for your time tonight to. recap the nfl has suspended tom brady without pay for four games. the patriots have been fined $1 million and they will be forced to give up their first round draft pick in 2016 and fourth round draft pick in 2016. that's the ed show. here's the quarterfinal from politics nation who never has to inflate anything but tells truth. the reverend al sharpton. >> good evening. thanks to you for tuning in. we had breaking news. the nfl has suspended super bowl mvp tom brady for four games next season. for his role in the deflategate scandal that rocked the league. saying brady's conduct was detrimental to the integrity of

the game. in addition tonight suspension the league gave the patriots a $1 million fine. and it will take two draft picks from the team including its first round pick next year. in a 243 page report released last week investigators ruled that brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities. joining me on the phone, randall hill and "huffington post" columnist jeff schultz. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you think of this punishment? >> i think it is just and fit. they won't put up with what went on on the field and off the field. i personally know troy vincent who is making some of these decisions. he is a former player.

>> jordan, what is your reaction? in light of the fact there was no smoking gun. but they clearly said that he generally knew do you think that this is a more harsh punishment than you would have expected? >> i thought it was just right. if not enough to be honest. at first i thought this would take more time and it would not be a suspension. the more you looked into it. there was not necessarily a smoking gun. the evidence was enough and substantial enough and a 243 page report that was truncated in some respects. it shows they wouldn't take competitive advantages away from the rest league in an unfair manner and tom brady arguably the face of the nfl in the last decade plus gets four games to me. to me it was just right but you could have made a case to six or eight. that shows the nfl is taking it

seriously enough. >> let me ask you, you played in the nfl. you know inevitably there will be a response and contesting this from the players association. right? >> yes, of course. and that just the nature of the beast. the way the system works. but i think it will be withheld. if you look at the integrity of the game. this is an integrity check. the nfl is one of the greatest organizations we have today. just recently you have people like troy vincent who were there who played the game who know the ins and outs. you have someone like him who knows and have dealt with this before. >> i want to bring in boston.com

columnist eric wilbur. what's the reaction in boston tonight? >> one of shock, anger, people think it is crazy, way too much. and ray rice will be the one that's brought up enough considering he only got two games last year for domestic abuse. so everyone hates sounding like broken record. it's a million dollars. kraft has said he won't fight. this is total shock. >> so people expect that if it was going to be something, it would have been two games maybe. no one expected four. and because brady is it they're still saying it may be knocked down even though the team is not challenging the $1 million fine.

>> i believe so. a week ago, you thought one to two games. a decent punishment. then you think about what roger goodell is trying to do. he has to save face based on the disastrous year he had. this is his make-up test. the patriots are paying for the sins of the nfl. they cheated. they lied about it. granted. the four-game suspension. nobody really knows what carries what weight. >> randall, does this send a message to players? what will players say about this and what message does this send to players around the league? >> it sends a clear message that this nonsense won't be tolerated. that the bad attitude won't be tolerated. and even cheating won't be tolerated. i saw this because i predicted this on your show last week. i said that he would get in three or four to six weeks. it is just the nature of the

beast of what's going on in the nfl. people want to compare this. in. there were mistakes before. and they'll move forward from there. let's see what happens. >> the fact the nfl had a very rough year. do you think that this is also goodell's attempt to try to redeem with the public the integrity of the league? >> yeah. i'm so glad you asked that question. at least he hoped he would know about the hammer. i think he lost a lot of credibility. not just the players but the fans and the league as well and other leagues as to the type of leader he really wanted to be. so this is a big statement for the league that this won't be tolerated. but it is also a statement

saying, you know what? i am back to being that guy i promised i would be. so tom brady sn fine but he is scheduled to make $8 be million next season. so this is big a hit. >> do you see the irony? let me use that term. the first game he has back is against the colts. who were the ones who called him out on this. do you think there will be a big viewing audience for that game? >> he'll be back for dallas. >> it's the colts. the patriots better win that game. they have some fuel to the fire to beat the patriots now. and the rest of america. i don't know what the pulse of america is but i imagine that nfl fans across the country are celebrating this as a win.

putting roger goodell in a little better light for them. everyone can root for the colts in that game. the patriots better go out and show that cheating was not the way that they got to the super bowl. that's not the reason they won. >> and for brady to take a $2 million hit on this. more than sends a message. >> for sure. absolutely. the fact that the patriots themselves are paying $1 million for not cooperating with the investigation is just. there is a lot of points. didn't exactly operate fully. >> let me jump in really quick. that's a good point as well. robert kraft said after all this is done i want an apology from the nfl. he is going to have to wait an awfully long time to get that apology. >> he won't get it. let me ask this. i want all three of to you respond, starting with you, randall. the average fan at home do you

really think they care about this? how much does this matter to the average fan? >> i think now they care because i think the fans are very, very intelligent. and they're students of the game. he will be fined a lot of money but a lot of people don't understand that fine can be donated to charity. so find a good charity and donate. >> i think the fans will be really disappointed. that this happened. but i think nfl fans have a quick memory. this is the premiere sport in america. if tom brady was suspended eight game works people outside new england boycott? or inside boycott? no way. jimmie

jimmie. >> the better part of four months now. so it is obviously a salacious story in the nfl and the country loves a salacious story. inside new england, we're at the beginning of it too. how the patriots react next season will be the running story line. it will be fascinating to see how jimmie starts in the four games or two games gets knocked down. don't complicate it about us them against the world. just firing right through the league. >> thank you all for why are time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> ahead, the big fight among democrats. president obama and senator elizabeth warren at odds. and it is getting even more heated. also coming up a georgia principal is apologizing tonight

for a racially charged comment at a graduation. >> you people are being so rude to not listen to this speech. it was my fault that we missed it in the program. >> also tonight, prince calls for peace in baltimore but says the system is broken. and a single mother of four gets the mother's day call of a lifetime. from president barack obama. she joins me to talk about it ahead. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira

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to developing news on the growing divide among democrats. splitting president obama and

senator elizabeth warren. they've been trading words over his trade deal and now ahead of a key senate vote tomorrow the president is raising the stakes. >> the truth is elizabeth is a politician like everyone else. she has a voice to get out there and i understand that. on most issues, she and i deeply agree. on this one though her arguments don't stand the test of fact and scrutiny. >> a politician like everybody else. today she fired back calling for the text of the 12 nation deal which is available to lawmakers to read. she wants them made available to the public saying if the president is so confident it's a good deal he should declassify the text. the president has called that

argument dishonest. and now he's also responding to senator warren's claim, the deal could undermine bank reform. >> there is no evidence that this could ever be used in this way. this is pure speculation. she and i both taught law school. and one of the things do you as a law professor, you spin out hypotheticals. this is all hypothetical. speculative. >> reporter: it's one of the most significant battles inside the democratic party sense the president took office. and is throwing tomorrow's senate vote in doubt. in new york times says it is up for grabs. now for a debate. let me bring in angela who supports giving the president authority to negotiate the agreement and jason johnson, political science professor, who

disagrees. and says congress should have the ability to offer amendments. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> jason, the president says senator warren is just a politician whose arguments don't stand up. your take. >> this is a tremendous amount of shame going on for a guy leaving office soon. the president has every right to argue for the additional power that he wants. i don't think all of his criticisms are correct. yes, some of them are splaek i have the but not unrealistically speculative. i think overall this is a healthy debate. i would rather have them debating this rather than through a hidden vote. >> so first of all, let's talk about a hidden vote. there will be no hidden votes and there is no hidden texts. this has been one of the most transparent processes over the last 30 years and i think it is important for us to note this

text is now currently available to members of congress regardless of whether or not they soit committees of jurisdiction. that is what makes this an unprecedented amount of transparency. the other thing you mentioned was you mentioned shade from the president to senator warren. let me emphasize that senator warren was the person who led the oversight panel for tarp. that is a roll the president entrusted her if and he made her adviser to the bureau that was stood up because of the recommendations. his politics have not changed that much. what has changed is lizly warren's spotlight. and that is why this is tremendously dishonest and very, very scary. we need to be really honest with the american people. whether this happens now or under the next administration, it could be a republican. it would be really dangerous for us tonight have the provisions that we currently have now if we turn this over to the hands of

the gop. >> what caught me by surprise. when the president said this was highly speculative and talked about high poth siding and all. when he said was questioned about senator warren's claim that it could undermine dodd frank. i would have expected since senator warren and elected officials can read the document for her to come back and say where it in fact could do that. for her to come back and say make it public. does that mean there is nothing in the dpomt could undermine dodd frank? >> i don't think there is. there are two things to remember. i understand those who are advocates say this is an open document. when you can only go to the

basement one page at a time. >> it's classified. that's against the law. >> ninth times out of ten, no matter how much the advocates want to screen in favor of this policy, you can get more information about isis than you can get about the tpp right now. that's one of the reasons people are concerned. there is no reason for speculation. there are some objective reasons to be concerned about what this bill may look like. the only thing we may know is what you found in a basement or wikileaks. >> i don't know if you've ever had a security clearance difl. i worked on thor committee for homeland security. this text is classified which means it would be against the law to shart publicly. and the reason for that maybe we could say, this shouldn't be classified. that same argument should be applied for the trade agreements over the past 30 years which have all been classified. i think we need to have an intellectually honest argument. there isn't anything that would

