taliban leader mullah omar is dead. mullah omar became a wanted man after he shelt erdered osama bin laden in afghanistan leading up to the 9/11 attacks. omar has not been seen in public since 2001. officials believe he died over two years ago despite letters published as recently as july 14 that have been attributed to the leader. chief correspondent bill nealy joins us from london. if he died two years ago, why would we only be hearing about it now? >> very good question tamron. good morning to you. those reports of his death are unconfirmed but they are gaining in number and credibility. remember, mullah omar is one of the most wanted men in the world, the one-eyed leader of the afghan taliban for almost a quarter century. else the man who welcomed osama

bin laden as a guest into the country in the 1990s. then after 9/11 he was head of the taliban government that refused to hand bin laden over or to expel him from afghanistan. he fled as u.s. and coalition forces swept in and he then led the insurgency that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 u.s. and coalition troops. america offering $10 million for his capture. today the afghan government says it's looking into reports that he is dead. one afghan intelligence official telling nbc news the government has now come to that conclusion. he didn't say what the evidence for that is but the government he said, is convinced that mullah omar died about two years ago of hepatitis. as you say, that is rather strange that we're only hearing about it. they say his death was kept secret to keep the taliban united. now, nbc news cannot confirm he's dead. indeed, there have been many reports of omar's death in just

may of this year. omar has been in hiding since 2001 for 14 years. he's also been in ill health and he's been so reclusive, it's thought he was only photographed twice, those photographs you see on the screen we think are him, but we're not absolutely sure. one senior taliban official in pakistan has told nbc news he is 100% sure omar is dead but he won't say until a successor is chosen. . those reports come in thick and fast from afghanistan. i'm from pakistan. tamron? >> it is felt this could have something to do with negotiations going on between afghanistan's new president and members of the taliban. >> that's right. i mean either alive or dead mullah omar's taliban is in peace talks with the afghan government even as it continues killing afghan troops.

even. nothing is ever clear or simple and these reports of his death are just rumors some say rumors as spread by the cia to try to split the taliban in the middle of those peace talks to unsettle it. there is thought that the taliban is split in two, between those who want some sort of deal with the afghan government and others who want to hold up there is thought to be deep splits between both of those. again, we simply don't know if those reports that the cia or whoever is trying to undermine the taliban are true. but either way, those reports of omar's death are increasing. >> thank you very much. also developing now, a florida man is in jail today after trying to set off a backpack bomb in an

isis-inspired attack on a beach in florida. harlem suarez, a 23-year-old from key west was arrested monday after he received what he thought, according to authorities, was a working bomb but was actually a phony device provided by the fbi. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us with the latest on this investigation. pete, what more can you tell us? >> tamron we've got this and some developments in new york. first the florida case the fbi said this man came to the attention after posting some violent odd voluntaryadvocate ing advocating entry on facebook. he told the fbi that he wanted to bury and set off a bomb on a florida beach. prosecutors identify him as a 23-year-old from key west florida, harlem suarez. according to the fbi, he made an

isis recruitment video in may saying, quote, we will destroy america and divide it in two. we will raise our black flag on top of your white house. court documents say he placed a mail order for an ak-47 style assault rifle in may but never got it because he mixed up the paperwork. prosecutors said though he wanted to build a bomb. he didn't know how and never had any explosives. he paid once but never received it. his attorney says he's no terrorist. >> he's never been arrested before. he has no criminal history prior to this arrest. so he's very distraught. >> he's been ordered held in a federal detention center for now. he'll be in court next week for a detention hearing. meantime, up in new york in court today, is a 42-year-old.

he was arrested about 6:00 and authorities have charged him with twig to support the isis group. he twice tried to get from the u.s. to syria. last time he had a mental problem. they thought he was waiting for insurance insurance, including equipment and night vision gog gels with him and the flag used by ice. they said, though while he was in the united states he was trying to recruit anything that would suggest he was planning to. . treasury secretary along with defense secretary ash carter are testifying before the senate

arms committee. it comes after a heated hearing yesterday. and secretary kerry got into a tense exchange with republican congressman scott perry. >> the ayatollah doesn't like it and doesn't want to deal with it. boo hoo. you represent america. >> i don't want any lessons about who i represent. don't give me any lessons about that, okay? >> that's just a snippet of that exchange with secretary kerry, reminding the congressman that he served his country as well. >> reporter: quite an exchange there. that's actually two war veterans highly decorated going after it. you sort of saw that play out. kerry, as we well know highly decorated in vietnam does not like being told that he is unamerican in any capacity. tamron this just shows you what these types of questions are,

