this country when he said to the troops here, welcome home. he repeated that several times. the cheer went up in the crowd and there was so many people walking away today with big smiles on their faces, a sense of the satisfaction of the war that has been done in iraq. they are also satisfied that the the troops wanted to hear a commitment from the president that the country will continue to stand by them for their needs as their year goes on, whatever problems that they have from their service in iraq. the president and first lady both saying very strongly that the country will stand by them the way that the troops have stood up for the country. brooke? i m sure they are thrilled to be home in time for the holidays as the president had promised but they have to be. some of these men and women have to have some concerns and what are they, david? well, the concerns would be long-term problems like posttraumatic stress, depression. they also have to transition, if they are
happening now is profound. we re building a new partisanship between our nations. we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. this is an extraordinary achievement! nearly nine years in the making and today we remember everything you did to make it possible. the last remaining few will be gone by year s end. in other news ahead. the amateur athletic union say his group acted quickly and correctly when it first learned a former head of the association was being accused of sexually abusing children. current president lewis stout is holding a news conference in orlando but sat down yesterday exclusively at cmm and claims that aau bobby dodd molested two boys in the 1980s when he was a basketball coach at the memphis ymca. unlike penn state and unlike syracuse and the citadel, we acted immediately. we didn t wait six months to find out if this was a protected thing because of an executive director, we acted immediately. we formed our own i
young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.