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when writing to the factor or "2016," a film that is very doing anything else, do not be critical of the president. the letter calls attention to these concerns citing alan meretricious, and ms. megyn is dershowitz saying i can't help next, i'm bill o'reilly. but believe that d'souza's we'll be back on monday, and please remember the spin stops politic politics have something to do here because we're definitely with it. the letter urging them to dispel looking out for you. i'm megyn kelly. and tonight? this, it is impossible to >> a kelly file exclusive for pinpoint the precise origin of this. joining us now, dinesh d'souza. the questions for the man behind this film. so now you have republican >> obama has a dream, that america be down sized. senators demanding answers from the feds on why this charge? >> key senators now asking if many had asked why this filmmaker, why this case, a case dinesh d'souza was targeted for political payback. he joins us live. and then after heroin turns this small, has it been elevated to this level. and i know there is a limited up at a grade school the amount you can say about it being the subject of the case teacher's union decides to but i want to ask you whether or not you believe this could be stonewall the investigation? tonight, some fired up parents retaliation? >> well, as a lawyer you know, i join us with their reaction. can't talk about the case itself. plus? in fact, my attorneys have been >> the affordable care act was very emphatic about that.
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supposed to save $2500 a day. so as much as i would like to, i what happened? >> an unguarded moment in a can't speak about the case question over obamacare has itself. but i will say i made a film touched off an angry national response and you will see why. very critical about obama, i know he was very unnerved, upset and "the kelly file" about the film. i am about to release a new film follow-up on the parents trying to get their 15-year-old called "america." daughter back from state and if obama was unnerved by custody. >> every time i see her my knees buckle. i cry, it is just tearing apart 2016, wait until the new film our family. >> why did the police show up as comes out. so i am a public critic of the the family tried to visit president and i do recognize this has made me vulnerable to some degrees, a form of justina today. and republican senators now counterattack. >> how do you know that president obama was outraged by demanding the head of the fbi explain exactly why the agency pushed for an indictment of one "2016"? >> well, a few weeks after the of the president's most film came out there was a effective critics. and that critic is here. welcome to "the kelly file" vituperitive attack on me that everyone, i'm megyn kelly. this started last month, appeared on barack obama's conservative filmmaker dinesh website, barackobama.com.
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d'souza hit with federal he took issue with the facts in charges. those charges are raising red the film, but it was very clear flags for some, because d'souza from his diatribe that the film got under his skin. >> did you worry at the time is behind the box office hit that maybe you had pushed it too far, that there may be retaliation against you? >> well, i heard that obama was a very vindictive guy, and when i was in kenya, i noticed that the family was very protective. when we got to obama's family homestead, even though we were in a different city they knew all about the interview with george and they would not cooperate with us. we asked how they knew about us, they said we have george followed. we're on his track, we know who he meets with and gives interviews to. so this struck me as odd, here you have a kid in his late 20s and 30s and the obama family was having him followed. >> do you believe that obama is
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capable of this receipt t-- retribution is actually happening? >> well, let's remember after "2016" came out, my partner, the producer of jurassic park and schindler's list, he was contacted by the irs and followed. this focus of the tea party group somehow seems to have extended to the guys who made "2016." i think it is the broader pattern of going after people who are critics. not just me, but the hollywood guys, the group friends of abe, these are hollywood guys who are conservatives. so i think there is a fence here that obama treats his critics not merely as people who disagree, but as enemies. and by the way, megyn, that is the big theme. obama's mentors in his book says you should treat your opponents not as well-meaning people who
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disagree with you, but as bad guys. you have to polarize, demon iiz that clearly is what the obama administration has been doing in general. >> dinesh, thank you for being here, we'll continue to follow it. and developing tonight. new reaction now after two democratic congressmen and a democratic senator are caught on tape in an awkward moment thanks to a constituent's question about obamacare. watch this. >> i thought the affordable care act was to save $2500 per family. what happened? >> i voted no, so -- >> well, critics immediately reacted to the laughter you heard there. pointing out that just this week "the new york times" pointed out how the public sector workers
