rachel is scared to death. >> reporter: but police don't know what rachel and sheila are hiding or whynwhile, skylar's parents are grasping for any clues taking a closer look at the bad influence sheila had become on their daughter. >> sneaking out at night, you know, found some marijuana in skylar's pocket one time. here it was sheila's. >> we didn't like the way sheila acted a lot of times but being she was skylar's best friend we kind of overlooked it. >> reporter: it's becoming clear the smiling face of skylar's bff was such a father said. you started interviewing people about sheila. how would they describe her. >> shady, sketchy, sneaky and pretty manipulative. >> skylar's friend morgan says sheila rubbed her the wrong way. >> she was very self-centered. she would almost do whatever it took to kind of get her way. >> reporter: amarette says skylar confided her there were cracks in the cliques. her best friends were snubbing her. these pictures she posted on meet me suggest skylar had become a third wheel. >> she just thought that they were becoming closer so they were just pushin

i'm rachel nichols. to our viewers across the country and around the globe, i promise there is no other place you want to be right now. we are right in the heart of super bowl central. and you can hear and feel the excitement everywhere. in the valley of the sun, two teams from opposite sides of the country go head-to-head in the biggest sporting event of the year. >> it's not just another game. it's the biggest game of our season. >> the new england patriots and the seattle seahawks fighting for this trophy. >> it's going to be loud. >> after a week rife in controversy. >> we're trying to get a football to the proper texture the quarterback wants to grip it. >> on the eve of the most watched television program ever. we get personal with the game's key figures. >> they are the team that fired you, even though you had a winning record, and replaced you with bill belichick. >> well, yeah. >> and our all-star cast will tell you what to expect on and off the field. cnn's kickoff in arizona starts right now.

rachel rachel's question was accurate on topic and it mattered. talking about humility and soul searching, he took a big step backwards when he decided to add that little sarcastic comment to rachel. frankly, he shouldn't have said anything sarcastic to any sports journalist especially one that happens to be a woman in this season of all seasons. >> the season of course with the domestic abuse scandal. rachel before we go, will we ever know what tom brady or anyone of the patriots said deflated the footballs? >> reporter: these investigators haven't spoken to tom brady. they'll do it after the super bowl. hopefully learn more then but a lot of people have a lot of questions. we'll have to see if they even get answered. >> that's for sure. thank you so much to both of you and all of you, share your thoughts about roger goodell's answer to rachel. the other pre-super bowl spotlight is shining on tom brady, the quarterback of the patriots. the man the center of deflate gate kyung lah. >> reporter: graping headlines and sucking up all the oings on spo

. >> rachel, it's me! rachel!> exhibit b-5 creates an internet sensation, sparking vigorous debate. some believe it's really leaked trial evidence. >> it feels real. like the shaky camera and the sort of awkward moments when they aren't saying a lot. >> many others think this is a sick and twisted hoax. >> this is definitely fake. >> rachel! >> if somebody gets hit by a car, are you going to keep the camera on your face and keep it on them? our instincts are to drop and help your friend. >> so what is the truth? >> well, i just got back from the funeral so i'd have to say exhibit b-5 is pretty damn real. >> wait, there's no way -- >> hi. i'm cindy and i played rachel on "exhibit b-5," and i am all good. >> rachel, it's me! [ sigh ] >> that's more like it. >> rachel! >> "exhibit b-5" is a ghoulish take on prank videos. it comes from the creative mind of film director kyle rankin. >> i think people like to watch videos like this because it's similar to getting on a roller coaster. it's skirting death. i think that's

let's bring in cnn's rachel nichols. what are you expecting to hear from tom brady in just a few minutes? >> reporter: there's a lot of pressure on tom brady and remember at the beginning of the week he did his weekly radio spot and he laughed the whole thing off as ridiculous. he is not going to be able to do that today, especially since after more digging, we have found he is on record from 2011 talking about the fact that he likes to throw a more deflated football. here's something else interesting, jake. in 2006 tom brady along with peyton manning went to the nfl owners, went to the competition committee, and he lobbied to change a rule. what was that rule? it used to be that the home team supplied the footballs for both offenses and he said hey, i want to be able to supply my own footballs so that they're the way i like them. and he got that rule changed. now, what that means is that quarterbacks can scuff up the ball ahead of time get that waxy stuff off of it. they can even soak the ball in water ahead of time. th

