right now on "showbiz tonight," ellen strikes back. ellen degeneres's eye-opening dournt attack on her show today aimed at everyone who says, she shouldn't replace paula abdul on "american idol." and today, for the very first time, ellen reveals what she thinks of paula's controversial over the top spoof of ellen on the vh 1 diva show. tonight, "showbiz tonight" with the must-see tv ellen "idol" response. have jon and kate become a

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i'm a.j. hammer. tonight ellen strikes back on the talk that she has no business being the judge on "american idol." she used her show to strike back at anyone who thinks she can't fill paula abdul's shoes. but there's more. ellen spoke out for the first time about that over the top jaw-dropping spoof of her by paula at vh 1 divas. that's why we can tell you what ellen unexpectly said on her show this afternoon made for big news breaking today. >> apparently there's a lot of debate going on whether i'm qualified or not to be the new jej on "american idol." >> on her talk show today, ellen degeneres did something unusual. she campaigned for a job she already has. the next "american idol" judge. >> i will be kind. i will be compassionate and pathetic. and i'll be honest without being mean. >> it's interesting that ellen

is still in campaign mode. >> this has happened already. it's a done-deal. nothing is going to change. she's the fourth "american idol" judge. she doesn't have to win people over. you have to wonder why she's still kind of defending herself. >> but every good campaign speech needs a zinger and she covered that requirement today for the first time by going after her idol predecessor, paula abdul. on vh 1 last week, pa la imitated ellen's famous dance moves. >> why are you all stares at me? can't a girl try out a new job? all kidding aside, nothing but love, ellen. and i wish you the best of luck and congratulations on your new gig. >> today ellen struck back. >> i have nothing but love for you too, paula, but i want my wig back. i really do. >> from jaw stin versus kelley and ruben versus clay to chris

versus adam, "american idol" has seen all kinds of rivalries. could we see one more? ellen versus paula? now we have this back and forth playful mocking between paula and ellen. >> paula must have known that if you make fun of a comedian you do so at your own risk. and on her show ellen had fun giving it back to paula for her little "ellen moment." >> i don't know what this dance move was, she did like a little -- i've never patted my butt like that. today i might try it. she's a choreographer so i might try it. >> even though her new job is inspiring jokes and comedy bits, some were not happy when we found out ellen would replace paula abdul. >> initially, there was some people that said, why is ellen getting this job as judge? she's not a musician. she's never been a musical performer. she doesn't have musical

expertise. why is she in this judging spot. >> today ellen addressed that issue. >> the things that people are saying. i thought america moved past this. first we have a first african-american president. we've sworn in our first hispanic supreme court justice. and i think "american idol" is ready for their first blond judge. i do. >> "in touch weekly" said both ellen and paula seem to be playing into all the hype surrounding paula's departure from and ellen's arrival at, "american idol." >> they are total pros. they are making fun of this. "american idol" is thanking the heavens from all the publicity they are getting. >> although ellen is defending herself as an idol judge, the new season doesn't start until january. joining me in new york, lisa

burn hart and ken baker the executive news editor for e! everybody think ellen's replacement is genius. a couple weeks have past since the announcement. why do you think ellen now felt a need to go on her show and passionately defend herself against the critics? >> i like ellen. i like the choice. i think she's the ultimate superfan. she's been a fan of idol for years. whether it's genius? we'll find out in the ratings. it's comedy. paula opens things up for comedy. she's ripe. you can always make fun of her. but this has always been the criticism of ellen. she can kind of have thin skin. it's hard for her to take criticism. i guess she fell compelled to defend herself when i don't think anyone was taking it seriously what she did.

that's just her mo. >> as far as the critics i thought she hand isled them fine. she said she's been judged all her life. she feels she'll be truthful and compassionate as a judge. lisa, do you think we've heard the last of ellen on the defense? or do you today was just the beginning? >> i'm not sure about that. it's probably the last of it. but i think to pick up on what ken said, what both of you said is, i interviewed her as she was about to start this talk show. she is very sensitive because her -- ellen's sit come being cancelled and coming out, she feels like she knows what it's like to have the american public turn against her. i don't think she's ever lost that feeling. she was devastated when her sitcom was cancelled and she felt like there was some backlash when she came out for some of the fans and that ran deep. she's moved years beyond that. she's beloved by so many. i don't think she ever really forgot what that felt like for her to have the american public

turn against her. i think she's a little bit still, sensitive to that. and still felt the need to defend herself. she also told tv giet -- it didn't make the interview -- but they released a little bit of it where she said she would be a horrible judge because she doesn't like to judge people. if we were all held to the words we once said and wanted to take back we'd all be in a lot of trouble so i don't fault her for that. >> and she said she'll have the fans' perspective. let's look at what ellen said today when she smakd down some critics. roll it, charles. >> i thought america moved past this. we have our first african-american president. we've sworn in -- we've sworn in our first hispanic supreme court justice. and i think "american idol" is ready for their first blond judge, i do. >> very funny. i think this is nuts. hear me out. some people saw this and thought

she was making a reference to being gay and the fact that people won't accept a gay judge. ken, it is obvious to me she was just joking nothing more. why do you think that some people might be trying to read so much into this? >> i think because like we said, of her past, her sitcom being cancelled shortly after she came out to "time" magazine. people remember that. but at the same time, all this criticism she's getting on the internet and saying she's not a good judge, i think most of the critics are paula abdul fans that wanted paula back so bad, they would do a hate fest on whoever would replace her. she's getting that right now. >> i wish those people would have more love for ellen. paula's had such a great sense of humor about it. a couple of days ago she hit the stage dressed like ellen and said she had nothing but love for her. i thought this was great. watch what she said.

>> i have nothing but love for you too, paula, but i want my wig back. i don't know what this dance move was that she did. she did a little path of the -- i've never patted my butt like that. she's a choreographer. i'll take that in. i'll try it. >> ellen loves paula. paula loves ellen. is this what ellen needed to do to put the whole thing behind her? laugh about it? >> sure. i think it made all of us laugh. ellen will get the last laugh. it will all come down to how big the ratings are in january. and i can't imagine it will be anything but huge and ellen will be the one having the last laugh. >> and the folks at ai. lisa and ken, thanks guys, so have jon and kate gosselin become a total laughing stock? they are both trying to start new careers but there's all this talk of clothing lines and team

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>> too bad. >> we're doing live television. >> you're being rude. >> a gentleman is trying to crowd into my live shot and trying to prevent us from doing our work. >> excuse me, i'm a reporter and we're showing your event on television. >> it happened almost simultaneously and it had nothing to do with ideology. >> this is about the rudest thing -- >> we're on live with msnbc. please don't touch the microphone. tell us what the thought? >> i'm doing my job. excuse me sir. you're interrupting my work. please, your causing a disturban disturbance. organizers say the problem was that more people showed up than expected. so they had to add chairs in the back. those seats encroached on the area already set up for the media. when the reporters spoke, the attendees couldn't hear the

speaker. >> i paid to come here to listen and not to be disrupted. >> reporters are used to being hassled but usually they are idiots jumping up an down in the background. that's my producer. the other day, protestors at the time "washington tea party" chanted "tell the truth" and "no more lies" behind a cnn radio reporter. >> can i ask you something? what do you think of congressman joe wilson? >> reporter: at that same rally, a fox news producer got nabbed revving up the crowd behind a reporter by waving her hand. fox told the huffington post he's a young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who's been disciplined. back at the value summit, the man that scolded msnbc's reporter was escorted out by security. organizers apologized to the

press. there's nothing like looks that can kill to liven up a live show. >> you're causing a disturbance. i must say, showbiz on call phone lines have been overloaded with so many people calling in about whether kate gosselin is exploiting herrer kids. the showbiz on call operators barely have time to take care of their observe kids because they are working their fingers to the bone fielding all the calling that keep coming in. we have a call from cindy in louisiana. she says, if you don't like what kate's doing, don't watch. >> there are those of us that appreciate what kate's kog. i've enjoyed watching the kids grow. we enjoy the show. if you don't like it, there's a thing called a knob and remote. turn it off. >> appreciate your call. here's shannon who called in from georgia and she says -- kate is using the kids to make money. >> i believe she's exploiting

her children because she's talking about tv show to raise the kids and make money. what if there was no tv show. would she have those eight kids? then what she would have done? she'd have a job and she'd still be supporting her kids any way that's necessary. >> and melissa from connecticut called in. she said kate was a great mom but not a great wife. >> she's an awesome mom and she deserves a break for that. but anybody that's seen the show knows from the beginning, that she's an awful, awful wife. she's abusive and she's mean. people need to remember that. when they are talking about jon. jon deserves to date. sweet young things because of his battles with a meany for a long time. >> melissa, appreciate you're call. i know you have an opinion. call us and let us know what's on your mind about this, about

