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in just a few minutes, well talk to chad myers and whether firefighters can help the weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his trial. in the court document, the accuser known as victim number four is the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often...

weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his child sex abuse trial. in court documents, the accuser is known as victim number four. hes the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often graphic testimony about their so-called relationship. victim numbe...

If we cant agree on that, then were not going to be able to pass the cr. wefz -- continuing recent lose -- we have to cut the current stop gap measure before well go for it, so what do we have now? we have senate leadership, senator reid coming out, saying that im sorry speaker boehner cant control his tea party caucus and now is threatening to shut down the government. then you have boehner going, listen, if the government is shut down, its the democrats that are going to blame for it. so there...

Should be universal health care. >> sean: who? >> there isnt one single republican that believes -- >> i cant name one. you are telling me there one republican -- >> thats one of the reasons your party isnt doing well if you dont think that every american -- [ talking over each other ] >> thats the problem this administration put themselves in a position where they are opposed to the will of the american people we dont want this health care, nancy pelosi says youre getting it. they meet behind c...

Republicans believe there should be universal health care. >> sean: who? >> there isnt one single republican that believes -- >> i cant name one. you are telling me there one republican -- >> thats one of the reasons your party isnt doing well if you dont think that every american -- [ talking over each other ] >> thats the problem this administration put themselves in a position where they are opposed to the will of the american people we dont want this health care, nancy pelosi says youre gett...

Pass and theyre trying to find out where they find promises for carve-outs for rural districts and help seniors where theyd be hard hit by a spike in premium prices. that kind of wheeling and dealing sometimes can get you across the finishing lines and sometimes as chris mentioned can embolden people to say its too dangerous and making promises of changes on the senate side. its not going to happen, im going to vote no because its a loser. >> shannon: guy, what about the optic. we know the presi...

About anything, but i will say in this case, the approach he took was just dumb founding to about anybody unless they were in a teachers union just judging from the response in twitter. he doesnt have a lot of allies in the case it was presented but he did say in the article yesterday "the times" picked this up, willie, that he could of -- could have done a better job on the pr side of it. >> yeah. >> the one thing i was taken by bill de blasio, he certainly has been painted as a raging ideologu...

Exactly how powerful that organization is, and the question is can it mobilize them to worry about their own election in 2014, answer some of those citizens demands and actually move them to compromise? i think thats what the presidents goal is. jenna: lets go bigger then. what do you think this says about the state of american leadership in the country. not just the actions of the president and his strategy but also the actions of the republicans. >> its really a problem right now. and i think ...