turn today as the candidates battled over whose policies on taxes and spending would best help the middle class. and there was plenty of talk about sequestration, the term for automatic budget cuts in january if congress and the white house can t agree on them before then. jan crawford is with the romney campaign in boston tonight. jan, good evening. reporter: well, good evening, jeff. with those convention now behind us, the president and romney have really sharpened their attacks and their focus on the middle class. here s the president today in florida. they couldn t answer questions about how they d pay for $5 trillion in new tax cuts and $2 trillion in new defense spending without raising taxes on the middle class. reporter: it s a scene the president and the vice president are hammering. today in ohio another key state, joe biden questioned romney s priorities. but giving these massive tax cuts to the very wealthy, what happens? you got to make it up somewhere.
investigators found that penn state s athletic director, and the legendary coach,a all knew in 1998, that sandusky was under investigation for sexual misconduct but did nothing to stop him. the late coach also had an opportunity to do something in 2001 when former coach mike mcqueary reported seeing sandusky abooze abuse a boy in the shower. he was part of this active effort to conceal. reporter: san urvegy was sandusky was allowed to retire. the attorney for the former coach admits he should have done more but was not part of a cover-up. joe in no way suspected that he was a child predator. reporter: hired to investigate the school s role in the scandal and says his report is both sad and sobering. an event like this can never happen again. reporter: lawyers for some of sandusky s victims say freeh s report will strengtszen strengtzen any litigation against the university or paterno s estate. all the former pen state officials named in today s report deny