will seizing power for white southerners, and imposing jim crow segregation and white supremacy on the society more broadly. this carving on georgia stone mountain finished in 1972 used to be a well known gathering place for white supremacists. as far west as arizona, a state not yet part of the nation during the civil war, confederate memorials are up for debate as well. some say they re important to keep to remind americans of our racist past. i don t think we should try to hide our history. i think we ought to try to teach it, make people understand we have overcome a lot of mistakes. where should the line be drawn? washington, d.c. is a city named after the first but not the last slave owning president. statues of confederate leaders grace the halls of the capitol building. robert e. lee was asked about
amen. amen. very moving moment there. a prayer for the eight alleged victims, former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. out of jail today on $100,000 bail. the scandal leading to penn state s first game without head coach joe paterno in 46 years. the stadium was filled with navy blue today. tears in the eyes of generations students, alumni, and fans. many of them having to reconcile their sadness over the horrific allegations against a loss of paterno from the program he ran for so long. his departure may have seemed sudden but his fate was sealed long ago by how he handled some say mishandled an eyewitness report in 2002 his former defensive coordinator rape ad young boy in a locker room shower. interim head coach tom bradley always dreamed of taking his job but virtually not like this. after today s three-point loss to nebraska he held a news conference. i thought that our fans, as i asked them to do on thursday night to show class and dignity, and they did all day
welcome. great to have you here. great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal s. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine s security hey been stepped up quite a bit? reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that s been going on. you ve got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who sai
shakedown bishop long for money. let s bring in roland martin on the phone now, a cnn contributor. you wrote an article this morning which i just got seconds ago. but briefing through it, you say, while i disagree with waiting five days since the allegations were revealed, if someone accused me of doing this and i know in my heart i didn t do it, i d be screaming from the top of georgia stone mountain. you seem to have been asking the same question i am. where is eddie long? first of all, when i interviewed i was the one who interviewed the attorney craig gilliland on the show on thursday and we had already confirmed bishop eddie long was notified around midnight that night that he was not going to be appearing. what i said to him was i said the exact same thing. what he said was when you have these kind of serious charges and you hire an attorney, you listen to your attorney s advice. i was watching tv 1 and we dealt with this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.