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my memory is fine. my memory -- take a hook at what i've done since i've become president. right now on "early start" president biden trying to put concerns about his memory to rest. did it backfire? and -- >> our supreme court hopefully will be doing something. i think it was really a very beautiful sight to watch. >> donald trump feeling pretty good as the supreme court looks like it will take his side in the colorado ballot challenge. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm kasie hunt. it is friday, february 9th. happy friday. we made it. a defiant president biden is lashing out against a scathing special counsel report that claims he willfully retained and disclosed classified military

and national security information. special counsel robert hur recommending that no criminal charges be brought against biden, describing him as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. the final report suggesting that biden even had trouble remembering when his son beau died. the president angrily disputing that notion in a hastily called news conference last night. >> every memorial day we hold a service remembering him, attended by friends and family and the people who loved him. i don't need anyone -- i don't need anyone to remind me when he passed away. >> the president was visibly angry, con ceding that he is an elderly man while insisting his memory is just fine and that he knows what he's doing. still, as he was leaving the podium he did mix up the presidents of egypt and mexico. >> the president of mexico, sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian

material to get in. i talked to him. i convinced him to open the gate. >> hur's report also suggests that the president doesn't remember much about his days as vice president. but president biden fired back, insisting he is the, quote, most qualified person in this country to be president, end quote, and that he intends to finish the job that he started. let's bring in sophia cai for axios. good morning. how much damage did this special counsel report do to president biden? >> i mean, it's pretty bad for biden and i think this is why, the fact that they did not charge biden means that for trump and his team and his allies on the hill, they can both say that the doj is two-tiered and used that line that he's been using for months now, and they can use the lines that hur wrote about memory to attack biden and show that in all ways he is not fit for office. that is kind of a double whammie

win for trump and that comes as he's winning in nevada, as he, you know, won on a ballot that he was not even on in terms of the nevada primaries two days ago. so politically i think it is really problematic for president biden. >> what did you make of the president's decision to hold that news conference last night? i mean, the reporting this morning is that his aides thought that he should show his anger and i will say there's been this kind of evolving school of thought around how to handle these things, that voters, supporters, want to see that you are fighting. is that what the president was doing here? >> yeah, i think it's a part of it is to bring him out and have him control the narrative and, you know, a lot of times we've seen when president biden has been more organic in terms of showing his emotions and those raw feelings, even if it is anger, even if it is frustration, that that is when, you know, he's best and kind of counter this notion that he is

feeble and that his aides are running the show. they brought him out here, i'm sure that there was buy-in in terms of president biden's, you know, willingness to take part in this, and before he made the mistake of mixing up the presidents of mexico and egypt, he did have a pretty good back and forth with the press. i thought he handled, you know, a very aggressive group of white house reporters pretty well, and that was definitely something that he wanted to do himself. >> so, sophia, you did mention, obviously, what trump is going to be able to do with this and saying, well, they're charging me for mishandling classified documents, they're not charging president biden. it's clear that the president -- the argument will be, well, look at how we handled this differently, right? president trump, the probe and the criminal charges and the things that he is facing in that instance do involve trying to keep the classified documents,

not turning them over to the government. there are allegations about trying to potentially hide evidence, get people to lie on his behalf. the president's team is arguing we fully cooperated here. i'm kind of interested to know if there are going to be retroactive questions about whether sitting for this interview was a great plan as part of this, but they can legitimately say we made the president available to you as soon as we found this out, we rushed to return them to the archives. is that going to be an effective way to push back on this? >> it's definitely what their plan is. i was talking to the biden campaign officials last night in that they told me their plan is twofold, number one is exactly what you said, it is to show how biden's handling and reaction and response to the investigation and his full cooperation is very different than trump's response, especially initially and even after, you know, he was -- he was sort of given a heads up

about that. and secondly, the biden campaign will be showing and sort of saying out loud that the special counsel was trump appointed and that he is not a doctor, he is a lawyer, and that the things that the special counsel have written about biden's mental capacity he doesn't actually have the authority to say and should not be listened to. so that is the plan for the biden campaign in the next couple of days and weeks, potentially even months in terms of responding to the special counsel's report. >> yeah, i'm interested to see how this -- the twists and turns of this continue to reverberate throughout the next year. sophia cai of axios, thank you. former president trump easily winning yesterday's nevada caucuses, revving up the crowd at a victory rally in las vegas last night. it was preordained when his last remaining gop rival nikki haley chose not to compete for the state's caucuses.

