the president overrules his fbi director and makes clear his anger at the deputy attorney general. >> you figure that one out. >> washington's big new debate the memo trump allies are using to attack the fbi. >> everything in this memo is accurate and true. >> it's really a political document. it's political talking points. >> and, still no immigration deal. >> we will not rest. we will not stop. this will not end except happily for our dreamers. >> "inside politics," the

biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world thank you for sharing your sunday. it is super bowl sunday. we'll get to that in a few moments. president trump says a newly released memo, quote, totally indy indicates him and if you believe him it also proves systematic corruption at the fbi. >> i think it's terrible you want to know the truth. it's a disgrace what's going on in this country. it's a disgrace. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. it was declassified and let's see what happens, but a lot of people should be ashamed. >> the president's take, though, to borrow a phrase is fake spin. the memo deals only with a sliver of the investigation. it in no way vin did i indicates the president. in fact, even as it questions fbi methods, the memo details

contacts between trump campaign advisers and russians. >> the fact is papadopoulos was approached by the russians and told that the russians had stolen hillary clinton e-mails and this took place in april of the election year. so they were making an approach to one of the trump foreign policy advisers. what was page, he was another of the trump foreign policy advisers and the russians were making approach to him too. >> whatever you think of the memo, the timing is beyond bizarre. the week long debate over whether the president should authorize its release overshadows his first state of the union address and a republican party retreat designed to chart a course for this difficult midterm election year. >> we got hit with these corporations giving tremendous bonuses to everybody that nancy pelosi called crumbs. that was a bad -- that could be like deplorables. does that make sense? deplorable and crumbs? they seem to have a resemblance.

i hope it has the same meaning. >> with us this sunday to share the reporting and their incites, julie pace of the associated press, cnn's manu raju, michael bender of the "the wall street journal." we begin today with that so-called nunes memo and its impact. it's lead author devin nunes says it exposed anti-trump bias and that he is doing a great public service. >> the sad part is, is that i have an obligation to the american people when we see fisa abuse. the only place that can protect them is the u.s. congress. it's not a place we wanted to go but it's where we had to go. >> context is important. one thing worth remembering is that congress -- the congressman attacking the fbi's credibility right there has his own credibility problem. his fellow republicans pressured nunes to step aside last year for leading the house intelligence committee investigation because they believed he was too cozy with

the trump white house. democrats now say a central premise of that memo is factually wrong. now the big debate is what, if anything, will change because of the release of this memo? the document is critical the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees the special counsel. some of the president's allies says rosenstein should now be fired. some of them want the special counsel fired. another republican involved in drafting the memo has a very different take. yes, it raises question but not fundamental questions about the broader investigation. >> the memo has no impact on the russia probe. >> not to me, it doesn't and i was pretty involved in the drafting of it. there is a russia investigation without a dossier so to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the fisa process the dozeny has nothing to do with the meeting the atrump tower. the dossier has nothing to do with a e-mail sent by cambridge. the dossier has nothing to do

with george papadopoulos' meeting in great britain. it doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice. there's going to be a russia probe even without a dossier. >> he's going to get some phone calls. a very level headed take there. there's a big debate with devin nunes, was he honest in writing this memo? did he lie? but to that point let's start there. that is a reasonable level headed judgment that let's debate fbi practices but it doesn't impact the bigger investigation. that's not what the president tweets. >> go ahead. >> congressman gowdy is pointing out what's not in the memo. the memo doesn't show any of the highly classified data that was used underneath to base this memo on. it doesn't call into question any of the methods that they used to get these warrants and we should also point out that the information hasn't been

declassified which is also something the president trump can do if he wanted. >> gowdy freed of course because he's retiring. that is why he's off message in terms of what the house republicans want the message to be and the message of course is about this memo. we know it's a highly disputed memo. the ultimate goal is to play to a jury. a jury of republican lawmakers, jury of republican voters in to sew reasonable doubt. if you look at what the president has been doing over the last months calling it a witch hunt, this is part of that and maybe one of the most effective parts so far. >> it doesn't change thatover all dynamic. if you are someone in the white house, a republican, a voter who is inclined to see the russian investigation as a witch hunt. this is more fodder for your argument. if you believe the russia investigation is valid and should continue, this is more fodder. while we spent a week on this, while this has become the new

