jackson russell had heart surgery and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospital had to fix it. >> he said there was a lot of scar tissue and infection that was left behind. >> reporter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis to say the least so in october kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunkett, on temporary leave. now the question is, were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies died or had complications at kentucky children's? no one knows. why? because the hospital refuses to say. heart programs at many other children's hospitals report their mortality rates right on their web sites. but kentucky children's refuses to release their mortality rate. they won't give it to us. they won't give it to parents. they won't even give it to the kentucky attorney general. the parents are angry and demanding answers. >> do you feel like there are things they're just not telling you? >> i think they're hiding something. >

jackson russell had heart surgery and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospital had to fix it. >> he said there was a lot of scar tissue and infection that was left behind. >> reporter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis, to say the least, so in october kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunket, on temporary leave. now the question is were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies died or had complications at kentucky children's? no one knows. why? because the hospital refuses to say. heart programs at many other children's hospitals report their mortality rates right on their websites, but kentucky children's refuses to release their mortality rate. they won't give it to us. they won't give it to parents. they won't even give it to the kentucky attorney general. the parents are angry and demanding answers. >> do you feel like there are things they're just not telling you? >> i think they're hiding something. >>

jackson russell had heart surgery, and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospitalorter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis, to say the least. so, in october, kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunkett, on temporary leave. now the question is, were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies died or had complications at kentucky children's? no one knows. why? because the hospital refuses to say. heart programs at many other children's hospitals report their mortality rates on their websites, but kentucky children's refuses to release their mortality rate. they won't give it to us, they won't give it to parents, they won't even give it to the kentucky attorney general. the parents are angry and demanding answers. do you feel like there are things they're just not telling you? >> i think they're hiding something. >> reporter: the attorney general ruled that by withholding the data, the university was in violation of th

jackson came out. >> we'll have today, peter, paul and mary were there. we're actually going to have paul join us later in the show. bill russellas invited to speak 50 years ago. and he chose not to, because he thought you know he didn't want as a sports star to in any way distract attention from people who he thought had earned and deserved more people on that stage. that is the kind of spirit that i think is hard to find in the modern media age of people rushing to microphones. >> it is. it is hard to find. it is awfully hard to find. but you know who else i thought was good today? i thought jamie foxx was good. and in a sense he kind of called out hollywood to be active and to be supportive. he mentioned some people who were doing things that he thought were admirable. i thought he gave a good speech and of course did some good impressions, too. >> gene robinson, thank you for being here on this important night, thank you for joining us. >> happy to be here, lawrence. >>> coming up, the only speaker that day 50 years ago who was still with us, john louis is in tonight's rewrite. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ]