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In his remarks wolfe said his resignation came out of, quote, love, not hate. its been a dramatic scene at mizzou for weeks now including a student undergoing a hunger strike. it seems from the outside as though it wasnt until the football team got involved and revenue was at stake that the university started getting real. >> absolutely, jake. youre talking about an athletic department that brought in a revenue of $83 million the last fiscal year. its truly a remarkable series of events weve wat...

For us. there was debate about whether this was a sink hole. thank you. >> my pleasure. lets get become now to our breaking news. one of the student groups calling for the resident ugh nation of the university of missouri president for failing to respond to racial incidents on campus is right now speaking out about it. tim wolfe resigning a short time ago. lets listen. >> we are concerned students are a coalition of students mobilize ing ing. our goal is to aboll. ish inkwaulequalities of race...

Practices, unless something was done about this. the next morning, it went to the next level where the entire missouri football team was photographed and the head coach gary pinkel supported the action and in essence, stood against the university system president tim wolfe. and that accelerated the resignation of tim wolfe today. >> i was asking the congressman about the culture there, and the school in particular, im asking this because i was at a game down south this weekend. what jumped out a...

Here. im very much pleased that he did go to iowa with me and i know hell be here in new hampshire. i dont think i could keep him away. i think he really loves coming to new hampshire as some of you know. hes been a great help. hes been a great advisor and great, you know, supporter in what ive done and will continue to do so. i look forward to having him with all that he knows about getting the economy to work hard and get incomes rising again for people when im president. i think it will be a ...

>> reporter: it really was a turning point when the players announced they would boycott all team activities, including practices and games. missing saturdays game against byu would have cost the university at least $1 million. so it was the football team who really pushed the story into the national spotlight. but the controversy and frustration had been building for weeks after the president failed to respond adequately, some say, to the instances you just detailed. this prompted walkouts, it ...

I like to think that she would not try and make the mistake of trying to -- trying to get a freeze in settlements in order to get talks going. on the other hand, she was part of the administration. that was kind of the original sin of this whole problem. but in fairness to netanyahu, his problem is he has not had a palestinian interlocutor. there is no one who can unite them in negotiations. for that reason, hes been reticent about putting his cards on the table. >> you brought up settlements, o...

In the entire region. i think its in our interest to try to tamp it down, try to get some process moving on it. certainly i think john kerry has been trying to do that with his trip in recent weeks. i think overall, we have to look at this broader issue and look for what is addressable now and what has to kind of be put on the back burner for the future. im not sure there can be a lot of progress made between israel and palestine in the coming months. >> sir, thanks for your time. i appreciate i...

Feeling any case of racism, but we saw what happened several weeks ago and people being very, very uncomfortable. i think the president had a chance to address these issues and not wait until now, until this morning. >> we are all watching it as it unfolds. i know this has certainly galvanized the campus and also galvanized the nation to draw a lot of attention and a lot of eyes on the situation there. again, this is the big news today of the resignation of the president. we will see what the bo...

I dont know about the eyes of conservative primary voters. in the statements what you see is somebody who mingled his personal and professional finances, somebody that paid the bill late rather frequently. are any of those going to make conservative primary voters say i dont think mar corubio is qualified to be president? i doubt it. the bigger hits on rubio i think are going to be the ones that go after his rationale for running which is i understand the plight of working people, i grew up payc...

>> i think that tim wolfe needs to step down. there have also been concerns about other leadership. our chancellor, chancellor loftin. in fact, im a member of the faculty in english department and womens general studies and the english department recently voted no confidence in chancellor loftin. so, theres a real concern about the leadership not doing their job. and i think that its time for us to have new leaders and i know many faculty agree with me. and that will enable us to move forward an...