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are having their hours cut because of the obamacare insurance. and in west virginia, obama got part of the blame because of the shops closing. and in georgia, they are closing hospitals and they are blaming obamacare payment cuts. mark teesen is a former speech writer for president bush, and joe trippi is a fox news contributor. so i get this was a hearing about agriculture. and then suddenly a question came up about obamacare, mark. but it is not a laughing matter for a lot of americans. >> yeah, and i don't think democrats are going to be laughing in november. i mean, look, it is not funny if you are told you could keep your health plan and then you find out you're losing it. it is not funny if you're a cancer patient and you're told you can keep your doctor and told that is not true. it is not fortuunny if you're a
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working family and told your premiums would go down $2500, and those are not laughing matters to american people. the one thing americans hate more than being laughed at is lied to. >> joe, what did you make of that moment? >> well, i mean, the local station itself said the laugh taxpayer part was sort of taken out of context. it was started in the crowd and members of congress, they were all taking it seriously. >> let me just say something, i read the statement and everybody on the team went back and looked at the tape. i didn't see anything out of context. the only thing that was out of context was it was a hearing about agriculture and they got a bit surprised about the question at the end. even if it does start in the audience, joe, does it matter? these are the people, two out of those three voted for that? >> no, actually, i think peterson said he didn't vote or
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that he voted no -- >> that is right, two out of the three voted for it. >> no, no, and megyn what i'm saying is people, the crowd laughed at that. they thought that was a funny thing o-- >> can we just watch it again, let's just watch it one more time. i'll give joe the floor, can we have it queued up where he asks the question. >> i thought the affordable care act was to save $2500 per family. what happened? >> i voted no, so i'll give you guys -- >> you can see, joe, that the lau laughter starts before, even before he takes the mike. does the question show insensitivity? >> i don't know if it shows insensitivity. i don't think democrats are laughing about it.
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i think this is going to hurt a lot of democrats that are up for election in 2014. both parties have a ton of problems. this is going to be one of the democratic party's problems as we go into 2014. i don't think anywhere near as big as the republicans would like it to be or think it is going to be. but you're going to have moments like this from now until november. and there will be problems with republicans, as well, as we move forward. >> uh-huh, go ahead, mark. >> yeah, i think it shows they don't have an answer, the only democrat who had a good answer was the one who said i didn't vote for it. if you're a vulnerable democrat unless you can say i didn't vote for it you're in trouble this fall. >> well, that is not true, mark. >> yeah, it is, if you're a vulnerable democrat in a red state. >> no, joe. >> hold on, let joe make the charge, why is that not true, joe? >> the problem here is most americans actually think there are good things about the law whether it is stopping the insurance companies for throwing you off if you get sick or
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pre-existing conditions or young people being on their parents' plans. they think it should be fixed. that there are problems with it and it should be fixed. the democrats are saying hey, we passed this. it was not perfect. it has a lot of problems. let's fix those problems. the problem is here on the republican side, the republicans say no, it can't be fixed. let's repeal the whole thing. and i think those two arguments are going to happen. >> go ahead, mark, i'll give you a chance to respond. >> i mean, joe, i hope the democrats agree with you on this because it will be deadly in november. the reality is there are 12 senate democrats who told the exact same lie as barack obama. you can keep your plan, mark warner said i will not vote for a plan that doesn't let you keep your health care plan. kay hagan said this, they lied to the american people, and it is unequivocal, and they will see during the elections. >> gentlemen, good to see you
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both. the first lady now taking heat for remarks she made on the newly hosted "tonight show." we'll show you who is upset. plus? she is at her breaking point. and we can't stand by anymore and allow this to happen. new developments in a family fight to get custody of their 15-year-old daughter back from the state. why did police show up as the family tried to visit justina today. plus, the family broke the story, and the police decide to stonewall the police probe. up next, "the kelly file" takes the investigation a step further. [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. oh, it's great. yeah. [ male announcer ] the best thing to share? a data plan. ♪ new at&t mobile share value plans for business. our best value plans ever.
