About does wrong, you know, and is faced with the consequences of doing wrong and rightfully so, it is tough. It is hurtful. And and my pain is for both of them as a couple, you know, in Going Forward. My hope is they can make it work. And from everything that i understand and talking, you know, to ray up until his suspension, talking to him a lot, you know, it seemed like they were really working hard and doing well in that direction and i hope they can weather this part of it too. Ill be praying for that. Early yesterday afternoon the news came out, i guess not much of a shock after tmz video was leaked. Sacked. Unbelievable story coming out of baltimore with ray rice, something that obviously upset a lot of us yesterday morning when we first saw this video, and mika we got bill rodden with theNew York Times saying what a lot of people are saying. Somebody tweeted oh, boy the ravens did the nfl a big favor. No they didnt. Nfl is in more hot water than they have ever been before. We know the commissioner. We like the commissioner. Obviously a fan of the nfl for a very long time. But this is a big problem for the nfl. I dont think theres anybody in america that believes they didnt see what happened inside that elevator before tmz released it. You know, the security footage that tmz put out you wonder did they not see it . Did they not ask for it . Which is worse at this point . I dont think it matters. After you see the entire video of ray rice powerfully hitting his fiancee, knocking her off her feet and then dragging her out of the elevator and this is them walking in. And then this is what happens inside the elevator. And i remember when we saw this yesterday, our reaction, your reaction, joe was instantaneous. Get him off the team. No place for someone like that. You know, get him off the team immediately. Get him out of the nfl. Now, look at this. It just keeps getting worse. And what is really the most offensive to women is the fact that a guy that does that is kicked off the football field for two games. A guy there was a lot of pressure. A guy that smokes a little weed on his own, a victimless crime or another guy that takes a recreational drug on vacation is treated more harshly than
that. The nfl has a lot of explaining to do. They do. All around. This will cause problems all the way down to the other players, but certainly for the coaches and managers and the entire nfl. Heres coach john harbaugh, how he reacted when rice was initially suspended and, again, then well show you right after that last night after the new footage surfaced like we needed it, leading to ravens to cut rice from the team. Take a look. Its not, its not a big deal. Just part of the process. We always said from the beginning that the circumstances would determine the consequences. There are consequences when you make a mistake like that. I stand behind ray. Hes a heck of a guy. He made a mistake. He has to pay a consequence. Good for kids to understand thats how it works. Well move forward and next guy will have to step up and ray will be back when the time comes. So its not something that were
dwelling on. Were not worried about it. Were moving forward. I have nothing but hope and goodwill for ray and his wife. Well do everything we can to help them Going Forward. Its something we saw for the first time today all of us and it changed thing, of course. It made things a little bit different. Why did they only see that for the first time today . I dont get it. Really, Mike Barnacle was talking about before the show how Many Secret Service people, how many security people are in the nfl. Theres no way that they didnt see this or worse willful ignorance. This takes me back remember when espn did that series on the nfl, they talked about the under side of the nfl, how msygonistic
it was and the nfl said if you play any more of those series so they killed it. This is a cultural problem and ill say too not to brag somebody else into it but coach harbaugh, hey he made a mistake. Making a mistake is going on vacation and smoking pot in a way that violates the clubs and leagues drug policy. Thats making a mistake. This is something far beyond that. This is not a big deal. This is a cultural problem. How could the nfl not have known what happened inside that elevator. This league knows whats in every players bloodstream. They can find information when they want it. You talk about guys smoking weed. How about a guy who took a fertility drug because his wife could not get pregnant and was banned four games. Then he tore his achilles and was out for the season. Its hard to imagine a case where they didnt see it or you say willfully didnt see it. They didnt want to see it because it would make things more difficult. This has been a disaster from the beginning, from the initial sanction of two games. Now saying well change our policy its six games. Now to see this i dont know why its different now than it was. Bill, if you see a woman in that initial video being dragged out of the elevator you know something terrible happened. The idea that the nfl didnt have access to a tape that the police had, that the casino had and tmz is reporting this morning tmz is happy to share with the league if they asked its not believable. Its unbelievable, actually. The idea that i didnt have to see anything more than the first time. What do you have to see . What do you have to really see . The problem is this is all about protecting the shield, this,
penn state, this is all protecting the shield. Weve seen it not just in the nfl. When the shield is more important than the victim. Thats what happened from the very beginning. What does the do now . Doesnt Roger Goodell have to come out and issue more than a statement . Roger may have to go. If we find out, which i think we will, that they knew about this, which as you said, it strains credibility and belief that they did not know this. You think the commissioner may have to step down. If we find out that they knew about this, they saw this video, after that, after watching this video they gave him a two game suspension and then only after a public outcry they are not doing this stuff because of some moral indignation, they are doing this because they got caught. Tell me the truth dont tell me
the truth because you get backed into a corner tell the truth on its own merit. This has nothing to do with morality its about protecting the shield. I think we will find this people know this, the face of the National Football league may have to go. It may have to go. I dont disagree. I they were completely, complete pli unself aware what the ramifications of this would have been. You have a public outcry now which is very hard to stop. Youre hearing from the president , youre hearing from the Vice President. This isnt the Music Industry where people from different camps make different choices and you have these highprofile Domestic Violence cases. This is the nfl and an organization and think about all the female fans they have. Who would go to watch those guys play. They would boycott it. I would. One more disgusting piece. Yesterday the Baltimore Ravensdelete ad tweet at 4 30 in the afternoon from their twitter account that reads, janel deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident. They got her to say she was sorry. She apologized for taking a left cross. So they blamed his bad behavior on her and had her apologize. Thats quite sick, actually. Well, we got other news that involves the sports world as well. The ncaa is cutting short its own sanctions on Penn State Football Program that came in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. The state will get back 85 scholarships next year. The ncaa and former senator George Mitchell who has been overseeing penn states progress determined the university has been meeting its obligations for
