>> thanks to the cast and crew for putting on a great couple shows from houston and thanks for the people in texas for your hospitality. >> brian, we'll see you back here soon. >> join me on the radio next. >> bill: and we're waiting to hear live from the man everyone is talking about across the country this morning. super bowl mvp tom brady. did you see the game last night? >> it was amazing. >> bill: he is set to hold a news conference any second. after that incredible win last night. what a comeback. everyone around the country calling this an instant classic. >> toss to white. he's in! patriots win the super bowl! brady has his fifth, what a comeback! >> there were 20 something down, 20 minutes to go and they did that. his fifth super bowl win and

the new england patriots secured nfl immortality. we'll have mr. brady, his comments in just a moment but first. president trump in another epic showdown with a federal judge this time after a court issued the nationwide restraining order against the controversial immigration order. >> i'm melissa francis. bill and shannon are both out today. white house filing an emergency request to reinstate the travel ban saying the orders from judge james robart goes vastly overboard and second guesses the commander-in-chief. the 9th circuit has denied that request setting up a supreme court showdown. >> he is slamming the judge. can't believe a judge would put our country in such peril. people pouring in, bad.

>> vice president mike pence says they're obeying the judge's orders and the courts shouldn't weigh in on national security issues. >> we'll continue to use all legal means at our disposal to stay that order and move forward to take the steps necessary to protect our country. >> we don't appoint judges to our district courts to conduct foreign policy or make decisions about our national security. under statutory law and under the constitution that authority belongs to the president of the united states. >> john roberts joins us now. what are we expecting from the white house on this busy monday? >> good morning to you. big fight from the white house. this all is an argument about how much power the president has to control immigration into the united states of america. this whole thing now before the 9th circuit court of appeals in san francisco. some are arguing the temporary restraining order should stay in place while the court order

is being decided. the order unleashed chaos. james robart, a bush appointee suspended several key parts of the president's executive order on friday prompting the president to lash out on twitter saying the judge opens up our country to -- bad people are very happy and i have instructed homeland security to check people coming into our country very carefully. the courts are making the job difficult. this will proceed on two tracks. the attorneys general from washington state and minnesota are arguing that the extreme vetting executive order violates the constitution on two points. the establishment cause and the 14th amendment for equal protection. what's before the court right now, though, is a request to lift this temporary restraining order so that's what is going to be argued today. the white house has until 6:00 tonight eastern to present an argument to the court.

don't forget, melissa. the 9th circuit court of appeals is probably the most liberal court in the nation. so the white house is looking to the supreme court to eventually decide all of this. >> wow. this morning new reaction from the president on a poll about extreme vetting, right? we've been watching ing thating by online. >> a lot of people have a lot of different opinions. the opinion research corporation cnn poll finds 53% of people are against the extreme vetting order whereas 47% agree with it. think it's necessary. that prompted the president to lash out again on twitter saying, quote, any negative polls are fake news like the cnn abc, nbc polls in the election. sorry, people want secure borders and vetting. the court battle may go on longer than it was supposed to last. the longest portion of this was 120 day refugee suspension from seven countries and indefinite suspension on syria scheduled to last four months.

the court cases could go on for longer than that. >> thank you for that. >> what will happen in the ninth circuit? let's bring in the chef political correspondent for the "washington post". you say the judge's ruling was purely political in your view and not grounded in existing law. why do you hold that view? >> one of the things that frustrated people in the administration the judge didn't really explain his order. he just declared that he thought the washington state was going to win if the thing goes to court and left it at that. we don't know what he thinks about each specific argument in the case. now, washington state argues in part that it would be hurt -- its businesses would be hurt by this order because they have an interest in immigration. the briefing specifically mentions microsoft, amazon, expedia, starbucks and they would be hurt by the immigration order.

it also says that the order is unconstitutional and illegal because it discrime naits on the basis of religion. defenders would say there are 49 majority muslim countries in the world and this order affects seven of them. perhaps the muslim ban missed a lot of majority muslim countries as well as nearly 90% of the muslim population of the world. so basically the trump administration is arguing that one, it does not discriminate on the basis of religion and two, the president has broad authority based on the constitution and laws that congress has passed to control immigration as he sees fit. >> he did not rule on the constitutionality specifically. he basically was just ruling the fact the states have a right and have made this claim, he said in the ruling they face immediate injury. these harms are significant and ongoing. let me read you part of what

the judge said. they have -- the states are likely to suffer irrelevant repable harm in the absence of preliminary relief. the balance of the equities favor the states and it's in the public interests. they have established serious questions going to the merits of their claims that the balance of equities tip sharply in their favor. isn't that fair? he is just saying look, states, you have come to me, you may have a point. let's review it and bring more material this week. >> well, the state brief, the lawsuit that they filed lists several reasons that they think this trump order is unconstitutional or illegal and the judge didn't address those. you just read his declaration. he said i think washington state would win this thing if we go to court. therefore i'm going to stop it. he didn't really address any of those arguments. so what you saw in the justice department filing that was

filed about 36 hours ago, they actually took on all of these washington state arguments. >> what do you think will happen tonight a 6:00 p.m. deadline. what will the 9th circuit do? >> it is the most liberal circuit in the country. i think what we'll have is we'll have a day in court for this stuff and we're going to have a time in which both sides get to argue their case in court and see what the 9th circuit does. >> thanks for the insight today, byron. this will play out for the rest of the week if not more. >> back to our top story right now. we're awaiting a news conference with super bowl mvp tom brady after an instant classic. it is being called the most incredible super bowl ever. especially by patriots fans. the new england patriots winning in the first overtime in super bowl history after trailing the atlanta falcons by

25 points earlier in the game. check out the front page of today's "boston globe" calling it a win for the ages. and patriots fans going wild after their team racks up an astonishing fifth super bowl. president trump, of course, tweeting his congratulations saying, quote, what an amazing comeback and win by the patriots. tom brady and bob craft and coach b are total winners, wow. did the whole city go wild last night? what a finish. >> i think you could say that. it is pretty safe to say that houston is super pleased to have hosted a game that is going to go down in the history books. years from some people will be talking remember houston 2017? by the time lady gaga took the stage for the halftime show all the sports analysts, fans themselves saying there was no

way the patriots could pull this thing off. but in the third quarter the falcons were leading and by a lot. 28-3. then almost as if some sort of a switch was flipped, it turned into a whole new ballgame. everybody talking about that julian edelman catch, a miracle, which helped set up the tying score and forced the first-ever overtime in super bowl history. >> the patriots in the locker room never get up. they went in the locker room and belichick told them never give up. >> tommy b five goes forever! >> if we learned one thing last night, melissa, it ain't over 'til it's over, right? >> absolutely. my 6-year-old had a falcons jersey on and he was

celebrating until the end. it broke his heart. what a game, though. tom brady was clearly the king last night. >> he broke several records, not only is he the only quarterback now in nfl history to have five -- count them five super bowl rings, but then you add in the fact he has now been named if mvp four times. deflategate aside tom brady is considered a hero in many people's eyes now. he is describing what was going through his mind on the field when it was looking like the atlanta falcons were going to win the whole thing. >> everything they didn't want to do in the first half. better in the second half. it was a great -- hell of a football game. >> hell of a football game may

be an understatement. that was brady last night. we're awaiting this live press conference here. it will be interesting to see what he has to say about this whole thing this morning. the day after, melissa. >> without question. casey, thank you so much. you are looking at the news conference here. we expect tom brady to come to the podium and the second that happens we will take you to it live. in the meantime, eric. >> president trump set to meet with the top military brass and some rank and file soldiers and marines today. he will pay his first visit to centcom headquarters and what's coming for the radical terrorists of isis. >> president trump: barack obama doesn't work. >> tapping the breaks on immediate changes to president o'rielly a full repeal may be a