she began in the primary on tuesday and came in second there to "none of the above" in a race where trump was not on the ballot. the u.s. virgin islands also held their primary last night. trump trouncing haley in that head to head contest for the territories for delegates. you can see in these numbers that's the chunk of the republican party that is looking for somebody else, but somewhere between 25% and 40% depending on the state. still ahead here, president biden pivoting on israel, calling its war in gaza over the top. plus a pretty good day for donald trump at the supreme court as the justices weigh in on his ballot eligibility. and a first ever february tornado in wisconsin. our weatherman van damme is going to bring us the latest.

president biden is ratcheting up his rewuk of israel's military conduct in gaza saying it's been over the top. the president also painted a stark portrait of suffering palestinian civilians in the wake of israel's invasion. >> i've been pushing really hard, really hard, to get humanitarian assistance into gaza. there are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble, and dying, and it's got to stop. >> all right. elliott gotkine joins us now live from london. elliott, good morning to you. this seems to mark a new phase in how biden is talking about this. >> it does a little bit, doesn't t kasie? these are the strongest words yet that the united states and president biden in particular have used since israel launched its war against hamas in the wake of the hamas terrorist attacks of october 7th. i think that we haven't had any official response yet, neither from the prime minister nor some of his more right-wing

colleagues in his governing coalition, but you can expect there to be quite significant push back, probably more diplomatically from prime minister netanyahu, but somewhat less so from some of his friends in the coalition. they will say that, no, this is completely wrong, that israel's response has been proportionate and that it is in a war for its very survival. that this ground operation and this war with hamas came about because of the attacks by hamas, which led to the deadliest day, the most deaths of jewish people since the holocaust. and that israel is doing what it has to do in order to fulfill its justifiable war objectives, which are to destroy hamas, prevent it from visiting another attack of this kind on israel again and to get those more than 100 hostages that hamas kidnapped and is still holding more than four months on back into israel. i think there will be quite significant push back from the israelis and they will be concerned that in this crucial election year for president biden that he may be buckling to some of the pressure that he is

under not just from within his own democratic party but also from the electorate where he's been hemorrhaging support particularly among arab americans and younger votes as a result of the u.s.'s support for israel in this war with hamas. i don't think the overall support for the objectives of israel against hamas in terms of its destruction and getting the hostages back are going to change but perhaps less support and more criticism for the way israel is conducting this war, especially if it now carries out its threat to move its ground operations on rafah, the most southerly city in the gaza strip where there are more than a million palestinians about half the population of the gaza strip and there are concerns that the civilian death toll will go even higher with that comes about. >> when i was listening to what the president had to say last night, i mean, he clearly was visibly angry and, you know, watching him over the years when he does feel that way you tend to get a little bit more of a clear picture of how things

really stand and it did seem to reflect the frustration he -- it seemed as though he was frustrated in particular with benjamin netanyahu. how is that relationship between president biden and the looming election that could see the return of donald trump affecting all of these things? >> i think we've seen in the past president biden himself referring to times when he's told prime minister netanyahu that he loves him, that he is a friend, but that he doesn't agree with anything that he says or that he does, but, again, biden has always said that he is a zionist, that he supports israel, but i think that these words that he came out with in this news conference where perhaps he wasn't expecting to be discussing the situation in the gaza strip, is, as you say, evidence of his growing frustration, particularly with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government and the fact that there seems to be no plan for the day after and certainly netanyahu's rejection of what the biden administration storms as in a two-state

solution once this war is over. >> elliott, thank you very much. up next here, new rules from the fcc. they're trying to crack down on deepfake scam robocalls. and a former adviser to donald trump is ordered to prison for his role in the january 6th insurrection.

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welcome back. we have quick hits across america now. senate lawmakers advancing a foreign aid package for ukraine and israel. now they need a timing agreement before a final vote, but opposition from key senators, rand paul, is going to slow down that process. former trump adviser peter navarro has been ordered to

report to jail for his mower-month sentence. a judge denied his effort to stay out of prison while he appeals his contempt of congress conviction. the fcc cracking down on deepfakes. voting to outlaw scam robocalls that are made with ai-created voices. authorities say they've traced robocalls that used a fake joe biden voice to a texas man who is now under criminal investigation. let's get now to weather across the country. thunderstorms in the plains, spinning up at least two reported tornadoes in illinois and this one, look at that, spotted in wisconsin. it knocked out power thursday night. this is the first ever february tornado in that state. >> then the tornado hit and everything exploded. so the windows blew out, the down stairs it was rumbling like a train. >> high winds also downed trees and damaged multiple buildings across the area.

