roger goodell overshot on this thinking bob kraft and tom brady would go along for the ride and play because brady is the face of the league and the rest of it and seemed to have a lot to lose by fighting back. i will say this for tom brady and i know it from talking to the players association. he at any time want to go down as the person who made it labor press tent in the nfl to hand over your personal cell phone. he didn't want to be that guy. that's something to say. >> he fought the law and the law didn't win. >> that's true. >> the law did win in his favor. dave, thanks. >> final thoughts. remember this when you hear about how the evil teachers' unions won't let us fire the bad teachers i.'s the same process that ensures people get a fair hearing that keeps tom brady and keeps those teachers. tomorrow i will be joined by donald trump's former top adviser roger stone and the protester who was knocked in the head outside trump's press conference today. that's tomorrow night. right now time for the rachel maddow show. >> as hard as it is to hear you throw shade atom brady i want t

it will be a motivated tom brady. it will be huge for their defense. >> reporter: although the nfl is planning to appeal it is not seeking a stay of the ruling. that will make it possible for tom brady to play in next week's game. david lee miller fox news. >>> sports director mark ibanez now. the judge gives tom brady the green light. >> my thoughts, first off the bat, that guy was so serious and you think about what this is all about. this is about an under inflated football. you know what? i am riding in in the car, sports fans are so passionate. an hour long ride they can't believe -- most outraged tom brady won't have to serve a suspension. they are fans of other teams. you know, the judge -- this is where i think this went awry, he said the commissioner, roger goodel, issued his own brand of industrial justice. that is the problem with the nfl. these rulings seem so arbitrary. ray rice punches his wife and initially he was given two games. tom brady supposedly had nothing to do --ing? to do -- something to do wi

tom brady, i think what they have done is terrible. he has been exonerated as i understand it, but i'm happy for tom. as far as the commissioner is concerned, they are having a rough year. [000:29:57;00]

. >> a federal judge has thrown out tom brady's four-game suspension. >> great feeling all around. new england right now. >> knew he didn't do anything. congratulations, tom. >> tom brady is a good friend of mine. i joust spoke to him a little while ago. he's so thrilled. ♪ >>> here's what the front runner for the republican presidential nomination had to say today about the most important political and governing story of the day. >> i don't know enough about it to comment on it. was she jailed. i really don't know much about it. >> that was after federal judge david bunning, who was appointed to the court by george w. bush found kentucky county clerk kim davis in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. judge bunning sent kim davis directly to jail from the courtroom. kentucky's junior senator rand paul said this. >> i think it's absurd to put someone in jail for exercising their religious liberty. even those on the other side of the issue, those who want to support a new definition for marriage i think it sets their movement back because it is

those are the courtroom sketches done of tom brady a few weeks ago and a lot of people said, hey, tomme man. that doesn't look so much like tom brady. yesterday when he appeared in court, the yes was will it be the attractive version of tom brady -- do we have the picture of the new version? all right. there it is right there. this is the new improved tom brady right there after the improvement was done. the courtroom sketch artist jane rosenberg joins me right now. jane, thank you so much for being with us. jane, after that original sketch, there were a lot of people saying that's not tom brady. how much pressure did you feel? >> a ton of pressure. i had 700 e-mails that day. it was unbelievable. and it's a lot of stress to, first of all, handle everything, interviews and the media coming at me and all the criticisms. it was really hard. >> how did you prepare? >> prepare for? >> prepare for yesterday? prepare to go back into that courtroom and draw him again? >> well, i had some time and the daily news sent me a photo and i did a practice sketch. i did what they called the redemptio

donald trump and tom brady. t is kind of -- at this point you have continued to defend both guys. i hey be under the impression there were records. >> no records necessary. >> they were taking videotapes of the team. i came in possession of video of my own that may shed light on this. can we play that? >> i'm doing everything i can. i am doing stories every night of the week. i am doing my part. >> doing your part? >> doesn't matter where i got it. are you nine? >> it was out of context. >> were you saying it was selectively edited. >> yes. >> you faulted braye dye -- brady saying the hot made its way into his locker. so now that he is running for president he gave it to rkk found its way into the locker. he is the owner of the patriots and he is referred to the same way way as them. you feel like you are in the military because you are in the boy scouts. >> you weren't. >> i felt that way. you can't deny my feelings. your feelings are invalid. jedediah, you said you are giving trump a pass. >> yes. >> you should

