will not change what happened nor disgrace paterno any further because he is already gone. tia says, they got off easy. i was hoping that every program under the jurisdiction of the athletic director would be suspended for five years to show sports are not more important than children. uh-huh. interesting. another interesting bit of fallout. moody investor services says they say they may downgrade the school s rating which is going to hurt enrollment, fund-raising. ramifications well beyond the playing field. let me throw one point out there. i know the ramifications to the football program, a hot topic, how will the football program recover, how long will it hurt the game? let me ask a question, let s talk about the recovery of sandusky s victims, how long will it take for them to recover, get their lives back on track. let s focus on that a little bit. football will be okay. the lives have been irreparably harmed, the human toll, not the athletic toll. we will be back wit
evolution of how attitudes about same-sex marriage have changed, even the last two, three, four, five years, that s, i think, what s given republicans more pause, making them say, look, let s focus on the economy. let s focus on president obama s record. let s don t focus on social issues like gay marriage. i m told we re out of time but if you want to tell us more about what your poll has, we can make time if you want to reveal more. or do we have to wait to watch nightly? tune in to chuck todd at 6:30 at nightly news tonight. i tried for the news nation. coming up on news nation why is he called a surrogate when he s just walked away from the most effective bit of campaign sabotage of the campaign season to date? that voice that you hear, well, that was chris matthews on his show giving his straight hardball. of cory booker s appearance on meet the press. we ll show you more of what
long term in your estimation? harold, as you know, karzai is such a volatile person. and sometimes you go day to day and week to week without being certain just where he is on the map. i think president obama finally just got sick of this kind of being bounced around by a ping-pong ball. he decided i m president of the united states. we have to look at what our interests are. he decided that the large footprint, the counterinsurgency mission that had been started, that he had started himself with his initial surge of 30,000 troops just wasn t working fast enough. and so he is trying to structure u.s. policy in a sense independent of what karzai says today or tomorrow and focus on u.s. interests. a key part of that policy is that even though we re pulling out the main combat troops, we hope for ten more years after 2014 to keep, let s say, 20,000 troops there in a counterterrorism mission so that we ll be able to protect against al qaeda, maybe steady the government a little bit. so o
pakistan and pakistan s stability in the forefront, that was the whole idea of the president s review in 2009. let s focus on really the pakistan part of that. that just hasn t gone well. and this latest dickering over exactly what the payment per truck that s crossing the khyber pass into afghanistan will be. that s what they re negotiating, is sort of a sorry tale of this. at the time the invitation to karzai was made, the u.s. believed that this was done, that they had a deal. so i m sure there s some feelings in the white house, hey, what happened to the deal? that s why you see karzai being held at arm s length. on chuck s broader point about what they re going to do at the summit, he s right. the basic news was made three months ago. i happened to be on the plane with leon panetta, the secretary of defense. when he made that news he rolled out prematurely, a lot of people thought the fact that the u.s. combat troops will end their
democrats at the time, who were the majority, and the president took over the student loan program. it used to be run through private banks, where they originated and serviced those loans and the government guaranteed it. now that the government is in this business, we re having all these problems that are created by that takeover. jenna: let s focus on what lies ahead and how to maybe fix some of these issues. some suggest providing loans and backing them actually makes colleges less affordable. in fact the secretary of education for reagan had this to say, william bennett, he says if we keep interest rates low, will colleges reciprocate by keeping tuition low, and he goes on to say there s been a four 400 percent increase in the last 20 years for college tuition. do you have a game plan to deal with the rising cost of education especially in a bad economy, would you consider tapping the cost of education, for example? i m sorry, consider which? jenna: maybe tapping the cost of ed