van damme tracking all of it for us. a tough day for those folks in wisconsin. >> we need that to sink in for people, the first ever tornado in wisconsin during the month of february. that is significant. we need to mark that because it's just not something that we have ever seen before. in total we had three tornado reports across parts of the midwest and this is all part of the warmth that has been bubbled across this region, breaking records for so many locations. look at des moines iowa yesterday, 63, previous record 60 degrees. and the warmth and warmer trend continues for the northeast, over 150 temperature records possible through the day on sunday. this is an interesting graphic put together by my weather producer monica, i'm grateful for this because what you're seeing here, every single red dot across the midwest and northern new england, that is locations that have experienced their warmest winter to date. so that just really puts it into context how warm it's actually been across this part of our country.

this is having great impacts on the ice cover on the great lakes. so much of it is normally frozen in ice, frozen in time, we have a mere 5% of the entire great lakes covered with ice really near the saginaw bay and portions of northern lake michigan. this is following that trend of declining ice coverage across the great lakes every winter since the '70s and this of course has major impacts on the outdoor winter sports activities like ice fishing, perhaps the snow sports industry as well. here you can see temperatures well above average, well above freezing so we're going to keep that warmth in the forecast to go. lots of rain across the deep south, a storm system will bring the potential for some severe weather across the deep south, especially into louisiana by saturday and sunday, so monitor that, and there is the potential for heavy rain from mobile, alabama, all the way to atlanta, georgia. >> i'm just -- i'm doing math, i'm not sure i should keep doing this on air. you said it was 63 degrees in des moines, when i was there it

was negative 20, that's an 83-degree difference from january to february. >> that's winter coat versus shorts and short sleeved shirt. >> this does not seem normal. >> that's quite the swing, too. >> maybe i will be go back to des moines and i will have more fun. have a great weekend. i will see you on monday. president biden fought back against reporters' questions who cast doubt on his memory and then there was a slip up that he made right after that. we are going to show you that next. and the supreme court is hearing arguments in the challenge against former president trump's eligibility to appear on the ballot in colorado. what to expect up next in that historic case. that's ahead.

something the special

counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because in his description you are a well-meaning, elderly man, with a poor memory. >> i'm well-meaning and i'm an elderly man and i know what the hell i'm doing. i'm the president and i put this country back on its feet. good morning. thanks for being up early with us, it is just before 5:30 on the east coast, i'm kasie hunt. that right there was president biden sparring with reporters as we defended himself in the wake of a report by robert hur about his mishandling of classified documents. the report announced biden wouldn't face legal complications but did deal the president a political blow. hur said he made the decision not to bring criminal charges in part because biden would appear to a jury as a, quote, sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. he also said the president, quote, had diminished faculties

and faulty memory, alleging that he could not remember what year his son beau died during an interview. this raising questions about biden's mental acute, something that polls tell us worry voters. >> for months when you were asked about your age y would respond with the words "watch me." >> watch me. >> many american people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age -- >> that is your judgment. >> they -- >> that is your judgment. >> -- public -- >> that is not the judgment of the press. >> they expressed concerns about your mental acuity, they say that you are too old. mr. president, in december, you told me that you believed there are many other democrats who could defeat donald trump, so why does it have to be you now? what is your answer? >> because i'm the most qualified person in this country to be president of the united states and finish the job i started. >> that was our mj lee there questions president biden. after that unfolded biden seemed to be concluding the news conference, walking away from the podium, but then you can see he was asked a question about israel and he paused and he

returned to the podium after which he said the following -- >> the president of mexico, sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. i talked to him. i convinced him to open the gate. >> el sisi of course the president of egypt, not mexico. let's bring in white house reporter for the "wall street journal" catherine lucey who was also standing in that crowd of reporters. take us inside the room. what was the mood like in the white house last night as they scrambled reporters together? what were you hearing about what their response was and what they were trying to accomplish by putting the president out there. >> yeah, this was, you know, list i willy called news conference last night, casey, we weren't -- you don't usually see the president at this hour, this was put together quickly, limited notice for reporters, it was a small group that was brought in, and it was clear that the president wanted to send a message, he was very

