brady's agt is using that. >> and did the agt come out and say tom brady is innocent. >> well tom brady at different times when he's given press availability when it became public said i didn't have anything to do with this but this fire and brimstone talked about the flaws in the investigation. they didn't say tom brady didn't do this but it talked about how unfair the investigation is. and it will be interesting to see -- as we see him waking up to cheers of the multitudes if he will rouse them with "i didn't do it." >> and whether he addressed this right off the bat. >> jim gray is is a long time emmy-winning sports reporter and he has been known to ask tough questions but on the other hand jim gray he did do lebron's decision with him and he let him float and that is another decision factor. >> let's just listen to the crowd. [ cheering and applause ] going to be asked questions. >> it looks like he'll be asked questions by jim gray. i don't know if he will give an opening. they have five prescreened questions from the statement that had to be cleared. we don't expect them to press

. >>> tom brady on the dvs. we're awaiting for his first comments since a report came out saying he probably knew the balls were deflated. he's expected to speak at any moment now. he arrived by helicopter for a speaking event in salem, massachusetts, that was planned before the deflate-gate report came out. and the report said employees probably did it on purpose and that brady probably knew about it. his agent said it was flawed and biassed. and joining us now. there are going to be comments from the university president, before tom brady speaks. and we're going to bring you tom brady brady. do we know the reason for the delay? >> one of the reasons is because the line snaked through the parking lot and even by 10 to 8:00 not everyone was inside. and even though we've been told by an event organizer, they're on tom brady's schedule. well he didn't start. he waited for everybody to get inside. we're hearing a lot of cheers people saying brady, brady, brady. all the people inside planned to be here months ago wh

tom brady is firing back. the new england patriots superstar quarterback will speak live moments from now. this is where he's going to be speaking a live picture of salem state university in massachusetts. it's his first public appearance since an nfl reported that brady like i knew that the game balls were deflated to his knowledge. as we await brady's live remarks, here he is moments ago. he arrived at the university via helicopter. bray day is speaking to night at this massachusetts college. it is just 15 miles knotnorth of boston. this gives brady the home field advantage to answer the charges that he was quote generally aware that the footballs were deflated. his agent today released a statement slamming the nfl report the charges first surfaced in january. this was right after brady's new england patriots won the game that got them into the super bowl and ever since bray da had repeated that he's innocent. >> i mean i feel like i've always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the r

did tom brady give that order for softballs? did he. did he purposely get the patriot equipment guys to sneak off to the bathroom to deflate those game balls before the american football league championship. and if so, if it's found to be true, what's the nfl going to do about it? brady himself will speak tonight at this hour up at salem state university. steve kornacki is there, ready to report. >> reporter: yeah, chris, we are about a half an hour away, you can probably see behind me, we're outside the o'keefe center, up here about a half an hour outside boston. you can so see that line behind me, about several thousand people deep. it is slowly, slowly moving in towards this gym. i don't know if they're going to get this thing started at 7:30 or not. but when it does start, tom brady will be sitting down with jim gray, sports caster. this is a long scheduled event. there was a lot of speculation that brady might cancel this event, it might be closed to the press. the compromise that came out, that tom brady will still do the event, t

i take it, that is tom brady. charlie: here's what the report said -- let's assume the latter part of that. based on what you know, is it unlikely somebody would do that without tom's approval or knowledge? peter: absolutely. i would agree. you had troy aikman come out and say -- a quarterback he said there's absolutely no way tom did not know that. a quarterback is totally involved in the preparations of the football. you have that other quarterbacks and players say they simply do not believe tom brady did not know. charlie: you do not know. you are saying -- peter: you know what i am an easy about? what you are going to do is brand this guy something not only for the rest of his career but for the rest of his life. i am uncomfortable with all of the wording, "more probable than not," is about as definitive as ted wells desperate more probable than not. do i want to -- you know put this mantle on tom brady's legacy shoulders for the rest of his life based on "more probable than not?" charlie: how do we settle thi

