if i'm at penn state, i love penn state as much as i love ole miss and this happened it my penn state make an argument for as long use want to talk, this is not about football. this wasn't about football and football power this was about a man who did bad things and never involved any football players, no allegation of anything involving football players and then i would return to, again, an article or a column from jeff shultz in the atlantic journal constitution and the very end of it, "the tone at top of the school said that the investigator was dissuaded the school janitors from coming forward after witnessing incidents and they were afraid of being fired for reporting a mowerful football coach." don't forget, coach sandusky's office was next to joe paterno, the offices closest to the man in charge are the offices of the greatest power. ask anyone in any corporation anywhere. the last line of this column "sandusky will spend the rest his life in prison, he could have been stopped sooner, but paterno and the powers at penn state were too concerned about the ramifications off-and-on

down to make an example out of penn state? that major announcement coming in just minutes. we'll be there live. president obama comforts survivors and victims' families in aurora, colorado telling the country to focus on them and not the shooter. who himself heads to court for the first time later this morning. >>> and mitt romney gets ready to fly across the pond for a trip to israel, poland and the london olympics. is there any political risk to a week long trip abroad at this stage of a tough campaign? good morning from washington. it's monday. july 23rd, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. our first read coming up. first breaking news any minute now, penn state university will learn its fate as the ncaa prepares to hand down punishment to the football program the entire athletic department for the child sex abuse scandal. it comes just 11 days after a scathing report accused university officials of covering up allegations again then assistant coach jerry sandusky for more than a decade. national investigativ

it's about penn state, and penn state was about football. that's one thing we know. there was a corrosive atmosphere at penn state. and mr. paterno was in the center of it. mr. paterno knew that he had a child predator on his hands, and he did nothing about it. and he can't escape responsibility. it's a shame that we're talking about mr. paterno when he's no longer with us. but the facts are the facts. and mr. paterno did nothing to protect young men. he could have done so much more, as could have the president of the university and the athletic director to stop the incident which happened in august of 2001, where my young man as a boy was molested. so i understand that the paterno family is in a damage control mode. but the facts aren't going to change. >> there's going to be more lawsuits filed against penn state. and i'm sure those -- that's going through your mind as well. so you'll be listening to what comes out of this report, and you'll decide on what kind of lawsuit, how much damages you'll ask for based on the facts in this report? >> my interest has been fi

he went to penn state. he talks about this idea and why men don't expose other men in these situations and frankly they are just too uncomfortable. what he says and i want to warn anyone with kids watching. he says if i can't listen to the abuse, if i can't hear the horrific details of bloody underwear that came from sandusky anally raping a boy because it makes me uncomfortable then how i can expect someone else to speak up? i can't. and that's not a penn state problem, that's my problem. so clearly, there's sort of a culture and a code around men that makes it very difficult for them to hear these details, acknowledge these details, and then share these details with other people. >> i think that's totally right from a dynamic. the football coach becoming the most powerful member of the university society. so when the president and provost ask joe pa can we do this, should we do this, he says no. they listen to him. you don't build statues for people who are alive. i want to put up the warren sapp tweet th

>> we have informed penn state of the findings. the adoption of the findings coming from the freeh report also of our penalties. we have craft this had in the form of a consent decree which the university has signed as well as we have. >>> classify the seriousness of these sanctions for me. do you consider this more serious than the death penalty? >> well, i'll leave those kind of judgments to all of you. obviously these are very, very serious sanctions. we certainly hope and i know president ray and the executive competitive hope that the fine that's being imposed will allow some very serious good to be done out of this circumstance. the imposition of the both the corrective measures and the punitive actions will most certainly have a significant impact on the university. that's their intention. i'll leave it to all of to you speculate whether that's better or worse. i think one of the mischaracterizations out there that these penalties are coming somehow in instead of a death anti, penalty, i think that would be a false assumptio

