, like, darth vader, you are bad! you! like, really like scolding and acting like he was the toughest guy. like really letting him having it. >> jimmy: so he hasn't seen all the episodes yet or he would feel bad, because it turns out darth vader is just misunderstood. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: well, that's good. the kids like it here. >> they do. >> jimmy: planning to stay here for awhile? >> yeah. they are in school, so. >> jimmy: you wrote this children's book, now, this is -- when does this come out, b bthe way? >> in the fall. >> jimmy: in the fall. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's called "tilly the trickster." and is tilly based on a person? >> she's based on, well, kind of -- it's's little bit based on my kids because they love to play tricks and it's also, my dad was a big trickster growing up. he loved playing games on people. like, he raised me by himself and when -- we would do, like, fun adventures. we would go into a candy store. and he'd be like, let's pretend we're blind. he would walk in, i can't see! just silly ki

darth vader? no. just max. within mere seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> three girls. >> let me guess. 4-year-old. 2-year-old. >> yes. >> how did you know? we are at the children's hospital in los angeles with his brother and max to see dr. michael silka. >> get your pacemaker checked? >> that is right. max has a pacemaker. it is his third. for parents jennifer and buck, the first sign of trouble came before max was even born. >> my 38 week appointment, we found out max has damage to his heart. they could not get a good heart beat. they took him in an emergency c-section. >> the last feeling i remember is it is hopeless necessary. it is out of my hands as a dad. as a dad, that is not something you are used to. >> i just said please just save my son. that is all we are here for. i don't know what you said. i don't understand what you will do. i need you to save my son. i need a chance to know this kid. >> it is hard to imagine, but for mom and dad, it was all a blur. max was born with

darth vader? just max.n seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> let me guess. 4-year-old? 2-year-old. >> yep. you got it. how did you know? >> we are at the children's hospital of los angeles with max and his brother to see a doctor. >> getting your pacemaker checked? >> uh-huh. >> that's right. max has a pacemaker. it's his third and he is only 6 years old. for his parents, the first sign of trouble came before max was born. >> my 38 week appointment we found out that max had structural damage to his heart. they couldn't get a heartbeat. they took him for an emergency c-section. >> the last feeling i remember is it's almost hopelessness because it's out of my hands as a dad and as a dad, that's not something you are used to. >> i simply said save my son. i don't know what you just said and i don't understand anything you will do. i need you to save my son. i need to have a chance to know this kid >> it's hard to imagine, but for mom and dad, it was a blur. she had a heart condition th

darth vader? nope.yeah, we have that. >> within mere seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> three girls. >> let me guess, 4-year-old? >> yes. >> 2-year-old? >> yes. >> 6-year-old? >> you got it. how did you know? we're at the children's hospital of los angeles with max and his brother ells to see dr. michael soka. >> you're getting your pacemaker checked? >> uh-huh. >> that's good. >> that's right. max has a pacemaker. actually, it's his third, and he's only 6 years old. for parents jennifer and buck, the first sign of trouble came before max was even born. >> my 38-week appointment, we found out that max had structural damage to his heart. they didn't know -- they couldn't get a good heartbeat. they took an emergency c-section, born in a whirl wind. >> the last feeling i remember is it's almost hopelessness because it's out of my hands as a dad, and as a dad, that's not something you're used to. >> i just said, please, just save my son. that's all we're here for. i don't even kno

. >>> and a 6-year-old with a heart defect won our hearts as the mini darth vader. well, he's now a mini lobbyist speaking directly to power on capitol hill. . >> you can tell the president, miss, if he cuts -- if the budget gets cut, he needs to realize his daughters might need it. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model-year newer... with 15,000 fewer miles on it. there's no other auto insurance product like it

he's like darth vader; he can crush their larynx with his mind. [laughter] that's based on a true story. now that we're in this crisis that the republicans created to get partisan advantage but the republicans have to either raise taxes or get blamed for defaulting on our national debt. they seem to have painted themselves into a corner, or as political scientists call it, "got their nuts caught in a vise." thankfully, on the senate floor yesterday, minority leader and septuginarian ninja turtle mitch [laughter] mcconnell swooped in and saved the day. first, pointing out that the republicans have no good options. >> the president has presented us with 3 choices: smoke and mirrors, tax hikes or default. republicans choose none of the above. >> stephen: coincidentally, "none of the above" is also the leading republican presidential candidate. [laughter] but he has a simple way out of this mess: to keep the republicans from being blamed for raising taxes or defaulting all they have to do is ask the president to submit a request to congress to raise t

