udget proposal for 2016 with increased spending for homeland security and defense as well as education and infrastructure and this is interesting, especially focus in the rollout on tech infrastructure. basically, you get the money and you get the money, you all get the money! just like a certain chicago base the talk show host. >> you get a car! you get a car! you get a car! everybody gets a car! >> i'm so impressed they got that in the top of the show. this morning president obama made the case why they all get the money. >> since i took office we have cut our deficits by about two-thirds. i'm going to repeat that as i always do when i mention this fact because the public often times if you ask them thinks that the deficit has shot up. since i took office we have cut our deficits by about two-thirds. >> budget calls fosh ending automatic cuts known as

questeration, good news for department of defense, on the other hand if you're a large cooperation with large offshore accounts like the cayman islands, con grats you'll get more taxes. it also calls for taxing the trillions of american dollars kept in havens overseas. joining me is alex sites waltd. these calls for increasing the budget for defense and launching this massive new infrastructure plan, what kind of reaction do you anticipate? >> it's one area where republicans agree we need to spend more money. we could get bipartisan support but the devil is in the details and in this case it's the funding mechanism. obama wants to pay for infrastructure spending with taxes on foreign corporate earnings probably not going to go very far among republicans. paul ryan yesterday also dising the idea of tax increase as

redistributionary, that's going to be a major problem even if they in theory agree on infrastructure spending. >> we appreciate that. >> the only things more frozen that congressional productivity the ground. so say ij phil the groundhog. six more weeks of winter. could have turned on the weather channel. snow is burying a massive chunk of the country, chicago digging out from the fifth largest in its history, 19 inches recorded at o'hare. today that snow moved to boston. why not add a foot on top of the two it already has. let's get to ron allen. another foot, huh? i think we may have lost ron allen and his fabulous snowmobile. no blizzard can compete with the other news warming hearts in boston. the super bowl win and we're going to get to that in one

moment because we have ron allen back on the line to talk about the snow. another foot? >> reporter: sorry about that it's tough in conditions trying to stay mobile and all of that. we have lots of cameras and things going on. you can see there's -- the roads are getting clear, which is the good news. you're right, it's snow on top of snow. on the edges of the roads you can see how it's piling up and piling up and continuing to pile up. we learned interestingly that they take a lot of snow out to these snow farms where it's melted and turn into water safely, it's not dumped in the rivers or boston harbor as i thought because again all of this contains contaminants and other road chemicals and so on and so forth. the big news is the super bowl. they are going to have a super bowl victory party tomorrow in downtown boston from the center of the city down to city hall. the mayor announced that today. when you look here at the

conditions, it's how are they going to do that? but they say they are going to do it. part of it is because they expect the weather to turn get better this afternoon. the temperatures are going to drop and it's going to get very frigid and cold but they think they can have a victory party. they are expecting lord knows how many people to come out and brave the cold and so on and so forth. they are getting it done. blacktop but more snow falling here. >> no storm too great to freeze the hearts of bostonians nursing hangovers and celebrating today. that party planned after a stunning win for the patriots. a moment everyone is talking about, the surprise interception from rookie malcolm butler. tom brady now arguably the most accomplished duo in the nfl. ♪ >> who can forget that halftime

show? we're going to delve into exactly how big the game was throughout the show. let's start with craig melvin who has highlights directly from glendale. >> reporter: good day from glendale. it wasn't just the most watched event in the history of television, it was by all accounts a fantastic football game. it came down to the last two minutes. russell wilson of course one yard line doesn't hand it off. he throws that interception and call that folks will be talking about for the next 20 years at least. head coach pete carroll took the heat. meanwhile, the new england patriots celebrating yet another super bowl. tom brady celebrating yet his third -- his third super bowl mvp tom terrific took to the podium a short time ago. >> the coach talked all week about how it was going to take all 60 minutes and it certainly did. it never broke our will.