he was hired by penn state's board of trustees to look at penn state's role in the sandusky scandal. to find out exactly what penn state may have done wrong and this is supposed to be a no holds barred report. i have, carol, our producers going through his opening remarks now. for additional information. but we know that he is taking a very hard look at what penn state officials knew or should have known about events leading up to the scandal. we can also tell you in his prepared remarks that louis freeh, i was just told, was not able to interview the vice president, gary schultz, at penn state at the time or athletic director at the time, tim curley. and remember both of those men have been charged with the state of pennsylvania with perjury, lying to a jury, and failing to report a case of suspected child abuse. carol? >> susan, just a few questions because i know you want to go and read this report along with the team of producers who are also reading that report right now. why louis freeh? why did penn state hire him to conduct this investigation? >> well, certainly his credentia

taking your calls about penn state, ncaa dropping the hammer yesterday on penn state in a big way.ough because they are allowed to play football. others saying they went too far. they should not have taking away joe paw's wins. back to your calls at 866-55 press. but first, president obama on an important west coast swing. we wanted to check in with a good friend down at the whitehouse, david jackson covers the white house for u.s.a. today. david, good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> yeah, so first of all, you want i wanted to ask about the president's response to the shootings in colorado. do you think he did the right thing by first of all, postponing campaign events and making a special trip to meet with the families there? >> yes. he really had no choice. he had this west coast campaign swing slotted in. he was basically going to fly over colorado anyway. i think he wanted to go there. so it's just something presidents do in these times of national trauma. there is a feeling that the presidents want to be there to show solidarity and that's what he did. he really rearranged

as reporters at penn state college it was a joke. we used to call penn state "the kremlin."t was inpenetrable. the football program was incredibly secret, and when you talk about what happened and looking back in hindsight, these were things that were not real really-- these were known things. it was very difficult to get information out of penn state, out of the administration, out of the football program. it was just impossible. and so thatue know, that definitely carried through. and i, in some ways, i think president erickson recognizes that and is trying to make things more open be but i do think penn state has a long way to go before we really know what's going on. >> schieffer: what did you do? did you get a tip? how did you find out about this? >> yeah, i got a tip. it was kind of dumb luck in a way. i asked a source, anything else going on?" and he said, "h.d., jerry sandusky has been accused." this is the point where it's just one child, one boy. and six weeks later that person called me back and said, "remember that thing i told you. never mind, it's not true." an

a new report has just been released about the penn state scandal. at any moment, we're about to hear from former fbi director who conducted an eight-month investigation involving 430 interviews and 267 pages. this circumstances surrounding jerry sandusky. nbc's ron allen is live in state college pennsylvania with the details. the language in the transcript looks quite strong. >> reporter: it's an amazing report, richard. it's close to 300 pages. there were eight months of investigation by a former fbi director who had a team of law enforcement officials, child welfare experts. this was a deep and probing forensic examination at what happened at this university that rocked penn state and the entire state of pennsylvania and lead to the conviction of jerry sandusky back in june. 45 counts of child abuse, child sexual molestation. horrific acts that were detailed in court by eight of the now young men who sandusky violated and in so many horrific ways. reading excerpts of the report, one of the things that stood out for me is a conclusion that the judg

it was not joe paterno and it was not penn state. >> penn state is a good and strong university and i'm certain we will come back from this. it's going to take some time, but we will come back. >> that is the plan here on campus. statements were issued by the new football coach and president of the university. they said they knew the penalties for coming and the schools transit -- the schools transgressions were bad and they would not fight what the n.c.a.a. has handed down. >> 111 of his victories have been vacated from the record books. that means bobby dodd and now holds the top spot in the record books. we will have more on the impact of the punishment coming up later in sports. >> more now on a breaking story we first brought you at 5:00 -- former astronaut sally ride, the first american woman to go into space has died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. she joined nasa in the late 1970's and 1983 made a historic turning into space. president obama called her a national hero and powerful role model who inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars. sally ri

