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issues, rutgers terminated mike rice's contract. we also heard from the athletic director who said he was responsible for the decision. he realizes that his decision to try to rehabilitate wasn't the best one and he is going to work to regain the trust of the rutgers community. again, we'll update this story with bruce beck coming up in our next half hour. >>> in the meantime, let's talk about voter i.d. because you can add aarkansas to the list of state that's have passed strict photo i.d. laws. legislators there passed a law requiring voters to show photo identification at thehole polls. it was an override of governor mike bibi's veto. 30 states have laws that will require all voters to show i.d. at the polls this november. let me bring in new york congress nan charles rangel who is part of a panel discussing voter i.d. laws at the national network this morning. it's good of you to stop by on your way. how are you? >> good. >> the arkansas agovernor said the law is an expensive solution to a nonexistent problem. but obviously it's

. >>> more fallout from the basketball scandal at rutgers university. we are awaiting a news conference from the school this hour. >>> and stocks on wall street are down this hour. it is reaction to this morning's job report. a live report from the new york stock exchange. >>> and a federal judge rules the morning after pill can now be sold to women and girls of any age without a prescription. this "cnn newsroom" and i'm suzanne malveaux. up first here, more trouble for the men's basketball program at rutgers university. assistant coach now has resigned stepping down after espn aired video of head coach mike rice throwing balls at players heads and shouting homophobic slurs. well, rice was fired. any minute now a news conference held by the university president and the chair of the board of governors set to begin at the school. we're going to go live as soon as it starts. >>> pamela brown, she is in -- tell us what to expect out of the news conference. do we think there's going to be more fallout? >> caller: we . >> reporter: well, i think we're going t

>> anne thompson at rutgers tonight. anne, thanks. >>> carnival cruise lines can't win for losing of late. they are dealing with another p.r. disaster tonight. the carnival triumph, the same ship that suffered the on board melt down, the power loss, the sewage while adrift at sea today broke away from its moorings while docked for repairs in alabama. in the process it banged into the super structure damaging the bow and stern. there are reports winds reached 70 miles per hour prior to the accident. one person still unaccounted for after a nearby guard shack blew into the water. >>> a genuine towering inferno engulfed the tallest building in chechnya today. 40 stories was still under construction. it was the centerpiece of a gleaming luxury apartment and hotel complex in grozny city, opened in 2011. the cluster of high rises had stood as a proud symbol of recovery since the wars of the 1990s. cable news viewers around the globe watched this building burn. hundreds of firefighters fought it for hours. not known if there we

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are there any indications that rutgers may reconsider?als are reconsidering the decision to only suspend rice. in fact burnetti appears to be backpedalling in an interview he did on the radio yesterday. he said look the decision to suspend rice came from the fact that he was remorseful, he apologized, he acknowledged his wrongdoing. but at this point, you know, this video has gone viral. there's so much outrage from people, i think that the pressure is certainly mounting for more to be done here. >> clearly public relations problem for this program. >> oh, i think so. i think it will be a very interesting day at rutgers today. >> oh, yeah. >> this is not over. >> thanks, pamela brown. >>> new developments this morning in the case of two murdered prosecutors in kaufman, texas. investigators are now looking at a former justice of the peace named eric williams, who was fired in a corruption probe, and prosecuted by both men who are now dead. cnn's george howell live with us this morning from kaufman. george, tell us about this person of inte

. >>> another high ranking official is out at rutgers university tonight in the wake of the scandal ofthe men's basketball coach abusing players. all of it captured on video for all the world to see. our report tonight from nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: from the leadership of rutgers university today, regret for the behavior that shocked the nation. >> if i had to do it again, i would have asked for that video. >> reporter: president robert barchi conceded he never looked at the video though he was told what was on it, when he approved the suspension of head basketball coach mike rice in december. it shows rice physically abusing players and using homophobic slurs. [ bleep ] a particularly sensitive issue at rutgers where in 2010 student tyler clementi took his own life after his roommate spied on clementi's romantic encounter with a man. >> i apologize to the lgbtq community and all of us who share their values. for the homophobic slurs shown on that video. >> reporter: today athletic director tim pernetti resigned. the fourth person along with rice, an assistant coach, and the un

