send him home. we heard today from one alleged victim's mother who said her son lived in fear of sandusky. all of this comes with the candlelight vigil for the plan at penn state tonight and as the school gears up for the final home game tomorrow. it is the first game without joe paterno. jay gray joins us and it's tamron here. let me ask you here about the climate. tomorrow when or if we see penn straight score a touch down, it will be eerie to see the group of people cheering knowing there families producing more allegations at this point. >> yeah, tamron, i think you are absolutely right. the game here tomorrow and i don't think this is overstating it will be something like never before. it's a different atmosphere, especially in an arena like this one. penn state and the people of central pennsylvania live for

and love football. this is the way they spend their weeks and weekends and gagger with allegations in place. it will be difficult for many of them to cheer for the team. they feel like they need to be here to support for the university. it will be a very interesting and very different type of reaction tomorrow. i know that a lot of former players plan to be here to show their support for joe paterno and not the idea that maybe he didn't relate everything he should have to the right people, but for what he has done over six decades. i know a lot of students say it's important that they be a part of what happens here tomorrow as well. they feel like that's the only way they can move forward. as we have talked about, they canceled the pep rally that they hold every friday evening. that replaced tonight with a candlelight vigil for the victims. they are starting to make a transition here, but after what

we saw was a week of anger with students poring into the streets and at times rioting, it seems to be they are moving to a stance of let's remember what this is all about and think about the victims here. let's think about what the school as gone through and preparing to go through and try to move forward. >> we also heard from the new president of the university. let's play what he said earlier today. >> my heartaches for the vehicles and their families and mind searches for answers like millions of others across the nation. this is a tragedy for many lives. it will take all of us sometime to come to grips with the full magnitude of the damage done. >> and i think one of the things that everybody here at penn state is talking about is it's going to take time. we sl seen them get rid of the school president and the legendary coach, joe paterno and long time observers say that's

only the beginning. this entire coaching staff at some point is going to have to be swept out. most of them had been around for 20 or 30 years. they have been a part of this paterno administration and there aren't many people who believe if he knew what was going on, they didn't as well. they are going to try to work through the game. they have two more and probably a bowl game they will have to get through. this is just a process that is going to continue. tomorrow is the next big measure. >> jay gray live for us in front of state. thank you very much. let's bring in michael smerconish who is an attorney and msnbc contributor. we have criminal defense attorney joey jackson. i will start off with you. one sponsor pulling out of the game tomorrow. cars.com said it only wants to feature reputable universities and at this point they do not obviously see penn state as reputable. they will sponsor a game, but

not penn state. what do you make of that move and others could follow. >> all afternoon i have been having a robust afternoon and canceled and toured nebraska and said we understand what's going on. this is what we are prepared to do. i don't think that's the right move. you have 85 young men on the squad who were not wrong doers and it would be in error if they were to say the season comes to a halt right now. >> you are right to make that point. some were students or athletes there who have done nothing wrong, but they are associated with the university. let me bring in joey. we have the mother of one of the allege victims now speaking out. she said her son felt he did not have any power to say no to the former state coach. she told abc news he didn't know what to do. you just can't tell jerry no. that is what the mother is

saying. you have people wondering about the statute of limitations and civil lawsuits. what do you believe would be the next logical move for the families as they seek justice if the allegations are true. >> it's horrific. you have a situation where people are abused to the highest degree. who could expect and imagine where you have a vulnerable child. adults couldn't sayy in to these people and now you can imagine a child not having a clue what to do. what happens next? what has to happen is full cooperation with the authorities as it relates to the criminal aspects of the case. they will investigate this from beginning to end. >> which are they are doing now. >> the board of trustees even a pointed a committee to look into it themselves. there is an internal and external investigation. i can assure you this. after the criminal proceeding, there will be civil litigation because the families deserve redress. they deserve to have this matter resolved in a criminal aspect

and those involved should be accountable. not only sandusky who was the abuser, but those who failed to report. the civil liability relates to money. if there is money for the families, they should be entitled to it and get it. >> i talked to the victim of abuse by a priest as a child and he said if they behaved like an organized unit, throw that in the situation if these allegations are true. >> it's a stretch. what happens is from a federal standpoint, we have racketeering act and states who followed suit and state statutes that are similar. to establish that you have to prove a experience not only that there was a main participant, but providing the children to him and know being it and exploiting the children and getting more children to come forward and maybe it amounts to that at a future point, but all we know is mr. sandusky is the

