alex evans says he was trying to save the world when he threw the imaginary explosive into a box filled with evil. sounds like andy levy's apartment. here is what the second grader told fox 31, a robot fox, in denver. >> i pretended something was in my hand. i pretended there was a box and something shaking in it and it went -- >> he did not throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. he explains he was pretending to be the hero. >> so nothing can get out and destroy the world. >> but there is no reprieve from make believe. mary blair elementary school says the actions violate one of the absolutes which says no weapons, real or play. how is the kid handling it? >> i just can't believe i got disbended. >> oh, disbended indeed. you know who else likes to put on his imagination helmet and pretend to save the world? >> he will make a glue maker extremely happy. wk, it is always a pleasure to see you, my friend. has the world gone insane? we are now waging war on make believe. >> in my school days we could play with fake weapons. although some kids did bring real weapons which is

seven-year-old alex evans was playing a game called rescue the world at his loveland elementary. that's when school administrators threw a pretend grenade into a box. absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary, and no weapons real or imaginary. still, neither alex or his parents get this at all. >> i pretended the box and something shaking in it. >> i think that when a child tries to save the world, i don't think he should be punished for it. >> i don't think the rule is very realistic anyway. >> the school superintendent says the district doesn't have a policy against imaginary weapons, but every school is allowed to enhance the school code. >> there was no weapon. it was just pretend. >> pretend into a box of pretend evil sources. >> okay. coming up, the defense secretary sounds the alarm about the real thing. the budget crisis for the military and federal spending cuts take effect. >>> but first, income tax season is bad enough, but now it's easy for crooks to e file using your name, social, and fake w-2. somebody does this to you, it can be devastating. it's on the rise. we fi

that's what got alex evans suspended from school. alex tells it. >> i pretended with my hand i pretended a box and something shaking in it. i'm, like, and it goes -- so nothing can get out of it and destroy the world. i just can can't believe i got dispended. >> dispended, he says. this second-grader who was dispended said he was suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade. the school district tells us there is more to it, it never actually suspended a student for an imaginary weapon, but it does raise the question about zero tolerance policies and are we too on edge after what happened in newtown. lauren, first to you, certainly not the first time zero tolerance policy has gone too far but what do you think? an imaginary grenade? >> give me a break. this is ridiculous. this is the nation running amok. these kids are playing. play is not violent and aggressive. it is play. there is a very famous author named michael thompson and he wrote raising caine and i happened to hear him speak. he said, boys all around the world, in all of soci

this story is such an interesting story little kid, alex evans he's kind of shocked because he's nowspended from school. here's what he said. >> i just can't believe i got dispended. >> "i got dispended. ." he's a second grander, his mom mandy watkins said her alex threw a fake grenade during recess, what he was doing was he didn't have anything in his hand, threw the grenade and started saving people because he was going in to rescue them so he was using his imagination. the school says there are these list of absolutes that the school, the list is here, the absolutes for mary blair elementary school which is in loveland, colorado, no physical abuse or fights, real or play fighting, no weapons, real or play, and kids in second grade, how do you enforce that. >> sorry, is this school? just bring them inside, don't let them go outside. >> this makes no sense, no physical abuse that i agree, how do you stop play fighting between boys? >> that's a really big like second graders i would like to have that second grader here to save me. but there's' what bat's what bo. >> preschoolers were

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evan thomas. he wrote "ike's bluff." welcome, so glad you are here. >> hi, alex. >> what is so great about ike?normously confident but the confidence to be humble. this is kind of a useful lesson for all of us, but particularly second term presidents. it goes well if you are humble. he learned it growing up and as commander in world war ii. he showed as president, he has a nice modesty and humility to get things done. >> how does that reconcile with a guy who ranks being a five-star general, you have to have an ego to do that. >> sure. he learned how to control it. he used to work for general mcarthur. he was glorious and that. eisenhower learned not to be that way. he said he got ahead by concealing his ambition. he did. it worked for him. >> if these great virtues include patient, confidence but not self-important, how does our current president stack up? >> i think he's a good man, but he can be cocky. he's put upon. he's doing everybody a favor by being president. it works against him. it alienates voters and other lawmakers. it would be useful for him to take his confidence and be more hum