please, darth vader, and the goat? nothing for my goat? you think that the goat is a mac or a pc? he's a mac? oh, no word on whether the comedian stayed long enough to see whether apple would make him clean up after his goat. >> he should have started making phone calls on his droid and see what happens. >>> coming up at 7:00, lots of things. how at first advertisers may be tracking your movements, even if you don't click their ads. and the fight against meals.ast od s.al s.

is he still going to be sort of the darth vader. when do you let go?e republicans beat up on bill clinton a lot. i hardly think we are beating occupy george bush. george bush has come and gone as president. but we have to live based on what he put n and i think those tax cuts are unconscoinable. that debt doubled since this president came n >> he inherited a terrible economy. neal let me tell you. >> for six years republicans could have passed down amendmentings. >> you could passed a budget last year, congressman. democrats were totally in control. why didn't you. there is enough blame to go around. i want you to forget george bush and forget george bush and move on. i think it is an issue for you guys and you just have to move on. >> i want to move on and by moving on, there has to be shared sacrifices and not just senior citizens and working people. >> congressman.

. >>> and then the kid that played darth vader in this super bowl ad. take a look. guess what? he is heading to capitol hill to try and stop medicaid cuts. dr. sanjay gupta talked to him and his family about it. [ kimberly ] when i was 19, i found myself alone with two children and no way to support them. people told me i wasn't going to do anything. and i just decided i have more to offer than that. i put myself through nursing school, and then i decided to go get a doctorate degree. university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people's lives. my name is dr. kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. [ male announcer ] time to check your air conditioning? come to meineke now and get a free ac system check and a free cooler with paid ac service. meineke. we have the coolest customers. >>> this just in. cnn confirming john edwards is ordered to give back the matching funds. the fcc said he was given too much. the lawyers are indicating the democrat does not owe any

. >>> he's named darth vader and captain hook as his influences. for songs like "school's out." he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame this year. alice cooper joins us for tonight's play list. ♪ school's out for summer ♪ school's out forever >> the hall of fame is like graduating. it's sort of like you get into this -- you're an upper classmen now. you're sitting there hoping mccartney voted for you. you're hoping pete townshend voted for you. when you get accepted, you figure, well, one of them had to be voted for me. ♪ this will be the last time my dad was a pastor. my dad loved the stones. early rolling stones, you know, like "this could be the last time." he was a big band guy. but he her this music that i was listening to and he goes, you know, it's pretty good. my dad was very cool. he could preach a sermon and tell you who played ba eed basse animals which i thought was great. ♪ i get around "i get around" by the beach boys. when i was about 13 years old that song came out in the summer. so it really brings back the memories of

. >> remember this, the cute little mini darth vader kid in the super bowl ad?l, he's taking on another big role now. this one in washington. dr. sanjay gupta has his insp e inspiring story coming up. you don't want to miss it. >>> one thing is indispoutable. america is not going to stop exploring. thank you "columbia," "challenger," "discovery" and "endeavour" and our ship "atlantis." thank you for protecting us and bringing this program to such a fitting end. god bless all of you. god bless the united states of america. >> well put. "atlantis" is back from the final space mission ever, ever for that type of spacecraft. it landed at kennedy space center just before 6:00 a.m., and thousands came to say good-bye but captain chris ferguson says it's not the end of america's mission. >> given everything that i know today, i think that we'll be traversing back and forth to lower earth orbit with one of the four or five vehicles that are being considered right now. i think that that's going to be a well-travel the path. i think that we're going to have people spendin

he ordered pizza, he had a romantic din we are his wife and brought in musicians and even darth vadersked for help.nd h. >> bye-bye. from