undo dodd frank. the fact that it could happen yes, it could happen through a very convoluted process. but you know how else could it happen? there is a republican house, a republican senate. if we had a republican senate and he said he wanted to repeal dodd frank, they could take it to the hill pass and it it could go into law. that's why this is intellectually dishonest. >> what about the contention that this in fact would put labor and environmental concerns and if we go down the road we may not be in. >> this is what we're talking about. everyone wants to pretend this is speculative like you haven't had trade agreements in the paxt they wanted to add the amendments to the fast track administration would require the president to be very clear about

what the oversight would be. we negotiated with congress and they would at least explain it. as of right now we don't have that in the tpa. >> that's not true. >> so people are concerned about what might be the case in the tpp. no matter how many people want to scream it change the fact when they say vote for this. that's not oversight. >> what you just explained is not true and it won't happening. >> the reason request the substitute wauchb given a consideration. it was not relevant. you have to have something that's germane. >> what do you think will happen with the vote tomorrow? jason? >> i think it will go through. i think it will go through.

>> angela? >> absolutely. it will go through. >> we're all friends here. you think there's a bunch of posturing on whose side? don't answer that. i promise to stay out of debate though i have a whole lot to say. and i'll be saying it. thank you for your time tonight. >> i look forward to hearing you. >> keep your ears open. coming up, new questions about the baltimore police department and whether officers have failed to give many suspects medical care. not just freddie gray. ...and takes the wheel right from your very hands... ...this isn't that car. the first and only car with direct adaptive steering. ♪ the 328 horsepower q50 from infiniti.

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today we're getting more information about things happening outside of the public's view. a new report from the baltimore "sun" finds freddie gray was among many suspects who did not get medical care from baltimore police. over the last three years the baltimore city detention center refused to accept 2,600 detainees brought there by police. it is unclear how many of them had injuries. but the sun reports, some had, quote, fractured bones, facial trauma, and hypertension. and 123 detainee hs visible injuries. the baltimore police department has not commented on this report. this is a community looking

forward with thousands danieling prince's rally for peace concert last night. he sang a new song inspired by the city and told the audience he knows the system is broken. and young people will have to help fix it. it was a powerful message and messenger for a city trying to heal. joining me now is mark puente investigative report he for the baltimore "sun" who broke that story about detainees, and former baltimore police officer major neal franklin. thank you both for being here tonight. >> mark, what stands out in your report about not getting medical care from police? >> what stands out we're not saying the baltimore police caused everyone of these injuries. what we're saying is a lot of these injuries that showed up in this database match a lot of injuries that people sued the

police department over and then the city subsequently settled lawsuits where these injuries were alleged. in dozens and dozens of lawsuits similar language said the officers reynoldered the injuries upon them. and they didn't, they ignored the plaintiffs, the suspects turned plaintiff calls for medical care. >> so some of the injuries are allegedly vultd of police. some are not. but the ones that you listed the 2,600, were not cared for. whether the injuries were police related torn they should have been cared for. >> that's correct. the city jail would not admit them into the city. they said it was up to them to get help for the detainees and in most cases they were all denied entry and they did get medical care. a lot of those injuries were in lawsuits that the city paid out on. >> all right. what's your reaction to the

report? and again, some of those injuries allegedly were not done by police. >> you hear about training. with he need more training for these police officers and it is said they're not medical experts. so therefore it might be difficult for them to identify an injury. but there is something we have to realize here. if the correctional officer are able to make that determination. why can't a police officer make determination? especially when you have a visible head injury. to an arm or a him. that i know occasionally, police officers will be called back to come retrieve a prisoner when it is determined that that person may be dealing with some underlying issue like hypertension or something not visible. training is quite sufficient. it is about accountability and

making sure we have things that place to hold a person accountable when they don't comply with policy. >> let me go back to your report. you also reported on millions paid out in civil institutes over accusations of police brutality. in your piece, you write, dozens of residents accused police of inflicting severe injuries during questionable arrests and disregarding appeals for medical attention. now, was there a pattern among the people you interviewed? >> there was a pattern in the baltimore "sun" investigative series last fall. the same language was used by the officers. they had to defend their safety. they questioned them hindering inspection. and then they dismissed all the cases. a lot of these folks accused them of serious injuries broken arms and legs and jaws. and then they sued and then they paid. it mirrors the freddie gray

case. the state attorney said there was no probable cause. cause and that mirrors the millions paid out in the lawsuits. >> one of the troubling parts of the freddie gray story is that he was restrained in the police van. but the baltimore "sun" is out with a new report finaling most police vans in baltimore in that region lack seatbelts. have you ever heard of incidents because of lack of seatbelts? will this change? >> well we know if someone is not properly security in a vehicle. whether it is a van or being transported in a car as we do many of the people we arrest. that a sus stop sudden acceleration or turn is likely to cause injury. for those many vans that are not equipped with seatbelts, we need change that.