somebody has to pay them rachel. unless you're volunteering which i don't think you are, we'll do that. but we have the responsibility to protect the integrity of the league whether we have an owner being investigated or a commissioner being investigated. they're done at the highest level of integrity and quality. >> christine, just following up with you since you brought it up. you can understand her question in the sense of conflict of interest. this money for this outside investigator would be coming from the league. at the same time who would pay for the investigator to investigate? >> raychelrachel's question was excellent. it's about integrity and conflict of interest. what he gave was an incorporate answer. their integrity is impeccable. the question was about conflict of interests. rachel nailed it. i was very surprised. i thought otherwise goodell struck a much better tone than december. i was surprised he took the jab at rachel at the end. unbecoming of the commissioner. something that will be discussed for

rachel nichols is in the room. she's joining us on the phone. what do we expect, rachel?the scene a little bit for us. what's it like in there? >> reporter: i've been to a lot of these over the years. i have to tell you, this is the biggest room, as big a set-up as i have ever seen. there are more than 800 chairs in this auditorium for roger goodell's press conference. and most of them are filled. you remember that very controversial press conference he gave in september where he was not able to answer a lot of the media's questions in the league's handling of the domestic violence incidents they had had. there was a relatively small group of people. roger goodell did not have time to prepare for that the same way. this is a press conference where there is media from all over the globe. and goodell and his staff have been prepping for this for weeks. so it has a very different tone. >> stand by, rachel. i know you'll hopefully be asking some questions of the commissioner. he's come under a lot of fire several times this season. first the ray rice affair the baltimore rave

nichols. >> reporter: rachel nichols from cnn.guys have faced a lot of problems over the past year that have a really wide range but a lot of the issues have in common is a conflict of interest. when you do something like hire an outside investigator like ted wells, into the patriots investigation, you're still paying him and robert kraft, who owns the patriots is still paying you. so even when you do everything right in one of those situations it opens you guys up to a credibility gap with some of the public and even with some of your most high profile players. what steps can you guys take in the future to mitigate some of those conflict of interest issues? >> well rachel i don't agree with you on a lot of the assumptions you make in your question. i think we have had people that have uncompromising integrity. robert muller an example, i think you asked me the same question last fall about a conflict of interest. their integrity is impeccable. ted wells' integrity is impeccable. these are professionals that bring an outside exper

rachel nichols is looking at the distractions.gest game of the year, and so far, not a lot of talk about football. for more than a week, the sports world is consumed about the nfl's investigation into whether or not the patriots cheated when they used deflated footballs in the afc championship game and today new england's players try d tried to move on are from that discussion. >> i talked a bt that last week and you know i'm not going to be talking about any reports or anything like that this week because i am focusing on the game. >> and now, it is the members of the seahawks under the league's office. running back mar shaun linshawn lynch has been thumbing the nose at the league's requirement that players speak to the media. >> i am here so i won't get fined. i am here so i won't get fined. i am just here so i won't get fined. >> reporter: he gave the same answer 29 times. >> just so i won't get fined, boss. >> reporter: and he is wearing a hat that is outside of league regulation and one that promoet promotes his personal beas

appreciate it. >> you're welcome, rachel. yes, the french police say fairly certain of who they're looking for. they've issued as you say, photographs of two men that they describe as armed and extremely dangerous. as you said earlier, they are two brothers the kouachi brothers sherif and said sherif who was convicted of terrorist offenses ten years ago and given 18 months in jail for trying to gather together men to fight american troops in iraq and his brother said who we believe may have returned from syria in august of last year roughly 300 french nationals who french counterterrorism officials say have traveled to syria and iraq to join isis. so french officials pretty certain that they are looking for these two brothers but as with every terrorist incident of this kind and i covered london in 2005 and the madrid train bombings which killed nearly 200 people, and just after an event like this you tend to get a great deal of false leads and misinformation from officials and so it was today. so american counterintelligence

it's called rachel's law.pand the law to include college campuses. >> what happened to rachel and logan was wrong. it's morally wrong. and the system needs to change. >> reporter: in fact, during our interview, vice chancellor john kennedy told us the system is changing permanently at umass amherst. >> we decided to do away with the use of student confidential informants on this campus. >> reporter: do you think logan would be alive today if he hadn't been used as a confidential informant? >> look, i can't get into the specifics of this case. the district attorney has instructed us not to talk about the specifics of this case because the investigation is an ongoing and pending investigation. >> reporter: but you're changing university policy as a result of this. you must think there's a link between the use of logan as a confidential informant and his death ten months later. >> no, what i would tell you is that the incident that you described, this tragic incident caused us to reexamine the confidential inform