main offender. >> politico has the article and they consume pa politics and talks about rick santorum who may feel the fallout. he sponsored jerry sandusky to get a congressional angels and adoption award. governor tom corbett came out who was the da at the time this investigation started, he is on the board of trustees and the governor. he spoke out yesterday. we know that the senators from that state also withdrew the nomination for paterno to get the presidential medal of freedom. the biggest names in politics and nationally have some connection to penn state. >> you would be hard pressed to find an elected official in the common wealth of pennsylvania that doesn't have a connection whether they attended or have a son or daughter or parent who attended as well. one other footnote and something

else that needs to be looked at in this conversation is the reporting requirement in pennsylvania. i maintain it's got to be strengthened and if you are a witness to a form of child abuse that went on in this case, you ought to have a statutory obligation to pick up the phone and call law enforcement, not just your supervisor in the workplace. >> amazing that that's not the law already. stunning in itself. you will stick around and be a part of the panel. we will talk about a penn state alum who is joining to raise moan for the victims of sexual abuse. now to the race for 2012, analysts have been predicting an opening for newt gingrich and it appears for now they are right. several candidates are in south carolina getting ready for the second debate this week and going into it as two new polls show gingrich pibing up support in light of herman and rick perry dealing with different issues, but issues that are affecting their numbers.

according to a new york poll, herman cane is in the lead with 18% and in october that number was at 25%. the number two spot is tied with mitt romney at 15% down from 21%. newt gingrich is also at 15%, up from october by 5 points. a new poll puts romney at 23% and gingrich at 19% and herman cain at 17%. they call it newt-mentum. he commented on the number this is morning at a breakfast in new hampshire. >> when the front-runners at 18 and the next two are tied at 15 it is a wide open race. >> it is a wide open race and let's bring in our panel. back with us after seconds away, michael smerconish, an msnbc contributor. let me bring you in and take a

look at the numbers. is it new ment um and the natural course here? >> i think it's a little of both. when you look at the polls, one of the things is 17% of the people who were poled and primary voters are undecided. i think certainly gingrich has a window to make a play for the folks. i talked with his people in new hampshire and they are excited there. he has been able to get a lot of tea party support and the top guys are tea party organizers. he has been able to really coalesce and have a tea party movement around him. one of the problems is he can be a very undisciplined campaigner. let's face it. the tea party likes anti-establishment folks and gingrich is a very establishment guy. >> let me ask you how we get to the point. you know as i do, it was weeks or months ago, people had britney him off. he was the butt of the jokes.

he was glitter bombed, we had a book signing where a guy walks up and throws glitter in his face. in iowa he was yelled at verbally and attacked by a voter who said he was a disgrace at the time. how did we get back to this point? it's not as if he is a new face to the audience like rick perry or herman cain. they know the good and the bad that comes with him. >> i think it's two things. number one, i think the conservatives in the republican primary process are looking for a candidate. they moved around from michele bachmann to herman cain to rick perry and circled back to newt gingrich. they still don't feel that mitt romney, the raging moderate is the candidate they want to have represent them in november. they are looking for a new conservative voice. number two, romney has not put the guys away.

he is not somebody that inspires a lot of passionate following and the establishment choice for the nomination and a lot of republicans don't want a repeat of 2008 with john mccain who was the inside air apparent and got the nomination. they top the get their energy and the grass roots support behind the candidate that they think can bridge the enthusiasm gap with president obama. >> our team and the political team wrote this. mitt romney's path to the presidential nomination is wide open. not since bob dole in 96 has a candidate been such a clear front-runner right before the primaries and caucuses began. is it so clear when you have newt-mentum on our trail? >> it is and it isn't. i think he performed well in every of the debates thus far. yet he hasn't popped. he is always in the high teens or low to mid 20s and as other

candidates had imploded, the support does seem to migrate, but never towards mitt. i said to you all along he needs to survive this primary season. not necessarily to win it and survive he is. it's like the tortoise and the hare. in the end, he will be the tortious crossing the finish line. >> how will he survive? we know rick perry has a sizable amount of cash and if he throws it into ads presenting mitt romney as a flip flopper, he may survive, but it's like a bird with one feather. you can't fly with that. that's a texas thing. speaking of rick perry, i want to play it last night on david letterman whose ten excuses for the unforgettable moment. >> number six. >> listen, you try concentrating with mitt romney smiling at you. that is one handsome dude. >> number two. >> yeah. i wanted to help take the heat

off my buddy herman cain. >> and the number one rick perry excuse. >> i just learned justin bieber is my father. >> it's yuck, yuck time there, but they have the debate. it's the last that perry agreed to attend. he cannot have another failure especially when we are talking about iran, israel, troops leaving iraq and this is a big moment for him. do-or-die and this is really it. >> every debate almost for rick perry is do-or-die at this moment. he had a yuck, yuck moment on letterman which was at the debate as well and he can't have another one. the strategists i talked to said he has to knock it out of the park on saturday. i think the problem is he is not that strong of a debater as he is made fun of. there is no sense so far that he knows foreign policy that well.