and really republicans trying to at that. to consider to perform terrorism, the removal of sanctions will allow all this cash to go in. perry said, look this is the only way to revert a possible war with iran and really taking a lot of. >> i got to tell you, the main thing for this deal will be the august recess which that millions of dollars on the air waves, town halls to stri and. they want to try to get that majority that would allow this deal to be killed. that's where the fight is going to be. it will be very interesting to see how it plays out. john kerry can speak out, so can

ash carter. it all depends whether the democrats can come back after the recess in september and feel comfortable enough to support this deal. >> that is the key. luke russert, thank you for that on capitol hill. developing right now, patriots owner robert kraft, pretty harsh words for the nfl just an hour ago after the league's handling of deflategate. >> i was wrong to put my fate in the looeg. what. a live report on the back and forth. join the conversation on line. you can find the team at news nation. we'll be right back. smash it with jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. look at the footwork! most common side effects include ingrown

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what was fair and just s.. >> this morning tom brady is also fighting back saying he did nothing wrong. in a lengthy facebook post brady writes despite submitting to hours of testimony over the past six months, it is disappointing that the commissioner upheld my suspension based upon a standard that it was probable that i was generally aware of misconduct. the fact is that neither i, nor any equipment person did anything of which we have been accused. the commissioner accuses brady of having his cell phone destroyed just before meeting investigators who requested it as evidence. brady said to that to suggest that i broke a phone to avoid giving the nfl information it requested is completely wrong. msn msnbc steve kornacki joins us outside gillette stadium.

here we have robert kraft coming out swinging saying he shouldn't have trusted the league. he is part of the league. what happens next steve? >> reporter: that's the key question. what was bob kraft trying to accomplish with that where he went off roger goodell. roger goodell and bob kraft have been very close allies for many years. bob kraft was probably the closest ally with roger goodell in things that have led to suspicion over the years to other owners. that's sort of the back story here. the question is what is kraft trying to achieve going after goodell, in going after the league so intensely? he accepted a few months ago the penalties that the league the nfl, imposed on the new england patriots as an organization because of deflategate. those penalties included a fine of a million dollars and loss of

a draft pick. bob said look i accepted those penalties back then because i believed it would ease the way in the hopes that this four-game suspension of tom brady could go away. he now thinks that's a mistake. so here's the question. is there some legal avenue that bob kraft could now pursue or by accepting those penalties a few months ago, did he effectively take the legal option off the table going forward. the other possibility here, too is look. we're getting out of the nfl season. the players are here today coming off of training camp. when we looking for an owner who was trying to rally his own team trying to show faith with his players and getting the team back. >> the issue with the cell phone here, he seemed particularly bothered by this. tom brady as well saying i didn't destroy my phone. what do we know is true or false here? >> yeah so you try to reconcile two different statements here. you have roger goodell in this statement from the nfl saying

within 24 hours of tom brady's scheduled meeting with ted wells and the investigators who were looking into deflategate, within 24 hours of that tom brady instructed an assistant to destroy the cell phone knowing this cell phone was going to be accepted by ted wells and the investigators. now you have tom brady saying i replaced a broken cell phone. and he says he did not intentionally destroy it to keep it from the investigators, but it does leave open -- he's saying he replaced a broken cell phone. how did it get broken? it seems awfully fishy it would have been broken within 24 hours of this meeting. you think of the old clinton thing, what is the meaning of the word is? there may be some very fine print there. >> if someone broke a phone on purpose and had their assistant do it, there is noma saujo massaging of that. if someone instructed an

individual to break a phone, i don't know how you change that if it happened. how do you massage that? >> what they're saying is tom brady had a practice of destroying his cell phones as just a matter of practice every four or five months. if the phone is broken they're saying the basic brady pattern would be -- believe me it seems far-fetched to me too, the practice standard would be to destroy it. >> every four months because he doesn't want someone to have access to the phone so he breaks it when he replaces it -- i don't know. let me bring in someone who may have more say about this. the nation's sports editor our man, dave ziron. i laugh at this because it seems so ridiculous in so many ways but we are talking about someone's legacy. to tom brady that means the world to him to the patriots to their fans this is a very real issue here. there are some serious allegations that could have a lingering impact on the league here, dave.