the fastest, most reliable internet. >>> tom brady took on roger goodell and won. the judge nullified the suspension, noting the nfl commissioner is not free to give out his own brand of justice. this amounts to brady's victory s pats hosting and giants. brady showed up, practiced and went home. rookie jeremy davis for a 40-yard gain. couldn't capitalize. later in the drive, binson in the end zone, has his hands on it and drops it. giants settle for a field goal. one bright spot, landon collins, strong game. giants win a slugfest. bruce beck is with eli manning during the game on the state of the offense. >> if you have a healthy victor cruz and with odell beckham, how dangerous with this team be? >> we have to work and get better. hopefully vick can start practicing but each day, we're getting on the same page, getting more chemistry. we feel good about what we have to do, what it takes, and we have to do it in practice then take it to the games. play at a high level. >> they're going to score. don't worry. no comment on deflategate from tom brady, of course. i'm s

tom brady joked about it earlier this week. >> such an enjoyable off season. >> reporter: it comes to its latest head today. brady arriving for the preseason game in foxborough late this afternoon has the four-game suspension overturned by richard berman premised upon several legal deficiencies, not the least of which was the court deciding nfl commissioner roger good deal overstepped his authority. the league will, of course, appeal saying while the legal phase of this process continues, we look forward to focusing on football and the opening of the regular season which starts one week from today in foxborough with the patriots with brady, a game the nfl says goodell will skip. we have seen this battle from the field to manhattan, both sides walking in and out of a courtroom then the ruling today. the court's decision to overturn the nfl commissioner should signal to every nfl owner that collective bargaining is better than legal losses. that is from the player's union. everybody had their deflate opinion. everybody tried to brush up on the psi knowledge. tom brady held to one premis

tom brady wins. now nullified the nfl's four-game suspension of brady over the deflategate scandal. the ruling coming down more than one month after failed settlement talks between the league and the players' union. this means brady can go ahead and suit on up for the patriots' first game next week against the pittsburgh steelers. so let's talk about this decision. cnn's sports anchor coy wire is on the phone. and, wow, i just didn't expect tom brady to win for some reason. >> yeah. and i think a lot of people are with you in that sense. this process had gone so long and it looked as if it was going to be tom brady missing at least a couple of games, maybe this suspension would have gotten reduced, but as it turns out, the full four-game suspension completely overturned in a huge decision by judge berman, who is essentially now challenging, completely challenging roger goodell's authority as the collective bargaining agreement, players and the nfl owners agreed that roger goodell could have full powe

tom brady beats the nfl. why we won't let go of deflategate and the nasty debates in the '60s. >> freedom breeds inequality. i'll say it a third time. >> twice is enough. >> always to the right and almost always in the wrong. >> did that begin the era of toxic television? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> the media mob filled the lobby of trump tower. cable news channels on high alert because. it became a very familiar sight. the trump show. >> and frankly i felt that the absolute best way to win and to beat the democrats and very easily i think beat the democrats no matter who it may be whether it's hillary or anybody else and i think maybe hillary is going to have a very hard time frankly with what's happening getting to the starting gate. >> joining us now, chief congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." and matt lewis and we also have a fox news contributor. why would the media treat what would be this as a great breaking news story. >> this isn't just declaration. this is do

s in now tom brady's game. the nfl has to be on the sidelines in this case and watch. >> paul callan, you've had a chance to look through some of the ruling. people have been saying all along that courts like to give a lot of deference to collective bargaining agreements here. part of the collective bargaining agreement with commissioner goodell does have the ability to issue punishments. however this ruling sort of says, and i'm no lawyer, but essentially says he can issue punishments as long as they're not bonkers, and this one this finds is essentially bonkers. >> i think a lot of lawyers will be surprised that the judge issued such a strong decision in brady's favor here. because the courts do like to defer to arbitrators. it keeps a lot of disputes out of federal court and we have a whole system of arbitration set up. so when the courts look at an arbitration procedure, it's not like they're looking at a trial record of a judge. they really give a lot of deference to the arbitrator, but here when judge ber

