this is complicateded, but no matter who s right, this is a fight team obama is happy to have. also, when you think of veterans, you probably think older and conservative. but the obama team now thinks it s got a real shot at winning over veteran, especially younger vets from iraq and afghanistan. plus, what did joe paterno know and when? louis freeh s investigation is out and conclusion the plain. paterno chose to protect jerry sandusky over the children he victimized and richard engel is just back from syria with a chilling account of what he saw in the country. finally, guess where the american s olympics uniforms were made? here s the hint, not in the u.s.a. we begin with mitt romney fighting back against the bain attacks. howard fineman is editorial director for the huffington post. joan walsh is editor of salon. today, the romney campaign is out with a new ad accusing obama of lying about romney s role at bain. when a president doesn t tell the truth, how can we tru
bain capital and outsourcing. his team has released an ad saying president obama isn t telling the truth. romney says much of bain s outsourcing came after he left in 1999. today s boston globe may call this into question. this is complicated, but no matter who s right, this is a fight team obama is happy to have. also, when you think of veterans, you probably think older and conservative. but the obama team now thinks it s got a real shot at winning over veterans, especially younger vets from iraq and afghanistan. plus, what did joe paterno know and when did he know it? now we know. louis freeh s investigation of the penn state abuse scandal is out. paterno chose to protect jerry sandusky over the children he victimized and richard engel is just back from syria with a chilling account of what he saw in that country torn by civil war. finally, guess where the american s olympics uniforms were made? here s the hint, not in the u.s.a. we begin with mitt romney fighting back
and new documents in the case of the man charged with killing trayvon martin. could shed some light on whether or not race played a role. want to get right to it. u.s. military judge held a hearing at ft. hood, texas, today a few weeks before the court-martial begins for major nadal hassan. hassan, he is the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage in back in 2009. he is accused of killing 13 people, all but one of them fellow soldiers. he also wounded 29 others. now attorneys today discussed the makeup of his military jury which has not yet been convened. hassan s murder trial is set to begin august 20th. florida a&m university now looking for a new president. the school s board of directors going to hold a meeting today on rather monday. president james eamons announced his resignation yesterday. he stepped down more than seven months after a student was beaten to death. robert champion. he was a drum major. he died during an apparent hazing incident on a bus
there are questions about what definitions you want to use. there are definitions about time. the timeline and so on. but the basic attack was well-known and i think in its heart, had a lot to it, the romney campaign had first dismissed it. they tried to brush it off, make fun of it, they tried to counterattack by saying the president sent money overseas, but it s only today more than a week later they re trying to react to a story they originally sent their staff down to the washington post to complain about. joan, first read had this response, quote, perhaps the biggest problem for team romney is that this ad comes more than a week after the obama camp released its bain outsourcing ad. that s not quite rapid response. also, today, the new york times reports on the disappointment of some romney supporters, built a reputation during the republican primaries as tough street fighters, but now, mr. romney finds himself confronting concern he is not nimble and aggressive en
suspected of jerry sandusky was a child predator. reporter: they hired them 8 months ago to investigate the scandal. saying that his report is both sad and sobering. and in an event like this, they could never happen it again. reporter: lawyers for some of the victims said that they will strengthen any litigation against the university or the estate. reporter: the attorney for victim 3, 7, 10, as well as matt sandusky, the adopted son said not only is there evidence of the child sex abuse from 1994, but there is also evidence that jerry sandusky abused children prior to 1998. in philadelphia, randall pinkston, back to you. randall, thank you. sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of 45 criminal accounts. the scandal lead to the ouster of paterno and the school s president. washington is involving vincent gray s 2010 campaign for mayor. first the associated press is reporting that they were paid $100 a day by the campaign. twice the legal limit. a