question is consumer confidence. some maybe interest rates will go down to encourage consumers that are concerned to actually go ahead and spend money. that s an interesting argument i actually agree with. neil: just the thought of all this craziness in washington making people who were looking to boy a, how hold off. if they had doubts about whether washington is going to have its act together, they just pull out? yes, and that s consumer confidence. so a lot of people that maybe were ready to buy a home, are now taking a step back and saying, well, wait. let s hold off to see what is happening with this government of ours. and i am seeing that as well. so the bigger question here is not so much the government agency the government doesn t approve loans, they insure them. so big mortgage firms will continue to run. bun other component it this irs. the irs is the agency that confirms to these mortgage firms
welcome. great to have you here. great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal s. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine s security hey been stepped up quite a bit? reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that s been going on. you ve got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who sai
to chris in the control room. he didn t say a word. she s talking to herself. go ahead. she has a friend named chris. go ahead. you liked that, huh? a u.s. military tribunal scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine if an army major, nadal hassan, should stand trial for last year s shooting spree at texased for hofor texas fort hood that left 14 people today. today s so-called article 32 hearing is the military s equivalent of a grand jury hearing to determine if there s enough evidence to bring hassan to trial. the wall street journal is reporting a coalition of as many as 40 state attorneys general is expected to announce a joint investigation into potentially faulty foreclosures of the nation s largest banks and mortgage firms. at issue is what the used fraudulent documents to evict people from their homes.