scientology has strenuously denied that it forces its members to quote, unquote, disconnect with anybody leads the faith. cut all ties, even with loved ones. one woman says the church turned it into a choice between her son and her daughter. >>> this is the image that most people have of scientology, tom cruise, john travolta and kirstey alley who lauded the religion as helping themselves out in their mind. this woman may have a less recognizable face, but she was a long-tim member who was coming forward with a very different story about scientology. >> i'm speaking out now because i don't want this to happen to other people. i don't want this to happen to other families. >> reporter: she blames the church for breaking apart her family effectively, she says, forcing her to choose between her son and daughter. >> no mother should ever have to make that choice. they were giving me a sophie's choice, and it's not right. >> reporter: shi says she spent 36 years in the church, founded by l. ron hubbard and she and her husband both reached the top level of spiritual progression known as operat

and it's one of the first major incidents was when he had an embarrassing video online and in a scientology tried to rip that off online and have essentially anonymous versus scientology but it's gone on everything from authoritarian regimes they were trying to cut off the internet today in turn particularly linked to the wiki -- wikileaks who were unhappy with transparency. one is don't get on the target list and do not threaten internet freedom. but then you go to be okay i don't understand i have to deal with the response side. and i would say that's where there is nothing specifically unique about anonymous. many of the things you were talking about on not sharing information. and it's not about the records to know what happene happened bo establish a baseline but when you can see when the anomalies are happening building up and so you can do with them before hand. again, everything i just said applies to an external attack by some group, be it a state group or be it a nonstate actor. by the way it als also applies e inside for situations. wherever you come down on manning or snowden, w

a new controversy for the church of scientology.aid the church forced her to choose between her son, her faith, and her daughter. >> reporter: this is what remains of sara goldberg's relationship with her daughter, ashley. photographs and memories. a sad situation this mother is blaming on the church of scientology. >> i want this horrible practice of disconnection to end. >> reporter: goldberg says she spent 36 years in the church, reaching the top level of spiritual progression. the problems happened when her sonic developed doubts about the church. >> there were things i didn't report. crises in ukraine. >> we have breaking news. we want to pause though for a moment so the rest of the country can join us. and good morning for those of you just joining us i'm josh elliott. president obama is about to make a statement from the white house briefing room regarding the crises in ukraine. the administration has announced it has frozen the u.s. assets of seven top seven top russian officials including senior advisers to vladimir putin.

. ♪ yes you know you got to get right with god ♪ >>> once again, the church of scientology is in theer to choose between her faith and her family. >> as abc's dan harris tells us, this long-time follower tells us this is a common practice. >> reporter: this is what remains of sara goldberg's relationship of her daughter, ashley. photographs and memories. a sad situation this mother is blaming on the church of scientology. >> i want this horrible practice of disconnection to end. >> reporter: goldberg says she spent 36 years in the church, reaching the top level of spiritual progression, but the problems began, she says, when heir son nick developed doubts about the church. >> there's things i didn't like. the way they recruited. the theories about life in the universe. >> reporter: he started voe callizing with critics in the church, officials who quit, and are now condemned by the church as liars. as a result, nick was labeled a suppresses ive person. his mother said church officials actively and repeatedly pressured her to quote disconnect from her son, to cut off ties permanently.

then you have the essentially anonymous versus scientology. it has gone on to go against troops are reaping from authoritarian regimes, trying to cut off the internet to then and turned particularly linked to a wikileaks episode so one is don't get on their target list. a good way is to not threaten the internet freedom. then you go to the -- i don't care. i have to deal with the response side. i would say that there is nothing specifically unique about anonymous. many of the things you're talking about is not sharing information, not having records. and then you know the spirit is not just about ruggers know what happened but to establish a baseline so that you can then see when anomalies are happening building up so you can do with them beforehand. everything i just said applies to an extra hour attack by some group to be it a state report the it an actor, would also applies to insider threat situations. wherever you come down on manning or snowdon call we can agree that the organizations that they were and were not following basics of good

he has to know why critics accusations of having close links to the touch scientology and charging on fairly high interest rates on consumer credit lines the defeat of prime minister is likely to retain his position which is seen to be more powerful than the presidency in the day to day running of the country the jetty to the back it into the eurozone in two thousand and nine and has kept the country for me to investors despite higher taxes on banks and utilities i. us state department in washington. american officials believe in the power of positive speech to combat the rising tide of anti semitism around the world. un special envoy ira forman is particularly concerned about the institutionalization of anti semitism in hungary and greece. so i think there's a consensus out there in the world fisheries and i made a lot of people also feel than the last five years was it six years with the economic downturn. this is probably contribute to anti semitism as well eastern europe greece romania. they're really struggling economically and cook at the same time you see the rise of anti semit