we were down ten in the fourth quarter and being on the one yard line with 20 seconds left but the guys never gave up. you fight to the end and great things happen. >> reporter: brady no doubt, one of the best quarterbacks in the history of professional football. that was the case before last night. certainly the case now. we did not hear any talk in that news conference of deflated footballs but the league says the investigation is ongoing. what happens with that if anything remains to be seen. that's the story line for the off season. meanwhile, the folks in boston massachusetts, patriots nation in general, will be celebrating for a long long time. that's the very latest from here in glendale ronan, back to you. >> thank you you're looking at live pictures of the victorious pats heading away from arizona, they are heading to the airport in the buses and presumably back

to boston. darker news we're following overseas, an al jazeera journalist is finally free. peter greste was held more than 400 days. he was accused along with two colleagues of reporting false news i.e. news the military regime in cairo considered too sympathetic to the banned muslim broernghood. greste just spoke about leaving in an interview today. >> it was a very difficult moment walking out of that prison saying good-bye to those guys and not knowing how much longer they will have to put up with this. and then the ride to the airport was a sense of really wondering if it was actually all going to come to an end. we've had an awful lot of false starts with this, an awful lot of false alarms and moments when we felt freedom was close if not

imminent, only to have it smashed aaway. >> the two colleagues he left behind still inprisoned are two of a dozen journlgists still jailed in egypt. his army continues to receive aid from the united states $1.3 billion in this year's appropriations. our foreign koern ayman mohyeldin, these reported human rights abuses and mass trials that seem to be sham trials and human rights groups complaining of crackdowns. we know of one incident last summer that killed more than 1,000 people are any of those infractions going to change anything? >> the short answer is no. in the past year what happened the united states has valued the current government in egypt to the point it is trying to combat terrorism. the united states has been very supportive of egypt's efforts and has been calling on the government in egypt to push ahead with reforms but the

egyptian government is making an argument it is coming under attack. 26 of its soldiers were killed in massive suicide bombings there. the egyptian government is facing a dilemma with this rising terrorist threat backed by the insurgentcy but lost in the struggle are the human rights violations that are incritical conditionin increaseing and the government is cracking down on dissent big time. >> it's one of the hardest strategic relationships the united states has. there's the israel treaty they've upheld that since camp david in the '70s and security concerns in sinai peninsula. thank you for that overview. we've got news from across the pond where chris christie is burnishing his international credentials or something, how he got in the center of a measles controversy right after this.

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savannah guthrie in an exclusive interview before yesterday's super bowl. >> do you feel there should be a requirement that parents get their kids vaccinated? >> measles is preventible. i understand there are families that in some cases are concern about the affect of vaccinations. the science is you know pretty indisputable. we looked at this again and again. there is every reason to get vaccinated. there aren't reasons to not get vaccinating. >> are you parents to get your kids vaccinated. >> you should get your kids vaccinated. >> governor christie's office declared his stance in a statement, to be clear the governor believes vaccines are an important public health protection and with a disease like measles there's no question kids should be vaccinated. casey hunt is traveling with chris christie in london. casey, i know you're on the phone there and it's been tough to get a good connection. what do you make of chris christie stepping into this thorny issue? >> hey, ronan, this is something

that pulled away a little bit from his overall mission in london. he's here for something of way of laying groundwork for a 2016 run although the official mission is to improve trade for this state of new jersey. his office was so quick to come back and make sure that they clarified his statement in saying that he believes that in this particular case kids should get vaccinated. so in the past he has in some ways sided with families who have expressed concerns about the autism and their children. as you say, the president pointed out much of that science is debunked so i think they realize quickly that he had taken this in a way he didn't quite want to go. you've also seen some other potential republican candidates going down this road particularly focused on parental choice. that's how christie framed this we have to remember that parents should have -- there should be a balance was the quote obviously

between parental choice and public health. rand paul was also asked on the radio show today of whether he supports vaccines while he's not anti-vaccine, he doesn't think most of them should be mandatory. >> great reporting out there. we'll check in with later as you're out there with chris christie. that's one of the new developments in the skirmish for 2016 buzz playing out every day now. let's look at who has the brightest prospects. i sat down for a rare inview who knows better than anybody in the country. the campaign adviser for president obama's 2012 campaign jim macena i started by asking him who he thinks the top republican contender is right now. >> i ran president obama's re-election in '12 and the guy we were most afraid of was jon huntsman, the governor of utah who would be a smashingly great general election candidate.

