180 pounds. larson says she has battled weight problems since childhood and tried just about every diet. but when nothing worked, she turned to barriatric surgery. i saw the before and after photos. i leapt into it. i had tunnel vision. all i could see was me being thin. reporter: that s exactly what happened. did you find yourself more obsessed with your weight when you were thin? absolutely. being thin didn t make me happy. i was looking in the mirror hating what i see. how is this even possible? reporter: dr. bethenny marshall says many people believe losing weight will solve their problems. obese people live with the fairy tale or illusion that if they lost the weight their lives would be better. but what happens is when they lose the buffer they feel that people are scrutinizing them. reporter: in her new book stranger here larson says she was finally forced to face her real issues. i had to deal with my real psychological struggles. reporter: you have
struggle with his weight problems, much like the rest of the country. that being said it s totally legit to me that we re focusing on his weight issues because, you know, if we re going to elect these people, we should check the most rudimentary thing, which is are they in good physical health. my favorite part was that he told the doctor he was upset with her because she was trying to seize the spotlight by saying something outrageous. this is chris christie, upset with somebody just to get himself on national tv. cannot believe she would do that. outrageous! can we talk about the political calculus of calling a former white house doctor and yelling at her on the telephone? someone who is a republican at that. yeah. it s weird, right? she s trying to probably make more of a public policy point than he is by this, by pointing out that obesity is a major problem and that we should be concerned about it. and that, you know, you should take steps to deal with it prior to it becomi
he has this image of like the every man governor who has to struggle with his weight problems, much like the rest of the country. that being said it s totally legit to me that we re focusing on his weight issues because, you know, if we re going to elect these people, we should check the most rudimentary thing, which is are they in good physical health. my favorite part was that he told the doctor he was upset with her because she was trying to seize the spotlight by saying something outrageous. this is chris christie, upset with somebody just to get himself on national tv. cannot believe she would do that. outrageous! can we talk about the political calculus of calling a former white house doctor and yelling at her on the telephone? someone who is a republican at that. yeah. it s weird, right? she s trying to probably make more of a public policy point than he is by this, by pointing out that obesity is a major
southwest, then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye towards tracing their way through the cartels. instead as we, the house oversight committee and ore news organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some made it back into the country. two were found at the scene where border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now tonight, though, after six months of reporting, fortune magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line letting guns walk was not, i repeat not, part of the plan. she writes five law enforcement agents directory involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could, but were ham strung by prosecutors and weak laws, w
the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnn s john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. john s, how s the turnout been? reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot of families coming before dropping off their kids at school. so quite a good turnout. there s 232,000 registered republicans in hillsboro county. i talked to the election supervisor a little while ago. he was telling me that they expected a very good turnout counting all of the early voting and the people that are likely to vote today could be 40 to 50%, he said, of that 232,000. so he expects quite a few people to vote today. here, kyra, is an example of the ballot we were talking about earl