did tom brady give that order for softballs? did he. did he purposely get the patriot equipment guys to sneak off to the bathroom to deflate those game balls before the american football league championship. and if so if it's found to be true what's the nfl going to do about it? brady himself will speak tonight at this hour up at salem state university. steve kornacki is there, ready to report. >> reporter: yeah chris, we are about a half an hour away you can probably see behind me we're outside the o'keefe center up here about a half an hour outside boston. you can so see that line behind me about several thousand people deep. it is slowly slowly moving in towards this gym. i don't know if they're going to get this thing started at 7:30 or not. but when it does start, tom brady will be sitting down with jim gray sports caster. this is a long scheduled event. there was a lot of speculation that brady might cancel this event, it might be closed to the press. the compromise that came out, that tom brady will still do the event, the press

it is the same thing about tom brady. the rest of this like people will look to him as say there's the guy that nfl brought to the hammer down. charlie: great to see you. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ charlie: david mccullough is here. he has been called a master of the art of narrative history. he twice won the pulitzer prize and is a recipient of the presidential medal of freedom. he has written 11 books including "1776" and "john adams." his latest piece of history is called "the wright brothers" and tells the story of two bicycle mechanics who taught the world how to fly. i'm pleased to have david mccullough back at the table. welcome. this is the completion of a trilogy. david bang -- david: that is exactly right. the first book was about to the building of the brooklyn bridge. the second about the building of the panama canal and now this. and all three of those extraordinary accomplishments took place in a handful of years in the late 19th century and the first 10 years of the 20th century. and each in its ow

in a criminal trial, tom brady would walk. in a civil trial which is put on him by ted wells the n.f.l. ok had to have what it feels is a preponderance of evidence and if they believe there is a preponderance of evidence they will, i think, come down hard on tom brady. >> rose: i hear you saying, in fact, he has so much to lose, tom does, that if they are wrong, it's a terrible terrible, life-long injustice to him. >> yep. >> rose: and that's a risk they have to really, really think about. >> that's a risk they have to weigh in. i'm just saying if i were roger goodell and troy vinson in the league office who are going to decide this along with jeff patch legal counsel i would push to spent two or three hours with tom brady because i would want him to look me in the face and i would want to hear from him about this. and i'm not so unsure that that's not going to happen. but before i did that to a cornerstone of the game, before i said you'reñr suspended, you're fined or something i would want him to have him look me in the eye

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and tom brady, this is unacceptable. i mean, at some point you have to take responsibility, steve, and i know you're saying it's no smoking gun, but don't you feel like after the report that came out, over 240 pages, tom brady being implicated and then not sharing text messages, to me, that's the ultimate. >> couldn't be more guilty. >> steve, before we rely, i want to remind jordan that tom brady beat your team using the regulation football. okay? that's not in doubt. he won the super bowl using regulation footballs and that ultimately, steve, in the world of sports, that ultimately is his best defense. i could have won the games if i was using regulation balls even though, obviously, i was conspireing not to. >> well, right. i would would raise the question, too, why would they even do this in the first place? realistically, yeah, as a patriots fan i can admit does it look like they were up to something here? yes, absolutely. does 95% of the country believe that? yes, absolutely. but the analogy that's been drawn for m

and tom brady, this is unacceptable. i mean at some point you have to take responsibility, steve, and i know you're saying it's no smoking gun, but don't you feel like after the report that came out, over 240 pages, tom brady being implicated and then not sharing text messages to me that's the ultimate. >> couldn't be more guilty. >> steve, before we rely i want to remind jordan that tom brady beat your team using the regulation football. okay? that's not in doubt. he won the super bowl using regulation footballs and that ultimately, steve, in the world of sports that ultimately is his best defense. i could have won the games if i was using regulation balls even though, obviously, i was conspireing not to. >> well right. i would would raise the question, too, why would they even do this in the first place? realistically, yeah, as a patriots fan i can admit does it look like they were up to something here? yes, absolutely. does 95% of the country believe that? yes, absolutely. but the analogy that's been drawn for me thin

brady and the patriots. >> tom brady's father said this is frame-gate and the colts participated in a sting operation. what is your view of that? >> i think it's laughable no other word for it, it's laughable. let's play along with it for a moment and say that it was you know frame-gate or that it was a sting operation, if you are not doing anything wrong what do you have to hide? what are you worried about? so i don't buy that at all. i think it's people who are close to tom protecting tom. >> what he was worried about at the time is this was right before the super bowl. he wanted the focus to be on the super bowl not on a blow-out game the week before. what about the overall argument that if you look at the super bowl, and we could see hall of fame pinch pitcher after pitcher who play have had vaseline in there this is part of the game they're trying oget an advantage with the equipment. >> rules are rules and tom brady is still going to be in the hall of fame. that is not an issue here. there was a rule, the leak has found that the patriots and tom brady violateit and now they ha