his strong suit has been the economy and as we have seen, even in the debates he struggled mightily. >> peter, what are you looking for? serious marries ahead pertaining to iran and the report that the obama administration may sell the bunker buster bombs to the united emirates trying to shore up the safety in the region and none the less, this is serious business here. we can't just hear the candidates blame president obama. we need to hear what their solutions will be and it can't be we are a supporter of israel. >> unfortunately that's what you are going to hear. i think that the foreign policy answers and prescriptions by the candidates across the board have been a mile wide mainly because the obama policies have been very successful in libya and capturing bin laden. >> extraordinarily successful and no one is focused on that in this campaign and the focus obviously is on the economy and

unemployment rate and getting people back to work and that kind of thing. i don't envision anything coming from this that will be a game changer. if mitt romney shows he has more knowledge than the rest, it will help, but earlier i said i think what you are find suggest there is a need within this process of finding a conservative that these tea party folks can get behind. romney is not the guy. he may survive it and probably will be the nominee, but i don't know where the enthusiasm comes from. >> me either. you have a great weekend and see you on monday. thank you. coming up -- >> we want to make it clear that this is not us. this is an outside force that came here with a bunch of people and did this. let's make that clear. this is not what we are standing up for. >> new details on a shooting outside of the occupy oakland site.

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oakland, california is dealing with their own tragedy. a young man was fatally gunned down last night outside an occupy camp near city hall. the victim and the group of men involved do not appear to be involved with the protests. >> the young man was murder and died in front of my eyes today. for that to be here associated with this encampment is unacceptable and we need to hear from the mayor right now. >> oakland's mayor released a statement saying whether this incident is related to the encampment or an unrelated act is unacceptable. i call on the community to be united in the need for the camp to close. it's day two of a search for a kidnapped washington nationals baseball player. that tops the look at stories around the "news nation." wilson ramos was kidnapped ideas near his home. a spokesperson for the family

said they had no contact from the kidnappers. police say they have physical descriptions of the kidnappers and are making progress they say gathering evidence. greece's new coalition government was formed hours ago and the country's new cabinet was sworn in. the government is led by a man appointed prime minister thursday. the task would push through a new debt deal and making for the country receives the next batch of loans to stave off default. off the coast of turkey, a gunman hijacked a ferry with 17 passengers on board, claiming he has a bomb and four other accomplices on board. crew members are reporting he is alone and demanding to talk to the media. in the meantime, in less than 24 hours, penn state will play their first game since news broke of the investigation. do you think that game should be called off. it is today's "news nation" gut

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right now on "news nation," developing news that announced that penn state's new president will hold a news conference at 4:00 eastern time, the second today as penn state students plan to hold a vigil at 9:30 tonight for the alleged sexual assault victims. the university is also gearing up for the final home game of football season tomorrow against nebraska. i am joined by mark brennan. a fight dedicated to penn state sports. thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. let me get an idea of what students are saying on the eve of this big game. as i said earlier, it would be so ear and f and when they score a touchdown and fans are waving and investigators are looking for alleged abuse victims. >> yeah, it's really just an odd, awful situation. we saw the reaction of the students earlier.

some violent and some supporting joe paterno. they just didn't know how to react after these horrible allegations came out and they were taking down and joe paterno lost his job. i hope there was a semblance of sanity. we are talking about the candlelight vigil and they will do a blue out honoring the victims of sexual predators. you would hope that sanity is restored. what's going to happen when state scores a touchdown. i don't know that anyone cares at this point. >> let me play what the governor who was the attorney general when this started what he had to say to students last night. >> the eyes of the nation are ow. they are fixed on this campus. look around this room and look around the campus. please, please, behave and

demonstrate your pride in penn state. >> let me ask you, marx, do the students realize the impact and how that visual played out flipping over the news van and really it seemed at that moment only caring about joe paterno and his life and not the others lives affected. has it sunk in the impact of all of this? >> i like to be clear and i don't know that that was the majority of kids. >> we know that was not. >> yeah, but i think most of the students here are mortified and think the same thought with your prayers and hearts going out to the victims. hopefully thei itit itdiots who that, to see the students react like that, hopefully they have come to their senses and everything is cool here at the stadium. >> we know state made a profit

