say something about this. well anderson, thank you for having me on. the report just came out about 1:30 eastern yesterday and he s had about as many commitments as about one person can emotionally digest this. and so in terms of process, anderson he was referring to a question by jim gray about the nfl process and what he expected. and as of now, we have not yet heard from the league. do you have plans for tom brady to come out and address this directly? yeah he will eventually address this. but keep in mind anderson he had a rather chaotic press conference right after the afc championship game where he faced all of the media then as well as we spent one entire day in front
in the organization and leave it at that. the wells report is the league arm and that found fault with the organization and tom brady. the nfl has to follow through with a punishment there after that fault has been found, whether you agree with the report or not, otherwise you are sending a message to every other player in the league, hey, you can cheat the rules and get away with it. we are telling you that our investigation found there was cheating going on here in the eye of the preponderance of the evidence in the standard whether you like the rule that is the standard they found they violated that standard. now you might think it is too low and that is what they found and you have to punish someone for that because if you don t, you ll have every other player in the league saying i guess it is fair game now. we ll leave it there. mike i appreciate you being on sean and rachel nichols. just ahead, there is more breaking news. reports of a tornado in north central texas right no
skepticism about any way. so when it came down to it either way you turn you are really not playing on a level playing field. i guess part of me that would say though if there were a bunch of text messages from tom brady saying wow, i can t believe i heard about this deflategate, this is shocking you can t believe you wouldn t have given them those text messages. i can share with you, without getting into the specifics of tom s testimony, that nearly an entire day of answering questions from four different lawyers, that area was probes pretty vigorously. i know rachel is here with a couple of questions. hey, don. it is rachel nichols. how are you rachel? good. and some of the testimony is sealed since it is in the wells report and the information that made it into the reports is circumstantial and stacked against your client and you think the information left out of the report would be
and they love me unconditionally. and like i said this night isn t what that was supposed to be about. i was to come here and have some fun. has this however, detracted from your joy of winning the super bowl? absolutely not. [ cheering and applause ] why not? because we earned an achieved everything we got this year as a team and i m very proud of that and your fans should be too. and again rachel nichols, michael pet rallia and shawne merriman. and mike raised an interesting point when i asked about why didn t tom brady release his text messages which he didn t
new england patriots quarterback tom brady has just made his first comments since the report came out. here is what he just said and didn t say just a short time ago in salem, massachusetts. there is an elephant in the room. where? you may be the only one who doesn t see it. so tom, you re in the news here and the ted wells report was just released. [ booing ] jim is known for hard-hitting questions and he has a show on monday nights and this is how it usually goes and so i m used to it. we re going to deal with it and then move on. what is your reaction tom, to the wells report. who cares? see, i can t usually say those things.