i take it, there is tom brady. charlie: here's what the report said -- let's assume the latter part of that. based on what you know, is it unlikely somebody would do that without tom's approval or knowledge? peter: absolutely. i would agree. you had troy aikman come out and say -- a quarterback he said there's absolutely no way tom did not know that. a quarterback is totally involved in the preparation of the footballs. you have that other quarterbacks and players say they simply do not believe tom brady did not know. charlie: you do not know. you are saying -- peter: you know what i am uneasy about? what you are going to do is brand this guy something not only for the rest of his career but for the rest of his life. i am uncomfortable with all of the wording, "more probable than not," is about as definitive as ted wells gets, more probable than not. do i want to -- you know put this mantle on tom brady's legacy shoulders for the rest of his life based on "more probable than not?" charlie: how do we settle this? if

in this statement we are getting from tom brady's agent what tom brady is telling the nfl is i don't think you guys have the goods on me. you quoted some of them. this statement from brady's lawyer playing with the same language used in the nfl report. the statement saying it is more probable than not that the league cooperated with the colts in perpetrating a sting operation saying collusion and they have limited understanding of professional football and saying conflict of interest in terms of relationship between the law firm that did this and the nfl and basically the nfl ordered a report and law firm provided it and paid what they wanted and got what they wanted. when brady's people look at the report yesterday you can find 23 instances where the language is qualified where it says more probable than not, likely we think, we believe. in a court of public opinion it is a damming document. what brady's people are betting here is the nfl cannot come down with a severe harsh penalty like a lot of people are calling for if they can't definitively prove and get beyond probably, maybe

wanted phone records from tom brady. brady's people came back said excuse me. he's tom brady. a huge american celebrity. married to a supermodel. we don't want to just turn over every phone conversation every text message he's ever had. this leaks out, salacious to the american public. not fair. investigators says you're right. isn't fair. we understand reserve angss there. they actually offered tom brady's counsel the opportunity to voluntarily hand over any text messages or e-mail communications that they thought was relevant. so you're basically saying to tom brady's people you want to hide something from us? hide it from us. give us anything that might be re vents and they were looking for, hey the day of of a this report came out, did he text his dad? text his friend? text his agent say, can you believe this? this is is ridiculous. i would never do this? they just wanted anything. anything that would help paint a picture for them. maybe stuff only favorable to tom brady's side. the he of opportunity they offered him and tom brady's acts and lawyers decided that wasn't sma

brady and the patriots. >> tom brady's father said this is frame-gate and the colts operation. what is your view of that? >> i think it's laughable, no other word for it, it's laughable. let's play along with it for a moment and say that it was you know frame-gate or that it was a sting operation, if you are not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide? what are you worried about? so i don't buy that at all. i think it's people who are close to tom protecting tom. >> what he was worried about at the time is this was right before the super bowl. he wanted the focus to be on the super bowl not on a blow-out game the week before. what about the overall argument that if you look at the super bowl, and we could see hall of fame pinch pitcher after pitcher who play have had vaseline in there, this is part of the game they're trying oget an advantage with the equipment. >> rules are rules and tom brady is still going to be in the hall of fame. that is not an issue here. there was a rule, the leak has found that the patriots and tom brady violateit and now they have to take some

he is, after all tom brady. receiving not surprisingly a hero's welcome from the rabid patriots fans there in salem, massachusetts. in the heart of new england. where they love their pats. and they love their four-time super bowl champion tom brady. who -- who -- we'll let you soak it up. [ cheers ] [ cheers ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [ cheers ] >> from the sixth round nfl draft pick to four-time super bowl champion tom brady has forged a pro-football career like few others. some of you likely remember how he led the michigan wolverines to an overtime victory in the 2000 orange bowl. every one of you remembers him leading the new england patriots to a 28-24 victory over the seahawks in the super bowl this past january. that was tom's fourth championship with the cats and coach bill belichick. also a recent salem series guest and his third crown as super bowl mvp. i think -- [ cheers ] -- i think it's safe to say that his road to the hall of fame was paved long ago. >> mvp! mvp! >> we're never going to