focus alg point for the white house it does very little to change the overall dynamic for the preds. >> it may change the court of public opinion in the sense it gives people to run into their corners. what it does change and what it doesn't change. it gives you talking points for the public opinion. bob mueller operates in a court of law. so we're having these conversations. we will have them until we get further developments in the investigation. there's a different standard when you're standing before a judge. but to the president's point, the president's in mar-a-lago for the weekend tweeting this memo totally vin did i indicates trump in probe. it goes on and on. there was no collusion or obstruction. this is an american disgrace. memo totally vin deindicates trump. it does nothing of the sort. doesn't even come close. >> it raises questions about how this fisa warrant was obtained and carter page one foreign policy adviser in late october 2016 right before the

elections and it doesn't get into all the other trump campaign officials who had contacts with the russians. it does not talk about what is viewed as possible obstruction of justice, what the firing of james comey, the efforts to change the story about the trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. this has nothing to do with it. it deals with one aspect of how that fisa was obtained on carter page and there's a lot of disputes about whether the facts are correct in how that memo portrays that process. >> it does give you insight into that tweet into what the president has been hearing for the last several days, a lot of the push from the white house to release this memo is because trump was being told by some of his friends and some of his allies that this will vindicate you. there's nothing in it that does that but that has his mind set right now. this is going to help me. >> you have this republican view shared by the president that there was a conspiracy against

trump in a republican led investigation. james comey say republican by pedigree and they attack rosenstein who supports renewing some of this process going forward. there's republican conspiracy against the republican candidate for president. if there was such a conspiracy and they did not want trump to get elected, why didn't they leak any of this before the election? if these guys were conspiracying against candidate trump why didn't they leak this to undermine him? somebody help me. >> the fbi was trying to influence the election in that tweet. remember, this says that the carter page fisa warrant was obtained on october 21st, 2016. what happened a week after that? james comey sends a letter to congress reopening the clinton e-mail investigation. that has far more impact on the election. hillary clinton blames that for costing her the election. that's a different issue.

that had a much bigger influence than this fisa warrant. >> you can't find anyone in the white house to say that as clearly as president trump has. i've yet to talk to anyone in the white house who believes this vindicates anything that's happening with the russia probe. to your point to some of the back story of the fisa warrant and some of the investigations into russia, page has been on intelligent agent's radar going back to 2013. we have a report up on the "the wall street journal". he's been -- they've been looking at him for years. well before he was involved with trump and he's been undersurveillance since the end of 2016 before the election but that warrant has been approved several times. it's been approved at least once by the justice official and all -- and the folks that the "the wall street journal" have talked to, all of the judges that have approved this have been republican pointees. >> one thing they're jum set about is, they think they went to court to get this warrant

using the steele dossier, the washington free beacon and taken over by the clinton campaign, the democratic national committee paid for this and they're saying they made the case for this warrant with information from dossier and they say, devin nunes writes the fbi did not disclose that some of its information came from a politically biased source. wurnlt the "the new york times" "the washington post" others reporting they actually did disclose so the democrats are closing the central tenet of this is just false. >> and we lack a lot of information about what else the fisa court was told when this warrant was sought. the fisa courts are one of the most secrets parts of our government. it's amazing that he with now have this much information about one warrant but it is just a tiny ability of information about what this court was told and if it was -- if they were told that it was funded by democrats, it's unclear to me whether that would be enough for them to reject it. >> right, right. >> i always make the point, if i'm an independent and you're a

republican, if i'm a martian and you're from venus and i tape record you robbing a bafrpg, you still robbed the bank. >> yeah. is the information valid? were they able to corroborate it? you can tell in this memo the cherry picking that's going on. they say, part of the fisa warrant was a clip from yahoo news, an article by michael iz acough. why did they even include that? certainly they included much more of an clip from yahoo.com. republicans want to release a rebuttal to this. we'll see if this sees a light of day. it's got to be approved by the president. good luck with that. >> is it proof? republican and democrat, we'll get to a moment. we'll talk about the substance of the investigation. but listen here and i'll have a point on the other side. >> everyone knows the dossier was the basis for getting the warrant. andrew mccabe said but for the dossier we wouldn't have got the warrant. >> i was in the room, john, when

mccabe testified, that was part of the nunes memo is wrong. it is not true. it is not what andrew mccabe said. >> we'll get to the substance of the special counsel investigation. but is this debate proof -- the congressional investigations have just become so partisan? is there any reason to believe there will be a document produced by any of the committees that american people can read whether you're democrat or republican and view it with credibility as opposed to of through that. >> certainly not in the house. they've been going downhill for months. this is the latest breakdown and it's hard to see it getting back on track and there's a second investigation run by republicans really going after the clinton e-mail investigation. we'll see if the senate intelligence committee what they produce.