>> tamron you're laughing because you're a cowboys fan. >> amen brother. thank you. >> we wouldn't be talking about it this way. there are two simultaneous cases going on right before us. there is going to be the case in court where tom brady is going to go in there with the nflpa and say the national football league did not give him a fair process that led to this suspension. i actually think he's going to win that. but there is a secondary trial that's taking place, and it's taking place as we're having this discussion, and that's the court of public opinion. tom brady is pushing 40 years old. he was set to retire as probably the defacto greatest quarterback to play in the national football league and you can ask people like barry bonds or roger clemens what it does to you when you leave your sport with scandal stuck to you. it affects everything. >> is that a fair comparison, though? come on. >> i don't think it's fair at all. i'm totally talking court of public opinion. i think the report is absurd.

there is no evidence in it at all. there's none. and the cell phone thing, i really want to point this out, one of the things tom brady said on his facebook page and i spoke with people and they backed this up. tom brady, may not know he's a serious guy and they don't want to set a precedent of handing over a cell phone to the league. he really did feel that was a principle. >> that goes beyond sports because that's a question we've been posing along the way. your employer says i need you to prove that the copier you're looking at is -- people would say, can i your cell phone? and he says are you crazy? i don't give my cell phone to anybody. >> and tom brady is going to go for the judge saying what wrojer goodell did, take this as a four-game suspension.

now, the nfl will say that was collectively bargained, that's the way things go. but a collective bargaining agreement does not supercede the transformation. if it violates my constitutional rights to any sort of dual process. >> it's on the "today" show and he's got his brady hat, his brady jersey. i jokingly said i can't shake your hand because i'm a cowboys fan. he is a royal fan down to the teeth. i had a coworker who just said the guy is arrogant but he's also a cowboys fan. does it boil down to that? >> this is about roger goodell and whether or not he should be in the kmiger's chair.

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convicted murderers escape a new york prison last month. as mitchell awaits her sentence we're learning new details exactly how close she got to inmates richard matt and david sweat. nbc's john yang is in plattsburgh, new york with the details. >> reporter: good morning, tamron. joyce mitchell spending her first full day as a convicted felon here at the clinton county jail and in documents obtained by nbc news we hear in her own words descriptions of what she did, why she did it and why she eventually backed out. >> are you pleading guilty because you are, in fact guilty? >> reporter: for the first time joyce mitchell's confession obtained by nbc news detailing in her own words over the course of 20 hours what she did for convicted killers richard matt and david sweat and why. i was caught up in the fantasy, she said. i enjoyed the attention, the

feeling both of them gave me and the thought of a different life. >> matt got her to feeling good about herself, better than she had for a period of time and she was swept off her feet a bit. >> reporter: she got to know matt and sweat for her work in the prison tailor shop giving them rum and coke and performing sex acts on matt and sending them both x-rated notes and pictures of herself. she admitted sending in tools like hacksaw blades drill bits chisels, padded gloves and glasses with lights. she said she knew for two months about the getaway. >> the fact they were able to get her involved is somewhat unbelievable. >> reporter: matt and sweat gave her a list of supplies to bring when she was to pick them up. cell phone, gps, clothes, a shotgun, tents, sleeping bags

hatchet, fishing pole and money. what to do about mitchell's husband, lyle, who matt called the glitch? matt would kill him, even giving joyce two white pills to drug him. but in the end, she backed out, not showing up at the appointed hour. i really do love my husband, she said, and he's the reason i didn't meet inmate matt and inmate sweat. still stand big his wife lyle mitchell was in court monday and visited her in jail. >> why? >> because i love her. >> reporter: as part of the plea deal mitchell agreed to be sentenced to as much as the maximum seven years in prison. that sentence will be handed down on september 28. tamron? >> thank you john. coming up he served 30 years in a u.s. prison after being convicted of spying in israel. what people are saying about his parole being a favor to the israeli government over the iran nuclear deal. plus this --

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conspiracy. what can you tell us? >> what the justice department is alleging that he may be getting 1 million there are$1 million for his campaign and using profits to do so. words like racketeering is used bribery, some very tough charges here. this is not the final matter. this will end up getting resolved in court but certainly a stinging development for the democratic congressman from pennsylvania. >> absolutely. we'll see if he releases a statement here. but also moving on to what we're looking at in our headlines here a fellow republican, and we heard some of the more conservative in the party not happy with speaker john boehner in the past but what's happening here inthis time around? >> this was a motion to oust john boehner by a republican member of congress from north carolina mark meadows. one of the allegations is that