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at this point in time, it is not a safe learning environment. the union, i understand you have a contract to go by. you have got a drug addict feature -- >> publicly hanging people until -- >> no, it is ridiculous -- >> well, those were angry at a board of education meeting in fallsburg, new york this week, after heroin and drug paraphernalia were found in a faculty bathroom at an elementary school. not once, but twice since december. the parents were just told about it. the superintendent just sent a
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letter to parents saying quote, an employee of the districts found drugs and related paraphernalia in a school rest room. they failed to specify that the drug was heroin and that it was a faculty bathroom. and after the police narrowed the search to a small group of employees the teacher's union stepped in and pushed those teachers to stonewall the criminal probe. joining me now, parents of three students at this school and robert hayward, whose son attends the school, as well. you find out, you get the letter, it is so generic, they found the drugs in a school rest room, so generic. >> we found out about it all in the same day. the letter came home on tuesday afternoon, we were sitting on the couch, and we looked at the screen. we turn up the volume and listen to it. >> you have a 6-year-old in this school. >> we have a 6-year-old, i have a 6-year-old son, a stepson, and
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11-year-old, they all go to the school. >> this is crazy, robert, you have a 9-year-old. >> yes, i do. >> you have to worry because the parents originally agreed to give urine samples, and then they said no, don't do this. now only the one union guy has said do it, now the other seven are saying no, don't do it. you are worrying about the heroin user. >> that is the problem. >> and when you went to the school board did you get any satisfaction out of the school board? >> the only satisfaction if got, i realized they were all lies. >> why do you say that? >> because the carefully edited speech, watching him, making no eye contact. that is the superintendent. the other guy you could just see in his face as he is smiling. that is why i sat in the front row. i wanted to see the body expressions as well as pay attention to what they were telling me. they're carefully worded, they didn't make me feel comfortable
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that they provided a safe environment for my child. and i have a problem with that. >> and keith, what do you think about that? to send your kids to school, i am sure you don't suspect individual teachers but who knows? >> right, and that is the issue. i transport kids for the district. i have to take a drug test to put them on that bus i drive. i now have to send my three children to school and not know if it is their teacher? or if their teacher is going to od because he wants to shoot up in the bathroom. and it is scary. >> yeah, you think about what just happened with philip seymour hoffman and the damage that heroin can cause, it can literally cause to your life. and there is a person who is so in need of this drug in your children's school, that he or she is shooting it up in the bathroom. they can't just do it at home, and so distracted by the behavior that not once but twice
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they leave their paraphernalia behind. you have been an emt? >> i still do. >> you have seen what this drug can do. >> it is scary enough to have a person who has either overdosed, who takes heroin in the back of an ambulance, with the thought of them taking it in a classroom, as one-on-one, a janitor, anything, it is nerve-racking. these children have no idea what to look for, nor should they have to. you go to school to learn, not to question what happens if my teacher falls over or has problems, what do i do? >> what if the teacher gets clean and goes through withdrawal in the middle of the school. they said look, we contacted the police department when the first incident happened, another on valentine's day. there is a criminal probe, and
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the teachers have the right to do what the union says, assert their due process, and that means they don't have to give blood or yooun, your thoughts on that? >> my thoughts on that. i thought it was totally wrong. i always assumed the teachers got drug tests and that they're taking care of the children. evidently i'm wrong on that one. and i think they should be drug tested. and if they have a problem with that, it is their problem. >> it would be nice to see the seven come forward and volunteer to take the test, in particular the ones who really have nothing to hide. good to see you all. we'll continue to follow it. >> thank you. and just ahead the first lady finds herself in the middle of a controversy after an appearance on late night tv. plus, the feds are now warning about mexican cartel-style kidnappings now happening to some average americans here in the united states. we'll show you who is at risk. stay with us. instead of mailing everyone my vacation photos,
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well, a fire storm has been growing in the last day or two after ted nugent's insulting comments over president obama. earlier today, nugent apologized, sort of, for calling the president a sort of "sub-human mongrel". >> i did apologize to the president, not on my behalf, but much better men. >> and greg abbott has come under sharp criticism for campaigning with nugent in light of those comments. but is there a double standard when it comes to the outrage over nugent's comments. joining me now, bernard goldman, good to see you, is there? >> there is a double standard on
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both sides. this is a story, megyn, about monumental and despicable hypocrisy by liberal media and conservative media. if a conservative like let's say sarah palin is slammed by, bill maher, liberals play down the story, conservatives are rightly outraged, but liberals are not. but when a liberal is called a "sub-human mongrel" what happens then? conservatives ignore that story, too. so when it comes to moral outrage, give me a break. on moral outrage, neither side has an ounce of credibility as far as i'm concerned. >> speaking of outrage, i think i said goldman. >> i was going to let that pass. >> ted nugent has said so many completely outrageous things.
