friend of manti te o s the one behind it, but trying it to get to the truth and trying to find out who was behind this cat-fishing. you know, it s funny, i look at the story and it s just developing and don t know what extent he was involved in the hoax or not, but at least tonight, i m somewhat sympathetic, he s a very young man, 22 years old in the spotlight at a very young age and very talented and you know, if he s up to his eyeballs in it, it was profoundly stupid, but it seems that the publicity of this is punishment enough. you know, he has been through a lot. and that s what some of the folks on campus is saying, there is a real tragedy and feel sorry for him having to go through it and believe the grief when this so-called girlfriend died was real. some wonder what he knew after december 6th, did that impact his national championship game. there s just so much to this
at no point did i feel any sympathy for him in that interview. it was the same calculated person that had really put this tale of lies together for all these years. and i don t know that lance armstrong is capable of really coming off as a sympathetic person. i don t think it s in him. so it was calculated to lie all those years and in my opinion, thomas, it was calculated to finally tell the truth. and round two comes on own tonight. the other big story, i d like to have you off the top of the show today, we had so much going on today, manti te o s trouble, the notre dame linebacker who had the fake girlfriend, the death of her. people around the country posting pictures of themselves te oing. he knew she wasn t dead but then went on to espn to talk about it right before the heisman trophy was awarded. take a listen. you mentioned the tragedy,
i don t see a reason to lie, deceit. people are lying on their resumes all the time, bill. bill: if you have not followed the story throughout the last football season. notre dame played 12-0 played for the national championship and they had their shot against alabama. they blew it, they got blown-out in that game. te o and his girlfriend was something that nbc and everyone talked about more months. i appreciate your thoughts. out of los angeles today, jim gray, veteran sportscaster. thank you, 21 minutes before the hour. martha. martha: well there is new fallout today from president obama s sweeping gun control package. in just minutes we ll speak to the sheriff who calls the president s proposal unconstitutional and he says at his level in his community he will not enforce these laws. bill: see that, that is an suv
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released he is causing a whole lot more questions to be answered. notre dame says he s a victim. there are a lot of people out there that wanted to believe he is a victim. perhaps he is in fact a victim. if he is a victim it seems to me he did an awful lot of things throughout the course of this that were very naive and probably out right stupid, because in this day and age of skype and face time and so and and so forth he may have been caught in a hoax, then he embellished it and it got away from him and he s embarrassed. there are so many questions he has to answer and i don t know that there will be any good answers to this. bill. bill: you mentioned the date december 26th. that is significant. because that was the day he approached his head coach and his defensive coordinator and said, the woman i thought was my girlfriend never existed. then it went from there. yet a national championship game was played 11 or 12 days later. te o came out with a statement last night.