pretty skeptic. how to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> i'll take that as progress. ahead the special counsel's zeros in on the president's role in helping his son explain that trump tower meeting with russia. the president's state of the union including a call to protect the dreamers. talks aimed to do that going nowhere. sfx: muffled whistle text alert. i'm your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold... warmer... warmer... ah boiling.

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welcome back. another government spending deadline. this thursday, the republican congressional leaders say they are certain there will not be another shutdown. work on yet another temporary spending plan is on a separate track from the big debate over immigration including of course the question of whether congress can pass new protections for the so-called dreamers. the president says he wants a deal but his tone tuesday night did not sit well with democrats. >> my duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to

the american dream. because americans are dreamers too. >> the president is has angered some of his own conservative base by offering a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million undocumented people. in exchange the president insists on border wall funding and big restrictions on legal immigration. the president right now is asking for too much at once. >> we agree with the president that we've got to deal with the issue of daca. the question is, is it a much bigger broader debate about immigration which encompasses many of the other issues that are -- have been attending to that debate for a long time. if we can solve daca and border security that may be the best we can hope for. >> much more limited perspective there but forgive me this is starting to have a groundhog day feel to it. you have big divides between democrats and republicans but also divides in the republican

family. are they making any progress here? >> they're just talking. the big divides among democrats too especially about what they can except and whether or not they can agree to a short-term funding bill to keep the government open for another month or so while this immigration deal moves forward on a separate path. some democrats want to take a hard line. they were very upset when the way that the democrats handled it last time. i'm sceptical that there's going to be a shutdown at this point by thursday because of the fact that the democrats are chasing in a lot of ways the way they handled this the last time. these separate talks on immigration, while they may be progressing in some way in the senate, getting this resolution with the house is going to be incredibly difficult with the white house, the way -- the plan they put forward was rejected by a lot of democrats. getting that deal is difficult. you're heading into march where you have to deal with raising the debt ceiling too. they're heading into a lot of

problems just in the next few weeks and there's no clear path to resolving any of these. >> you hear the senator there. we can't pass all the things the president wants. if they just do a daca deal, legal protections for the dreamers and border wall funding, let's say they can pass that through the senate they probably could. the house conservatives are going to say to way. >> right. they don't really think it's real the 25 billion or so. they don't believe the wall will actually get build or it'll get tied up in courts. so that's why they feel like they want the other pillars of this in terms of family reunification or chain migration, whatever you want to call it and the diversity lottery. the president keeps saying, this is the easy one. that it can be done quickly. you also hear from republicans, this deadline, does it just start to slide the march deadline into april and may and that gives them cover as well as the fact that it's in the courts at this point. >> it gives them cover. if you are one of the dreamers -- >> it doesn't give you --

>> you don't know when the next court decision is coming down or when the president will change his mind. you heard from the number three senate republican. the number two addressed it on twitter. both parties seem to want the kwid without the quo. it's well put. parties have their positions, we know, there's differences in the republicans family and democratic family. to get a deal, grownups have to go into a room and cut one. is that going to fall to the president who has been criticizing the democrats but shows no interest right now in corraling the republicans? >> the deal they put forward a couple weeks ago or whatever it was now, a lot of folks in the white house thought that should have been the end game not the start game. it's unclear how the white house is even going to negotiate from this framework. i will say that we saw president trump in front of the republicans this week, the prepared remarks he was supposed to tell republicans to take that

framework, put in a bill and bass it. he didn't do it. he got halfway through a sentence. he went off course a little bit and came back and asked republicans that something positive come out of this framework. maybe there's a sign -- there's negotiation there. it would be stunning if we end up with a deal for the wall and. that's where they were before the shutdown. that was the original chuck and nancy conversation. >> right. >> democrats if they shut down the government hoping to get that deal and i know there's some unrest within the democrats either that they're starting to lose that messaging war on the shutdown, that they were responsible for it, but they kept -- a lot of democrats thought that they should've just kept the pressure on trump and trump would have -- after another day or two couldn't have resisted and branded as a deal maker would have forced them back to the table. if they end up with that deal again, they're going to wonder what they put themselves on the line for. >> they feel the momentum

