but there seems to be a war on football. >> nick saban does this with 20-year-olds.ood they are. look at the video. >> it's a little harsh, okay. but they're not dying. >> you know, i think it's disgraceful. they should be enrolled in schools for male modeling. it's far more tasteful. look. here's the thing. you have to consider the alternatives. last week, a tape floating around of a 2-year-old kid in diapers sitting amongst gang leaders while a 16-year-old mother was sitting in the other room. i like when kids have parents and parents have an interest if in their kids' lives. this may look rough. this may be out of context. you're showing the worst parts. not the joy or pleasure. i hate these shows. put it it on texas, bob? the freak in ohio that killed all those people. that was in cincinnati. the guy that aborted all the kids that were alive is in philadelphia. >> i lived in texas. i know they're addicted to friday night football. youth football. >> i would rather will addicted to football than heroin. >> addicted at the age of 4 being yelled at by that mother. >

nick saban does not sit in the locker room and go, excuse me, if you could score in the next quarter, be great, amazing. it is tough. and it's a team sport, and there's wonderful, wonderful things that come out of football. but there seems to be a war on football in this country. >> nick saban does this with 20-year-old kids. this is a 4-year-old kid. >> okay. >> look how good they are. look at the video. >> yeah, look how good they are. >> it's a little harsh, okay, but they're not dying. >> you know, i think it's disgraceful. i think they should be enrolled in schools for male modeling. it's far more tasteful. look, here's the thing. you got to consider the alternative. last week, there was a tape floating around of a 2-year-old kid in diapers sitting amongst gang leaders while a 16-year-old mother was sitting in the other room. i like the fact that when kids have parents and paints have an interest in their kids' lives. this may look rough, but it may be out of context, too. you're showing the worst parts. you're not showing the joy or the pleasure. that's why i hate these shows, b

direct to the saban center of the middle east policy here at brookings institution. i want to thank you all for braving frigid weather for us this morning what i think is very important and timely event. you know, with the end of america's military engagement in iraq i think many in the american public urned their attention elsewhere. at the same time america's partnership with iraq, its interests in iraq, its engagement with iraq did not end and iraq's challenges in reconstruction, in building democratic governance in the midst of diversity and very fierce politics, those did not end. iraq continues to work on those challenges and it is challenged today as well by the turmoil roiling its neighborhood. at this moment after a year of tragically escalating violence in his country i can think of no more important time to hear from our guest this morning, speaker usama al-nujayfi. we're very honoredded, mr. speaker, that you have chosen to join us this morning. it's a moment i think for all of us to hear from the speaker about the challenges iraq is facing. how the unite

comes to the players, but the coaches and the managers are just as superstitious, and you have nick sabanoach of alabama with his daughter giving him a penny before, just because, and the old yankee pitcher would have to jump over the line and not talk to it, and the old coach john thomson, not the young one, but the old one, with the towel over the shoulder, and not just for the perspirati perspiration, but the hexes need to be take n away. and if jim harbaugh's wife takes the khakis away, he will probably close himself in the room and not watch it. >> and you are pretty outspoken on this when it comes to baseball introduced this year. >> yes. >> and tell me what bothers you about this instant replay? >> well, it is straight from satan and the bottom line is that if you are going to the baseball game, be prepared to bring your pajamas and the fluffy pillow, because it is going to be long. >> you think that it is going to drag it out. >> and they are talking about both managers have two challe e challenges up to the sixth inning, and then after that, they can call for a discretion replay,

the free speech campaigners sabaning it would be tantamount of a witch hunt. thank you for being with us. tell us more about this comedian and his gesture and why it's controversial. >> he is of african origin, his name means "given by god," who has been playing on the anti-semitism and jewish bashing in his shows, which are very popular among the extreme right and extreme left in france. he is a comic in the sense that he never ever say something anti-systeanti-semitic. he would usually list the name of jewish names and the audience would understand. he would stop on his favorite lines, and the audience would just finish it so that the audience could be considered as racist. but what has created th was whee publicly attacked one of the most respected averager men of the french public radio because of his jewish name, and he said that the nazi gas chambers might not have worked as well as they should have. and this has. >> he has been in the past fined for some of the remarks he has made. what action is going to be taken against him? i understand he has not pa

suzanne maloney is a senior fellow at the saban center, runs are iran -- among other things and will speak on iran. and jonathan pollard was just off the plane from korea will be our expert focusing on asia, china, the koreas, japan, et cetera. jonathan is the director of the john l. thornton the john l. thornton china center, senior fellow here. thank you very much for your attention and onto david. >> thank you. thanks very much. great to be a and also a wonderful to see such a big crowd. this is one of my favorite events after brookings every year because i think this book really sort of, one i keep on my desk all through the year, both so that i can refer to it on deadline, which i've done on many occasions, and so when i talked so when i talk to my many friends up here i can remind them in december what they wrote in january. sometimes that's welcome and sometimes it's not. but it's always -- i have two observations from reading through these years, and it's quite excellent. the first is that it's about half as thick as last years was. the explanation i received, the official ex

