the full blessing of a judge. at the heart of all of this, a federal law that makes it illegal to break up native american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl s biological dad was able to do this after two years? dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it s basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn t rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. she s adorable, too. they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court s decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened,
fredricka whitfield is here. take it away. thank you so much. see you tomorrow. thank you. we ve got lots straight ahead including, of course, there s no teime to waste in ne hampshire. in three days the state holds the primary and every presidential candidate is there today trying to win over voters in a contest with so much at stake. joe johns is live with the bus. in manchester, joe, most of the new hampshire polls showing mitt romney leading by more than 20 points. what are his rivals doing to try to make up some ground? well, the question is how much are they trying to make up ground on mitt romney and whether they are fighting amongst themselves for second place. it looks like a contest for the runner up position. mitt romney appears to be running so strong in the polls. that means people like ron paul, newt gingrich, rick santorum moving around the state. a couple more events before the real gauntlet begins, tonight and tomorrow. two debates in the space of 2
new job in 2012? we re going to tell you how to get hired. and from camping and cooking to mortgages and taxes, today s girl scouts can get a badge for money smarts. let s begin with politics. when it comes to the gop, here s the bottom line. they want to cut taxes, they really want to cut taxes. they all want to repeal what they call obama care, the president s health care plan, and they want to shrink government. ron paul, his plan is really the most extreme. he doesn t just want to shrink government, guys, he wants to shut it down, a third of it to be exact. he wants to slash 440,000 federal government jobs, and eventually ron paul says he would like to be the ones to turn off the lights for good at the irs. mitt romney says america has to live within its means, and this week he even said no one, not even 7-foot tall burns would be spared. we re not going to keep spending money we don t have. the national endowment for the arts, the national endowment for the humanitie