CNN The Situation Room June 2, 2014 22:08:00
In hopes of communicating with his son's captors. he also grew out a beard as a symbolic gesture. >> to just have relativity and show we do have things in common. that i'm a father of my son, and you are a father of your sons. and that's where he started his platform of trying to learn their culture and to relate to them as he hoped they could relate to he and his family. >> reporter: so here's the thing. there are many polar opinions about what's happening here. we got a news release from the city of hailey basically saying the city is being inundated, wolf, inundated with phone calls, people...