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guest: nick saban, the coach of alabama. he's paid $6 million a year. that's not bad money either. that equates to $66,000 per year per scholarship player under his supervision. that's good money. hoich how does that happen and does alabama make money for education? guest: all of the big football programs and there are about 50 at this point. alabama, ohio state, etc. they all clear $30 million to $50 million in football. that's just in the last few years because the television rights fees for college football are currently raising at a faster pace than pro football. in the last 10 years, the amount of money that college football programs year has gone from $5 , 40, million a year to $30 year.-- $50 million a host: what do they do with the extra money? guest: they spend it on the athletic department in alabama's case, the $43 million. $4 million went to the school's endowment and the rest was kept by the athletic department. l.s.u. which won the national championship four years ago made a big announcement last summer that from now on they would give 15% of -- 15% of what they clear

>> i can see the argument for it because, look, nick saban makes $7 million coaching for alabama.caa march madness basketball tournament generates a billion dollars for ad revenue alone. there's money all over the place. money for the players would come out of the pockets of the fans and the students and they've all been stretched. what i think we should do is give basketball and football players what baseball and hockey players have enjoyed for over a century and that's a viable minor league system. if you don't want to be a student and you want to be paid, you have somewhere good to go to pursue your dreams. >> john, it might be clear that i'm not a big football fan especially big professional football fan, i have to tell you as somebody looking from afar, the college football fans are some of the most fervent, rabid fans out there. why is college football almost a religion for football fans? >> it is a religion. carlton college is not the same thing as penn or michigan or uva with krystal ball. sorry about that. i've been there. very nice place. but it is a religion. one of the

last time 'bama lost back-to-back games under nick saban, have to go back six years.win last night. rose bowl from the previous night, when michigan state beat stanford. keep you updated. patti ann: not following it. bill: two well-played football games. patti ann: excitings, absolutely. all right. >>> secretary of state john kerry is in israel right now meeting for a second day with prime minister benjamin netanyahu trying to broker a peace deal with the palestinians. connor powell live in the middle east bureau. conor, what is the goal of this trip? >> reporter: secretary kerry is here for the 10th time in the past year. immediately upon landing he said the time is near for tough decisions to be made by both parties. secretary kerry faces a monumental task to get a framework to lead to a more permanent final agreement here. he is meeting again with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and prime minister mahmoud abbas and other local officials. trying to create a framework agreement, not a final agreement, but a framework agreement by the end of april so he has

usa reports she has apologized to the alabama team and the coach nick saban and the fans.t in the stands to i had jinx on the court. couch closely as j.r. smith bends down before free-throw against the dallas mavericks. instead of tying his shoes, he unties his oh, ponent's. how about breakfast at taco legal. serving the most important meal of the day anyone? that's today's cnn. >> i am back here at the headquarters and i know you don't think it can't be that cold. tonight is supposed to be 5 degrees. it hasn't been single digits in a decade. just for comparison, what do you think? when you think of really cold in the u.s., you think alaska, right? not when you compare to atlanta. you look at the temperatures and it's colder in atlanta. come out to me live. i want to show you in case you are still dubious as i speak about the cold in the south. do you see this towel? it's been frozen. frozen towel. it's cold here. take my word for it. we decided to see who we could put in the coldest part of the country today and who we could put in the warmest part. we have stephanie who

i think nick saban makes $7 billion a year.w that you don't want to give a couple of thousand dollars to the players. >> it is such a big business. i think hybridization is a good way to look at it. somewhere between amateur and professional, that's why this discussion gets so much tracks, carol. so many people think that the ncaa is at a crossroads. for the record, the ncaa says that its members, a nonprofit organization representing its members, it's members don't want to do that. christine romans, many thanks >>> coming up tomorrow, one of the most powerful figures in sports is an assistant high school basketball coach in nevada who also works as a car dealership. former basketball star, ed obannon is suing the ncaa and could change the future of college athletics as we know it. >> i am not going to ruin college sports. college sports is changing. the rules need to change. >> we take an inside look at the man behind a landmark case at 10:00 eastern hour of "newsroom" tomorrow. you get sick, you can't breathe through your nos

>> reporter: nick saban, the coach of that stunned alabama side says tonight will come down to how well these two teams have stayed focussed. >> i think that gives the best opportunity to be successful. >> reporter: for people who might be watching their one football game of the year. >> it's everything in college football that you work for. you're lucky enough to get to this point or obviously most teams are not. >> reporter: average tickets running almost $600 a pop. but some fans have been creative, even desperate in their pursuit and that is where espn's bowls for bowls contest comes in. >> get a bowl hair cut, receive bowl tickets. are you going to cry? >> no. maybe. >> reporter: and hey, why not, for a chance to witness college football history. and that bowl cut winner of sorts here behind me right now, the fans out in force already again. what a game it should be tonight. we should point out, the temperature 49 degrees. ordinarily i would look for sympathy. today, i know that is showing off. the big game tonight, 8:00 p.m. on our sister network, espn. >> we'll be watching. >> le