it s problematic and we need to look at it. i mean, we re looking at would you vote to repeal it? we need to repair it. reporter: when asked about a recent vote on gun control she appeared to draw a blank on the senators backing the measure. yes or no would you vote against? on? on the background checks. oh, my goodness. on the amendment the background checks? okay. i am a defender of the second amendment. but we should stay on background checks. reporter: the newspaper here endorsed colbert-busch, calling her the tonic for, quote, sanford fatigue. just how tired the voters are of the former south carolina governor will play out later today when the voters head to the polls. jim acosta, cnn, charleston, south carolina. our thanks to jim. 47 minutes past the hour. next on early start, controversy over a high school tradition where the boys vote on who they think is the sexiest girl. why the school can t seem to shut this down. oh, hi there bill.
interested in solutions than the salacious details of his argentinean mistress turned fiancee who showed up at one campaign event, or his legal battles with his ex-wife. do you think the voters are over it when it comes to your past? i don t think the media will ever be over it. that to a degree goes with the job. it s been about my personal failings, all well-chronicled. they re out there. people know about them. reporter: sanford has tried to change the subject, warning his loss would be a victory for house democratic leader nancy pelosi. wasn t that goofy to be out there debating a cardboard cutout of nancy pelosi? no. people got it. people got it. it was totally serious. reporter: because of san ford s baggage, his opponent elizabeth colbert-busch has a shot at winning this conservative district. the sister of comedian stephen colbert, she insists she ll be an independent voice in washington. no one tells me what to do except the people of south carolina s first congressi
0 minutes on the back of a napkin before i speak. the motto was stand and fight. the theme of the convention, stand and fight. words like battle, war. us against them. and stand and fight. we must remain vigilant. fear mongers. they don t get it because they don t get america. a cultural war the nra would like to wage. nothing new with the nra. absolutely nothing. doubling down on out of touch rhetoric. the nra needs to make president obama into a villain. president obama is awal. we need five more votes. we can do this. i think there will be an electoral price to be paid. the news media called me paranoid. paranoid fantasies. the epicenter of paranoid patriotism. really, he is frightened the losing what power he has. all the piers morgan, lawrence o donnells, rachel defeat in the u.s. senate with his step at a time gun owner registration under the guise of universal background checks. he s now threatening democratic senators who are friends of
0 important tool for keeping guns out of the wrong hands. well, the fact that you have a tool like that doesn t say that you re opposed to the second amendment or to the rights of gun owners to own their guns. there s no connection between those two things. mike, i want to read something that you wrote in your letter to wayne lapierre. you said there s something i am moral with the connection between deaths of children and explosion in gun sales you claim show how much we love our freedom. i would rather have those kids alive, even if it costs me more than a few bucks in gun sales. do you think you speak for some other gun sellers when you say that? well, i hope so because the fact of the matter is that we all have to face the reality of selling a product, which if it gets in the wrong hands can do a tremendous amount of damage. one of the reasons i wrote that letter is because i wanted organization it seemed to me that was really willing to say we don t need to sit here and argue
0 psychological toll that this is all taken on these girls. i mean, being kidnapped and kept from your families for ten years, potentially abused sexually as clint was suggesting, but we know from amazing cases like jaycee dugard and elizabeth smart that women in these situations can heal and can recover. what will they be going through in the immediate aftermath of this? in the immediate aftermath, they re going to be struggling with symptoms like disassociation. being foggy or detached from reality. they ll have a lot of reexperiencing symptoms which mean like intrusive thoughts that keep popping into their head related to what happened to them. maybe nightmares, that kind of thing. we on expect them to be what we call emotionally numb. so to have some difficulty experiencing a normal or typical range of emotions. we would expect them to be more irritable or hyper alert and jumpy because they re sort of on guard for a threat in their environment. dr. howard, let s string that out