. >> and i'm rachel nichols.are going to spend the rest of the hour talking about one of the week's biggest stories. how did 11 footballs turn into a scandal that could overshadow the biggest game on the planet, the super bowl? deflategate is the controversy that just will not go away, poppy. >> and this week should have been about the buildup to the big game, the super bowl. and the legacy of these two men, coach bill belichick and also qb tom brady. >> and their incredibly partnership which includes six trips to the super bowl and three titles. but instead it's about whether their team cheated to win its last game. last hour belichick spoke to the media. he said his team tested footballs. a little physics lesson there. suggested that losing air pressure can happen naturally. take a listen. >> we found that once the balls, the footballs were on the field over an extended period of time -- in other words, they were adjusted to the climactic conditions and also the fact that the balls reached an equilibrium withou

good morning, america. >> stay with me rachel.ring in chad brown, a linebacker for both the new england patriots and seattle seahawks. good morning, chad. >> good morning, carol. >> what do you make of this theory of the ball boy in the bathroom? >> go ahead. i was going to say 90 seconds is not a lot of time to put a needle in the ball and take out a certain amount of air. it's so fascinating because of the patriots history and because of spygate they are assumed to be guilty instead of letting due process play out and let facts reveal themselves. >> is robert kraft right? should we apologize to the new england patriots? >> if proven to be innocent i think we should. tom brady automatically assumed to be guilty. bill belichick automatically assumed to be guilty. the entire patriots organization assumed to be guilty in the court of public opinion. it's unfortunate. even kurt warner came out and said he has concerns that when the patriots beat his rams in the super bowl that somehow they may have cheated and that starts to taint th

appreciate it. >> you're welcome, rachel. yes, the french police say fairly certain of who they're looking for. they've issued, as you say, photographs of two men that they describe as armed and extremely dangerous. as you said earlier, they are two brothers, the kouachi brothers, sherif and said, sherif who was convicted of terrorist offenses ten years ago and given 18 months in jail for trying to gather together men to fight american troops in iraq and his brother said, who we believe may have returned from syria in august of last year, one of roughly 300 french nationals who french counterterrorism officials say have traveled to syria and iraq to join isis. so french officials pretty certain that they are looking for these two brothers, but as with every terrorist incident of this kind, and i covered london in 2005 and the madrid train bombings which killed nearly 200 people, and just after an event like this, you tend to get a great deal of false leads and misinformation from officials and so it was today. so american cou

i said -- my exact words was this -- >> yes. >> call rachelle. tell her i need to speak to her. make a [ bleep ] decision. grow up or something like that. >> yeah, you did. >> if you send me to cw or send me to the box. >> right. >> i was aggravated, rachelle. >> i know that. >> and the only way i know how to channel my anger is physically. so instead of me doing that, i'm yelling. >> yep. >> i'm yelling. >> that was recognized. >> rachelle, tell you the truth, all jokes aside, i'm not trying to play with you. like you know, you got your job. you the boss and i respect you. know what i'm coming from? >> yep. >> you and i both know usually i wouldn't care about being -- about being seg. doesn't matter. i'll stay here. >> i know. >> i just feel as though, if i just did four months. four months. >> that's why i'm saying you're not dead in the water. >> the next step for esdale is administrative segregation or asu hearing that will determine how long he remain in segregation. >> you'll most likely be seeing asu tomorrow. yes. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> i'll be there. >> all

i'm sorry the voice of rachel carson is still today.is bill and this moment. >> there were all of these things that were beginning to affect human health. we had cities in america increasingly having to call smog alerts. we had rivers catching on fire. in the santa barbara oil spill, it became clear that even the very richest cities were going to be exposed to massive environmental threats. >> the drilling continues and so do the leaks. and the question here is not whether it will happen again but when and how bad will it be. >> issue after issue kept piling up. >> there is a building sense that we are stakeholders in the environment, that it is something that we humans can rule in. this is a real shift in our thinking. >> people were really worried. and the political establishment started to respond. >> without the environmental movement coming out of the '60s, we would not have a clean air act, clean water act. i mean, there was a wave of legislation that emerged in the immediate aftermath. >> we have not been inactive these last four