moving past the scandal. The decision isnt sitting well with everybody. Some critics saying the punishment should have been completed. I dont understand. This is one of the worst scandals identify ever seen in any athletic endeavor and it went to the very top at least knowledge of that and keeping that creep on the sidelines molesting little boys you know, they should have gotten the Death Penalty first of all. Absolutely. Now what they are getting a slap on the wrist . Im a huge identify always had a great admiration to penn state. See how this is linked. This is disgraceful. This is where this stuff starts at the college level. Penn state was protecting the child. The kids were molested. Didnt matter. And this stuff happens at the college, so dont be surprised by the time we get up to ray
rice level they have been doing this stuff for years. Let me challenge you a little bit on that although its tough but i know to some people that went to penn state, a friend of the show has written us a long letter about this. The players here and the other people involved are not people who get paid millions and millions of dollars, they are students getting an education. Hold on. And while whoever was involved even remotely in the scandal should be routed out of that place and left to rot somewhere, why should the students of penn state who do a lot of good things i mean they have a massive fundraiser there every year, they raise millions of dollars for cancer research, they have incredible programs and they are trying to educate thousands and how to sathousandg people. You have thousands of people coming to support. There are other programs at penn state that should be flouric but suffering because of evil done in the Football League. Maybe the Football League ought to suffer. You know what happens when money comes in for scholarships they got players there that have nothing to do with it. They should have thought about that before they turned their eye. They should have thought about the consequences of not dealing with this because youre right. Precisely because of everything you mentioned thats why they allow things to do. Thats why they allow people to get abused. Because its all about money. Its all about the dollar. I know a lot of students who go to penn state that are suffering because of what Jerry Sandusky did and they have nothing to do with it. A lot of people went to penn state precisely so they could be there on saturday afternoon and cheer. While this was going down i
was surprised there was not more of an outcry at penn state. There were a lot of rallies for these people. And sometimes some people acted like why are you picking on us . The ncaa was supposedly picking on them because just horrible things done to little boys through the years. Certainly not to everybody. In just a few hours president obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties as he begins to lay out his plans to defeat Islamic State militants in iraq and syria. Plans may include expanded air strikes to reclaim territory that isis seized in iraq and president obama is expected to tell americans on wednesday that it will likely take years to destroy the group. Administration officials are scheduled to give classified briefings to the entire house and Senate Wednesday and thursday about president obamas plans. The white house hopes the speech and briefings will make lawmakers buy into the president s strategy. Lets bring in New York Times reporter jeremy peters. How exactly are things going to be going down between the two as they get together and talk about moving against isis . Reporter getting congressional approval, or as the president put it, buy in in this case has never really been this administrations strong suit, so i think just automatically going into this the president is going to face skepticism. You dont expect theres going to be much of a problem with congress wanting to support the president in a battle to destroy the Islamic State, do you . Reporter i think generally theres support there but when you ask the question, do they want to vote on this themselves, the answer is pretty unanimously no. There are people why not . People want to vote on this, democrats especially because they want to vote against this. Republicans fall into that category because they dont want to endorse anything that the
president is doing especially on a policy that they dont trust him to implement effectively. But i do think that there are a number of republicans who are going to see this as a thanks security issue and want to stand behind the military in this case, not necessarily the president but the troops. Theres a the Washington Post poll out this morning 71 of americans support air strikes in iraq to go after isis. Looks like the president has popular support. Its important to remember, jeremy, the last time we said we would destroy a group like this, al qaeda and taliban was 13 years ago. You have to be weary of a limited military campaign because sometimes they go on for decades. Thats right. Members of congress have memories of iraq still fresh in their minds and they dont want to own this. Should there be a vote . Should the president ask for
more authorization and they vote to approve this they have this on their hands and thats not what they want. Democrats do not want to have a messy debate over a war authorization in the middle of a midterm election. Thats not good for them. I think what they hope to hear from the president on wednesday night the strong, bold and forceful and rallies the American People behind him so they are in a better situation come the midterm elections. You talked about ray rice, penn seat, you want to talk about isis . War is not the answer. Exactly. All right. Still ahead on morning joe well hear from senator gillibrand. She will join us on set. Then the politics of senator tim kaine will weigh. And Rick Santorum. A Magic Mountain nightmare. A scary scene. What is that . Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 50,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. With ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. Travel, gift cards, even cash back. And my rewards points wont expire. So you can make owning a business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. When folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. You know you look at this poll that willie brought up in the Washington Post. Pretty stunning how Many Americans, i say stunning for a war weary nation, how Many Americans support expanding air strikes into syria. Yeah. 74 republicans, 60 democrats, 64 independents, 71 of all parties, all americans want to go into iraq, they want to arm they are tuned in. I want to make sure i get
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