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from the showbiz news ticker. tv's most provocative entertainment news show continues right now. welcome back to "showbiz tonight." it's 30 minutes past the hour. i'm a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. have jon and kate become a laughing stock? what's the deal? even more jokes were rolling in today about jon and kate. they are no longer beloved family reality show stars. they are now the butt of jokes around the country in a big, big way. wait until you see the brand new spoofs and all the one-liners threeing around about jon and kate. nothing is off limits from jon's philandering ways to kate's hairstyle choices. the this the kay they want people to see them? hand joy behart revealed today

what she really thinks of kate gosselin after hanging out with her on the set of "the view." are all the jokes about kate -- i sat down with joy as she gets ready to launch her big show. she doesn't hold back one bit on the inside story of kate gosselin. joining they is ken baker, the executive news editor for e! and it really is the jon and kate comedy bonanza lately. i got to tell you, the back and drama of jon and kate gosselin went from being a serious matter on their show, ""jon & kate plus 8"" toes the butt of a lot of jokes. jay leno wasting no time to get in a big dig. take a look. >> last week jon gosselin from jon and kate got a speeding ticket in pennsylvania. apparently, he was going nowhere fast. but see him? did you see gosselin on "good

morning america"? he said he was abused when he was married to kate. he yelled at him. constantly belittled him and made him do things he didn't want to do. hey, jon, it's called "marriage." wake up. >> they had this all coming. ken were your surprised or did you just think it was inevitable. >> sometimes when we're tired of crying we have to laugh. this has been a very sad tragic story for a very long time. but even in its saddest most tragic moments everyone knew that two things are always funny. bad hair and beer guts. when you put them on reality stars you're going to laugh. i think that's eventually what happened. of course, there's a tragedy. the one thing that's not funny about this is that there are eight kids caught in the crossfire of a very nasty, public, bitter divorce. but i think people are now

starting to say, we just got to make fun of this. it's past. it's sort of statute of limitations of tragedy and now we have to play it for the humor and it's just reiff for comedy. >> i didn't know what the statue of limitations was on comedy. great point. >> the rules are here. >> i appreciate that. what really hats struck me about the whole thing is it's not jon, and not kate, none of them say -- kate's reportedly shot this show for a pilot for her own talk show. jon is busy dating his soulmate, as he put it. these are two things that got jimmy kimmel's show. >> 16 desperate women. one available guy. kate gosselin, what wants to be the shut who had sex with my

husband in the garage while he's supposed to be watching ill literal kid. >> what do you think about all the drama about both of them that's been in the news lately and how john is with this woman who's ten years younger than him. do they deserve to be a laughing stock? >> i'll tell you something, yes, they sort of do. what does it mean when you're made the butt of jokes by these guys? it means you've arrived. it means you're stars and have officially been ushered into the pop culture term meant as major stars. you're in the game. you're well known. you've arrived. i think it only helps anything else that they want to do. her clothing line. a journalist. and she's among their company. and paula dean who ask obviously a huge star, she's now a huge

star. these late-night talk show hosts cannot help but to ignore this people that get talked about. maybe we should have a -- >> it's true. if that's your definition of "having arrived." when you think of kathy grif february and how she's been making a living for months now taking stabs at jon and kate. check out this hilarious spoof she did for jimmie kimmel. >> but mom, i'm thirsty. wa, wa welcome drink the tears of fame. >> but kathy told me what she thinks of jon.

>> he's a tool. he's a tool. sitting there rolling his eyes. it's "kate plus 9." and she's another win we are the tummy tuck and -- my mother didn't have a tummy tuck. she has a box of wine and a mumu. >> when they take these chances, they are trying to create careers outside of the reality show. >> hold on one second, kids, shut up, okay? >> back to important business. no, you can't have a drink. jon gosselin last i checked is not running for senator of pennsylvania. he's running to get another reality show. so and the last i checked he wants to do a reality show as a divorced dad moving on with his life. he knows what he is and he knows what his brand is and it's not barack obama. his brand is for joe six-pack. so i think it's -- i think it's

going to be totally fine. >> listen to this, joy behart stopped by to tell when what she thinks of them being laughing stocks -- joy did not hold back with me today when i asked her what she thought about the gosselin's becoming a laughing stock. let's look at joy. >> i don't think they care. they have all these kids they have to support so they'll do whatever they have to do to make money. she needs make money to support those children. >> kate's been trying to get her own talk show and maybe john will get his reatity show. the gosselins don't care what they say about them. as long as people are talking about them and they are making money for the ship. >> i think that's pop culture. you realize, we've said this a

long time. there's no such thing as bad publicity. unless you do something so heinous there really isn't anything such as bad publicity. have jon and kate become a punchline? have they become a laughing stock? vote at cnn.com. i got to tell you, if jennifer aniston doesn't pick her jobs more carefully she could become a laughing stock of hollywood. i just uncovered shocking news that could effect her future. let me tell you she definitely won't like this. and making money, tyra banks shocking racism confessions to larry king. don't feel like -- did you ever feel looked down upon because of your color? >> just a short time ago tonight, tyra, one of the biggest supermodel of all time

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bad news for seven. we uncovered some brand new disturbing information that jennifer is an stop is going to like. her new movie, "love happens" was a bona fide flop when it opened. but have no fear, we've been digging deep all day on why this happened. and also brand new, tyra banks made a shocking speech on television saying she was the victim of racism. >> and joins me is a publicist and not in new york. rachel, the contributing editor for "life and style weekly." let's start with the bad news for jennifer happens. her new movie tampked. the new kick flick, cloudy with a chance of meatballs. matt damon's new film. but jennifer's movie came in at

number 4 and it made 8 million, despite a lot of publicity. here's the bad news. she's not going to like it one by the. we asked on liar and on line, this, jennifer aniston's new movie flops. are you surprised? and look at brand new results that came in that said they were surprised. only 17% say they say they are surprised. rachel this has to be bad news for jennifer. people expected this to happen? >> love doesn't happen for her in real life and it doesn't happen for her at the box office. it's not that surprising. she was our favorite "friend" on tv but in the movie they want it to change. they are sick of the girlfriend and the wife. out of 30 movies that she's made, three passed the european

market. one was based on a best-selling book, arrestly and me. but i'm rooting for her. she's a great actress. i love her, too. i'm disappointed to see it. i didn't realize i was so synthetic. you're a publicist. if jim were your client and she heard that so many people expected her to fail, this is news that she has to find hard to take. but at the sometime, she has a vor brand in hollywood. she graces the cover of numerous magazines and like rachel said, folks are tired of seeing her in the same type of movie. i would stretch a little bit and maybe focuses on expecting to see her in. i think they are problem blip of seeing james thin they've lrp seen. >> they are just flood into the e-mail box. it would seem there's more bad news for jennifer or faceback. it's listen inundated.

here's some. news florida, jennifer aniston can't act, she plays in every movie. rachel, to your point earlier, do you think erika has a point saying jennifer is losing her box office mo joe because she keeps playing. >> to sar she can't act is not true and we've seen that. she has stretched in that way. i think it's more of what she says in that e-mail it's like -- playing her sexuality more. being a bond girl. i think jen could do something that's different in that sense. >> margaret, do you think she needs to order a cease and desist saying "no morrow man take comedies?" >> it was all good girl versus

bad girl. angelina and i have stretched this out. we should see jen expand her brand and go for roll that will aren't typical of the rolls she's taken in the past. >> and a boemg she will confession that she was a victim of racism. she made the cham on an interview that just aired on layer rift king live '. larry asked tyra if she was ever treated differently than because of the color of your skin? >> did you ever feel in your life, looked down upon because i don't have your color? >> most definitely. >> that's the state of things. it makes me stronger. it makes me stronger and makes me open up my arms with love as opposed to feeling angry about it. >> you faced it in modeling, didn't you? >> every single day of my modeling career i was told that because of the color of might have skin. every day. even as one of the top sturp models i heard that. >> i find it really disturbing that tyra banks dealt with this

tloutd her career. does it surprise you that this would keep happening even after she was a supermodel? i'm into the surprised at all 'i just went to at least ten shows and there wasn't one black model. african-americans contribute to the bottom line of the fashion industry and we're underrepresented as a whole in ad campaigns and in shows and beyond. you don't see that many african-americans vase the krofr of "voek", "alure" and the same thing my am my colon has been saying all these years. jennifer garner's camel confessions. i'm talking about camels as in desert, that sort of thing? "the invention of lying in hollywood." it's an interesting movie and in

it lying doesn't exist. everybody just tells the truth. so we had to ask jennifer she'd ever told she'd tloif regret. watch this! went to camp when i0 and i told everyone there that i had a camel in my basement in west virginia. that we kept a camel. and my sister who looks a lot like me was somewhere years later and this woman said, oh, we went to camp together. you had a camel and melissa said no, that would be my little sister. you have met jennifer. >> don't ever keep a camel in your basement. i must say this brand new stuff that i am reading about is just so painful. making news right now, christina opening up about claims that her father abused her and her mother. it is christina in her own

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thanks, charles. welcome back. christina au fwmpb ilara is opening up about being abused by her father. she claims that her army sergeant dad hit her and her mother and sister, too. >> her mom dribs one particularly shocking and horrific incident where she

found a 4-year-old christina with a bloody nose. here is what she says about that. now christina's dad has asked for forgiveness but she does not want him in her life. we just told you about these shocking results to our question of the day about the general aniston's movie bombing. jennifer aniston's new move ve flops, are you surprised? only 17% of you said you were surprised. 83% said you were not. here are e-mails. people are tired of seeing her play the same type of character in the same type of movies over and over. i don't understand why it has taken this long to figure out she is not a great actress. good would be a stretch. ouch. not a lot of aniston friends in our inbox or phone lines as

well. jenny called in and adds this. >> i couldn't agree with you on this. her movies are becoming so boring. she needs to fire people working for her. they are feeding her the yes work too often and her movies are enough to make you want to jump off of an airplane. give her a mystery, give her a movie to get her out of the friends want to be girlfriend, boyfriend. they are all movies that are week and really boring. i love you, general, get some work. >> i am still a huge fan but it will be hard to shake off the rachael from friends thing. that is it for "showbiz tonight." thank you so much for watching. you can always catch us on the 11s. and in the morning we are on at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on hln.

