status, claiming they don t want the privacy to be revealed is absurd. couldn t they keep these things confidential by releasing them to certain members or staffers on the committee? they may not be confidential enough. they may not trust the committee will keep it confidential. i issa has run a dishonest information. he wouldn t release all the information until he was forced to. there was a self-professed conservative republican who started the investigation, he started looking at these right wing groups. he admitted he was the one who started it. it started with him. he said it was not political, but because new paradigms had to be set for the formation of all these tea party groups. that is the story. there s no scandal here. darrell issa has been looking for a scandal since he took over the oversight committee and he s wasting a lot of time and taxpayer money doing it. alan colmes said not a
things long term if they do get injured and they lose a career potentially going forward, but they shouldn t be paid to the degree where we re now creating a minor league for the professional institutions, the nba and the nfl, and so forth. and also what happens with all of the funding that the facilities get, all of the funding that goes actually into the faculty and other areas of the university? a lot of this will be lost if it now goes to all of these players. a revamping of the system is necessary. unionizing i really think that we re a long way from that and i think by the time that this is appealed and adjudicated, everybody and better heads will come together. there s also, doug, another court case which is taking place right now by a former player at ucla, a basketball player, who is suing the ncaa. and that court case is being heard. good chance they ll win and that s for the rights for the colleges to sell these jerseys and use the name in perpetuity of all these players. no
michael jordan s name forever. all right, jim, really appreciate your opinion, and as you say this is really the opening volley. a lot more to come on this. thanks very much for your time. new jersey governor chris christie said the road closure scandal involving his office will not affect his decision on whether or not to run for president. christy was cleared by an internal review of any wrongdoing. speaking with megan kelly in an exclusive cable interview christie said he s learned a lot and has learned to ask more questions. how does this relate in your mind to what we ve seen with president obama? well, i think a few things. first is whether you re president of the united states or whether you are governor of a large state like i am, it s a fiction to believe we know everything that s going on. but secondly, i think, it s how you respond after you find out something s being done in your name that you believe is inconsistent with your values. do you see a contrast between
take place, identi guess it s s. however, how do you implement it? they say they re student athletes, in many incidents they are athlete students, so this i think will cause tremendous reform in the ncaa. it only applies right now to private institutions, public institutions, the nlrb doesn t have jurisdiction over it, so it s only this case right here right now, but i think it will force change across the board. this is interesting because you use that term student athlete versus athlete student. and there are a lot of people who suggest that college athletes at least at the top tier, the bigtime football programs, are kind of a sham, that this is not amateur athletic in any sense of the term or should not be. what are your thoughts about that? well, it s just like anybody who goes to school. a lot of these athletes who go to school have dreams of playing in the nfl or the nba. it s a one in a million shot but that s where they are placing their hopes and dreams and that s where t
top-tier athletes in college really are not students in any sense of the word. we ve seen lots of anecdotal evidence of really dumbed-down courses. you look at the ncaa basketball play-offs right now and you just imagine the kind of training and the time invested for these players to be participating in this postseason tournament. they have no time for school work. well, they do have time. and they do create time and they do have extra periods and tutors and so on and so forth. i get your point. however, the fact of the matter is, is that this system is broken and it needs to be reformed and this will be the first step. but for allowing them to unionize, no, i don t think that s the way to go. i just don t think that that is going to be what happens when a lot of these private schools decide to drop the program when they decide that the money coming in is outweighing the benefits are outweighed because they don t want to have to pay all of these players. the players should have bet