Syracuse Assistant Coach Fired; Pakistan Puts U.S. on Notice
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. Watch this. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Here's what we're looking at right now. A Syracuse coach fired soon after a shocking tape has come to light. Also, the markets getting a bit of a Black Friday bounce. Pakistan puts the U.S. on notice after a deadly NATO strike. And a wet, dare I say possibly snowy, day for the Southeast. Time to play "Reporter Roulette" here on this Monday. Ed Lavandera, let's begin with you in Syracuse, where Syracuse University fired assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine. Fine is accused of sexually abusing kids. Ed, also news of Fine's termination coming just hours after the world heard this tape recording of his wife. Tell me about it.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, this was a recording between one of Bernie Fine's principal accusers, a man by the name of Bobby Davis. And in that phone recording, he was talking with Bernie Fine's wife, and it was a dramatic phone call. These are phone calls that lasted quite some time. We can listen to a little bit of it, and it really seems to bolster what Bobby Davis has been saying here over the last few weeks accusing Bernie Fine of molesting him hundreds of times over the course of some 16 years back in the 1980s and 1990s -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Listen.</s>LAURIE FINE, WIFE OF BERNIE FINE: I know everything that went on. I know everything that went on with him. Bernie has issues maybe that he's not aware of, but he has issues and you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted. Bernie is also in denial. I think that he did the things he did, but he's somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased them out of his mind.</s>BALDWIN: Obviously, Ed, it sounds quite incriminating initially. Head basketball coach Jim Boeheim came out in strong support of Fine. What's he saying now?</s>LAVANDERA: Well, we also want to be very clear about this. We have made repeated attempts to speak with Bernie Fine's wife about these tapes, repeated phone calls. We have knocked on her door several times trying to get comment from her. We have gotten nowhere with those. But Jim Boeheim's reaction, the head coach of the Syracuse basketball team, fascinating because early on when this story first broke, just before Thanksgiving, Boeheim was very adamant about his support for his assistant coach, in fact also came out and said that these two principal accusers at the time were lying, very strong words. Boeheim backtracking dramatically in a statement that he released last night, saying he's shocked and devastated by these new allegations. There's now a third accuser who has come forward and he's actually apologizing if his comments were in any way disruptive and not allowing other people to come forward and tell their stories to authorities, so quite a dramatic change for the Syracuse basketball coach -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Just to underscore your point, of course we will continue to follow up and make those phone calls to Mrs. Fine. Ed Lavandera for us in Syracuse, Ed, thank you.</s>BALDWIN: Next on "Reporter Roulette," let's go to the Pentagon and Chris Lawrence. And, Chris, we know over the weekend there was a NATO airstrike that killed two dozen Pakistani troops, sparking protests, also strong words from Pakistan's prime minister. What is the latest today?</s>CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, the situation is so sensitive that about all you're hearing from U.S. officials are condolences and an announcement that the U.S. has launched an investigation and to find out how this happened. On the Pakistani side, they have asked the U.S. to leave an air base that the CIA had been using to launch drone strikes against al Qaeda elements within Pakistan. And they have closed two key border checkpoints, checkpoints that control about 30 percent of the supplies for the American troops in Afghanistan.</s>BALDWIN: Let's just talk a little bit more about U.S./Pakistani relations. It hasn't always been peachy, if you will. Why is that?</s>LAWRENCE: Yes, that's an understatement, Brooke. They have had obviously some very rocky moments, most especially earlier this year with the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. But, look, Afghanistan -- controls a key area, an access point into landlocked Afghanistan that is very important the war effort in Afghanistan. Pakistan -- I should say Pakistan controls that. Pakistan also has between 70 and 90 nuclear warheads, a strong nuclear power that the U.S. needs to engage. And on the other side, the U.S. provides billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan. So there are elements there that suggest the relationship will find a way to continue.</s>BALDWIN: OK. Chris Lawrence at the Pentagon, Chris, thank you.</s>BALDWIN: That's your "Reporter Roulette" here for this Monday. New developments this afternoon in the death of the Florida A&M; band member. We have now heard from the attorney for the band director. Plus, a University of Utah professor is allegedly caught watching child porn on an airplane on a flight to Boston. Find out how exactly he was caught. And a border fence between Mexico and the United States is being extended into the ocean. We're talking about 300 feet in the Pacific. We will get you those stories and much more coming up this hour here of CNN. Stay with me.