you and i have the same chance he does of getting the republican nomination for president. i think he's out. i think the people -- >> too moderate in your view? >> too moderate in their view. he got 4% in new hampshire. >> it's fascinating to me because the common media narrative is that he flamed out really fast. not a lot of people say what you just said? >> i think he has an ability to connect to voters and would be a strong general election candidate. chris christie could potentially be a strong general election candidate. obviously jeb bush is the flavor of the week. i think the country suffered during the first two bush administrations and can't imagine them wanting a third but i know everyone is looking at him. i think john kasich the governor of ohio would be an interesting candidate. those are the three i think make sense. >> koch brothers pouring more than $800 million into this election cycle. that's a huge game changer. >> look i think the worst

decision of the supreme court in our lifetime is citizens united. unlimited spending allows one couple to spend $900 million trying to win races and turnout is down in politics since citizens united. people are sick of divisiveness and ads. i run a super pac and i think they should be outlawed tomorrow. if they are going to have that type of money, i'll push back and fight for ideals i believe in. >> he is part of the problem, your super pac, priorities usa. >> yep. >> you're pouring your money towards hillary? yep, we want hillary clinton to be the next president of the united states -- >> some hillary fans here. >> it's her turn and her time. i think she would be the right leader for the country moving forward. we're going to do whatever it takes to make sure she's the president of the united states. >> before we get to hillary and the 2016 on the democratic side. i want to linger on the topic of

pacs. you just expressed what is a common liberal sentiment about citizens united. and yet you are partaking of the benefits of the super pac system and this flood of money. >> yeah, and look i do not believe you can unilaterally disarm and win an election in this country. you know people believe the lie if it's not countered. we're going to push back on the lie. i think the system is broken and should be changed. let me give you an example. i'm doing the prime minister race in the united kingdom right now. by law there they can spend 29 million pounds in the entire race. they can run four television ads. they have a real conversation with voters. it's about issues. higher turnout and i think a better system than our system where we had to raise and spend $1.1 billion to win a campaign. >> $1.1 billion. >> it was really fun.

>> how do you change that? how do you push america towards potentially that british system and towards the system where elections can't be bought and sold? >> i think it's going to take a constitutional amendment which will be a decade long campaign trying to get states to ratify it. the other way is to change the united states supreme court. that was a 5-4 decision it was clear that decision has been a disaster for this country. i'm hopeful if we get a change in the supreme court, they can revisit it. i think the evidence is very clear that decision was -- had huge effects to our participate tri democracy. >> let's talk democratic candidates. when you look at the field right now, obviously you are working on hillary being the most prominent player and not tough to make her the most prominent. she gelts the most buzz. are we essentially loobing at hillary and then an elizabeth

warren question mark? who are the competitors that could actually ruffle the hillary machine? >> i love elizabeth warren she's one of the people i most respect. she's made it very clear she's not running for president. everyone can sign all of the letters she wants. >> you think that's sincere? >> i think she's being very sincere. she understands that we need to make sure a democrat replaces president obama and the best candidate for that is hillary clinton. think you will see governor o'malley from maryland look at the race. exsenator jim webb of virginia looking at the race. my moem state governor brian switser of montana looking at the race probably less so after his recent -- bernie sanders has talked about it. we'll have a primary. no one is saying that no one will run against hillary clinton but i think it's clear she'll be the democratic nominee. >> i've run a super pac and i