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back to america to face justice in a case police are calling the most gruesome they've ever seen. also plaxico burress is head ed to the slammer the nfl wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the leg at a new york nightclub. now he's going to prison for two years. tonight's big issue, in this country, athletes get less time for killing people. so why did this superstar get the book thrown at him? and is it fair? plus, shocking new claims that anna nicole smith was prescribed a pharmaceutical suicide, according to court documents. her psychiatrist supplied smith with two sedatives, 300 tablets of methadone and four bottles of painkillers and that's just the beginning. this woman is also accused of having improper sexual contact with anna nicole and apparently there's pictures of these two naked and touching each other in the bathtub. "issues" starts now! tonight, an outrageous and despicable act.

was a grieving john travolta the victim of attempted blackmail? that question being put to the test before a jury in the bahamas. that's where two alleged extortionists are on trial accused of trying to squeeze $25 million bucks from the superstar. john's 16-year-old jett who surfrefd medical problems died tragically last january at a resort in the bahamas after suffering a seizure. now the ambulance driver, tarino lightbourne and former bohemian senator, that's right, senator, pleasant bridgewater are in hot water. prosecutors say they threatened to release to the public a refusal to transport document. now, this is a form typically signed when an ambulance has refused. but guess what, the travoltas reportedly did put jett in the ambulance and they even rode with him. something doesn't add up here, people. meantime, reports are john travolta is on the ground in the bahamas set to testify as the

star witness. here is what one of the defense attorneys said about that to abc news. >> he has to be -- he has to come to give evidence. >> reporter: why does he have to be here? >> without him then the prosecution cannot get off of the ground because he's a complaintant. >> tmz reporting tonight both defendants have pleaded, "100% not guilty." wait a second, wait, isn't that the line o.j. simpson made famous? and tonight's big issue, is it open season on celebrities at their most vulnerable? i want to hear from you. straight straight out to my fantastic expert panel, stacey honowitz, supervisor of the sex crimes unit in florida's prosecution office. darren kavinoky, criminal defense attorney, aka the voice of reason. bryan russell, attorney and forensic psychologist. 2-for-1 offer there. donald clark, former fbi special agent in charge. and the one and only harvey levin, executive producer of tmz, my former boss and dear friend, harvey, you're a busy

man. thank you for joining us tonight. this is such a bizarre case. what exactly are these defendants accused of doing? >> well, it is bizarre, jane. because the basis of the alleged extortion is almost irrelevant in the case. what happened was this. john travolta's son was laying dying basically in the bathroom of this vacation home. when they found him one of the defendants, the paramedic showed up, lightbourne and then john travolta and lightbourne are in the ambulance. and travolta's thinking i can get to the airport and make it to miami faster and get better medical care than if i go to the hospital in the bahamas. lightbourne wanted him to sign this document that basically said if you don't go to the hospital, all of the medical professionals are relieved of liability. that's what they need to get signed. ultimately, travolta decided to take jett to the hospital. so the document became really irrelevant. but the allegation is that

lightbourne and pleasant bridgewater the former senator conspired together to say to john travolta, look, if you don't give us $25 million, we're going public with this document. it is bizarre on -- and that is why they are on trial. >> yeah, because why would anybody pay 25 cents, much less $25 million, for this document which doesn't seem that incriminating? however, after jett's death of a bohemian friend of the travoltas spoke out about his son jett's love. >> john travolta knew his son was a special child and he nurtured their relationship. he gave him love, demonstrated publicly at all times.

is his reaction to the extortion. he never spoke directly with anybody who made the alleged extortion demand but his reaction is going to become relevant in the case. we know that's what the prosecutors are going on ask him about. and that reaction is going to have an emotional impact on this jury. they're not going to get into the kind of treatment, the kind of disease, that's all irrelevant. what's going to be relevant is how john travolta reacted to all of this and that could be a huge turning point in this trial. >> and final question, when is he expected to take the stand? >> well, we're told it could be tomorrow. it could be tomorrow or the next day. my hunch is tomorrow is the day because he flew there and i

don't think he wants to hang out by the way, kelly preston is not going to testify. but my hunch is it's going to happen tomorrow. >> all right, well, harvey, i thanks so much for bringing us up to date. you're always on top of these cases. this one's no exception. and great job. >> thanks, jane. >> now -- talk to you soon. tonight's big issue. is it open season on celebrities? and is it being waged by, let's face it, harvey's got to go because he's a busy guy. he's running that tmz show, so when you see him taking off his mike that's because he's got a lot of other jobs to do. is this war on celebrities being waged by nut jobs looking to make a buck off of celebrities in times when they're most vulnerable? if the allegations against the two defendants in the travolta case are true, it's horrific, but it wouldn't be the first time. remember sarah jessica parker and her husband matthew broderick were alleged victims of bottomfeeders? their home of their baby surrogate were burglarized. the accused criminals were a pair of police chiefs who allegedly tried to sell some of the woman's items, the surrogate's clothes -- it's just crazy. both of them denied the charges. and then of course our favorite example, the poor jackson kids in the wake of their dad's death. there's a steady stream of

weirdos, wacko, wanna-bes trying to claim biological parenthood. so my question, brian russell, you are the psychologist. have these celebrities now become magnets for the lowest common denominator of society? people who can profit? >> absolutely, i think so. and i think, jane, if we pulled our viewers and we asked them to rank the seriousness of certain crimes, blackmail or extortion may not rank that highly on the list, but psychologically and it should and here's why. these things are always premeditated. there's no spur-of-the moment, heat of passion, anything like that. they're always nothing but a cold-hearted attempt to profit off of somebody else's pain or embarrassment. there's no insanity, these perpetrators always know exactly what they're doing and so the person who would do that is ought to come down hard or them as a society than we usually do. >> yes, stacy, stacy, stacey honowitz.

>> i think the most disgusting part of this case is that john travolta allegedly had a relationship with one of the defendants. so it's not only somebody that's trying to extort a celebrity out of a lot of money at the most vulnerable time, horrible, grieving time in his life, but this was a supposed friend of his that was doing it. so that just adds insult to injury and makes it even more despicable of a crime. >> i don't know why any of us should be surprised about this. the fact of the matter is that there is no shortage of people demonstrating poor judgment in all of their affairs and that's what keeps some of us that are in the business of, say, criminal defense or mental health fully employed. so i think we're going to see this and continue to see it, and of course in the case of celebrities, it's just a much more public opportunity for these kinds of bottom-feeding individuals and of course i am for one, am completely shocked, that there would be a bohemian political official involved in something like this.

perhaps they'll have rod blagojevich as a character witness or something. >> a bohemian official involved in the anna nicole scandal, remember that, in bed. >> that was sarcasm, by the way. that was supposed to be sarcasm, for the record. >> we should have a sign that says "being sarcastic now." don clark? >> i am going to say i was not surprised by that. and usually in many of these cases that i've been personally involved in that it's someone is close to the victim in this that a finds some way to try to extort them, either by using somebody else or another system or something. >> you are so right. >> they really try to go after. >> you are so right. i had my identity stolen. it was somebody i went to high school. how do you like that? more on the john travolta extortion case in a moment and also taking your calls on this, 1-877-jvm-says. that's 1-877-586-7297. this guy had a history of domestic violence.

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morning america," totally heartbreaking. aside from a family appearance at the open of the movie "old dogs" in which john starred alongside his daughter ella blue, the travoltas have kept a very low profile. we'll talk about that they moment but first phone lines lighting up on this one. diane, mississippi. your question or thought, ma'am? >> caller: jane -- >> yes. >> caller: -- thank you for taking my call. and i gist want to say i had a 19-year-old son that passed away and this just absolutely makes me livid that anyone would stoop to this to hurt john and his wife and family any longer, and i would like to say thank you and your staff for the work you're doing for women and children that are abused. and god bless you. >> thank you so much, diane. and my condolences over your loss. that's something that nobody

ever gets out of. >> caller: you never get over it. >> you never get over it? >> caller: no like i said my son's 40th birthday yesterday and some days it was just like it was yesterday and other days it is like a hundred years and for these people to do john and his family like this, they should be hung. >> and i have to say, dawn clark, what adds insult to injury is this -- this whole area was a place that they considered their retreat. they would go there, the travoltas, year after year. they had about, what, 50 people there with them when this tragedy occurred. they were having a huge party there. they had made friends there. they considered this their home away from home and then when something like this happens it's even more devastating. so i would like to debate the issue, should john travolta have move forward with this criminal case? or is it reopening an old wound? what do you think, don? >> really well i really think that you cannot let criminals get away with these blatant type of crimes and if you let get away with, it will never go away. they'll come back at you some

other way jane. so it's a tough time for them. i really feel badly for them but i think if they've got the evidence, if they've got the taped conversations, they can be authenticated i think they ought to move forward with it, and maybe this will send a signal to the next person that may be i shouldn't. >> absolutely, you're not going to get behavior to stop if you make it easier to do. >> yeah, it's important to note. and this actually cuts both ways portfolio i've seen it with victims who participated in a trial and for them it can be a very therapeutic thing, to actually be there in a public place in open court and point the accusatory finger at somebody that did them wrong or they believed did them wrong. and on the other side of it, it does happen that defendants are falsely accused of crimes. >> let me jump in here, though. here's the thing, john travolta is a superstar. he's going to attract controversy. we have to recap and review all of the controversy surrounding what was his son really suffering from to put this are?