associated press now reports tom brady has beaten the league. ten the nfl and "deflategate" controversy court matter. the judge nullifies the four-game suspension that had been hanging over the super bowl mvp's head since last january. brady wanted to beat this. and he has. martha: and he has. he pushed it to the limit. there was a lot of effort at settlements. we heard he sat down with roger good dell a week or two ago. despite they met for hours there was no agreement between the two of them. he said at the very beginning he didn't know anything about the situation. the investigation went on and on, found some, what seemed to be pretty incriminating things. however when they came out with the final assessment they said it was more likely than not he knew what was going on. that may not have been enough for this judge. the other big issue we spoke about briefly earlier, off-camara, with chris christie when he was here. it really may come down to the technicalities of the way that they brought this on him. because there were things that were, par

organization and the media is still afraid, still afraid to cover it properly. >> they're not afraid of tom brady here's a cover of "new rk post" with deflated footballs. they are still your balls, tom. i look at the columns. one "new york post" columnist said tom brady proves cheaters do win. why was this suc a bitter pill to swallow for the media types who apparently do not like tom brady or the patriots? >> because they wanted -- they didn't want to go after the nfl. to my point, because the media is so afraid of the nfl, in this case they have t report negatively about the nfl and how they lost and how a $3 million ted wells report, $3 million report failed in their investigation to properly bring him down and win in federal court. keep in mind, judges like to stay out of these cba union disputes. that's what the agreement says arbitration is what's supposed to happen. they don't want this to end up in court. so they're afraid and now they actually have to go after goodell. >> we'll see if that happens. it's clear that even when tom brady wins, he loses in the eyes of the media. by the way, b

tom brady, four touchdowns another big night 25 out of 32 for 288 was brady tonight.n edelman, caught 11. gronkowski caught three touchdown passes. michele on the field. we'll have tony rodney and hines break it all down. volkswagen report coming up next. >> announcer: welcome back to the villanueva pa sat post game report. here now bob costas. >> in a constant rain in foxborough, the patriots begin defense of their reign as super bowl champions for the 28-21 quinn over the steelers. tom brady 25 of 32 for 288 yards and four touchdowns. three of them caught by rob gronkowski. brady declined an interview. he gets a game ball. so too does gronkowski. gronk is with michele tafoya. >> michele: bob, thanks. rob, on a night when this place was full of emotions because of tom brady, because of the last year's super bowl championship, you score three touchdowns. let's talk about the first. you look across the line. no one is there. what are you thinking? >> just a play we work on. we just saw going fast with the offense. everyone is on the same page. tom saw me open real quic

host: let's talk about tom brady and the nfl and i want to share with nfl commissioner said followinguling which allowed top brady to play last thursday. he said -- "we are grateful to judge for curing this matter but respectfully disagree with today's decision. we will appeal today's ruling in order to uphold the collectively bargained responsibility to protect the integrity of the game. the commissioners spots ability competitivee fairness of our game is a paramount principle and the leak and are 32 clubs will continue to pursue a path to that end. while the legal base of this process continues, we look for to focusing operable and opening of the regular season." guest: i think the commissioner thinks he will win on appeal which he might because it is rare when a federal judge overturns an arbitrator decision. the problem in this case, unlike other sports leagues, was a commissioner acting as the final arbitrator. in other sports leagues, they are independent, so the commissioner used his power to act as the final arbitrator to roll of the brady case and i think the federal judge di

as for tom brady, winner.e now for reaction, sportscaster, and fox news contributor jim gray. jim, thanks a lot for coming on. so when is the ticker tape parade, and where is it, and will i see you there? >> the ticker tape parade probably will be when they hang the banner up next week when tom brady will come on the field to have the opening game of the season. they will fly the banner. he will run out with his team and the fans in new england and across the country who are for fairness and justice will all be celebrating as well. if you look at the opinion polls, tucker, this is totally flip. from before they went to federal court, most of the public, in fact only 32% of the public believed that tom brady was right in telling the truth. now before the decision yesterday, a new poll came out and he is up to 68%. with this decision, the public opinion has totally flipped. >> i agree with that completely. i'm not a conspiracy nut. it seemed like a setup. the other 31 owners pushed the commissioner to invoke a r