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in life due to mortal looming threats like falling tvs. they gave it a resounding -- people echoing this thought, was that nationwide commercial depressing enough and this one on youtube. >> super bowl is a time of joy. it's a time of celebration and championship. it's not a time to think about dead kids. we want to watch cute commercials with puppies or funny commercials where people get beamed in the head with burritos that fly. >> another commercial jeff bridges, the dude himself, sitting weirdly beside a sleeping couple in their bed. [ the ad for square space had a lot of people scratching their

head. still had 10,000 mentions of the dreaming with jeff ad. he didn't seen say anything. i think he really tied that ad together. an ad for a product my booking producer had to explain to me. guy, it has wings and that's not a red bull reference. procter & gamble's always people nim hygiene product asking now #like a girl ever became an insult. >> show me what it looks like to run like a girl. >> throw like a girl. fight like a girl. >> yes, i feel empowered. big reaction to that one, over 481,000 tweets demi lovato agreeing with me i'm proud to sing like a girl. those ad were among the factors that conspired to make this super bowl a record setter. the highest overnight ratings ever and some records beyond tv as well.

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welcome back as you may or may not have noticed through your hot wings hangover this super bowl drew record viewership on tv and social media. according to twitter, the most tweeted super bowl ever. you're looking at a heat map showing how it played out online. the red ones are about the patriots and green about the sea hawks. i talked with twitter communications manager about the super bowl through the lens of social media. i started by asking him to break down this year's game stacked up against previous years. >> absolutely 28.4 million tweets were sent globally during the live telecast the most

tweeted ever and biggest sporting event in u.s. soil ever, only trumped by the world cup final this past summer. let's break down the big moments, certain moments spiked more than others. i understand one of the big ones was butler and that incredible intercept that everyone was watching. >> with 20 seconds left in the game, everyone thought the seahawks would hand the ball to marshawn lynch, when he wants to talk and not get fined but russ set threw an interception 395,000 tweets that minute. >> the wrap up the actual moment that the pats triumphed? >> after the interception there may have been a little fight that some people saw in the end zone but then once that final whistle blue tom brady pumped his fist the second most tweeted of the night. >> there was a moment of ka that are sis around the halftime show they wanted something

light and sparkling after the heavier ads that played earlier. tell me about how big the katy perry performance was. i understand the final song was a record setter. >> her final song was the third most tweeted moment of the night. as you know and many people know the most followed global icon on twitter. 3 million tweets just about the halftime show including lenny kravitz and missy elliott. 3 million tweets for a 15 minute window is mind boggling and it shows the power of her celebrity. >> you know my feelings my prediction that i would need a glass of water. >> talking about tweets that bent viral, that was awesome. >> you're too kind. a lot of backlash about some particular ad moments. >> sure the ads are probably

one of the big three topics to converse about. a lot of folks were conversing about the nationwide ad which was pretty controversial. and other folks liked the budweiser ad and fast and furious and twitter only charmin, always hilarious on twitter, mcdonald's was retweeting every advertiser that had a on tv. >> do you see it becoming over time more of a social media moment for the country? >> you know i see them as one in the same. twitter is a real time second screen component to tv. the game was on nbc. and more people than ever were tweeting as a second screen a big moment happened and you tweet about it and do it all at once. of course it is getting bigger but never see it replacing tv. i see it growing in size as a

compliment to what you're watching on the first screen. >> you can see that in the heat map you brought us there. when you look at the data breakdown it bears out that point you just made. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> thanks so much for your time. >> big moment for twitter and big moment for the pats. live pictures right now of the patriots filing on to their plane at phoenix international airport heading back home to boston and presumably a heroic home coming welcome. turning overseas and the toughest piece of news over the weekend, it's something we're all reeling from and mourning from, the gruesome killing at the hands of isis. let's look at the tough question up next. is that militant group losing ground or is it gaining? we've got news that might inform the answer to that right after this break. except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. and when i finally told my doctor, he said humira

