rules says joe paterno s football players got preference shl treatment because joe paterno demanded. she held the post from 2003 to 2007. in a statement to cnn, she says in part, over several years, there were numerous meetings and discussions about specific impending student discipline cases that involved football players. as a result, my staff and i felt compelled to alter how we handled cases involving penn state football players. the consequence of these accommodations put us in the position of treating football players more favorable than other students. joe paterno s lawyer says the claims are misleading and filled with inaccuracies. cnn has obtained a statement for air. we ll report that in a moment. all of this comes as pennsylvania s department of child and youth services is said to be investigating two new allegations of child sex abuse on the part of jerry sandusky. these are the first known cases involving alleged victims who are still underage. sandusky is fo
judgment about trust. tonight, one of the leading republican candidates, if not the leading republican candidate, is failing the trust test. sure, all politicians shade the truth and spin the facts, but what we re about to show you, the first paid television ad for romney for president television campaign crosses the line. reprehensible in any campaign. but more so for this one because of the profound challenges facing the country. watch and listen. we need a rescue plan. it s going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. lose. lose. reporter: one more time. just that last snip it from the president. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose, lose, lose. reporter: powerful stuff, right? especially with high unemployment and sluggish economic growth. yes, powerful stuff if it were honest, fair, context chul. listen here to senator obama late in the 2008 campaign. senator mccain s campaign actually said and i
second mile announced an internal investigation today and its ceo for the past 28 years has quit. plus tonight, new questions about the judge who over the objections of prosecutors, okayed sandusky s release on bail. get this. her biography lists her as a volunteer at sandusky s second mile charity. joe paterno s name is being taken off the championship trophy. he was fired last week after he was told about one of the rapes in 2002 but apparently never told police, although he did tell university higher-ups. now pennsylvania s legislature is expected to change state laws requiring employees of universities to report the sexual assault of a child. state senator kim ward is co sponsoring such a bill. she is with us tonight. also with us is ernie allen, president and ceo of the national center for missing and exploited children. and in new york helping us with the legal issues, sunny hostin, a legal contributor to trutv. this is what you sent around to your colleagues saying h
23 more deaths reported in syria. a day after president obama and several u.s. allies finally called on president obama bashar al assad to step aside. arwa damon is covering this story. another friday, a day of prayer, but it was a day of brutal violence as well, arwa. that s right, wolf. and it would seem some pretty dramatic footage emerging from damascus. in the center of the city and in the clip that emerged on youtube, we could not independently verify its awe tenitiesty. you can hear the fear in the people s voices on the recording. now, we spoke to an eyewitness, a person who said he was at that demonstration and just as they were leaving the mosque, he said security forces began firing op them from all sides. people scattered into the alley ways. some of them stood their ground and tried to use rocks to keep their security forces away. in the southern province and a number of towns there, again, the very same scenario unfolded. the people who were wounded were being