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To the polls and vote. i don't know if this guy has ever been on a committee, a task force and when you think of it, congress has done such a bad job that if you get selected, all you have to do is say no. >> he's got good pipes, but it used to be you had to pay your dues. before thinking you were going to run for congress, you would serve on the local town council. >> he becomes a big superstar, he was a special ed teacher before that. got a great set of pipes. i think some people are thinking that maybe he's just floating in some section, but i do think there's also this case of being a poli...

Florida where to put it mildly, his special ed teacher had unorthodox methods including dousing jason's crayons in hot sauce to break the habit of putting them in his mouth. because of jason's autism, his ability to speak is limited. his parents say he would later get panicked when given crayons. has he ever uttered a sentence, had a full conversation with you? >> no. >> reporter: would he be able to tell you if someone stuck a crayon with hot sauce in his mouth? >> he won't be able to tell me that. >> reporter: will he be able to say i'm in pain, please take that out of my mouth? >> no, he ca...

Hearing more and more about the real obama is coming forward and tends to be on the progressive side and wants to address income and equality, that's very central to him and i bet he does have curves. i think there will be big questions whether he'll be seen as tough enough, especially with iran. >> david, candy, john king, thanks for being with us and happy holidays. >> thank you. up next, a powerful story of forgiveness, an american teacher living in libya shot and killed. his widow's message is one of love for the libyan people, including for the attackers himselves. he speaks with anita ...

So he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what was your day like? what was your life like? >> poor, white trash. that's one of the things that made them so easy for them to put this off on us is because we were expendable. our lives didn't matter. >> whether that was true or not, the police were struggling to solve a crime with very few leads. what kind of pressure are poli...

Talked to jessie? >> i met him at his home on a cold, winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. little kids called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father says he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> iq i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he compare...