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> there's a billionaires kids' table? that's awesome. thank you. appreciate it. thank you at home for joining us this hour. look, notice anything different? notice anything different? anything strange? do i seem smaller than usual? different set. sometimes after a big night, like election night, or state of the union night, when we have a big fancy desk, so everybody can be on set together, sometimes they forget to put it away. so we get to use the big fancy desk for the next day's shows. i love the giant desk. if i can always have the giant desk, i would. that's it. as cool as it is, here at msnbc, we all get to use the big set for a second night tonight. lest we forget that we are the little sister around here, we are of the little sibling to nbc news. lest we forget, "nbc nightly news" tonight got to do their post-state of the union broadcast tonight. not just from a leftover big desk, like i get to. no, "nbc nightly news" tonight got to do their newscast tonight from cuba. brian williams and andrea mitchell and everybody from "nbc ni

i could. >> thank you, rachel.s re-elected as speaker today and some of the republicans who dared to vote against him have already been punished. >> let's talk about this new congress. >> today is a festive day. >> opening day, swearing in is always a festive celebratory day. >> the new congress completely controlled by republicans. >> or as republicans put it

to rachel's point, this has been forgotten quite some time ago. and privilege to be part of the nfl fraternity and brotherhood, lied to many wrongdoing allegedly. i think this is a situation where we're not going to hear much about it talks of the super bowl players coaches. closer to game day will be more and more about what's going to happen between the lines on game day. >> rachel nichols, coy wire thanks to both of you. >>> saturday rachel nichols and hall of famer dan marino. from the heart of super bowl sunday join us for "kickoff in arizona" at 4:30 p.m. eastern. >>> 72,000 fans will attend sunday's super bowl. keeping them safe will take some extreme measures. those include black hawk helicopters, truck-sized x-ray machines and thousands of security and law enforcement personnel. >> i think the key is vigilance. and we've devoted a lot of resources and effort to making sure this event is safe and secure. >> we have 24 expert work groups that have thought of everything from cybercrimes to intelligence analysis and everything else. so we are

somebody has to pay them rachel.ss you're volunteering which i don't think you are, we will do that. but we have the responsibility to protect the integrity of the league whether we have an owner, that's being investigated or a commissioner that's investigated. they are done at the highest level of integrity and quality. >> rachel nichols is in arizona and joins us by phone. everybody's parsing that answer. what did you make of it? >> you know look. i have been given this opportunity. there were questions about this perceived conflict of tra that the nfl had. one of those high profile players in the league. questioning conflict of interest between robert kraft and roger goodell. to pretend that doesn't exist seems a shame. the question is how do you mitigate those. how do you prevent the idea if you do everything right, if you do a thorough and complete and fair investigation, not to have the public trust and not to have the trust of your players. how do you take other steps to make sure that those investigations and

i could. >> thank you, rachel.aker today and some of the republicans who dared to vote against him have already been punished. >> let's talk about this new congress. >> today is a festive day. >> opening day, swearing in is always a festive, celebratory day. >> the new congress completely controlled by republicans. >> or as republicans put it, aloha. a. >> john boehner now officially re-elected. >> new congress, same speaker. >> boehner looks lamer. >> the honorable john a. boehner. >> i want to thank my family.

you raised the really important question, rachel that is what if. is there a camera on this drone? the counterterrorism field is concerned about people learning the vulnerabiliies of the president and white house the first family through surveillance. and that's another risk. this could have been a weaponized item, it could have had something really harmful on it, it could have had a small payload of explosives but it could just have a camera that nobody really noticed in the middle of the night. if it hadn't crashed, we would have to wonder would it have been found and it's owner been found. >> carol leonnig, appreciate you being with us. >> you bet, rachel. >> coming up, science. an unfortunate mens room on the third floor of this building. and what promises to be a high level of experimental chaos. stay with us, just ahead. . mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. co

somebody has to pay them rachel. unless you're volunteering which i don't think you are, we will do that but we have the responsibility to protect the integrity of the league whether we have an owner that's being investigated or commissioner that's being investigated. they're done with the highest level of integrity and quality. >> rachel nichols joins me from phoenix. what did you think of the response he seemed sort of irritated. >> reporter: yeah it was just surprising and disappointing, frankly. this is an issue that has been brought up time and time again in the nfl community just to this week at the nfl's largest event. one of their most high profile players, richard sherman in the seattle seahawks said he thought there was a conflict of interest between roger goodell and one of the owners, robert kraft, who owns the new england patriots and the investigation into deflate gate. this is coming up and the way the nfl keeps getting into its own way. doing honorable investigations. they don't separate themselves en