it's damning of the entire penn state university culture.a long time, graham spanier, the athletic director tim curley, and joe paterno, the late football coach. louis freeh was clear in saying it was those four individuals who he thinks were responsible for this cultural problem here, this failure to report or protect the children who were abused here over at least 14 years. in the sandusky criminal case that just concluded, there were eight individuals involved but there's thought there were many children victimized during this time. to summarize the findings, here are a few examples. the report said there was a total disregard for the safety and welfare of the victims. the penn state officials failed to take steps for 14 years. he said that paterno, spanier, curley and shultz repeatedly concealed facts and knew what was going on here as far back as 1998 and several occasions they actively had discussions amongst themselves to conceal

this marks a new era for penn state and for our board of trustees.d steadfastness, we pledge to work closely and cooperatively with the administration in diligently facilitating open communication across all departments and levels of the university. that will be for the benefit of the children that are on our campus and it will also be for the benefit of every part of the university. and with that, i'll turn the microphone over to our chairman of the board, karen peats. >> thank you, ken. the board of trustees, as a group that has paramount accountability for overseeing and ensuring the proper functioning and governance of the university accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred. the board, in cooperation with the administration, will take every action to ensure that an event like this never happens again in our university community. i'd like to reiterate that we're grateful to judge freeh for his report and 119 recommendations and we will be closely studying this document as we continue to push forward in identifying and implementin

the matre at penn state has always been we are penn state.ts illustrated" is planning on release this cover next week, and it's aptly named we were penn state. all right, that comes out on monday. elijah brooks said one of his players committed to penn state a creer ago. what's brent -- a year ago. what's brent thinking now? what about the current players being recruited. we discussed this earlier tonight. first this is coach on brent. >> as of right now, he wants to stay. there are a lot of other schools that are preying on the current players at penn state hoping that they change their mind and want to transfer. for our current players interested in penn state, they have to look at the facts. you know, they won't be eligible to play for championships, but they still get opportunities to play at the highest level. >> all right, brooks continued by saying he's not really sure where penn state's future is headed in terms of wins and loses but would tell his student athletes you can still go there and get a solid education. >>> moving on to bas

i am a junior in high school and my father and his father before him went to penn state. i want to play football but under lesser circumstances. i'm penalized as a junior in high school for something somebody else did before i got there. >> if you are a current player at penn state, do you stay or do you say well i am going to transfer. >> if you are a top recruit or top tier player you are looking to go elsewhere to be noticed and picked up in the nfl. if you are there for the education, true student athlete you will remain there and keep your scholarship. >> interesting. this just came down. there will be a lot of talk about this, analysis. interesting to get your input, rocky parish from 106.7 fm. thanks for coming in. >>> still ahead this morning, another jackson family mystery. why makes call's mom was reported missing and where she turned up. her disas much appearance could be -- disappearance could be part of an ongoing dispute. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. [romomney singing]: oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mo

happening now, a brand new apology from penn state university.accuses the university's most powerful people of empowering jerry sandusky, hiding the sexual attacks and totally disregarding these victims. >>> mitt romney's new campaign ad calls president obama a liar. team obama says it's romney who's the liar. we're looking for who's telling the truth. plus, the explanation that didn't explain anything. new demands for congressman jesse jackson jr.'s staff to explain this so-called mood disorder they blame for his dropping out of sight. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we begin with today's damming new report on penn state's university's cover-up of coach jerry sandusky's sexual attacks on young boys. it says the top people at the university including the legendary football coach, joe paterno, hid what they knew and had no regard for the young victims. just now university officials are promising it will never, never happen again. >> you should know that our hearts remain heavy. and we areep

