nepal this morning. this one measuring 7.3 in magnitude. the red cross reports at least two people dead so far and a lot of new injuries with expectations that a number of casualties will rise. there have been at least seven earthquakes in the area already today and it all comes on the heels of that devastating earthquake that has left more than 8,000 people dead. let's bring in richard engel live from istanbul. he was just in the town in nepal where today's earthquake happened. richard. good morning. we just returned from nepal yesterday. and the initial earthquake that killed those thousands of people was not very far from kathmandu. this second earthquake that happened today, the second really big one, 7.3, happened not far from the town of number cha bazaar in the foothills heading toward mt. everest, an area womenell-known to climbers. the death toll very likely to go up. so far there have been at least four people killed but it's not expected to be anything like the earl quake two weeks ago gowhich was centered relatively near to cat than due. in the it the if villages. they are extremely hard to access. so i don't expect any new pictures coming out there have anytime soon. but it is a remote area houses made of stones. hadn't guides yak herders very difficult place in you want to launch a rescue race. >> beyond devastating. thank you. we'll have constant updates throughout the show. another earthquake 7.3 magnitude. joe, willie and i are here along with mike barnicle steve rattner in washington white house correspondent for the associated press julie pace joining us. we'll get back to foreign news about you first, willie i'm going to let you take the top story. we have some great headlines, of course. but i'm surprised actually. i thought -- i don't even though how to say anything that isn't a metaphor. so tom brady has some trouble on his hands. >> major punishment handed down yesterday. bigger than a lot of people thought it would be for tom brady. suspended four games. first four games of the 2015 season without pay. the team itself also fined a million dollars and docked two draft picks including their first rounder next year. the fine hatchesmatches 9 the largest the league has ever handed out. they wrote there is substantial and credible evidence to conclude you were at least generally aware of the, as of the patriots' employees involved in the deflation of the football. it clearly constitutes behavior to the ib telling getity of the game. brady's agent says he will appeal. adding i'm confident the wells report will be exposed as an incredibly frail exercise in fact finding and logic. this comes in addition to joe, the statement from bob kraft, the patriots owner, also blasting this decision from the nfl and saying tom brady has our full support. >> yeah i don't understand this willie. you look again and you mentioned it briefly, just have a ordinarily tough sentence. it's actually two more games than ray rice initially got for punching his wife in the face. it's more than -- actually it's the same amount i guess for athletes that abuse drugs, that juice themselves, more than using illegal drugs where somebody doesn't juice themselves. all this over the psi of footballs. i'll admit, i just don't get this. i don't understand why the nfl front office can't ever seem to get it right. >> i agree with you, joe. i do. you can't cheat. he shouldn't have deflated the footballs. there should be some kind of punishment. but a quarter of the season and largest fine in the history of the league. this will amounts to -- >> i get it. the infraction is no big deal. every team every quarterback does it. the reaction was huge. it was fused with arrogance by repeat offenders, the spygate doesn't three or four years ago. it was handled very poorly by the patriots. the way out was to say, look, i like don't even know the football. i don't know what they did when they took the footballs. >> ultimate arrogance was that brady couldn't cooperate with the investigation. >> he did. >> i thought he wouldn't turnover his phone. >> would you turnover your text messages? seriously. >> that's ridiculous. steve rattner, that's ridiculous that the nfl first of all tells you turnover your telephone, we want to see all everof your text all your e-mail, we want to see everything that you've sent? nobody would do that. and secondly, their standard is the most offensive thing to me. quote, more probably than not. you put an asterisk by one of the best quarterbacks in the nfl history on that low standard, brother more probably than not, kick him out for four games for a more probably than not standard? you take away draft picks from a football team for a more probably than not standard? all because he's not going to turn over his -- do you mind if we read your phone right now steve, can we read your phone? >> not only that joe -- >> nobody has that right. >> not only that but the nfl -- >> wait a minute. he wants to -- joe, first of all, i agree with you about the more probably than not, as a matter of fact. it's a very low standard. puts somebody in equivalent in skral in the jail in the football business. the reason it was more probably than not because they didn't have the evidence. if you end up in court, whether civil or criminal and somebody subpoenas your phone to find out whether you did it you have to turn it over. >> this isn't a criminal investigation. >> this isn't court. >> with regard to your text messages, mine mika's whoever. the nfl told tom brady he would be given extraordinary safe guards to protect unrelated personal info. this in a day and age when everything ends up on google everything ends up in the papers. i mean stop it. just stop it. >> again willie geist, again over the psi of footballs. had absolutely no impact on the game. when he was -- when they made him play with the regular footballs, they beat the colts 28-0. he did great in the super bowl. it had no practical impact and they're doing a fishing expedition on all of his info. and the standard is more probably than not. that just doesn't fly. >> the nfl said troy vincent of the committee wrote a letter and said yesterday that there is evidence to suggest that this was going on before the colts game and before this season. well let's see it. if that's true that's a major problem. but everything in this report has been kind of wishy-washy and vague. and now fair or not, tom brady's legacy is tainted. people say she be in the she beould he be in the hall of fame. you know people will say that. >> we foe what joe thinks. what do you think they should. >> i think they should have suspended him, but not for four games. >> one of the games he's missing is the buffalo bills. >> that's true. and i come at this from the per spec tifr perspective of a bills fan. but it does feel -- painful to say this but this does feel like the mfl isnfl is responding to the criticism that they have had of their punishments in the ray rice incidents and earlier incidents. and it shows that the nfl doesn't have a