or should i call him mini darth vader. you remember max page. we introduced you to him last we' week. he is 6 years old and on his third pacemaker. he took capitol hill by storm this week. max and his family came to washington with a group of kids to put the pressure on lawmakers. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> to protect medicaid coverage for children and preserve funding for the programs that train half of the pediatricians. they met with lawmakers from both parties. >> i want to help my hospital. >> so, it is hard for something like a worthy institution like this. >> you are going to be around here a lot longer than i am. we want to make sure. >> you are here longer than me. i'm six and you are a senator? >> max joins me from washington and mom jennifer and dad, buck. we lost your brother? >> he is in the control room directing the show. >> why does that not surprise me knowing the page boys. max, how has the week been for you? is it what you expected? >> it has been on the dark planet. >> tell them about

darth vader? nope, just max. and within mere seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> 3 the-year-old. >> let me guess. 4-year-old, 10-year-old and 6-year-old. >> got it. how did you know? >> we're at the children's hospital of los angeles with max and his brother to see dr. michael soka. max has a pacemaker. actually, it's his third and he's only 6 years old. for parents jennifer and buck, the first sign of trouble came before max was even born. >> my 38-week appointment, we found out that max had structural damage to his heart. they didn't know -- they couldn't get a good heartbeat. they took him emergency c-section, he was born in a whirlwind. >> the last feeling i remember is it's almost hopelessness because it's out of my hands as a dad and as a dad, that's not something you're used to. >> i simply said, save my son. that's all we're here for. i don't understand anything you're going to do. i just -- i need you to save my son. i need you to have a chance to know this kid. >> it's hard to

maybe i should call him mini darth vader. >> you remember max paige. we introduced you to him last week as well. he's a crazy cute kid. he's six years old but also on his third pacemaker. he's had eight major operations. a lot of people don't know that about him. this week he took capitol hill by storm. max and his family came to washington with a group of kids to put the pressure on lawmakers. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> reporter: to protect medicaid coverage for children and to preserve federal funding for the programs that train nearly half the nation's pediatricians. he met with lawmakers from both parties. >> i really want to help my hospital. it's a really neat hospital. >> so it's hard for something like a worthy institution like this. >> you'll be around here a lot longer than i am. we want to make sure -- >> i think you've been around here a lot longer than i have. >> reporter: and max joins me now from washington along with mom, jennifer, dad, buck. we lost the little brother. he's taking a nap, is he.

we call it the darth vader house up on i think it's like 13th avenue, up in the sunset heights. and when i went by there, you can see the decks. here's a previous slide years gone by with all these cantalever decks with interesting coast guards. guardrails that have glazing to keep people from falling out. they don't meet the garrard rail requirement which is a -- so here i was driving by a couple of years later. and all the decks had been cut off the building and they were sliding the debris down the chute that you can see. it is a common problem and very expensive to repair as well. this has a lot of the features that we're talking about, the posts, the beam, the rim joist at the end of the joist they're holding the deck up. a solid guardrail in this case. nobody's going to get through that. and all the stuff that people always attach to their decks. >> [laughter] >> always. everything. that's a standard detail. showing one of these connectors, a heavy duty poster beam connector with through-bolts in it. >> this is a common mistake people do. they get the pressure-treated wood

darth vader? nope.at. >> within near seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> three girls. >> let me guess. 10-year-old and -year-old and 6-year-old. >> you got it. how did you know? >> we're at the children's hospital open laengz with max and his brother to see dr. soka. >> do you see to see your pacemaker check? >> yes. max has a pacemaker. actually, it's his third and he's only 6 years old. for parents jennifer and buck, the first sign of trouble came before max was even born. >> at my 38-week appointment, we found out that max had structural damage to his heart. they couldn't get a good heartbeat. they took an emergency c section, born in a whirlwind. >> the last thought i remember is it's almost hopelessness because it's out of my control. >> i just said, i don't understand anything you're going to do. i just -- i need you to save my son. i need to have a chance to know this kid. >> it's hard to manl, but for mom and dad, it was all a blur. max was born with a heart condition a

so daniel other republicans turning their backs on reagan now that sounds more like darth vader than ronald. coase are you i think those that are or where with that or where was that. book anybody can turn around what obama said in two thousand and nine when he said raising taxes in an economy is bad idea around or a marine tax eleven times on this and raise the debt ceiling eighteen times regular it is that any number of things can be taken out of context and used your political advantage just like president obama raising the debt ceiling eighteen times in your eight years that's not taking anything out of context. i don't think it's serious and so twenty times. but here's i mean i think i think what we see happening is there's there's going to be some type of deal whether it's the gang of six deal or it's the mcconnell plan the debt ceiling is going to be raised well i just hope that after we do it with whatever deal is going to happen we continue to get serious about tackling long term fiscal problems that we must tackle in order to continue our a a rating it's not only the debt c