." >>> at first, rutgers basketball coach mike rice got a slap on the wrist. but that changed hours after espn air aed footage of how how he repeatedly abused his players during practice. >> physically kicking players, firing balls at players from point blank range. [ bleep ]. >> how did the sports network handle the story and the role of an assistant coach fired by the school? we'll ask a top espn reporter. >>> nbc doing damage control as the network finally admits it's dumping jay leno in favor of jimmy fallon. so, suddenly, mrar they're playing nice. >> jay, can i ask you something? we're still friends, right? >> yeah. of course we're still friends. >> that's good. >> still friends. well, look at "tonight show" switch and the legacy of late night comedy going back to steve allen and johnny carson. >>> she hasn't lifted a finger and yet her name is everywhere. >> hillary. >> hillary clinton. >> hillary. >> hillary clinton. >> why are the media swooning over the former secretary of state three and a half years before the next election? >>> plus, the legacy of

rutgers is in new jersey of course about half hour south of newark.now there's new there is video of homophobe ick slur and physical abuse to players. espn has pictures and reporter john bar the story. >> rutgers head basketball coach mike rice fiery style has been on public display before. >> get tossed out. >>reporter: known for his coaching intensity rice was suspended by rutgers for 3 games last december. for his behavior at team practices. with few specific reasons cited by school officials at the tim time, as to why. this is why. this is just some of the video that led to rice suspension. obtain not only thexd roughly 30 minute video reviewed by rutgers officials. [ yelling]. >>reporter: but also hundreds of hours of additional of the practice and prior to this year. shots of rice leaving balls at players. even at the head. is you can see better here when the tape is slowed down. >> the problem is, is that whenever he kim in the gym mike rice was on the best behavior. clapping. positive. as soon as he leaves, every bleep. every bleep. and that's

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rutgers basketball coach rice and the university facing heat. yesterday a video showed the coach assaulting his players in various practices. the school knew about it. live now at the rutgers campus with more on this and the aftermath. >> good morning, brian. it's not just the assault people are talking about. it's also the verbal

rutger's coach in hot water after video surfaced. >> you are a [ bleep ]ing fairy.>> we'll talk to the reporter who broke the story. >> connecticut lawmakers on landmark gun legislation today. all this, as the president plans to visit the community where 12 people killed in that movie theater. is he regaining movement? >>> and the doctor convicted in the death of michael jackson, not only speaking from prison, he's singing. ♪ he's the little boy that santa claus forgot ♪ >> an anderson cooper exclusive you have to see and hear to believe. >> a wow interview. >>> also, a new airline, got this policy creating a bit of a stir. should passengers be charged based upon your weight? wednesday, april 3rd. "starting point" begins right now. our "starting point," this viral video could cost rutgers university basketball coach mike rice his job. the school, taking a second look here at its decision not to fire him, now that this tape showing him physically and verbally abusing players at practice here is everywhere. >> cnn's pamela brown following this developing story. she jo

what's the general sentiment about this rutgers scandal there?ed to run into a guy by the name of mark macon, start of temple university, in the nba. we were at the airport, chatting about it, and he was absolutely stunned. couldn't believe it happened. there's a great background that creates these scenarios in college sports. you touched on it earlier. it's about all money. this is an unholy marriage between for-profit billionaire corporation, ncaa, and what is a noble pursuit for higher education. you know be a lot of colleges are in a lot of trouble, which is why no one is without fault here. >> but can i ask, is there a consensus on where the line is? can coaches scream their heads off, you know, push players or not? because what's interesting -- >> they can. >> they're saying, look -- >> that's the stockholm syndrome. an african-american man wrote the words to dixie. look, the problem is coaches can do this. they can get away with it. the reason they can do it and get away with it because college student athletes, as ncaa likes to call them,

a good example to look at is rutgers. vivian stringer, the women's coach, basketball hall of fame, one of the winningest coaches in history, a few years ago had a difficult circumstance when a national shot jaw didn't just insult her team, but really demeaned them. i'm not sure i should use the words on the air. but -- >> they were used on this air before, let's not go there again. >> yeah. what we saw there was coach stringer not only engaged in character building for her team, she, of course, she and her team avoided demeaning, dehumanizing antisocial behavior and words. when they were challenged with such words, the players grew in character. they distinguished themselves across the nation as what you would want to see in a college basketball team. >> one thing -- >> the coach, vivian stringer gets credit for this. a coach can make a difference. in fact, a coach can probably make more of a difference than anybody else in a university which is why this is important. >> it could be debated depending on what you are tryin