and there's a conversations about whether or not it is difficult to seat someone who is combative. the officer might become injured in that. instead of coming up with excuses, how about coming up with solutions? if you have a combative prisoner, how do you deal with that? how do you seatbelt them in? i think we should use the vans as little as possible and transport them in cars in the back seat. maybe with a divider, a partition between the officer and the person being arrested. or like in a state police, we just transimportant them in the seat next to us. >> i mentioned last night's big prince concert in baltimore. he played his new song "baltimore." here's a part of that that was streamed on title.com. ♪ does anybody hear us pray for

michael brown or freddie gray ♪ ♪ peace is so much more than the an sense of war ♪ >> what was the community's reaction to this concert? >> i can't say i left town yesterday to come to another city to continue our series on the police stuff. all i can tell you is what was talked about in thor news. some people were questioning why the state's attorney was allowed on stage. i haven't seen a response to ferret those out. >> do you have any spog to the concert? >> no. i know there's been some feedback as far as the state's attorney being on stage, that's a political thing. i try to stay as far as i can from politics. there's one thing we need to do.

to continue to have conversations about solutions. and going forward and to look at those systems that we have in place such as the war on drugs. we have to limit reduce the contact between our citizens and our police officers and try to prevent the arrests from happening in the first place and we know that the war on drugs is a big piece of that. >> we have to do that but we also have to have procedures almosted on all sides. and not commenting on the state attorney on stage, i salute prince for going and calling for peace and doing something that an artist of his stature did not have to do but did do. and i've known him through the years to do in it other cases. and i think given the tension there, he did a very noteworthy thing. thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. still ahead -- breaking news

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66% say it wasn't. bush' new comments come just a few weeks after we learned that 19 of his 21 foreign policy advisers worked for his father his brother or both. joining me now, the "boston globe's" political editor and democratic strategist jamal simmons. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> why do you think he jumped so quickly to hillary clinton in his answer here? >> i think he wants to draw a point of comparison. he wants to bring him hill because it makes him look like a front runner in the field. what he is referring to her vote in congress to authorize the use of force if neglect. and it is really not a fair comparison that he's making. that was a vote in congress and his brother made the decision to enter a foreign country and to

go war. >> so jeb was not asked about making a decision with the information we had then. he was asked about deciding with the information we have now. what do you think of his answer? >> well clearly he got it wrong on both counts. back then there were people who knew the intelligence and they voted against the war like my old boss, bob graham the chairman of the senate committee. to look back and know there were no weapon women in iraq. the question on the table is about judgment. what jeb bush is showing is that he doesn't have the judgment to be commander in chief if knowing everything we know now, he would go back and vote for the war in iraq. and by pulling hillary clinton in it cost her the 2008 democratic nomination because she voted for that war in iraq. since then she has come out and said it was a mistake to get us back on the right side of the

american people. he is a couple different mistakes here. >> question his judgment as you just heard jamal do it. you have to say it was a good political answer. he never answered the question. and he gave a good answer as far as political skills go. yoeth necessarily, he didn't say that knowing what we know now, he would still go into iraq. he said knowing what my brother knew at the time. i think this is part of a larger calculation of how jeb bush will confront the issue of his brother if and when he runs for president. so far he seem to be embrarsing his brother for the most part. while that will be pretty effective, in a general election that will come back to haunt him. >> he said that his brother was

advising him. he said that last week. >> it's clear he's not shying away from his brother. if he wins the nomination he wonder if he might strike a more nuanced tone about this. >> it is interesting to me with his brother. but it is interesting that he's trying to play it seems to me this narrative. well hillary and i would have done the same thing on the war based on the information. we are both connected in a family way to form he presidents. does it help him to keep as though you really can't attack because hillary and i are similarly situations in many ways. >> it does not help him in a republican primary to make these kinds of comparisons. the fact that he is trying to stay close to his brother, his brother isn't that popular with republicans anymore. so he really has to find a new

