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You can still become who you want to be. and anyone who cant see that, they just dont know you or their eyes just arent open to see who you really are. >> mr. smart, your daughter was captive this way for nine months. what do you think are the parallels for these young women who are captive for nine years or more? >> well, i think there are a lot of -- a lot of things. the one thing i think that really comes home is that they are home now, that they have a chance of having a life, not in captivi...

Ally bank. your money needs an ally. these are live pictures from the church in cleveland where a community meeting and prayer service will start in just a minute. tonight, the city of cleveland and so much of the country is uniting behind these three women and the little girl born in captivity. so much has been taken from them. so much of their young lives, yet now in freedom they are already starting to give back to the city that lost them. we learned from them hope. we will, in the coming d...

Its like play-dough trying to figure it out. one charge doesnt seem to fit with human behavior. hes got three of them in captivity. you have to assume -- >> exactly. >> of course, normally in rape cases and at least in the rape cases that ive had, every act of penetration is a separate count. you can have 10 years for each count. >> sure. >> ten years for every penetration. also, depending on -- there was mention that there were five pregnancies. depending on how old the fetuses were, those coul...

She have, what kind of damage may have been done there? she didnt have prenatal care. the mom didnt take prenatal vitamins. we dont know anything around how this birth happened. so theres still a lot of unanswered questions. you know, we see children who are, quote, precocious, who are born to drug-addicted mothers. that doesnt necessarily mean to me that shes a normal child. now, it doesnt also mean that shes not a normal child. >> all right. yeah, we still have a long way to go there. youve be...

Dispute and i saw someone on twitter that night tweet this is a victory of feminism, its taken a generation of struggle to get people to recognize domestic violence not as something to simply walk past. and that is the difference, that moment is the difference between lord knows how many years of captivity of these women and the freedom that were now celebrating. >> yeah. so, i think two really important things about bystander intervention as a strategy for ending violence or as a strategy for c...

Im not too sure that we ever agree on much. we are from a different generation. we bring to the congress a different set of experiences. but i always try to work on behalf of the people of south carolina and my congressional district. and ill work with anybody to get to the ends that we ought to all be seeking. but im never going to give up on the dreams and aspirations of the people who sent me here. >> all right. congressman jim clyburn, south carolina. veteran democrat and assistant leader of...

Who knows how many assaults as elizabeth did. they were, of course, finally freed. the manipulation, the captivity, i know elizabeth was, you know, chained, not chained, but cabled by her ankle between these two trees and unable to leave this area for three months. and certainly the manipulation that these predators have is just amazing. and to think that he would be able to, you know, keep them hidden from society. i mean, elizabeth was -- had that veil over her face, nobody thought to tear it ...

Of emotionalism. she was blaming her murder on domestic violence which is like bill ayers blaming his problems on the war. >> greg: the prosecutor decided apparently jodi arias blea bar a bargained. she said she would take second degree murder which is 15 to 25. they said no way. they were going for it. juan marpt national weather marr attorney general going forward. final thoughts? >> whereas the switch? >> greg: you flip it? > >> dana: pro bono. i would fly out to phoenix on my own dime and fl...

To leave the house, and if the girls would pretend to escape, he would beat them up, and appalling details of multiple pregnancies involving one of the girls michelle knight and of course, this moment when amanda berry gave birth in a tub and they were warned if the baby died, they would die. utterly appalling, and is this the kind of thing that the sex traffickers do in your experience to the young women to ensure they stay in captivity? >> yes, they do a great deal deal in captivity and they p...

Cleveland kidnapping suspect harsh enough given the years of alleged captivity and abuse those victims suffered? weigh in on our facebook page or find me at thomasa.roberts on twitter. [ female announcer ] introducing new olay fresh effects a lineup of unstoppable skincare! for whatever adventure always start fresh and finish sparkling ♪ only from new olay fresh effects.