seems weird. >> well, ted haggard did quite a few interviews. he want on divorce court not actually in the court, he did an interview about his marriage. he definitely isn't shy about talking about his marriage. this is the first time that he would be doing something so openly inviting cameras into his personal life in a reality show though. >> for both, it's just odd.

gary busy. and his has been on the show. there are many concessions for prisoners on death row but a last meal usually is one of them. but that's not the case in texas anymore. is it? >> effective immediately, texas is no longer providing a last meal to death row inmates. they will be eating the same food as everybody else in their area of the prison on the night before they die. this happened because after lawrence brewer was put to death who had been convicted of that really brutal dragging death, a racially charged murder. so he requested multiple steaks, a pound of barbecue meat, ice cream, pizza, the, would and following that a politician said i don't think we should be doing this anymore and the corrections department said yes. effective immediately, people will not be getting any more last meals. >> maureen o'connor, appreciate it. . >> thanks, don. i want you to raise your hand if you're ticked off with

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okay. so when facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg took the is taken at this week's f-8 conference, there was something very off about him. take a close look. >> i'm also proud to announce some new features on facebook, for example, a new section in your list of friends. it's called i'm not really friends with these people. yeah. it's the perfect of place to put awkward classmates from middle cool, older drunk women you meet at charity events, racist neighbors, and aunts. >> all right. that was actually saturday night live's andy sam berg doing his best ducker entering impression. the man himself did actually walk out and announce a number of changes to facebook and not frentzen is loving them. i want to bring in tech expert daniel sieberg talking about this. he is the author of a digital diet, four-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life. that's a book i need to read.

so daniel, i want to ask you what is facebook adding? why do they keep changing it when it seems to be -- shouldn't they leave well enough alone? i don't know. >> yeah, there are those folks who say if it ain't broke don't fix it. every time facebook comes along with additions, there's always pushback. but in this case, we're talking about pretty dramatic and big changes. new ways you can check and see what your friends are reading or watching on tv, new ways to stream music into your profile. you can also change your news feed. you can see things at the top that are maybe more relevant to you. easily the biggest one is something called time line. this is what everybody's going to see in their profile in the coming months. it's going to be like a digital scrapbook. there's sort of a creepiness and a cool factor to this. it will change the way everything comes into your facebook profile and almost like and you can see some video of what facebook has put together of what it will look like.

it is kind of like a timeline. what you can do is go back and not just -- you can add photos and information about yourself that predates when you joined facebook. so you're putting your entire life out there. remember, you are in control of this in theory. it's voluntary. you can always choose to get rid of facebook if you want to. but there are a lot of folks who are sort of weirded out by this. not so sure they want to embrace it. facebook announced 800 million users worldwide. every time things like this happen, people still seem to come back to it. >> yeah, i think your book should be left in the bottom of like the drawer or a storage box for no one to see except when you get older, you can show your kids and laugh. what's been the response so far though to all these changes? >> i think it's a bit of a mixed bag. i will say anecdotally, i do have a facebook profile and a lot of folks are saying why all these changes? i don't see what the point is.

so we'll have to wait and see if people do embrace this idea or they decide to run away from facebook. at the beginning, you talked about that andy sam berg video where he joked about the friends you don't like. you can potentially see the friends who unfriended you. there are all sorts of features here that could make people really curious or really turned off by it. >> okay. let's switch gears here and talk about some politicians and twitter. a lot of politicians on twitter but now here's the interesting thing. they can buy their way on to your trending list? >> yeah, to another big social network with twitter and now we're talking about politicians who can basically buy ads on twitter. and so you're getting either sponsored tweets that might show up at the top of your news feed. you might be seeing that you want to follow a particular politician on the side of your screen. so they're changing the way that people interact with twitter. obviously politicians have been part of twitter for a while.