context. isn't he opening up a pandora's box, stacey honowitz, by pursuing this criminal investigation? because if he dropped out, would they really have the goods to do it? >> listen i think it's very personal and i think that nobody, none of us can judge as to what his actions are, how he's feeling at the moment. if he didn't think he was up to it, if he didn't think he could go and reopen everything, he knows he's a public figure, he knows it's been all over the news. i don't think if he thought he could handle it, he would have never gone through with it. so while it is opening old wounds and it might be very difficult, as darren said, it might be therapeutic for him, and maybe he knows that if i step forward and i set an example and i show people that they can't get away with it, then it won't happen to somebody else. >> yes, stacey's exactly right. stacey's exactly right. for some people it is

therapeutic and this guy's been in the public eye for a long time. i would say he can handle it and i admire him because i think he probably looks at himself, i them in a position to make something like this and hopefully it will reverberate out and deter other people. >> and for the rest of his life he is going to than when push came to shove and although difficult, he stood up. he did the right thing and he won't have to carry around that emotional baggage if only i would have done something differently especially if the case would be dismissed or these folks or others vindicated. >> don clark, why would these people allegedly concoct this ridiculous scheme that doesn't make sense? >> yeah, a lot of them done but it's all about greed. it's all about greed. they say, they think that john has whatever amount of money and wealth that he may have and that they can get some without working for it. that's what it is all about. that's what all extortionists are all about. they are about, i can make better use of this. i can figure out a way to take your money without doing anything and i can get away with it and that's point we don't want to happen here. i hope john feels that way, that they can get away with it because they have to get the

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breaking news tonight in the horrific deaths of a mother and her five children. her husband has confessed to slitting all of their throats inside their florida home. that's the latest from haiti. where mesac damas flew after the murders. he told "evil thing made him butcher his wife and kids one by one." six in all. five kids and a mother. police charged him with six counts of premeditated murder. they're trying to get him exindicted back to the united states. the victim's relatives are in agony but get this they don't sound very surprised to hear what damas is accused of.

listen to the victim's niece and brother. >> he always said he was going to kill her. always abused her and her kids. >> she was all by her family, all by her kids, waiting for her kids. that was her main priority. i know he did this. i don't think i know. >> they do not sound surprised. did anyone enter demmas family and try to intervene? here she is in january after her husband attacked her. look at that, are there bruises. he was arrested. didn't serve anytime at all but days before it family was slaughtered child welfare workers checked up on them. found nothing wrong. could more had been done to protect this family from this monster? back with attorney and forensic psychologist brian russel. what's so shocking to me, brian, is the family's reaction. they are not shocked. what does that tell you? >> well, i think that it's

pretty clear that there was a history of some kind of domestic disturbances in this family, and it just underscores what you and i are always saying when we cover these things, which is you've got get yourself and especially your kids away from people at the very first signs of violence. because it typically continues and it typically escalates. >> it's just -- i mean, my mind is not able to get around the concept that all these children were looking at their dad and dead and their throats are slit one by one. imagine what one was thinking watching the others get killed knowing that they were probably next. it's just beyond comprehension. >> it's horrific and i think most of our viewers watching this cover the story tonight are thinking, gosh, you know, i almost wish there were some kind of insanity. some kind of a disorder. something that somebody would have to be laboring under to do something like this, but the flight after the fact to haiti suggests clear consciousness to guilt. >> all right i want to jump and get on this. ironically, this family was on

law enforcement's radar. are there domestic violence reports dating back to 2000. the most recent was filed in january after he assaulted his wife. here you can see she's got a swollen eye and bruises on her neck. listen to what cops say about that attack. >> in january of this year, he was arrested for a simple battery -- or misdemeanor battery against the female that we found deceased in the apartment. he pled no contest to it in june. >> have go guilt? >> i do not believe so other than the initial arrest. >> brian, final thoughts, what can we learn from this? >> well, i think what we may be seeing in this case is -- because you pointed out the other night which was an excellent point that a lot of these kids were born apparently after there had been some violent incidents. >> yes. >> and what that says is a lot of times these women are thinking, not so much about the best interest of their kid but in their own twisted way their needs for the chaotic relationship and this is what come of that. >> leave is t there, brian.

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plaxico burress headed to the slammer. the nfl wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the leg at a new york nightclub. now he's going to prison for two years. tonight's big issue, in this country athletes get less time for killing people. so why did this superstar get the book thrown at him? is it fair? plus, shocking new claims that anna nicole smith was prescribed a pharmaceutical suicide, according to court documents, her psychiatrist supplied smith with two sedatives, 300 tablet was methadone and four bottles of painkillers, and that's just the beginning. millions of dollars, celebrities

status, and a high-priced attorney -- not enough to keep plaxico burress out of prison. the new york giant star is behind bars tonight, as we speak, as he begins to serve two years in prison. burress accidentally shot himself in the leg inside a new york nightclub last year. he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge last month. you know we're so used to hearing about rich pro athletes getting off easy for crimes that are a whole lot more serious than this one. we're going to get some of those classic cases in just a moment. here's tonight's "big issue," people, did burress get a fair sentence, or did the judge and the d.a. make an example out of this guy? i mean, after all, he shot himself by accident. i'm all for rules for long offer, tough punishment, but this seems like overkill to me. back to my fantastic panel. don clark, i don't get it. apparently there were negotiations between burress and

the manhattan d.a.'s office. the d.a. insisted on jail time. burress took the risk of testifying before the grand jury and an indictment came back and all of a sudden, wow, we've got him going away to the slammer for two long years as his wife is about to give birth to their second child. >> yeah, jane, you know what, i'm going to think that there's more to it here than you -- than what we see. i'm not very sympathetic here. because i bet you that there was a presentence investigation done. and we might find that during the course of that presentence investigation that there's been a lot of bad boy activity there. also, we all know, i've lived and worked in new york, and we all than new york has a very, very stiff gun law and if you don't abide by the rules there and you get caught and a lot don't but when you get caught you are usually going to pay for it. so based on that presentencing

summary and investigation, that's probably why the judge went this hard on him. >> look, i want to debate this issue because i really don't buy it. let's face it, burress' sentence can seem harsh if you compare it to the ridiculously light punishments some other star athletes have gotten. we look no further than daunte stallworth of the cleveland browns. pleaded guilty in june to dui manslaughter. he got drunk. he killed a man and served just one month in prison. to me that's outrageous. here's stallworth at his sentencing hearing. >> i accept full responsibility for this horrible tragedy. i assure you that this tragedy will continue to bear this burden for the rest of my life. >> and then there's leonard little in 1998 he drove drunk, ran a red light and killed another driver. he served 90 days in jail. that's it. fenito and little is still playing in the nfl. so stacey honowitz, where is the justice in all of this? burress' punishment, it seems like it could be a makeup call, as they say in sports, for these other lenient sentences.

>> listen, jane, i think the most important thing that you and the viewers have to understand is this, when judges and d.a.'s get cases, we don't pick up the newspaper and look to see what donte' stallworth got or what an athlete got three years ago to draw comparison. we look at the case and the facts that are in front of us. and i agree with john. it hasn't been let out. we do not know but i bet there was a presentence investigation. there might had been some prior contacts with the law and this is a weapons charge where he took a loaded gun into a nightclub. he accidentally shot himself but that gun could have gone off and killed anybody in that club, so while we're sitting here today saying that the gun laws are too stiff or his sentence is too stiff we could be sitting here next week saying why did the glae oklahoma only get three days? every case is judged on its own merits and no d.a. in any state is sitting there and looking and comparing anybody else. >> right. >> and, jane -- >> wait. >> all right, hold on.

>> jump in here, jane. i know the fashion police in new york are very, very tough. but two years in jail just for wearing sweatpants to a club, it seems unseemly. >> yeah, i mean, basically it was an accident. he had the gun in his sweatpants. the gun fell and it accidentally discharged. he didn't shoot off the gun. >> i know. i was going for humor on that one. >> into a nightclub that gun could have dropped, spun and hit somebody and killed somebody else. >> that's exactly -- >> he accidentally shot himself. look at all of the facts. >> if you're afraid you're going out into a location if you have to take a gun, number one don't go and the type of money that this guy is making get yourself a bodyguard. why are you doing this? think. there is history there. i can tell you that. >> >> brian russel, this is not a criminal. this is a person, as his attorney said, violated the law and essentially we're not

sentencing him for a criminal act in the sense that he was trying to commit a crime of violence against another person. there's got to be a distinction there, brian. >> well, psychologically, just point out, we seem to see a lot of celebrity business, athletes, entertain ea disproportionate number of them in really stupid trouble like this and part of the explanation for that is these people's talents are identified early in their lives and that the point people start to develop nothing but talent. not their mind, not their intelligence, nothing. so what you end up with are really stupid people with a lot of money and that is just almost a prescription for this kind of trouble. >> but there's a real political aspect to this case as well. and that's michael bloomberg and his campaign, which was very heavily weighted on this antigun thing. so it was really a bad case of timing and it was a bad location for this to take place. if this same incident took place in reporting jurisdictions, i suspect that you'd find a much less harsh sentence.

