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question? this one interrupts me. >> he says he was hacked but many wonder why he's being so defensive. many wonder why he's being so defensive. today, wednesday, june 1, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to "today." i'm meredith vieira. >> good morning. i'm ann curry. lucky matt and al are on assignment in vatican city. >> matt had a rare audience with pope benedict xvi. i know you will tell us about that more later, but give us one sentence about what the experience was like, if you can. >> oh, my. it was very, very exciting, meredith. it followed an aud...

to a woman from his twitter account. >> do you want to ask a question? this one interrupts me. >> he says he was hacked but many wonder why he's being so defensive. many wonder why he's being so defensive. today, wednesday, june 1, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to "today." i'm meredith vieira. >> good morning. i'm ann curry. lucky matt and al are on assignment in vatican city. >> matt had a rare audience with pope benedict xvi. i know you will tell us abo that more later but give us one sentence about what the experience was like, if you can. >> oh, my...

Face. i can't imagine at that moment what he was going through. one other point is that lashawn told ryan that no other car would stop for him. a 10-year-old boy on the side of the road half clothed, and no one helps him. what's going on there? >> you know, i'm going to go there. this is racism. and we don't know -- >> really? >> i don't know how big this child was, but i happen to have a 12-year-old daughter who's multiracial, who's 5'8". this child could have been perceived as a young black man at the side of the road. oh, my gosh, a threat. it's so disturbing. but i can only imagine if a 10...

He was saying help me, help me. so i opened my window and said what's the matter? he said, my mom drove the car into the water. he was frantic. very, very frantic. he was hysterical crying, wet from head to toe, and he was shivering uncontrollably. >> she's talking about a 10-year-old boy whose mom tried to kill him. lashawn armstrong escaped as prosecutors say his mother lachanda armstrong drove her minivan into the hudson river, drowning herself, her 11-month-old girl, and two boys, ages 2 and 5. lashawn got out, eventually picked up on a roadside by a woman you just heard from. that was mav...