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>> no, not at all, neither he nor his advance team had any indication of what i was going to say in the introduction. and by the way, in my introduction, as you accurately noted, i did not say anything about cults or mormonism or didn't mention mitt romney by name. all of this came about as a result of some reporters' questions after the introduction in which one reporter asked me why i personally would not vote for a mormon. that's what set all after this off. >> why did you even decide to bring this up now and bring up the issue of mormonism and the fact that you believe it's a cult? it was debated and discussed in 2008. >> right. i'm not the one who brought it up. a reporter asked me. my primary role is not of a politician nor a pundit. i'm a pastor. when somebody asks me a theological question about mormonism, i have a responsibility to tell the truth. this is no surprise, as you said, i'm not a jeremiah wright on the fringe of making fanatical statement. mormonism has never been considered a part of ooevangelil christianity. if it's a choice between mitt romney and barack obama in the general election, i will vote for mitt romney. >> i understand you say you responded to reporters. but you introduce rick perry. he's running for president of the united states. you're a supporter of his and we asked perry what he thought about what you said. this is what he told our reporters right after. >> did you associate yourself with the comments -- >> i answered your question. no, i don't think it is. thank y'all. >> here's a man that you support, he's saying right there to reporters he doesn't agree with what you said, with regard to mormonism being a cult. so does this change your mind about him and how you feel about him is this -- >> not at all. there are plenty of reasons. i believe conservative evangelicals ought to vote for rick perry over mitt romney and mormonism is just one issue for evangelical christians. but i think an equal question is going to be governor romney's lack of consistency on core issues to those of us who are evangelicals, like the abortion issue. i think many conservatives are suspect on his flip-flops on that issue. >> all right. romney, as you know, is a very successful businessman. >> yes. >> he's been a ceo of a very successful company in addition to running a state. many people believe he would be a very competent chief executive to run this nation in brutal economic times. so are you suggesting that religious beliefs should trump competence to be president? >> yes, to religious people, kyra, religion matters. and i'm a pastor. i was speaking to a group of conservative evangelicals and i said in my introduction of governor perry, i certainly tout his economic platform, his success in texas. but what i care about most as a christian is his stance on biblical issues like the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage. and governor perry has a strong, long track record of being consistent. for example, he signed the texas son gram bill, he defunded planned parenthood. those are important to us as evangelical christians. >> what does religion have to do with being a competent president? i'm talking about specifically what you said about mitt romney. >> well, john jay was the first chief justice of the united states supreme court. and he said, quote, we have a duty and a privilege as christians to select and prefer christians as our leaders. i hardly think john jay was a bigoted person. the fact is those of us who are evangelicals have every right to prefer and select a competent christian over a competent non-christian. again, kyra, it's not the only issue but it's certainly one issue that who we are evangelicals are going to consider. >> let me throw something back at you, then. let's talk about article 6, paragraph 3 of the constitution that says there's no religious test to being president. are you going against the constitution? >> kyra, that is an outrageous statement. that refers to government cannot impose a litmus test. but as individual citizens, we have every right to impose litmus tests of the kind of person we prefer. >> mitt romney spoke at the values voter summit today although he didn't mention pastor jeffress by name. he warned against poisonous language. almost 3,000 descendants of african slaves fighting for citizenship in oklahoma's cherokee nation. 150 years ago, their ancestors were enslaved not by white men, but by cherokees. soledad o'brien explains what happened when both sides went to court. >> i'm an african-american with cherokee heritage. my great grandmother, phyllis thompson pettit was a slave of the cherokees. >> reporter: what were those slaves doing for the cherokee nation? >> they were agricultural laborers. >> reporter: but in 1866, the cherokees freed their slaves signing a treaty guaranteeing that all freed men and their descendants would have all the rights of native cherokees. today that treaty is at the center of a controversy involving nearly 3,000 african-americans. on august 22nd, cherokee nation kicked them out of the tribe. >> the treaty of 1866 did not give citizenship to the freedmen or their descendants. the heart of the issue is whether or not an indian tribe can describe, can determine who is eligible to be a member of that tribe. >> reporter: in 2007, cherokee nation passed a