>> well that's all i am saying, stacey honowitz, is nothing happens in a vacuum. politics always plays a role and i applaud mayor bloomberg. i'm living near new york city. just a couple of block away from cnn headquarters, a woman was murdered. it's scary, okay? around the world it's scary but it's also scary in the city. i applaud these efforts to keep us safe. i want to stay safe. but my heart did go out to this man who made a horrible error of judgment but now he has to take his 2-year-old little boy and say, son, i will not see you for two long years and his wife has to give birth to a child without him there. >> jane -- >> jane, where do you draw the line? you could say that about so many people. i understand everything you're saying but you could say that about a million people. i stand in court every day and i watch people and say good-bye and wave good-bye to the little kids because they make a stupid mistake that happened to have been criminal so in this case, if you were standing in that club and god forbid a million times you got shot because he was stupid and brought a loaded

weapon in, you wouldn't be saying he got such a light sentence. >> but see, stacey, no one did. he was stupid and shot himself. it was bad judgment but nobody else got shot. obviously do not want to encourage people bringing guns to clubs and only hurt himself and adding insult to injury unnecessarily. >> it's unfair but the way to fix the unfairness is to sentence those guys, as jane said, more harshly. not to sentence burress less. >> i agree. >> and i think that gun control is very important and i know it's not a popular position to take but i'm in favor of it because i've seen so many crimes where you take alcohol, you take rage, and you add guns and you've got death and often the people who die had nothing to do with that situation. they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. so you changed my mind, all right? >> okay. >> you changed my mind. send him away to the slammer but i still feel sorry for him. i still think we have to have compassion. >> feel sorry for his family, jane. >> yeah i feel sorry for his family. i really do. thank you, fantastic panel, for your insights.

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did anna nicole smith's doctor attempt to prescribe her a deadly dosage prescription drugs just days after her son's death? what about claims the late model had improper sexual contact with her doctors? all of that in just a moment. but first "to the block" tonight. jonathan widawsky the heartbroken fiance of the murdered yale grad student was seen leaving his long islands home yesterday wearing what

would had been his wedding ring. annie le was set to wed the very day that her decomposing body was found stuffed behind a wall. as her loved ones plan her funeral, cops announced no other arrests are expected in this case. they believe lab techie raymond clark acted alone, when he allegedly strangled the 24-year-old. and police are now disputing claims that clark, "broke the bones and mangled the body of a strangled yale graduate student to fit it through a wall." le's memorial and burial are set for saturday near her family's home in california. what a terrible tragedy. that is tonight requestst top of tonight's top of the block. brand-new court documents just unsealed. whoa! inside, shocking new details about anna nicole

smith's death. investigators called the star a drugseeker, yeah, we knew that, and say multiple pharmacists warned anna nicole's doctors, if you give her all these drugs, she will die. after anna's son died, her psychiatrist, christina eroshevich allegedly wrote prescriptions for a boatload of drugs. one nicknamed hospital heroin . a pharmacist said he saw this list and said, no way. he refused to fill the scrips calling it pharmaceutical suicide. he says he thought to himself, they are going to kill her. anna's shrink also allegedly got her hands on chlorohydrate to help anna sleep. another pharmacist warned, i wouldn't give her that unless you want your picture on the front page of "the national enquirer." the infamous blond battled drugs long before her son's death. this disturbing video shows a pregnant anna completely out of it. >> i bet this is worth money.

>> did everybody surrounding this addict enable her to die? scandalous new claims inside these new documents that anna nicole had, are you sitting down, sexual contact with her doctors. we reached out to the doctors involved, sandeep kapoor's lawyer told hln, no way, jose. he's openly gay. hey, that rhymes. straight out to my expert panel and mike walters from tmz. mike, what is the very latest coming out of the shock documents that were just released? >> well, there's so much of these documents. i just got finished reading it cover to cover for the second time to see what i could find out. but i will start with the fact of all the medications. in there these two doctors, they're describing the overmedication of anna nicole smith. the pregnancy was key. doctor sandeep kapoor according to documents overprescribing in some cases ten times over the limit that a normal person would get. >> during her pregnancy?

>> this is during the year the nine months that she was pregnant that the prescriptions were coming in and going out. so -- and then you go to eroshevich. this is days after her son died. and remember. she was in a hospital. remember she was in the hospital in and out because of her baby. so she's in a hospital. but this facts goes into these pharmacies that you were talking about saying we will never give her this medication. it was a handwritten fact and this list was like this huge cocktail and guess what the killer in these documents which is going to come out is the two drugs. and cholosopam. those two were the keys in this drug cocktail that killed anna nicole smith when it came out. and also i got to go under the sexual thing really quick because that was explosive. they described the photos. this is sexual in bathtub and nude. it is there are multiple photos

which they have. this is didn't happen. >> of who? >> of eroshevich, her psychiatrist/the person who sent the fax to get the dope and anna nicole in sexual positions. this isn't, like, you know, topless sunbathing. this is really graphic stuff. and sandeep kapoor the other doctor in the nightclub nuselling her neck, kissing her neck on video and in photos. so this is highly inappropriate and i can't believe that the doctors have that relationship with her. and it's still -- i can't even describe. i could go on forever of all of the stuff that's there about how many other people these doctors also did this to is why i think they're on the chopping block right now. >> absolutely and i want to state that we did contact, reached out to the doctor's attorneys. and dr. kapoor's attorney said, dr. kapoor did not have a sexual relationship with anna nicole. he is openly gay and he did not

have a social relationship with her either. although there is this photo of him cavorting with him. i mean was anna nicole having a sexual relationship with the other doctor? we've already covered the documents referencing a video of dr. kapoor. dr. kapoor. we've explained that. but then we have a pic of a shirtless dr. kapoor. take a look at this photo. i want you to take a close look at it, and when we come back we're going to analyze it. is this how a doctor is supposed to behave? i wonder. it seems that when it came to anna nicole she would get professionals, whether it was a foreign minister of a country or a doctor or a real estate magnate, they all seemed to respond to her sexually. and i'm not saying this doctor here did, because he's openly gay. but something's going on. something's fishy in denmark somewhere with anna nicole. all right. addiction is at the very heart of anna nicole's tragedy, and so many stories, including my own. as you know, it's national recovery month. i want to urge you to pick up my

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underlying pain that would have required her to have these type of medicines? thank you. >> well, i think, brian russel, the reason she was given these, or the prescriptions were written for these meds was that her son had died five days earlier. >> some of them. let me give you the micro and the macro on this. the micro is this is an example of hollywood health care in which doctors are willing to give a celebrity just about anything to be in their company, maybe sexual company, maybe just their company. but at the macro level it's like you said at the top of the show today. we've become a quick-fix culture in which happiness is to be pursued by the fastest road or what looks like the fastest road as opposed to the most lasting or meaningful road. people don't want to do anything hard. they don't want to overcome any obstacles. but parts of life like losing a loved one are hard and there's growth to be obtained by overcoming obstacles. i'm with you. i wish that people would start looking for their happiness not at the bottom of pill bottles or alcohol bottles but by actually working through these difficult issues and overcoming these obstacles and psychotherapy is a

great way to do that. >> there's one thing more here. there's one other feature. and that is anna was very publicly a train wreck and there were hordes of people that profited by her remaining in that condition. there were plenty of people surrounding her who not only weren't providing her with the incentive to get well but it was the incentive to stay sick because everybody made money by her being that way. >> that was her thing. i mean, that was what she prided herself on, unfortunately. she didn't pride herself -- maybe she did but others didn't take pride in her being an actress or a model. the fact of the matter is people watched her show and watched her because they wanted to see what she would do to screw things up. >> it was a train wreck. >> that was her thing. >> it was a train wreck. anna nicole had prescriptions for 44 medications when she died. her longtime companion/attorney howard k. stern testified it was her son's death that killed her. let's listen to him.

>> from the day that daniel died, anna honestly was never the same. i mean, i would say that physically she died last week, but in a lot of ways emotionally she died when daniel died. >> don clark, go ahead. >> yeah, first of all, i don't believe anything that howard stern says about this situation because these drugs, there's a history that goes way back with these prescription drugs and i think it's time for us to target on it. we've been following this and she didn't just start taking these when daniel died. i mean, there's information that's floating around that she was taking it all through pregnancy and they were doing these sorts of things to her. >> anybody who saw her show saw how messed up she was, or appeared to be, unless she's -- she was the great actress of all time and that was all put on. she's been on drugs for a long time before her tragic death. and it's a cautionary tale for all americans. live life on life's terms. don't medicate yourself away.