>> rachel has crohn's disease.er wish is not just to join us here, but to get an amazing tour and really experience life around the big apple. so we've got kristin. father, frank and boys, do you want to introduce yourselves? >> jake. >> ryan. >> and cole. >> what did you think the best was? >> going to the ball was fun. >> how about you? >> did you like the restaurant? how about windows at macy's? >> it's so big you can't decide, right? >> eating a ton of food. >> you can do that. >> yes it was great. >> rachel what does it mean to be able to come here? >> cool to get away from pittsburgh and experience new york city. >> so from pennsylvania what do your friends think? >> new year's eve. >> they're excited. and watching. >> do you want to say hi to them? say what your resolution is? >> i never thought of one yet. >> yes. you still have about a half hour. say happy new year. >> happy new year. >> happy new year, everybody. >> thank you. >> guys back to you. >> what a beautiful girl. so magnetic. she has a gorgeous

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i'd like to get sergeant rachel killshaw to come up here. rachel was actually just published in a national police magazine, right? so whoever was saying about getting the word out, maybe you could tell us what you wrote. >> commissioner, chief, director --. >> and thank you for everything you did on this. >> it was my pleasure. i can't reiterate what everyone has said it was such a collaborative effort and we all put our heart and soul into getting this done and recognized that the chief's goal that his vision is to take care of kids in this city and so that's what we did. and so when chief tomioka contacted me asking or announcing that the iacp -- international chief of police was asking for an article on the steps that we took to develop this policy and she asked if i would step forward and be do it, i said sure, thinking, you know, i'll do a couple paragraphs on it. then after i committed she said yeah, it's got to be about 2,000 words and i said, oh, i feel like i'm back in college. anyway, i worked really hard on it, had some help from

rachel nichols joining me now. i know the nfl wants to put it behind them as well as the patriots. but is deflate-gate kind of over or is it that cloud still kind of hangs? >> reporter: definitely not over. first of all, there's an nfl investigation that is on going. they cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen haven't spoken to pom brady. there's questions on how this will seep into the game. robert kraft, the owner of the patriots started the week by saying the nfl should apologize to his team if they can't find hard evidence that the patriots in fact cheated here. he said he's unhappy with the nfl for conducting this whole investigation the way they have. of course roger goodell had something to say about that. he fired back yesterday. take a listen. >> my thoughts are, this is my job. this is my responsibility to protect the integrity of the game. irpt 32 teams. all of us want to make sure that the rules are being followed. and if we have any information where the potential is that those rules were violated,

the e "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> the first day of school is always awkward. always. in aigt grade, i regret to say, i decided to start the year with a perm. what could possibly go wrong? there's always something wrong with the first day of school. but, today, in washington, the first day of school was truly one of the strangest ones i have ever seen or heard of. there were things that happened today that were shocking. there were things that were unprecedented. there were things that you could have seen them coming. but somehow, today, when they happened, they were just way more than anyone expected. i've got to say, i thought this show was going to be a totally different show today until i saw what happened today in washington and then we threw it out the window. days like this are why people who love polg politics love politics. today was amazing. let's start with joe biden. he loves the united states senate. but, as vice president now, he has an important official role on the first day of any new senate because the vice president is also, technically, the

rachel nichols has more. >> it sis one of the more bizarre weeks in super bowl history and today is nont. today, the koncontroversy surrounding marshawn lynch reached a fever pitch. for days he has been protesting that he address the media by showing up for public appearances for long enough to avoid a public fine and refusing to speak except for short phrases. this is tuesday. >> i am here so i won't be fined. hey, i'm here so i won't be fined. i am just here so i won't be fined. >> reporter: here's wednesday. >> you know why i'm here. you know why i'm here. they know why i'm here. you know why i'm here. you know why i'm here. >> reporter: but finally today, lynch let loose and he was not happy. >> i don't know what story, you rare trying to get out of me. i don't know what imagine, you are trying to portray of me and it don't matter what you say to me, and i come to y'all event and you shove cameras and microphones down my throat, but in my home in my environment, i don't see y'all, but y'all are mad at me. >> reporter: strong words, but lynch's battle with the nfl's media requiremen

