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>> so you were really prepareded to -- prepared to go that far? >> yes, this is not a light decision. >> not a light decision at all. the university president and chancellor are out tonight and were talking right now about all the reasons why including many believe that millions of dollars in revenue the football team brings in which is why the threat to boycott games may have been the last straw with the fact the team recruits so heavily from african american communities around the country. the...

Robinson setting an example and pushing the country forward and sometimes explicit. what is so interesting to me is the uptick, rebirth weve seen in athlete activism. you may remember michael jordan never got involved in anything and said republicans buy sneakers, too, but lebron james got active and nfl and nba players in the i cant breather rick garner shirts and clippers refused to play for their team owner donald sterling and we can count the missouri football players among those athletes. >...

>> we have a president that wants to show how tough he is. everybody over there, they are not babies. they are not the j.v. they just knocked down an airliner, they say its 99. 9% as of today. >> the front runner. over the weekend he stepped up attacks for dr. ben carson that edged ahead as claims carsons made about his past are being challenged. on cnn state of the union, donald trump fanned the flames of skepticism over carsons contention he was violent in his youth. >> i just dont know. i mea...

Welcome back. donald trump speaking today in springfield, illinois. lets listen in. >> we have a president that wants to show how tough he is. everybody over there, they are not babies. they are not the j.v. they just knocked down an airliner, they say its 99. 9% as of today. >> the front runner. over the weekend he stepped up attacks for dr. ben carson that edged ahead as claims carsons made about his past are being challenged. on cnn state of the union, donald trump fanned the flames of skepti...

Incredible. you finally get an i-hop and it gets destroyed by a sink hole. thanks for joining us. set your dvr to watch "outfront" at any time. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. dramatic climax to events at one of americas largest universities. the president and chancellor stepping down in a storm of protest over racism. protests that continues as we speak. its been growing for weeks with people statewide and nationwide watching. one grad student loaunched a hunger stri...

Founder paid $7 million to settle the suit without admitting wrongdoing and stopped making claims it could cure anything. >> im a candidate for president. >> reporter: so what does all this have to do with dr. and presidential candidate ben carson? this. >> let me just briefly delve into how i became associated with the products of this company. >> reporter: ben carson has a relationship with mannatech spanning nearly a deck said since he began taking it beginning in 2004 to 2013, dr. carson mad...

Chancellor. honestly, it should have happened earlier before the hunger strike just because former um system president tim wolf had a track record since hes been in office of just being negligent and not really performing the key roles of his duty at the um system president. i reiterated this all day but we should have never gotten to this point. >> paton, for those who do not go to the university of missouri, can you explain what the campus university atmosphere is like for african american stu...

They say thewill hire a chief diversity officer, that there will be a fuel review of all policies involving any students and staff and that they will also make sure to provide additional support for anyone who feels theyve been a victim of discrimination and work on hiring and retention. anderson. >> areciate it. the graduate student who stopped eating to get his point across john butler joins us along with university student body president paton head. john, you stopped eating last week. im wond...

Swastika with feces. it was the second time somebody van vandalized a dorm with a symbol. jonathan butler vowed he would starve himself until tim wolfe was gone writing that he continue until either tim wolfe is removed from office or my internal organs fail and my life is lost. this past friday this video was posted to twitter by wolfe being confronted by students and this time responds. >> systematic depression is because you believe you dont have the equal opportunity for success. >> money, m...

Universities. there could be more to come. the president and chancellor at the university of missouri stepping down in a storm of protests over alleged institutional racism, protests that continues as we speak. its been growing for weeks with people statewide and nationwide watching. one grad student launched a hunger strike and this weekend may have been the decisive blow. members of the football team that brings in millions of dollars of revenue said they would boycott games until university p...