leadership. therefore, we have decided to terminate mike rice s employment at rutgers. tim pernetti says, i am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of coach rice. dismissal and corrective action were debated in december and i thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but i was wrong. moving forward, i will work to regain the trust of the rutgers community. take a look at the coach mike rice, the coach of rutgers throwing basketballs at players, hitting them, grabbing them, hurling homophobic slurs. this is video that the university officials watched back in november. it was brought to them by a disgruntled employee who used to
thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but i was wrong. moving forward i will work to regain the trust of rutgers community. that was released before rice was fired today. is pernetti s job in jeopardy, you think? i would think it should be and has to be, especially when you see someone like chris christie, the governor of new jersey, putting out public statements yesterday saying that rice should have been fired, and putting out another statement post firing of the coach that he still doesn t understand why those above him didn t act in the right way back in december when they suspended rice instead of firing him. now, the president of the university, rutgers university, of new jersey, the president of the university now says he had not seen the video until yesterday where the athletic director pernetti said yesterday the president had seen the video long before. so there is a lot of questions
responsible for the decision. he realizes that his decision to try to rehabilitate wasn t the best one and he is going to work to regain the trust of the rutgers community. again, we ll update this story with bruce beck coming up in our next half hour. in the meantime, let s talk about voter i.d. because you can add aarkansas to the list of state that s have passed strict photo i.d. laws. legislators there passed a law requiring voters to show photo identification at thehole polls. it was an override of governor mike bibi s veto. 30 states have laws that will require all voters to show i.d. at the polls this november. let me bring in new york congress nan charles rangel who is part of a panel discussing voter i.d. laws at the national network this morning. it s good of you to stop by on your way. how are you? good. the arkansas agovernor said the law is an expensive solution to a nonexistent problem.