retreating right now. yes, they did not handle the shutdown well. they didn't have an end game after three days. the party was pushing leadership to end the shutdown but there was some sense at that point that they had some leverage over the president who wanted to make a deal on this, who wanted to look like he was someone who could get this issue across the finish line. that seems to have gone away right now. that puts democrats, frankly in a pretty weak position in a year where they feel like they're whole chance of success is based on rallying the left, energizing their base. they know this is an issue where they can get that base motivated. >> if you have all these -- someone has to take charge of this. you would think it would be the president. but maybe he doesn't want. if we can't negotiate deals we take it to the election. we try to win more seats. up next, full steam ahead for the special counsel despite the president's efforts to discredit the investigation and one key witness is a former trump insider. he beach was so peaceful.

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welcome back. a few recent developments in the work of the special counsel help us understand why the president and his allies are so determined to undermine the credibility of the investigation. court hearings for the members of team trump that have entered guilty please have been pushed back a few months. they are now both cooperating and the hearing delays suggest this investigation is with us for a while. and this mid-week report is fascinating. mark ca roll low is set to be interviewed in a few weeks. to help donald trump jr. explain that june 2016 trump tower meeting with russians who promised dirt on hillary clinton. the times reports mr. corallo planned to tell investigators that ms. hicks said during the call that e-mails written by donald trump jr. before the trump tower meeting in which the

young mr. trump said he was eager to receive political dirt from the russians will never get out. that shows you the stakes of the investigation in that you have former members of team trump, according to the "the new york times," people who were inside watching the damage control efforts here suggesting somebody, hope hicks, she gets to testify as well but just the inference there, e-mails will never get out, if you're a critic or except tick someone's trying to hide something. >> to put this in the context of the memo, this is exactly why the memo does not vindicate trump in this because there are interviews still happening, there are people in the president's inner circle and his family who are still not if not being actively investigated are still very much in the mix for the mueller team in terms of trying to find out what information they know. this is an investigation that is going to continue. it is not going away for the president regardless of what the nunes memo put out there.

hope hicks is just a fascinating character in all of this. she is as close to the president and as close to the inner workings of this white house as anybody. >> she's part of the family. >> she's looked at as part of the family and she's in the room when most major decisions are being made, substantial decisions. >> including this response from last year when the trump tower meetings were revealed in the "the new york times," she would played that role in helping craft the message from donald trump jr. that said that this meeting was just primarily about adoptions and that was a mids leading response. donald trump jr. himself has testified before the house intelligence committee that he communicated directly with hope hicks about this not the president about it initially. he talked to hope hicks. her role is very important here, of course she denies what mark corallo is expected to tell the special counsel but we'll see. if there are two conflicting accounts, someone's not telling the truth and that leads to more investigations. >> in the middle of all of this,

you do have the context of the memo. i try to keep them separate. what mueller does is in the court of law. we'll see how the case is proceed. he already has two plea agreements. you have the court of public opinion. one of the big questions we played at the top of the show, trying to ask the president if he has confidence in rod rosenstein. bob mueller can't do much without getting approval from rod rosenstein. rosenstein has consistently said he supports what mueller is doing. listen to the top democratic, says maybe he won't fire mueller but will go after mueller's supervisor. >> it might be better for him to fire rod rosenstein, bob mueller's boss. if the president can find a yes man to do that job and that yes, man can tell bob mueller you can't look into money laundering

or this or that. >> to republicans watching, adam schiff has become a pretty partisan democrat on this. raj shah says no change in plans. we know the president's not happy with rosenstein. is there any reason to believe that's on the table? >> you have to believe that's on the table. if you look at the pattern of this president in terms of targeting and firing people who are now involved in the russia investigation, first james comey -- if you look at the memo. people who have extended the fisa warrants. those folks are listed in the memo, james comey, sally yates, andy mccabe and none of those people are there any more. rosenstein is there. the president himself when asked basically said, you figure it out whether or not he would -- he still has confidence in rosenstein or thought about firing him. if you just look at the president's record, you would, you know, might conclude that it's a reasonable expectation