tom brady will be back. barry bonds tweeting out today, he congratulates tom brady. i am sure a lot of patriots fans are doing today for winning the appeal. unlike barry in his case against major league baseball. when you look at roger goodel, he wanted to protect the integrity of the football game. what are the chances of the nfl winning the appeal? >> i don't think it will happen. i don't think -- i think that it has come down to an ego thing right now. tom brady and the new england patriots against roger goodel and i think if is common sense, the nfl and roger goodel would have fined the new england patriots couple million dollars, tom brady one game suspension and this would all be over by now. i am looking at frank because we go back and forth. i think the whole thing is gamesmanship. players always try to get an edge. basketball teams having thicker nets to slow down the nets. baseball players doctoring up the baseball. a lot about nothing. >> my feeling is i don't have any doubt tom brady knew. i don't know will mess with the footballs for anything championshi

listen to this. >> did tom brady cheat? >> did he cheat? um, that's a really good question.'m not sure. i think i'd have to be there to see the ball and feel it and make sure it was deflated or not deflated. but if there was question there then, yes, i think he cheated. if there was any question to be had, i think that he definitely cheated and he should have been suspended for that. that's not fair. [laughter] cheryl: she went there. and it's not just miss america talking football after yesterday's first full week of the season. fans were all over yesterday's big season openers from big

tom brady, four touchdowns another big night 25 out of 32 for 288 was brady tonight.n edelman, caught 11. gronkowski caught three touchdown passes. michele on the field. we'll have tony rodney and hines break it all down. volkswagen report coming up next. >> announcer: welcome back to the villanueva pa sat post game report. here now bob costas. >> in a constant rain in foxborough, the patriots begin defense of their reign as super bowl champions for the 28-21 quinn over the steelers. tom brady 25 of 32 for 288 yards and four touchdowns. three of them caught by rob gronkowski. brady declined an interview. he gets a game ball. so too does gronkowski. gronk is with michele tafoya. >> michele: bob, thanks. rob, on a night when this place was full of emotions because of tom brady, because of the last year's super bowl championship, you score three touchdowns. let's talk about the first. you look across the line. no one is there. what are you thinking? >> just a play we work on. we just saw going fast with the offense. everyone is on the same page. tom saw me open real quic

tom brady wins. a judge nullifying the nfl last four game suspension of the new england quarterback, the deflategate case as it became known. we will play the season opener one week from tonight naming roger goodell went too far in affirming brady's punishment for case in which the league's investigation found only that it was, quote, more probable than not that two patriots employees deflated game balls below the standards for use in last january's afc title game. roger goodell upheld the suspension after brady challenged it announcing in july birdie tried to obstruct the league's probe by destroying a cellphone. we have more on the ruling and the fallout just had this hour in a live report. >> top members of hillary clinton's inner circle facing intense scrutiny on capitol hill over in their roles in the lead up and response to the benghazi attacks and the use of the pri private e-mail account. the two controversy is threatening to engulf her campaign to the white house. welcome to "happening now".

this time it has tom brady doing a victory dance. judge said the punishment went, quote, too far. everyone is talking about it. even the republican front-runner. watch this. >> tom brady is a very good friend of mine. he's a great guy, for those of you who don't know him, he's a very honest guy and truly great athlete. he is really a very good friend of mine. i just spoke to him a little while ago. he's so thrilled and so happy. tom brady, i think what they've done is terrible. and he has been exonerated, as i understand it, because i just heard about it. but i'm very happy for tom. as far as the commissioner's concerned, they're having a rough year. >> as for tom brady, winner. joining me for reaction, jim grave. thanks for coming on. >> good to be here. >> where is the ticker tape parade and will i see you there? >> the ticker train parade will probably be when they hang the banner up next week at the opening game of the season. he will run out with his team and the fans in new england and across the country who are for fairness an