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>> the courts will determine the validity of it. i think proper vetting is important to the american people. but there is a fine line here between proper vetting and interfering with the kind of travel or suggesting some kind of religious test. we need to avoid doing that kind of thing. >> melissa: senator mitch mcconnell distancing himself from the immigration order yesterday. majority leader rejecting the president's comparison of the u.s. to russia. and saying he doesn't think federal money should be spent on voter fraud investigations. joining me is mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas and fox news contributor. what do you think about mcconnell trying to get distance? >> it's normal. they always distance themselves from the executive branch.

it isn't all that atypical. i think what mcconnell has to be careful of is he doesn't want to alienate the 60 million voters who voted for donald trump and who frankly were as mad at a republicans, leadership and all as they were at the democrats. he has to be careful that he doesn't sort of signal that he wants to keep the swamp filled with gators and frogs and all kinds of reptiles and he is going to pour water back into it. >> melissa: an interesting point that you bring up about the trump supporters. because it seems like from trump's point of view, president trump, when liberals light their hair on fire about whatever is going on he doubles down what he said before and his supporters like that, right? >> they love it. they love it because this is a president who in the face of hostility and irrational and

sometimes ridiculous pressure, he pushes the throttles to the wall. people find it refreshing that he is completely unencumbered by popular opinion and the fact that the press hate him, that the left wing organizations hate him. he looks at it as a badge of honor because he knows they didn't vote for him anyway. they don't want him to be there. the people who do want him to be there, they want him to lead. and so for the past 2 1/2 weeks by golly, melissa, that's what he has done. been pretty remarkable. >> melissa: another big theme is the rest of the media getting invested in whatever side show is going on. right now we're seeing it with the kremlin and russian president putin. the comments the president made to bill o'rielly and the kremlin saying they didn't like bill o'rielly saying that vladimir putin is a killer demanding an apology from him. the media pouncing on this and again it is one of those things

while there are policy changes going on, they get very invested in this kind of back and forth. is that a shiny object intentionally maybe being put in front of the press so they go off in one direction and meanwhile the president is doing something else? that's what it looks like. what do you think? >> it's interesting so many critics of donald trump said he is unfiltered and he will get us into all kinds of disputes with foreign governments because he is too blunt. he is like the new testament character of nathaniel in whom there is no guile. no pretense, no phoniness, what you see is what you get. here is the interesting take on all that. so donald trump is acting more statesman like and saying i'm not going to call another foreign leader a murderer or thug on international television. that makes it hard to work with them. so he doesn't do it and instead of the press saying yes, you know, he is acting more presidential now rather than just firing off, now he gets in

trouble for that. proof positive, whatever donald trump says as president, somebody is not going to like it. but a lot of american people do. >> melissa: that's for sure. thank you for coming on this morning. appreciate your time, sir. >> eric: right now we're waiting for tom brady to speak. he is in houston. maybe he will explain how he did it, how he refused to give up. how he still had faith and kept confidence in his offensive line and teamwork, teamwork, teamwork. life lessons from the man of the moment after that newly iconic comeback last night in super bowl li. when news breaks, we'll show it.

>> eric: president trump set to visit u.s. central command in florida later on this morning. he will be meeting with top

brass including joint chiefs chairman and national security advisor michael flynn and having lunch with some of the rank and file troops there. what can we expect? michael walshe joins us, a counter terrorism advisor to former dick cheney. centcom's responsibility is the middle east, afghanistan and iraq. it is a key visit. what will he see this morning and what will he be briefed about? >> he will also be visiting special operations command, co-located with central command that has responsibility for the global war on terror. you will see an acknowledgement of our fallen chief petty officer owens, the navy seal killed in yemen about a week ago. i'm hoping that we also hear some mention of the war in afghanistan, where we have 10,000 troops, double the number in iraq. and kind of where that is all

going. i also expect you will see some mention of the executive order he signed on our rules of engagement ordering the national security council to take a look at the very restrictive handcuffs that the obama administration put on a lot of our soldiers overseas in the conduct of their operations. so i think you'll just more broadly see a thank you to the commands that have been at the pointy end of the spear in managing these wars over the last 15 years. and frankly i think kind of a reset of the relationship of the white house with the military. you had under the obama administration three secretaries of defense. gates, hagel and pennetta all come out publicly and say the relationship was broken and a lot of mistrust. >> eric: as the button is reset you mentioned something very

poignant. william ryan owens killed in the 50 minute fire fight in yemen. it's a searing, unfortunate episode. what do you think is in the commander-in-chief's mind? he went with his daughter, ivanka when owen's body came back. we should always remember him in the war on terror. >> i'm glad to see in two weeks a visit to the pentagon, a visit to dover and a major military command to appreciate his role as commander-in-chief. one other thing. i'm hoping to also hear some mention of our american hostages that are held all over the world overseas right now in pakistan, in syria, and in other places. they've been held for three, four, five years and we need to number one, do something to get them out, number two, send a strong signal that if you take an american hostage, you will

pay for it and the price is going to be a lot higher than what you think you'll gain. >> eric: that's unbelievable. a lot of us have forgotten about that. it is stunning. >> it is unbelievable and a disservice to the families. so i'm hoping to see strong action across a number of things. i don't think you'll see a detailed policy announcement. he ordered the pentagon to take a hard look at courses of action to defeat isis. that's due in 30 days. i think you will see those broader signals sent and you may even see, you know, some further discussion on where we're going with iran. i'm curious to see how we drive a wedge between russia and iran who are right now allies in the middle east. and if we're going the start working more closely with russia, how do we turn them against iran? >> eric: a lot of controversy over bill o'rielly's interview. we'll have more on that later on in the program.

topic number one, the fight against radical islamic terrorism at centcom this morning. michael walshe thank you for your joining us and for your service. >> melissa: president trump said as recently as his first days on the job the repealing obamacare should be congress's first priority. the legal battle between the white house and courts. should federal judges get involved in matters of national security and should the president be publicly deriding the judge who blocked a travel ban? we'll talk about that coming up. >> with his powers under the constitution and under statutory law it is quite clear that the president has the ability to determine who has access to this country when it comes to national security.