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the world is grieving a new atrocity at the hands of isis a new video appearing to show the beheading of kenji goto the japanese journalist held hostage by the terror group. in japan, sadness and anger, prime minister shinzo abe vowing that japan would not give in to terrorism and vowed to pledge support for the coalition to fight isis. keir simmons is following the global outpouring of sadness. do you think this moment will meaningfully galvanize support for the coalition. >> if support isn't galvanized already, it may do further. there is though a debate in japan over when this should lead to japan offering more support. the prime minister said the country will for the fight against isis or whether in fact it ought to be taken to a reason to pull back somewhat and not

get so involved. so that debate is happening there. but more broadly speaking i think it will strengthen people's resolve in many parts of the world. by the way, there were many isis atrocities that aren't being reported. just over the weekend, for example, an iraqi commander and another beheaded by isis. so in the local region there is continuing blood shed and unhappiness with what they are seeing and the question though is how the local sunnis in the area that isis controls of iraq how they are responding and whether or not those tribes will get behind the push against isis. that's the question. >> and as we know a jordanian pilot is being held by isis. jordan has vowed to do everything it can to secure his release. where does his situation stand right now, keir?

>> jordan has said -- had said over the weekend and past week that it was prepared to hand over a militant -- a failed suicide bomber a woman that isis had said it wanted handed over in exchange for the japanese journalist and for this jordanian pilot. jordan is saying it still is prepared to do that. but looking for proof of life that the pilot was still alive. so far it doesn't appear to have been given that. the concern in jordan will be if it does turn out that pilot has been killed there will be great unhappiness on the streets of jordan. >> nbc's keir simmons, thank you for that sobering update. >> there's at least one other known remaining isis hostage, one received less attention from her own safety an unidentified american woman. savannah guthrie spoke with president obama in an exclusive interview and asked how the united states is handling her

situation. >> we are deploying all assets that we can, working with all of the coalition allies that we can to identify their locations. we are in very close contact with the family trying to keep them updated. obviously this is something that is heartbreaking for families and our obligation is to make sure we can do anything we can to try to make sure that any american citizen is rescued from the situation. >> joining me for more on this nbc news terrorism analyst and senior partner evan coleman and former british military officer, michael kay. what do we know? >> she was working for an ngo in turkey and syria. right now isis has said nothing about whether or not they have her in the custody or what they intend to do with her. the question is whether or not isis would treat a female in the same way it would a male hostage. a lot of people when they look

at beheadings that have taken place, you wonder how that could possibly have a positive impact on isis' recruitment. on the other handy it would be hard to argue that they haven't been quite successful in their strategy. that might be the case if they beheaded a female hostage because of the fact that people trying to rally might be tremendously offput by that. >> what's your take on that? they have killed one of the last hostages they have at their disposal. whads their leverage? >> that's the critical question. if you look at the people remaining, we've got this lady that evan was talking about and jordanian pilot and the u.k. journalist. john is being used in a propaganda role to get their mess oj out there. we don't know too much information about the american lady and the way isis is trying to delegitimatize the jordanian government in terms of an outfit or islamic state as they call themself being able to actually

negotiate with another nation state. i think there's some important dynamics going on there. i would say quickly about kenji goto. he was a hugely compassionate man and wonderful man. what's interesting about japan, they are article 9, the peace clause that's been in place since 1946 not permitted the prime minister to deploy forces outside of japan. that was reinterpreted in july of last year. so abe will now have the option to do that should he require. going back to the conversation, how do we manage that in terms of the negotiations with isis. if japan does enter the fray then you could argue that isis has achieved in exposing themselves more and pulling them into the conflict. >> the republican response from every government hit so hard in terms of human cost is to pledge more support for the coalition. but when we look at the response within japan, some opposition leaders are saying that's too dangerous and calling for more

pulling back. do you think there's a risk these situations will deter more involvement. >> it is less of a concern with japan. it's not going to make the existent shal difference. what we have to worry about is jordan. jordan right now, there's pressure inside of jordan against the decision of the jordanian government to support the u.s. coalition and u.s. military activity in syria. if we lose the support of the jordanians or saudis our arab allies there never mind the military contribution they are making it's the moral contribution and the idea that once again it will be the united states and its close western allies fighting a war on our own in the middle east. that's exactly what we don't want that was the whole idea behind this coalition that president obama put together. it would be a major defeat for us if foreign policy and otherwise if that were to fall apart. >> thank you. stay here.