you're a nice lady. >>> back to rutgers. had mike rice the abusive coach tossing balls at players, he was fired wednesday. now his boss, the man who let him continue coaching for months and months after he'd seen the tape, he is out, as well. i'm talking about athletic director tom pernetti. he has resigned. his resignation announced within the past hour at rutgers university. pamela brown was listening in on this news conference in which the president of the university spoke. tell me, pamela, what precisely was said. >> reporter: well, so much unfolding in this story. as you mentioned, we did hear from the president of the university, dr. robert barchi. he came out and he apologized. he apologized to the student-athletes that we saw in that video. he said that the behavior seen in that video is egregious, chronic pervasive behavior that is not acceptable. and he admitted that he regrets not looking at that video several months ago when it was brought to tim pernetti the athletic director's attention. he told uspernetti summ

rutgers coach mike rice getting fired after the videos went viral. they found out about it in december and fined him and made him attend anger management session. rich, you said he would be canned immediately in the private sector. >> this was more than holding basketball players to high standars. that is out right cruelty. you don't kick them and slap them on the head and label them with gay slurs. there is a silver lining there. they were not any good. they were a 500 basketball team. look at john wooden in ucla and bill walch the football joke and phil jackson they were honorable men. it was not effective. >> on the other hand, you have coaches like vinceombardi who said it is a tough and cruel business . anyone who tries to hide their emotions makes a mistake. vince was universitially applauded for his work in the coach . the question he was working for a private company, the greenbay packer. >> in the private shortage, there is no shortage of mean bosses that verbally abuse their coaches that get fired. how about steve jobs? >> i don't think he

and rutgers does not come out of this looking particularly good. >> reporter: rutgers students are reactingllout, some saying pernetti should go, too. >> i think the athletic director's probably going to get fired now. he deserves, you know, he let it go on for this long. >> why did he wait this long and wait for, you know, it to be public and blow up on national television on espn, on youtube, to go, okay, maybe we should stop this because we're getting, you know, negative exposure. >> reporter: and for the first time, we're hearing from former players who were subject to rice's attacks. tyree graham spent two years playing for rice and says he was just trying to motivate players. >> he's not as bad as the media right now is making him seem. coach rice, you know, he's one of those guys that, you know, he's a passionate, don't get me wrong, but at the same time, a lot of those times on the film when he's throwing a ball at a player, he was joking. >> reporter: a local basketball coach, rick pitino, who's known to get angry on occasion, says rice's extreme behavior is well beyond the norm. >

the coach here at rutgers kicking a player from behind.there any material different. >> nhl is an odd example because they punch each other in the face. >> gregg: what happened at rutgers was worse? >> i don't see where it's technically a crime. its misdemeanor. >> i am not sure if i see any injury, i see a ball being thrown. >> gregg: how do you knee if there was injury. there could have been bruises there could have been contusion. >> that todd bertuzzi, he slammed the guy's head in the ice. that was horrible. i remember that case. that was really bad. you can't compare this to todd bertuzzi. >> gregg: baseball fights that break out. one guy had a concussion go no prosecution involved. they have to start prosecuting. >> some the sports context, there is a lot of violence, there is unsaid exception. i agree with you maybe we on the to look at it. next thing a boxing match a guy will be charged. >> you can't compare it to this. >> gregg: all right, i'm getting the hook from the producers. you guys are great. thanks so much. >> gregg: i did

controversy at rutgers.released video shows the head coach of the men's basketball team yelling ugly slurs and physically throwing his players around during practice. guess what? he was just suspended three games. what is going on at rutgers? more when we come back. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there's always more in the world to see. it's the all-new lincoln mkz. would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. i'm really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest sl

was the rutgers team good? >> no. >> he should have been fired for his record. >> he was paid $650,000 a year on his contract and has not had one winning season. explain to me why they didn't fire him when they first found out? >> were they any better? >> what you are saying, remi, which i am shocked a defense attorney is saying this that winning is the only thing that matters. it is okay if he kills somebody. we win. is that what you are saying, protector of murderers? >> it would make more sense if they wanted to protect their winning coach, but he is not that. >> what is happening to america? my feeling is -- that question had nothing to do with anything. >> just a lament. >> but i said this earlier, the military and sausage in sports are things that you all enjoy without seeing what happens behind the scene. if your team is 25-0 you don't care. if your military is deadly you don't care what they do. >> you don't want to see what is behind the scenes? how many times have you been busted in a locker room with