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future of obamacare. as president trump tafrms down expectations about how fast the healthcare law will be repealed. saying now it may not happen until sometime next year. we're live in washington with the details. doug, why this delay? >> truism in washington easier to create new laws than to dismantle existing ones and when you talk about a 1900 page law with 20,000 pages of regulations the task is monumental. republicans see great political risk in repealing without a substantial replacement at the ready. if the replacement is not simultaneous with repeal. >> eric: you send in a rescue team and repair it so nobody else is hurt by it and you start to build a new bridge and only when that new bridge is complete and people can drive stavely across it do you close the old bridge.

>> as a result of building that bridge a quick repeal has been delayed considerably. >> we should have something within the year and the following year. >> they remain committed to eliminating obamacare's worst features, the individual mandate, taxes, the penalties of obamacare and when house speaker paul ryan was confronted on "meet the press" yesterday that a replacement bill was not a condition delivered to the public he said this. >> somewhere along the line there was confusion we would take the obamacare architecture and tinker the margins and repair it. you can't. it's a collapsing law. >> among the features republicans want to see, more patient-centered healthcare. medical block grants to the state. allowing insurers to do business across state lines. >> eric: how about tom price? he is waiting as the nominee of health and human services.

when will that vote come? >> the senate finance committee has finally moved his nomination out of committee after democrats boycotted it. republicans suspended the rules to move the nomination. he is expected to be confirmed by full senate perhaps early next week. back to you. >> eric: melissa. >> melissa: president donald trump blasting a federal court judge's order temporarily halting the travel ban. the president calling out judge james robart on twitter saying, quote, the judge opens up our country to potential terrorists and others that do not have our best interests at heart. bad people are very happy and just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. if something happens, blame him and court system. people pouring in, bad. richard fowler is a talk showcase and katie pavlich is a news editor for town hall.com.

katie, let's start with the judge in this case who doesn't believe the executive order will hold up in the long run although the judge didn't expand on why. what do you think of that? >> i think he is probably wrong. there is plenty of legal precedent here to back up what president trump has done including actions that were taken by president obama to make sure that bad people in countries that don't have proper vetting and that have a problem with terrorism can't come into the country. that being said, president trump should be focusing his energy on the groups that are filing these lawsuits. aclu or the ones who are making this a problem for him and he should be encouraging his department of justice to do a better job defending the executive order in court. federal judges are not political opponents that you can bully to change their mind. they will act on what they think they should based on the law. if it goes to the supreme court. it looks like it will based on disagreeing opinions here, donald trump, president donald

trump will, i think, come out victorious based on the legal language and federal code already in place. >> melissa: richard, katie doesn't like the fact the president is taking to twitter and doesn't think it's effective. i have instructed homeland security to check people coming into our country carefully. the courts are making the job very difficult. do you think he is trying to bully the courts or is he maintaining message with the people who follow him saying look, i am not giving up on this? what is your take? >> you can't bully america's courts. our constitution protects them and what this judge in washington said as a lot of judges are saying. you can't defend the undefensible. what it does for the people of washington state who are those who filed this lawsuit hampers their companies to make a profit. they all have workers might be from iran and syria who are here on a worker visa who could no longer get in and out of the country easily thanks to the

executive order. if he wants to make america safe he would have worked to create new vetting process for refugees. an outright ban of muslims isn't the answer. that's exactly what the judge is saying. >> it is not an outright ban on muslims and you can't say that. that's not what it is. >> 100% of the people caught up in the ban are muslims. >> that's not true. i want to make the facts clear here. this is not a muslim ban. christian families in iraq and syria who got to american soil and there under a genocide in the middle east by isis were turned away at airports in new york and philadelphia and told to go home. this is not about muslims. this is about everyone from these countries. maybe you should do research before you talk on the topic. this is not a muslim. >> wouldn't allow a muslim kid in the country. >> let me finish my point before interrupting. anyone from these seven countries put out by the obama

administration, anyone from these country whether you're christian, muslim, or anything you can't come to the country temporarily until the administration figures it out. >> melissa: a lot of the companies speaking out have an economic interest in this. the ads through the super bowl. we have a huge heart but really it's about labor from these other countries, whether it's cheap leader or the engineering they're looking for. they are protecting their money. what do you think? >> they're protecting american commerce. american companies who produce products help america. google is an out front on why it's an awful idea. it is hurting some of their workers stuck overseas who can't come back to america to do the work they were hired to do. to be frank that's unamerican. folks who came to this country, who went through the vetting

process and have worker visas who committed no crimes against america should be allowed to do the work they do. let me make this little point. even in donald trump's executive order world the pulse nightclub shooting would have happened. san bernardino would have still happened. he isn't making americans safer. they were american citizens. >> i appreciate both of your spirits after a late night watching football. see you soon. >> eric: more threats from iran today. just days after the trump administration slapped the islamic republic with new sanctions. the blunt warning from a senior iranian official aimed at us. >> melissa: president trump making comparisons between russia and the united states. ambassador john bolton joins us to talk about the two country's relationship under the new administration. >> you think our country is so innocent? you think our country is so innocent? >> i don't know of any

government leaders that are killers.

>> he is a leader of his country. if russia helps us in the fight against isis, a major fight and islamic terrorism all over the world, major fight, that's a good thing. will i get along with him? i have no idea. >> he is a killer, though, putin is a killer. >> eric: we have a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? do you think our country is so innocent? >> i don't know of any government leaders that are killers in the american government. >> take a look at what we've done to -- we made a lot of mistakes. i've been against the war in iraq. a lot of people were killed. a lot of killers around, believe me. >> that's president trump raising eyebrows and sparking new controversy with the comments equating the u.s. and russia in that exclusive interview with bill o'rielly.

mr. trump highlighting the advantages of working with vladimir putin but in doing so he compared a nation that invaded its neighbors, supported rebels fighting in the ukraine and ripe with abuses and the critics and activists who have been poisoned or assassinated. is there really a comparison? john bolton fox news contributor and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. what do you think the president meant by those comments? >> i don't know. i don't think there is any comparison morally or politically or any other respect between the leaders of the united states and vladimir putin. what confounds me even more is the political implications domestically for what the president said. i think the overwhelming bulk of his supporters, overwhelming remember that line from the old song "i'm proud to be an okie from miss koci.