. >>> he is known as mini darth vader, and he is bring the force to washington.xt, the exclusive coverage of one child's newest mission. maybe he can solve the debt crisis while he is there. >>> talks on a debt ceiling deal to avert a government default next week have been going on pretty much around the clock in washington, but the capitol has a big visitor during the debate. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta is here for more. >> i have been following the story of little max for sometime. he is a crazy cute kid. he is a mini darth vader was see there. he says he is taking the force to washington. he was born with a heart condition and required eight operations in six years, and got his car at a children's hospital, and there are only 56 in the country. and he also met kids who need medicaid to help get their care, and they realized along with his parents that some of those things are threatened with all the talks going on in washington, so he went to washington to lobby on behalf of these things, and had a meeting with senator grassly. take a lis

. >> a lot of kids love wearing these guys just because the darth vader look. they look tough in them. >> adult riders too, last week a 25-year-old bicyclists suffered severe head trauma and died after she was struck by a truck in san francisco and frank and julie, she was not wearing a seat belt. reporting live tonight, i'm heather holmes. >>> only on 2, 22-year-old mark mcgovern remains hospitalized at san francisco general hospital. this is video of the first and last game he played on treasure island june 26 in which players don't wear pads or helmetsful during the match between the kelts it appears an opposing player hit mcgovern on purpose. >> it's been very difficult. it has been the worse day in our lives. >> reporter: 27-year-old patrick poura is a person of interest in this case. powers hired an attorney and has refused to talk with investigators. witnesses say they saw powers yell at mcgovern and heard him say quote, he won't get up from that. >>> netflix shares were up about 1.8% at the close today but took a 10% dive after hours after the company r

. >> a lot of kids love wearing these guys just because the darth vader look. they look tough in them. >> adult riders too, last week a 25-year-old bicyclists suffered severe head trauma and died after she was struck by a truck in san francisco and frank and julie, she was not wearing a seat belt. reporting live tonight, i'm heather holmes. >>> only on 2, 22-year-old mark mcgovern remains hospitalized at san francisco general hospital. this is video of the first and last game he played on treasure island june 26 in which players don't wear pads or helmetsful during the match between the kelts it appears an opposing player hit mcgovern on purpose. >> it's been very difficult. it has been the worse day in our lives. >> reporter: 27-year-old patrick poura is a person of interest in this case. powers hired an attorney and has refused to talk with investigators. witnesses say they saw powers yell at mcgovern and heard him say quote, he won't get up from that. >>> netflix shares were up about 1.8% at the close today but took a 10% dive after hours after the company r

look at darth vader dancing. "robot chicken" -- these things have taken off. they're amazing.nd you're like a super duper pro at this now. >> i don't -- in all fairness, i don't actually animate. i'm a terrible stunt motion animator. >> jimmy: yes, i know, yes. but you are involved with this. >> yeah. my buddy, matt senreich and i created this show, and we have a huge team of people that help make it look like it's actually happening. you animate puppets and dolls and action figures, and make them tell funny jokes and act like real people and -- it just makes a blast. >> jimmy: then, you got into the "star wars" thing and it's always something different. this one is -- >> this was a longer form thing. we've done two half hour specials before that were collections of short form content, like sketch stuff. bounced all around the "star wars" universe. and matt senreich, my partner, he saw "wicked," the stage play about the secret intention of the wicked witch of the west. and said, "that's how we tell the emperor's story." you tell it through the emperor's eyes across all six mov

