westmoreland. i see thousands of people saying don t let the media get you down, don t let them disturb you. see, they understand this is a witch-hunt. kim, carson says this will help him, not hurt him. in fact, there are a number of conservatives who have rallied around him since the west point story came up. i think it might, but there s a difference between vetting and vendetta. i think a lot of times when it comes to the press, they look at conservative candidates and they get this treatment that just nobody else gets. i m curious, do you think that examining whether or not he was offered a scholarship to west point, trying to find out the truth of that, is that a vendetta or vetting. that s probably something worth looking at. you look at the cnn story that was out where they go back 50 years looking at his childhood friends and saying is this the sort of person you remember 55
this. we just got this tweet from former missouri player michael sam. he tweeted out in the last hour, if mizzou is truly a family we all must stand by concerned students. 1950. that s what the students who have been protesting have called themselves here. what you have though is this incredible showing at a time when people criticize the student athlete as only really caring about the athletics in many many cases. they re taking on this social climate at the university, black, white, and now the support of the coach. if they don t play saturday, the university could lose a million dollars. what do you make of this strong showing, rob, from these students? well, you said it exactly right in your introduction. this is not a story that really got national media attention until it became a football story. you talked about a team in the s.e.c. if there s one thing people in missouri can agree on is that they love the missouri tigers football team. they may disagree about what s going
i think what will be a long line of different steps and a long journey. but i think that the university of missouri is showing itself to be a leader in making things happen by listening to their students. this was a fast moving story when you consider the amount of attention it got over the weekend after simmering for several weeks and now the resignation of the university president. we greatly appreciate you joining us with your reaction. i want to get our audience caught up on other stories developing now. two american defense contractors have been killed and two other americans wounded in an attack at a military training center in jordan. a south african and a jordanian were also killed when a former jordanian police officers went on a shooting spree. officials say the gunman was then killed by authorities. the faculty facility is on the outskirts of jordan s capital of amman. president obama commented on the attack in the past hour.
questions are appropriate but i do believe that this is a totally crazy obsession over incredible detail from 30 and 40 years ago. ben carson has woven stories like the west point story into the fabric of his interesting it and inspiring life story. doesn t it make it fair game for questions? sure. people ask the question and he answered it. nbc s peter alexander joins me now from milwaukee, the site of tomorrow night s debate. peter, it s interesting the strategy that dr. carson is using, which was the tone taken in the last republican debate which is blame the media. reporter: that s exactly the case. it s certainly been working with conservative activists. they ve been raising money hand over fist, frankly, over the last several weeks. but this is significant because as you ve noted, ben carson s life story is so compelling and inspiring, it s what he s
reported by politico by friday was rewriting the headline because they missed cars s confusion about the west point story. that s the claim he made that he had been offered a scholarship to west point. they originally reported that he was admitted to west point but declined to go. he never said he was accepted or add mitted to west point. and there are discrepancies about whether there s this appetite in the republican primary voting. voting right now for nonpoliticians. one downside of that is you risk coming up with someone who has not been vested, who has not been tested. that s the danger here. that s something you have to keep in mind when you re picking a republican candidate. what about those that say these points are not critical. they don t undermine the narrative of his life. the press court cannot abide by