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Terrorism and the development of new terrorists. is that your understanding of what mortenson's message largely was? >> yeah. i mean, you know, let's be fair here, i mean the guy has done quite a lot of good, not as much good as, perhaps, he's claimed and, perhaps, his charity has claimed, but he's certainly built these schools and whether they defeat extremism or not, i mean, providing girls education in parts of the world which have very little of that, that's a good thing. >> the criticism here, "60 minutes" says that they were sort of -- there had been complaints about some of what the fou...

>> deciding to tell your own story of your family is a tough one, i'm sure. you've spent your whole career on reporting on other personal stories. what made you decide to do this? >> after four years of talking to my daughter, allison, the mother of nick, about this, i felt i just had to do what i could to help draw wider attention to this. because low public awareness is growing and the stigma is declining. but it's still a well-known disease -- or not disease, condition. but if i can just quote if what one of the leading researchers looking for causes of autism, which is still very mysteriou...