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What is your reaction to watching this story move through an internet game of telephone, into politics, into the story about the kid who doesn't want a free lunch from the government? >> well, i have to say i think the whole thing is really pretty interesting and it is an honor to be here tonight. i thank you for that. our story, my story with maurice was not about the fact he did no want a free lunch. when i realized he was not eating, i said, we can't continue this way. i can't see you every day. so i can either give you money, which will then enable you to eat throughout the week, or if you...

Lunch, we've missed the whole notion of parents being there for their children. because we've taken over that responsibility. >> so now we know where ryan got his story from, but who is this boy? a commenter on "talk points memo" pointed something out. anderson's story sounded an awful lot like an anecdote in "an invisible thread" which has nothing to do with the school lunch program. it's the story of the relationship between the author and maurice, an 11-year-old homeless panhandler when she offered to give him money for lunch, "when i see kids only to school with their lunch in a paper bag,...

Five children are hunger deprived, in this country, in a country as rich as america, that's really, really sad. when you look at the life that maurice led, as a child, there are children today that are still living like that. >> millions. >> millions. about 16 million, actually. and so for my book to be able to be brought to the forefront, to make people become aware that this is how children are living, they're not choosing to live this way. unfortunately, they don't have a choice. >> they don't have a choice. laura schoff, author of "invisible thread." >> my pleasure. breaking news from so...

Heartless. they care about the poor in quotation marks. let's make a show of it. that is not showing up now on any of budgets or any of the votes. >> no. compassionate conservatism, we know, doesn't work because it's a cruel hoax. it's cruel because it's not there. there's no money. there's no benefit. it's a hoax because basically we have now 22% of americans' children are under the poverty line. i mean, this is something that you should not make stories up about. i mean, we have enough terrible stories. >> yeah. >> of people who are living in their cars. children who are living off -- on the...