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So when i grew up, when i was a kid, i played cowboys and indians. the cowboy myth had such a grip on americans' self-identity. >> i remember. playing cowboys and indians, it was just part of the culture. you looked up to john wayne, steve mcqueen. my kid, 12 years old, wouldn't even think about cowboys. >> this is david manzanares. his family has lived here for generations, tracing their roots all the way back to the spanish conquistador. >> you know, those cliff walls out there, tony, are 160 million years old. the ones at the bottom, about 220. they're all the way back to the triassic area....

"the challenger" happen. not understanding it. it happened in realtime. i'm sure a lot of people my age have that same memory. you talk about miracle on ice. the fall of the berlin wall. mtv. synthesize how all that helped shape the nation during that decade. >> i think you're right. if i had to name one moment i would name that challenger explosion as a moment that symbolizes the 1980s for me. i think in the 1980s we were struggling as a country to in many ways feel proud of ourselves again. i think that a lot of those -- a lot of those examples you laid out became examples in our politics an...

Zillions of dreamers who are lgbt. >> do we have a graphic for that, zillions? >> we want to make sure there's a pathway for all immigrants. >> i wonder about that. by taking it to the immigration question, part of what you have done is remind us of the intersection. for a lot of folks, what is interesting in watching the first african-american also become, you know, not gay in terms of self-identity but the first gay president for the push at the federal level. those are the intersections that have been most difficult to build in terms of coalition. >> yeah. i think that's right and i think w...

right-wing revolt against romney? the "politico" reporter who lost his job after making racially charged comments on more than. we'll talk to joe williams about what happened. plus, we all thought we knew the story of barack obama's early years. but thanks to four years of relentless reporting, david mariness has cost it in a whole new light. >> what obsessed me were two things to start with -- the world that made him. sort of the randomness of his existence, and the ability to write about the whole world through that story. and then how he remade himself. >> a conversation about...

leak at a u.s. government lab. is an agency that's supposed to protect us from disease putting people at risk? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." all eyes on the u.s. supreme court this coming week as the justices are expected to hand out a ruling that will impact every american and shape the future of the country. the long-awaited decision on president obama's health care reform law. and coming just months before the election, the stakes, politically speaking, could not be higher. cnn's kate...