they're making the decision on penn state. let's listen in. >> and the powerful people who let them down. there has also been much speculation on whether or not the ncaa has the authority to impose any type of penalty related to penn state. not only does the ncaa have the authority to act in this case, we also have the responsibility to say that such egregious behavior is not only against our bylaws and constitution, but also against our value system and basic human decency. the executive committee which acts on behalf of the entire association and implements policies to resolve core issues, along with the division i board, a body of presidents representing all of division i directed president emert to examine the circumstances surrounding the penn state tragedy, and if appropriate, make recommendations regarding punitive and corrective measures. as a result of the information produced from the sandusky criminal investigation and the free report which penn state commissioned and also agreed to its findings, it became obvious t

one month after former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky's conviction, penn state knows the price the school has to pay in the wake of the sex abuse scandal. >> reporter: the program was fined $60 million and will not be allowed to participate in post bowl games for four years. there will not be an appeal. with a long list of penalties, the ncaa crippled the penn state football for years. >> no price the ncaa can levy can repair the grievous damage inflicted by sandusky on his victims. however, we can make clear that the culture, actions and inactions that allowed them to be victimized will not be tolerated in collegiate athletics. >> reporter: shocked students watched. a $60million fine equals to one-year gross revenue of the program. that monly will go to child abuse or assist the victims. a ban on post season bowl games and all wins vacated, a loss of 20 scholarships per year over four years and five years on probation. >> i don't think it's necessary. i don't think they have the authority to do something like this. >> reporter: it could have been worse. the ncaa coul

penn state's present and future in doubt. the ncaa stopped short of shutting down the school's football program instead handing down wide ranging and long lasting punishment in reaction to the cover up of a sex scandal involving assistant coach jerry sandusky. it marks the first time the ncaa has punished a school for criminal behavior. >> no price can levy the most grievous damage by jerry sandusky. but we can make it clear that the actions and inactions that allowed them to be victimized will no be tolerated on collegiate athletics. >> reporter: a reduction in scholarships could personal penn state of its talent -- could purge penn state of its talent. >> this just seems very heavy handed. >> reporter: that heavy hand involves every victory from the penn state books for the past nine years. all under joe paterno who died last year. decision time for five baltimore players on the penn state football team, more on them later in sports. denise. >> thank you, mark. the big ten conference also announced that penn state share of

in this case so egregious at penn state. we'll have more on this coming up a little later in the hour. stick around for that. gregg: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now blaming iran's rogue regime for the homicide bus bombing attack in bulgaria that killed five israelis. mr. netanyahu claiming that iran is hiding behind the hezbollah terror organization that he believes is responsible for the latest tragedy, adding that iran's nuclear program must be crushed. here he is on "fox news sunday". >> now imagine these people who are capable of doing anything, imagine them possessing nuclear weapons, people who gunned down innocent people, who sent suicide bombers who could block the straights of iran and threaten to annihilate israel, taken over your embassy, you want these people to have atomic bombs? i think this is a reminder, this wave of terror attacks, that the world's most dangerous regime must not be allowed to have the world's most dangerous weapons. gregg: kt mcfarland is a fox news national security analyst an

double a in the case of penn state let's look. the headline here max penn state sanctions and see double a aims to end mind set that lead to tragedy so this is the mind set of those who enable the high crimes of the elite financial bankers around the world that somehow we need to save these people who are allegedly doing god's work penn state sanctions rival the worst and see double a penalty ever including a sixty million dollars fine a four year ban on bowls and forty fewer football scholarships but sanctions also aim to scale back the outsized role of football on campus but you know i think back to that interview bob costas did with jerry sandusky and they asked him do you disavow the charges and he said well yeah i'm innocent except for the times i final those poor boys legs in the shower and he then started to new marine a little sexual predator a practices to the horror of bob costas now flash cut to jamie diamond in front of congress and they say are you innocent of the balance sheet manipulation frauds and he says yes i'm