remember this super bowl commercial with a mini darth vader?apitol hill probably felt a disturbance in the force. 6-year-old max page, star of that volkswagen commercial paid a visit to congress for family advocacy day. page had heart surgery as a baby at children's hospital in los angeles so he was in d.c. on behalf of its national association fighting for funding. very cute. and those are your headlines. hard to be scared of that darth vader, though, with the cute blond hair. >> as soon as he took his hat off, i exhaled. speaker boehner has been fighting directly with the president, directly with his own caucus but yesterday, no doubt about it. he laid out his plan and he confidently told his constituents including the 87 freshmen get in line, i can't do this job unless you are behind me. and even went further than that saying -- using a word that we're usually not using. >> he said get your ass in line, i can't do this job unless you're behind me. apparently, he really rallied the troops. allen west asked afterwards if it would pass and he s

for making it look like i'm friends with a skinny darth vader. [ laughter ] "luke, i'm on atkins." [r ] >> steve: "i like." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you, guy in the stall next to me, whose urine stream is way too strong. [ laughter ] have you been holding it in for three days? or are you just emptying an entire gatorade squirt bottle into the toilet. everything all right? [ scattered applause ] thank you. [ applause ] >> steve: "good job, captain!" [ laughter ] "thanks, bucky." >> jimmy: do it, again, do it again. >> steve: all right. "good job, captain!" "thanks, bucky." [ laughter and applause ] bucky. >> jimmy: bucky is his sidekick. >> jimmy: it's his sidekick. >> steve: yeah. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, pickles, for being like hot dogs that got really angry and turned into the hulk. [ laughter and applause ] "you won't like me when i'm angry." >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: "actually, you're pretty tasty." >> steve: "you're tasty." >> jimmy: "oh, you're crunchy." ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, stopwatches for also being 50% start watches. [ laughter and applause ] start watches. ♪ thank you,

he went in as darth vader for tech support. that didn't work.ringing in a goat. >> any grass for my goat? no grass. okay. just wondering. do you think the goat is a mac or pc. >> the goat didn't seem happy about going into the apple store. carried him out. there gow. the fellow is a comedian in new york city. he's tried other stunts, one of them a crosstown bus. he got a big wheel and tried to beat the crosstown bus across manhattan. that actually worked. he won on the big wheel, which says something about the crosstown bus in manhattan. can you see it on facebook. i posted it to our facebook page as well. very funny stuff. >> great. a lot of fun. hey, thanks so much for joining us this morning. the "today" show is coming up next. we'll have a local news update for you in half an hour, every half hour after that, weather and traffic. >> find out more about that goat maybe. >> have a great day, everybody. [ female announcer ] they've been off limits to dieters since time began. not anymore. ♪ fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, t

he's stolen darth vader's nose is what's happened there.ne of our writers took his daughter to see harry potter this weekend. he looked it up on the internet. not only this happened in l.a. it happened in a bunch of cities around the country. before the movie, you know, thy show commercials now, which is delightful. and before the big final episode of harry potter, they showed this commercial. >> over the ages, men have fought for it. battled for it. even died for it. one might say it's the most powerful film on earth. >> so come on, ladies, show it a little love. cleansing washing cloths from summer's eve. hail to the "v." >> jimmy: hail? hail to the "v." [ applause ] daddy, what is the "v"? i don't know, play with your magic wand. what happened to the singing popcorn and the dancing soda? i don't know if kids understand exactly what the "v" is but they're all at the movie. guillermo, do you know what the v. is? >> no. >> jimmy: i'm a man of science. we sent a camera out on hollywood boulevard today to show the commercial to kids to see if

why steve jobs is darth vader i haven't any idea.eople are very excited except for some guy in a skull, i don't get that either. then that guy runs into that guy and then here is hey, i have an idea. i could make my own apple stores. see me translating. i speak chinese. totally lying about that. and so -- >> no, really? thanks for clearing that up. >> they didn't make a video. >> maybe they will make one of you. we can only wait and hope. an overnight crash on 101 causes some lane closures. we're going to tell you how the road looks this morning. an east bay teen attacked by a bear and lives t t tell abohe te tale. details coming up next. >> reporter: violence breaks out again overnight in the streets of east palo alto leaving one man dead. i'm christie smith. we'll tell you what happened, plus we're going to talk about police plans to try to curb the violence. that story coming up in a live report. >> reporter: and the bryan stow beating investigation moves forward in an l.a. courtroom today. good morning. i'm marla tellez. what we

why steve jobs is darth vader i have no idea.a fake set of stores in china made by -- i have no idea. >> interesting.