rutgers university. the fans. my family who is sitting in their house huddled around because of the fact their father was an embarrassment to them. >> rice was initially suspended if three games and fined $50,000. rutgers says there will be a national search to replace him. >> the battle to keep the sacramento kings in california is in the big apple. groups from sacramento and seattle are in new york city to present their plan for the nba team to the league's board. sacramento mayor johnson is making his pitch to keep the team in the state capital. on the other side, seattle based group of investors including microsoft c.e.o. and sacramento is offering to build a half billion arena and seattle said they have 44,000 fan whose have committed tickets. >> and cal women's is going where they have never been before: the final four. they face four seed, georgia bull dugs on monday in the regional final in washington and the game went down to overtime thriller, with the final score, cal65-62 now they move to the final fou

governor chris christie released a statement reading rutgers has done the right thing firing mr.questions how he was allowed to continue overseeing college students after this behavior first came to the attention of rutgers administration last year. joining me now, executive producer of the rachel maddow show and former ncaa athlete bill wolff, what was your ncaa athletic status in. >> i was a tidly winks star, water polo player, as you know. >> i was an ncaa baseball player, just freshman here. >> i remember reading that. >> really? i played in high school football, baseball, basketball in the 1970s. the stuff i see on that video and stuff that gene hackman did off screen in that movie is stuff that was still around in the coaching world in the 1970s. i never had one of those coaches, but they were around. >> they're still around. >> i'm surprised they're still around. >> they're around, guys are maniacs, strict disciplinarian. the difference between all of those and this guy, first of all, he was physically abusive, that's not any more. >> it was fading in my time. >> yes. also

my players, my administration, rutgers university, the fans. my family who's sitting in their house just huddled around

. >> i went to rutgers.erbally but what appears to be physically as well. >> and it sets up an atmosphere that should not be condoned. >> right. >> i don't know how they didn't fire this guy on the spot. >> that's the big question that will have to be answered today. they suspended him three games and fined him $50,000 in december when they acknowledged and seen the tapes, they said it was a first offense and therefore not fireable. >> first offense but there are hundreds of hours of videos of the practice and according to mike murdock, when he reported this, he reported some of the players said they were having problems eating, sleeping. >> didn't three leave? >> three of them actually, according to some reports, left for reasons some unknown but bun player did say because of this, he didn't want to be a part of this program anymore. >> you could almost understand it if this guy had some stellar track record. >> right. >> not that that's the be all and end all, but three losing seasons and obviously these m

rutgers is a huge public university.huge cash cow and a huge part of the section of new jersey's economy where it exists. so the fact that robert is having his job threatened, the fact that you have people in the democratic legislature saying can we eliminate part of the athletic department's budget because of their behavior, and what happened to clemente makes it such a sore spot. there is a revolt about in this taking place and it's not going to simmer down just because coach rice has had been handed his papers. >> john: they fined him. anger management training, and they showed only to suspend him and give him $50,000 fine. was he only fired because people got angry about this? >> yes absolutely. and it's not because tim pernetti is a great guy and wanted to give coach rice a second chance. it's when athletic directors make their choices in hiring coaches, they're putting their own job on the line. they sign them for many years for a lot of money at a state college. you want to give them every chance to be a success.

moving forward, i will work to regain the trust of the rutgers community."l that vowed to crack down on bullying in 2010 when a gay student committed suicide after being tormented by his roommate. today parents of the players say their trust has been betrayed. stacy williams' son austin johnson just finished his senior season on the team. >> i think i may have failed him because, if i had known the gravity of the situation, i think i would have more strongly counseled him to leave when he began to become uncomfortable. >> reporter: so why didn't any of these students speak out? is that mother tells me that they were afraid of losing those scholarships if they complained. and they thought this was just part of the basketball culture to stand tough. gio benitez, abc news, new jersey. >> starts with mike rice. apparently a lot of other heads that may roll in this case. not only, like we mentioned in the intro, the president of the university, there are other members of the faculty that are also being called into question. >> the athletic director for sure, the

