coleman, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> mr. coleman, when did you learn that shaniya's body had been found? >> i heard thursday -- or yesterday, actually. i'm sorry. i had got a couple phone calls from a couple of friends in greensboro and raleigh, and people that have been following the story, supporting me and my family since day one. and they actually have been asking me if i was all right. and i didn't hear the news at all because i live in charlotte. and right before it came on cnn my father called me and he told me right before i hear the news that they did find a body and it possibly could be shaniya's. >> what did you know about the mother? >> me and antoinette really didn't have a relationship. i didn't know much about her. the only thing me and antoinette ever said to each other was a hi when i was picking up shaniya and a bye, how have you been? >> how often had you been there to pick up shaniya? >> usually -- i picked up shaniya quite a few times. either from my aunt's house or my father's house. i would either take

coleman, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> mr. coleman, when did you learn that shaniya's body had been found? >> i heard thursday -- or yesterday, actually. i'm sorry. i had got a couple phone calls from a couple of friends in greensboro and raleigh, and people that have been following the story, supporting me and my family since day one. and they actually have been asking me if i was all right. and i didn't hear the news at all because i live in charlotte. and right before it came on cnn my father called me and he told me right before i hear the news that they did find a body and it possibly could be shaniya's. >> what did you know about the mother? >> me and antoinette really didn't have a relationship. i didn't know much about her. the only thing me and antoinette ever said to each other was a hi when i was picking up shaniya and a bye, how have you been? >> how often had you been there to pick up shaniya?

her half-brother, byron coleman, op the "nancy grace" show last night, and cad came up to try to console him. >> have they told anybody what was the cause of death, byron? >> actually, i haven't heard anything. i don't think my father has either. we're not really sure too much yet. we're still trying to figure it out now. so -- >> there's your dad right there. >> yes, ma'am. >> there's your dad. >> we really do want to thank everybody for the support and prayers. it really does mean a lot. you know, we're trying to stay as strong as we're trying to. it's hard. but for the mothers out there, please don't let this happen to your child. >> touching scene there. we're taking your calls, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. joining us, welcome back steve kardian, former police detective. also with us, clay watson, forensic psychologist. and michelle si goena, we welcome her back as well, investigative journalist. michelle's been doing a great job covering this. all right. let me go to steve kardian on this first off, steve. i want to pick up on nancy's question there, in the sense of finding out mor

it is a pleasure to be here at the library at the coleman center. "the first tycoon" takes its place this year as the biography of record of one of the greatest figures. cornelius vanderbilt's career spanned an incredible epic in this nation. as t.j. stiles writes few 19th century businessman equal vanderbilt. of those who did arguably none proved to be so influential and so fundamental over the time so formative for so long. born in 1794 the commodore lived to be 82 and played a significant role in so many of the leading events in this tumultuous life from the very beginnings of steamboat travel to the seminal supreme court case establishing the federal government's right to regulate interstate commerce to trans-atlantic travel, the start of travel across central america, and the planting of the sea that was to become the panama canal. the crushing of the notorious american filibuster, william walker. the destruction of the confederate ironclad merrimack and the safeguarding of the union's gold shipments both of which played a seminal role in winni

there's jeff larson, a minnesota political fundraiser has been affiliated with norm coleman, many other republicans and knows the fundraising side of politics. charlie black is the senior elders statesman of the field. having been a senior political advisor to ronald reagan. jornl h. wrment bush. and -- george h.w. bush. and john mccain and alongside you steve schmitt who was the manager of the mccain company and the george w. bush 2004 election campaign. i have some of that slightly wrong but is in the bio right. hillary rosen was for a long time chair of the recording industry of america. also a founder of rock to vote, a democratic strategist. teddy vine who i saw on the moon walk this morning getting his coffee and do nuts in front of jackson square. think you've had 17 winning independence campaigns and you work for kerry and gore, helping the senior strategist on their campaigns. and kiki mclean senior advisor to hillary clinton. and you were the advicer for d.n.c. president cow went asked me to -- off our lunch, said, i've got one question. if a political consultant really feels

his son byron coleman appeared on "nancy grace." how is your father doing tonight? he is just heartbroken. >> yeah. my father is taking it real hard. i mean, it is really hard on our family. it is just a tough time. this is actually our second time going through another death in our family. my mom passed away when i was 10 years old. >> when do you know are they going to release her body? have they told anybody what was the cause of death, byron? >> actually, i haven't heard anything. i don't think my father has either. we are not sure too much yet. we are still trying to figure that out now. >> and there is your dad right there. >> yes, ma'am. >> we really do want to thank everybody for the support and the prayers. it does mean a lot. we just want everybody to stay as strong as we are trying to. for mothers out there, please don't let that happen to your child. >> if you could pass on to your father that i thought as a crime victim myself i knew what pain was but when i saw him when he learned about shaniya crying i don't think there is anything worse that could be

