>> i am going to eliminate every non-essential program i can find, that includes obama care, and i will work to reform and save -- >> romney is getting hammered in the wake of that by the naacp. jim acosta is live in houston this morning. good morning. how did it go? >> well, soledad, whenever you get booed for 15 seconds it is not exactly going well. the romney campaign did send out some of their folk who is do outreach for the campaign with the african-american community to talk to reporters. i was there. they said that they were pleased overall with what he got in terms of applause. he did sort of get a standing ovation at the end of the speech. about half the crowd stood up and plauded. it wasn't all boos for the former governor. soledad, what is sort of interesting is what romney has said after that speech. he went to a fundraiser in montana last night and basically said that he was okay with the reaction that he got. he said in an interview right after the speech on another news channel that he sort of expected some of the booing that he got, so, soledad, keep in mind some of this works with the conservative base of the republican party. after that speech he gave even though the reaction inside the roomg was not so great, there were a lot of conservatives online and on twitter saying this was the best speech that mitt romney has given so far in the course of this campaign. they like the fact he went into a fairly progressive liberal crowd and threw out some pretty conservative red meat, and the reaction was not so great inside the halls of this convention center within the naacp, and here is one sample of what we heard after his speech. >> he literally came to our house and attacked the issues that are important to us on our turf. >> that was one sample of what we heard. i also talked to another woman who said that she absolutely booed but she said she was not booing mitt romney, she was booing his agenda. vice president joe biden will be coming in here later on this morning. the president is not coming to the naacp. the white house says he has a scheduling conflict and that's why joe biden is here, but, soledad, i have to tell you if romney's aim yesterday was exciting the conservative base with that speech he gave to the naacp, he may have also excited the liberal base of the democratic party or at least african-american voters because i think this crowd will give joe biden a warm response when he gets into this hall later on this morning. as for mitt romney, later on today talking about speaking to your base, he is going to be holding a fundraiser in wyoming with none other than dick cheney. soledad. >> jim acosta for us. thank you. i should mention in a few minutes we'll be speaking with florida's lieutenant gov, jennifer carol, the first african-american elected statewide in the state of florida. other headlines first. christine romans has a look for us. >> good morning, soledad. joe paterno's legacy a reputation of a beloved university hanging in the balance today n less than two hours former fbi chief louie frooe will release his report commissioned by penn state university on the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. it will detail whether the head coach and school administrators could have done more. yesterday a seven month old letter surfaced from the late joe paterno in which he defended the integrity of penn state saying, quote, this is not a football scandal. a live report on what to expect inside the freeh report coming up in less than ten minutes. florida's state attorney plans to release fbi reports later today that could explain whether race played a role in the shooting death of trayvon martin. it includes federal interviews with more than 30 people including members of the sanford police department and friends of shooting suspect george zimmerman. we're also expecting details of e-mail exchanges between zimmerman and fired sanford police chief bill lee. florida a&m university looking for a new president. james amans is stepping down after five years in the wake of the hazing scandal. he anoupsed it the same day the parents of a student who died after being hazed to a wrongful death lawsuit. champion was beaten by fellow members of the university's marching band during a hazes ritual on the band's bus last november. mississippi only remaining abortion clinic getting a retrieve. they ruled the clinic can stay open until he reviews how the state department of health will administer a new abortion law that provides providers to be obgyns and have patient admitting privileges at local hospitals. a connecticut group home employee is put on leave without pay after she was caught on tape physically abusing a disabled and defenseless adult. the video we're about to show is hard to watch. the caretaker was caught cooking the woman in the gut, whipping her with a belt, dragging her by her hair and the victim suffers from an intellectual disorder. state staff went to check on other people and found no other signs of abuse. they're trying to find out who shot the video. that person could face charges, too. the medical mystery surrounding jesse jackson junior's absence from congress may have been solved at least partly. jackson's office says he is receiving intensive treatment for a middisorder. the statement released quotes an unnamed doctor saying jackson is responding well to treatment and is expected to make a full recovery. the illinois democrat has been missing from capitol hill since may. last month they announced he was taking a medical leave. soledad. >> all right, christine, thank you for the update. back to our top story. vice president joe biden is going to be addressing the naacp today. it is one day after mitt romney was booed there over his health care comments. we to want get down to florida's republican lieutenant governor jennifer carol. she is the first african-american elect to state office in the state of florida. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> our pleasure. did you attend the naacp convention? >> i did, and it was absolutely wonderful, although governor romney received some boos, he received a number of applause for the policies that he plans to bringing forward. >> so we'll play a couple of chunks of that, the booing and the cheering. let's start with booing, though. he talked about eliminating every non-essential expensive program. let's play a piece of that. that's the booing that followed. how does that play into how his overall speech went? how would you rate it? i know there was some clapping, some booing, but overall how did it go? >> i think overall he was well received, and the booing came from when he expressed about getting rid of obama care, but he also followed on by saying that he will do additional things to reduce the cost of health care, and i think once he explained that afterwards, the audience was a little more receptive, oh, you're not just going to get rid of it, will you do something and put in place that will be affordable to us. the thing about it is that individuals say why did he say obama care? if he says that in other speeches, he should not placate and say something differently to this audience and one thing i appreciated with governor romney is his honesty and his candor and that he did not sway from how he would speak to other audience that is he spo he can to this audience. >> some people said that's intentional and calculated. here is a little bit of nancy pelosi talking about governor romney's speech. let's play that. >> i think it was a calculated move on his part to get boos at the naacp convention. >> in fact, the former governor himself said he expected to get booed, meaning he went in knowing he wasn't going to grab the hearts and minds of the audience he was talking to. is there some kind of strategy in this presentation to the naacp? >> you know, it is amazing. if he didn't go, he will get ostracized for that and he went and he faced an audience that typically doesn't vote for republicans and in the last election the republican candidate received less than 10% of the african-american vote. one great thing is mitt romney was not afraid to go into an audience that does not support him at least knowing that from the on set and also recognizing that he cannot ignore them either because they're a great voting block and they are constituents and she are voters and residents in this country. if he is fortunate to be elected president, he needs to represent all people. therefore, he cannot excuse not going to any audience to address them and particularly their issues. he brought up education. he brought up poverty. he brought up about jobs and the economy and fixing the did i lap dated condition that is exist if urban areas, and i commend him for that. >> and education as well and i should add to the long list there. he was speaking in montana to 150 donors and told them h thought the booing was okay, and here is what he said talking about the folks speaking to the folks at the naacp. when i mention i am going to get rid of obama care, they weren't happy. that's okay. i want people to know what i stand for and if i don't stand for what they want, go vote for someone else. i hope people understand this, your friends who like obama care, you remind them if they want more stuff from the government, tell this em to vote for the other guy, more free stuff. don't forget, nothing is really free. it has to be paid for by people in the private sector. i don't know what he means by free stuff there. will you elaborate? what does that mean free stuff from the government? >> since i was not there to hear what he said, he would venture to think that he is letting people know that although it is assumed that health care would be free, it is not free. someone has to pay for it. whether it is a chunk of the middle class or upper class or however the situation arises, it has to be paid, and that's probably what he is going to. going back to your comment with regards to it being expected to be booed, if you go into any situation where you don't have the majority of support from the people, that is an expectation. if he expected differently, then he would be fooling himself, but again going back to his candor and his honesty and his willingness to let this audience know i am not going to ignore you because your issues are too grave, your community is hurting, and the statistics that are continuing to occur in your neighborhoods are not healthy for sustainable prosperity for your families and i want to do something about it. i commend him for that. >> there is other free stuff that people often talk about when they talk about the government giving free stuff and welfare and they talk about food stamps and i know you know that more white people than black people are on food stamps and more white people than black people are getting welfare, but i am curious about corporate welfare. i mean, free stuff comes from the government for corporations, too. i assume that that actually is the group that mitt romney is appealing to. there are all sorts of free things that corporations get, so when he says if you don't like free stuff from the government, go vote for the other guy, doesn't corporate welfare fall under that, tax breaks for corporations? >> i think the governor has also addressed that in other forms where he addressed for the loopholes for some of these corporations that we need to close those loopholes as well. i think the bottom line is for us to turn the economy around so that individuals can have a good quality job to have the income that's necessary to take care of their families, to plan for future, and for their hard-earned monies to go into their pockets and not to go out the door to the government. >> lieutenant governor, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. >> i appreciate you. >> thanks. ahead on "starting point," what really happened in happy valley? a report on the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal is due out. we're expecting to get it in less than two hours. we'll tell you what it could mean for penn state and the get real this morning, team usa's uniforms aren't from the usa. huh? a shark tired of doing his own hunting does this. snags a fish right off a woman's line. we had to bleep a lot of the reaction. we'll tell you what happened. that's ahead on "starting point." back in just a moment. banfield. minding your business this morning, the government settlement over foreclosure fraud is clearing the way for more foreclosures. foreclosures jumped 9% in the second quarter, more than 1 million homes had foreclosure filings in the first half of the year. the federal reserve may consider a new round of stimulus. officials say they're worried about risks to the american economy because of the eurozone debt crisis. a slowdown in china's economy and the possibility of spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect here in the u.s. at the end of the year. markets, stock markets down because the fed did not commit to taking any new additional steps to boost growth right now. soledad. >> christine, thank you very much. in less than two hours we'll find out more about what penn state knew about the jerry sandusky child abuse scandal. 