law requiring proof of indian blood to be a member. the proof is based on a record that was created a century ago, called the dawes rolls. the freedommen say the dawes rolls are wrong because they were based on how you looked. >> if you look black, they wrote cherokee freedmen. if you looked not black, they wrote cherokee. >> reporter: in freedmen were of mixed cherokee and african blood. but on the rolls, they were listed with no indian blood. last month, it all went to federal court. >> i was restored as a member of the cherokee nation. >> reporter: a settlement has let the freedmen back into the tribe for now. the decescendants can vote but there's no report on whether they'll still be a part of the tribe. >> watch "the new promised land, silicon valley" hosted by soledad o'brien, sunday night, november 13th, 8:00 p.m. eastern. all work and no play, up next, our dr. bill prescribes us all a little r & r. and living longer is a goal for many people. and to help you achieve that goal, ten diet tips to help you live longer. first, snack on watermelon. second, stalk up ones asparagu. . who are you talking to? 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>> kyra, i think that probably sunk in the day that footage came on television as to what happened in new york city. >> reporter: it's 7:30 a.m. lieutenant morgan hammond briefs his strike element on the day's simulat simulated air combat mission. practicing to go in and defend against any enemy attack. these aviators are integrating all warfare areas to disrupt and destroy the enemy. making sure they're in control of their air space and that all bad guys are out of the sky. >> it's very important to get all the elements working together, all the strike fighters, doing missions together so that we can operate. >> reporter: mission for the day, accomplished. >> we're not just strapping on the jets and going flying. we have specific missions and there's a lot of coordination that we have to practice in order to work. it's a dangerous business whether you're doing training or contingency operations. >> reporter: americans say they want justice. what does this air wing want? >> we're all human. we have emotions and feelings just like every other american. but we're also very professional. quite frankly what we want is to do our job right. we want to represent the american people when the time comes. we don't want to let them down. and ten years later, now retired u.s. navy captain, r.c. thompson joining us from san diego. can you believe it's been ten years? >> i know, kyra. seems like yesterday. >> 9/11 happened and you were appointed to lead those air strikes over tora bora. take me back to that moment when you knew what the country wanted. everyone wanted osama bin laden dead. and here you were training with all the men and women to go over there and try and find him. what do you remember from getting those orders? >> well, i remember, kyra, that it was very personal for us. keep in mind we were charged with defending this country and when the events went down the way they did in new york, it was like somebody coming into your living room and attacking your family. so we had a very strong sense of revenge and payback and also making things right over there. and when we knew that we had the opportunity to actually corner and put al qaeda away or at least we thought we did, there was a sense that we could end it and end it early. >> you weren't able to find osama bin laden. as we know, it took almost ten years. when you found out that it finally happened, what went through your mind? what did you think about that? this was only a number of months ago. >> it was, you're right. and i think, like all the rest of the country, it was a strange cross between exhilaration and relief that we finally found the guy who really perpetrated this act on our country. so it was -- and a great deal of pride in our men and women in uniform. through all these years and all the very close misses that we've had, that we're finally able to put it to an end. >> now looking at afghanistan and where it stands ten years later, what do you think about? what do you hope for that country? what do you hope for our men and women in the military? >> you know, i'm hoping we can leave with a success. i'm very proud of our men and women in uniform. it was easy for us, kyra. if you remember back, we showed up on station. i remember the ship rendezvousing with a japanese tanker who was sending us a code. i was up on the bridge and asked what the code was. and it was, welcome u.s., we're all new yorkers. we were all new yorkers as a country going forward and fighting. if we can end this correctly so that we can move on, we will walk ahead with our heads high as new yorkers as well. that's what i hope for. >> final thought, that was a pretty amazing moment for you in your career. i remember talking to you years before that moment and you had told me about certain individuals that you trained for to get ready to possibly be in battle with osama bin laden, the name was out there. saddam hussein's name was out there. you trained for so long and then your moment came. would you say this was one of the most defining moments of your career when you were out there on the stenace leading the attacks? >> certainly it is. on every september 11th, i get e-mails from those i was out there with. it was a deep