down they wanted to respond to this and they said since the attorney general's office prevented lewis freehccess to critical witnesses with full knowledge of all of the facts the freeh report is not fair, full, accurate or complete. clearly they couldn't talk to these two men who were charged because they got their fifth amendment right and couldn't talk to some of the people -- >> like mike mcqueary. >> they didn't have access to the grand jury material. >> the government didn't want them to interview certain witnesses. they didn't want their investigation to be compromised. sandusky was the target of their consolidation. main target. 45 counts he was convicted of. although they didn't get some of the information, lewis freeh got significant amount. >> last night it was said pardon me for the image i'm about to create, penn state better get wheelbarrows ready for the money they have to pay out. >> bottom line it's not a question of whether or not penn state will settle with these victims it's a question of how much. >> and how soon. sunny hostin come back next hour. alina? >> thank you. th

we won't know the long term for a while. >> lewis freeh said he interviewed 430 people. u reported today on your website according to a source, mike mcqueary was not one of those interviewed. how could that be? >> right. what freeh said today and it's in the report is that the attorney general's office requested they not interview mike macquery. why not interview him i don't know. tom harmon, that the attorney general' office didn't want him to interview. i assume because they thought it might impact their investigation into jerry sandusky. but i really don't know. it sure seems to me talking to mcqueary would have been another important piece of this. having looked at the report it sure seems to me as if it's fair, thorough. i really can't take exception of what came out of it. >> what can we expect to hear from the board of trustees in about an hour. what could they possibly say in response to this? >> i think all they can say is that they are happy that this was fair and thorough. the worst thing that could have possibly happened here for penn state was some sort of gl

you let penn state and lewis freeh handle this. you don't impose any penalty. >> the death penalty you talk about has been prescribed once in the history of college sports. smu, 1986. what you had was literally top to bottom. it went from the governor of the state to parents to businessmen to boosters to players to administrators to coaches to support staff. everybody was in on a payment scheme for players that lasted for years. it was a total football scandal. >> you think the folks that are culpable have been dismissed they are now gone. >> you had some real bad characters here and the scope of this thing when you talk about the human tragedy you can't compare to it anything else. when you want to start talking -- i honestly believe the football players and the football program there's going a lot of damage to penn state. i don't think you need the death penalty on the of it. a lot of damage. joe paterno is gone. tim curley is never getting a job again. their careers are shattered. deservedly so. >> at this hour penn state board

normal about penn state university's board meeting friday on its scranton campus one day after lewis freeh dropped his report bombshell of the -- louis freeh dropped his report bombshell. >> what the report also concluded was that the board of trustees failed to provide proper oversight of the university. >> reporter: the head of the trustees again took responsibility for what freeh charged was the failure to press top leaders on details of the sandusky scandal. she and the university's president propsed change and spoke directly to sandusky -- proposed change and spoke directly to sandusky's victims. >> while yesterday's issuance of the freeh report provides some clarity for our community, it does not undo the pain that the victims of jerry sandusky have experienced and continue to experience. >> reporter: but when it came time for board members to question, the psu president not one asked about freeh's punishing report. later a board member told the panel three of sandusky's victims had sued the university with another expected and former coach mike mcqueary may also make a legal claim.

lewis freehh detailing how officials here including paterno concealed allegations former assistant football coach jerry sandusky sexually abused young boys in part to avoid bad publicity. >> after hearing from that freehcan't imagine that penn state could survive being attached so closely to joe paterno. >> reporter: in light of that do you still believe -- >> yes, i still believe it. >> reporter: stay or go, paterno's halo removed from a penn state mural no longer the angel. nike removed his name from a child care center. the fate of his statue, still a question. >> we have to look at this comprehensively and we have to come up with a comprehensive solution. >> reporter: an official decision still several days away. in the meantime on lookers keep coming, taking pictures, posing and debating. >> am i wrong in sort of guessing here that you guys generally support the statue staying where it? >> yeah. >> they should keep it. if they get rid of it it will be a mess. >> would be appropriate to place it in a setting more designed for reflection. >> reporter: the man who actually sculpted the statue said he's still very proud of it but also told cnn he would live whatever decision the university happened t