well, thank you very much, sheldon kennedy, for being with us again. >> yeah, thank you, erin. i appreciate it. >>> a new poll has herman cain leading the gop despite the controversy surrounding his campaign. we're going to talk about that. and the unlikely, amazing number two. >>> and italy close to passing an austerity package. is this really the end of silvio berlusconi. and serious, what's the way to get good press? write it yourself. >>> so we cover a lot of serious stories, but this one is more seriously? for two years, a freelance news service in utah published a dozen stories written by a reporter named richard burrwash. the stories, which were eventually picked up and publish ed, focused on west valley city, utah, and quoted the city ee's mayor. there's just one problem. peter burrwash was actually mayor mike windor. the mayor was so worried that the press about his city was negative that he invented a fake persona to write positive stories. he posed as him on the phone and let his sister write one of the stories. representatives for the duped newspapers said all the a

sheld sheldon kennedy was sexually assaulted by his coach over a five-year period.pe from alberta, canada, to talk about his case and what he thinks about this penn state case. i must applaud you for coming forward and trying to help people to understand what that must be like. can you tell us your story? >> yeah, i can. i know the fear that's involved in something like this is tremendous. you've got such a power and balance with authority and the issues themselves. the issues themselves carry a lot of fear in society. a lot of times it's misunderstood and people don't recognize the damage that sexual abuse, abuse, bullying has on our young people. as we've seen many times recently that it kills people. i think maybe we're starting to recognize that. the fear is somewhat overwhe overwhelming. >> sheldon, you say it was very difficult to make friends, that life was in your words lonely, a living hell and you changed that. how did you do that? i think we've lost -- unfortunately we've lost sheldon. hopefully we'll be able to bring him back. he has an amazing story. we

national hockey league star, sheldon kennedy who was abused as a boy by his hockey coach in canada.ou very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> we had you on the first day this broke. you said this was like murdering these children. these allegations if it is true, what happened to them. we are hearing from sandusky. what's your reaction? >> i did see the interview last night and i just -- the ego of the pedophiles just blow me away every time i hear them. after listening to that, i was amazed by how he was able to operate at state under joe paterno for 15 years and be able to have all access to the penn state locker room and just listening to the guy talk. >> let me play a clip of what he had to say. san dusky and how he described his interaction with these children. let's play it. >> in retrospect i shouldn't have showered with those kids. >> that's it? >> that's what hits me the most. >> that's what hits him the most. he shouldn't have showered with the kids. the coach who abused you, did he try to justify his interaction and his abuse of you and others that way? >> i

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. >> joining me now, the former nhl player, sheldon kennedy at the hands of his minor league coach. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> what is your reaction to the allegations that we are all hearing now and actually are still quite stunning? >> i work in the area and have for the last 14 years and it is stunning. and the most important piece here is there 8 a individuals that are victims in all of this and one of the things we realized over the last 14 years of working with the issues and pushing them forward and giving changes is the damage that these issues have on our individuals. they are off the cases. taking this stuff seriously. >> you have to be asking that one of the kids who were allegedly abused and this is the allegation that an assistant walked in and witnessed this abuse and they want this young man at the time they believe he was between the age of 11 and 13 to come forward. you came forward. talk to me about the process and how difficult it was. here you are this nhl star and you have been a star athlete almost all of your life. you were suffering at the hand

tomorrow a big show, we'll talk to sheldon kennedy, a former nhl player who was sexually abused

sheldon kennedy, former nhl player abused by a coach more than 300 times and why took him to so long on the scandal now. >> looking forward to. see you soon. >>> when you step in it, to accept rick perry's description of last night's debate, the challenge to step out of it, as quickly as possible. for governor perry that effort began immediately after the debate ended in the so-called spin room. >> i stepped in it man. yeah, it was embarrassing, of course it was. you know, when -- but here's what's more important. people understand that our principles, our conservative principles are what matter. >> cnn's peter hamby on hand and joins us auburn hills, michigan. pretty rare, especially for a major candidate to go into the spin room. give us a sense how quickly they realized they had a very big problem and needed their candidate to take the lead to fix it? >> right. rick perry has not been a single spin room, right arc i top tier candidate doesn't come in to present the case for himself, usually the lower tiered candidates do that. we were in the spin room waiting for a senior adviser,

one likes to think about it but now the whole country is thinking about it we wanted to talk to sheldon kennedy knows the fear and horror that comes with bag victim of sexual abuse. he was sexually molested by his hockey coach starting at 14 years old. he played professionally in the nhl and came forward with his story in 1996. he is "outfront" tonight and dedicated a lot of his life to make sure this doesn't happen to other people were you surprised when you heard this story, not just that it happened but it had been happening for so long with so many people looking the other way? >> i wasn't surprised. i have been working in this field for 14 years and i've seen a lot of institutionalizization of these issues and that is what happens. i just, i think it is one of those things where it's a platform for change to happen. it's sad that it has to happen this way. i think that this is a -- it is pole vaulted the issue in to society saying, you know what, enough is enough and we need change. >> when you went through this, you went through it for a long time. by your own admission, it was something

one likes to think about it but now the whole country is thinking about it we wanted to talk to sheldon kennedys the fear and horror that comes with bag victim of sexual abuse. he was sexually molested by his hockey coach starting at 14 years old. he played professionally in the nhl and came forward with his story in 1996. he is "outfront" tonight and dedicated a lot of his life to make sure this doesn't happen to other people were you surprised when you heard this story, not just that it happened but it had been happening for so long with so many people looking the other way? >> i wasn't surprised. i have been working in this field for 14 years and i've seen a lot of institutionalizization of these issues and that is what happens. i just, i think it is one of those things where it's a platform for change to happen. it's sad that it has to happen this way. i think that this is a -- it is pole vaulted the issue in to society saying, you know what, enough is enough and we need change. >> when you went through this, you went through it for a long time. by your own admission, it was something that

but now that the whole country is thinking about it, we wanted to talk to sheldon kennedy.knows the fear and horror that comes with being the vic m victim. he was sexually assaulted for five years starting when he was 14 years old. he went on to play professionally in the nhl. he came forward with his story in 1986. he has dedicated a lot of his life to trying to make sure this doesn't happen to other people. sheldon, were you surprised when you heard this story not just that it happened but that it had been happening for so long with so many people looking the other way? >> um, i wasn't surprised. i had been working in this field for 14 years. and i'd seen a lot of institutionalized --ization of these issues. and that's what happens. i just -- i think it's one of those things where -- it's a platform for change to happen. it's sat d it has to happen thi way. it's pole vaulted this issue into the society today. saying enough's enough and we need change. >> when you went through this, you went through it for a long time. and then by your own admission it was something that s