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[applause] this is my comment. I said you are only known throughout all the 50 states. I can make you an International Name overnight. Let me write your speech. In her good judgment, she delivered a good speech and did not take me up on it. She is a great friend. And a voice from iowa to the rest of the country, welcome United States senator joni ernst. [applause] god bless you. Thank you. Thank you, so much. God bless you. God bless iowa. What a great day. Hey, it is wonderful to be serving as your United States senator. Thank you. Steve, i am still waiting for a draft of that speech. We had some good laughs over that. He said he would be happy to write my speech. I was waiting for the draft, but he did not get it to me in time. Thank you, congressman, so very much. Thanks you Citizens United for this wonderful event. I told the congressman backstage that we have got to find a bigger venue. We do. That is a good thing. That is a good thing folks. Thanks to all of the wonderful wonderf
Rights movement. It happened at the university of oklahoma in norman where members of a fraternity recorded a racist chanted which, of course, went online. Today the fraternity was shut down and the University President said he wants the students in the video to leave and he offered to pay their bus fare. Jericka duncan is in norman, oklahoma. Reporter this is the video that did so much damage in only nine seconds. There will never be a [bleeped] here. There will never be a [bleeped] here. Reporter the clip was posted on a web site sunday night. We dont know when or where it was shot. We dont know the identities of the students. The video makes light of lynchings and barring blacks from Sigma Alpha Epsilon or f. A. E. Before sunday night was other the National Fraternity disowned the o. U. Chapter. Brandon weghorst is the national spokesman. We are apologetic not only to the individuals who are offended by the video, but to our own members, who are from different backgrounds. Because t
Fraternity video continues to rock the university of oklahoma campus this morning. Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon face a midnight deadline to move out, and some could be expelled from school. Don champion shows us the scandal thats reverberating across the country. There will never be a [ bleep ] reporter in less than 24 hours, this racist singalong at the university of oklahoma at sae fraternity in the national spotlight. I was sickened by it. And the neck thing, i was so deeply saddened by it. Reporter on monday University President david boren ordered the Fraternity House closed immediately. I hope they think long and hard about what theyve done. Reporter the singalong joked about lynchings and said black students would never be admitted to o. U. s chapter of the fraternity. The groups National Headquarters disowned the chapter. We are just as shocked as everybody else who has heard about this video across the nation. And we understand they are upset. We are as well. Reporter it app
Fallout from the racist fraternity video continues to rock the university of oklahoma campus this morning. Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon face a midnight deadline to move out, and some could be expelled from school. Don champion shows us the scandal thats reverberating across the country. There will never be a [ bleep ] reporter in less than 24 hours, this cell phone video of a racist singalong at the university of oklahoma at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or sae fraternity, in the national spotlight. I was sickened by it. And the neck thing, i was so deeply saddened by it. Reporter on monday, University President david boren ordered the Fraternity House closed immediately. I hope they think long and hard about what theyve done. Reporter the singalong joked about lynchings and said black students would never be admitted to o. U. s chapter of the fraternity. The groups National Headquarters disowned the chapter. We are just as shocked as everybody else who has heard about this video across t