that we are well below their high for the last one will question quickly you a present because scientology one yanukovich to return to power. this briefing. well that we think that it has not been with the decision but anyway the weather on them. thinking all day thank you very much good time thanks for joining us live here in austin to national of a city that. on the twenty seven assaults on hearing of his national as we continue to look after the turmoil in ukraine often social rank the eye. a new me with the breaking news now russia's upper house of parliament has voted unanimously to allow the deployment of ministry forces in ukraine into a situation that stabilizes and it doesn't pitch and off the synthesis of oldham and following an appeal for help from the authorities in crimea which is an autonomous republic in the south of the crime that doesn't recognize the country's new leadership in kiev the presence placement is however stressed that the approval does not necessarily mean it will be implemented. the federation council also once russia's ambassador to the u s recall that the p

coming up tom cruise is getting more and more into men -- tioning scientology in interviews. and what will they say about crocodiles? i don't know. we will just sit in silence because i have no plan b. >>> they are devoid of their droids. at least that was the plan for yesterday for what the town of needham, massachusetts thought would be a phone free friday. they gathered together to turn off gadgets and tune into their family life. we tried to get a comment to see how the day went, but not a single person answered our calls. i am guessing they are probably all dead. bonnie, if we all turn off our phones, won't we realize how much we hate actually talking to people? >> i feel it now. you know, especially with teenagers i would much rather carry on a conversation. i feel like we should do a medically-enduced coma for everyone 18 to 25 or something. >> medically enduced coma fridays sounds fun for everyone. let's take a day. >> i think there is a pay service for that in new york. >> kahn get medically enduced -- you can get medically enduced? >> i think something like that. >>

it is one of the first major incidents when he had an embarrassing video online and scientology tried to rip that off on line and put them on the radar screen and essentially anonymous versus scientology but it went on against groups against authoritarian regimes that were trying to cut off their internet and in turn particularly linked to the wiki leaks episode governments like the u.s. that are unhappy with transparency. one is don't get on their target list. not being on their target list is not to threaten internet freedom. i got to deal with the response. that is where there is nothing specifically unique about anonymous. many of the things you were talking about, not sharing information, not having records. you know this, it is not just about records to know what happened but to establish a baseline so you could see when anomalies are happening, building up so you could deal with it before hand. everything i set applies to an extra attack by some group, the estate group or a non street actor and applies to insider threat situations. wherever you come down on manning or ed snowde

membership rolls of a neo-nazi organization in britain and secret documents from the church of scientology. and that was before assange began publishing u.s. secrets, provoking what he calls threatening statements from people close to power. >> what statements are you referring to? >> the statements by the vice president biden saying, for instance, that i was a high-tech terrorist, sarah palin calling to our organization to be dealt with like the taliban and be hunted down. there's calls either for my assassination or the assassination of my staff or for us to be kidnapped and renditioned back to the united states to be executed. >> well, as you know, we have a first amendment and people can say whatever they want, including politicians. i don't think that many people in the united states took seriously the idea that you were a terrorist. >> i would like to believe that. on the other hand, the incitements to murder are a serious issue. and unfortunately, there is a portion of the population that will believe in them and may carry them out. >> if nothing else, wikileaks is the latest demons

one reason why we also know her because she left the church of scientology and she was vocal about thatshow and avoid it altogether. >> i got a statement from the church of scientology. it comes as no surprise that someone as self-absorbed as leah remini would exploit her former faith by rewriting her history with it in the church of scientology. there you go. >> we'll leave it at that one. let's move on to the tweet of the week. ellen's record-breaking -- >> i love this. >> picture. heard and seen around the world. >> the huge selfie. jennifer lawrence, meryl streep, julia roberts, brangelina. i love the fact -- i'll read the tweet first. harry connick, jr. says it's not that hard to shut down twitter, ellen, just turn off your phone. she was proud, i guess, that it got over 3 million retweets that quickly vaulted beyond the previous most retweeted tweet which was the president and michelle obama that got 790,000 reretweets. this got 2.4 million retweets within 12 hours. >> it was a lot more fun to capture when hollywood is criticized for being pretentious. >> i've got to say, i love l

with pop culture you can start off as tom cruise wanting to be a priest and eventually you're into scientology and having private jets. it's a fast paced decline so we have to tend to do something to wreck the spine and treat the truth the size of the head here in new york to raise awareness about the robb a massacre eighty three people dead. of course thousands more that you're talking about you know over the last couple years talk about this new campaign explain the mural that you painted in brooklyn about it. yeah i had basically because it wasn't just the the sit in and the robber massacre that occurred. in the students are still being shot and killed as they are protesting. unfortunately you have conservative families that are not fans of the military occupation and they too are going to the streets but unfortunately the students and the average everyday people that recognize we're rolling back the clock to nine hundred fifty two dictatorship and we're not happy with that they're being coupled together. with the muslim brotherhood and being called terrorists which is obviously quite stran