charges that they lied to a grand jury about a sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach. jerry san does i can is accused of sexually abusing eight victimses, mostly teenage boys, and it happened over 15 years. he and penn state officials deny the lui is here. tough for college ball fans like you and myself. it s one of the most storied college football teams, penn state. one of the most visible coaches jerry sandusky facing a child abuse scandal that is overshadowing legendary accomplishments and stellar season starts. it involves 40 counts from 1994 to 2009. 21 felony, each holding as many as 20 years in prison and 19 misdemeanors. and the allegations, they are graphic. one witness saying he saw sandusky having sex with a 10-year-old and another saying he assaulted him in the shower
low birthweight babies face an increased risk for autism, according to the latest research. researchers at university of pennsylvania found that low birthweight babies were five times more likely to be diagnosed with autism when compared to the general population. well, this friday we ll get the latest snapshot of the job market and the october unemployment report. the rate has been stuck at 9.1% for the past three months now, and that could spell bad news for president obama. since world war ii, no president, with the exception of ronald reagan, has been re-elected when the jobless rate topped 6%. but it s not all gloom and doom for the white house. msnbc s rich lui here with a closer look behind the newspaper. hey, richard. good morning to you there. good afternoon to you as well. president obama hopes the unemployment unemployed will not take it out on him in the polls. there s some examples where they
hi, everybody. good morning. i m thomas roberts. next hour of msnbc, the suspense is nearly over. chris christie will announce at 1:00 p.m. eastern time today whether he s going to make a run for president. but, believe it or not, not a majority of americans, even know who he is. and we re tracking amanda knox on her flight back to the u.s. she is now a free woman after her murder conviction is overturned in italy. is her legal nightmare over? and on a different note, apple ready to reveal the iphone 5. breaking down all the latest upgrades and how you can get your hands on the hot new gadget. that and more coming up in the next half hour. there are apparently money troubles for presidential candidate michele bachmann who is losing a couple of top campaign aides and some others are being re-assigned back to her congressional staff. now officially we ll get a picture of everyone s campaign cash with new numbers for the third quarter which are due out by the 15th. one big advantage for
career ahead of him. a lot of republican senators said that judicial nomination should never be filibustered. does that indicate a worsening. i quoted a number of them before professor lui s vote. we had some important votes this year. most significant vote was not goodwin lui, although it was important, but the most significant vote was a man from rhode island by the name of mcconnell, and an outstanding trial lawyer. he had in his mind of the republicans one problem, he was a trial lawyer and a very, very good one, and we fought that very, very hard. i have to say that the republicans stepped up and said, this is carrying things a little too far, so we were able to get this good man, and now a position on the federal bench where he now sits. goodwin liu, they rationalize this by looking at some of the things he had said in the previous testimony, and regarding the statements of alito and very professorial, and
republicans one problem, he was a trial lawyer. and a very, very good one. we fought that very, very hard. i have to say the republicans stepped up and said this is carry things a little too far. we were able to get this good man now a position on the federal bench where he now sits. goodwinlui they rationalize this by looking at some of things he had said in some of his previous testimony. some of the things he said as a professor. sometimes professors do say things that are a little interesting. i think lui will be back. i think he has the potential to an outstanding jurist. we had this set back. that doesn t mean that the system s been ruined. i think that we ve had some real success this year as relates to nominations. just this afternoon senate majority leader saying that he thought lui would be back. just hours later we learned that he has now written to president