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breaking news tonight satsuma, florida. a 5-year-old little girl tucked into bed. five hours later she's gone. vanished. the back door propped wide open. daddy comes home from the nightshift to find not a trace of little haleigh. bombshell tonight -- as we go to air, girlfriend turned new stepmother misty croslin the last person to see haleigh alive skips town. croslin packing up, clearing out of town after a bitter fight with haleigh's father, ronald cummings.

this after croslin's brother, thrown behind bars on a gun charge, leading to a break in the case. in a late-night jailhouse interrogation, we learn the brother finally confesses he goes to haleigh's house the night she goes missing. pounds on the door repeatedly. over and over. nobody home. phone records confirm ronald cummings tries desperately to reach croslin that night, calling at least 20, that's right, 2-0, 20 times. no answer. where, where was girlfriend turned-stepmother misty croslin during those crucial hours? when haleigh goes missing? investigators now using gps to track croslin that night through her cell phone. police announce everything croslin's told them so far is, quote, a farce. with cops honing in on croslin, croslin disappears.

investigators focusing on a heavily-wooded area and in the last 72 hours draining a local pond in connection with haleigh. as girlfriend turned-stepmom, misty croslin, flunks another polygraph, tonight, where is haleigh? >> breaking news. babysitter misty cummings, the last person to see haleigh alive, has left town. according to journalist art harris. >> what we need is for misty to come down here and tell us the truth. >> i'm trying to do everything to find her. you know, i'm -- answer any questions i have to because i know i didn't do anything with -- to that little girl. >> harris reports misty and ron had a bitter fight and she took off with a friend to the beach. >> my feelings are we need to find my daughter. >> do you think misty holds some information that could help do that? >> i don't think that she holds any information that's going to find haleigh. >> misty's attorney says she's out of town, taking a few days off to seek a change of scenery and clear her head.

pressure from the investigation is mounting. >> if i had something to do with it, i knew where she was, we wouldn't be sitting here today. we would have her and i don't know where she is. >> misty can relieve this pressure by telling her attorney that we need to go down to the sheriff's office and really lay out in clear terms what i was doing from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. and tonight, imagine your own early-morning routine. heading out to meet your carpool to head to work. that's just what happened to a dedicated mother of two, ages just 5 and 8. but when she exits her car in a public parking lot, a white male approaches her, stabs her in the torso, and then calmly gets back into his blue-green suv and proceeds to run over her as she lies there bleeding in the parking lot. tonight, she is clinging to life. do police have a suspect?

her hands looked very bloody. she did not appear to be moving. >> police are desperately searching for a suspect who stabbed a mother of two in a parking lot of a luxury new jersey hotel then ran her over with his car. 46-year-old laura matousek was waiting to meet a co-worker to carpool to work friday morning when witnesses say a man jumped out of a green or blue pickup truck or suv and stabbed laura in the torso then got back into his car and ran laura over. >> the hotel general manager says it was two guests who found 46-year-old laura matousek lying face down in a pool of blood. >> she suffered multiple knife wounds and broken bones. police immediately began to search for laura's ex-husband, who voluntarily spoke with police for 12 hours friday and saturday. he has since been released and is not facing any charges. >> he and matousek were divorced

2 1/2 years ago and prosecutors say she did have a retraining order against him that only recently expired. >> she was rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital for multiple stab wounds and broken bones. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. as we go to air, girlfriend turned-stepmother misty croslin the last person to see haleigh alive disappears. >> is there finally a split between ronald cummings and his new bride, misty? >> when i went to sleep, she was there. and then when i woke up, she was gone. >> i'm not hiding anything for anybody, and if somebody has something to do with it, let them fry. so be it. whoever it might be. >> journalist art harris is reporting sources tell him there was a bitter fight between ron and misty. so bad misty's lawyer says she's left town. this, just hours after misty's own brother tells police he doesn't think anyone was home the night haleigh vanished. >> he demonstrated to us loudly

and for a few seconds and then he waited around, you know, to presumably see if someone was going to be roused if they were sleeping or whatever. he tells us that he made a good effort to see if someone was home. misty did not answer the door. the house was dark and quiet. >> i would have woke up if i heard any noise. i didn't hear anything at all. i mean, i was really exhausted that day. you know? really exhausted when i laid down, i guess, you know, i was out. >> that front door is all but ten feet from the bedroom where misty was sleeping with haleigh and junior that night. so if someone's wailing on the door, there's no way she couldn't have heard that whatsoever. >> it applies pressure. where pressure needs to be applied and that's on misty. >> straight out to our producer on the story from the very beginning, marlaina schiavo. marlaina, what happened? why did misty croslin skip town? >> nancy, she is gone. she left town.

apparently people saw misty and ronald having an argument over the weekend when all of this searching was going on, draining of the pond. there were a lot of tensions. so they were arguing. all of a sudden misty's nowhere to be found. she is no longer in satsuma right now and ronald is not with her. >> to art harris, investigative journalist at artharris.com. art, what was the bitter argument about? >> well, i can tell you that sources tell me that ronald actually threw her clothes out, threw her out, and she was going down the road when he runs after her, apologizes, and brings her back. so it's unclear what it was about, nancy, but it was not pretty. >> let's look at the timing, art harris. what was happening at the time they have the bitter feud? was that when the pond was being drained? what was happening? >> it was around that time, nancy. a lot of uncertainty. a lot of rumors about the pond. rumors that haleigh's body was found, rumors that they found a car in the pond. none of it true.

but everyone was desperate for information, so much so that ronald's grandmother actually went to the scene to ask what was happening. and that's how she found out. >> to t.j. hart, news director at wsky, 97.3 fm. t.j., do we have any idea what the big argument was about before misty croslin skips town? >> once again, a lot of things factored into it, a lot of raw nerves, a lot of tensions at the time. and also a little bit of knowledge has leaked out about the conversation that was held between detectives and tommy croslin in the jailhouse as well. so that may have been a factor in the conversation. >> like what? what, t.j., what else have you learned? everybody, t.j. hart with wsky is referring to misty croslin's brother who was taken into custody. he's thrown behind bars over a gun charge. >> sure. >> now, unusually, the bond for the gun charge is $50,000. they're keeping him behind bars.

they interrogated him in the late-night hours about haleigh's disappearance. what more have you learned, t.j.? >> okay. what happened was ronald had called him because he could not get any calls through to misty that night. at least 20 times he tried to call or to text. so he calls down to the croslin house. he asks tommy to check on the house to see if misty's at home and take a check down there. he goes down there and he knocks on the door. now, major bowling with the putnam county sheriff's office said he showed him, demonstrated how hard he banged on the door and told him he stayed in the area awaiting for misty to either answer the door or in his words to even come home. now, hank croslin jr. says that after some time passed he just gave up. he assumed she wasn't home. now, originally he had just stopped short of that. he's now said she wasn't home. now, we believe that releasing some of this information according to major bowling that they have found advances in the

investigation and particularly the way they think this will advance is that misty's family now knows about this information. they knew about this going into saturday, by the way. that they hope that the family may be -- or misty by her own conscience, if there's a discrepancy that she will, indeed, explain why hank banged on the door and no response was given. >> to mike brooks, former fed with the fbi. everyone, we are taking your calls live. we'll be right out to the lines. but mike, wouldn't the cops pinging her cell phone put an end to all this? so far, believe it or not, it's my understanding it hasn't been done because i want to know, where was croslin during those crucial hours after ronald cummings leaves to go to work and he gets home 3:00 a.m. she's gone. where was she? >> good question. let's take a look at the map. ronald cummings' plant is right here. there are two cell phone towers

right in the vicinity of his plant. they'd be able to pick up the pings there. and don't know exactly how many towers are between there and the trailer which is here, but it's about a 15-minute drive. now, i find it very interesting, nancy. because if you recall, the very first police report, the officer who took the report said, you know, ronald got home at about 3:00 a.m. he just was pulling up in the driveway at the same time she was coming out. and if you recall, ronald was very, very upset because he called her "my dumb "b" word girlfriend." but they should be able to tell, nancy, because if there were 20 phone calls between here and here, i mean, 20 times, nancy, there should be records of this. >> you're absolutely correct. i also want to get those pings. >> absolutely. and also, did he try to call her, there will be records of that. did he try to call her brother, tommy? there will be records of that. did tommy call him back? there should be records of all of this and exactly where these pings were between here and there.

>> got it. let's unleash the lawyers. raymond giudice, defense attorney, atlanta. daniel horowitz, renowned defense attorney, san francisco. i don't need to give you two a tutorial on the law. let's see the lawyers please, norm. but you both know -- i'll start with you, giudice. that flight can be argued at trial. in many jurisdictions it can't be given as the law to the jury by the judge, but the prosecutor could argue why did croslin skip town? >> well, keep in mind she's neither a suspect nor a defendant nor has she been charged. >> okay. you're not answering the question. horowitz? >> you have to have facts. anybody can run away when your husband gets angry at you and the whole world thinks you're guilty. of course she's young and upset. >> it could be argued at trial that flight indicates guilt. that will be the prosecutor's argument. >> or innocence. that you're so upset and you're innocent that you can't take it. it cuts both ways. ( clicking )

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stunning developments in the case of the missing florida

girl, haleigh cummings, that could put the spotlight back on step mom misty croslin. misty's brother was recently arrested on a gun charge, and he reportedly broke down under police questioning. tommy croslin says he went to ronald cummings' trailer the night haleigh vanished back in february. the brother said he repeatedly pounded on the door but no one opened it. misty croslin has insisted she was home all night. >> i seen the kitchen light on. and i walked in the kitchen and the back door's wide open. i mean, i didn't notice about haleigh then until i seen the back door open. and then i go in her room and she's gone. >> misty's timeline doesn't make sense and her story changes. the ring of truth is that somebody went there and she wasn't home when they knocked. >> miss neves, all along you have stated that you believed misty croslin. now that you hear this, what do you think? >> this statement by tommy croslin to me doesn't hold any water. >> why? >> i'm sorry, but -- why wait seven months?