that he might move to remove rosenste rosenstein. >> that's the difficulty of trying to understand this white house. trump seems to be the only one say this vindicates him. when it comes to firing rod rosenstein, the people who are in the room with trump talking to him about this told me there's a 0.0% chance he's firing him over the memo. future firings may raised to .1%. he understands the consequences of what ship is talking about. and that he's not going to fire rosenstein. you just can't tell exactly where he's coming from on this stuff and when he leaves open a questions about whether his confidence in rod rosenstein it raises these questions. what the white house says about this, it was based on a mix of frustration with the investigation and also partly after of his pleasure of teasing te media, which is fine, you

know, to understand where trump is coming from. what that also does is raise questions and doubt about american institutions and the intelligence community. >> it raises doubt. he also sparred with his new fbi director who did not want this memo declassified. you have the -- the russian election meddling was designed to undermine confidence in u.s. political institutions. all of this is playing out, mccain who is home recovering with brain cancer, said putin wins. the latest attacks on the fbi and department of justice serve no american incidents. special counsel mueller's investigation must proceed unimpeded. they must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan side shows. if we continue to undermine our own rule of law we are doing putin's job for him. >> we have an election in november and there's been no

effort discernable effort to do anything different than what we did in 2016 to prevent foreign advisory to interfere in the election and because it's been mired in this partisan fight largely because the preds himself views all of this as an effort to undermine his own legitimacy as president. he is not been able to separate the two issues. >> they slow walked on sanctions again, which is makes everybody curious. why you slow walking on a congressionally passed law? >> it frustrates a lot of republicans, not just democrats here. the president has not been able to get his head around the idea that regardless of what happened in 2016 in terms of his own campaigns potentially involvement with russia, russia is succeeding in sewing a lot of instability, a lot of mistrust in this country around our institutions, around the sanctity of our elections. john mccain is right that is a victory for putin and that's

something that the president of the united states could help stop but he's unwilling to do so. >> candidate trump sewed a lot of that doubt. everything was rigged. up next, republicans feel better about the 2018 landscape yet the retirement list gets another big name. politicians say the darnedest things and since it's super bowl, how about presidents, talking football. >> unless it's a texas team i'm not pulling for anybody. i'm pulling for a good game. i think it's going to be a very close contest. what the heck do i know i'm just the president. >> are you going to watch the game? >> of course. >> you know football and blitz's and coverage. >> i know football. >> i like bob kraft, i like coach belichick and tom brady's my friend. >> they're all taking. >> they're taking a lot of heat and they're getting a lot of popularity out of it. i think they'll do very will with. tom's a winner.

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republicans are well aware history is not on their side in this midterm election year. add in the unpredictability of the president, and the russia investigation and it makes for a roll railroad coaster election season ahead. two important numbers to watch, the number of republican he tiermtments and the president's approval rating. let's look at those number. 36 republicans have announced they are leaving the house of representatives. some retiring and some running for other office but that is a big number, including a big number of republicans chairman saying i'm done. i'm leaving the house. that makes it easier for the dmsz. the senior members are well-known. democrats think in some of these districts increases the odd. the most important number, though, little history, presidential approval in a midterm election year. bill clinton's first midterm he was at 46%. newt gingrich becomes speaker of

the house. this was a bit of an aberration. the first election after 9/11, george w. bush was caught popular. the republicans actually picked up seats in the election. that is an anomaly in history but the president's approval rating a year after 9/11 a big part of that. this is the election a lot of republicans are studying now. they think they may be on the other side of this. barack obama had 46% in ten and the democrats lose the house and lose six senate seats. that's a big number. that's a big number. the question is where will the republicans be come november. at the moment, our polling has president at 40%, some other polls him up a little bit from that. we have him at 40% right now. where will he be on election day? what will be the number here? one of the big debates is when republicans look back at 2010, a lot of democrats ran from president obama. even those republicans don't like him, look at the flavor here from the republican retreat. the republican leaders understand they rise or fall with this guy. >> we've talked a lot about 2017

being the most consequently chal year for conservatism in the last three decades, none of that would have happened but for the president of the united states. >> america's going to be a more prossus country. america's going to be a more confident country. and that is because of the leadership of our president. >> paul ryan called me the other day and i don't know if i'm supposed to say this but i will say that he said to me he has never, ever seen the republican party so united -- >> not sure about that part. i'm not sure. it is interesting when you watch this play out and if you remember what happened with the democrats in 2010, trying to seek some distance from obama or ignoring obama. the thing i take away from this, even though paul ryan and mitch mcconnell may not like it, this is donald trump's party. >> absolutely. they have decided that it is better to be with him than