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it is not even like borderline, it is so far over the line, that it is almost like he did it again. the story is about the politicians who choose to campaign with him. greg abbott, for the past three days we've called him to get him on the show so we could question him about why he thinks that is an okay thing to do? but is it a fair game to go after abbott, as we talked about president obama who is okay to take money from a super-pac who called sarah palin a c-word? >> fair on both sides, yes, it is fair to go after the man who could be governor of texas. in texas, you have to do two things as a local reporter said. if you're running for governor you have to just be able to do two things. one of them is lead a prayer, and the other is know how to shoot a gun. so ted nugent knows how to shoot
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a gun, he is not going to criticize him. and i will criticize the man running for governor on the republican ticket. the same thing with barack obama on the other side, that is why i say this fake moral outrage on either side, that is all it is. it is fake. nobody cares, they only care when you slime somebody on your team. they don't care when you slime somebody on the other team. and these conservatives who have these family values and are so concerned about civility and decency, let me tell you something else ted nugent once said. and feel free to [ bleep ] anything you want. he is on stage with two machine guns in his camouflage outfits two years ago, he said obama is a piece of crap, but didn't use the crap. then he says i told him to suck on my machine gun. and then he says hey, hillary, you might want to ride one of these machine guns off into the
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probe for bias. well, now we have learned that the fcc has suspended the study altogether. the fcc commissioner who blew the whistle on his own organization telling "the kelly file" that he welcomes the announcement calling it an important victory for the first amendment which would not have been possible without the american people making their voices heard. "the kelly file" investigation following a series of reports of mexican-cartel style kidnappings, happening here in the u.s. the feds are calling them express kidnappings. they involve violent attacks, pleas for ransom, and more. >> reporter: and megyn, in u.s. border cities the express kidnappings have been going on for years. but the scary thing is they're starting to spread across the country. what happens is the thugs, the illegal criminals go in there and kidnap somebody, demand ramson and then release them a
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few hours later. in december, a chicago businessman was kidnapped outside his business by a group of illegal immigrants when he left work. he was pistol whipped, beaten with a baseball bat and released after he promised to pay $50,000. he contacted police and some of the suspects were arrested trying to pick up the ransom money left in a chicago park. in north carolina, a man was kidnapped outside a home improvement store. the mexican kidnappers called his girlfriend, demanding $200,000. then she contacted police and they traced the calls and located both the victim as well as the suspects. now, police do not have a lot of numbers about these express kidnappings because most of them happen so fast that they're listed as armed robberies. but keep in mind that former cia agent mike baker says these are well seasoned iminals. listen. >> they're practicing what they know. and they're doing what they have had success with in mexico and
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elsewhere in latin america. and they have moved that methodology here to the u.s. if it was not a successful way to raise cash they wouldn't do it. they tend to be a fairly efficient gang who is efficient at identifying targets. >> and there are 350 of these kidnappings per day. and now because the north is target-rich, they are moving into the u.s. >> great grief, all right, trace, thank you. well, the first lady is now taking some criticism for remarks she made on "the tonight show" with jimmy fallon. while her hope was clearly to convince young people to sign up for obamacare, her choice of words seems to be ticking some people off. >> thanks to affordable care act, young people can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26.
