to may tax reform may be a good idea. he tried. not a bad try but he lost. kimberly: bolling, if you were there, you wouldn t have voted for this. you have been very strong critic of it. eric: bob is wrong that he almost pulled it off. i don t think there was any movement there was always 25 problems in the freedom caucus. there were additional three more yesterday. and then you got some moderates peeling off today. they need he had probably 30 votes and they didn t have them. here s the point. here s how it works. it should work. it s a democracy, right? so the republicans want to bring a bill that they want the president eventually to sign and they have to unite behind this bill. the problem with the bill that they brought and this is the truth. this is leadership bill. this is paul ryan. this is brady, weldon and mccarthy and a couple chairman of some committees who put this together. the freedom calculation said we want to be involved in the process. let conservatives get invol
down 18 points after halftime. here with reaction is the cohost of first take on his pen. a personal friend, stephen a smith. listen, i appreciate it to tell you the truth, i wanted you on the show because he wanted to get people the impression you actually know sports. we both know better. sean: i like him people more than you. he spent years beating up on my buddy. do you mean my friend? my friend, tim tebow? [laughter] sean: he forgives you from all the cap stuff you say about him. he is a great guy, he is a great, he just couldn t throw. let s go to football, tom brady, i picked him by three. the reason, the difference between those two good teams the falcons have a great team, i am very impressed with matt ryan. what a season he has had. they did well, the difference is brady, bella check, and craft.
the country looks at this claim from tom brady. that it just so happens i switched out my cell phone and destroyed the old one on the day that i was going to meet with the nfl investigator looking into deflategate. from the standpoint of the court of public opinion out of new england, tom brady was convicted a long time ago. nothing coming forward this week is going to change that. it s only made things worse for him. so it raises the question, why is brady going forward with this? why is kraft standing by him so defiantly? it is a little bit of that rally around the home effect. the fans up here, those are bob kraft s customers. whatever happens with the appeal, brady will be playing for most of the season. kraft s rally around his player, the fans are loving it and brady s thinking in terms of his legacy. is this righteous indignation which always worked, we were screwed, whatever the old baseball term? we got screwed here? is that what it s about, or are you going to take the kraf
that s a standard used in the nfl. he s, one of these guys who s deflating the balls, they obviously don t like this guy. and, you know, they re saying that maybe they ve got a new pair of size 11s in their locker. is he not only demanding that they deflate the balls but he s also giving them things to deplate the balls? the nfl has rules that the balls have to be between 12.5 and 13.5. and they were less than 12.5 systematically, and probably not just for that game. so there s a pattern here, and that s what the league is going to be addressing in the coming days. i was thinking about paying them back with sneakers or something. ted wells did this report. he is extremely competent, well-thought-of, one of the smartest lawyers i ve ever met. so now what we ve got is brady, you know, kind of laughing it off in an arrogant way. his followers seem to not have any problem with the fact that he may have cheated, so what, he