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From our west coast newsroom, trace. >> reporter: there were 24 kids in this classroom. the kids had to line up as you just said. some said they didn't want to hit the 6-year-old boy because he was their friend. this teacher insisted. witnesses said if they didn't hit the boy hard enough they had to slap him again with the teacher in the background saying, and i'm quoting from the witness, hit him, hit him harder. as you might imagine the boy's mother when she found out about it weeks later was incensed. listen. >> my stomach just was in knots. it was horrible, child abuse. totally child abuse...

Unflappable greta van susteren at fox news. >> what happened, there was a caller that called into a radio station up in lavonia -- excuse me, new hampshire. and they called in and said, made the point, that because of the number of abortions in america, that there are fewer people out there working and, of course, social security is based on having people working to support those who are in retirement. and one of the problems with social security is a demographic problem which is people are living longer and collecting benefits on social security. and our birthrate is lower. we are now not at ...

>> you don't think that's a little weird? >> greta in the background saying that's a little weird. some of these things the religious right will care about. some of them the religious right will not care about. most pragmatic conservatives will mostly care about the fact mr. santorum lost his last electoral contest by 18 points when he was an incumbent senator in pennsylvania. strategically, at this point in the race, i am fascinating to find out whether or not rick santorum gets vetted. does anybody bother? do they wait for him to wither on his own? joining us now, mr. eugene robinson. it was...

Government? his position if we only banned abortion, then we could afford social security? that baffled even the usually unflappable greta van susteren at fox news. >> what happened, there was a caller that called into a radio station up in lavonia -- excuse me, new hampshire. and they called in and said, made the point, that because of the number of abortions in america, that there are fewer people out there working and, of course, social security is based on having people working to support those who are in retirement. and one of the problems with social security is a demographic problem whi...

Abortion, then we could afford social security? that baffled even the usually unflappable greta van susteren at fox news. >> what happened, there was a caller that called into a radio station up in lavonia -- excuse me, new hampshire. and they called in and said, made the point, that because of the number of abortions in america, that there are fewer people out there working and, of course, social security is based on having people working to support those who are in retirement. and one of the problems with social security is a demographic problem which is people are living longer and collecti...