combative, as you can see in those clips, he was angry. particularly he was visibly angry when he spoke about his son beau and the questions about the timing of beau's death. he got very emotional then. but he was, you know, combative, sparring with reporters after he made his opening remarks. he clearly wanted to send a message in response to the commentary in the report about his memory because there is an awareness that this is a vulnerability for his campaign, you know, for his political future, but obviously as you said this -- this report raises real things. i mean, voters are really concerned about this issue. this is a key vulnerability for him and i don't think the appearance last night is going to make that go away. this is something they're going to have to continue to grapple with. >> there were a couple instances last night that seemed to

underscore some of the points. katherine, let's talk through some of the reactions we've seen so far to what's been said about the mental fitness questions. there's of course the democratic primary challenger, dean phillips, hasn't had a lot of success at the ballot box but has also been running around saying that president biden is too old functionally. nikki haley wants him to take a mental competency test. the house oversight committee is now demanding the transcript of that interview that some of this report is based on and then you have mike lee, i think we can show this tweet, saying that the 25th amendment could be invoked. how damaging is this and what do democrats have and how are they starting to defend the president in the wake of this? >> certainly this report gets at this key problem for the president, it highlights these questions around his memory, his ability -- his abilities, his

mental acuity. we've already seen from democrats and from the campaign and white house how they are defending him. we saw the press secretary yesterday when she was pressed in the press briefing yesterday about some recent comments he has made where he's mixed up current and pasture mean leaders and, you know, she basically argued that lots of people make these flubs from time to time, that the president is in good shape, that he is doing well, that he is leading the american people. the campaign certainly will argue that they have survived attacks and queries about his age before. i mean, broadly, you know, his campaign and a lot of his allies feel that as this race becomes a two-person race between biden and trump that they can draw a damning picture of the former president and that when voters are faced with a choice between

the two that they will choose biden. but certainly polling right now is very close and these -- this r report doesn't help. >> i do want to put this up for everyone who looked at how biden pushed back against mj that we see 46% of democratic voters do have concerns about biden's age, only 5% say they have concerns about his mental sharpness and i think we should also underscore that it was memory that robert hur talked about here. you mentioned how he was emotional in talking about the reference to his son's death. i want to show everyone how he responded or what he had to say about that particular piece of this report. watch. >> i know there's some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events. there's even reference that i don't remember when my son died. how in the hell dare he raise

that. frankly when i was asked the question i thought to myself it wasn't any of their damn business. >> i do actually have questions about -- they don't release the transcript this have interview, right, this is a characterization in the report. clearly it made biden angry. what's your sense of why his aides wanted him to kind of show that anger? is this kind of the sense that you have to get out there and fight otherwise you're kind of letting the narrative get away from you? i mean, i'm interested in kind of the strategic decisions based on that emotion that we saw there. >> certainly there is -- are people who think that putting him out there, having him show his emotion and show that he is taking questions and show that he's doing these things is important and when it comes to his late son the president is very emotional, this is something obviously that is very -- continues to be very hard for him, that he talks about a lot and he carries very close to his heart.

he spoke about the fact that he wears beau's rosary beads around one of his wrists and i think the message there was that he is with him always, that this is always something that is on his mind. so he was very, very emotional and upset about that piece of this. >> all right. kathcatherine lucey of the "wal street journal." i know you had a late night at the white house last night, i appreciate you being up here to help us understand this this morning. >> thanks so much. >> joining us to discuss we have two major political headlines playing out in the legal realm. cnn legal analyst criminal defense attorney joey jackson. always great to have you. thanks for being back. i want to kind of dig into why this report came out the way it did, robert hur's report, why the decisions were made because clearly they want -- he wanted to make a point about the president's, you know, mental fitness, about his memory, but he also didn't charge him with

anything. what stood out to you in that like set of decisions and, you know, there is some criticism from, you know -- we heard andrew wiseman who worked on the mueller probe saying this is putting your finger on the scale. what do you make of it? >> kasie, good morning to you. it had to be done, right? and let me explain why. what happens is that when you are assessing whether someone should be charged with a criminal case, you're looking at intent. intent gets you into state of mind and so you have to justify if you are writing a report why did you make the decision you made? now, remember, you have to be mindful obviously and not that you should ever be, but the optics of not charging biden and going after trump with, you know, dozens of counts of classified documents becomes problematic. you know you're the special counsel and first and foremost you want to fred kate it upon the law. when you fred kate it upon the

law you sat down with the president, president biden, for two days, you assessed many things about what he did, what he didn't do, what he remembered, where he took the documents, where did he bring them? were they in delaware? were they in d.c.? who did you share them with, if anyone? when they were evaluating that they drew the conclusion that this was willful. that's important because an element of any charge related to classified documents will be that, not that you were negligent, not that you were careless but that you were willful. if you are not charging and you can't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt you have to explain why. and that explanation came with, listen, i don't really think there was any criminal intent, i think it was that he just didn't remember. and then you want to explain, well, why didn't he remember, and that you did. but in doing that you know that he was savaged yesterday by republicans with respect to double standard, another witch-hunt, it's ridiculous, why does trump always get charged, why does biden get a pre pass?