9 a.m. eastern and the former fbi chief will release an online report that will likely describe just what the university administrators did when they were told about the incident and an incident involving sandusky and a young boy on penn state grounds. susan is live for us in philadelphia this morning and also i have ken feinberg in the studio joining "starting point" this morning because penn state of course called him a year ago and asked him how to set up a program and secure funding for the trial and more but i want you to start for us. talk about this report. how detailed is it expected to be? what will it focus on? what was the scope of the investigation? >> well, you know, it is supposed to be, soledad, up to about 200 pages long and judge louie frooe said from the beginning there will be no holds barred and no one would be immune from getting a serious look on this. we do expect to find out what top pen stan state officials kn and what they did about it. did they follow their own procedures that they had in place when they found about allegations involving misconduct, or misconduct potentially involving children? was there a coverup or was there simply a culture in that side, that community, to simply look the other way? remember, publicly we heard from top penn state officials they were only told about inappropriate conduct involving jerry sandusky, just horseplay, but remember we also know from coach joe paterno's sworn testimony that he said he was told about fondling and something of a sexual nature. so if it was just inappropriate or horseplay, why is it as cnn has read in purported e-mails that penn state officials were worried about being vulnerable or possibly not and they didn't report it to any outside authorities. all good questions that we expect to be addressed in some way, soledad. >> i have to imagine there will be some focus on what exactly joe paterno knew and his family has a statement that they put out. they say this. joe paterno did not cover up for jerry sandusky. joe paterno did not know that jerry sandusky was a pedophile. joe paterno did not act in any way to prevent a proper investigation of jerry sandusky. to claim otherwise is a distortion of the truth. he wrote an op-ed about seven months ago before he died obviously and said focus on it was really focused on the legacy of the football program and the school. tell me about that. >> that's right. he wrote this just after the scandal broke and this was meant toe an op-ed piece but according to family spokes people and in the rush of event it is never got published. it was sent to some former football players and then came out just yesterday, and here is an excerpt from it. it says, quote, this is not a football scandal and should not be treated as one. it is not an academic scandal and does not inny way tarnish the hard-earned and well deserved academic reputation of penn state. will there be fallout from penn state? that's the question. in the audience today we expect to see attorneys for the victims, some of them said they would be here, these attorneys, and they're looking for of course ammunition for their expected lawsuits against penn state. >> fallout, i guess, is fair to say what ke feinberg focuses on. how do you? you recall called in a year ago to try to figure out how to set up a fund around the trial, part of your job, and and has been for many years is navigating the financial compensation in a disaster. i think this would qualify as a kind of disaster. >> i just had one conversation with penn state. they called and just asked 9/11 and bp and virginia tech. >> all of those other stories. >> all of those other stories, how do you set up a program? what are the parameters? who is eligible? who is funding the program? what are the rights and obligations of a claimant? what are the proof requirements, sexual abuse, i mean, assuming penn state wants to do the right thing, you announce a compensation program and you will get scores, hundreds, thousands of people who will see there is a compensation program available, file a claim, and bp in 18 months, we received over 1 million claims from 50 states and 35 foreign countries. you build these programs. they will come. >> it will be interesting to see what they do. susan candiotti, we thank you for your reporting and we'll continue to check in with you throughout the morning on this. ken feinberg has written a new book and we'll talk with him later this morning about how you do navigate the ground between compensating people for something horrible that's happened in their life. it is a fascinating book. have to 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new book who gets what which really at the end of the day is what you do as a job. you are the guy who is responsible for giving out the money after a disaster and a tragedy. he will talk about the bp oil spill, obviously 9/11, virginia tech as well, and i didn't realize that it all started with agent orange in the late 1980s and we'll talk about his book in a few minutes. abbey huntsman rocking cute shorts. twitter is afire on that. >> will wasn't wearing shorts today. i am shocked. >> anything you want. >> not at all. not even for a minute. and will cain column bis for the blaze.com. get real. team usa is going to the summer olympics in london. they have these uniforms from ralph lauren, blazers, berets, red, white and blue and they're not made in america. every single clothing label says made in china. this comes from abc news report that got a look and apparently they're tough hard hitting investigation was to look at the label and it is made in china. the u.s. olympic committee 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