when you're running down my country you're walking on the wrong side of me. >> eric: republicans have gone after him. no moral -- liz cheney, from wyoming, former president's daughter calling these comments deeply troubling. and wrong. here is also other reaction i want the play for you. >> i simply don't accept there was any moral he -- president trump throughout his life and campaign and in this administration has never hesitated to be critical of government policies by the united states in the past but there was no moral equivalent. >> putin is a former kgb, agent, thug, not elected in a

way that most people would consider a credible election. >> eric: is the president to what the cia overthrow of the american government in 1953. the vietnam war and iraq war not sanctioned by the security council? >> if he were on the leftward fringe of the democratic party it would be easier to understand. i give president pence high marks for trying to bring it back but i think this is not the way the president should approach dealings with foreign leaders, particularly leaders that are hostile. i think that i'm glad at least that he said he doesn't know whether he will get along with putin. but fundamentally it doesn't really matter whether he has a good personal relationship with putin or not. personal relationships can be helpful but they aren't important in the hard questions of international relations. that's been borne out many times in the difficult

relations we've had with russia before, during and after the cold war. >> eric: he says we need to have a good relationship with putin. does he have a point? supporters will say that certainly he potentially could have a point about that? >> depends on what you mean by a good relationship. talking about working against terrorism step one ought to be to break with the ayatollahs in iran with whom they're working in syria right now and who they have flown political cover for on iran's nuclear weapons program in the security council and more broadly. so i think it's -- i worry about having this misimpression that a personal relationship or a judgment about putin can make a fundamental difference. too many american leaders have made this kind of misjudgment respecting moscow in the past. if you go back to franklin roosevelt in world war ii. he was told by his ambassador to moscow you couldn't trust stalin. he would try to annex eastern

europe and roosevelt said i just have a hunch stalin is not that kind of man. i think if i give him everything i can think of and ask nothing in return, then he will not annex anything and work with me for a world of peace and democracy. how is that for being wrong? >> eric: we live with the remnants ofwhat happened there. we'll see as we go forward of the president going to nato, by the way, has been announced. we'll see how it plays out. always good to see you. >> melissa: we want to take you to the man of the hour, tom brady getting the mvp trophy there. coming out and coming to the mic. we want to hear his remarks today and this morning. let's listen in. >> nice to see you guys early this morning. it was a late night. not much sleep but thank you all for being here. do you have questions? [inaudible question]

>> yep. i think james white deserves it. it would be nice for him. but, you know, it's a real team effort. there were so many plays. i got back to my room last night pretty late and was still pretty wired so i watched the highlights and, you know, you just go through the sequence of all those plays and how many critical plays needed to be made and coach talks about situational football and there was so much of that that went on to score two, two-point plays like we did down 16 against a great football team and it was just a great team performance. i'm so proud to be part of this team. faced a lot of adversities over the course of the year and overcame with a lot of mental toughness and a great way to culminate the season. we've gotten to this game before and not finished it off the way we wanted and, you

know, took kind of a miraculous effort to do it. and just so happy that we were able to get it accomplished. >> first of all, congratulations. secondly, a little housekeeping first. do you have any update where the jersey is? the third part of the question is this, what can -- is this the next step in the process to improve the relationship between you and the commissioner? >> the jersey, i put it in my bag and i came out and it wasn't there anymore. so it's unfortunate. that's a nice piece of memorabilia. if it shows up on e-bay let me know and i'll try to track that down. such an exciting game and, you know, it's an honor to be here and have the commissioner present us with this trophy. it certainly means a lot. and my kids will be happy to see that trophy. they always said daddy, what

about the trophy? i get to bring them one home. it is pretty cool. >> nfl network and fox sports. you mentioned the adversity and what you've had to deal with this year. both professionally and personally. last night when you got back you had a chance to take -- consult the whole thing and take it all in. what are your reactions when it is just you and your family and you are in an intimate setting on what this last year has been like? >> well, you know, it's a lot of emotion. football is such an emotional sport. come after a game where it's four hours long and there is the highs and the lows and being in there at halftime we weren't happy with how they played but got off to a slow start in the third quarter and finally got -- started executing a lot better. certainly on offense. so you are pretty spent after the game. i think there is a lot of

emotions. the lows of not playing great to the highs of playing great and finally at the end being -- a great way to finish. to celebrate with my teammates and then to see my family, it was just a night i'll never forget. it was -- just a great win for our team. like i said, there are so many great teams i've been a part of and just happy that this team will be able to be mentioned with some of those other great teams because of ultimately the way that we finished the season. >> i'm from gridiron magazine. it is well documented that joe montana is a childhood hero of yours. >> i was blessed to grow up in the bay area at a great time. we went to a lot of 49 games over the years and steve young and joe montana were my idols

and they still are. when i get around either of them i get, you know, just excited to see them. so, you know, for me to be a part of five championship teams is -- you know, it's a great feeling just because i've been a part of five great teams. all those teams have been different in their own way and it's so hard to win. and, you know, we've just been blessed to be able to be a part of a great organization and we just -- a lot of great teammates over the years, so many great coaches that put us in a position to win and that's all you can hope for as a player. our coaches, you know, they put us in the position to win and we as players go out and try to lay it all on the line. and, you know, it's great for this team to be able to lay it on the line like we did last night with everything at stake and then make enough plays to

win the game against a team that, you know, was a great team. they gave us all we could handle and i give them a lot of credit. they are a great football team. matt played a great game. their defense played a great game. they had pressure on us all night. it took a lot of great plays for us to overcome the deficit and the hole that we dug but we were able to do it. we'll be able to celebrate together, you know, for a long time. i think that's just a great feeling. >> espn. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i saw you on the riser looking for your mom and you had that moment with her. describe that moment and what it was like four and your mother. >> it was great. it was great. she has been through a lot. way harder than what i went through last night. way harder than what our team went through last night and my

dad has been there every step of the way so they set such a great example for me, you know, and all families go through challenging times personally, but, you know, she is a lot of support and a lot of love and i was happy last night to be able to celebrate with her. she hadn't been to a game all year, what a hell of a game for her to be at. and it's just -- it was really great. great to celebrate. my sisters were there, my wife. my kids, my little girl was there and, yeah, so it will be nice to go home and spend some time with them. they haven't had their dad around very much lately. it will be nice to go home and be a dad for a little bit. >> i'm from nbc10 in providence. what is your perspective on julian's catch and if you've seen the video and your opinion of it has changed at all? >> i saw the catch on those

beautiful screens in that stadium. that was a ridiculous play. just unbelievable. he has had a great season, great career. he has matured so much as a player and, you know, he is one of my best friends and i trust him so much, you know. he is always someone i'm looking for and there is a big situation. and we've had a few catches like that go against us. it was nice for once to go for us at a big moment. it was a big play on that drive and i still don't know how he came up with it. but he did and it was a great play at a great time. >> ben from the "boston globe." congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> last two super bowls a couple unsung hero, james white this time. his season didn't end so great in denver last year. can you talk about his growth