sense of honor and privilege and pride for representing our country for being called upon to go do that. our main focus was, let us do it right, let us fall back on the training that our country's given us and let's just go out and do it right. god bless them all. they've done it. for the last ten years, they've been doing it. there is no off-season for our military. they just keep going over there and doing their job. >> never forget more than a decade ago spending time with you at top gun when you led all those men and women through the school. you gave me the opportunity to understand the navy and what it meant to fight. and then 9/11 happened. you taught me a lot. it's such an honor to talk to you ten years later. thank you for calling in. >> keep up the great work, kyra. if you're looking to make some cash, we'll tell you where the holiday jobs are. one idea? check out u.p.s. or fedex. americans will be spending about 2.$2.5 billion on hallowe costumes. what is the top adult costume? 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then over into the eastern hemisphere, we have a full moon. so you get the moonshine and that drown things out a bit. but some very creative high school students have figured out a way to be able to see this.e about 10,000 feet up io the air. they've from bishop, california. joining me now is ann and amelia. ladies, thanks for joining me. oh, look, we have the whole group. everybody's there. tell us how the balloon went off. you launched today. >> yes, we did. >> how did that go? >> it went off about 20 minutes after we'd hoped. but since the meteor shower was peaking and the peak was long, hopefully we'll get some pretty great shots. but otherwise, it went off without a hitch. >> there's going to be a camera way up there and of course it will be dark there so hopefully we'll be able to get some pictures. where did you guys get the idea to do this project? >> we got the idea when we -- in the beginning of our freshman year when we had originally wanted to launch a satellite. but we originally -- but then we came to believe that we weren't quite ready and we moved into weather balloons and we just thought this was a perfect opportunity to get spectacular footage that no one else was really getting else in the world. so that's what inspired this launch. >> okay. so this sounds kind of complicated for high school students. was this a difficult thing for you guys to do? >> well, all of this class -- we've all been in it for quite a while now. and we're all just kind of dedicated nerds, honestly. we know what we're doing. with the right amount of focus and perseverance, it's not as complex as it seems. it's actually fairly simple. just takes a bit of brainpower. we've got tons of it here. >> which one of now is ann and which one is amelia? i didn't quite catch that. >> not to say it doesn't take a lot of work. it took us six hours to assemble our payload for this launch and just two hours blowing up the weather balloon. not to say it doesn't take a lot of work to do this. >> as i was reading up on this, i saw a quote from a nasa scientist who said, these might be the only pictures that scientists are going to be able to catch of this meteor shower and they're not real sure where the exact concentrations are of these dust trails. what does that mean to you guys to know that your work here in high school could help scientists? >> we're very happy we can make a contribution to this because we see as teenagers, sometimes it can be hard to make a contribution to the big scientists. but it's really nice that we can spend time and energy to make a contribution to the greater science world. >> absolutely. what's next? will there be more projects? >> oh, yeah. the weather balloons are -- honestly we're hoping to send up experiments because up in the stratosphere, it's a near-space environment which will be close to the environment of the satellite that we originally hope to send up. so we're hoping to send up some bacterial experiments in the future. this is sort of a bonus project. >> we'll have to get back in touch with you after you have the pictures. thanks so much, earth and sky, the group from bishop, california. can't wait to see the pictures. >> that's so going to be your kids when they enter high school. i can't wait. >> i hope so. >> we'll follow up. hopefully we'll see the pictures. some other stories making headlines today, a dramatic rescue at sea. a small plane runs out of gas quite a while flying from monterey, california, to hawaii. the pilot notified the coast guard he was in trouble. and the rescue team coached him how to safely land the plane right there on its belly. then the pilot climbed out of the cockpit, waited on the wing and the rescue chopper pulled him out to safety. one of the world's most famous helicopter pilots, england's prince harry, arrived in the u.s. for some specialized live fire military training in california and arizona. he's going to learn how to fly a helicopter like this one, a british version of the apache gunship. if he passes the two-month training, he'll be one step closer to becoming combat ready and possibly returning to afghanistan. talk about determination. qua drup l amputee is planning to climb mt. kilimanjaro. we'll follow his progress. that does it for me. thanks for joining us today. 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