. >>> outrage over what many are calling an abusive basketball coach at rutgers university. a video that aired on espn showing coach mike rice using gay slurs during practice with players. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> he also threw basketballs at the players and grabbed them. the rutgers athletic director said the video was the reason the new jersey school suspended rice in december for three games and fined him $50,000. >> i talked to everybody in the program. we looked at hundreds hours of practice film. needless to say there was a lot of behavior that was unacceptable. >> rutgers said it will reconsider its decision to retain rice as the basketball coach. a spokesman for new jersey governor chris christie said it's not the type of leadership we should be showing our young people. >>> nba superstar lebron james tweeting, quote, if my son played for rutgers or a coach like that, he would have some real explaining to do, and i'm still going to whoop on him afterwards. come on. >>> as we go to nbc meteorologist bill karins for our forecast. that was quite a story. also this tornado

why is that ousted rutgers coach getting a big payoff? >>> and spoiler.actor in the keystone pipeline's fate. welcome to weekends with alex witt. let's get to what's happening out there. first to front page politics and new today after criticism from both sides, president obama is defending the budget he plans to send to congress on wednesday. in his weekly address, the president says his plan calls for a balanced approach to deficit reduction. >> we'll make the tough reforms required to strengthen medicare for the future without undermining the rock solid guarantee at its core. and we'll enact common sense tax reform that includes closing wasteful tax loopholes for the wealthy and well-connected. >> the budget -- proposed budget aims to reduce the federal deficit by $1.8 trillion over a decade. key points, smaller cost of living adjustments to social security, $400 billion in cuts to medicare by reducing payments to health care providers. a payroll tax hike on high-income medicare beneficiaries, and a new tobacco tax to pay for a universal pre-k program.

the head basketball coach at rutgers' university is out. and even he admits there is no excuse for his behavior. mike rice was fired today after this espn video went viral, showing him physically and verbally abusing players during practices. in a moment, you'll hear exactly what he said to some of them. the video is obviously shocking. tonight many are asking why wasn't rice fired months ago when at least one of his bosses first saw that video back in november. the question is what happened then. rice was given a three-game suspension, a $75,000 fine and a ticket to anger management classes. that was before the rest of the world saw the video. here is mary snow. >> reporter: one day after this video went viral -- >> get over there you [ bleep ]! >> reporter: rutgers' basketball coach, mike rice, was fired. but there are calls for the university to do more. rutgers' officials were aware of its existence since november. rice is seen shoving and kicking players, throwing balls at their heads and can be heard using homophobic slurs. >> [ bleep

today, rutger's university firing their basketball coach. the decision came after this video surfaced showing mike rice, physically and verbally abusing his players during practice. in a statement, the university said they did discipline rice when they first discovered the video last fall and forced him to attend anger management. but the video went viral, and angered many in the rutgers community and across the area. his actions shocked the fellow players and coaches. >> it is difficult to watch, certainly. and i hope that the situation there -- a lot of healing must take place with something like that and i hope it does. >> the rutger's athletic director admitted today that the initial penalties were not strong enough. >>> and in health matters, a new strain of bird flu is emerging in china. they're watching the strain called h7n9. so far nine people have been affected, three died. they are the first human cases of the virus. researchers are working to find the source of the illness and are marking genetic markers to signify if it becomes

rutgers university. the fans.mily who is sitting in their house huddled around because of the fact their father was an embarrassment to them. >> rice was initially suspended if three games and fined $50,000. rutgers says there will be a national search to replace him. >> the battle to keep the sacramento kings in california is in the big apple. groups from sacramento and seattle are in new york city to present their plan for the nba team to the league's board. sacramento mayor johnson is making his pitch to keep the team in the state capital. on the other side, seattle based group of investors including microsoft c.e.o. and sacramento is offering to build a half billion arena and seattle said they have 44,000 fan whose have committed tickets. >> and cal women's is going where they have never been before: the final four. they face four seed, georgia bull dugs on monday in the regional final in washington and the game went down to overtime thriller, with the final score, cal65-62 now they move to the final four in n

therefore, we have decided to terminate mike rice's employment at rutgers. tim pernetti says, "i am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of coach rice. dismissal and corrective action were debated in december and i thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but i was wrong. moving forward, i will work to regain the trust of the rutgers community." take a look at the coach mike rice, the coach of rutgers throwing basketballs at players, hitting them, grabbing them, hurling homophobic slurs. this is video that the university officials watched back in november. it was brought to them by a disgruntled employee who used to work alongside rice and officials launched an investigation after they were alerted to rice's behavior and watched this video and officials came to the conclusion that it was about to suspend rice for three games and also impose a fine. but after this video was made public yesterday, there really was outrage, an outcry to do more to fire rice. and so that is why we're hearing from the university this mo