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but once they hit 26, they're on their own. and a lot of young people think they're invincible. but the truth is, a lot of young people are knuckleheads, they're the ones that dance on the bar stools or slice their finger open. >> joining me now, dana bash, a contributor with "the blaze." and great to see you both. why are so many people upset about this dana? >> i don't really so much take issue with her saying young people are knuckleheads, so much as i do kind of the condescending tone. when i was in my early 20s, i had a baby and was working, i didn't cook for the first time when i was in my 20s, i cooked when i was a teenager. i didn't dance on a bar stool either. we saw the news ads out of colorado, and that shows the mindset, they think of the
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millennials as coyote ugly girls, i'm surprised they think they're even smart enough to sign up for obamacare if they cut their finger for the first time cooking. it just seems so condescending to me. >> that is what we read on town hall, ridiculous, condescending, unnecessary, arrogant. it is clear this administration thinks my generation is a bunch of idiots. nobody thinks we're idiots. >> people are taking this too seriously. i'm a part of this millennials, i just got out of my 20s, the first lady is a complete class act, in my opinion, otherwise. yeah, certainly some in my generation feel themselves to be invincible. we're not looking for long-term gratification. that is a general statement. reflected in the sign-up.
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you're right, the whole point of her appearance was not just for laugh and giggles, it was to encourage us to sign up, they want us at closer to 40. so clearly there is a lag there that needs to be addressed. >> let me ask you, dana, is this about what the first lady said or is it like the dislike that some people, especially on the right, have for her. she gets a lot of flak for minor things. and sometimes that happens because they just don't like her or that happens to the president because they just don't like him. >> with this whole knucklehead comment, i guess she was trying to be funny. she was on jimmy fallon. if you're going to go out and try to sell obamacare, i think i'm barely jeny, ox. >> i can't keep track of all of it. >> if you're trying to sell obamacare to millennials, you're going to go on the shows that millennials are up late watching. the thing is -- well, i'm sorry, megyn, it just doesn't make
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sense if you need millennials to make obamacare solvent, wouldn't you make the law to where they can't stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26? >> well, there is that. president obama is getting criticism this week, as well, because once again they come h with a statement trying to make us think that 10 million americans have signed up for obamacare, 10 million americans have gotten health care because of obamacare. a big chunk of that is a medicaid number, the very same number that he used repeatedly that he has repeatedly been called out for, given three pinoccios. why does he keep doing that? >> i can't speak to why the president is using a number that may be faulty. but the figure comes from a
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medicaid expansion. also as dana was just talking about -- >> no, no, that is a dodge. in the medicaid number he is saying that 7 million americans have access to medicaid for the first time because of medicaid expansion. and the fact-checkers have said not true. many of those enrollees already had medicaid before obamacare, you can't credit the new law, repeatedly he keeps using the number. >> well, i think again i'm not defending that usage, i think the president has struggled over and over in terms of messaging. the sentiment is taken, he is trying to get people to sign up for this before the enrollment period ends, they say it is hovering around 4 million. >> they will just have another deadline extension. >> that is the thing, whether they're trying to overstate the numbers, see how great it is? ten million in the water. coming up, a dramatic new
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twist, one day after this girl's family defied a court order to come on our show and suddenly a crowd of state workers and a state police officer show up at their family visit today? that is next. >> she is at her breaking point. and we can't stand by anymore and allow this to happen. [ ament street noise ]
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buckle, i cry. it is just tearing apart our family. there is no reason why somebody in this country could not stop this and said time out. >> that was lou pelletier, the father who lost custody of his own daughter over a medical disagreement with the massachusetts hospital. a few years ago, then 14-year-old justina pelletier was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, but last year, the doctors at boston children's hospital said the symptoms were all in justina's head. the hospital accused her parents of medical abuse, apparently for subjecting her to medical treatments boston general deemed unnecessary. the state then stepped in and managed to get custody of justina. the family is so worried about her health, only allowed to see her once a week under supervision that they are now defying a court order, a gag order and they came on this show last night.