john boehner and his leadership team have punished house republicans who haven't gone with the flow. and mark meadows was one of the recipients of that on some legislation where he wasn't supporting house leaders and ended up getting stripped of a position and meadows -- this position later got back to him. but the bigger story, tamron, are there are about 25 house republicans who continue to be a thorn in john boehner's side. i don't think boehner will lose his speakership, there doesn't seem to be an indication of that now, but there are a small amount of republicans who will make life difficult for him, and i think this is another example of that. >> since you're bureau chief of the donald trump bureau which used to be the kardashian bureau, as al roker likes to say -- i just cracked myself up with that -- what's the headline today on donald trump? >> the headline today is donald trump was defending mark

huckabee's controversial holocaust reference when talking about the iran deal. tamron, this isn't all that surprising. it's not just donald trump that came to his defense, but a lot of other folks in the republican party, conservative opinion leaders, who said mike huckabee did nothing wrong at all. they said the tone was not appropriate. even the ambassador of the united states said this wasn't an issue at all, but people were definitely defending mike huckabee here. >> there are plenty of people on the other side as well including jewish people who have taken offense to his comments as well. thank you, mark. we'll see you tomorrow. now to a controversy over the release of an american intelligence analyst convicted of spigying for israel. jonathan pollard of arrested

after sharing secrets. he served 30 years of that sentence. his wife spoke a short time ago from jerusalem. >> jonathan has served his time right down to the very last day, to the very last minute. i'm relieved and i'm happy that our ordeal is finally coming to an end. >> but there are questions surrounding the timing of his release. critics are accuseing the obama administration of paroling pollard as a favor to the israeli government which is vehemently opposed to the iran nuclear deal. since reagan was president, they have refused his request for clemency. here's one example from when he was trying to negotiate an israeli parole deal. >> he takes clinton aside.

he says for the first time he won't sign the deal unless the president first releases israeli spy jonathan pollard convicted of stealing u.s. military secrets for israel. he says the president is shocked. he has twice denied clemency for pollard. for six hours they argue. finally reagan says he will review the case. the summit deal is back on. >> she has covered the pollard case for years, ever since she was a correspondent for the associated press actually in jerusalem. let's get a reaction from pollard's wife. she spoke just a short time ago. >> that was not the woman that pollard was married to when he was first arrested. she married him while he was serving his 30-year sentence. the woman he was married to at the time, ann henderson, was also charged, convicted, served her sentence and also moved to israel. israel gave both of them citizenship, gave pollard citizenship while he was in prison, and as you said he's been advocating for years for

release. no president has released him. president obama is simply not standing in the way of the parole board's decision. >> so you heard, and you did a great job discussing the history of this case but where we are right now, obviously people are speculating that it has to do with this iran deal. >> of course. the iran deal has been a center of controversy and has become very personal between benjamin netanyahu and president obama. netanyahu came to the states to lobby against the president, against his foreign policy against his decision to make this iran deal. the politics obviously very centered around that and will this placate the israelis? i don't think so. i think groups in support of pollard's release will be glad to see this case is over will be supportive of the relationship for a long time and i think taking this out of the mix and not making it an issue to muddy waters will probably be the best. >> so this one person could have even the slightest influence in

this do you think? >> well he's been in it for a long time. the israelis have brought up this case repeatedly. they've written letters to the justice department personally begged presidents to release him, and that just never happened. and i think really taking him out of the equation is probably going to be a lot easier going forward, no more six-hour conversations that delay negotiations for other deals. >> the details of his case are absolutely fascinating. brilliant reporting by you last night. >> thank you so much. some are calling him the most hated man in america. a minnesota dentist is wanted for hunting and killing one of africa's most famous lions. what the doctor is saying about the growing worldwide controversy. and this -- >> i heard a giant crash and then all of a sudden people

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local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt. palmer already has a felony record over the illegal killing of a black bear in wisconsin. that was in 2008. he has said he would cooperate with authorities, but right now his whereabouts unknown. now, this memorial small memorial to cecil, i was seen right outside his dentist's office which remains closed today. joining me now, renowned life biologist, animal conservationalist, jeff. thank you for your time. just devastating when this lion was lured out of the area apparently tied him to the back of a truck, lured him out, and was shot with this arrow and later killed some 48 hours after that. jimmy kimmel -- i'll play it in a second -- he asked the question, what is it?

