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. >> reporter: buzz bissinger has written extensively about the business of college football. >> footballs king. football is god. football is the most important thing at the university including academics, including everything else. you do not meddle. you do not screw with football at penn state. >> reporter: sandusky also maintains his innocence. coach paterno has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow when he's going to talk about the upcoming game with nebraska next weekend but football is not the issue here now. brian? >>> ron allen, state college, pennsylvania tonight. ron, thanks. >>> up next as our broadcast continues tonight our exclusive interview with former president bill clinton on fixing the economy, even his wife's possible future plans. >>> later, a real dilemma for an outstanding young man on what could be one of the most important days of his life. >>> former president bill clinton is out with a new book tonight. it's his fix for the u.s. economy. nbc's kate snow has an exclusive interview tonight beginning with the question -- how do we and how would he get americans

the great writer buzzbusiness bissinger who is the author of "ed from night lights" warning them youto have an exit strategy. this is not working and his proukive years are over and what are you going to do? how are you going to extract this legend? and if penn state, the board and others had listened to common sense and the voice in their heads, we wouldn't be looking at the removal of paterno on top of the mounting human tragedy here, just the damage that's been done to people. you know, when i look back at my son when he was 8 years old, the beginning age in the indictment of some of these kids, he wore a football helmet around the house for about a year of his life. was football obsessed and could conceivably have been one of these kids coming to this football camp. we're a big football household and big new york giants household. and there's nothing better in this country than a saturday afternoon when michigan's playing ohio state, you can feel the excitement, but that's what it ought to be about. and not this. >> you're talking about news earlier, nbc "nightly news" has taken

buzz bissinger, great to have you on. we'll have you on again.nd christine brennan again. >>> herman cain's controversial remarks about muslim. he said that majority of muslims living in america have extremist views. hear what he said next. >>> also a new look at gabby giffords' amazing recovery. new video from inside the hospital. we'll let you hear her words and touk to sanjay gupta about her progress. my sinus symptoms come with a cough that stays even after i treat... [ male announcer ] truth is, most sinus formulas don't treat a cough. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus sinus liquid gels fights sinus symptoms plus cough. you're good. [ male announcer ] thanks. that's the cold truth! presidential candidate herman cain campaigned in dubuque, iowa today. now we have a new fire to put out. an interview in the december issue of "gq" is raising questions about cain's views on muslims. he says, quote, i have one very well known muslim voice say to me directly that a majority of muslims share the extremist views. when asked if he thinks th

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in nbc's top investigative reporter, that's michael isikoff, who is at penn state itself and buzz bissingere daily beast." and "vanity fair" and authored the best-selling "friday night lights." let's go to mike right now for the reporting. mike, where are we now? has this guy lost his credibility because of his odd statement here about having gone to the cops and having stopped that, well, in effect it's a rape, if not legally that's the right term, penetration of this kid by this guy? do we have any new reason to question mcqueary now one way or the other? >> well, there's certainly mounting credibility questions about mcqueary, but it's important to remember there were going to be questions from mcqueary from the get-go, even if you take the grand jury report as gospel and that that is actually everything that mcqueary testified to. he still has the problem of he says he witnessed a 10-year-old boy being sexually assaulted in the shower, and according to the grand jury report he left immediately distraught. he did not intervene to stop a criminal act against a young boy taking place in re