mr. klein, i'd like to know if your client is going to bring up this tape. do we still have mr. klein on the phone? i think we've lost him. >> if sandusky wanted to give a press interview and tell his side of the story after sentencing, believe me, everybody's looking to talk to him. so why wouldn't you wait. do this in a dignified way. hope for the lowest possible sentence and then take your case to the public. instead, we get a college radio station broadcasting the first news of his sentencing statement. i've never seen anything like this. >> once again, just to wrap up what's transpired, jerry sandusky recording a statement from his jail cell on the eve of a sentence that could be as high as 422 years tomorrow, blaming the the system. blaming the trial judge. blaming the victims. at one point, calling a victim a aming everody bumself, asseininnocee and before we even knew about this tape, we knew he would not apologize, not ask for mercy, not suggest he was anything but innocent of the dozens and dozens of charges against him. 45 convictions in this case. that's the news, fol

mr. heismanology, what about collin klein's chances for winning it all and winning a trophy?joe: collin klein has been impressing the heisman voters. they have been giving him great support. in recent years we've seen the last 12 quarterbacks winning the heisman. heisman voters love guys contending for the bcs title. you see matt scott, what a day he's had but the medical staff having a conversation with him. you saw the backup quarterback, b.j. denker, warming up. scott took a hit to the head, he stayed in and they scored and now matt barkley has to answer, trailing by 11 with 5:21 to play. woods in the slot. barkley with time, and he looked for aguilar and that was incomplete. >> matt: in this second half, it's been a slower day here for matt barkley. he was on fire through that first half and then this defense kind of just slowed him down a little bit. now is when he's got to be that heisman candidate we're talking about. >> joe: this defense has been playing well above expectations. this is an undersize -- guys playing out of position and learning a new scheme this year w

klein. >> this closes the book on mr. sandusky courand tell the court how it's affected him so terribly and dramatically. the book that remains open is the book against penn state. >> all right. susan candiotti live for us in pennsylvania. thank you for that. >> got to tell you, that tape to me is stunning. i don't think i ever heard anything like that from a guy who is about to be sentenced. >> exactly. from a guy about to face a judge. >>> four weeks to go until election day. two new polls show the race for the white house basically tide. in one poll, mitt romney's strong debate performance essentially erased obama's lead. the same poll last month had romney trailing obama by eight points. the latest gallup tracking poll has obama leading romney 50% to 45%, a margin that grew yesterday. but neither of these numbers may be telling the whole story. coming up, we take a look at these results with peter hamby. >> my head is spinning with all the numbers. >> right. >> according to the cdc, the death toll is now at 8. 105 peo

mr. romney is proposing on jobs. joining us now to assess that case is msnbc analyst, ezra klein. ezra? >> thank you, rachel.y campaign has been making a very specific claim about jobs. they say he would create 12 million jobs during his first term. at "the washington post," my colleague asked for the numbers to back that up, and what he got back from them was actually a little hilarious. the romney campaign referenced one study that said a tax plan like mitt romney's could create 7 million jobs. the only problem was that study was looking over ten years, not four, and the study also assumed that romney's tax plan would be fully paid for on the front end and the economy would be at full unemployment, we would be full of jobs, when the tax plan was put into place. that is not likely in a romney first term. the romney campaign also says 3 million of the jobs will be energy remitted. they cited this study from citigroup, but that study covers eight years, not the four romney is promising for his results, and the study wasn't evaluating any of mr. romney's policies at all. it was actually looking at current tren