this year? >> yeah. i was telling coach earlier james white is like my oldest son. he just does everything right and you can never get mad at him because even when -- if he doesn't make the play he feels worse about it than you do, you know. so he is just the best teammate. he is an incredible player and been that way since he assumed the big role when deon got hurt last year and i'm so proud of him and everything he accomplished. i've seen him grow from a rookie to working his tail off to become a big factor in all these games. that particular role in our offense, you know, kevin falk mold, in the danny woodhead mold and shane vreen mold and what deon and james have done has been incredible for our offense. not only can they run and not only can they catch, but they

pass protect, too. there is a lot of toughness and so well coached by ivan who is a great coach for our team and gets those guys so ready every week. you know, it's just a great performance by him when we needed it the most on the biggest stage and he really came through for us. >> tom, over here. we saw the emotion from you a couple times last week and the emotion from you last night. i was wondering how you went about compartmentalizing that for those 4 1/2 hours yesterday and how important that was. >> yeah. i'm a pretty emotional guy so that's -- for the most part during the game it's challenged toward the emotion of the game and bringing my enthusiasm and energy for our team. coach always says we play once a week and there are three hours where you need to be ready to go. and you have to put everything aside over the course of the

week to build for those three hours. and our team has done a great job of doing that so football is a game of energy and emotion and attitude and this team showed that all those things are positive. the last time we lost was against seattle at home and we had four shots on the one-yard line and couldn't get in. you know, we talked last night -- or the day before the game before even after that game we came into work the next day ready to go and there is no whining or complaining. it was like all right, how do we get better and how will we get the ball in? we were on the-yard line last night with the whole season at stake and got the ball in. >> wpri in providence. i know they're special and unique in their own right. how do you rank this one amongst the five rings you have and what is it about patriot

super bowls always coming down to the last play? >> yeah. that's a good question. they do -- they have all come down to the end. and that's okay as long as you win. keep them exciting. i wish there would be -- we could get away from someone. we just haven't played well enough to do that but we played well enough in a lot of these situations late in the game to get the job done and we were able to make just enough plays last night to get the job done, too. so it was just a great performance by a great team against another great opponent that i have a lot of respect for and i give them a lot of credit because they gave us all we could handle. but i'm just glad we won. >> "new york daily news". congratulations. i saw how upset you were in the locker room last night about the jersey so i have two questions. first of all, had you intended to give it to your mom or parents?

did that factor into it at all? >> those are pretty special ones to keep, you know? but what can you do? i'll take the ring and that's good enough for me. >> and then have you had a chance to reflect on at the age of 39 what you've accomplished is probably unprecedented in team sports anywhere? >> you know, i don't feel 39. i hang out with a bunch of 20 year olds. that makes you feel pretty young. and, you know, i try to just take care of myself through learning through a lot of positive and negative experiences with that. when you are in the locker room for 17 years you learn what to do and what not to do and what works for you. and i found probably a unique way that's a little outside the box that's really worked and i try to spread that message to a lot of other players because football is a demanding sport

on your body. and your body is your asset and if you are hurting all the time, football is no fun. when i was 25 i was hurting all the time. and i couldn't imagine playing as long as i did because, you know, if your arm hurts every day when you throw, how can you keep playing? now at 39 my arm never hurts and my body never hurts and even after i get banged up i know how to take care of it and jump on it right away so i can feel good for a wednesday practice. it really allows you to be able to continue to improve because you can practice and hopefully i can keep passing that message on to a lot of younger athletes that want to do the same thing. football is such a great sport and i love it and it is demanding and taxing but i think it's the greatest sport in the world. i just love what i do. so thank you guys. >> melissa: there you see tom

brady with his mvp trophy taking a bunch of questions from the media. in case you were wondering the jersey is still missing. there had been reports out there that the equipment manager had it. apparently that's not the case. he said it is a pretty special jersey to keep and -- he is willing to settle for the ring. he looked still upset i would say, eric, about that jersey being missing. talking what it meant to have his mom there last night, of course, and now he is going to take a little time to be a dad because he has been on the road and working very hard. what do you think? >> eric: because his mother had been ill as you were saying the first game she has gone to. he was poised, thoughtful and humble and an inspirational talent especially for us old guys. that was amazing. >> melissa: a lot of what he was talking about all he learned in his career and in some ways even thoef he is now the second oldest quarterback to ever win a super bowl that in a lot of ways he has learned how to take care of his body

better than when he was 25. he would get hurt and banged up all the time and now he figured out how to get back in shape during the week and talked about the focus. that is something that the coach tells him that you are there all week practicing for those three hours on sunday and that's where your focus is. very interesting >> eric: another special moments george h.w. bush the former president and his wife barbara with the coin toss. an evening, a game and an event this country will long remember. >> melissa: absolutely. all right, the white house facing a legal deadline just hours away to justify the president's immigration action. the 9th circuit court of appeals now weighing how much power the president has to control who enters our borders. after a federal judge in seattle blocked his executive order. president trump blasting the judge on twitter just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril.

if something happens, blame him. the court system, people pouring in, bad. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm melissa francis in for shannon bream. >> eric: i'm eric sean in for bill hemmer. the president's immigration order facing a key legal test as the justice department gets ready to file additional arguments to restate that ban. that later on this afternoon. in the meantime people who were briefly stranded are rushing to enter our country while they can. >> i think they were nervous because it isn't over yet. >> the vetting process is already very thorough and there is no need to create this fear, to create this confusion. >> i fear isis. that's my greatest fear. >> melissa: all right. judge napolitano, let's talk about this latest ruling first that came down. the judge says that he believes that the opposition to the

executive order will prevail in the end. do you agree with that? >> i don't agree with it. i think that the judge -- i'm trying to read between the lines because he didn't give a legal opinion along with his order. but i think he is second guessing the wisdom and the justice, if you will, of the executive order. the reason i say that is because of some language he used in the brief oral argument before him in which he questioned whether or not evil people have come into the united states who have caused harm from seven countries that president trump excluded. he should have instead questioned to the plaintiffs who are two states of the union, minnesota and washington they aren't people trying to get in the country. they are states suing on behalf of people trying to get in the country. he should have said and what the 9th circuit will say when they hear oral argument later today, what are you doing here?

