vaccines could cause autism became well known partly due to the advocacy of celebrities like jenny mccarthy. >> jenny! jenny! >> today i am not a celebrity. today i am a mom of a child who had autism. >> narrator: mccarthy knew little about autism until her son, evan, received a series of vaccines, including the shot for mumps, measles, and rubella-- the mmr triple shot. a few weeks later, evan developed seizures and was diagnosed with autism. >> so i left that office devastated, hopeless. the next day, or maybe it was even that night, went on google and typed in "autism." >> narrator: she found the site for generation rescue. >> so i clicked on generation rescue, and i found this community of parents. >> narrator: generation rescue is run by businessman j.b. handley. handley's son was diagnosed with autism following a series of shots in 2004. at the time, he'd also gone on the web and discovered a community of parents with stories to share. >> there were literally tens of thousands of parental reports of children regressing and changing after vaccine appointments. >> "my child was fine bef

. >> that's jenny mccarthy. says children should be vaccinated, but the damage was done thanks to her and a couple of crackpot doctors 1% of american kids now don't get some vaccines. so should their parents be forced to vaccinate? senator rawnd rand paul was asked about that. >> did you say to laura ingraham that you think most vaccines in this country should be, quote, voluntary. >> well, i guess being for freedom would be really unusual. i guess i don't understand the point. why that would be controversial. i think the parent should have some input. the state doesn't own your children. >> good point. the state doesn't own my children. but contagious diseases are a special case. one ignorant parent may harm other people's kids. that's why dr. manny says he wants the government to mandate vaccines. but what does mandate mean? >> mandate means basically, if we get to the point where we have now communities with vaccination rates at 80% you'll have to mandate if you want to send your kids to school, you have to g

that ted cruz is signing up for obamacare, this is like finding out jenny mccarthy went in for a flut. [ laughter ] that's what it's like, you guys. zayn's gone, and he's not coming back. we need to get that through your heads. [ cheers and applause ] gone. i'm proud of zayn. go live your life, zayn. he's 22, go have a normal life, go do things 22-year-olds do, with loads of money. [ laughter ] i forgot i had a follow-up joke about this ted cruz obamacare thing. and i really derailed it by talking about zayn again. [ laughter ] so, anyways ted cruz's his wife she left her job now he's got to sign up for obamacare. you all remember. anyway, that's right. [ laughter ] ted cruz is singing up for obamacare. but, he still plans to appeal it if elected president, he'll replace it with cruzcare, which is just a wine soaked rag you bite down on during your surgery. [ laughter ] it's very effective. very effective. [ applause ] burger king -- burger king stores in japan are reportedly planning to sell whopper scented cologne for those special occasions when you want to smell like the inside o

hearing a panel with transportation secretary anthony fox, energy secretary and epa administrator jenny mccarthy. our live coverage is set to begin 3:30 eastern time over on c-span. >>> tonight on "the communicators," founder and ceo of mediacom communications corporation on the challenges facing media companies and the fallout from the latest fcc decision affecting the internet. >> i have no doubt this will increase rates of consumers if it stays on board. why is that? they're going to impose on us all kinds of regulatory fees, additional rental fees taxes at the local level. i think the utilities, the regulatory utilities in the states where we operate are going to get into the act. i haven't found one government that doesn't want to raise more money, all right? and it's going to give an opportunity to raise more money. >> tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >>> with live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span and the senate on c-span2 here on c-span3 we complement that coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and public affairs events. and then o