the head coach of the new england patriots will take questions in a style unique to bill belichik. cover it for you live out of foxboro. martha: house republicans will take up another bill banning the use of tax dollars for abortions. this vote comes as demonstrators get ready for the annual march for life. shannon bream has been covering all of this. it's been a dynamic story over the past 24 hours. what happened to the bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks that was supposed to be a very easy lift yesterday for the gop and that one got shelved. >> they were ready to put it up and pass it. but we started to hear ripplings of trouble. rene elmer behind closed doors were raising concerns. they said they didn't want this to be one of the first bills they put up. it fell apart in the past few hours so no vote on that today. pro-life groups were disappointed and said disgusted. tony perkins said we are disappointed a handful of members caused delay. the excruciating pain babies feel at 5 months is a matter of biology, not belief. martha: other bill, is that done for good or a

. >> reporter: patriots coach bill belichik tried to clear the air in a conference call with reporters>> we will cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us whatever question that's ask. >> reporter: under nfl rules referees must give each team 12 new footballs weighing 14 to 15 ounces. the patriots hope to put the controversy behind them and focus on super bowl 49. the game a tale of two star quarterbacks brady and the seahawks russell wilson. wilson down 19-7 with two minutes in the game on sunday triggering one of the greatest comebacks in nfl playoff history. >> touchdown. >> reporter: while brady will start in his record-setting sixth super bowl, hoping for a quarterback record high tying fourth win with. during the game, referees check game footballs and if they don't feel right they toss them out but the league conducts the investigation in to whether these balls were deflated and if they kind find the balls have been altered they can pun ish the offending party and penalties include fines. ryan smith, abc news, new york. >> w what's a fine go ing to do whenhey are in the

the coach's lecture earned him a nickname bill belichik the science guy. so we asked the real science guy, bill nye, if it made any sense. >> rubbing the football i don't think you can change pressure. to change pressure you need an inflation measure. it is not possible to me. >> reporter: full disclosure, nye is a seahawks fan but the chairman of the physics department at boston college, a buffalo bills fan disagrees. >> after pressurized inside and brought inside and played at a colder temperature my answer is the pressure must have changed. >> reporter: the cast of "saturday night live" asking the question on everyone's mind -- >> we just want the truth. >> you can't handle the truth. >> reporter: the nfl also still searching for the truth. linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> you over it yet? >> no. football is america's past time. you look at the nba controversy, remember that, i thought the nba acted quickly to get on top of that. i feel like it is one situation, the concussion stuff, the ray rice stuff and now this. this is america's poverty sport. i

. >> if bill belichik had anything approaching a twinkle, anything nice we'd say he is at it again.n't believe it? >> i don't. there's one reporter, a good reporter who had one source. might have been confusion using the k ball. the kicker ball was with brought on the field once. >> which is inflated to a different amount. >> yes. the reason the ball is regiment and formalized is something the seahawks did nine years ago. they were the last to mess with the kicking ball. however, just for a couple of reasons, if you look at the law of the relationship between gas and temperature, a cold day can deflate the ball and could deflate the ball. if they were 12.5 psi it could go below the standard because of the weather. why would brady want different balls in different games? say the patriots were doing something nefarious in the gachlt it would be a different ball than he is throwing all season. i think he would want the consistency more. >> you saw the driving rain that got worse and womplts it could have been the colts are not a good team but how many balls did they drop in the first a

animal do you like. >> bill belichik, i couldn't imagine him with any stuffed animal. >> i like thetle puppet that you can put your fingers in a little monkey. >> that's his answer. >> that's his answer word for word. >> sounds about right. the sound and fury. "american idol" alum phillip phillips filing a major lawsuit trying to get out of his "american idol" contract. >> why he feels manipulated by the same people helped launch his career. you are watching "world news now." ♪ i'm going to make this place your home ♪ >> announcer: ♪ ♪ know you're not alone cause i'm gonna make this place your home ♪ >> "american idol" alum phillip phillips hitting it big with the song "home." he won idol and a record contract and most contestants can only dream of. >> he said he has been manipulated by the company that produces his -- and manages his career. >> reporter: "american idol" career phillip phillipsle foo filing a bombshell petition hoping to terminate his petition with the company he is calling oppressive and fatally conflicted. ♪ the 24-year-old season 11 winner who signed recording, m

the coach of the patriots bill belichik we will hear from him today expected to get a lot of questionsnd he will be meeting with reporters. >> some of the seattle seahawks who will face new england in the super bowl say the whole thing is much adieu about nothing. marci gonzalez has more. >> reporter: so-called deflate-gate heating up. nfl sources telling espn in sunday's game that has the patriots super bowl bound 11 of the team's 12 game balls were under inflated by two pounds per square inch. >> the softer football is easier to handle. >> reporter: while on offense, each team uses their own footballs, whichowed to be doctored slightly but they have to be inspected and approved by a referee before the game. after that no alterations are allowed. but late in the second quarter of sunday's afc championship game the indianapolis colts reportedly grew suspicious. according to news day, following this interception, colts linebacker jackson gave the ball to a member of his team's equipment staff. soon after the refs switched the balls and the patriots won 45-7. >> they were better than us

