there s been no big scientific study, what happens if you take ten babies and flip them and ten babies and you don t flip them. i think at the end of the day, it s a matter of faith. and there is a small group in russia that do this. it s a small minority but they have a lot of faith in it. the baby s father, sasha, certainly thinks that fokina, not the girl s mother, is on to something. sasha, the father, really believes in this. he has gone down to egypt before and spent time with her, and i think is a big part of their lifestyle. in fact, he still swings his daughter, who is shown here as a 2-year-old toddler. he says she is happy and healthy. while this video represents an extreme version of dynamic gymnastics, thornburg says this practice is at least partly in line with the russian approach to fitness and health. russians expect a certain amount of virility. they are the people who sit in
russians expect a certain amount of virility. they are the people who sit in hot, you know, saunas and beat themselves with sticks and then run out into the snow. i guess this is an example of different strokes for different folks, right? but still, i don t think it would be a good idea. you know that it s real. it s good to know that the baby was fine, that nothing happened, there was no injury. everything s cool. but it just seems so, like, violent and like, not healthy. i thought babies necks were soft and that you needed to cradle them, not jerk them around. and maybe the extreme nature of the video is the reason many people thought this couldn t be real in the first place. and why some still don t believe it is. but there are still people who come on to our site and comment that they still think it s fake, even after the whole interview. and i think one of the reasons is because we just have no visual context for anyone surviving something like this.
russians expect a certain amount of virility. they are the people who sit in hot, you know, saunas and beat themselves with sticks and then run out into the snow. i guess this is an example of different strokes for different folks, right? but still, i don t think it would be a good idea. you know that it s real. it s good to know that the baby was fine, that nothing happened, there was no injury. everything s cool. but it just seems so, like, violent and like, not healthy. i thought babies necks were soft and that you needed to cradle them, not jerk them around. and maybe the extreme nature of the video is the reason many people thought this couldn t be real in the first place. and why some still don t believe it is. but there are still people who come on to our site and comment that they still think it s fake, even after the whole interview. and i think one of the reasons is because we just have no
and spent time with her, and i think is a big part of their lifestyle. in fact, he still swings his daughter, who is shown here as a 2-year-old toddler. he says she is happy and healthy. while this video represents an extreme version of dynamic gymnastics, thornburg says this practice is at least partly in line with the russian approach to fitness and health. russians expect a certain amount of virility. they are the people who sit in hot, you know, saunas and beat themselves with sticks and then run out into the snow. i guess this is an example of different strokes for different folks, right? but still, i don t think it would be a good idea. you know that it s real. it s good to know that the baby was fine, that nothing happened, there was no injury. everything s cool. but it just seems so, like, violent and like, not healthy. i thought babies necks were soft and that you needed to cradle them, not jerk them around. and maybe the extreme nature of the video is the reason ma
you decide. martians our sunday night mystery and much more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. we begin with the secret service crisis. congress will hold hearings over the agency s prostitution scandal. they will look at what happened in colombia and all that led up to it. meantime, congressman peter king is concerned about the agency s future. we have to find out what is going to be done to ensure or to minimize the possibility of this ever happening again because i have great regard for the secret service. i believe director sullivan has done a fine johb. but you can t allow 11 men like this to tarnish the great reputation of that industry. police are conducting their own investigation in cartagena. drew, it appears the woman at the center of this scandal has gone underground. what are you learning about this? reporter: absolutely correct. she has an attorney. that attorney has apparently farming around her story