boot camp for suri? overnight reports that katie holmes didn t want her 6-year-old daughter in an intense religious training program. so was scientology to blame for her split with tom cruise? newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for being with us today. we begin this hour with the western wildfires, growing in size and claiming more lives. so far, 1.9 million acres have burned. that s equivalent to an incredible 3,000 square miles. to give you an idea of just how huge that is, it s roughly the size of delaware and rhode island combined. and then there s the human toll. two crew members are confirmed dead in the weekend crash of an air tanker in south dakota. cnn affiliates say two other firefighters aboard that c-130 were also killed. one family member spoke to wbtv just before the doomed flight. it s very exciting. i mean, you know, adrenalin is flowing. we re ready to go. hopefully when we get there, we ll be ready
a penalty, not a tax. the law is clear. it s called a penalty. the massive so-called tax increase they re talking about is the freeloader penalty. people who can buy health insurance should take responsibility to do so. i m saying tks was set up as a penalty for people who chose not to buy insurance. it s a penalty. whatever you call it a mandate or a tax, it s a penalty. in case you missed it, it s a penalty and not a tax. that s what s being said, right? as for the republican side, any time is tax time. it s a tax increase. it s a massive tax increase on the middle class. that s florida senator marco rubio on saturday and the beat goes on. this law is a tax. obama care is the biggest tax increase in american history. the government could decide that we re going to tax you if you don t eat broccoli on tuesday. the affordable care act is a tax. it is the largest tax in america s history. middle tax increase. it s the largest tax increase on the m
speak with him more generally about his place in the history of psychiatry. as you mentioned, before the commercial break, he spearheaded the effort to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973 and then in 2001, dropped this bombshell that was very damaging to a lot of people. and so he s obviously an iconoclast. and i was curious about both his role in the 1973 declassification of homosexuality and then what led him to undertake the 2001 study. and then as we spoke, he started to express regret for both having conducted his study and also how it had been used by the ex-gay movement. so it was both about seeing the impact of how his study was used in the real world, but also some regret about the scientific basis of his findings? that s right. after his study was published, he endured a barrage of criticism from his colleagues in
around a core pseudo medical argument that being gay is a curable thing. that you can change your sexual orientation if you work on it. the core mainstream scientific justification for that argument has just been blown up by reporting from our next guest. gabriel aranna is a reporter and web editor at the american prospect. he s the new author of their new bombshell, my so-called ex-gay life. nice to have you here. thanks for having me. your story included this revelation that dr. robert spitzer wants to retract his fame 2001 study that suppose tli proved that gay people can be cured of homosexuality if they want it enough. when you set out to write this story, did you know that was going to happen? were you surprised by this revelation from dr. spitzer? i really didn t know it was going to happen. i went to visit him at his home in princeton, and i wanted to speak with him more generally about his place in the history
that you can change your sexual orientation if you work on it. the core mainstream scientific justification for that argument has just been blown up by reporting from our next guest. gabriel aranna is a reporter and web editor at the american prospect. he s the new author of their new bombshell, my so-called ex-gay life. nice to have you here. thanks for having me. your story included this revelation that dr. robert spitzer wants to retract his famous 2001 study that suppose tli proved that gay people can be cured of homosexuality if they want it enough. when you set out to write this story, did you know that was going to happen? were you surprised by this revelation from dr. spitzer? i really didn t know it was going to happen. i went to visit him at his home in princeton, and i wanted to speak with him more generally about his place in the history of psychiatry. as you mentioned, before the