dan shaughnessy, how big a victory is this for tom brady? >> an official state holiday here in massachusetts moving forward. this day in september will always be commemorated in future years. >> ifill: but deservedry so, you believe? >> well, they have waited a long time for this. this is vindz case, validation, all that stuff. and as a game tonight, a preseason game where tom brady, i will doubt he will play, but he has a chance to run on the field. if belichick has any sense of theater he will sends him out to get hand the ball off and get the o ovation that is no doubt coming his way. >> ifill: is this what was supposed to happen given the facts of the case. >> i was surprised given the precedence is that swrujs rarely overturn arbitrations, but in this case it happened. and with a sweeping gesture from the judge, cleaning the slate for the patriots as well as for tom brady. and i think as long as this thing has dragged on, this started way back in january, here we are in september. another football season is about to start. i think a lot

he's so thrilled and happy, tom brady, i think, what they've done is terrible. i'm very happy for tom. as far as the commissioner is concerned, they're having a rough year, let's face it. they're having a very rough year. >> a lot of people said this was a trumped up controversy. so we'll have the donald with the final word. >> coming up next, held in contempt, the kentucky clerk who is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples thrown in jail. >> thanks so much for joining us, we will see you back here at 11:00. good night. >>> tonight, sent to jail a defiant kentucky clerk ordered locked behind bars for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. >> high drama as protest rage on both sides. >>> brady beats the nfl, resounding ctory as the star quarterback's delfategate suspension is overturned. he'll take the field, but his troubles could be far from over. >>> a father's heartache, the survivaling dad who lost his photos of his lifeless son and another desperate father, today his family clinging to hope on the tracks. >>> and pressure

i will repeat the breaking news on tom brady. e has nullified his suspension, therefore brady will play in the opener next thursday. watch those ratings soar. cm couches with this coming ceo of the sales huddled group and joins us on the phone. if goodell in trouble with this? >> this is a huge hit to the nfl. the months and months of everything happening with the case, the nfl behind a for tom brady to come out on top but we are for the start of the season is a huge head. stuart: one second. >> this could be key. the court finds denial of the motion to produce denied brady's request for the investigative evidence. including witness interviews for brady used at the arbitration hearing was fundamentally unfair and in violation and brady was prejudiced as a result. stuart: come back in on this. you just heard that adam had to say. the corpus critical of roger goodell. >> you know, he's already not the most popular. he is consistently on the other side, the player side. it is not good for goodell at the start of the season. trained t

what they're basically saying here is the nfl made allegations against tom brady, had the potential to suspend him for four games and they didn't handle the process fairly. they didn't give him a chance. one thing say said was the hearing in june between brady and the commissioner, the nfl denied brady's legal team access to the general counsel for the nfl. the general counsel for the nfl is the one who edited the wells report, the document the nfl is using for the basis for the four-game suspension. the judge is saying, look, i'm not passing judgment on the facts here but i am saying that as a matter of fairness if you can potentially suspend a player, you need to give that player access to the general counsel who edited the reports. it was an unfair process for tom brady. >> the way it's all rolled out. nbc's craig melvin is joining us now. we have the nfl players association releasing a statement. quote, this decision should prove once and for all that our collective bargaining agreement does not grant the commissioner the authority to be unfair, arbitra arbitrary, and misleading. s

this adds, i think, to the myth of the greatness of tom brady. >> yeah. he's the guy who gets away with it in the end. and this does add to his mythical status. that's so funny because months ago what many of us were saying was that, wow, tom brady just went from being the golden boy, the person going down as the greatest quarterback arguably to ever play to someone who would always be associated with deflating footballs. now i think that's flipped on its head, essentially as we learn more about the facts of what took place with those footballs and not the initial leaks by roger goodell which is one of the things judge berman found so offensive. >> i guess the rule of thumb is always bet on tom brady. thank you, dave. interesting news there. >>> developing also now, big political news, a former state department staffer who set up hillary clinton's private e-mail server says he'll plead the fifth and not testify before congress. "the washington post" first reported that brian pagliano would invoke his constitutional right not to answer questions to avoid i

