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As the victims of his childhood violence are, in his words, fictitious. >> it's a bunch of lies. attempting, you know, to say that i'm lying about my history. i think it's pathetic. and basically what the media does is they try to get you distracted with all of this stuff so that you don't talk about the things that are important, because we have so many important things. and, you know, i'm not proud of the fact that i had these rage episodes. but i am proud of the fact that i was able to get over them. >> cnn's tom foreman is here in the situation room with more on the controversy over dr. ca...

Runners, dr. ben carson, clearly on the defensive as new questions are raised about his life story. the story that came out today about west point, maeve, he's not responding, because in his book he suggested he was offered a scholarship to go to west point, he didn't really want to go to west point, he told the "new york times" just a little while ago, i don't remember all the specific details, because i had done so extraordinarily well, you know i was told that someone like me, they could get a scholarship to west point, but i made it clear i was going to pursue career in medicine. it was, y...

Exaggerated and are using that to build your resume as far as west point, what would you say to those people? >> i would say, where's the exaggeration? >> dr. carson, one of your opponents has said this is the beginning of the end. how do you think this will affect the polls if it will at all. >> well, you said the key word there, "opponent" what do you expect? >> it was intimated we would get more details about your childhood friends you were involved in violence with, potentially revealing bob or jerry. can you expand on this? are we going to get their identities? >> if you want to find thei...

His faith and fly in the face of science, speculating about an alternative use for the great pyramids, long considered burial chambers. >> my own personal theory is that joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. >> reporter: but others are much more explosive, like his comment about homosexuality and incarceration. >> a lot of people who go into prison go in straight and they come out gay. did something happen they were in there? >> reporter: carson backed off of that within hours and apologized, saying, i do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. i...

Happening now, breaking news convinced it's a bomb. the russian air disaster was an act of terror it's said. what the jet's black boxes revealed. american security. the united states responding to concerns that an airport insider may have planted a bomb in that russian jetliner. we're going to tell you about new screenings being ordered as we get an unprecedented look inside the airport where the russian jet took off. pay back for isis? if the terror group blew up a commercial airliner, should the u.s. join with russia to retaliate. i'll ask rand paul. pushing back, one of the gop front runn...