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We made our own life, and he took care of me a lot. >> your father went to prison and it was over a strange incident involving an ex-girlfriend. >> correct. >> the way he ended up at the ex-girlfriends house and effectively seemed to kidnap her daughter. >> correct. >> and for that he went to prison. he later committed suicide and james lost his life on the anniversary of your father taking his life. do you think that was linked in someway? >> no, i think that in many ways they are very differen...

And i want nothing more than -- you know, i have so much respect and love and deep, deep, deep respect in my heart for my brother that i want nothing more than for his wishes to be honored. ive heard people say that, you know, im upset about that, that he left them $100,000. its really -- >> you spoke -- >> could not be further from the truth. >> youve spoken to brett -- >> i called and let him know. absolutely. >> how that was conversation? >> it was very nice. ive been -- you know, brett was m...

Lgbt that they arent isolated and not forgotten? >> i think those moves are very positive. im not so sure i would support a boycott because -- is not a state-owned company and i dont see the effectiviveness of that and its bottled in latvia where i was today. as for boycotting the olympics, i dont know if that is a great idea. what is effect if the political leaders boycott. usually at the olympics they have prime ministers and presidents from all over the world come and they are seen publicly. ...

Are now going to have to take an exit exam. >> the goal of the test is to measure the students skills, they can incorporate the results into resumes or have them september to potential employers. >> so we asked to you weigh in and here are some of your response. cindy says someone can be book smart but not adequately apply what they have learned. >> and mr says to have the students prove that they have ob takened the requisite knowledge by earning the grades. >> and james says testing is importa...

Bardens and their two children, 11-year-old natalie and 13-year-old james, back to school in newtown, connecticut, its yet another painful reminder of whats missing. >> this will be our first time back to school without daniel. >> reporter: daniel was one of 20 children and six educators killed during the horrific shooting spree last december. the bardens still struggling with what were once joyous occasions. >> we dont know how well deal with thanksgiving and december and all of that is coming ...

The racism and sexual harassment lawsuit against paula deen has officially been dismissed, a federal judge signing off on a deal between deen and a former employee. no word on a possible settlement but the suit was dismissed with prejudice so it cannot be refiled. during a deposition in that case deen admitted to using racially insensitive language in the past, that admission sent her career into a tailspin. it would appear the material girl is living up to her name, "forbes" says madonna took...

James. simon cowell and howard stern settled for $55 million this year. on this day in 1883 the most volcanic in history sparked a chain of natural disasters around the world it happened in western indonesia. months earlier passengers on a german warship had reported a massive blume of ash coming from the volcanos creator. those explosions became routine in late august of that year, a major blast blew most of the island into the sea triggers deadly tsunamis. a series of even more intense eruptio...

Repression that is perpetrated by your pay masters and by vladimir putin. >> joining me right now is james who is a fellow with the foreign policy initiative and he went rainbow rogue on that show in russia today. james, we didnt see in the clip there when you sat down you didnt have on the rainbow suspenders and then you pulled them up during the interview. you were booked on that show today to talk about chelsea manning and the verdict. explain what is the motivation to flip the script on why ...

Good job of kind of blocking this and, you know, not really thinking about it or processing it until we got both james and natalie on to their respective school buses and then jackie and i got back into our quiet house and it hit us like a ton of bricks. we just literally came apart of the seams and we just had to get out of the house so we thought wed go for a walk and then we didnt want to be in our neighborhood so we went somewhere else and the drive there we saw lots of first graders and kin...

That one day -- >> it was almost the same speech word for word that he later, in august, delivered in washington. >> one day little white children and little negro children will be able to join hands as brothers and sisters. i have a dream this afternoon. >> frank was 18, james was 17, and i had just turned 15 like ten days earlier. this particular sunday, frank was talking about he really wanted to go to the march on washington. we didnt have the money and frank said, well, ive been thinking ab...