are you scared of tom brady? >> but the difference -- why would i be scared of tom brady?the judge said. the judge did not say that he was innocent. the judge actually said that there were three reasons why tom brady was not, why he vacated the decision and that was one, because tom brady didn't know that he was going to get -- neil: counting down. you're not -- bottom line, you're happy but you're not happy? >> no. i'm happy in terms of the players, from the players perspective because players have been suspended numerous times without precedent. but in terms of for the good of the game and for the patriots just -- neil: for god's sake. all right, george. i love you dearly. admire you greatly you but don't sound any different than my young producers who constantly challenge me for no reason. very lucky i'm not there with you now. we'll have more after this. neil that'll all right. my producer, ralph, wanted me to remind you there's a lot of other stuff going on like this trump thing in an hour where he's going to sign in this pledge saying he won't bolt. hello, i know. le

tom brady speaks out. addresses reporters for the first time since his news conference in february and the deflategate scandal that followed. laura? >> reporter: the news that tom brady's 4-game suspension for his involvement in the saga of illegally inflated footballs had been overturned thursday. that night the quarterback arrived at gillette stadium and quickly left before the game and before speaking to reporters. but today, brady meeting for the media for the first time time this season as his team opener. it has been a long 1 months since the scandal began. >> everyone deals with things differently. i dealt with them the best way i know how and certainly i have so much support from family and friends and the organization. mr. kraft has been unbelievable support for me just like he would be for any player in this locker room. there is a lot of people that have supported me and you know, we'll need that this season. >> reporter: brady also expressed concern for the two staffers who were suspended by th

it looked like walking dead tom brady.he one on the right she had a second chance, looks a little more flattering. >> it looks a little who better. >> dimple in his chin. looks less depressed. >> hopefully she won't get such a bad reaction this time. >> she did not enjoy the 15 minutes of fame she got. >>> coming up, surrogate grandmother, the 51-year-old who decided to carry her daughter's child for her even though she was diagnosed with ms and how the pregnancy seemingly put her disease in remission. >>> ahead in our next half hour, queen on the court. serena williams taking the first step yesterday toward a grand slam. our robin roberts sat down with the superstar serving up a question about the one thing everyone wants to know. you're watching "world news now." "world news now" >>> next we have an incredible story. a family story of a 51-year-old mom with ms. giving birth to her own grandchild, acting as a surrogate for her daughter. >> her pregnancy had an unexpected and welcome side effect. juju chang has the story.

and did you get to make the phone call to tom brady? >> it was an email but i was one of those, yes. >> all right. and what was the response back? >> tom be back on the field. from the beginning, he frankly has been a victim in all of this. and all he has wanted to do is get back to focus on his team, on his fans. on what he does best. and he is delighted to have that opportunity now. >> wow, it looks like the nfl isn't too happy with the ruling. roger goodell announcing that the nfl will appeal. however, they are not seeking, which i thought was very interesting, they are not seeking a stay of the judge's order, meaning that brady can play against the steelers. they are not trying to do that i thought that was interesting. they can't be that mad. >> well, i don't think there was ever the slightest chance that the court of appeals would have granted that stay. if i was the nfl, i would not have sought it either. i always thought that frankly that was a very, very implausible alternative. >> what happened? i he mean it's like, you know, i

dozens spent hours responding to a reported sighting that turned out to be false. >>> and tom brady, winner court, the nfl losing and loses big. a federal judge overturned his four-game suspension, the nfl is appealing but will not seek a stay of the decision which means brady will lead his team in next thursday's season opener with the pittsburgh steelers. >>> joining us former vice president of globed media and sports marketing for anheuser-busch and the ceo of ponturo managing group. tony ponturo. and principal of bolland sports practice, robert boland. were you shocked, surprised? >> i'm surprised that the judge didn't set aside the arbitrator's decision. the great way the precedent set that the court upholds arbitrator's decisions but it was telegraphed for the last couple of days and certainly in all the hearings as judge berman argued with the nfl and tried to cajole them to settle this case and took several days to issue the decision. it was going to be affirmans, it would have been quick. the fact it's a reversal it drops on thursday just before a holiday weekend. it took a w

