welcome to weekends with alex witt. we re happy to be back with you here at 7:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we get to what s happening right now out there. this developing news, new information this morning on the arrest of a man who allegedly wanted to carry out a terror attack on the u.s. capitol building. police arrested the 29-year-old moroccan national on friday. he was wearing a vest he apparently thought was full of al qaeda-supplied explosives. undercover agents supplied the man with fake explosives. the agents had been in contact with the man since december in what was a sting operation. police stopped him in a parking garage just a few blocks from the capitol. nbc s pete williams will join me live from washington in just a few minutes with more of the details. let s go now to politics and mitt romney coming out swinging, taking aim at rick santorum during a campaign stop in idaho. romney compared his record to santorum s, urging voters to take a closer look at
here at 7:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we get to what s happening right now out there. this developing news, new information this morning on the arrest of a man who allegedly wanted to carry out a terror attack on the u.s. capitol building. police arrested the 29-year-old moroccan national on friday. he was wearing a vest he apparently thought was full of al qaeda-supplied explosives. undercover agents supplied the man with fake explosives. the agents had been in contact with the man since december in what was a sting operation. police stopped him in a parking garage just a few blocks from the capitol. nbc s pete williams will join me live from washington in just a few minutes with more of the details. let s go now to politics and mitt romney coming out swinging, taking aim at rick santorum during a campaign stop in idaho. romney compared his record to santorum s, urging voters to take a closer look at the former pennsylvania senator. you have within our own party diff
i m joined by kevin blackstone and we were talking about michael mcquery who was taken off the side lines on administrative leave because he s been getting death threats. let s hone in on what he did or did not do all those years ago when he allegedly witnessed a 10-year-old boy being sodomized. alex, it makes sense in our rational minds, i would go in there and physically stop him from committing a heinous crimes but there are a couple of things to take into consideration, the relationship between mcquery and sandusky. they all grew up together. he played with sandusky s kids. the way he looks at jerry sandusky is as an elder, a mentor, and with a person with an extra power. now you have a grad assistant
commentator, a journalism professor. bonnie bernstein a sports reporter and pablo reporter for sports illustrated. thank you for being here. kevin, some have said today s game should have been called off. do you agree? no. and how can fans cheer in light of something so horrific? it s not about cheering a football game, about calling the game off. whether the game is played or not is not going to have any impact on what s unfolding at penn state over the last 12, 14 years. you know, i think they should show up. i think they should have the blue out which represents the blue ribbon against child abuse in this country. and i think a really good gesture would have all the receipts from today s game at 108,000 seat stadium donated to a child abuse victims and child abuse anti-child abuse organizations in the state of pennsylvania. i think that would be the way to go about it. that s an interesting proposal there. sounds good. bone how does the college address
okay. and a lot of the credit for the football team success is being attributed to joe paterno. do have you have any numbers on that? last year joe paterno said that the team is nowhere near as profitable when he first took over. now, compare that to $72 million generated in 2010. alex? those are going to be interesting stats to consider, if anyone is considering civil suits at this point. kevin, many things. well, the department of education has launched its own investigation to see if the university broke any federal laws. it s an investigation that one congressman is pushing for all along and he joins me right now. republican congressman is with us. good morning. great to be with you. you are not only a pennsylvania congressman, you are a former prosecutor.