should tom brady be punished if he knew? >> rev, of course tom brady should be punished if he knew! i would say that even if we didn't have the debacle that we did at the super bowl. he absolutely should be suspended for lying, for pretending he didn't have anything to do with it. knowing that squishy football was in his hands and it was a little bit easier to throw. bye, tom brady. >> but there is no smoking gun here, although they say it is probable, there is no direct smoking gun here. >> you don't have to have a direct smoking gun. we have ten years of the patriots doing this. they were doing spygate when they beat my eagles ten years ago. they're consistently guilty of engaging in this kind of behavior. i think he should be suspended for at least four games, which is probably what the nfl is going to do, because his first game back will be against the colts and it will probably be the highest rated game of the years, because those are the teams that actually ratted him out. >> but maria, do things really care. i know things go down things happen, do you think they really care a

yi tom brady's agent. i'm going to read it. in his words, he says the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. he says in my opinion, the outcome was predetermined. and this is something that we heard from him a few days ago after the report was issued erin. he said there is no fairness in the wells investigation whatsoever. tom brady's agent says in fact the evidence shows tom clearly emphasized that footballs be set within the rules. he also stresses that he feels that tom cooperated fully with the investigation. this is counter to the nfl's punishment and letter to him that they leveed today. and he said that they will appeal. there is no question about it. and he stresses that he wants that appeal to be heard by an independent source. now this is important now. he says an independent and completely neutral person. roger goodell, erin is the person who is supposed to hear these appeals. that is not independent in don yi tom brady's agent's eyes. they can designate somebody else to hear the

he is, after all, tom brady. receiving not surprisingly a hero's welcome from the rabid patriots fans there in salem, massachusetts. in the heart of new england. where they love their pats. and they love their four-time super bowl champion tom brady. who -- who -- we'll let you soak it up. [ cheers ] [ cheers ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [ cheers ] >> from the sixth round nfl draft pick, to four-time super bowl champion, tom brady has forged a pro-football career like few others. some of you likely remember how he led the michigan wolverines to an overtime victory in the 2000 orange bowl. every one of you remembers him leading the new england patriots to a 28-24 victory over the seahawks in the super bowl this past january. that was tom's fourth championship with the cats and coach bill belichick. also a recent salem series guest and his third crown as super bowl mvp. i think -- [ cheers ] -- i think it's safe to say that his road to the hall of fame was paved long ago. >> mvp! mvp! >> we're never going

he is, after all, tom brady. receiving not surprisingly a hero's welcome from the rabid patriots fans there in salem, massachusetts. in the heart of new england. where they love their pats. and they love their four-time super bowl champion tom brady. who -- who -- we'll let you soak it up. [ cheers ] [ cheers ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [ cheers ] >> from the sixth round nfl draft pick, to four-time super bowl champion, tom brady has forged a pro football career like few others. some of you likely remember how he led the michigan wolverines to an overtime victory in the 2000 orange bowl. every one of you remembers him leading the new england patriots to a 28-24 victory over the seahawks in the super bowl this past january. that was tom's fourth championship with the pats and coach bill belichick. also a recent salem series guest and his third crown as super bowl mvp. i think -- [ cheers ] -- i think it's safe to say that his road to the hall of fame was paved long ago. >> mvp! mvp! >> we're never going

tom brady. he's a very talented guy. here's what the report said. more than probable tom brady was at least generally aware. it said more probable than not patriots personnel participated in the deliberate effort to release air from the balls. it's unlikely an equipment assistant or locker attendant would deflate the game balls without brady's approval. how do you react? >> sean when you're using a phrase like more probable than not, and that's being written by a law firm what that really means is that we believe in our opinion. it's 50.1% versus 49.9%. >> i actually agree with you. i mean i think those words were purposely used which i think is an indicator that in spite of what people want i know a lot of people are -- other fans of other teams want tom brady punished. but those words tell me there's no punishment coming. what do you expect? and if he did get a punishment what would you do? >> i really don't know what to expect sean because the recent history of the league when it comes to dis

