[Phillips:] Now Mitt Romney sure trying to seal the deal. He's out rallying supporters in Nashua, New Hampshire, trying to win over some last-minute converts. Let's take a listen.
[Romney:] had similar ideas in different parts of the country and raised capital and began other businesses. But when Solyndra happens, think what happens then. When the president and his people pick one company in which to invest $500 million, guess what happens to the other people seeking private capital for their solar energy ideas? Who's going to put money, $2 or $3 million into a solar startup when they hear the government has put $500 million into something called Solyndra? Nobody. So the investment he made not only was lost at Solyndra but also crippled investments in other ideas in solar technology. So rather than encouraging innovation in solar technology, it discouraged it. This is what happens when people in government who spent their life in government think that government is the answer to our economic challenges. Government is not the answer. It's the problem, as Ronald Reagan used to say. Let markets work. Have government create the conditions that allow markets to work. Fair tax codes. Updated regulations. Opening markets for American goods. Getting energy at a low and effective cost basis. Having fair labor rules. Not slanting it one side or to the other. These are the kinds of principles I want to bring to Washington. I happen to believe that the principles upon which this nation was founded are principles that were not temporary in their impact but are permanent. When I when I think back to the Declaration of Independence and those famous lines, where the founders wrote, the creator had endowed us with certain rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our declaration made it very clear it would not be government that would guide our lives and tell us what we could do or how we could run our enterprises. It would instead be free people making their own choices.
[Phillips:] Mitt Romney speaking live in Nashua. We'll be checking in with all the candidates as they are holding their rallies to hopefully gain more votes. All right. One of the biggest breaks for police in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse investigation came from Sandusky himself in his autobiography, "Touched." That's what CNN contributor Sara Ganim learned when we spoke to the mother of one of Sandusky's alleged victims. Sarah actually broke the story for the "Harrisburg Patriot News." Sara, what exactly did this mother tell you?
[Sara Ganim, Cnn Contributor:] Kyra, this mom told me the story, and she told it to me because she is upset with the the allegation that Jerry Sandusky's attorney has been making that a lot of these victims knew each other, and got together after they heard of one allegation and decided to substantiate the allegation and make more stories up, seeing lawsuits and seeing money coming from Penn State. But she told me this story for that reason. And this is what she said she said when police came to her in early 2010 and said, you know, we know your son came forward 10 years ago and made an allegation to police, and wasn't believed. Tell us what happened. She sat down with them and she said, you know, my son had a lot of friends back then. They all hung out together. They all hung out with Jerry Sandusky. And I think you should talk to these other boys too. Not knowing what they would say, she pointed them in these boys' direction. And they were from the pages of that book. They actually sat she sat down with police and went through the book and identified several of the victims that ended up being in that grand jury presentment.
[Phillips:] So basically, the key to this case was right there on the shelves of the Penn State bookstore?
[Ganim:] It's very interesting. A lot of these things were out and obvious, a lot of the keys to this case because, you know, that's one big break. But the other one was finding that mother, finding victim six's mom and remember, her name and her phone number was sitting in that police report that was at Penn State's police barracks that had been closed, and no charges came of it. But it was sitting there in the police barracks for over a year after that victim one came forward, after the police investigation began, before they actually contacted her. So, some of some of the keys to this case were out there, which goes right back to that overriding theme that prosecutors are now talking about, that many people knew something, and did nothing.
[Phillips:] Sara, before I let you go, you know, a number of former Penn State football players are pushing back against the hiring of Bill O'Brien as the new head coach. How did the search committee come to this decision?
[Ganim:] They say that contrary to reports, it was not a toxic job. They had a lot of applications. That Bill O'Brien's name was someone he was someone that they knew of from the beginning. And slowly they just became enamored with him. They really fell in love with him, and it had nothing to do with being a Penn State guy, but someone finding someone who had Penn State heart is what they said. And they said that's how they landed on their guy. You know, it seemed like he said all the right things on Saturday when he was introduced, and he did get a loud applause from some Penn State fans. About 100 Penn State fans showed up for that announcement.
[Phillips:] Sara Ganim, thanks so much. Checking stories across the country now, a cashier at a Papa John's pizza joint in New York is fired over this racist receipt. If you look closely, you can see how an American Asian customer was identified as, quote, "lady chinky eyes." That customer posted a picture of the receipt on her Twitter account over the weekend, which quickly went viral. Nearly 100 soldiers are on lock at a Washington state Army and Air Force base right now. Commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are reacting to reports of some missing sensitive military equipment, including night lasers and gun scopes. Take a look at this planned implosion. Just a few seconds in it all took for the 20-story building in Houston's medical district to come down. It had been empty Anderson Cancer Center office space for 30 years. The "Houston Chronicle" says an aging foundation and asbestos made the building too costly to maintain. Straight ahead, the IRS is coming up short as Americans skirt the tax man. How big is the revenue shortfall? We'll take you live to the New York Stock Exchange. And this is the video we can't stop watching. Not only did a young woman's bungee cord snap, it snapped over a river full of crocodiles. You just can't get any closer to death than this, but she's OK and she's talking about it, next.