on football of $53 million last year. that's home games, ticket, parking, consegs and an average profit of $6 million more when you factor the numbers in. all of this incredible money for people who don't get it. maybe still don't grasp what football means in this community. how do you capture it? you are there every day and see it firsthand. >> i would hope that a lot of people realize that a lot of that money goes to the rest of penn state's athletic department. the program funds these other young athletes who have done nothing wrong. even the football team. these guys are going into the game and they are in the middle of the firestorm and have done nothing wrong. there is no positive way to paint it. the universal handled it horribly. the new president is finally going to answer questions. nobody has been answering questions other than the athletes. it's a terrible situation.

hopefully it's a situation where i know everybody is looking at the money and saying penn state football money, but it is spreading across the sports for young men and women who were not involved with this at all. >> this is probably the foolish question to ask, but any of the players express concern that they don't want to play tomorrow? >> all of the players that we spoke to were steadfast that they want to play. are they being honest with us or are there playe out there who deep in our heart are wondering if it's the right thing? probably. you have 100 plus players, but the sense that everybody is getting is they want to rally around each other and think highly of the senior class. they exceeded expectations and the eyes of the nation athletically is on the campus for a horrible terrible disgusting reason. >> joining me now is alumni jer

whoa funded the organization and proud to be a penn stater that helps victims of sexual abuse. they are teaming up with the rape, abuse, and incest national network. thank you for joining me. jerry, when did you launch this effort to help the victims of sex abuse? >> thank you for having us and our hearts go out to the victims. the idea happened on tuesday early evening. it reached out to them tuesday night. we talked to them for the first time on wednesday morning and launched a website wednesday night and put it on social media thursday morning and as you and i were talking about, we raised $122,000. >> since tuesday? >> we put the website up on -- we launched this publicly yesterday morning. >> in 24-hours? >> 24 hours. >> $100,000 plus. >> yes. >> mark made the great point the image of the people who chose to

behave in that horrible way tuesday night, that was not the majority, but it is the image of at least this belief that no one seems to care about these victims that we are talking about the coaches and the team. >> this is exactly why we did it. we felt this was important to put the focus back on the victims. it has h gotten lost and went sideways and who was responsible and what was going to happen. our focus was putting this back on the victims. give back and make sure this never happens again anywhere. by doing so, help penn state get their pride back. >> it is interesting in the tough economic times we heard them say it's hard to raise money that they could do it $100,000 better. what are the things people say when they give the money? >> thank you. thank you for giving us a way to show that we are bigger than

these actions from a couple of people. the outpouring, i'm getting hundreds of e-mails of people asking how they can help. it's not just state, but the nebraska fan base and the michigan state fan base. this is bigger than penn state. this is a college football scandal. it put a black eye on the entire sport. it's amazing to see the biggest nebraska football site on board immediately. we already have support from some of the nebraska heisman winners. >> the support is there and i'm happy you and others have stepped up and happy that people have followed and donated the money to a wonderful cause. thank you. on this veteran's day, president obama will join troops for an extraordinary event on board the

uss karl vincent. they will board the ship to watch the first ever carrier classic college basketball game. an estimated 7,000 service members are expected to watch the game on deck. earlier the president took part certainly in a more somber event paying tribute to our nation's fallen heroes. >> i challenged our business leaders to hire 100,000 post 9/11 veterans and their spouses over the next few years and yesterday many of these leaders joined michelle to announce they will meet that challenge. >> that are of course was the president talking about the progress made in providing assistance to veterans who have a 12% unemployment rate for those coming back from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. mike viquiera joins us from the white house. the president laid the wheeth at the toou the tomb of the unknown. the jobs bill helps vet and it

is senate voted on that. >> the president was not shy about noting the things he has done for veterans in his administration as well. part of that passed the senate yesterday, a bill to encourage them to hire veterans of the wars in iraq and saying that this country has been to war for 10 years and we are trying to help other countries and time to heal our country and the president reminding everyone that combat troops will be out in a month's time and allowing afghan forces to take the lead there by the end of 2014. a somber and solemn observe as is appropriate here at arlington national sem pear. he was with michelle obama when they bounded up the stairs to air force on the way to san diego. the carrier classic on this veteran's day. featuring and go figure, two teams from swing or purple states that will be contested.

