after child. jenna: let s stop there. fred, you say something is very unique to the state of pennsylvania as far as how they would go about an investigation like this, how they would use a grand jury. explain that to our viewers. sure, jenna. pennsylvania and connecticut are actually only two states in america other than the district of columbia where you do not indict by the grand jury. every other state in america the grand jury investigates and issues an indictment which is a charge. in pennsylvania it doesn t work that way. pennsylvania has what they are called investigative grand juries. here the ag formed a grand jury to do this they did so because they wanted to do a couple things. first of all they wanted to get mcqueary s testimony locked in under oath. they wanted victims in under oath. once they charge, the ag still charged sandusky. once they charge in pennsylvania this report everyone has read from the grand jury has to become public. it is called a presentment. that s w
ticking on that deadline. mike emanuel, thank you. we ll talk with a tea party representative getting to finer points of that 9 trillion deficit reduction plan. jenna: 9 trillion? we ll see if they can do it. new developments in the penn state child sex abuse case. according to his attorney one alleged victim is ready to testify in the sexual assault case against jerry sandusky. we re getting new reports that the assistant coach told a grand jury that he saw sandusky assaulting a child in the team showers never went to the campus police. that e-mail between the coach mack query and unknown mcqueary and unknown source. david lee miller is live in university park pennsylvania with the latest on all this. david lee? reporter: jenna, a great deal of fallout from the e-mail reportedly sent from assistant coach mcqueary to a friend of his made public
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the dirty deeds. so he is a critical witness and it turns out how they came upon mcqueary was this chat. i don t know exactly what was said. i haven t seen the text of the message yet myself but it led the pennsylvania authorities from the attorney general s office to then call him in for questioning and apparently as soon as they got him, he started gushing everything he knew. remember this is 2010, eight years after the fact. so apparently this young man has kept this, this evil bottled up inside him what he had seen in that shower. but what i think, jenna, if i may i think what emerges here is kind of 10-year indictment of the officials at penn state university and the local prosecutors. they did as little as they possibly could to investigate this, these disturbing allegations against a man who was in a position to continue serial molesting child after child