saturday s nebraska game. that is part of the controversy. he said he s stepping down but not immediately, not until the end of the season. in a statement today he said paterno, who is the nearest thing to a secular saint in pennsylvania and hero to his players drew their praise today for his decision. i think as long as he s been here, he hasn t really ever made a wrong decision. he knows what he s doing. he s been doing it for so long. if he thinks it s best for the program, chances are it s going to be the best thing for the program. more and more as you ll see, people have doubts about his decision now not to immediately step down. here s former penn state legend matt millen today on espn. to be honest with you, and you can probably hear it, and i apologize to you, i get mad. it s it s pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen to this level, if, in fact, it has happened, then, you know, there s a part of me that, like i mentioned earlie
up the bipartisan deal that passed the senate the other night to fund the government through november the 18th. but when you consider this. they were fighting over just a small amount of money, .04% of the federal spending, so that does lead to some pessimism about future heavy lifting when it comes to fiscal matters between now and the 2012 election, jon. as you mentioned the measure will go to president obama s desk. he will sign it to keep the government open from tomorrow night through tuesday. on tuesday when the full house returns they will take up that longer-term spending measure to get us through november the 18th. jon: this latest fight in congress was over an amount of money that really represents a small fraction of federal spending. so how is the super committee supposed to be able to go behind closed doors and come to an agreement on making real serious cuts? reporter: the bipartisan super committee, 12 members, six republicans, six democrats, six
these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co