those are all within the rules but you can dot break the rules and underinflate the ball. >> rachel rachel there are a lot of things guys do in the national football league to go back. i remember when i played we used qda to get a little extra stick um. we've seen guys use stick-um in the past. there are rules in place. every team every player tries to push the rules to the limit a little bit. is it right? no it's not right. it's one of these things if you get caught you say i'm sorry for that. next tomb i won't do this. to go out there and say that here's a coach that should be suspended for doing this, to me that's ludicrous. you look at it. there's no advantage of having a ball with less air in it. i've seen it. guys use balls at all different sizes. to me that's just the way it is. >> you say the patriots and teams around the league push things to the limit. the question about the patriots is do they have a culture of pushing things beyond the limit? jermaine wiggins, stick around. i want an answer to that question. rachel thank you for being with us. >>> patriots quarterback tom brady

ands i said rachel aaron hernandez is 23 at the time he was arrest and at the time to a five-year 40 million clrz contract and do you think that people expect too much from young athletes when they get too much too fast? >> well, you can't spin this out into a larger picture. look, for every aaron hernandez accused of murder there are literally thousands and thou thousands of young professional athletes with money who are not being charged with murder. this is a bizarre case, and the entire nfl world is watch, because you look at the contract number and he e did not sign that much longer before this crime came to light, and so you a guy that the nfl and the new england patriots trusted with a lot of money and prestige, and it all went wrong. >> and mel, you say it is a slam dunk case and why do you say that? >> well, you know, it is not necessarily a slam dunk case on the criminal charges, don, because there is no eyewitness and they never recover the gun. however, in the state of massachusetts, we have what is called joint venture liability meaning that they don't necessarily have t

so rachel i'd like to start with you. do you think bill belichick will really say much about this scandal? >> well he might say no kmercht comment. he might say we have to let the nfl investigate. he might say we're moving on to seattle. that's three different things. you're not going to get a lot from bill belichick this morning, just like you never get a lot from bill belichick. he is not going to want to talk about this. we didn't hear much about spy gate. after the patriots were penalized part of the deal with that penalty is that bill belichick was supposed to give a news conference explaining himself and he never did it. roger goodell, the commissioner was not happy about that. that was a direct order. i don't expect him to speak a lot this morning. >> i know. even when he speaks john berman it's difficult to understand where he's coming from because he doesn't really like to speak in complete sentences all the time. >> speak is a relative term with bill belichick which is ironic. he's a very smartwesleyan. >> he do

kind of snide to rachel.itting question. it country about the integrity of the investigators. it's about the integrity of the league which is what's been at issue here. she asked a tough question and he tried a little joke which didn't work. it backfired and he seemed snide when he should have answered the question directly. >> first of all, i want to be rachel nichols when i grow up. >> she was great. >> she was great. she was tough and she was exactly right. there are have legitimate questions. of course, as you were saying the people leading those investigations are stallworths. >> former fbi directors. >> no one is questioning their integrity. there are ways to pay them or there are ways to compensate them so it's not comeing from the nfl or the owner of one of the teams. i'm thinking about here in washington. we stand up and we ask tough questions. we sometimes get a smack down. they go after, but i will say that most of the time when a principal is attacking me for me question, it says something about h

this is chump change. >> rachel nichols, do you agree with that?t punishment fits the -- i don't know what you call it cheating crime, gamesman ship. >> i think patriots do not get the benefit of the t doubt because of the spy gate issue. i think the nfl could control the balls better and probably will going forward. however, there's an underlying issue here don't cheat. there's all kinds of ways to cheat the game. the nfl can control so much of it. we don't know what the patriots did or did not do. we may find out more from tom brady, more from the nfl down the road. how about teams just not try to cheat? wouldn't that be great rather than taking extra measures. i sat down with pete carroll the seahawks coach. i asked him about this. he didn't wanted to slam a fellow coach or teammate. he did bring up the idea the nfl coaches are stewards of protecting the rules. take a listen. >> how anything is that if the paytriots are found to have cheated in rules? >> i don't know all of that answer now. i don't know about the circumstances so it would be cra