the constitution requires the plaintiffs be people who are actually harmed or in immediate likelihood of harm are appropriate candidates to bring a lawsuit against the president of the united states rather than intermediaries. that's where i think the focus of the 9th circuit inquiry will be later today. >> melissa: talk to us more about what comes next. >> well, the 9th circuit court of appeals, which is the interimmediate appellate court for the 15 western-most states of the united states going all the way out to alaska and hawaii ordered briefs to be filed today. when they decided not to interfere with a trial judge's order, the reason they gave is we don't know enough about this. we want the government to tell us their version and the plaintiffs, the state of washington and the state of minnesota, to tell us their version. those versions are 2/3 in and the final version is due at 3:00 this afternoon pacific

time. i think by 6:00 today pacific time the 9th circuit court of appeals will rule on just this one issue. was it proper for judge robart sitting in seattle to prevent the effect of this executive order signed by the president of the united states. if the answer is yes, the ban on the executive order will stay in place while judge robart on the right of your screen will hold a trial. if the answer is no, then the ban that the president put in place will be back in place while judge robart holds a trial. >> melissa: either way we get the next phase of this tonight but it won't be over at this point. >> , no it's not going to be over. if the executive order is prevented from being enforced you'll see a trial quickly. if it is being enforced while judge robart holds a trial, he will probably take his time. bear in mind there are four cases throughout the u.s. the chief should probably

consolidate each one. so the entire dispute can be resolved in one place at one time before one judge and in one courtroom. that's the economic way to do it. >> melissa: absolutely. what's the likelihood that will happen? >> chief justice roberts has been good about doing that for cases that are substantially similar and filed in different places in the country. you have one in brooklyn, one in boston, one in alexandria, virginia and this one in seattle that we're focused on. >> melissa: what do you think the outcome is going to be? >> the 9th circuit court of appeals will reverse judge robart and reinstate the executive order because the two plaintiffs here, the two states, washington and minnesota, don't have the standing to bring an action on behalf of others. others who are harmed have to bring that action directly? >> melissa: i don't know what we'd do without you. >> a pleasure to be with you and that wonderful young man next to you. >> melissa: there you go.

thank you. >> eric: calling me young, thank you. the confirmation of president trump's supreme court nominee becoming more important over the fight over the travel ban. judge neil gorsuch is expected to make his case today when he meets with california senator dianne feinstein. she is the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee and their meeting could -- the president telling bill o'rielly while replacing obamacare, he says, may take longer than first thought. what do doctors think about that? coming up dr. marc siegel will be here to talk to us about the timeline. >> melissa: president trump doubling down on his claims about voter fraud during the election. is this a real problem or is it time for him to let it go? governor john sununu on that. first here is the president. >> we can be babies.

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>> fox sports is demanding i ask you to make a predictions. >> i hate to make predictions. >> you can't leave. >> i don't know what are the odds. even, two great teams. pretty even. i'll say the patriots will win. >> by how many points? >> eight points. >> that's a good presidential prediction. >> melissa: i don't know if he mentioned the falcons by name but he said they were a fantastic team so there you go. >> eric: president trump vowing to crack down on voter fraud that he claims is costing millions of votes. election officials say there was no evidence of any systemic fraud. despite that he is putting vice president mike pence in charge of a new commission to investigate. >> many dead people that are on that voted. registered in two states. when you see other things.

illegals, people not citizens and they are on the registration roles. what they do is load up the registration roles. >> eric: john sununu, former new hampshire governor, you have reported on voter fraud cases for years, buying votes in arkansas, faking absentee ballots to steal elections. people who voted more than once and twice. but how widespread is it really do you think? and the president seems to think it is millions of people. >> that's the question, isn't it? how widespread is it? as you point out, there is evidence every year that it happens. my preference would be for the white house to focus on foreign policy and domestic policy and let the republican national committee and the state committees lead whatever level of searching for the magnitude of the fraud. this isn't a new issue. back in 1960, a lot of

republicans were pretty sure that mayor daley found a few thousand extra votes in cook county to get kennedy elected and they were complaining in the 2000 election. there is some concern on both parties. the democrats have been working awfully hard to get interesting constituencies registered. they tried to registered to make it legal for 200,000 felons to vote in virginia. there is concern about the overall integrity of the system. i think if there is an examination to be done, my preference as i said would be for the rnc and the state committees to lead the charge, not the white house. >> eric: that's more appropriate. mitch mcconnell doesn't think they should spend federal money on the pence committees. there is enough support if the committees want to chase it

down they ought to do it that way. >> eric: pasco parker, this guy was convicted of voting three times in the election. in the presidential election in 2012. he voted in tennessee, north carolina, florida and the help america vote act is supposed to prevent it. i'm sorry to break the news, governor, lauren schneider, is a massachusetts man with three counts of wrongful voting. he would drive up, cast his ballot in new hampshire. someone saw him at the polling place. those are individual cases. what as a former governor, what do you think the state system should do? you have william gardner the fantastic secretary of state of new hampshire. can the states do better to try to prevent it from happening at all? >> with the capacity of data processing nowadays they can do better. you used to have to do hand

checking of huge lists. now with data processing we can cross checklists. i think there ought to be an aggressive effort by the states to modernize the way they handle their registrations and then to cooperate across state borders. one of the concerns a lot of folks have is students voting on campuses and also voting back home. so those are the kinds of things that data processing can check. it doesn't have to be a complicated process. it can have some serious due diligence in it. we don't have to overplay it or shove it under the rug. >> eric: the new hampshire primary has been a situation about the students. there is no residency requirement. that has been controversial. the super bowl last night. amazing start your former boss, president george h.w. bush and the coin toss. >> it was great to see he and

barbara there after we were so worried with his illness. a great start to the finish and brady made a great finish -- a great start to the game and brady made a great finish to the game. i tell people don't you think brady would make a great republican senator from the state of massachusetts? >> eric: all right. he is 39 years old and banged up a bit. he told us in the news conference. you never know. governor sununu, great to see you. thank you for your kind words and we all thank former president george h.w. bush. >> melissa: the democrats are looking for a leader after a tough election with the party chair forced out along the way. who is up for that job? >> eric: the president giving an indication of when he will fulfill a campaign promise to repeal and replace obamacare. coming up we'll talk to dr. marc siegel about that. first here is the president. >> president trump: obamacare is a disaster. you have to remember obamacare doesn't work. so we're putting in a wonderful

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cabinet member. his services are needed here because, he says, democrats are obstructing the process and the american people are tired of that kind of behavior. it will stay on track thanks to another cabinet hopeful support senator jeff sessions. he still has not been okayed as the attorney general and leadership is counting on him as a yay vote for devos before he goes to work at the justice department. >> melissa: you are there. everybody has this thing gamed out. what do you think and the odds it won't work out that way? >> opponents are hopeful it's a possibility. there will be one last -- understand it is a sizeable rally outside against devos

held by the american federation of teachers. they are trying to pressure one more republican to defect and align themselves with the democrats that are trying to stop devos. white house officials don't think there is anything to worry about here. the press secretary sean spicer says he is 100% certain devos will be sworn in as education secretary. republicans, though, really do not have any wiggle room to make sure that 100% certainty remains a certainty. if he lose one more vote she doesn't get the job. >> melissa: wow. all right. we'll keep our eyes peeled, peter. thank you. >> eric: if you need any proof you should never leave early for traffic, at least the super bowl and this is one of the greatest finishes of all time. then there is this. hear about the super bowl commercial that backfired? how this google ad for its