as unfortunate politically as it was that it was out there, kasie, it needed to be done for purposes of justifying why you're treating trump one way and biden another. >> very interesting, joey. thank you for that. let's talk about the other major -- we saw these just historic arguments before the supreme court yesterday about whether trump should be allowed to be taken off the colorado ballot. it seems like, you know, as i was talking to some of the experts that were sitting around our table, we were listening to the arguments, the sense was that in some ways to protect the court that they could make this decision to leave him on the colorado ballot, that certainly seemed to be the way that they were leaning and not just the conservative justices, but then also they have to consider this question of whether he is immune from prosecution in the election subversion case. there is some thinking that he could either decline to take that up entirely or take it up and declare him not immune there and then in that way they would be potentially washing their own hands of it.

what do you make of that kind of thinking and what we heard from the court yesterday? >> yeah, so, casey, as it relates to the decision about colorado, the issue is the big picture is it's not just colorado, right, there's movements throughout the country with many states considering the notion of whether he should be put on the ballot, that is the former president, and in the event that he is excluded, what would be the legal basis. so i think the court was very mindful in their questioning that while this decision affected the supreme court of colorado and their decision to reject trump from being on the ballot, that we're speaking to everyone else in the country and in doing that it seemed that the justices were pretty uniform in answering that question, a at least it did to me, that they would reject the colorado decision and therefore allow him to be on the ballot. why? there were questions from a liberal justice, ms. jackson, listen, does it even apply to

the president? in doing that they assess the intent, the intention of when the 14th amendment section 3 was passed, with a it is really designed for the president and if it was why did it not say so? you looked at things from conservatives like kavanaugh which would suggest we may be disenfranchising too many voters. roberts and his discussions should we really be giving states this power and authority. insurrection while it wasn't really addressed, kavanaugh said there is a statute, regarding insurrection, if you are convicted of that, right, then you can't be on the ballot anyway so what are we doing here? so it seemed to me that they really wanted to try not to be political about it, to make a decision based on the merits and ultimately, kasie, i think that they really reject that decision. >> all right. joey jackson for us. always grateful to have you. thank you. >> thank you, kasie. up next, president biden trying to defend himself after a special counsel report said he had faulty memory.

we will talk with a former biden campaign spokesperson up next.

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your memory has gotten worse, mr. president? >> my memory has not -- my memory is fine. my memory -- take a look what i've done since i become president. none of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. how did that happen? i guess i just forgot what was going on. >> do you fear that this report is only going to fuel further concerns about your age? >> only by some of you. pretty testy president biden there yesterday night after the release of a report by special counsel robert hur claiming that biden has diminished faculties and faulty memory. let's bring in michael larosa, the former spokesman for the biden campaign, former press secretary to the first lady and we should note he now works for facts first usa a super pac helping to defend hunter biden. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk strategy initially. obviously the president's team felt that they needed to put him out there last night in the wake

of this report, but that's a deviation from the usual strategy, he's done about half as many press conferences on average as his predecessors and this week he declined to do the traditional pre super bowl presidential interview, that's the second year in a row. we also did see him and we've showed everyone that he did confuse the presidents of egypt and mexico yesterday. why did they put him out last night and why are they keeping him back in these other instances? >> well, it was the right decision to put him out last night, whether it was his or theirs, i don't know, but you don't weather a crisis by hiding from it, you have to confront t the american people need to hear directly from him. he needs to tell his story on his terms and he needs to tell it right away and that's what you saw them do. it was the right move. whether it stopped the bleeding or the performance worked, it's yet to be seen.