path. by associating with his brother's advisers. and then trying to throw hillary clinton in as if they both come from these republican families. what republicans want is a fresh start. he is at 5% in eye watch he is in seventh place among hard core republicans. that's not a strong position to be in for somebody raising as much moan as it seems like he is. >> what he has not announced, and will this intensify once he announces? >> i don't think things will change much once he announces. he is already making money. he is touring like a presidential candidate. he is building an organization. at this point an announcement is per fungtry unless he decides not to do it. i don't think he is comparing himself to show there are these family dine stipes. i think he is showing it to prove what he would like a lot

of republicans to believe about him. he is a candidate who can take hillary on. and he is one of the only ones who can do so so he keeps repeating her name over and over again. >> thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up a mother's day call to remember. this single mother of four got a surprise call from the president of the united states. she joins me next. good. very good. you see something moving off the shelves and your first thought is to investigate the company. you are type e*. yes, investment opportunities can be anywhere... or not. but you know the difference. e*trade's bar code scanner. shorten the distance between intuition and action. e*trade opportunity is everywhere.

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mother's day is a special day for every mom. but for three moms it was one they'll never forget including patty church. a single mother of four she wrote president obama a letter after being moved by his state of the union address. when he talked about his own mother, his own single mother. and just in time for mother's day, she got a surprise call to thank her for her work. >> hi patty. >> yes. >> this is barack obama. >> nah-huh. no way. >> i decided on mother's day, should call up some letter writers moms and say thank you for being great moms. >> that is amazing. >> it's kind of cool. and you're one of the moms i wanted to say thank you to. i was so proud of everything you've done raising four kids.

and serving our country. and those boys will turn out good because of you. i know how tough it is to raise kids. and do right by them. if it hadn't been for my mother, i wonderful be here. you're the most important work there is. >> i sure appreciate you saying that. >> joining me now is patty church. thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> how surprised were you to get this call from the president? >> overwhelmed. and i got it at work. >> you got it at work. >> i read you didn't even really believe it was him. >> no, sir, i didn't. >> what happened when you got the call? didn't believe it was him? what was your immediate reaction and how did you eventually begin

believing you were really talking to the president of the united states? >> well when he got on the phone and said who he was, my first response was nah-huh. he said yes, it is. emno way. he said way. i'm like i have a co-worker that sits behind me i'm sitting there saying it's the president. she's going, no. i put him on speaker and that's when i realized it was really him. >> you put the president on speaker. >> yes, sir. and then you realized it was really president obama. >> yes, sir. after the state of the union, you wrote mr. president, i know you are far too biz. boyes. businessy to talk or meet me and i understand that. but i hope you will at least be able to read my words. what struck you most with that speech and what he said that made you write it?

>> well as being a mother of four kids raising them by myself and realizing he was also raised by a single mom, he really touched home when he was talking about making thing better improving wages and health care and everything for people in my situation. and it just really, really hit home. >> your son is a marine. and i know president obama wanted to you say hello and thank him for his service. what did your son have to say? >> he couldn't believe it either. >> he couldn't. >> huh-uh. he was real excited. >> well what a fine mother's day gift for a fine mother. you ought to be proud. and your four children should be proud that the president even acknowledges that you've been as a mother. patty church thank you for sharing your story with us tonight. and i hope you had a great mother's day.

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tonight a georgia principal is trying to explain why she made racially charged comments at a school graduation. she made a mistake in the program, prompting some people to think the event was over before it actually was. and when they started leaving, she said this. >> you people are being so rude to not listen to this speech. it was my fault that we missed it in the program. look who is leaving. all the black people. >> we had reaction from the audience and some honor students on stage appeared to walk out in protest. she later tried to clarify matters in an exclusive interview. >> i'm not a racist. i didn't know black people was a racist term. i didn't say the n word or anything like that.

that's not in my vocabulary. i said you're being rude. and disrespectful to this young man. and i looked left okay the light as you know lights an auditorium. you look left. all i saw were black people getting up and leaving. and i am oh look who is leaving. all the black people. so i made a statement. wasn't a racist remark. anybody that knows me knows my heart is with these kids. >> she has since apologized. e-mailing parents to apologize for what she now calls her, quote, racist comment. clearly we have as a nation we have a long way to go. and as i heard her comments which clearly were what she is now saying racist i thought of another graduation over the south over the weekend where first lady michelle obama was the commencement speaker at tuskegee university. she talked about how she had to deal with racial slights. and she had to deal with racism

coming in her journey. and even as why her husband the president ran for the presidency of the united states. the fact that she still dealt with it means we have a long way to go. the fact that she's first lady means we have come a long way. now let's finish the journey. we didn't come this far to abort the journey now. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. ? for brady, it is fourth and long. let's play "hardball." good evening. too cute. the way this has been hand too cute. he didn't deny