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0 it is friday, friday april 5th, "starting point" begins right now. and we do begin this morning with breaking news. reuters reporting that north korea has asked russia to consider evacuating its embassy staff from pyongyang. that, as cnn has confirmed that more missiles are on the move in that country. a u.s. official telling cnn that those missiles and their launch components were transferred in the last few days, and with a range of about 2500 miles they could strike south korea, japan, an...

Those times when he was jacking up a player or throwing a ball at a player, he was really joking. >> joking? >> well, i mean, were watching some of the footage here. he doesnt look very funny. hes hurling balls at their heads, shoving them around, using some pretty bigoted language, which i wont repeat. all pretty unpleasant. i mean, i suppose the obvious question, though, is how unusual is this -- hes kicking somebody there. this cant be right, can it tyree? this is unusual behavior, even by sp...

My players, my administration, rutgers university, the fans. my family, who is sitting in their house, just huddled around because of the fact that their father is -- was an embarrassment to them. >> an emotional former rutgers basketball coach, mike rice, apology this morning after he was fired, rice was caught on camera repeatedly abusing players during practice and using some pretty foul language. my next guest who played for rice is defending him. tyree graham joins me now in a primetime exc...

State officials are saying theyre planning on holding hearings over how the university handled this situation. pernetti isnt the only one catching heat here. members at rutgers calling on the universitys president to resign. >> domino effect. yesterday morning wondering what would happen to the coach and 24 hours later we now know. pamela brown, thank you. we saw in pams piece tyree graham, one of the former play irs for rutgers, actually was in -- starting two seasons, played back in 2010. inte...

Kicking people and hitting people with basketball and stuff, some of that was in a laughing matter. i wish the audio showed that and not just him saying the gay slurs. >> what about what youve talked about how rutgers, part of the big east conference, pretty tough conference, pretty physical conference. you say that rutgers isnt as respected or the coach said that and he was trying to do all of this, this physicality of all of this to prepare you to be disrespected. how can you explain that to u...

Wait for, you know, it to be public and blow up on national television on espn, on youtube, to go, okay, maybe we should stop this because were getting, you know, negative exposure. >> reporter: and for the first time, were hearing from former players who were subject to rices attacks. tyree graham spent two years playing for rice and says he was just trying to motivate players. >> hes not as bad as the media right now is making him seem. coach rice, you know, hes one of those guys that, you kno...

>> in paspades. >> shes got confidence. growing questions this morning for rutgers university. why didnt the school remove coach mike rice sooner over his abusive treatment of his players? >> that after this video surfaced this week, showing rice hurling basketballs at some of the players, screaming slurs at them. joining us now is tyree graham from raleigh this morning. he was a member of rutgers basketball team starting in 2 0 2010. tyree, good morning. question number one, we now know your ...

It was the right decision to fire him? >> no, sir. the reason being because rutgers made a decision where they suspended him earlier this year for three games and also $50,000 from him. so i feel like rutgers gave him his punishment. when the media got ahold of the video they changed up and now rutgers fired him. i feel like thats wrong because he served his punishment. he served two penalties for one offense. >> i guess now the school does not agree with you and as we now know they fired him. t...

Hes hurling balls at their heads, shoving them around, using some pretty bigoted language, which i wont repeat. all pretty unpleasant. i mean, i suppose the obvious question, though, is how unusual is this -- hes kicking somebody there. this cant be right, can it tyree? this is unusual behavior, even by sporting coach standards, isnt it? >> yes, it is. and i think he has come to the conclusion that he made a mistake or whatnot. but at the same time, if you were at the gym at the time and around ...