handle on this. there is no way someone should be punished with a greater degree of difficulty or greater punishment for underinflating footballs than for beating up their girlfriend. it just doesn't make sense i think to a lot of fans. >> well, the integrity of the game would be the nfl's main focus owe an a lot of levels. and mike barnicle they were arrow gants, they seemed to smile through this entire process. >> patriots handled it poorly tom brady handled it poorly. but the national football league, they walk away as if they're a nuclear power talking about protecting the shield. the integrity of the game? then let's have a drug policy that truly works. the integrity game? what about the official walt anderson who had the ball this is his room and let the balls leave his room. what about that? >> again, tom brady should not have done this. patriots should not have done it. it is cheating. it gives them an edge. but it's not on the same level as the other things you get a four game suspension for. like if a guy was stealing signs from second base in major league baseball, would you say that guy shouldn't be in the hall of fame scuffing baseballs? >> of course not. >> so are we talking two games to four game this is your mind? >> maybe suspend him for a game. fine him. ir i wouldn't even have done two games. >> we'll move on to real news although this i think -- it's a talker i have to say.mazeing to -- >> what would you have done mika? >> i would have shut the whole thing down but that's a different story. >> cancel the super bowl. >> just we're done. any excuse. let's move on. we have a lot of foreign policy to get to. some big developments here. saudi arabia's foreign minister is dismissing reports that king salman is snubbing president obama's summit of arab leaders by not attending this week's meeting at camp david. the white house has said that he would meet with obama for one-on-one talks to reassure gulf states about a possible nuclear deal with iran until the king abruptly withdrew. the foreign minister says reports were off base after a round of critical stories yesterday, king salman called president obama to express his regret. they discussed the summit's agenda and iran's nuclear program as well as the upcoming cease tirefire in yemen. a total of six arab states were invited, but top leaders of bahrain and united arab emirates will also be not the attending. >> the purpose of the meeting hof how to deepen our cooperation having the crown prince and deputy crown prince both of whom have leadership responsibilities when it comes to providing for the security of saudi arabia gives us confidence that we'll be able to have a robust discussion at camp david, but also that we'll be able to follow through on the commitments that are made in the context of the meeting. >> joe. >> mika there are excuses for every one of these countries that wouldn't be showing up but you look at the countries that are turning down an invitation to spend one-on-one time with the president of the united states alone at camp david, talking about the most important security issue certainly that they faced in a very long time. and you're going to have skeptical headlines and you're going to have skeptical editorials like you have on the editor kralial page of the "wall street journal". that said, saudi arabia very clearly came out like we first reported on "morning joe," t came out yesterday morning and said exactly what we said they were going to say, that there was no snub. and i suppose at this point you just take the countries that aren't showing up at their word. >> at this point. we'll see where the governments go. obviously the deal is something we're watching. >> i think it's half a snub. they are sending their crown prince's second or third in command. they're clearly trying to send a message that they are not necessarily in our pocket and the relationship is somewhat strained. >> don't you think, steve, though that half a message that they send, it's largely because the earth, literally the earth is shifting beneath them? we are no longer reliant on saudi arabia for oil as much as we were. they are surrounded by the threat of iran which they regard us as not doing what we should do by them. they have the arab unrest around them the throne is threatened. it's more on them than it is on us. >> all that is true but i think at the heart of this is the fact that they are single mindedly focused on stability of their regimes and everything going on around them they view us insufficiently tough in terms of gets to assad, so on, so forth. >> joe. >> there also is julie pace one thing the white house has to worry about, with so much unrest inside and outside their borders, they have to worry about a new leader going to the united states and being seen as you come cowtowing to barack obama. >> there are so many domestic politics in place. we talk about the gcc as a corrective of six countries, but there are differences within those six countries. one of the big asks from a country like the uae was for a formal defense treaty. in other countries, that would be deeply unpopular to have a formal military ally answer with the united states. it really speaks to the differences in how we have to look at these countries as individuals. and with the saudis in particular yes, the ground is really shaky below them but we also have to be realistic that they don't have many other options beyond the united states if they're looking for an international benefactor. we still have as one analyst i talked to yesterday said we still are the only game in town for them. >> and a before we go to break, secretary of state john russia has just landed in russia in anticipation of a meeting with putin. american officials say the discussion will center on the conflict in syria. kerry and putin met on the subject two year ago resulting in an international conference on the war which failed to fin western leaders boycotted moscow's anniversary celebration of the end o >> i think there are two things that we have to watch for here. one on syria is there something happening behind the scenes that makes the u.s. feel like it's worth giving up peace process with syria is chance, is there a he'll list tick realistic possibility that assad would come to the table. and this happens in the lead up to a g-7 meeting in europe next month. russia was kicked out of the g-8. and there was a lot of talk about how the u.s. and europe needed to isolate russia. is this a sign that that isolation is easing a bit. >> jewel iuliejulie, thank you. still ahead, bob costas joins us on set with more on the suspension of tom brady. plus david axelrod has better luck picking presidents than prime minister. he weighs in on the recent british elections. and later, leave to netflix to cast martin sheen in a role like we've never seen before. the golden globe winner joins us on set to preview his new comedy. my school reunion. i don't know. who wants to play in idaho? 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