Balls under flated for a better grip. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell says brady had his assistant destroy his cell phone and sim card the same phone he used to allegedly send Text Messages during the now infamous deflate deflategate deflategate. Bill belichick is expected to speak in an hour. Well have that for you live. Rachel nichols joins me with more than what brady had to say. Jason is also here to weigh in. Rachel. He was defiant and specific. He took the lead that the Nfl Players Association started yesterday. The Players Association came out with a statement saying the phone business is a smoke screen. They went so far to say the nfl making the cell phone the issue was, quote, a new low, even for them. They werent pulling any punches. He destroyed the cell phone on the very day the nfl asked for had. Here is his explanation for that. He said i replaced my broken Samsung Phone tom brady, by the way, who will name check any company because he gets paid he knows he is an endorser.
We begin this hour with another donald trump controversy. Hes once again distancing himself from some controversial comments. Accept this time they arent comments made by the billionaire front runner but a close adviser to his campaign. Heres our jeff zeleny with more. Reporter Donald Trumps president ial campaign weathered one storm after another. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. Reporter but a new controversy over offensive language is hitting closer to home. Whos doing the raping . Reporter tonight, as he keeps riding high in the polls, his team is trying to clean up another set of comments. This time it has nothing to do with illegal immigration but trumps own marriage. His longtime counsel and spokesman Michael Cohen is under fire for telling the daily beast, you can not rape your spouse. Those five words set off a firestorm. Stunning response to decades old allegation against donald trump. Donald Trumps Campaign is issuing a strong response this
Right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. You may have thought youd heard it all regarding the prison escape and manhunt involving two killers last month in new york. But it turns out there was a lot more. Today as Joyce Mitchell, the prison worker who helped them bust out, appeared in court to plead guilty to her crimes. Nbc news obtained the detailed, at times salacious and eyeopening statements she made to state police about the plot the supplies the weapons and the plan to kill her husband the night of the escape. Nbcs john yang was in court today in upstate new york. Reporter with a tearful signature, Joyce Mitchell accepted a plea deal today, admitting she smuggled hacksaw blades, drill bits chisels, gloves, says glasses with lights and other tools into the prison for convicted killers richard matt and who, the d. A. Says used them to escape. Shes been very anxious, depressed, remorseful for what she did. Repo
The Department of Justice recently charged Harlem Suarez with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction as he sought to use a bomb against beachgoers in the Florida Keys. Suarez was inspired by the Islamic State (IS) and considered himself a member of the terrorist organization. Though the FBI intervened before the public was in any danger, Suarez’s plot demonstrates that the IS is extending its reach across the U.S. This is the 73rd Islamist terrorist plot or attack since 9/11 and the 11th plot in 2015 the largest number of plots against the U.S. in a single year since 2001.
isis sympathizer. officials say the plot centered on a beach in key west about 150 miles from miami. this is the suspect. 23-year-old harlem suarez. he is now facing life in prison for allegedly planning to detonate a backpack bomb filled with nails. suarez also allegedly discussed bombing police officers cars and homes. he also went by the name of benitez on facebook. they launched an undercover operation after seeing the page which is filled with praise for isis. officials say suarez bought two boxes of nails at home depot and gave the cell phone and back pact to an informant and in a recorded call he allegedly says i can go to the beach at night time, put the thing in the sand cover it up so the next day just call the thing and it will make a really hard noise from nowhere. suarez s attorney says the charges are trumped up.