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This event. the fall, by the way, is about 876 feet! it takes about 8.8 seconds to reach the bottom. >> okay. i have nightmares like that, don't you? >> yes. >> where you're like falling and falling and falling? >> exactly. >> yeah. i don't really want to do that in real life. >> no. >> oh, look at that! president obama getting some backlash for comments he made following the last-minute deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. critics sort of slamming him now for targeting political bloggers and in the words of some on twitter "slamming free speech." here's the presid...

Turning their budget problems around. what was the situation in kansas? >> we had $876 and $500 million projected zist. we now have $3500 million in the bank, a billion dollar swing, didn't raise taxes, we cut them and we took all taxes off of small business, all llc and sub income, no stated income tax as a way to grow the economy. that has produced a growing atmosphere within the state of kansas. 5.5% unemployment rate and we're getting the budget deficit under control and we invested in key areas of the economy, like aviation in the state of kansas. it's really what we got to do federally. ...

Citizens out of their life savings. kim nichols says her 77-year-old father was ripped off. >> he received a phone call from someone saying they were from publisher's clearinghouse. they said he won a mercedes, a nice car and over $1 million. >> reporter: publisher's clearinghouse had nothing to do with this and doesn't notify winners on the phone. kim's father started getting a flood of phone calls from jamaica's 876 area code with crooks impersonating government officials demanding tax money before he could get the prize. how much money did your father end up giving? >> he lost $85,000. >> r...

Savings. kim nichols says her 77-year-old father was ripped off. >> he received a phone call from someone saying they were from publisher's clearinghouse. they said he won a mercedes, a nice car and over $1 million. >> reporter: publisher's clearinghouse had nothing to do with this and doesn't notify winners on the phone. kim's father started getting a flood of phone calls from jamaica's 876 area code with crooks impersonating government officials demanding tax money before he could get the prize. how much money did your father end up giving? >> he lost $85,000. >> reporter: $85,000. >> $85,00...

Abused by the dogs. >> dog bears. >> bill: isn't the bear bigger than the dog? >> i would think the dog would get -- >> bill: right. >> the lemg later they know best. what gals me is last year governor brown rejected a law saying kids had to wear helmet while skiing or criminal penalty for parents. you can't have a law for everything. >> bill: we do have law. >> this year he signed 876. >> one of the most controversial of these laws is that if you are a therapist, licensed -- you can't try to convince somebody they are not gay even if they want you to. >> these programs, i have done exposes on...