so how does tom brady fit into all of this? >>> and bill clinton takes a stroll down memory lane recalling all the nice things trump has said about his wife and presidential candidate hillary clinton in the past. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west, this is "way too early." good morning, it's wednesday, september 30th. i'm jonathan capehart. we begin this morning with that marathon showdown on capitol hill, with the president of planned parenthood cecile richards on the hot seat for five hours. questioned by the house oversight and government reform committee. it comes as republicans try to defund the women's health organization after the release of hidden camera videos by an anti-abortion group. it's put planned parenthood on the defensive, with richards apologizing for tone. but yesterday she gave her strongest rebuke yet of those behind the videos. >> the latest smear campaign is based on efforts by our opponents to entrap our doctors and clinicians in to breaking the law and once again our opponents failed. the outra

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. >> game on for tom brady. heat -- a judge tosses out his four-game suspension for deflategate. >> more work options in fields like technology and consulting. is business school still worth it? we will speak with the dean of harvard business school. ♪ brandon: good afternoon. betty: i know you have been at it since early this morning. we look like we are continuing the rally. we are coming off of our highs of the session. is up just about 137 points and part of that is the energy rally. energy shales -- energy shares have been a dominant force. all of those are rising. , you were there when jobless claims came out. and it is a little bit of a pin on it. brendan: i think anything is fair game because there is no depressing news out of shanghai. betty: at least we have some relief. how oil is.t crude.x you can see nymex crude up. brendan: we are going to take a look at the bond markets. u.s. treasury yields are falling on mario draghi's comments to support bureau treasury. are taking this into context. the fed ra

chairman kraft said tom brady is classy person of the highest integrity.ion that was delivered today. now wi can return our focus to the game on the field. james brown is live. j.b., good morning. >> it will be so nice to talk football again. go ahead, norah. >> is this over? he's on the field, all done? >> no, it's not over. scott pelley said it nicely on the evening news last night. if you want to distillation it down to something very simple, it's tom brady, 1, the league, 0, right now at halftime. more appropriately it's in the fourth quarter but it's not over yet. >> j. bchlt, how much do you think commissioner roger goodell has been deflated by this? >> it's not a good stretch for roger goodell at all. keep in mind the judge richard berman was only focused on the process. he did not render a judgment as to his guilt or innocence relative to deflategate but it's not been good. >> he said he's not going to the opening game because he wants to keep the focus on the game. good decision do you think and what do you hear from tom brady and his teammates? >

mom to offer congratulations. >> tom brady is a good friend of mine. he is a great guy. for those of you who don't know him, he is an honorable guy and truly great athlete. >> reporter: the ruling went viral on twitter as chimers -- others chimed in. >> the decision has been made. let's look forward to an nfl season of integrity from all teams. >> reporter: janice says i think it's terrible that tom brady gets way with cheating. he deserves to be punished. bad precedent being set. finally matt mcmillan says even as a jets fan i'm glad his suspension was lifted. four games for two psi in a football? that's just silly. but don't expect deflategate to go away right away. they will be in court dealing with this in the appeals process. that appeals process could last months, possibly even jeers. coming up at 5:00, you could see jets fans are slowly starting to arrive for the preseason game against the eagles. we want to talk to them and get decision. we will have that at 5:00. that's the late he have live from the meadowlands, anthony johnson, channel 7 eye

the question is, did tom brady have anything to do with it? where are the ball boys that deflated the balls? they were fired and now they're somewhere in the bahamas. i played 18 years. i had ball boys get the balls ready for our games, get the sheen off the balls. i was in control of the balls. they would have never done anything -- >> i've thrown a lot of footballs in my life, too, not at the level, of course, that you have. >> yeah. >> when i had a preference, i made it clear to the football team manager, you know, i like this ball, or i like that ball. isn't it possible that brady made a preference saying, the softer the better, guys? find a ball that's not frozen. isn't that possible? >> oh, i think it's possible, improbable. i don't believe that's the case. i believe he instructed the people to deflate the balls. >> why would you believe that? if brady says he didn't do it, why would you believe -- >> brady said he didn't do anything wrong. and the judge didn't question whether he did or didn't do it. he said the process that goodell --

