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Of people when youre trying to put together a list of likely presidential contenders. historically speaking its unprecedented. theres never been a field that big. it has been creating problems this year. it created problems for us here on the show the other night. we were running down various new news about candidates on our list of 22 and in the middle of me talking about former virginia governor jim gilmore who is apparently going to run again, and donald trump whos apparently going to run, in...

Theres an added sort of layer because the nfl is finding when it comes to brady in this report more likely than not that he had general awareness, at least general awareness. so youve kind of qualified it on both ends there, so it seems like the brady camp kind of took that and said, look, nfl, you dont have the smoking gun, you dont have the concrete proof and were basically going to dare you to take the face of the league in many ways, a guy whos just won the super bowl, guy whos won four supe...

Report, the reports evidence seems stronger than that very very hedged conclusion thats been the kind of graph that people have pulled out. >> reporter: absolutely. look, lets face it, like in the two different sort of courts here, in the court of public opinion tom bradys been convicted. in court of public opinion the new england patriots as an organization were convicted eight years ago when the spy-gate thing happened. for the vast majority of sports fans, football fans sort of casual fans ar...

Evidence take him out for a game, two games, four games, eight games. theyre basically throwing it right back in the nfls face. i was really surprised by that today. they in a way, theyre cornered. another way theyre a little confident. >> its sort of the smart play, too, although i have to say going through most of the report, nearly all of the report, the reports evidence seems stronger than that very, very hedged conclusion thats been the kind of graph that people have pulled out. >> reporter...

Hearing anything yet from the nfl on that. they cannot not do something. in other words, something has to happen. this story was so big and took over right before the super bowl that there has to be a resolution. seems to me there has to be punishment based on what were hearing from the report. >> okay. christine brennan, mike freeman, and coy wire thank you all so much. now this. a new report provides perhaps the most damning detail yet that, the co-pilot of that doomed germanwings flight 952...

That information. >> how important do you think this information, this graph that were seeing, this possibly a rehearsal, how important do you think it is? this is coming out in the interpret report. this isnt the final report that suggests that french investigators think its critical. >> its because its on the flight data recorder. one of the first things you do is you look at the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder and because it was the prior flight, this information is on tha...

Rehearsal. one aviation expert says theres another explanation. >> it looks like he was actually planning to commit suicide on the outbound flight and made the selections on the auto flight systems but then changed his mind. and so the flight continued on towards barcelona and nobody was the wiser. >> tom costello following developments from our washington bureau. can we call this a rehearsal? explain of change in altitude? >> i dont think we have enough information. heres why. just dialing diff...

With us mary schiavo. any reason to do what this man did to keep setting the descent to 100 feet and cancelling it. >> its a two-step process when you select an altitude. the first process is to select the altitude that youre clear to and second process is how do we get to that altitude. there are various ways to do it. theres vertical speed mode. theres flight level change mode. he probably had already established the airplane in a descent. there was clearance involved down to 25,000 feet. judg...

Regardless, i know were talking about this from the standpoint of it could be a practice but it very well could have been he may have been contemplating doing it at that time because he was trained in that system. >> he may have had second thoughts five times before landing the plane. >> thats an interesting point, les. absolutely. something to consider. mary, when you see that graph and those wild changes in altitude selection, it does beg the question is there any way or any expectation that t...

Measured by at least one official were under the required psi level. it goes on the final sentence of that graph, im going to rely on the factual evidence of numerous scientists and engineers rather than inferences from circumstantial evidence. what does that tell you? >> it tells me the patriots are not yet done with this. they want to fight or they want to at least in the court of public opinion have a bit of a fight and say, hey, wait a minute listen to our side. what this means is deflategat...