what were they supposed to do say no tom brady? >> or whom ever. >> we're not going to do what you asked? that's ridiculous. i love those guys because they sound like extras from the friends of eddie coyle, these low-level boston guys slagging on tom brady behind his back. >> but following the orders of someone. >> they had no choice and they are the ones who are actually you know out of the league for good. >> let's look at thursday and if tom brady appeals. this is, obviously, not a david versus goliath, it may be a goliath versus goliath in that tom brady has enough cache, and as they say, enough juice to keep this in the headlines and really fight back down to not ever providing his text messages and e-mails. with that said does the nfl really want to keep -- does the nfl want this fight with tom brady? >> i don't think they want it but i don't think they have a choice about whether or not they are going to keep fighting it. the thing that's so fascinating about this is that when you have a league like the nfl, as you said that

people want to wear the jersey of tom brady. they don't want to wear, you know, a-rod's jersey. >> i think john menzel's jersey jumped when he went into rehab. great to see you. and now, who wins from tom brady's suspension? will he be able to make a comeback? of course. right? but will the suspension impact the patriot's season? joining me now cincinnati bengals head coach sam wyche. hi, sam, you there? >> yay'all are very cynical today. >> listen, that's what the media do. we're not here to tell people when they've done something right. fair or too harsh? >> from my perspective, it is -- there's a chance you're effecting a competitive balance of the game. if i play them and i'm a football team that plays them in the first five games, they play the first three games. then the cowboys. so tom brady doesn't come back until week six against the colts. ironically the team that he had the problem with. if i'm coaching the cincinnati bengals and the pittsburgh steelers are playing without tom brady. i'll say we have to play with tom

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tom brady should be suspended. that's come down a couple of points as you hear and maybe change your views. let's break it down by political party. in the last half-hour, democrats said no tom brady should not be suspended. independents are largely split. and republicans have overwhelmingly said brady should not be punished. we also asked you to vote on our poll question. will deflategate impact tom brady's legacy? 68% of you saying yes, up one point saying it will impact his legacy. and 8% no 22%. keep voting at pulse.msnbc.com as the story continues to develop and tom brady will speak publicly tonight. >>> an update on a story we told you about in the last hour. we showed you this cleveland cavaliers video spoofing a famous scene from "dirty dancing." some said it made light of domestic abuse instead. the ad played on the jumbotron during the game against the chicago bulls. showed a young couple re-creating a tv commercial based on a final scene in the '80s hit "time of our lives." she runs does the carry-up thin

>> tom brady is the victim of his own foolishness. this man knew what he was doing with those balls. to say that he didn't know what he was doing is ridiculouridiculou s. not only is the patriots getting off very light, but they are showing people that you cannot cheat an insuperable and get away with it. charles: if someone told me a long time ago if you are not cheating, you're not trying. and that's amazing, we are talking serious money here. >> yes, tens of millions of dollars in endorsements. when you think about the punishment, it's really nothing. >> do you think that he will lose endorsements over this? >> not on this. if anything it will elevate his profile. >> everyone who has a commercial deal with him right now is deciding whether they should do anything. the surprise would be if he did lose some endorsements because that would be damaging financially not only to his reputation. i don't think he will, but that will be a surprise. >> but remember that his whole brand is mr. america. he's gorgeous, he's successful, married t

by the nfl that tom brady was aware. what should happen to tom brady? >> they have to come down hard. this isn't the first time the organization has been caught cheating. liz: suspension? what do you think? >> suspend him for a game or two and definitely a fine. guys put in a lot of work to get to the playoffs and to be cheated once you're in the playoffs, it's an injustice. liz: my gosh, how do you think the colts feel today? it could have been them with the super bowl. >> i think when deflategate started, the players said they had gone the beat by a fairly large margin and the balls probably didn't have anything to do with the outcome of that game. leading up to that game, like you said, against the jets, close games they were probably in that having the balls deflated helped them. liz: erik, thank you, i know this isn't the best birthday present considering it was your team at one point they could have been inflated or deflated balls. happy birthday. erik coleman, former new york jets player. happy birthday. i encoura