however, a lot of the scrutiny that he receives for, you know, common mistakes like misremembering a name, things that are usually pretty unconsequential are more amplified because he doesn't engage a lot with the press and that's a problem. the american people need to see him, this he need to hear him. politics is a visual medium, it's about show and tell. he needs to reconsider doing that super bowl interview, you know, last year there was 120 million people who watched the super bowl. in 1992 there was 80 million and 34 million struck around to watch the clintons talk about their own vulnerabilities and it was one of the best things they could have done for their campaign. i'm not saying it's going to save joe biden but what it is is an opportunity and they need to be thinking about the media and their approach to the press as an opportunity and not so much as a hazard because it hasn't worked so far for him. >> so, michael, just to give our

viewers a little bit of context, you worked for the first lady, which means that you were really embedded in the family. >> yes. >> and she has been president biden's chief protector in the white house. i just say that to kind of give our viewers a sense of the texture you have available to you. >> that's right. >> i think one question that a lot of people have when they look at what's going on with the president is they wonder if the white house and the people around the president are covering up how bad things may be with president biden. do you think that that's what's happening? >> no, that's silly. the first lady isn't his keeper. she's his spouse. she has her own independent professional career, she's the first lady, she doesn't get involved in policy or politics. she supports her husband the -- >> she doesn't get involved -- i mean -- i mean -- >> i guess i should clarify she doesn't advise on politics, she

helps and supports him and she goes out and campaigns and is his biggest champion, but she is not his keeper. he has enough advisers around him to advise him on policy. look, from my experience in the three years that i was in that biden traveling bubble, he couldn't have been sharper. he called me out because he thought i wasn't paying attention a few times. he's whip smart, he's alert. again, like he said last night he wouldn't have been able to accomplish so much as what he's been able to accomplish in four years if he wasn't. >> michael, do you think any -- do you think his advisers on the whole are too overprotective of him? >> i think we need to see more engagement from him. i think he needs -- he has an opponent who loves the press, who loves the medium of the press and loves engaging with the press. he needs to flood the zone better than his opponent, not less. that's why he needs to reconsider doing this big interview on sunday. he needs to go out there and he

needs to show and tell why, you know -- why he needs to be in office another four years compared to the alternative we have. there's a choice to make and he has to go and make that argument himself. >> all right. michael larosa, thank you very much. i really appreciate having your perspective on this today. thank you. >> you're welcome. all right. the nfl handing out some major awards before the super bowl this weekend. which of your favorite players are being honored? that's next.

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the stars were out in vegas last night as the nfl handed out its awards for the 2023 season and no one shined brighter than ravens quarterback lamar jackson. coy wire joins us with more in this morning's "bleacher report." i think you are in vegas, coy. have you moved there for the week? >> it doesn't feel like the

desert, it's in the mid 30s right now and i should have worn my hat. my mom is going to kill me. hi, kasie. lamar jackson came up one win short of sending your beloved baltimore to the super bowl but he made history winning the second nfl mvp award of his career. 27 years old, jackson is the youngest two-time winner since the merger ahead of chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes by nine months. only ten other players in league history have multiple mvps. he won this year in land side. jackson received 49 of the 50 first place involved with josh allen getting one of them. jackson's award caps a season that began, remember, with a contract negotiation saga that saw him requesting a trade last march. here is lamar. >> i want to thank my organization, you know, baltimore ravens, for finally getting this deal done. my offensive line, man, i can't thank them enough for what

they've done. i'm not out there blocking, catching the ball, you know, doing everything, as my team, it's a team thing for these awards. >> all right. here is the other award winners, casey, 49ers running back christian mccaffrey getting offensive player of the year. myles garrett for the browns, houston texans, c.j. stroud and will anderson getting offensive and defensive rookie of the year awards. browns quarterback joe flacco beat out bills safety dhamar hamlin for come back player of the year even though he had just 13 first place votes to hamlin's 21. flacco had more total votes. finally in the sports and entertain world they are colliding this super bowl with chiefs star travis kelce and megastar taylor swift, his girlfriend, lots of people with opinions about it, about their romance which has been the talk of the town this service. i've asked someone who has mastered the collision of tv and sports dwayne johnson, he thinks

their love story is great. >> i love it. yeah, i don't have a problem with it. i feel like it's all part of the game and it's all the game that we play and a guy starts dating a girl who happens to be the biggest star in the world and he's a bad ass o.b. on the field, part of a story, but at the end of the day i've shared this with a few people i've talked to privately, is just all that goes away, you play the game so you know at this level, all that stuff goes away. you have to strip it all away and you have one intention and one focus and that's just to ball out and play the game. >> man, that's one good looking bald dude, isn't it, casey? >> two. two. >> we will see how this all plays out. thank you very much. thank you, kasie. >> that was some great tele television, coy. a great way to finish out the week. have a great weekend at the super bowl, don't bet too much