could be what keeps newt gng ri newt gingrich in the top tier. it is that this endorsement val dates the things gingrich has been doing. the voting starts in five weeks. no one is better positioned to be the main alternative to mitt romney than newt gingrich. meanwhile in iowa, a group of influential conservatives meeting to try to coalesce behind a candidate who isn t mitt romney. romney s strategy is to win early and often. if the large portion of voters out there want some one other than romney coalesce behind a single candidate this fight could last a while. rick klein, abc news, washington. fast night twist and turn on the gop side this year. key line in the endorsement, we would rather back some one with whom we may some times disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear. a constant criticisms of romney. tailors his message. gingrich came out with the interesting stance on immigration. so he seems like, i guess like a realist to many people. sti
after a shocking tape has come to light. also, the markets getting a bit of a black friday bounce. pakistan puts the u.s. on notice after a deadly nato strike. and a wet, dare i say possibly snowy, day for the southeast. i m going to play reporter roulette here on this monday. ed lavandera, in syracuse where syracuse university fired assistant basketball coach bernie fine, fine is accused of sexually abusing kids. ed, also news fine s termination just hours after the world heard this tape recording of his wife. tell me about it. reporter: well, this was a recording between one of bernie fine s principal accusers, a man by the name of bobby davis. in that phone recording he was talking with bernie fine s wife, and it was a dramatic phone call. these are phone calls that lasted quite some time. we can listen to a little bit of it, and it really seems to bolster what bobby davis has been saying here over the last few weeks accusing bernie fine of molesting him hundreds o
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for cleaner air and your right to breathe it. for those who want to quit smokg and for those who need them to. we re fighting for clear skies over every city and healthy lungs throughout the country. the american lung sociation isn t just fighting for air. we re fighting for all the things that make it worth breathing. jo us in the fight at fightingforair.org. that he s not aware of, but he has issues. and you trusted somebody you shouldn t have trusted. reporter: the accuser made the tape he says because he needed proof his allegations of molestation would be taken seriously. on the tape bobby davis says he frequently slept over in the basement of the fine s home. davis and the woman, he identifies as mrs. fine discuss the type of abuse he was subjected to. what did he want you to sdmu you can be honest with me? first of all he, start, you know touching me. reporter: this month the accuser s stepbrother leveled similar accusations. a 23-year-old from maine, swore a d
syracuse university heard that tape, there really was no other choice. they had to fiere bernie fine, which they did late last night. the accuser, bobby davis, lived in the fine household for a period of time. he made the recording shortly after the alleged decade-long affair came to an end. and the tape suggests that not only did the coach s wife know about what was going on, but in fact she had a role in it. and we want to warn you that the tape is both graphic and also disturbing. i didn t know what to think. i know everything that went on with him. bernie has issues. maybe that he s not aware of, but he has issues. you trusted somebody you shouldn t have trusted. yeah. bernie is also in denial. i think that he did the things that he did, but somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased it out of his mind. go to somewhere inside yourself where there s gay boys, find yourself a gay boy, you know, get your rocks off, and have it be over with. yeah, but you