has made its decision regarding penn state's future. penn state has five players from the baltimore area. none have announced plans to transfer yet. any penn state player can transfer to another school without having to sit out the upcoming season. donovan smith said that he is staying put at penn state. joe paterno falls from the winningest coach of all time to the 12th on the n.c.a.a. all- time list. bobby bowden now becomes the new win king. >> i would like to rejoice. how can you do that? i mean, that thing had happened up there. i would rather for the not to have happened. until they get some closure, how are you going to celebrate? >> that is for sure. for decades, it was bswden and joe paterno. >> i wonder about all those players, too. they have scholarships. it is now late july. it is not easy to say, i am going to transfer. >> the n.c.a.a. is considering another potential change in the rules. let's say all burned comment already has its allotment of it -- let's say auburn, they're considering allowing schools to add one scholar

penn state will settle these as quick as you can say penn state. they must do that.nd look, let's give credit to penn state. >> that's what the lawyers are doing. actually, that's what the lawyers are doing right now. that's exactly right. they are getting these plaintiffs' lawyers in to try to get resolved before it blows up and goes to trial. >> okay. >> they commissioned this report by louis freeh. they turn over all the records that they had in their possession. they want to try to do the right thing here. the problem is it was so devastating and the fact that, don't fool yourself. joe paterno was the top dog at penn state. nobody knows spanier. everybody knows the legendary coach. he himself, the ra-ra ethics coach, he was the one -- >> that's exactly right. >> he's the one who did nothing to protect these young boys. he is the one -- >> yeah. >> that's why penn state has to wrap this up and -- >> if it goes to trial, it is explosive. >> perhaps some at penn state among the board of trustees and others maybe didn't even realize this report would be as explosive

it will be very difficult for penn state to field the type of football team that penn state fans and alums have come to expect during joe paterno's reign. they're also going to lose other initial scholarships. they won't be able to share in the revenue from the bowl games. they won't be able to appear in bowl games. the 85 guys who are on the team now all have an opportunity immediately to depart this program and find another one to play in, if playing for big bowl stakes is that important to them. so the football team certainly for the next half decade is going to take a pretty major hit in terms of its ability to perform at a really high level. >> suarez: professor rosner given what professor blackstone just described, are we going to in four years, five years just inevitably see a penn state where football is less of a factor in the daily life of the college, where it's less of what n.c.a.a. president called too big to fail, too big to challenge? >> i think the nature of the sanctions as kevin pointed out is such that in and as many pundits have pointed out today as well, is such

justine, clearly all signs have pointed to a major failure at penn state.ow this report has certainly confirmed that. were you surprised at just -- i mean, how damning this report is? >> i can't say that i was surprised by the factual information. i was pleased that they were able to capture so much of what we have known and suspected for months. the report is devastating. and, you know, i want to say i was surprised, but i think the reality is we were well aware that this is what had occurred in this case. >> jeff, i was reading this report. you think about the civil suits that the school now faces. i mean, it becomes much more problematic for penn state. >> to say the least. anderson, i apologize for a crude image but, you know, i was thinking that justine and her colleagues who are suing penn state are going to need wheelbarrows to carry all the money the juries are going to give them. i mean, people are going to be so outraged. and usually when you have a scandal, you can say, well, it was a bad apple. it was, you know, a group or a small -- this was th

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can penn state recover? >> penn state can. four or five football programs can. penn state can.nn state will be able to play. can i set this up? when you go play major college sports, the environment on campus is such that the coaches are like rock stars, like gods on campus. the players are as well but the coaches, they're untouchable so there's an environment of they're holier than thou, above the law. unfortunately for penn state is didn't have to do with putting 100 bucks in a player's pocket or selling drugs, this was a bad violation of ethics and morals. so harsh penalty, penn state brought it on themself. >> by vacating the wins, paterno, the number one whinniest coach at ncaa division 1 is now number 12. that had a lot to do with it. you're a penn state fan. >> i am. look, i understand harsh penalties, $60 million was appropriate, what i don't get is taking away the wins. a lot of players that had those wins were not involved in this. one did not have to do with the other. it's not like penn state cheated or had a camera in the other team's locker room. now punishing cur

