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Lunch, weve missed the whole notion of parents being there for their children. because weve taken over that responsibility. >> so now we know where ryan got his story from, but who is this boy? a commenter on "talk points memo" pointed something out. andersons story sounded an awful lot like an anecdote in "an invisible thread" which has nothing to do with the school lunch program. its the story of the relationship between the author and maurice, an 11-year-old homeless panhandler when she offer...

Heartless. they care about the poor in quotation marks. lets make a show of it. that is not showing up now on any of budgets or any of the votes. >> no. compassionate conservatism, we know, doesnt work because its a cruel hoax. its cruel because its not there. theres no money. theres no benefit. its a hoax because basically we have now 22% of americans children are under the poverty line. i mean, this is something that you should not make stories up about. i mean, we have enough terrible stories...

One in a brown paper bag just like the other kids. he wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone had cared for him. >> well, as it turns out, ryans anecdote is possibly a plagiarized story. wonkette says the story is a striking similarity to the story in the book "an invisible thread." the biggest is to the donald. it appears the donald could use a history tutor to keep up on history and current events. >> we are getting into jimmy carter territory. and i never...

>> mike: the book is called "an invisible thread." where did the title come from. >> you know, its -- its an incredible story. i love the story because about a month before my co-author and i, alex, who is here today as well. we couldnt come up with a name every name i came up with, he didnt like and every name i came up with he didnt. and i had to go to reed, and i was rushing. i liked to go to the local card store. i never bought a card in duane reed and looking at the card and said theres an ...

>> and do you know that when he came to the party i said to him, oh, by the way, i said very few people are going to make toasts, but id love for you to make a toast and an hour later he made that toast. >> well, it was absolutely fantastic. you ought to be the head of the toast masters, you were so good at it maurice, a couple of things i want to mention, first of all, all of our audience members are going to get a copy of the book "an invisible thread". >> yes. >> theyre going to love it it, i...