president obama is easily the most popular politician on twitter. they have to go where the people are. what's surprising now is that politicians can pay for this and try to get into people's computers wherever they are. >> okay. let's one last thing here, daniel. a lot of people know einstein's theory of relativity off the top of their heads. e equals mc squared. now it turns out that that could be wrong? what? >> just this tiny little story about the entire theory of relativity possibly being wrong. this came out this week, basically to sort of explain it to you in layperson terps, they were sending particles between this research lab in geneva and in italy. what they discovered over the course of years was that is some of these particles were going faster than 186,282 miles per second which is the speed of light. only by about 1/16 nanoseconds. very difficult to wrap your head

around this. but they could measure it. as you can understand, the idea of breaking the cosmic speed limit is being met with a lot of skepticism in the scientific community. the researchers stand by their findings. we'll just have to wait and see if they can confirm it. no time travel yet. >> my brain just exploded. that's why i'm a journalist. daniel, thank you. all right. you know, when we can, we like to highlight regular folks who are out there who are making their marks on the world. and we're going to meet a high school runner. his name is josh ripley shown here on a training run in the blue shirt. he was speeding along at a meet last week when he sees a runner from the other team on the ground bleeding badly. other runners keep going, but josh stops, he picks up the guy and sprints half a mile back to the start for help. then he turns around and runs his three-mile race. >> i had blood on my legs and arms after carrying him and a lot of people thought i was

hurt. but i had to inform them i was fine. >> i just want to say that i'm really, really thankful that will for what he did, stopping his race just to help me is really truly wonderful thing that he did. >> mark, the injured runner needed 20 stitches to fix a gash in his ankle and hopes to thank josh in person for his sportsmanship. very nice. a teen commits suicide after being bullied because of his sexuality. now lady gaga picks up his torch leading the cause to bring awareness to bullying. nationwide insurance, what's up ?

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the "x factor," did you see it? i saw it. it was good. it's living up to its name. the talent show featuring simon cowell has been on the air for a week and parents are complaining about indecency. >> where is paula going.

paula abdul walking off of the set. she looks like she's going to be physically ill. shannon, what happened? a contestant went too far, right? >> well, don, you could say dropping your pants on national television is taking things a little too far. that contestant you saw wearing the silver outfit there, his name is geo godley. in his audition, he danced around, sang a little bit, and exposed himself. and as you can see, the judges weren't terribly amutzed. poor paula had to vacate the premisis. she was sick. graphic nudity has no place on a family friendly show. you can't call it graphic nudity. when the show aired, they put a giant cross over this guy's crotch. you didn't see anything. either way, it feels just uncomfortable. the whole thing was a little bit

uncomfortable. >> yes, yes, yes. maybe that's the "x factor." you didn't see it so, i don't know. let's move on now. west borrow baptist church, making entertainment news? why is that? that's a group we hear protesting outside of funerals or against gays. >> right, the group was picketing over a concert that the foo fighters were scheduled to perform in kansas city. the foo fighters said, okay, well, if you're going to protest us, we're going to protest your protest by singing right in front of you. so they showed up in front of the picketers on a flat bed truck. they were dressed like hillbillies and sang this country jam that had suggestive lyrics. we have a little snippet of their counterprotest. take a listen. ♪ it takes all kinds i don't care if you're black or white or purple or green ♪

♪ whether you're pennsylvanian or transylvanian ♪ ♪ lady gaga or lady anteb erk l lrk u mrk ♪ >> the song was keep it clean, hot buns. one in the crowd called out at the end saying they enjoyed the song. all just a little strange. >> lady gaga taking on bullies. tell us about that one? >> lady gaga said she was distraught to learn about the suicide of 14-year-old jamie rodenmey erk rrk was a huge fan. he posted on youtube that he idolized her and her music brought her hope. lady gaga has been hopeful in stepping up for gay causes basically has been insensed by this recent incident and took to

twitter saying she plans to meet with president obama to discuss legislation to counteract bullying. gaga was able to get her many followers help make the subject of a bullying war a trending topic on twitter. >> you have the matthew shepard law. she wants to do the same thing, an anti-bullying law. have that law in his name. thank you. make sure you join us on october 9 when anderson cooper will hold a special ac 360 town hall to explore ways to stop bullying. october 9, 8:00 p.m. eastern. tug-of-war of epic proportions. how law enforcement officials show a lot of muscle for special olympics athletes.

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