. >> penn state is punished. the n.c.a.a. sanctions the college football powerhouse for covering up years of child abuse. we will speak to sportswriter dave zirin about the punishment and what it means for college sports. then to anaheim, california or police are facing allegations of murder and brutality after fatally shooting two latino men in separate incidents over the weekend. police used dogs, rubber bullets and tear gas on residents protesting one of the killings. in new york, an update on the police killing of kenneth chamberlain sr. inside his own home rid of the white plains police officer accused of calling chamberlain the n word shortly before he was shot dead has been suspended without pay. >> it is clear the white plains police department and the city as a whole turns a blind eye to these things. if these officers engaged in the same kind of without being able to hide behind a badge and shield, they would be charged with a felony, serious felonies. they would very well be in jail. >> all of that and more coming

penn state football faces a very different judge and jury, the ncaa. on monday they will announce sanctions being described as unprecedented. >> they play football come septemb september, something is wrong. >> reporter: with joe paterno's life and legacy under scrutiny, penn state is trying to wipe the slate clean for all the world to see and move forward without him. penn state's president calls the removal of the statue the right and principled decision. brian moore, nbc news, washington. >> the paterno family released this statement that read in part, tearing down the statue of joe paterno does not serve the victims of jerry sandusky's horrible crimes or help heal the penn state community. we believe the only way to help the victims is to uncover the full truth. it is not the university's responsibility to defend or protect joe paterno, but they should have at least acknowledged that the record on joe paterno and other key players is far from complete. >>> coming up, an international effort comes together in d.c. why organizers are optimistic about

all of them could be affected by the sanctions imposed by the ncaa on penn state. >> penn state had feelers out this far. >> reporter: he is the athletic director. he has more than 30 years of coaching experience in anne arundel county. he sees the decision on players. >> it's take an player out of the game. >> reporter: with the options of penn state looking less appealing, there could be an impact on the university of maryland program. >> hopefully maryland who be in aings to jump on that. many of the kids who thought about leaving can now stay here and be provided with, obviously, a quality education. >> reporter: seeing all the desists that penn state has gone through reminds ken of how much impact the educators and at let tech department have on the students. >> the adults or entrusted with the care of young peernlings obviously, the coaches, myself, teachers, administrators, i mean it's our responsibility, and with that responsibility, some very, very -- a very, very serious duty. >> reporter: people aren't sure what the ramifications will be. a lot of people do agree it will have an

penn state may never ever recover from this. in case you had any doubt about the impact of the child sex abuse scandal that's enveloped one of the once great names in college sports, today made it crystal clear when the report came out from louis freeh, former head of the fbi, saying some powerful campus leaders showed a total and consistent disregard for abuse victims while protecting other big names on campus versus the rights of powerless victims. it was another devastating day in state college, pennsylvania. before we hear from bob costas on the impact of all of this, we want to begin tonight with our national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the 154-page report is scathing, finding that top penn state officials showed a shocking disregard for the victims of jerry sandusky. >> the most powerful men at penn state failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who sandusky victimized. >> reporter: freeh concluded top penn state officials repeat

there's a penn state sticker on the door, and a penn state flag proudly hangs in front.at one time... of the staff here all went to penn state. but there's mixed reaction tonight, about the continued fallout from the penn state scandal. at no idea...the chatter inside and outside the bar... bar...is all about joe paterno. paterno."it had to come down bottom line" line""the fact that they'd want to disswn him, he's dead can't defend himself, seems just wrong to me"this is one of at least 3 bars in federal hill...that proudly calls itself a penn state bar: bar:187 miles away in state college, penn state's president says the decision to remove paterno's statue came about...because if it stayed, it would be a reoccuring wound to child abuse victims everywhe. everywhere."it's probably the biggest scandal in modern history in sports"tonight the ncaa says it's planning corrective and punitive measures against penn state. state."they should have a few year suspension, no bowl games, scholarships stripped away"but in federal hill...some say people are too quickly forgetting all millions donate