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Abc's jim avila has more. >> reporter: abc news confirmed that jerry sandusky's 33-year-old adopted son, matt, until now his biggest supporter, has turned on his dad and offered to testify that he was personally abused by jerry. that's matt ducking into court. his attorney released this statement saying, during trial last friday he arranged a meeting with prosecutors to disclose for the first time in this case that he is a victim of jerry sandusky's abuse. matt took his own children to visit jerry early in the case, over the objections of their mother. and began this trial just ten days ago se...

Basically offering, and we may disagree about this, is the same policies of the bush administration. he's yet to articulate what distinguishes himself from george w. bush. >> he doesn't have to distinguish himself from george w. but he has to flesh out more of his policies in defining himself, but it's not a kickback as much as the democrats want to keep going back to george w. bush. it's not about him. it's really about what obama is doing. >> susan, keith, thanks to both of you. thank you for coming in. also making news this morning, jurors at the trial of jersey sandusky is back to work t...

Into the economy, he said he's prepared to do that. >> the good news, if there's any, the banks got what they expected essentially. they knew this was coming and they prepared for it. they have recent safeguards in place. >> basically when you downgrade a bank, it means they have to pay for more its debt and then there's the trickle down effect and we have to kind of pay for that. >> hate it when that happens. >> moody's has been doing this. in june it downgraded spain by three notches after downgraded 16 german lenders in main. >> moving on, jurors in the jerry sandusky case will begin their ...

Thursday the prosecution asked jurors to convict sandusky soften everything. the defense insisted the state's case simply made no sense. jerry sandusky's 33-year-old adopted son matt until now his biggest supporter now insists he too was molested by his father. so why wasn't he called as a state witness? sources familiar with the case tell abc news, matt was waiting in the wings in case sandusky decided to testify and then could be used as a rebuttal witness. >> you put a witness like that up on the witness stand they're open to strong cross-examination because of prior inconsistent statements...

Had to say on the stand. jim avila, abc news, bellefonte pennsylvania. >> just reiterating what jim had said, they could not call him to the stand as a rebuttal witness, he wasn't part of the charges. i thought this was interesting. in testimony last week one of the victims said matt sandusky, and this victim they were taking a shower together. jerry sandusky came in the shower with the two boys, started pumping his hand full of soap. matt sandusky, the adopted son, shut off the shower, left, appearing nervous. this was last week before -- >> that is a bombshell. >> huge bombshell. >> also rai...