. >> rachel is a survivor of domestic abuse. she and her children are in the transitional program.hel told us she too has experienced intimidation and even bullying from staff. >> mental mental abuse. it is like i am still with my partner. i am gonna do what you tell me to do or else. i came here for help. the last place i think i would be abused is here. >> this is a serious allegation. >> gloria sandoval is the long-time ceo and she was herself a battered woman. >> i want you to know the safety and the security of our clients is of utmost importance to me and i hope to every person in this organization. >> when we get complaints i want you to know we investigate them and take them very seriously. >> it is in an undisclosed location. on the transitional side, apartments for nine families. >> it was a shelter of violence for people. >> 66-year-old raz entered the emergency shelter last august. she was there for five weeks. >> they are not educated enough. they had no compassion. they show you no respect when you complain. i have another five, six women that i can connect with you a

rachel, thanks for all your good work. >> reporter: thank you. >> rachel is still on the clock, too. next hour, the commissioner, roger goodell, is going to do that, deliver that state of the nfl. and cnn will bring that to you live. and we're not going to give her a break at that point either. tomorrow, go inside football's biggest game with rachel joined by dan marino. that's at 4:30 p.m. eastern time. >>> lawyers for a vanderbilt football player convicted of rape are saying, not so fast. they say they have new information that could make the judge throw the guilty verdicts out. and get this -- it involves a juror who said that young man on your screen did it. they take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment begins with the cloud. this is "titanfall," the first multi-player game built and run on microsoft azure. empowering gamers around the world to interact in ways they never thought possible. this cloud turns data into excitement. this is the microsoft cloud. twhat do i do?. you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tr

rachel maddow show starts right now. in december 2012 a few days after the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, the rather infamous west borough baptist church of topeka kansas announced plans they would protest at a vigil for the victims of the sandy hook shooting. not long after their announcement, a barrage of personal contact information for if west borough baptist church members ended up on-line. the twitter was hacked the website was taken down off the internet. it was an all-out cyberattack. the self proclaimed proud perpetrators of this attack on the westboro baptist church was the hacker group that calls itself anonymous n. the end the westboro folks decided not to show up for the people killed at sandy hook. anonymous continues to run a fake facebook account dedicated to the group called the official westboro baptist facebook page y'all. marilyn manson anonymous and captain crunch. the cover photo reads god loves cats. this n small part is what anonymous does. anonymous is a loose collective of anonymous vigilante

. >> rachel your husband is a member of the house, he's a congressman.ckly, do you sense this is a new tone that boehner's going to take, tough talk with the white house? >> i think he's going to get positive feedback, and that's going to encourage him to keep it up. >> well, if his weekly address was any indication he says if the president expects us to capitulate on this quote-unquote, hell no. >>> all right, we're going to turn to the nfl scandal which is getting bigger. by 4:00 eastern, it could be huge. the accusations that the super bowl-bound patriots broke the rules by using underinflated footballs. some players say balls with less area give them a better grip. makes sense especially in the nasty winter weather. head coach bill belichick this morning faced reporters for the first time since the scandal broke about concerns the patriots used lighter ballings earlier this season. -- balls earlier this season. he had this blunt denial: >> when i came in monday morning, i was shocked to learn of the news reports about the footballs. i had no knowledg

rachel bryan graduated in 1996. >> i was looking for opportunity. i was someone who had recently been released from jail after spending 40 days there. my lawyer gave me a crushing shock that i could no longer pursue a career in nursing, that i would have to think outside of the box. >> reporter: rachel now works for the international brotherhhood of electrical workers as a journeyman electrician. this is one of the classrooms for the cypress mandela training centers. you can see this is a carpentry class. but the students who graduate from this program don't just graduate with great job skills. they come out of here with life skills. vince martinez will graduate january 22nd. he wakes up every morning at 3 a.m. to beat the traffic from turlock to oakland to attend the program. >> the money management skills, the, um, the training, the physical training, carrying rebar around this block twice, you know, shoveling dirt, running around with wheelbarrows, you know, it prepares you for something more. >> all right. >> reporter: from saving lives in the w

. >> rachel is a survivor of domestic abuse. she and her children are in the transitional program. rachel told us she too has experienced intimidation and even bullying from staff. >> mental mental abuse. it is l am still with my partner. i am gonna do what you tell me to do or else. i came here for help. the last place i think i would be abused is here. >> this is a serious allegation. >> gloria sandoval is the long-time ceo and she was herself a battered woman. >> i want you to know the safety and the security of our clients is of utmost importance to me and i hope to every person in this organization. >> when we get complaints i want you to know we investigate them and take them very seriously. >> it is in an undisclosed location. on the transitional side, apartments for nine families. >> it was a s s s s shelter of violence for people. >> 66-year-old raz entered the emergency shelter last august. she was there for five weeks. >> they are not educated enough. they had no compassion. they show you no respect when you complain. i have another five, six women that i can connect wit