it's rutgers basketball. no one cares. the behavior is inexcusable as coach rice admitted to. >> cenk: it's a triple rammy at rutgers where a kid jumped off a bridge after being bullied because he was gay oh, that calls into judgment the athletic director. maybe he didn't mean harm and he really genuinely believed that the guy could be reformed, no, after the gay slurs and all that stuff, the guy turned him in, that reminds me of the bush administration. >> you have to understand from rutgers point of view you can't have those guys work together any more at that point. >> cenk: if you're going to do that, you should keep the guy who was protecting the players and get rid of the obviously malicious coach. >> the ucla bruins, the team that i root for, they brought in a new coach. he had been the coach at iowa and a big star playing basketball in indiana one of the biggest stars in the mid 80s. ucla brings the coach on, and there are questions that ucla, whether they looked enough in his record while he was at iowa. not his w

i am going to be the head basketball coach at rutgers university.eers and applause ] thank you. thank you very much. whoo! man, you following that story? rutgers university fired head coach mike rice after video surfaced of him pushing and verbally abusing players. and this guy's got a temper. here's the story. take a look. >> outrage over what many are

i was wrong. >> rutgers last made headlines when a student committed suicide after being bullied by a room pait. now, lawmakers are begin pushing for legislation that will require schools to address bullying from students and school fak kult we have the story of the louisville basketball player who suffered a gruesome injury over the weekend. he says he can't believe the support received. he suffered a compound fracture of the right leg. he says he's not used to attention but it's appreciated. >> i guess i just landed wrong. i didn't see where i was land sog that what caused this injury. but i felt like stuff like this just doesn't happen for no reason there. is behind behind everything. i'll find out what it's going to be. it's just a process i'm ready for. >> he says first he thought he just tweaked an ankle but then, realizing it's more serious. he does plan to travel with his team to atlanta and will be there for the louisville playing wichita state. >> good. good thing he's healing and will be able to be there. >> yes. if he's got support just being there. >> with less than two w

rutgers basketball coach rice and the university facing heat. yesterday a video showed the coach assaulting his players in various practices. the school knew about it. live now at the rutgers campus with more on this and the aftermath. >> good morning, brian. it's not just the assault people are talking about. it's also the verbal comments he made. in those videos, you can clearly hear him cursing at his players and even lobbing gay slurs at them. and he is under intense scrutiny for physically and verbally assaulting the players. these are videotaped practices of the coach and his players. we don't know when these videos were recorded. we don't know who recorded them. our understanding is they date back a few years. but according to the school, these videos were given to espn by a former employee of rutgers university, a former assistant coach who is suing the school for wrongful termination. that man's name is eric murdock. he spoke yesterday to espn about the incident, about the coach's behavior and his behavior is receiving mixed reaction on

and rutgers university evaluating the status of its basketball coach.s after a video surfacing of mike rice assaulting his players. >> time now to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. the first, the good. a study finds retail therapy actually works. in one experiment people watched a depressing video clip and were then given money to buy a snack. those who did buy that snack were less sad after. researchers believe there is something about the act of choosing that makes you feel better. next the bad, a man on a stolen cab spins out of control but leads police on a wild chase through the streets of florida. police caught up with him and he faces several charges. finally the ugly, a drunk guy climbs on to a power line in china. the electricity was turned off while he dangled for 15 minutes. he eventually fell into an inflated cushion set up by the fire department. he was drunk indeed, right. it is time for your brew on this question of the day responses. earlier in the show we were telling you how the associated press is ditching the term illegal immi

so, i felt like rutgers gave him his punishment.e media got ahold of the video, they changed up and rutgers fired him. i feel that's wrong. he served his punishment. actually, he served two penalties for one offense. >> so, let's face it, aggressive coaches, that's nothing new. perhaps most famously, former indiana coach bobby knight. remember this video of knight putting his hands on a player's throat? he was eventually hired to be the head coach of texas tech. more recently in football, texas tech fired mike leach after he was accused of sending an injured player to a storage shed as punishment. strongly denied mistreating players. he now coaches at washington state university. so, there are lives for these coaches beyond being fired. some say bullying behavior is just part of being a successful coach. is that so? let's bring in now the founding editor of "espn" the magazine, roxanne jones in new york. roxanne, i've been reading your piece, i read your piece. it's very controversial, you wrote it for espn.com. you said firing rice