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u.s. and coalition fighters continue to fight isis ten air strike over the last two days. they conducted 17 air strikes in iraq using attack jets and drones. some former military leaders and politicians insist american ground troops will ultimately be necessary to win this. >> the president has the right goal to degrade and destroy, he doesn't have the right strategy. you need boots on the ground not only in iraq but syria. >> in his speech at west point last may and his rollout of this isis strategy president obama has again and again made one thing clear, no u.s. boots on the ground. his answer instead, training and

arming foreign fighters. in december u.s. troops started a six-week program to train 5,000 iraqi soldiers to soldiers. we embedded with those marines to get an unusual front-line look. >> back back back back! >> when do they start firing weapons and getting live ammo. >> i'm not too sure when that is going to happen. but either way, you don't need ammo to train. >> do you guys call them fun-size. >> junior. >> he feats easily in most overhead compartments.

>> we are partnering with the iraqi army in order to help build their capacity and maybe build a counter attack for the isis threat. >> it is kind of haunting. some of the places that you know you can really tell used to be occupied by u.s. forces. there is a lot of -- i've been in a couple of these buildings where there is cleaning schedules from 2011. >> they just follow the same plan that we do with our forces. we develop them from the bottom

up. >> getting equipment in their hands and getting them proficient at their equipment is one of the biggest obstacles that we've had to train them up and make them effective. >> and how can that be solved? >> oh, man, i don't know. i think to help with their form they just have to put it into practice i think. >> do you think this will ultimately end in american ground troops here in iraq? >> i don't think that there will

come a time where we will look to invest that kind of blood or treasure into this fight. this is a fight that the iraqis have to win on their own. we're going to do the best we can do to build their cap as toyota get them-- to get them to a capacity where they can fight their fight. >> our thanks to lindsay to get that. and back here with me i'll start with you, evan how much do they have to fight isis? >> in the last couple of days we've heard that an iraqi militia moved into a sunni town after they had been beaten and took casualties from isis and they have been massacred. those are people we're providing guidance to. when you allow other people to do this without much training

and sectarian interest they will take it on their own prerogative. and in syria, we don't have a proxy to work through. who are we going to ally with. the syrian army is dead and they have moved on to other groups and they hate the united states. and in syria, we don't have a proxy to work with right now. it is curious that we talk about training people. who exactly are we going to train and even if we find those people, what guarantees do we have that they won't hand their weapons or information over to iran who is the other major proxy involved right now. the other people we are trying to back in iraq who are being backed by the iranian government. >> incredibly difficult to arm the forces and train them up and

build the capacity which can be used against the united states. and mikey k. you've seen these in afghanistan. what are your reservations about doubling down on the proxy strategy. >> i was invited by carl ikenberg to study the afghanistan army and it was cross training infrastructure personnel, doctoring and various other aspects and that was the analysis but it lacked -- it lacked espirit decorp what the americans and the brits have developed over the last 100 and 200 years and that was severely lacking. so i think when you rewind back to the capitulation of the iraqi army in iraq there was a fracture in the government. there was a prime minister in maliki and that goes down to the

tribal factionsment and you don't touch upon air our power. if you see the air power in pakistan and how resurgent the taliban are in kabul, the iraqi army didn't have that last year. there was no good air power so if they are going to train 5,000 troops now, they need to have the air power to go along with it. and then the final aspect is the social economic problems and where they are training in the first place. is it because they want to train their homeland or because they need money. and i think there are aspects we need to address before going into the training aspect. it is a holistic approach. >> it is easy in a political speech to say no troops on the ground. but as you both laid out it is difficult to put into action. thank you evan coleman and mikey kay. and we want to pay a monument to pay tribute to kenji goto who

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