there tom brady was cuter than that. he kept going on about the process the game footballs go through before kickoff. whatever it is they do to make them perfect for him. it was all too cute. especially when he went to salem university with the love fest he was showered in when they were trying to get some truth out of the local here dlofl it came late this afternoon. tom brady and his group couldn't handle. sacked four games this season. real games. just to make it clear who the league thinks it was clear behind all this, they flew the patriots organization itself for a big loss. a first round draft pick and the fourth round draft pick a year later. so guess what. don't do the crime if you can't do the time. i'm joined by the boston globe. and host of sports matters. let me ask you for your view on how they come about such a punishment. it is complicated how they get to the numbers but number are everything in sports. why the number four, why the number $1 million, why the two draft picks. a first round and a fourth rou

it damages tom brady's organization. do i think this makes him a complete fraud or a persona nongrata? no. i think so. it he has six super bowls, four wins, a lot of that is still meaningful. >> speak to us about the broader context here. because after adrian peterson and ray rice and many of the chargers of domestic violence have played themselves out on the television screens of american society, america's game has taken a huge hit. dpouds the context of those troubles play any role in the perceived harshness of the penalty here? ray rice got two games. tom brady has four. one for domestic violence. one for cheating in terms of footballs. >> well that i think the initial ray rice penalty, roger gerell has said he got it wrong. they ended up extending that penalty to indefendant. a full season before he was reinstated earlier this year. i don't think that to really correlate. on one hand you're talking about off the field unrelated to the game conduct. we've seen greg hardy, another player who was recently suspended for

tom brady gets away. if you listen really closely, you can hear a giant 500 pound asterisk being affixed to tom brady's legacy. >> let me ask you this, based on the finding in the report, what should the league do? >> the league needs to institute a fine. i think that's probably going to happen. it will be very interesting to see if tom brady gets a suspension. he think he should based on what we see. the other side is, are they going to have their poster boy, their golden child not on the field for opening night when the season opens. >> the year after they won the super bowl. let's remember the context here. >> right. the times has been very convenient for the league, frankly, that they didn't have toed address any of this before it happened. now, it is kind of uncomfortable that they have to put an asterisk on a super bowl that was won. it took them less time to find photos of greg hardy's abuse victim than it did to issue a 245 page report on this. >> let's talk about the thoroughness of this report.

joining us is tom brady's agent. are you? >> good, thank you for having me on. >> i'm a jets and giants fan, that doesn't mean i hate tom brady. i respect him a lot. he's a very talented guy. here's what the report said. more than probable the patriots quarterback was generally awar. it said more probable than not patriots personnel participated in the deliberate effort to release air from the balls. it's unlikely an equipment assistant would deflate the balls without brady's knowledge and approval. how do you react? >> sean when you're using a phrase like more probable than not and that's being written by a law firm what that really means is that we believe in our opinion it's 50.1% versus 49.9%. >> i actually agree with you. i think those words were purposely used which i think is an indicator that in spite of what people want i know a lot of people are fans want tom brady punished but those words tell me there's no punishment coming. what do you expect? if you did get a punishment, what would you do? >> i really don't know

drew you heard tom brady last night, you saw tom brady last night. he was in a friendly room. that's going to make your body language and everything very calm. so some it may appear smug and to a lot of people it did appear smug and disingenuous. what did you think in. >> the guy is one of the am. time greatest players in the history of the nfl. he deserves the benefit of the doubt in my opinion. i know this report came out. but i want to see what the league is going to do with it. quite frankly there's a lot of probables, a lot of maybes a lot of dots that are connected. but it takes more than that to come down and enforce a serious penalty. i'm represented players who have been punishedly the nufl unfairly and the appeals have been heard and we've had the rulings overturned. i'm sure tom brady's legal team is chomping at the bit to take a shot if the league disciplines him in a heavy handed fashion. there's not a lot of hard evidence here. >> sean, you say and i think you tweeted last night, like a pep rally. those were your words. >> it was a pep rally. you heard more cheer

quarterback tom brady, suspended. the nfl just now saying the superstar quarterback will not start the new season. and the new england patriots fined $1 million. >>> also breaking, the hunt for the missing. as we come on the air, the deadly tornadoes across several states. >> there goes the school! >> striking in the middle of the night. the new images coming in right now, flying you over the destruction. 50 million bracing for major storms again tonight from texas all the way up to michigan. >>> the tour bus erupting into flames. the highway shut down. >>> bracing for impact. the jet slamming into the runway today. the landing gear failing. >>> and our journey to a hidden world. meteorologist ginger zee and the mystery of the jellyfish. why isn't she getting stung? >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. 50 million americans bracing for severe weather tonight, but first, the storm hitting the new england patriots tonight. word just moments ago that quarterback tom brady has been s