why say that he -- you know, if he went down there, my personal opinion if i went there and knocked and everything was off, i would think they were sleeping. >> we are taking your calls live. to patricia in maryland. hi, patricia. >> caller: hi, nancy, how are you? >> i'm good, dear. what's your question? >> caller: my question is about this gps. what are the police now gpsing? >> you know, you and me both. what about it, art harris? >> they're trying to do it. they've been trying to ping back and, you know, and figure out where everybody was that night. now, they got ronald, they've got him at the factory. they've got two cell towers near there. that is his alibi. as for misty, they are still

working on her pings. >> okay. mike brooks, i think patricia in maryland is absolutely correct. we're into the seven months. >> right. >> seven months. now, i want to make it clear what my earlier question was. what could possibly be the problem with their pings? why can't they get a track on her cell phone that evening to figure out where she was unless a cell phone was turned off? >> that's the only reason, whether the cell phone was off or the battery was dead. but nancy, some phones do not have gps, but every one of them will tell you, exactly, what tower they were pinging from. let's take a look at this new map that we have. now, this is a four-mile radius right here. okay? just from here to here, four miles. look at all the towers. now, ronald's plant is just a little bit north of here. so you take a look at all the towers that are right all

around. she's going to be hitting them. let's say she wasn't at home. let's say she wasn't there. if she was still down in this area, down in this area, and as you get closer to some of the towns south of her, there are going to have towers. there are going to be able to tell this. they should be able to know if tommy is telling the truth. now, if you want to find out if he's telling the total truth, let's go ahead and give him a polygraph also if he will consent to it. because look at misty. she's failed two law enforcement polygraphs and one by tim miller equusearch group when he was asked to come back up there and he didn't want to waste his time if she wasn't telling the truth. >> out to the lines. elizabeth, new york, hi, elizabeth. >> caller: hi, nancy. i love your show. >> thank you. and thank you for calling in. what's your question, dear? >> caller: i wanted to know if misty's cousin has been cleared. >> if misty's cousin has been cleared? what cousin are you referring to, elizabeth? >> caller: she had a cousin in town, they had a previous

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i did take a polygraph. >> and you passed it? >> i mean, my understanding is that i passed it. >> i pulled into the yard. the front door was wide open. she was standing in it. i asked her what she was doing up. she told me the back door was wide open and haleigh was gone. >> misty's brother was taken from his jail cell to be questioned by police. that's what deputies say croslin's brother told them it looked like no one was home that night. >> he tells police that he banged on the door and he got no answer. he looked inside through the windows, saw no lights, no television, did not hear a sound. >> joining me right now is special guest, marc klaas, the

president and founder of klaas kids foundation. he is not only a tireless victims' rights advocate, but he is a crime victim himself. his little girl, polly, was taken from her home many years ago and she was murdered. marc klaas, what do you make of misty croslin allegedly skipping town? we're hearing all sorts of stories where she might be tonight. maybe she went to the beach. maybe she went out with girlfriends. but nobody knows where she is. >> no, absolutely nobody knows where she is. but there's no sense to be made of any of this story. has anybody asked ron if he asked tommy to go to the house? he banged on the door and saw nothing, does that mean that the children weren't there as well? is tommy trying to make a deal for the problems that he's having right now with law enforcement? finally, this whole idea of gps, we aren't talking about gps. that's never been brought up. we are talking about the potential for cell phone triangulation between all of these calls. finally, i guess, finally, finally, why is it that this is

7 1/2 months later. why is it we have to wait 7 1/2 months to find out that there were 20 calls made, that tommy croslin went to the house that night and got no response from anybody? this is information that should have been turned over immediately. >> marc klaas, you are right again, as usual. mike brooks, let's do the differentiation between when he says triangulate, he's right. aren't you using some type of gps technology to triangulate or not? is that not involved at all? >> no, you know, it can be, nancy. you can use a combination of both. but not all phone -- it depends on who the carrier is and the options you had on these particular phones which probably they didn't have a whole lot that would have gps. but on the other side, they should be able to tell by the code and everything else that they had subpoenaed from the cell companies exactly what towers were pinged at which time going -- numbers going from him to tommy and from him to, you know, misty.

>> weigh in, art harris. >> you know, 20 times, much of it at work, frustrated, you know, what to do, what's going on with the kids. he calls her family and asks somebody to go and she's apparently not there. want to know how fast it took my stiff joints to feel better? one pack. 6 days. that's elations.

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3:00 in the morning i got up and i got up because i had to use the bathroom. i seen the kitchen light on, and i walked in the kitchen and the back door's wide open. and then i go in her room and she's gone. >> had nothing to do with her, man. she can't help that. she can't help she was the last one to see her. >> she didn't make no noise that night. i would have woke up if i heard any noise. i didn't hear anything at all. i was really exhausted that day, you know. i wish they would have took me instead of her. what do they want with a little 5-year-old? >> could have been any one of us and our children.

any one. nobody knows where there's a psycho, sicko. >> to marlaina schiavo, what does this mean to the investigation that the last person to see this little girl alive reportedly in her own bed, has skipped town? >> what it means, nancy, they're going to want to talk to her. they already want to talk to her, including her own attorney. she spoke to police over the weekend. her attorney wasn't even informed of this interview, so major bowling of putnam county has already said they'd really like to sit dow with her and her lawyer and find out what happened. >> giudice, horowitz. horowitz, what does it mean to the police investigation, the last person to see her alive has skipped town. there are reports she's in orlando, but we don't know that. >> you know, nancy, they don't have too many suspects in this case. if it's not her, then they're pretty much out of luck and they have to suspect some mystery person grabbing children. so they're hoping against all hope that it is her and this is a sign of guilt.

we can't jump to conclusions. it's too easy and convenient to blame her and there's a lot of alternate explanations we have to explore. >> giudice? >> without her being a suspect she is still the most important witness in this case. she's the last person to see the children. she was with them. she's an important person to be spoken to. and law enforcement needs to go get her. >> dr. lillian glass, psychologist, author of "i know what you're thinking." lillian, what do you make of her leaving town? >> i think it's very suspicious, because why is she leaving town? does she have something to hide? it's very suspicious. the whole situation. nancy, when you look at her body language, there's so many tells that she's not telling the truth. it's really -- >> such as? >> well, for example, she's doing a lot of lip licking, saying no when it's supposed to be in the affirmative. lot of shoulder shrugging. the tears that don't look very genuine. it's very disturbing to watch. >> to physician and professor of

public health at johns hopkins university. dr. marty makary. joining us out of d.c. welcome, doctor. doctor, again, everyone, tip line, 888-247-8477. this child suffers from turner syndrome. >> yeah, about 1 in 3,000 girls gets turner syndrome. it's this condition where they have some deformities. the ears are a little low set. they have webbing of the neck. we know with haleigh in particular she saw doctors frequently, often missing school. so we know she needed special attention for these recurrent infections that she was prone to because of the turner syndrome. >> so if she were still alive and is not being treated by the doctors or the hospital, she's in such serious, serious danger. >> very much so. she definitely has special needs. she's at high risk for severe infections. and she needs special attention. >> everyone, we are taking your calls live. very quickly, i want to report to you a story about a

dedicated mother who heads off in the early-morning hours to catch her carpool and is not only stabbed in a public parking lot but then the assailant gets back in his car and comes back to run her over. tonight she's clinging to life. take a listen. >> visitors at a high-end new jersey hotel were shocked friday morning to find a woman lying face down in the hotel parking lot with multiple knife wounds to the torso. police say the victim, laura matousek, was meeting a co-worker at the parking lot to carpool to work. witnesses say as soon as laura pulled into the parking lot a man got out of his blue or green pickup truck or suv, attacked laura with a knife, and then got back into his car and ran her over. laura is in critical condition at hackensack university medical center while authorities began conducting interviews including interviewing laura's ex-husband who voluntarily spoke to police for about 12 hours this weekend. no charges have been filed. >> it appears from what i understand she was here carpooling with someone else that was taking her to work, so

-- but she was not a guest at the hotel nor was she an employee of the office complex. >> straight out to alison breeze joining us from woodland park, new jersey, with "the record." alison, what is her condition tonight, and where are her children? >> she's still critical tonight. it's unknown where her children are at this point. she did have custody of them, and her ex-husband had visitation. so it's unclear whether they're with him or not. >> has the ex-husband been interrogated? >> yes, for 12 hours. from saturday evening until -- i'm sorry, friday evening until early saturday morning. >> he is not labeled a suspect at this juncture. he has been let free to walk. what about the current boyfriend, allison pries? >> police indicated that they don't have a suspect right now, that they're still looking at everybody. so -- >> to matt zarrell, our producer on the story, matt, what was the sequence of events?

>> well, apparently she went that morning about 8:00 a.m. friday morning she went to meet a co-worker to carpool to work in parsippany, which is near morris town. now, what happened is witnesses say a man, as soon as she got out of the car, a man walked up to her, stabbed her multiple times in the torso, got back into his car and then ran her over and fled the scene. >> okay. what can you tell me about his vehicle, matt zarrell? >> we know that it's a blue or green suv. unfortunately we haven't been able to figure out what it can be compared to, a nissan or mazda, what have you. we're trying to work that through. >> allison pries, how many eyewitnesses saw this? >> two hotel guests were walking in the parking lot came upon her body lying in the parking lot. >> so did they see the incident? >> they saw the dark-colored suv leave, and they saw her lying face down on the pavement. >> do we know whether the perpetrator was a male, female, white, black, hispanic? what do we know?