should the rutgers president be fired, lz? >> that's simple. >> i'm not sure why he's still there. this notion of him stay to go clean up a mess, he's the reason the mess has festered and got to the point that it has. so, yes, he should are resigned. >> will, do you agree? >> i do. i guess i'm not capable of quite the amount of certainty that lz just gave you. here is the deal. one of the amazing questions is how did this rutgers scandal made takes take size into this national issue. i played college athletics. lz is around athletics a lot. what you see in this rutgers tape is unique, is bad, but not as unique as you might want to think. and there are gray lines where coaching is not necessarily -- it's not a hand holding exercise. the point is to say this, none of that makes the rutgers thing right. and mike rice had to go. but how did that go from, you know, a scandal, a localized scandal at rutgers or in the immediate area to this issue that's on cnn and the chris christie -- >> because the video was so egregious. how could

there have also been calls for the rutgers president himself to step down. he says he knew about the incident with rice but he never saw the tape. on friday new jersey governor chris christie and the rutgers school board gave the president a vote of confidence. >>> there are incredible stories of survival in india today, after a deadly building collapse. a 10-month-old baby was pulled from the rubble more than 29 hours after the building fell down. amazingly she's said to be doing well this morning. at least 72 people are now reported to have been killed in the building collapse. >>> in kansas, a sweeping anti-abortion bill is now awaiting the governor's signature. state lawmakers passed the measure last night. that declares life begins at fertilization. >>> after several flights to test its battery, boeing is hoping to get its 787 dreamliner fleet running again soon. the last battery certification flight took off on friday and boeing says everything went according to plan. the dreamliner has been grounded since january, after batteries on two flights overhe

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rutgers had not been very successful.he basketball program has had a lot of problems over the year. rutgers had some problems athletically, now moving to the big ten, so the stakes get increased. and they've had trouble. they've had trouble luring a big basketball coach into that program. they've had a lot of issues. coaching haven't won. kevin bannon had problems with some abuse, now this situation. rutgers has been a mess athletically. obviously $700,000 for a basketball coach is not as much as you would think. they will get a good coach in there they have a good arena, a good alumnae base, they have financial support, and i'm sure they don't have to pay rice. i'm not sure of the story about the last two, at least years the contract, but it's a big embarrassment. it's a state cool, the governor is involved, now the coach is throwing basketball, saying bad things, this looks awful. it does make a what is pernetti thinks? and public pressure makes him do it? they at look bad in piscataway today. >> i want to give you a ch

. >> do you have any response to the rutgers situation? >> you know, it is very difficult to watch that, very disappointed. i hope -- i hope mike gets some issues taken care of, and it was very difficult to watch that whole thing. i hope for his sake he gets -- with his family, i hope they get back and they recover in some positive way. but it was difficult to watch certainly. and i hope for the situation there, a lot of healing must take place with something like that and i hope it does. >> when you see stuff like that, talking about the relationship you have were your players what goes through your mind when you see that? >> you know, i've never seen anything like that before. and i'm sure that there is a different side of him that really cares about his players. but that was difficult to watch to say the least. >> coach, you talked a lot about your guys and the relationship. going back to the final four what does it mean for you? >> you know, the final four is just, like i said earlier, the best thing about a final four is to put on tha

bill: statement by the rutgers university president is just out right now in our computers.d history of nation's well-diversified academic in on for three paragraphs. we'll get to that in a moment. the point rick makes here, at relationship between a player and a coach is very unique. sometimes these coaches invite interaction with their players and sometimes they do not. we'll trace the history for this coach and his players coming up here. we'll get you the statement for the president. in the meantime how about only taking home 25 cents on every dollar that you make? it is happening. it is a super tax and in place and we'll tell you where in a moment. martha: new reaction from the white house suggestion that is the administration may have exaggerated impact of automatic spending cuts. >> you're editorializing enormously in that. >> how so? february 25th, she said, if you have 5,000 fewer border patrol hours or agents you have 5,000 you tooer border patrol agents that has real impact. those are not her words. that is not politicizing. >> right. how is that not the those dre