michigan state home of the spartans and north carolina, home of the tar heels. tar heels are the favorite to go to the final four this year. the president gets on a plane late tonight pacific time and heads to his boyhood home of hawaii where he convenes the annual conference of pacific rim countries talking about economic cooperation. >> mike viquiera live at the white house. coming up, you can call him mr. mayor. he is 18 years old and managed to actually win a race for mayor. i will talk with him, coming up. plus, there is a lot going on today. here are things we thought you should know. after dragging its feet for a week, the white house will hand over documents related to the solyndra law guarantee. the half billion dollar loan to the solar power company is under fire after solyndra declared bankruptcy and they copied e-mails and do you means, but the white house argued the request was too broad.

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coming up at the top of the hour, herman cain thinks it has been a week from hell. why it could have been a whole lot worse. hide the silverware, the king ever bling is back in the picture. perry stumbled and cain fumbled, newt is creeping up in the polls. back to tamron. >> all right. welcome back to "news nation" and in many ways jeremy is like a typical 18-year-old. she in the high school band and in the school newspaper and interested to giving back to the community where he lives. he also happens to be the town's new mayor. he beat the 76-year-old incumbent by 16 votes in tuesday's election to be mayor of are dale, iowa. he joins us live. mr. mayor-elect, thank you so much for joining me.

>> thanks for having me. >> a lot of responsibility at age 18. i was just entering college and unsure of what i wanted to do with my life. what made you decide to run for office? >> well, i actually didn't run. >> you were a write in. too to seek it. >> right. there was a group of people that thought i needed to do this. i could do it and i have been a leader my whole life. i always volunteered in different things throughout the community and i have been a president of our ffa chapter here where i attend high school. there is a lot of different things i have done that has been encouraged. >> that's a nice resume for a lot of things where people wonder if it's enough to be a mayor. you got 24 votes compared to the eight that the incumbent had. i also read you were concerned about your town and the people,

you wanted the 74 people who live there to be heard and not ignored. >> right. that's one big thing. i think that the people have a lot of say in what their community should be like. i don't think that a few certain people should be running the community. i think everybody should be able to voice their opinion for what they think should be going on in their community. you worried they won't take you seriously. you are in the band in high school and most people your age are worried about the prom and college. think they will take you seriously? >> that's a lot of things i had asked to me. i had a lot of people ask me that because i'm only 18. a lot of people say you can't do this and you don't know what's going on. we are young adults. i'm a young adult. we are the future. we are the next generation and going to be runing it some day. running this country some day.

you need to start somewhere and if we can start to make a difference in the world today, just imagine what it would be like in generations to come. >> i love that you are taking it seriously. it's easy for people to see the headline and scoff at that, but i can tell by your demeanor and words that you take it as a serious opportunity in your life and the 74 people are depending on you. don't let them down. thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> billy crystal is broad in to smooth over the oscar chaos and some people are not impressed. there is rumor that a raunchy shock jock could be the next judge for "america's got talent" and j edgar hits the big screens tonight. pop goes the week.com. filling in for courtney. a lot of people who are 45 and over seem to love this billy crystal idea. >> a lot of people on twitter

are not 45 and older. it's easy to be snarky and you are anonymous and saying it's the oscar sequel like the movies out there. one person said at least he is only half dead. it's rude. >> oh, no! >> it can be a forum to be rude. interestingly enough, the oscars had ratings struggles and try to young themselves up by anne hathaway last year. it didn't work. before that it didn't with jon stewart. he holds the highest record. 57 million viewers. maybe ratings are more important than viewership. it will come down to dollars. billy crystal. he does. they needed somebody quickly. eddie murphy dropped out at the last minute. give billy credit for tweeting the news. that's young and hip. that will be fun. it will be fun. >> "america's got talent." >> piers morgan is no longer a

judge on "america's got talent." howard stern is in negotiations to be one of the judges. you remember when "american idol" was interested in a judge, if you know howard stern at all, the content is more on the racy side. >> on the racy side? it is racy. >> it's interesting to think he might be a j. is could reinvent his image and he will probably get $15 million to do it. >> "america's got talent" is a live show which i did not know. >> they will put it on delay. >> i'm curious about fan reaction and it will be great for a buzz and great for the tv audience who watch this. it is kind of a family -- not that he can't be -- the guy is -- >> if he gets that gig, he wants to keep it. he wants the $15 million on top of the $76 million he makes on the radio show. >> j edgar which i wanted to see, but i have not read a good review.

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