A look at the days top news and headlines. The nation outline the Trump Interference in upcoming mid terms voicing concerns about threats and saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. Election infrastructure is not a destination. It requires aggressive and ongoing vigilance. Everyone must play their role to ensure that every vote is counted. Dana unprecedented briefing from all of those intelligence officials at the highest level coming to the briefing room, making a show of United Support and coordination at the highest levels of our government with Sarah Sanders explaining that the goal of this is to protect the 2018 elections, the 2020 elections and those in the future. They have their work cut out for them. We are less than 100 days away from the 2018 election. And joining me now is chief White House Correspondent john roberts live with more. Im just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. I have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside from the elec
which says if there is any sexual misconducted which he fails to report, he could lose his job and that can reportedly be a loss of almost $39 million for urban meyer. we live in very different times. they can reach back to things that happened before even though he has a new contract it? could be from this university or another. think about joe paterno and horrible scandal with jerry sandusky. paterno was this legend in college football. because he did not report the heinous activity that he is said to have known about what sandusky was doing, joe paterno became vilified. we saw a legend go from that to this. there is a saying there is a reason we have a saying you should stick your nose where it doesn t belong. if do you that today, it could cost you your career. dana: then there is a new report that claims that the former ohio state wrestling coach is calling accusers of congressman jim jordan and asking them to recant. russ apparently by text message nb nbc news got text
mercy exemption in the forfeiture statute. however, it s what we lawyers call an unintended, you know, negative recipient. in other words, why should family members be punished. but let me get back to the case itself. what sandusky is saying and, again, he already didn t prevail on this though he s saying that these acts happened at a time when he was not working for the university. the problem with that argument, jon, is that he had all kinds of access and rights and so on. jon: he did retire in the 99. right. he had access, he had rights, he also was being paid by the state university by the university. not a whole lot of money, but it was directly coming from the state right there on a technicality. we lawyers love the technicalities, that bars him from getting the pension. his wife, i mean, i m sorry, i m sure she s a lovely woman, whatever, but once he s barred from it, she s barred from it as well. jon: the lawyers, doug, are arguing this is some kind of mob
off, a number of puzzling expressions. at times he looked blank. other times groggy. there might have been concern in his eyes. after a couple of minutes he was taken back to solitary confinement without holmes. he s accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a midnight showing of the dark knight rises. police say they caught him outside, without a fight. he was wearing a gas mask and body armor from head to toe. jim spellman in aurora for us. he was inside the courtroom when holmes appeared. jim, it was tough to get read on him during the appearance. i don t know if he was nodding off. i was talking to a guest who wrote the book on columbine who said we shouldn t be talking and reading too much into how he looked but how did he appear to you? reporter: you can t help but have this build up to what this guy will look like. we ve only seen a couple of photos. the big question is would his hair be dyed red. we knew some police sources said that but none of the wit
joe paterno wasn t perfect. he made mistakes and regretted them. he s the only leader to step forward and say with the benefit of hindsight and wish he would have done more. if joe paterno understood what sandusky was, a fear of bad publicity would not have factored into his actions. i understand the family saying that. the evidence does not support that position. all of the officials including paterno did what is not uncommon. having chased cases for many years in the legal profession and that is university comes first. you cover this stuff up. if you could handle it internally, you do. if you avoid it, you do. there is nothing to demonstrate they practiced any other tactic than that. institutions protect themselves. whenever there s any kind of trouble, no matter how great you are, in terms of the manner of the institution, once you re in trouble, the institution finds a way to protect itself and the paterno case seems to be part of