against him or neutral. if you look at the competitive senate races, it makes a lot of sense. a lot of them are in states where trump did overwhelmingly well in 2016 and in the house certainly with gerrymandering you have a lot of seats that are overwhelming republican. you have a lot of people who are retiring because they either don't want to be in the mix with a trump presidency or don't like the toxic environment in washington but look anybody who is waiting for mitch mcconnell and paul ryan to walk away from donald trump is going to be waiting an awful long time. they have made their decision. that's where they'll be through the end of this year. >> base intensity drives midterm election. if you have the republican party in a fight and the democrats are unified against trump, we have seen some tightening in the so-called generic ballot. you asked them who they'll vote for, republicans or democrats.

if you're a democrat, you're not too nervous this year. 64%, they want to vote democrat, only 26% say republicans. the republican number if you're a republican you're used to being confident in your district. but 51% of republicans, 45% to democrats. it shows you that the democrats are competitively and yet in the last several weeks been a tightening of the polls that are more favorable to republicans. >> no question about it. but still the environment is so favorable for democrats right now. it is -- the house is on a silver plalter right them for now. with the retirements, with the number of districts in hillary clinton districts compared to the number of seats that they need to take back the elections, virtually the same. you have also the historical nature that a president and his own party loses seats in the first midterm elections and you have presidents sliding on popularity. if they do not take back the house this will be one of the most epic collapses of party in

history. they really have no one to blame but themselves if they don't take back the house. there's a lot of outside factors. we don't know what the world will look like come november. >> which is why a lot of house republicans would like to pass the budget for the year instead of doing these month to month. the last place you want to be is in washington. >> you saw the job reports. pretty good. you saw the increase in wages. you see people feeling that in their pocket books. there was one headline about democrats that said democrats having been in confident since 2016 in some ways -- >> ouch. given democrats record you have to say, democrats might democrat, right, in november. it could look very different. we'll see. >> save the tape. save the tape. for get democrats versus republicans for a few hours, today's it's the patriots versus the eagles. yes, super bowl sunday. time to wave the flag.

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welcome back. it's super bowl sunday. sorry, i'm from new england. new england patriots taking on the philadelphia eagles. our sports anchor andy scholes is live in minneapolis. god bless you for braving the cold. greatest of all time, tom brady, not too early to say about not tonight's game but mvp, right? >> last night the nfl handed out their yearly award and tom brady bringing home his third mvp trophy. he's the oldest quarterback to ever win the award but that might not be a good thing for patriots fans. the last eight nfl mvps that have gone on to play in the super bowl have all lost. you got to go all the way back to 1999 when kurt warner won the

mvp. so i don't know if that's a bad time for patriots fans, john, or if it's a thing where the mvp's due to win the super bowl at some point. later on today against the eagles, brady will be the oldest quarterback to ever play in the super bowl at 40-year-old and earlier this week despite his age, he has no plans of hanging it up any time soon. >> why does everyone want me to retire so bad? i don't get it. i'm having fun. my team's doing good. i know i'm older than most of the other guys, but i'm really enjoying it. i obviously enjoy the experience of playing in this game. this has been -- obviously this has been a dream come true many times over. i'm not thinking about retirement. i'm thinking about the super bowl and trying to win the most important game of the year and it's going to take a lot to do it. >> reporter: john, the opening point spread for this game was patriots by six but after some

multi-million dollars bets have come in on the eagles it's moved all the way down to four in some places. there's a bunch of people out there that think the eagles will keep this game close it not win it out right. >> i think they'll keep it close but they're not going to win it outright. that's my prediction. enjoy the game. let's head around the table here. i'm kind of outnumbered here. >> you are outnumbered. >> greatest of all time. >> thanks so much. we cannot cheer for the patriots by birthright. so i've got to be an eagles fan for one day only. it's tough, but -- >> go down the hall to that tapper guy. you're out of here. >> i made this prediction the last super bowl sunday. it's going to be 46-10. eagles over the patriots. this is the same score that the bears, my chicago bears, greatest team of all time beat the patriots in super bowl xx.

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