how about the flying fingers of irish hand dancing? and no, that was not the two of us doing hand dancing. i ve been worried all morning that you re going to propose some sort of i want to. the hour s not over yet, dan. they actually used to perform for the riverdance. this is a new dance craze they re starting. they re going to be joining us live. they ve gone rogue, post riverdance. emotionless faces. did you see that? i did. we ll talk to them, later. also, we have serious news. including new details about what happened when the mother of natalee holloway, went inside a peruvian prison to confront the man she believes murdered her daughter. joran van der sloot s lawyer is now calling beth twitty s surprise jailhouse visit a, quote, ambush. we ll have the latest on that. this is a story that touched a nerve with our viewers. lit up the message board. you saw the video of a father storming on to a school bus and threatening the kids he thinks is bullyin
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and gave her the phone number for his attorney. when prison guards realized that this might be part of some type of television event, they hustled beth and the camera crew right out of here. here s what her attorney said on today this morning. but i do know that she saw him. the substance of the conversation or who said what, i can t share. this was just a mother acting on her instincts not thinking about what the legal repercussions would be, which would be none. reporter: beth holloway might have felt like this was her only chance. aruban investigators have been in no hurry to talk to him as they originally wanted to because now they feel it s very unlikely joran will tell them anything. all right, what a story. i tell you this, i assume it s made not for tv news, it s made for a tv movie like again tomorrow, the sequel. i think anybody can understand the motivation to go down there. what mother wouldn t. now, bringing the camera crew
absolutely. kelly o donnell reporting for us from our washington newsroom downstairs. thanks very much. i have to say, savannah, i think the next level of scrutiny is going to be on her personal finances, what is she doing, is she living off the campaign, things like that. that is a more relevant topic probably than 20 years ago. it s current, it s not 20 years ago and it goes to the heart of her platform. let s face it about fiscal responsibility. exactly. got to begin at home. we ll see if she gets that scrutiny. we ll move on and yet another twist today in the joran van der sloot saga. the man long suspected in natalee holloway s disappearance got a surprise visit in jail this week from none other than natalee s mother, beth twitty who went to peru and confronted van der sloot face to face. michelle kosinski has the story. reporter: when we heard about this we thought what? but five years ago when natalee holloway disappeared in aruba, her mother vowed to never give up,
find out what happened. well, she has kept that promise. traveling down to peru now where joran van der sloot is held in a prison awaiting trial for murdering a young woman down there, and she confronted him face to face. we recently heard this interview done behind bars with joran in which he tells a dutch tv reporter that life behind bars isn t that bad that, he s been teaching the guards english in his private cell and now claims he knows nothing about what happened to natalee. well, beth holloway s attorney said she had simply had enough hearing this. she went down there, teamed up with a dutch tv crew, got inside that prison and let joran have it, telling him that the united states has not forgotten about him, that whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here and that if he knows anything about what happened to natalee, he should say it now. not ten years down the road, but right now. she also told him that she holds no hate in her soul for him, but he