how has this changed chuck colson. >> oh, my.a person out to rush and save the world and have been since i was a young man and max is the first person who's come along who stops me cold, he's not interested in my theological knowledge and what i spent time teaching. you've got to get down on the floor and on your knees to understand max on his terms. my understanding of people who are hurting and in need and i have come to appreciate a totally different kind of love than i'm used to and max gives love unconditionally. you feel his love immediately and when you pay some attention to him. it's just a joy, but you have to stop and get out of your world and into his world. and that for me, has been a life changing lesson. he's humbled me a lot and it's been good for me, great for me and i'm so proud of course of what emily has done and max is being used by god. >> mike: it's a magnificent story and not a story to bring you down. it's a story to lift you up and also to tell you, that child who autistic is a remarkable child, a gift of

how has this changed chuck colson? >> i'm a type a person always in a rush to have to save the world. max was the only -- is the first person who has come along who stops me cold. he's not interested in my theological knowledge and not interested in all the things i spend my time teaching. you've got to get on the floor on hands and knees and deal with life on his terms. that changed my understanding of people who are hurting and in need. i have come to appreciate a totally different kind of love that i'm used to. max gives love unconditionally. you feel his love immediately. when you pay some attention to him, it's just a joy. but you have to stop and get out of your world and into his world. and that for me has been a life-changing lesson. he's humbled me a lot. it's been good for me. it's been great for me. i'm so proud, of course, of what emily has done and how max is being used by god. >> it is a magnificent story and not a story to bring you down. it is a story to heuft you up but also to tell you that child who

joining me now with his story is former aide to president nixon, chuck colson, good morning to you. >rist changed my life and i've never been the same since. i've been working in the prisons for 35 years and what i've seen, gretchen, is the complete moral breakdown. crime caused by people making wrong choices. so i have a passion now for this doing the right thing and we're starting a movement, a grassroots movement starting this weekend in 350 locations across america, a video series that we've launched which is good for schools and churches and families. we did it at princeton last year. it's a game changer. if people start watching this and doing what we're suggesting in this movement we started, you're going to see a change in the moral values of america. i think all of us would agree that we're in the middle of a complete moral breakdown. ethics is the way things are supposed to be, but we've lost that. >> gretchen: it's interesting to listen to you because a lot of people feel like when people go to prison, maybe they can't be rabbited, they can't change their ways and then they

recently, had chuck colson's daughter, who wrote a book called "dancing with max," a wonderful story of love between a mother and her son, her son is aging out and she's frightened by the prospect of what happens as she gets elderly and the services are not thresm 2010 strategic plan had 32 new objectives, including health disparities in early diagnosis and treatment of co-concurring traditions including epilepsy, sleep and gast prointestal disorders. the 2010 plan added more disorders, including the use of communication tools for nonverbal individuals. i want to say to my colleagues, and i have much more to put into the record about how important it is, but these different agencies of governments are surblinging to try to combat autism. we need to re-authorize the legislation. the c.d.c. has its learn the signs, act early. my friend mr. butter feel mentioned that minority communities have been left out or diagnosed -- diagnoses are not done in a timely way. that's absolutely true and more needs to be done. the programs are in place. the policies are in place. we need to continue wha