why would someone pay $50,000 to do something like this? how do you answer that? >> it's really remarkable what has unfolded here. it's quite shocking. for me the biggest violation here is they did this in a national park. whether you're in the united states in yellowstone or whether you're in a national park in zimbabwe these are protected sanctuaries dedicated to wildlife and habitat, and it is illegal to bait and lure animals out. he may say that he was not aware of the regulations or he may say that he was relying on his guides tamron but every individual in a situation like this needs to be responsible and held accountable and be completely aware of what the regulations and rules are when it comes to this activity. >> you know by the numbers according to the international fund for animal welfare, the population of african lions have been reduced by 50% in the last three decades, now just 32,000. so for people to say he is an

adventurer, he likes this for sport, seeing a lion as plentiful as everything else they don't see these numbers and understand, i don't think. >> a lot of people don't realize that today lions are in serious trouble because of habitat loss and climate change and because of human animal conflict when it comes to like agriculture and livestock, the population of african lions today is down to about 25,000 animals, so it's pretty low. >> let me play this moment last night with jimmy kimmel. he was really overtaken with emotion talking about this. let's listen in. >> the big question is why are you shooting a lion in the first place? i mean i'm honestly curious to know why a human being would feel compelled to do that. how is that fun? i'm not against hunting, if you're hunting to eat or help keep the animal population healthy or to part of your culture or something, that's one thing. but if you're some evil dentist who wants a lion's head over the

fireplace in his man cave so his douchebag buddies can drink scotch and tell him how awesome it is that's just venomous. >> this particular animal cecil, was well known, but this happens, as we pointed out, this black bear incident with him in 2008 by other individuals, not just the dentist. >> people aren't following regulations in the laws when it comes to hunting. you bring up an excellent point, tamron in that this wasn't just an ordinary lion this was cecil. he was 13 years old. he was symbolic. he was like the ambassador of this national park. and now that he's gone there will be great chaos and instability within his pride. the first thing that's going to happen or likely happen is that the next competing male is going to move in kill all his cubs to bring the female into esteres.

it's like the "game of thrones." >> he's put on facebook a lot of people impacted by this in his office that can't show up now that those doors are shuttered. we don't know how long. >> and also you have to remember these guys are using the excuse that they didn't see it was collared and didn't know that. if you're bow hunting, you're usually 40 yards or closer to your target. >> and some would assume be able to see that. all right. thank you so much. it's great to see you. we haven't seen you in a while. obviously sad under these circumstances. thank you very much. >> thanks. up next, a day care center is under investigation after two children suffer second and third degree burns from the sun. it is one of the stories we're updating around the news nation.

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we are following breaking news right now. we're just learning wreckage from a plane has washed up on a french island. let's get more details than that from tom costello.

he joins us now with more. tom, when did this wreckage happen? what do we know here? >> what we know is this is wreckage that has washed ashore on a french island in the indian ocean. the island -- it looks there, as you can see that it comes from an aircraft. now, there are a couple of photos here on twitter coming from this french island. again, this is off the coast of madagascar, so it is in the indian ocean, but it is a significant distance west from where they believe malaysia 370 went down. i have asked our aviation expert, captain john cox who is a retired airbus a-320 pilot to look at the photographs and he has done that. he says it is unlikely he believes that this is the wreckage of malaysia 370, which as you may recall was a boeing 777. he thinks this may in fact be the tail from a plane, a plane that went down in 2009 which

killed all but one of 153 people on board. a plane going from yemen to the camoros islands. it crashed in june of 2009. this wreckage had a lot of shells on it suggesting it had been in the water for some time. john says listen he doesn't see any slats on the plane. he also says that's a very big clue. it's not an air foil that does both high speeds and low speeds. ooengs he thinks this is the tail section of an airbus a-310, unlikely to be a 777, one of the biggest passenger transport planes in the sky. really that's all we know right now. this is on a french island in the indian ocean. this wreckage washing ashore. and the initial read from our experts is unlikely to be malaysia 370. >> that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall.

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," roughing the passer. the nfl upholds its four-game suspension of tom brady over deflategate, but the patriots owner says today it's out of bounds. >> the decision handed down by the league yesterday is unfathomable to me. six months removed from the afc championship game the league still has no hard evidence. i continue to believe and unequivocally support tom brady. >> playing defense, john kerry defends the iran nuclear deal as senators today take their turn after a bruising day in the house. i caught up with the secretary of state after tuesday's four-hour ordeal. >> how does it feel to be back up here and treated this way by these members?

>> i'm -- i'm immune. >> and lion uproar. the brutal slaying of a beloved lion in zimbabwe is condemned around the world, including in these bitter comments from a late-night tv host. >> the big question is why are you shooting a lion in the first place? i mean i'm honestly curious to know where a human being wolf compelled to do that? how is that fun? >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. new england patriots quarterback tom brady is reporting to training camp today. practice is tomorrow. after the nfl commissioner upheld a preliminary decision to sideline brady for the first four games of the upcoming season. the league dropped