>> nothing. no details have been released. >> why? why, allison? i mean, if cops want the public to help find the perpetrator, how can we do that if we don't even have the most rudimentary description? >> i don't know. they're being very tight-lipped. >> back to you, matt zarrell, do you have any idea where the children are tonight, ages 8 and 5? what about the relationship? it's my understanding a temporary restraining order, a protective order had been taken out against the ex-husband but it had expired? >> yes, nancy. you're right. reports are the protection order expired april 29th of this year. they have been divorced a little over two years. there were some battles over custody and child support. he had a judgment against him for $1,100 in january '08 for not paying child support. we're trying to figure out where the kids are tonight, nancy. >> matt, what can you tell me about anything, the neighbors, friends, co-workers have to say

about her, the victim, laura matousek, or the husband, ex-husband? >> well, neighbors have said very wonderful things about laura. she was working two jobs to support her children. a neighbor where the father lives is saying -- i'm sorry, the ex-husband. the ex-husband says that the -- laura, the wife, was cheating on him and had told the new boyfriend -- told the kids to call the new boyfriend dad and that he was the -- the ex-husband was very upset about that. >> we are taking your calls live. to linda in texas. hi, linda. >> caller: hi. >> hi, dear. what's your question? >> caller: i'm wondering if the person she was carpooling with ever showed up. >> excellent question. to allison pries with "the record." what do we know? was the carpooler there waiting on her? >> the carpooler arrived as the two guests were finding her body. >> where did she work, allison? do we know? >> we're not sure. no. somewhere in the parsippany area.

>> but we know she was holding down two jobs to support her children. so, allison, what can you tell me about the relationship between her and her ex-husband? was it acrimonious? had they settled amicably and gone their separate ways? >> there have been disputes as you mentioned earlier about child support payments and also the sale of the marital home. >> isn't it true, matt zarrell, she got about an $11,000 back child support judgment against him? >> yes, in january of '08 for failure to pay child support. you're right, nancy. >> divorced 2 1/2 years ago. and prosecutors say pelcak did have a restraining order against him that only recently expired. they have two children. [ dog ] i am beautiful... on the inside. my inner-workings a work of art. a digestive tract that should be bronzed. and an immune system so stunning... [ low growl ]

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chopper 12 flew over the crime scene shortly after the attack took place.

police investigating after three hotel guests discovered a woman lying face down in the north parking lot of the sheraton cross roads hotel. he and motousek divorced 2 1/2 years ago. they have two children. the elementary was on lockdown. the vick was waiting for a friend, for a carpool to their workplace in parsippany when her estranged husband allegedly went on the attack. please say he tried to hide at his grandmother's home. his ex-wife remains in critical condition. >> chopper 12 was over the crime scene shortly after the attack we're told took place around 8:30 this morning. police investigating after several guests at the sheratton hotel discovered a woman laying face down in the parking lot says the hotel manager. that woman was waiting to be picked up by a co-worker. investigators say she was taken

to hackensacken hospital in critical condition. >> i want to clear something up. the ex-husband has not been named a suspect. i heard what the affiliate reporter said. he has not been named a suspect. in fact, he underwent questioning i think without a lawyer for about 12 hours and police let him go. >> yes, in fact, they were looking for him after this happened. with went with them voluntarily no issues, no problems. he talked with him for 12 hours. say he's not a suspect, not a person of interest. nothing to indicate he's involved at this point. >> ray giudice, horowitz. it's always s.o.p., san dard operating procedure. you first look at husband, lover, ex-husband, ex-lover, boyfriend, then you move out from there. why, daniel? >> early news reports pointed to sources who blamed the husband. so that's probably where that came from. you always look to people closest to the victim. a motive generally for this kind of murder is passion. there's no other reason to do it. you look at the ex-husband, you look at the boyfriend, you look at people who might be angry at

her or a little bit nuts around her. you go from there. >> ray giudice, i don't think it's limited to people who are a little bit nuts as horowitz said. perfectly normal people suddenly nut up and commit a heinous crime. >> daniel described the inter ring and you move to the outer ring or next ring. co-employees. what happened at yale. people she may have had an argument with at the bank over something trivial. >> it's interesting, what struck me is the assailant stabs her and gets in his car and runs over her, gets in his receive. dr. marty mackary, describe your assessments of what her injuries are. >> i've been shocked in ten years of trauma surgery. sometimes they're fatal when they're minor. she has multiple stab injuries, she has a crash injury that are classic. they produce something called myogloben that hurt your kidneys.

often in the i.c. for a long time. for for at least four weeks. she'll have multiple bedside procedures. if she comes through it, she'll remember everything up until she passed out. >> yes, we were told, doctor, that she was whispering something to the paramedics. everyone, switching gears, joining me right now is a very, very special guest. take a listen. >> what's with your penchant for jumping still? >> well, two reasons. one, it still feels good. still get a charge out of it. not easy to do at 85 i guess. >> i don't think it's easy to do at any age. tell me what each of you remembers about that day, how this rescue came about and your thoughts at the time. certainly you couldn't have believed it right at the beginning. >> no. it was -- we didn't know what was happening. >> "morning sunshine," top anchor on a top show.

"headline news'" morning show with robin meade. she's with me right now and i've got her book in my hand. robin, your book deals with so many obstacles that you have faced. >> yeah. >> what is your message? because all of us looking at you find it very difficult to believe you've ever had an obstacle. >> nancy, thank you so much for having me back on your show. i appreciate it. you know, so this book really deals with my struggles through self-confidence and self-esteem. for me it manifested itself on the air, no less, about ten years ago when i was anchoring in chicago. in the form of panic attacks. so i wrote this book for other people. maybe you don't have panic attacks, but maybe you have a self-esteem or self-confidence issue and really, who among us doesn't? so this really walks us through it. >> robin, what advice do you give other people? >> in terms of their self-confidence? you know, i think that if we all really look at ourselves in an honest way, if you did an honest self-assessment and not really

believe the stories, the little lies you've allowed yourself to tell yourself and believe, you have every single reason to feel confident about yourself. i wanted to show you, this is when i did a sky jump here, sky dive with president bush 41 and the golden knights. i think that's a really good example of how i came full circle in my dealings with anxiety. about ten years ago there's no way i would have jumped out of a plane and not had anxiety issues. but because i've been able to bring it full circle and say i have every reason to be self-confident, just like you do at home, i was able to do this without any anxiety, believe it or not. >> everybody, i'm talking to robin meade. we are taking your calls. you see robin every morning right here on "headline news." robin, when you are giving other people advice, do we have to go so far as to jump out of a plane to overcome our obstacles? i'm not jumping out of a plane. i have no interest in that,

drugs, gambling. i mean, i have absolutely no interest in that. can't -- does the whole camel have to be in the tent? if the nose is in, does the tail have to follow? can't i just poke my nose in? what's my alternative from nascar racing, which you also did, we're showing that right now, and jumping out of a plane? okay, because i didn't get that from your book. >> exactly. no, we don't have to do crazy stunts to really demonstrate that we have self-confidence in ourselves. for example, there's little confidence boosters in my book. it can be something as simple as when you're struggling with your self-esteem try to think in terms of respect. respect is higher on the ladder of confidence than just being liked. i was infatuated with whether nancy grace likes me or the audience likes me or the person at the store liked me. i was putting other people's opinion of myself above my own opinion of myself. if you give self-respect, give

other people respect, you're kind of throwing out the infatuation with being admired. no, you don't have to jump out of a plane. i admire you just the way you are, nancy. >> patricia in texas. >> caller: how are you, nancy? >> i'm good, dear. what's your question? >> caller: i have a quick question, robin. i am 36 and i have panic attacks and they have put me on afexor. i was winding up in the hospital for many years over and over again thinking i was dying, of course. what did you do or how did you evercome that without having to be on this medication? i hate to rely on medication? >> i had a transformation breakthrough where i had to flip myself around and say, what are the benefits of the panic attacks instead of fearing them so much, and as soon as i stopped fearing them, they stopped coming. i wish you a lot of luck in your struggle with it.

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what i remembered, president bush, that barbara said no more after you were 80. >> well barbara has different ways of phrasing her enthusiasm. one of hers is, "one way or another, this is your last jump." i said, come on, darling, one way or another? the last one was i'm glad you did this at the church here. we won't have far to move you. >> you are seeing our robin meade. of course we all wake up with her every morning. my children watch you every morning, robin meade. caller. trina in minnesota. hi, trina. >> caller: hi. >> what is your question for robin?

>> caller: i have a quick question. i used to be a lot thinner and prettier and i hit my 40s. my question is, i go out and i see all these happy looking, pretty people just having this great life. i kind of hit that mid-life blah. what i'm wondering is, how do you still convince yourself that you're still a viable, pretty good-looking person compared to, according to my husband and everything, how do you convince yourself that you are really not as bad as you feel on the inside? >> well, hopefully your confidence isn't based on your outside appearance because you are so much more than that. i always tell people your outside is going to change. if you feel like your looks are going to go at one point. the muscles are going to sag for the guys. the chiselled jaw line. what is really you stays constant. >> that's easy for you to say, meade. you're beautiful. what about the rest of us? yeah, you toss that off.

bottom line, robin, it all boils down to how you approach your problems. >> that is exactly right, nancy. just like yourself. in your life and your story, there have been plenty of challenges where you could have said being, i'm done with it. you are a fighter. you've come back and we are a benefit of it. therefore, folks at home, it's not going to be easy, but if you can look at it and say, i'm going to overcome this. >> robin meade's book "good morning sunshine." let's all stop and remember marine lieutenant core corporal christopher fowles. american hero. thanks to our guests, but especially to you. i'll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern. good night, friend.

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