tom brady clarified that on a boston radio show this morning.ained that donald trump gave the hat to patriots owner robert kraft to pass on to tom brady and then he told the rest of the story about that hat and if he would vote for donald trump. here it is. >> i've known him for, since 2002. i judged one of his beauty pageants. imagine that. i was a judge at a miss usa pageant 2002. so i've known him for a long time and, you know, he always gives me a call and different types of motivational speeches at different times. now he is running for president he sent me a hat and gave it to rkk a couple of weeks ago. so it found its way in to my locker. >> are you going to vote for him? >> i don't know. am i going to vote for him? that's a good question. >> so it turned out that miss usa judge was simply not going to answer that question. even with tom brady's vote, donald trump couldn't win mast nst in the election but two that could are being asked the same questions over and over with joe biden, is it are you going to run. with hillary clinton it is

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so, tom brady will be able to play. hold on, though, the nfl can go to the appeals court in lower manhattan. we expect to hear about that later on this afternoon. they will try apparently to appeal this decision. that is the latest live from the meadowlands, anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, anthony. >>> now to a fire in brooklyn that investigators are calling suspicious. the four-alarm fire burned through two homes in the flatbush section injury five people including three children. eyewitness news reporter mallory hoff has been tweeting about the aftermath of this and joins us live from the scene. >> investigators telling us that it's still unclear how this fire started but that they do believe that it was suspicious. i want to give you an idea of what is going on here right now. you can see investigators gathered in the front area of this home. they say they believe this is where the fire started and this is part of what makes it suspicious. they say the fire very quickly grew and shot across

you have tom brady contrary to what they're trying to make it out to be.. you put all this together. this is why they were getting away with it back then. so right now with this deflategate thing, this is when they decided to put our foot down and probably went a little too far. >> do you think that behavior like videotaping and allegedly stealing play sheets a direct impact on the three super bowl victories during this time period? >> that's why i said what i said in the beginning. who knows? we know this. there is a pattern of cheating with this franchise. and we don't know what else they did. you start putting it all together collectively and you have the problem. it may not be an individual thing. even though they made, they deflated the football during the afc championship game, you had a better secretary half tom brady than the first half. that's not the point. the point is they did it. they did all the other things. what else did they do? >> regardless of the judge's ruling, do you think tom brady's recommend tags will be forever tarnished? >> for p

tom brady four touchdown passes.ecord 19 straight completions during the contest notching 23rd game with at least four touchdown passes tying brett favre for third all time. here's the three time super bowl mvp after the game. >> i love being out there with my teammates playing, and um -- yes, something i really look forward to. i was excited to go out there and certainly win. to be 1-0. year we started 0-1. always tough to do. we got a better start. >> he may be pretty, but bill karins can't take it. wouldn't be a victory if it didn't come with controversy. head coaches from both teams said they experienced issues with communication systems did during the game. steelers were receiving the patriots radio broadcast in their headsets. bill, can you take it is this tomlin indicating after the game this is recurring issue when playing in fox borrow. the headset interference was caused by an issue exacerbated by the inclement weather. the coach's equipment provided by nfl for both teams use on game day. >>> eli manning is

and abroad for years. >>> he's won four super bowls and now tom brady is claiming a new victory, this one over the nfl. a federal judge overturning the league's four-game suspension of the new england patriots quarterback. brady smiling last night before the patriots preseason game. he didn't play but the ruling means he will suit up next thursday in the season opener. the judge blasted the nfl's discipline process in suspending brady in the deflategate scandal but he did not weigh in on whether brady actually used deflated fblsootballs. the nfl is appealing. >>> coming up on the morning news, we'll show you how the internet is responding, but first drone drama on the tennis court. an unmanned aircraft interrupts a match at the u.s. open. the johnson's scent, lather, and bubbles help enhance the experience. so why just clean your baby, when you can give him so much more? you tuck here... you tuck there. if you're a toe tucker... because of toenail fungus, ask your doctor now about prescription kerydin. used daily, kerydin drops may kill the fungus at the site of infection and get to t