tom brady being asked that himself. >> is tom brady a cheater? >> i don't believe so. >> reporter: the very accusation challenges a career-long built goodson. on his facebook page he posts pictures of the goofy boy who despite a solid college football career prepared this resume for a nonfootball job just in case he wasn't drafted. he was, deep in the sixth round. no one knew his name until a sudden injury struck patriots quarterback drew bledsoe. lee steinberg remembers that moment clearly because he was bledsoe's sports agent. >> did tom brady's ascension surprise every sports agent? >> i think it surprised everyone. you don't expect a sixth-round draft pick to come in and become the dominant quarterback of his time. >> reporter: he's defied expectations since. >> you only get so many time-outs. >> reporter: in the commercial world bucking the trend, taking on very few sponsors a deliberate snub of potentially millions of dollars. part of an image tightly managed and controlled. his one fumble to that image, brady dated actress bridget moynihan

what does this mean for tom brady and the patriots? rob simmelkjaer is host of "sports matters" on nbc the shift, and cindy boren. thank you both for joining us. let me go to you, cindy. what is going to happen? is there any chance they'll take back the super bowl victory? >> that sounds like a lot of somebody who bet on the seahawks to win. no, i don't think so. troy vincent is in charge of the football operations for the league. he'll decide the punishment. you'll notice this isn't roger goodell. this is troy vincent deciding what will happen. he can punish them by suspending brady, by fining him, you know, fining him is not really going to accomplish a lot. >> what does it mean to you? you care about sports. what does it mean -- i mean, anybody who has ever thrown a football knows there is a difference in how much air is in it, how easy it is to throw it. you get it just right, you can throw it good spiral maybe. but you can't if it's too blown up, it's hard. >> tom brady and peyton manning in 2006 created this rule whereby the home

. >> is tom brady a cheater? >> i don't believe so. i mean i feel like i've always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the rules. >> reporter: here at nfl headquarters the league is saying it is considering what stems to take in light of this report that took 103 days to produce. the patriots owner says the time effort and resources it took to reach this conclusion are incomprehensible. but no matter what happens, the damage to tom brady's reputation may be done. david? >> ryan thank you. >>> let's get right to espn football analyst jesse palmer. great to have you on the broadcast. as you know our partners at espn reporting tonight that the nfl could be considering punishment here. what do you think is likely? >> the patriots aren't going to be stripped of their lombardi trophy. the patriots could get fined as an organization. remember they got in trouble back in 2007 because of that spygate scandal. i could see tom brady might get fined personally and of course the two people exchanging the text messages i thin

one of these tweets from tom brady in the report from january 19th. he's talking to these two guys in charge of inflating the balls properly. tom brady, you goo, johnny boy? john still nervous. so far so good though. i'll be all right. blaed brady:you didn't do anything wrong, bud. i could go on. there's plenty in the report to make you believe tom brady knew they were underinflating these balls. >> the problem i have with the report is it's all circumstantial evidence no eyewitness testimony, in controvertible evidence tom brady underinflated footballs. you have football managers alleged promise of shoes and autographed footballs. >> tom brady won't turn over his own text, why? >> has he a right of self-incrimination. >> see! there you go. why? you played football. you played football with tom brady. why isn't he turning over his text? >> i think there's perhaps something he's not willing to reveal. we talk about circumstantial evidence. aaron hernandez is going to spend a long time in jail based on circumstantial evidence. while tom brady, there is

should the league suspend tom brady? >>> ethics questions about bill clinton's foundation and hillary clinton's presidential campaign. as hillary clinton launches her bid. we're inside a lavish retreat in the search for answers. >>> who is this person? george michael? it's not. it's another superstar singer rocking a look so new. a disguise? that's in "the skinny" on this thursday, may 7th. captions paid for by abc, inc. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everybody. we've got a busy one. a dangerous one, really. a nasty day of weather that continues right now. i'm t.j. holmes alongside kayna whitworth. thank you for hanging out with us, it's been great. >> thank you for having me. we are talking about that breaking news has been awful to watch. video coming into our news room right now. extreme wither in the plain states. tornados have touched down in several states including oklahoma. twisters tore through hopes there on the outskirts of the oklahoma city area. dozens of homes damaged, even des

