christine brennan, thank you. rachel nichols, thank you. >>> and now this new report provides perhaps the most damning detail yet. that co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting flight 9525 was at when it crashed into the french alps. fred what was the pilot doing when his co-pilot was entering 100 feet altitude? >> well that's really part of the interesting side of this interim report. the setting that happened in that outbound flight this is the leg from dusseldorf to barcel

so the joining me now is bob kravitz, that sports column frist wth r and christine brennan usa today sports columnist as well. welcome to you both. bob, let me start with you. that story that you report how did you get it and tell us again about what the responses were. >> well you know it was a night of the afc championship game and i received a text roughly 10:00, 10:30. i did not see it until midnight because i was doing some tv post-post postgame work. and it was from a source saying call me it's really important. i called the source roughly midnight 12:10. i was told what was going on with the deflated footballs. i then was able to confirm it with a second source so i tweeted it out at 12:55, and then i watched twitter blow up. >> before twitter blew up did you know instantly that oh my gosh this is a big story here? >> yeah. aid pretty good idea. you know, yeah i did. you know i mean i have broken a few stories along the way. when chuck pagano had cancer. i broke that. i knew that would be a big deal. i knew this would have far-reaching consequences. i knew -- >> and twitter bl

joining me now christine brennan. she's on the phone with me. mike freeman is on the phone with the bleacher report. i mike let me go to you first, to this reporting. this is from the ted wells report. what exactly did they find? >> well first of all, good to be with you again. what they found was not exactly a smoking gun but something close to it. and wells basically found that -- and this is the core of all this that tom brady knew about this knew about footballs being deflated was part of it. he doesn't come out and say it but basically it was part of a cover-up. the text messages, half the language can't be used on television but it shows a link to brady. so this is the problem for the patriots. the report didn't find the patriots as an organization at fault. it focuses on brady. and this really hurts brady. it doesn't destroy him. he's still a great quarterback. but it hurts him, and it hurts his legacy. that's the important part of this whole thing. this will impact his legacy probably for a long long time. >> let me come back to that and

and, christine brennan, a sportswriter and columnist for "usa today" and commentator for abc news.debbie, i want to start withyou. how unusual is it to have the charges dropped in an aggravated assault case which usually carries a maximum of up to five years? >> hi. it is so unusual, i don't know even know how to describe it. in most cases where there's aggravated assault you generally are not even allowed to participate in the pre-trial intervention program. it's called different things in other states, but usually when it's a violent crime, whether domestic violence or just aggravated assault not involving domestic violence, you are not allowed to even participate in the cases. so what it means in new jersey, i understand, is that -- and roughly about less than 1% of all domestic violence, aggravated assault type cases ends up in this program. >> sreenivasan: so what's a typical path for someone who get an aggravated versus assault charge. >> the same thing as ray rice. he was originally offered a plea bargain once his case was indicted on the original assault, he was offered a p

about brady's fate imminently let's bring in espn analyst jesse palmer and usa today columnist christine brennan. christine, this is obviously very different from things we've been discussing the serious personal issues like ray rice but this does go to the integrity of the game so what should they do here? >> i think that the nfl will suspend tom brady. it could be as little as two games, it could be four. i don't see it being season long. i just don't see that. maybe six, but somewhere in that two to six range, that's what i see. he could actually appeal and maybe it would end up being four down to two games something like that. i think there will be fines for the patriots maybe a fine for tom brady. and i also think there could be a draft choice or two taken away from the patriots. the nfl is not pleased, not only with of course the cheating but also the lack of cooperation from not only tom brady but also the patriots. >> jamie, would that go far enough, or do you think that goes too far? >> jesse, sorry. jesse, can you hear me? >> i heard jamie and i wasn't sure. it's an interesting predica

christine brennan, do you like this punishment that was handed down? do you see some precedent or consistency or promise in it? >> chris, i do like it. i like it a lot. i think the bottom line is it's not only tom brady cheating it's also the lack of cooperation. to me brady really made a big mistake. if he's innocent he needed to turn over the text messages the cell phone records, his lawyer could have looked at them and gone through them. this was not just giving away the phone. they had unprecedented agreement to be able to look at specific messages that brady and his agent could have picked for the nfl. he blew it. if he's innocent you've got to do that. he didn't do it. so it's the lack of cooperation, as we said chris, as well as the cheating. and i think it's consistent with what the new nfl post ray rice. >> coy wire you said hey, man, you got rules, you break the rules, you have to pay. can you find any precedent in league history where something like this has been punished this way? ordinarily $25,000 fine here a guy million-dollar fine two d

you know you got to remember the nfl now yesterday christine brennan was saying this is the new nfl. they suspended hardy for the whole season. we'll see. >> is it the new nfl? >> we'll talk a lot about this during the program. we'd love to hear your thoughts as well. >>> how well do you know your neighbors? a warning from the head of the fbi about home grown terrorists. he says thousands of americans are communicating with isis. we'll talk about that. >>> take a look at this. a passenger captures smoke filling a delta flight from florida to new york. what went wrong? how did it turn out? answers ahead. right now, verizon is offering unlimited talk. and text. plus 10 gigs of shareable data. yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. for $80 a month. and $15 per line. more data than ever. for more of what you want. on the network that's #1 in speed. call. data. and reliability. so you never have to settle. $80 a month. for 10 gigs. and $15 per line. stop by or visit us online. and save without settling. only on verizon. doug, we have the results, but first, we have a very special guest. come on out, flo

kristine brennan joins us on the phone right now, christine, give viewers perspective on this decisione nfl. >> reporter: wolf incredibly significant and they've really use an old term thrown the book at him. we were thinking that would be the case. the nfl was not pleased on two fronts. one, the original of course cheating from the welsh report there had been this cheating and obviously as everyone knows, also the fact that the patriots and especially tom brady had not cooperated completely with the investigation. that also rankled the national football league and it is not a surprise at all it is four games. incred beforably significant. highest profile star in national football history to receive this kind of suspension but sends a message loud and clear from the national football league they won't tolerate cheating and lack of cooperation not only from brady but also the patriots. >> the conclusion of that report you know by the attorney who was retained by the nfl sort of said probably -- wasn't 100% definitive and some people are probably going to say, four-game suspension too se

christine brennan usa today columnist, bobby gauche. we'll get to geopolitics in a second. think, christine, we have to talk to you first. i think there are so many of us here in north america struggling to understand how on earth could a man at the head of an organization being indicted on bribery and corruption how, a, he's not being investigated and b, how he could possibly get re-elected. because it's widely considered he will be re-elected as president. >> michaela, first of all we don't know he's not being investigated as the justice department said as loretta lynch said there are ongoing investigations. this is only the beginning. sepp blatter could end up being in trouble, big trouble. i wouldn't be the surprise if that's the case. he's going for a fifth term since 1998. i would be shocked to find out that he did not know about this. so that's number one. and number two, how is he going to be re-elected? it's all about all of the fact that he has done so much for these individual countries, 209 nations, so many of these nations are beholden to him. they look to him.