yesterday coach bill belichik didn't help matters much.the air out of the footballs ahead of the afc title game victory. his 8 1/2 minute statement was followed by three minutes of no explanation how the balls were deflated. when it was the golden boy's turn, tom brady, pretty much the same stuff. >> i didn't alter the ball in any way. i would never do anything to break the rules. >> as far as the scandal goes, brady said i think there's a lot of people that have a lot more information than me. he also said the nfl -- this part really threw some people off -- the nfl has not even contacted him about the footballs yet. >>> okay. nascar's most recognizable driver said he has one more season left in him. jeff gordon number 24 says this year will be his last in nascar but he won't say he's retiring. the 43-year-old gordon is third on nascar's all-time win list. he's been nascar champion four times since debuting in 1992 and he is widely credited with helping the nascar's appeal to a wider audience. so social media went crazy when tennis star b

new england coach bill belichik said this whole thing is news to him. >> we will cooperate fully withbout it until this morning. >> why is this a big deal? >> if you saw the game it was rainy, had nasty weather conditions and deflating the football can change the way it's gripped. can make it easier to hold on to, throw, catch. new england quarterback tom brady says this is absolutely ridiculous. people have been on the patriots -- people don't like the patriots. they have been good a long time. won a lot of super bowls three with tom brady. they had spy-gate in 2007 where they were fined by the league for videotaping signals of the opponent. they just think -- a lot of people think they are cheats frankly. >> apparently the league has an operations manual and say if anyone is caught tampering with the ball it is up to $25,000 fine if that is the case. >> so what. they are still going to the super bowl. it was 45-7. 45-7 they won the game. a deflated football did not -- make a difference. >> moving on. a guy in southern california got an up close and personal welcome at some of the oc

>> speaking for new england and new england's situation, bill brown -- bill belichik i knew he puts his conditions that they'll be preparing for sunday he does it all week. he will soak the balls, whatever the case may be for that week he will get the guys prepared so when i heard that i just wasn't buying that they were trying to get advantage because of that reason. >> today we're hearing from other players on the patriots preparing for the super bowl. how does a scandal like this play inside the locker room? >> we have the spy gate issue when i was there in 2007 and we were able to deal with it. i know that a lot of the guys felt like they tried, the media and people outside the locker room tried to tarnish what the new england patriots had done in the past years with the three super bowls, so those guys felt slighted. that really motivated us the rest of the season. that's the same that i think you'll see here. they're going to feel slighted like us against the world. people don't like the patriots outside of new england. that's just the issue that they have to deal with when you go

in a conference call monday head coach bill belichik said he heard of the nfl investigation. >> we willooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to do. >> reporter: he says deflated balls can get an unfair advantage. >> when the ball is deflated especially in the nasty conditions that were present at gillette stadium you have the ability to grip the ball a little better and the ability to catch the ballbetter. >> reporer: the nfl rule book says each team is responsible for providing 12 official nfl footballs to the game. that means patriots' quarterback tom brady and colts quarterback andrew luck used different sets of footballs. they must be inspected more than two hours before kickoff. during the game a ball attendant who works for the home team is entrusted with the footballs to make sure they are not alterred. >> i think they would be wise to change the rules to ensure there is a neutral custodian. >> reporter: the referee appeared to swap out one ball that didn't pass muster. several more were also reportedly taken out of play. brady tried to laugh the whole thing off. >> yo

the prosecution lists 300 potential witnesses, including patriots owner robert kraft and bill belichike. >> the police and the prosecutors targeted aaron from the very beginning. >> reporter: if convicted, hernandez faces life behind bars. linzie davis, abc news, new york. >> no word from isis this morning after the deadline for a prisoner swap expired. jordan agreed to free a female al qaeda prisoner exchange for the release of a japanese journalist and jordanian pilot. the deal is on hold until isis provides proof the pilot is still alive. manchts jor showdown over the ski stone pipeline. despite the president's threat of a veto the republican-led bill calling for the construction of the pipeline. it would move canadian crude oil to gulf coast refineries. >>> senator john mccain is fuming over the antics of some anti-war protesters. he was chairing the meeting when protesters approached a table where former secretary of state henry kissinger and madeleine albright were at. they demanded kissinger be arrested for war crimes. >> going to have to shut up or i am going to have you arrest

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bill: the new england head coach bill belichik is set to face the music on the allegations that his team bowl. martha: i'm martha maccallum. at issue did the pats deflate 11 of the 12 balls used against the colts sunday. a softer balk make it easier to throw and catch. but a former patriot said he thinks the team is