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Soul and her heart also are bigger than her drug addiction, and to not just demonize her for that. to look at her humanitarian work, to look at the work that she did for children and people with cancer and aids and fighting against apartheid in africa. we can't forget that. >> this is the sad thing. now this is going to be a big part of her legacy. >> well, and here's the thing, megyn, that people are not talking about. whitney houston is, was an incredible person, but she was a woman who had very deep issues. we know that from a very young age. she had performance anxiety, generalized anxiety...

Your life. biggest thing you are up against. she said herself. >> it may have a lot of inner turmoil and they have adoring audiences, so the internal self and external self become more apart. >> i think sometimes they self-medicate. >> i cannot imagine. what a tremendous loss, a tremendous talent. >> they are going to do the whole dedication for her breathe. >> we'll be right back and up next we'll talk about pentagon announcing new rules allowing women to serve closer to the front lines. is that a sign of gender equality or a dangerous step o for our military. our power panel weighs in that n...

Solution, to self-medicate. that's what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. >> i've been. 12 step programs for, oh, geez, probably about 1 years now, 19 years, but the current program i'm in, it's called arc. it's addiction recovery counseling. >> it's a four-month program which is a state-of-the-art addiction treatment program. it's the first one ever in the world as far as we know that's completely run and has counselors who are inmates, who are trained inmates. >> it's one thing to sit across the desk from somebody in a suit and ...

>> the american economy has created in the private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row. that's nearly three million new jobs in all. more than half a million over the last four months. so we need to keep that growth going. >> there are some new signs of life in the u.s. job market. with a strong showing in november that caught a lot of the analysts by surprise. the labor department says employers added 120,000 jobs helping push down the unemployment rate from 9% in october to 8.6%. that's the lowest level in almost three years. but there's more to it than meets the eye. lisa ...

And i've been incarcerated ever since.qerí i was so young, i just felt like my life is over. i've got a life sentence. it's over. i came to prison and started into the same behavior. i was like for the first nine years, i was using whatever i . could, drugs, prison alcohol. just trying to do anything that i could to escape the reality of my situation and what i had done.,óti you know and that, and it's just self-medicating the same way i was in the street. all the pain, everything that $o came up for me that was my solution, to self-medicate. that's what i did. >> in his struggle to conque...