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her father did. and we learned today even a state police officer showed up today at the family's previously scheduled visit with justina, a state worker demanding to know where justina's father was, because lou was not there today. the question is whether they are now trying to arrest him, possibly for violation of that gag order. joining me now, editor of the boston globe who has been doing unbelievable work on it. and the doctor who is a certified bio-chemical specialist, who specializes in the disease. doctor, let me start with you, what lou said last night, apparently there are many doubters that this mito disease really exists. and the doubters say it is in the head of the patient and the reason they accuse the parents of these patients of medical abuse is because they believe it is in the heads of these parents, that the parents used
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to play out something through the child, trying to get him or her medical attention that she didn't need. is that in fact the problem here and is mito a real disease accepted by the community? >> yes, thank you, megyn, indeed it is. there are not that many of us who do specialize in this arena of medicine, but mitochondrial disorders are a disorder that are in groups of in one to 4,000 individuals. and there is a lot of basic science and nih-based studies and other -- a lot of work done in this arena. and this has been a well described group of disorders since the late 1950s, when the first adults first presented with clinical symptoms for the disease. >> and yet, the reporters took an in-depth look into the case seem to be casting doubt on
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whether the folks at boston childrens really believe in this particular disease because justina's case is not an isolated one. >> yeah, hi, megyn, thank you. you know, i think children's does believe in this disease. but they use different criteria for diagnosing it than tuft's medical center does. and i think that is the root of the diagnostic dispute. the doctor knows this better than i. but there are certain tests that are sort of a standard criteria for diagnosing this disease. but some of those tests apparently missed actual cases. and so tufts uses a broader set of definitions for mitochondrial disease. >> at bottom, what we have here for folks at home is two hospitals disagreeing what justina has, and the second
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hospital getting custody of justina through dcs just because they disagree with the hospital. now the parents have not seen her, unsupervised in a year. it is crazy to me, i want to ask you this, the reason dcf was able to get justina away from the family, custody of her is because they went into court and said there is medical abuse here, and in order to do that they had a bit of a conflict of interest in the case, did they not? >> dcf? >> yeah. >> well -- >> well, they rely on medical at boston children's to tell them whether in fact boston children's is right in this case. >> right, so dcf has -- really lacks very much medical expertise of their own, and certainly they don't have expertise on mitochondrial disorder. so what they do is, they do rely on doctors in the community to consult with them. and often in cases -- in other
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cases they have often worked with children's hospital to help them evaluate cases. in this case, though, they would have -- they would have gone to a third party to get some expertise. >> understood. >> but they -- >> they have the relationship with children so it is a tough thing to be challenging the doctors who are telling you she doesn't have it. this is medical abuse. doctor, we got a lot of e-mails from our viewers saying what is really going on here? how can it be? do we need to be suspicious of these parents? is there something more that is going on that we are all missing? >> well, that i can't answer directly. but what i can say is that part of the problem in mitochondrial disease and perhaps some of the problems in terms of diagnoses, or questioning the diagnoses, these are a group of disorders that could be difficult to diagnose. and we do have a number of
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tools. but they are not always abnormal -- >> let me ask you this, we're short on time. if she doesn't have mito and it is in her head, then why has she done so much worse, they say they brought her in for the flu 13 months ago, she was ice skating and happy and well and got the flu. and now look at her, this is present day in the wheelchair without the medications and treatments that the folks at boston children's said she did not need. >> well, that certainly supports the fact that she has some underlying problems. because typically in child medical abuse cases when they're taken away from to presumed perpetrator, they improve clinically, and this child has not. >> well, we'll continue to follow it and reading the boston globe, which has really done an outstanding job on this. it took a lot of work getting the papers, great job, and thank you for being on as well, dr.
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and it is a skating scandal in sochi with a top american calling out her own sport. and now, a massive on-line petition demanding an investigation into the judging. trace gallagher has the story from our west coast news room. trace? >> and meanwhile, the olympic committee is trying to knock this down as quickly as possible but it may not go down so easy after the russian skater, adelina sotnikova, who was given a five-point technical advantage because she did one more triple
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jump than kim, and that really was the difference. here is the international olympic committee spokesperson. listen to this. >> the first step would be for someone to make -- the skaters or their teams to make some kind of complaint, which as far as i know at the moment has not happened. >> so far, no official olympic complaints but a lot of non-official complaints, including u.s. skater ashley wagner who got a lower score than other skaters who had fallen during their routine. wagner said quoting here, people don't want to watch a sport where you see somebody fall down and someone get a better score than somebody who skates clean. they need to get rid of anonymous judging. the nine judges are chosen randomly from a pool of 13, judges from the u.s., south korea, great britain and sweden did not judge in the long format because they judged the short program. the russian judge was involved. it did not help that one of the
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