he s taken up since retiring from professional bike cycling. in a statement, he says, i have been notified that usada, an organization largely funded usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought and paid for by promises of anonymity. lance armstrong has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs before, but the doping agency said they collected blood samples in 2009 and 2010 that were, quote, fully consistent with blood manipulation, including epo or blood transfusions. what do you make of that? caller: first of all, i don t think saying you ve never tested positive as an athlete really means anything. we ve hea
the now 18-year-old broke down telling jurors how the former penn state coach allegedly abused him when he was only 11 years old. nbc s national correspondent michael isikoff joining us. mike mcqueary allegedly testifying what he saw in the shower. reporter: mike mcqueary took the stand in this case and recounted that shower scene in february of 2001 where he walks in and says he sees jerry sandusky with a young boy skin-on-skin smacking sounds and arms around the young boy. sandusky and the young boy are
are meeting with. the second meeting in more than six weeks but the u.s. state department says it expects no big breakthroughs this session. the end of the dream, tennis former number one justine henin falls at the third round of the australian open. the belgium player loss tot russia svetlana cu. let s take you back now to the iraq inquiry that s under way in london. the former brit iish prime minister tony blair. let s listen. but no the basis of this was the security risk of changing after september the 11th, so if september the 11th hadn t happened we would have carried on frankly that george bush first discussed this i think back in february of 2001. i d like to turn to june/july
than a slap on the wrist in the first place. so why have our last two presidents been so reluctant to write more of the obvious wrongs of the judicial system? one reason, the tainted pardons of the clinton presidency. after issuing 178 pardons over his first seven years in office, president bill clinton granted 218 in his last year. most of them on his last day. those getting mercy, a fugitive financier, a drug trafficker, and a mail order scam merchant, many with close connections to bill and hillary clinton and one involving a $400,000 contribution to the clinton library. in february of 2001 the new york times wrote, even the most devoted and vociferous backers of bill and hillary clinton are now refusing to defend their messy exit from the white house. messy is a very, very kind word
decades or had drawn little more than a slap on the wrist in the first place. so why have our last two presidents been so reluctant to write more of the obvious wrongs of the judicial system? one reason, the tainted pardons of the clinton presidency. after issuing 178 pardons over his first seven years in office, president bill clinton granted 218 in his last year. most of them on his last day. those getting mercy, a fugitive financier, a drug trafficker, and a mail order scam merchant, many with close connections to bill and hillary clinton and one involving a $400,000 contribution to the clinton library. in february of 2001 the new york times wrote, even the most devoted and vociferous