rutgers coach mike rice s behavior in practice. here s what governor christie had to say about rice on monday. win or lose, that is completely reprehensible conduct. to be using homophobic slurs and to be having the physical contact with young men that he was having is simply unacceptable. so while governor chris christie had harsh words for coach rice, he offered his support to rutgers president robert barchi. he says barchi should not lose his job over the scandal. i wonder how everyone else feels about that? they had a town meeting yesterday. i think they re all still talking about it. very much so. 38 minutes after the hour. brighter side of college basketball right now. heart pounding, stirring, exhausting. passionate. there are not enough words to describe last night s game. louisville s 82-76 victory for college basketball s national
says we have lost a great leader and a great britain. prime mini. the man who holds the job now says we have lost a great leader and a great britain.prime minis. the man who holds the job now says we have lost a great leader and a great britain. her legacy is that she saved our country and showed immense courage in doing so. people will be learning about what she did and her achievements in decades probably centuries to come. that s her legacy. lady thatcher was 87 years old. police are looking for a man who once held hostages at a hillary clinton campaign office in 2007. leland eisenberg apparently escaped from a halfway house in new hampshire. he has a history of mental illness but is not considered armed or dangerous. to politics now in rutgers university. yes, it s political now. new jersey governor chris christie will take part in a public event later this morning and he may well talk about rutgers and calls for its president robert barchi to step down. as you well know, r
investigation by the fbi. accused of extortion. that s according to the new york times . christie has reached ought to know notre dame s coach. my phone rang two days ago at 8:00 in the morning. he was finally on his first family vacation after going through all of that, and he goes i need to talk to you. i just got some video. he s a good friend. what did you tell him? you know what, what he said, he said here s how i think this needs to be addressed. i listened. i said you re right on. any logical person would say you have a mess to clean up there. and obviously they re doing. doesn t the president have to go, though, too? i wonder. i wonder if he need it is stay there and-to-help kind of clean the whole thing up. clean the whole thing up. is that even possible. so let s talk about that. with me lz granderson and will
would have had a very different outcome had i done so. reporter: in the press conference, barchi tried to make amends to rutgers gay community. it was just three years ago that student tyler clementi committed suicide after his roommate spied on him during a romantic encounter with a man. i also apologize to the lgbt community and all of us who share their values for the homophobic slurs shown on that video. reporter: there are calls for barchi to resign, too, but he got a vote of confidence from new jersey governor chris christie in a statement and in person from the school s board of governors. i think he s the right person to run this place for many years to come. reporter: eric murdoch, the rutgers employee who made the video after he was let go, fired suit against the school for wrongful termination. when rutgers finds out something wrong, they should act immediately. reporter: a delay that cost the basketball coach and athletic director their jobs and
director without jobs this week. the video shows the coach throwing basketballs and calling them derogatory names and kicking them. it only added to the already tarnished reputation of rutgers. reporter: the video cost tim per nitti his job. i always have and i always will no matter what want what s best for rutgers. pernetti saw the video last november of head basketball coach mike rice kicking and shoving his players at practice, throwing basketballs at them, and using homophobic slurs. in consultation with other university officials, pernetti said he decided to suspend rice rather than fire him. one of those officials, rutgers president, robert barchi, admitted he was told what was on the video but never looked at it until this week. i regret i did not ask to see the video when tim first told me of its existence because i am certain that this situation