to do. take the arguments and the allegations against trump and turning them on somebody else. trying to do this flip-flop of sorts. so we have seen this news story and started on thursday and it s sunday. . it gives trump voters a new argument. something new to respond with. what s the real story. let s bring in kathleen jamison, a director of the public policy center at the university of pennsylvania and bill plant, famous former white house correspondent for cbs news. have you ever seen anything like this? no n previous administrations, there was tension between white house reporters and president staff, but never in this this kind of situation where stories have been deliberately set up to take the place of whatever is actually happening and direct attention elsewhere. so this is new. but i think it s a very important that we not allow ourselves to become involved in
last night, the gathered crowds cheered and the once revered penn state coordinator was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse. sandusky s story is one of both heinous crimes and utter institutional failure to protect our children. but this is also the power of the story of survivors, those who chose to come forward. and by putting sandusky away, made sure that no one else will ever be his victim. i m joined now by first, let me bring in nbc news correspondent, ron allen, who s in belafonte, pennsylvania. hi, ron. reporter: good morning. how are you? i m doing okay. obviously, everyone s eyes have been on belafonte waiting for this verdict. tell me about what you saw on the ground there? reporter: well, it was really an amazinging night. there were two days of deliberation be building up to this. we had no idea whether the jury was going to continue into the weekend or announce a verdict at any hour. suddenly, we were getting rumblings that the attorney general for
20-minute announcement there would be a verdict. the crowd started building. hundreds of people came here. many saying they wanted to be here to witness what was going to be a moment of history. i don t think anybody thought jerry sandusky would be found innocent of many of these charges if any. i think the big question is whether he would be convicted of everything. all 48. here s the headline from the local newspaper. it says guilty and a picture of jerry sandusky with a blank stare on his face. one of the victims, hugging the lead prosecutor in the case, in tears and saying, thank you. it was that kind of night. that kind of trial. a lot of emotion and as you said in your introduction, this is an institutional problem. there s still a long way to go. there are still many cases to come. and ron, obviously, your point about the victim, the survivor standing there. hugging, finding some closure, but in it being a big story, it s about this entire town. in certain ways, ab
laden. president obama commemorated that day with a trip to afghanistan where the war on terror began and while there he signed a ten-year agreement with afghan president karzai while we will draw down the troops and bring them home. our troops here in afghanistan launched the trip that killed osawma bin laden, ad the chance to defeat al qaeda is now within our reach. so with one speech, he is able to take responsible for killing the head of the global terrorism, and vow to commitment, and it is a do-si-do for the dove to hawk on foreign policy and it is on a day that only reminders the president s supporters that the guantanamo bay detention facility is still open despite the campaign promises to close it. this is, not that any of us could forget is an election year where all of the presidential business as usual is campaign business. and many can read the president visiting the troops in afghanistan as a campaign stop, but remember, foreign policy is the primary work of
journalists are tag it taking this too personally and getting too emotional. is that fair? i see tweets from people and no names, but who are offended by what s going on. if if you are offended by what s going on, keep it to yourself. on that note, thank you very much for being here. kathleen, stick around. a quick break here. more on this weekend s claims from president trump and the fact checking of them. another all-star panel, right after the break.