. >> this happened in the coleman race. somebody wrote a blog for the magazine and that ended up showing up on a paid ad by a third party independent group saying that it was a fact. it was completely erroneous. there was no substance to it at all. but it runs because of erratic on a blog. blogger then -- but it runs because it was written in a blog. >> there is a more needs communication where people go into the cul-de-sacs of the blog sphere. is there something in the technology compared to the technology of broadcast tv of the 1950's and 1960's that leads to more polarization? >> it is the lack of accountability. there are lots of good examples. go to the lieberman reelection campaign in connecticut. with a level of anonymity in a statewide race with folks blogging and chatting at a local rubber, they went past candidates and individuals in the campaigns. people made up things, the most hateful things of mid-level staffers. i had one staffer called me in tears one night, a bright woman with a strong career in politics. a

>> you saw this happen in the coleman race. >> you cannot impose your will on voters. the whole exercise that we go through is to try to discover what the voters are, what they're thinking, what they're feeling, and what motivates them. >> there is a domicile requirement. if someone like you did and said that i want the centerpiece of my campaign to be that we will bring the parties together and bring people together around a common goal and a common mission, i would say okay. we have to connect this to the economic anxiety that we feel today. we have to understand that what we want to do makes your lives easier in terms of jobs, employment, security. that is the only way to do it. to go and find a way for that to be the answer to the question that voters are posing to their candidates. >> in every town hall meeting that i saw, john mccain did that part where he said that he would reach across the aisle. >> i worked for governor schwarzenegger and ran his campaign. it was a post partisan campaign. there were short issue contrasts. campaigns are a contest of idea. post

lauren stineheist talks about her mother, marianne coleman, blazed a trail for others as a breakthrough woman. >> i'm lauren stineheist and the breakthrough i nominate is marianne. marianne's a member of the greatest generation and her whole life was filled with breakthrough moments. she was my mother. my mother always told my i could do anything and she blazed a trail for me to follow with her own breakthrough career into a man's world of journalism. i always wanted to be a writer like my mother. the first female newspaper wire service editor, ap, 1942. i'm proud that she held the equivalent rank of brigadier general. she was passionate about what he believed in, a civil rights activist, and a hard-hitting investigative reporter. she opened doors for me, for all women, by breaking through the pink-colored ceiling, one achievement at a time. i'm robin meade. hope you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep, many of you, last night. here's what we're working on for the week ahead. we're going to find out tuesday if a presidential endorsement will impact the governor's race in virginia. president

john coleman noted that -- he particularly made note of the troublesome issue of weak turnout. i wrote a few things about a couple of party conferences to suggest much of the same. if party organizations were more active in the past, why were average citizens less likely to be involved in party activities? you might consider young voters. when 18-year-old were given the right to vote in 1972, about 50% did so. by 2000, at the heart of the party resurgence, that figure had dropped to 35%. and of course the problem went much deeper. simply stated, young americans are tuned out to politics. not civic life, because they are subtly engaged, but not politically engaged. robert putnam said that very little of the net decline in voting is attributable to individual change, and all of it is generational. what were these revivalist parties doing about it? what were they doing about this engagement? in the fall of 2003, john and i conducted a telephone survey of 805 local party leaders to get better understanding of the relationship between these revivalist committees and young voters. ou

but when john coleman leveled his attack -- i shouldn't say attack, but his critique on organizationalworks, it was centered on how organizations had left out voters, and it was suggesting that he is still the tripod. but the retort from the organizational scholars was that we shouldn't think of them as together, but rather, they used -- they used a firm-base model, where voters are customers. and that seemed to work for me for a while. but lately, i must tell you, i have this feeling that what's happening in congress right now in the democratic caucus will affect partisanship, that young people, if they see this majority, if they see this filibuster-proof majority not get what they voted for done, i feel that they'll pull back away from their partisanship, what dmps does it make? and thank party organizations connect to party identification and vice versa. so it's a long answer, but it's still evolving. >> well, i'm very sympathetic as well to this sort of grand trifecta of parties. obviously my work is sort of parties ads organizations and really focuses in on that. i think that one

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