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watch stains disappear right before your eyes. remove 4 times more stains than detergent alone. >> eric: fox news alert. we're awaiting president trump's departure from palm beach where he spent the weekend at his ocean-front estate . his next stop is the u.s. central command. white house correspondent kevin corke is live in tampa with the latest. what's the president likely to hear and learn this morning about the fight against isis? >> good morning to you. you may remember it was actually back on january 28th when the president issued that memorandum calling for a full review of and any recommended changes to existing u.s. engagements all over the globe including the fight against

isis. that will be part of the unique experience for the president here today at central command. he will meet with his commanders directing the effort on the ground. as for the wholesale changes in the fight against isis, we aren't sure about that. defense secretary mattis said nothing is off the table but smartly he added this. >> i don't see any need to increase the number of forces we have in the middle east at this time. that is not in the cards right now. we always have the capability to do so. but right now i don't think it's necessary. >> what was that? sort of a broad brush for public consumption answer, right? the president and his briefing today will get a more detailed and granular assessment of what is an evolving policy on isis. >> eric: it comes in the wake of those iranian ballistic miss

will tests and administration slapped on new sanctions. what about the tough stance on tehran? >> surprising unanimity. rare you get the right and left to agree that something has to be done about iran. they're trying to essentially have an offensive posture, if you will, militarily trying to make that their statement. yet they have been amisthroughout the region for some time. what next? here is the president on that. >> they have total disregard for our country. they are the number one terrorist state. they are sending money all over the place and weapons. >> i think he is right in this. i think iran is wrong in this. let me be very clear. these are not nuclear ballistic missiles. they are not -- they are conventional ballistic missiles but iran has a lot of them. the need to test right now i think is very dangerous and should not have happened.

>> the real question is what happens next? that will be part of the discussion that the president gets here today as he meets with commanders here at centcom. back to you. >> eric: we'll have that visit as it happens and the president also told bill o'rielly he is reconsidering the iranian nuclear deal but no decision on that quite yet. melissa. >> melissa: president trump in a wide ranging interview with bill o'rielly before the super bowl saying repealing and replacing obamacare might not happen until next year. >> obamacare doesn't work. we're putting in a wonderful plan. it is statutorally takes a while to get. we'll put it in fairly soon. i think that yes, i would like to say by the end of the year, at least the rudements. we should have something within the year and following year. >> melissa: dr. marc siegel is part of the medical team and thank you for joining us. that got a lot of attention

yesterday. he had said coming in he would do it right away. what did you think about the timeline? >> there is a lot of honesty to that. some of the pieces can be repealed right away and should be done right away. for example the individual mandate is almost unenforceable. only 30% of the people signing up for obamacare are young. they don't want to pay high premiums for something that can't happen to them. don't enforce the individual mandate. that he could do right away especially if we know eventually we'll repeal obamacare. second, the essential benefits package where the whole policy is front loaded which leads to high premiums. no co-pays or deductibles sounds great, very expensive. you don't have to enforce that. the third thing that i might want to see right away is a catastrophic option. where young people could say if i go to the emergency room, if i need a hospitalization, some

low-cost, low-premium insurance could be introduced right away to protect the public from somebody getting ill. >> melissa: something missing in what you're saying, how do you pay for the really sick people? it makes sense but the reason we had all those other things in place we're trying to pay for the people who have pre-existing conditions and use a lot of healthcare. how do you pay for that? >> that's why president trump is saying it will take a while, a year or two for this whole thing to be fixed because the ultimate goal is probably to be create high-risk pools with those with pre-existing conditions can be subsidized by the government. right now almost everybody is subsidized by the government. if you go to the state exchange you pay $350 for a premium, $250 comes out of the taxpayer pocket. that has to change. critics are saying wait a minute. we don't want 30 million to lose insurance right away. so let's honor the state exchanges as we try to reform

medicaid, to get malpractice reform, to get a cheaper option and to create high-risk pools. >> melissa: let me drill down on that point a little bit. a solution i haven't heard from a lot of people that makes sense. this is tricky. you are saying put people into high-risk pools that go over different state lines. something rand paul talked about as well. that still in my mind getting people together doesn't solve the problem of how you pay for it. that's just a bigger group. you are saying of those pools that is where the government's money that is already being spent should be directed. >> absolutely. because i agree and many other critics of obamacare agree pre-existing conditions have to be covered. that's in the best interest of the government and the best interest of the patient, the best interest of the doctor. i want to know my diabetics, and those with heart disease will be covered. that's where government subsidies should go. why should someone else get a

subsidy who is well get it? i should mention that president trump and congress wants to move more in the direction of choice. health savings accounts. that will take a while to get health savings accounts expanded and insurance across state lines, melissa, there is a law on the books since 1945 that you can't do that. they will have to change that law. >> melissa: they have the take that away. forgive me when i say the government's money. that's the taxpayer who really is. the government doesn't have his own money. taking out of our pocket. another point that you make is about price transparency. people have to know. you have no idea what the bill was when you leave the hospital. insurance paid for it, you get your deductible and you pay that. when people's deductibles went up all of a signed you were paying the price that the insurance company negotiated with the provider. wait a second. i didn't agree to pay $1,000 for a visit to the doctor. you say we need to get both drug companies and doctors

together with patients, more transparency and see what those prices are and negotiate on that level. how do you do that? >> you understand this point. i did some research and found out an echo cardiogram costs $100 uptown and something else somewhere. something else for treatments that have been around for a while to maintain their high prices because nobody knows about it. the idea that president trump wants medicare to negotiate prices, that's a huge block that will bring down prescription drug prices. more negotiation, more knowing what you pay for, more health savings accounts to pay for things. you know, you will go out to the marketplace and say wait a minute, i'm going to the guy who charges me less for a chest x-ray, right? >> melissa: if you want to pay more that's your decision. >> if you know someone that's the best, they charge the highest. >> melissa: thank you so much,

dr. siegel. great stuff. eric. >> eric: thanks. did you hear about this? the google super bowl ad last night sent some systems across the country in people's homes in overdrive. >> turn on the hall lights, google. >> google, turn up the music. >> eric: customers reporting this commercial caused a lot of confusion for those folks with google home voice activated systems in their houses. apparently the devices reacted after the commercial was on hearing okay, google, on television. so far the tech giant hasn't responded to the complaints. talk about technology, oops. >> melissa: turning on everything in the house through the whole game. very interesting. didn't think about that. >> eric: like the clapper. all the lights would go out across the country. >> melissa: i'll steal that joke for later.

president trump saying the obama administration holdovers are working against his administration. what the president is saying now about the leaks of his private conversations.

