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Balls from theficial officials locker room and text messages where they talked about brady's unhappiness with the amount of air in the game balls. and i'm going to make that next ball a blanking balloon. he actually brought you up and said you must have a lot of stress trying to get them done. could those two have done all of this without tom brady knowing. the report states that it is unlikely that they would deflate game balls without brady's knowledge or approval. and brady declined to make available any documents or electronic information that we requested, even though they were limited to...

Sports, but we live in a world now with lance armstrong and barry bonds and a-rod and one of these disillusionments after another. they're not the black sox, where they threw the world series it's not like that, but it's bad. we do count on fairness and we count on the big leagues to be really fair. that's the deal. competitors go out and try to win by the rules and rules matter. anyway, jason, thank you so much for joining us and steven -- i guess we disagree steven. that's what "hardball's" about. it's not softball like in the nfl. we're expecting to hear from the new england patriots' qua...

And south, mid 80s. cooler here in new york city. 75 in minneapolis and albuquerque. a high of just 64 degrees today in los angeles. now to our other developing story this morning. a damaging report about the super bowl champion new england patriots. >> yeah, that report says that guy, superstar quarterback, mvp quarterback, tom brady, was "at least generally aware" that footballs used during games had been deflated by patriots employees. >> as you know, they're calling it deflategate. the big question this morning is who will be punished over it? and how severely? abc's karen travers has th...

It was later revealed that 11 out of 12 game balls were found to be underinflated in violation of nfl rules. brady was forced to address the controversy during the run-up to the super bowl. he denied any wrongdoing. >> i have always played within the ruse. i would never do anything to break the rules. i believe in fair play and respect the league and everything they are doing to try to create a very competitive playing field for all the teams. >> today, an nfl investigation led by attorney ted wells found it is more probable than not that tom brady was generally aware of the inappropriate acti...

Now. we have not found hard conclusions or any outright indictments of the patriots but the investigator hired by the nfl concluded as you said that it was more probable than not that the new england patriots intentionally deflated footballs. the report blamed the locker room attendant and equipment assistant for letting the air out of the balls. there was little evidence linking the star quarterback tom brady to tampering with footballs, but and this is a big but, it did say brady was, quote, at least generally aware of the inappropriate activity. the patriots beat the colts in the afc champi...