tom brady is not above the nfl law. the star quarterback and three time super bowl mvp has been suspended for four games without pay for his role in deflate gate. patriots were found to use under inflated balls during their afc championship game against the colts. report commissioned by nfl said brady probably knew what was going on. commissioner goodell cited the importance of protecting the integrity of the game. brady's agent said he will a appeal the decision. >>> patriots were also find one million-dollar, that is largest team fine in nfl history. patriots forfeiting 20,161st round draft pick and 2017, fourth round selection. >>> eagles continue more off season work. offensive line might be a work in progress. todd herremans is gone. evan mathis might follow. lane johnson is a constant. right tackle missed first four games of the last season for righting the league substance abuse policy. that caused him to fall behind. johnson feels he is prime to have a better season. >> i feel more comfortable out there i even f

but in this case tom brady lied. in this case he cheated. we do not know whether or not from this report if that had an impact in the game which pushed it a different way than official to new england. so the nfl should absolutely come down and suspend him. it should be an asterisk at the last super bowl season and it should be the beginning of the beginning. if you go back over the stuff new england did the last 15 years, there is so much more there. >> come on. >> steve has lots of things to say about this but i want to go to ross because passions run high when we talk about the new england patriots and football in general. i mean do you think there will actually be any sort of punitive measure meted out? >> i don't think there's any question about it. the real question in my mind is whether it's just tom brady and the equipment guys. i don't know how you punish the equipment guys other than those guys are probably fired. or whether it goes to the entire organization. because it's only a couple of years ago that the new orleans saints' head

>> will tom brady talk about it? this came out at 1:00 yesterday and we have not heard from tom brady. i suspect we will not hear from him. >> i wonder, do you win the super bowl because you have a deflated football? >> the balls in the super bowl were not controlled by the patriots. they were inflated. the second half of the colts game the patriots played better than the first half. that is not to excuse the fact that more probably than not, air was removed from the footballs. >>> developing this morning, investigators are increasingly confident that the two men who tried to attack a texas contest to draw the prophet muhammad were lone wolves. law enforcement officials say they have not found evidence that nadir soofi and elton simpson had direct orders from isis. simpson was in contact through social media with several isis sympathizers and recruiters. include junaid hussain. that is the subject of a senate committee hearing this morning. pamela brown is in phoenix with the latest for us. >> reporter: john and chri

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tom brady gets away. if you listen really closely, you can hear a giant 500 pound asterisk being affixed to tom brady's legacy. >> let me ask you this, based on the finding in the report, what should the league do? >> the league needs to institute a fine. i think that's probably going to happen. it will be very interesting to see if tom brady gets a suspension. he think he should based on what we see. the other side is, are they going to have their poster boy, their golden child not on the field for opening night when the season opens. >> the year after they won the super bowl. let's remember the context here. >> right. the timing has been very convenient for the league. frankly, that they didn't have to address any of this before it happened. now, it is kind of uncomfortable that they have to put an asterisk on a super bowl that was won. it took them less time to find photos of greg hardy's abuse victim than it did to issue a 245 page report on this. >> let's talk about the thoroughness of this report. i

developing overnight, tom brady speaks. the quarterback says he does not have any knowledge or any reaction to the nfl report concluding it is more probable than not that he was aware of footballs being deflated before the afc title game. you can hear the crowd in massachusetts. they cheered as brady took the stage for a pre-scheduled chat event. he said he had not had time to digest the report. although it was 30 hours after its release. took me an hour to read it. national reporter deborah feyerick has the latest from boston. >> reporter: christine, john tom brady arrived by helicopter. when he got here to the stadium, he was given a standing ovation. people cheering and chanting his name. the host the moderator and sportscaster jim gray got down to it saying he wanted to tackle the elephant in the room. when he mentioned the report and the investigator ted wells, the crowd booed extremely loudly. >> what is your reaction tom, to the ted wells' report. >> who cares! >> i can't usually say those things but i don't have rea