>> melissa: mark wahlberg getting flak for leaving the game early last night. the actor departed from the energy stadium in houston in the third quarter of the super bowl missing his team's epic comeback victory in overtime. some fans criticizing the boston native on social media. he later explained what happened on instagram. i had to leave the game early because my youngest son wasn't feeling well. trust me, i would have loved to be at the stadium but family first doesn't mean i don't love my patriots, too. >> eric: it has the cut. >> melissa: he is a hard core fan, too. >> eric: also tivo. never leave early, all right?

the car will still be there. so you have to sit in traffic. don't leave early when it's the super bowl. >> melissa: my husband never lets us leave early. let's go home and beat the traffic. no. there you go. >> eric: president trump is slamming those leaks about the phone calls to foreign leaders. he blames holdovers from the obama administration. president trump telling fox news over the weekend quote, it's a disgrace they leaked because it is very much against our country. who did it and why? melissa booth is a contributor to the washington examiner. david is a former staff secretary to president clinton. david. let me start with you. you think holdovers from the previous administration are ratting him out? >> i have to apologize if i'm blaoery eyed here. i stayed up for the entire game as did my buddies. and what a finish. congratulations to the patriots. i'm a former west wing staffer and i have talked to former

bush white house west wing staffers. we all agree that when the president is on the phone with a foreign leader, the civil service staff of the white house is not in the room, is not privy to it. i think what's going on here is the tension and conflicts within the trump white house is leading to some staffers leaking to try to get at other staffers. kellyanne conway said i intend to communicate through the press in order to steer the president. i think other staffers are doing the same thing and internal leaks. sorry, mr. trump, we're not buying it. it is not the obamas, it is you and your staff. >> eric: kellyanne conway says they're duty bound. that's what she told the "washington post". >> and against what she said in the campaign. all i'm saying is who is in the room when the president is talking to the australian prime minister? is it the civil servant who works in the cafeteria? no, it's steve bannon, vice president pence and reince priebus and we all know that

reince priebus is at odd with steve bannon. there is competition internally. donald trump said this is my management style. i set up conflict. out of that conflict i think i get the right answer. the problem is he doesn't have a process for handling the internal leaks. he can't blame obama for it. >> eric: what about david that it's being done from the inside? >> i doubt that his most trusted advisors are the ones leaking this information. it is very concerning and president trump has every right to be very worried about this. it undermines his foreign policy agenda if there are people around him he can't trust to carry out his agenda because he is the president of the united states. it also hurts his credibility and the trust of other foreign leaders if they can't have private and frank conversations that are going to get out there. there has been a lot of misinformation reported about these calls. at least according to these foreign leaders themselves. you have the spokesperson for

president nieto who said a lot of the things that were said about the call that there were threats that were made, that is down right nonsense. it is a lie. that's what the spokesperson said. you also have prime minister turnbull who said that president trump did not hang up on him. the call actually ended courteously. so a lot of the things that have been reported evidently are incorrect as well. >> eric: who do you think is doing it? >> i don't know. i have no clue. >> eric: david, you were in the west wing. you are on the phone, who is listening in? does the nsa or cia or fsb listen in? how does this stuff get out? steve bannon is over in the little office on the phone like this listening to the other side of the phone conversation. how does this work? >> it all depends. some of the agencies you've mentioned help place a call. sometimes we have agreements with foreign governments to have a direct line. sometimes white house staffer will listen in by picking up

another extension. it all depends. i think the point is we have a president here who still hasn't found his footing on how to manage and it is ironic, he is a business person who claimed to have good management skills. right now it's a mess. i will say, though, believe it or not i think there is a connection between this and the super bowl, if i may. when i watched the super bowl -- the super bowl is so cool we have to talk about it. look, when i watch the super bowl i saw commercials from pepsi and anheiser-busch and google that all seemed to be directly aimed at a pro-immigration, pro-diversity viewpoint which i took as a direct hit on donald trump. i couldn't believe it. >> eric: we'll save this for another topic when we get to this, david. we don't have time. but also we are tired after the super bowl. >> we can all agree on that. >> eric: you shouldn't listen into a phone conversation. your mother said it was rude.

>> melissa: i know somebody who isn't tired after the super bowl last night. jon scott. fired up. what do you have coming up? >> we're awaiting an address from president trump at centcom in florida today. the president's interview with our bill o'rielly making lots of news. we'll have the latest on that, including a response from russia. also a prominent reporter from "newsweek" argues the media are not treating president trump fairly. are they out to take him down? is he right or just trying to get access? we have that coming up for you "happening now." >> melissa: the new england patriots winning the super bowl if dramatic fashion and jim gray, the man in the middle here, got to see it all unfold. look at that. he joins us next.

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>> melissa: so this was one of the most anticipated moments of the patriots win last night. it was the handshake between tom brady who is the super bowl mvp and roger goodell, the commissioner who suspended him the first four games of the season. jim gray was right there in the middle of all of it. it was amazing. you were right between them. jim joins me now. how did you muscle yourself into the moment? it was what everyone was talking about. >> it was unexpected. the game had ended and waiting to go onto the platform was tom brady. tom does a radio show with me every week on monday night football on westwood one. we didn't do it at halftime because he is the halftime guest every monday night. we were going to do it in the post-game and waiting to do our show and we were just getting ready to start and the commissioner walked over and he

kind of tapped tom on the side of his arm and we turned around and there was the commissioner and he said that was awesome, you were awesome, congratulations and he extended his hand. tom looked down, saw his hand and shook his hand. he said thank you. >> melissa: what was that like? was there tension? people imagined there was going to be. what did it feel like? >> i didn't see the commissioner coming. i don't think tom saw the commissioner coming. maybe it was unexpected but i'm sure he was expecting both of them to see each other after the game if the patriots won. so there was no warmth. there was no embrace. there was no smiling really. nobody really smiled. the commissioner, after he said that was awesome, said congratulations and you were great and tom just said thank

you twice and shook his hand and then the commissioner went onto the podium. tom and i did our radio show on westwood one and the commissioner was coming off the podium tom had his little girl in his arms and bennie hanging on him and little boy and jack his third child at his feet -- first child actually. the commissioner tapped him on the shoulder and said congratulations to him again and tom smiled and said thank you. >> melissa: just a couple of second. any moment you thought he might not shake his hand? >> no, tom is a courteous, gracious, classy guy and he rose above it. >> melissa: thanks for sharing that >> eric: you hear about the rogue fireball that streaked across the sky and a loud boom shattered several states? and no, it wasn't a tom brady

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>> eric: well, that is it for us on the super monday. >> melissa: yes, that was fun. "happening now" starts right now. ♪ >> jon: president trump launching new attacks on the media. as well as federal judges who rule for the executive order on immigration. good monday to you. i am jon scott. >> jenna: hello, everyone. i am jenna lee crating and holding on the travel restrictions, people entering from seven majority muslim countries. that is a part of the executive order. and the rolling could come as early as this afternoon. john roberts is live at the white house this morning. >> good morning to you. the white house is arguing that it is a president who has the authority over immigration and national security and not a federal judge in seattle. also arguing that it is a pr