so darth vader was the highlight of my day. >> and ours this morning.darth vader has a good side. brian williams, thank you so much for showing us that. you can see the "dateline" special at 7:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 central here on nbc. >> fascinating to watch. >>> now a check of the top stories from natalie morales at the news desk. >> good morning, matt and ann. good morning, everyone. new details about the arrest of self-confessed killer anders breivik. martin fletcher is in oslo with more. martin, good morning. >> reporter: police keep adding more fascinating details. two minutes after they finally made it to the island they found anders breivik in a forest clearing with his hands up, guns on the ground with ammunition. at first police were afraid to approach him. they were afraid that he was carrying a bomb, but he warrant. t the killer wanted to liver. >> >> he stalked the teenagers like a shooting gallery on an island near oslo. >> really helpless. >> 360 miles to the north, a mother said she experienced the worst hour of her life. 5:42 the aftern

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darth vader? nope, just max. within mere seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> three girls. >> let me guess. 4-year-old? >> yep. >> 2-year-old? >> yep. >> 6-year-old? >> you got it. how did you know? we are at the children's hospital with max and his brother. >> can i see your pacemaker? >> that's right. max has a pacemaker, and it's his third, and he's only 6-year-old. the first sign of trouble came before he was born. >> we found out max had structural damage to his heart. they could not get a good heartbeat. they took him emergency c-section, born in a whirlwind. >> the last thing i remember is almost hopelessness, because it's out of my hands as a dad, and as a dad, that's not something you are used to. >> i said, please, just save my son. that's all we're here for. i don't know anything you just said or understand anything you're going to do, i need you to save my son and i need to have a chance to know this kid. >> for mom and dad, it was all a blur. max was born with a heart conditi

. >> the surprise' peer ranse happened as he was posing for a picture with darth vader at lego land.not need it any more. dad, are you going to come home with us? >> i am going to come home with you. >> are you excited about that? >> yeah. >> the happy family plans to go on a hawaiian vacation this summer. one veteran is grateful after getting $25,000 worth of home repairs for free. he was facing a pile of citations for repairs he dowd don't. an organization called rebuilding broward county offered to help by providing free home repairs to veteran home owners. volunteers said they were more than happy to give back to a man that served the country. >> i couldn't believe it. they are doing a fine job. an excellent job. and i don't know h

. >>> one of the stars of the super bowl, the little kid who played the mini darth vader in the volkswagenere's a look. ♪ ♪ >> all right. the boy behind the mask, just 6 years old, already gone through most people do in their lives. dr. sanjay gupta spent the day with him out in l.a. a cnn exclusive. that kid is too cute. >> reporter: crazy cute. you're about to actually see him. i'll introduce new a second. one thing you probably wanted to know is he actually was born with a con gentle heart defect. eight major operations harks a pacemaker in place now. he and his family believe that children's hospital's taking care of his health. they're on the cutting block. medicaid, providing care to tens of millions of kids, the kind of care max needs. he's headed to capitol hill to lobby for these programs. we had a chance to catch up with him in l.a. take a look. on behalf of all those kids, max is headed to the nation's capital to put his force behind the association of children's hospitals. what's the value of a place like this? >> when max was 3 year's old they operated on his heart, the size o

you saw him as a minute i didn't darth vader there. he also was born with a heart condition.in the hospital, he met a lot of kids like him. kids who required care and specialty hospitals and children's hospitals. he also met kids who were dependent in part on medicaid to get the sort of care they were getting. now he is heading to washington because amidst the budget talks is a potential impact on these hospitals, a potential impact on these kids, kids like max. he had a meeting with senator grassl grassley. take a listen. >> can you tell the president this? if he -- if the budget gets cut, he needs to realize children might need it. if the budget makes -- they cut about like 75% off, it's going to be really bad for maybe his daughters. >> you can see there max is making a personal appeal to the president and to the president's daughters. again, just 56 of these children's hospitals in the country. they are responsible for not only taking care of a lot of sick kids but also train training the nation's pediatricians. >> when you have less money you have less options of providi