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p.m. eastern on nbc. with 70,000 fans expected to turn out a huge emphasis on security. fighter jets are ready to launch and thousands of officers will be on the ground and marine crews will patrol the coastline. >> you know, for us every day is game day. the players eat, sleep, live football and we eat, sleep, live maritime law enforcement. >> there are still covid concerns surrounding the game and the nfl and sofi reiterated masks are required for all fans and fbi is monitoring all threats from the operation center including the possibility of a trucker convoy like the one seen in canada protesting vaccine mandates and potentially trying to disrupt the game as homeland security. >> we, of course, are tracking and are aware of any concerns that might result in any disruptions related to convoys, truckers. we, of course, are tracking that.

we absolutely respect and protect the first amendment protected activity for individuals to protest peacefully but should any of the activities result in a violation or a local or federal crime we, of course, will take action. the half-time performance and dr. dre, snoop dogg, eminem and kendrick lamar. >> we're going to open more doors for hip-hop artists in the future and making sure that the nfl understands what this should have been a long time ago. let's bring in shaquille brewster who is at nfl stadium for us. big huge day for sports fans, my friend. as 70,000 are descending on this stadium today i'm sure safety has to be a top priority for all the officials there. >> without a doubt, alex. not just the 70,000 fans that are expected to flood the

stadium behind me, but this entire area. this entire complex and i'm sure you hear some of the music in the background. that's the beginning of a pregame show right here on the complex. i expect to draw thousands of fans on the other side. a lot of energy and a lot of excitement and that's why safety and security will be a top priority. this is a level one security event for the federal of government. they are coordinating. you have ten different federal agencies coordinating with at least 13 local law enforcement groups to help secure the games. this has been months in the making and you mention not only about what's happening at the ground level but what is happening we're three miles away from lax. you see planes hovering over and flying over and also drone concerns with a game like this. so many security concerns. i want you to listen from what we heard from the los angeles fbi in terms of what they're focusing on and what they're watching as this game happens.

>> we have a lot of safety concerns. the biggest one would be anything that would cause any kind of harm or violence to the event. so, from the issues with respect to any intelligence. i can't even really put my finger on anything because we don't have any credible threats. we're looking for any threat that might cause a problem. >> so, alex, not only is there that hard security but also the health and safety concerns. we're still dealing with the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic and we know that for folks who are going to enjoy the game in the stadium behind me, those vaccination, that proof of vaccination will be required. that's crosschecked with identification. if they don't have that, they need their negative covid test that was taken within 28 or 48 hours. we also know that masks will be required for folks inside despite that stadium being an indoor/outdoor stadium they will require masks. stadium officials say that is something they will be enforcing something a little more heavily

than just two weeks ago when we saw fans flock to the stadium for the conference championship. bottom line, you can sense it from the music behind me, people are ready to celebrate and officials and teams ready to make sure that can be done safely. >> i also sense from the smile you had over the last two days reporting on all of this. thank you, my friend. >> it has a lot to do with the weather. >> that's my home and i'm like, really, it's snowing here today. thank you, shaq, have fun. meanwhile the other big headline roger goodell saying the league is recommitting itself to equalityp in his presuper bowl conference goodell addressed the lawsuit brought by brian flores alleging racial discrimination in the hiring process, allegations the league and its three teams named in that lawsuit have denied. >> to do a better job. we have to look, is there another thing that we can do to

make sure we're attracting that best talent here and making our league inclusive. if i had the answer right now, i would give it to you. i think what we have to do is just continue and find and look and step back and say, we're not doing a good enough job here. we need to find better solutions and better outcomes. >> joining me now is the reverend al sharpton and ceo of the national action network and host of politics nation here on msnbc. let's get into this you were with a group, how did that conversation go? what was your message to roger goodell? >> the message that we gave him was clearly that the rooney rule that went into effect in 2003 has really not worked. we need to have a whole procedure set up with timetables and goals to say that we are

going to deal with the fact that there's zero percentage of ownership by blacks in 2022. and has never had black ownership. and the fact that we are now dealing with, at the time of the meeting last monday, was one black coach now only two black coaches out of 32 teams. so, there needs to be some real goals and timetables set. you must remember that what is not in this discussion is that a lot of these teams are financed by public funds, taxpayers. we are literally paying for people to make and profit billions of dollars, these 32 team owners in a sport that we seemingly can't own a team and we can't get to the high level or the top front office positions. why should we be paying for others' profits and others to have things that our children

cannot have? that is something that cannot be tolerated. >> yeah, i'm going to get to a hiring of a second black coach in just a second. are you confident that roger goodell means business and the league will enact more change through diversity? >> i would say that we are going to see, but my confidence is that we have a different strategy. if we go, alex, to the city councils and the county counselors that issue these public funds with citizens say we don't want our money spent this way. i'm confident that will work. i'm more confident in our ability to build a movement. is the last day of the season super bowl? by next super bowl, they will have seen in the next couple of months such a movement that you will not see the same end of the season you're seeing next year that you're seeing this year. >> now to the hire. the houston texans did it with lovie smith. this was a job that brian flores

was considered for, considered a finalist. that began by saying, quote, mr. flores is happy to hear that the texans hired but after a great interview and mutual interest is obvious that the only reason that mr. flores was not selected was the decision to stand up against racial. what are the optics of flores' legal team response, many are interpreting it as sour grapes dismissing the decade plus nfl head coaching experience of lovie smith. >> if you look at what the brian flores lawsuit says, it deals not only with his particular -- so you have to deal across the board. we cannot just bring this down

to just the career of one person, one black coach and he hurowically stood up and said, no, it's more than about me. i think that clearly rather than going back and forth between lovie and brian, explain why we don't have more black coaches. this is an industry-wide level. this is an industry-wide level discussion and i think they're trying to duck the issue. i also think that we're not going to sit by and allow brian flores who had the courage to step out there become the next one they target and use as some punishment for exposing what is going on here. collin kaepernick took a knee and still doesn't have a job. we're not going to let that happen to flores. >> three-quarters of new york city voters consider crime in the city a very serious problem. i know you called on mayor eric

adams to address those brazen store thefts. that's one of the categories of crimes on the rise. what approach do you want to see the mayor take on crime and how challenging is it to both fight crime and reform the nypd at the same time? >> well, theal change is that you must engage with the community. we do not need to overpolice the community. we need to increase the involvement with the law enforcement, with those in the community that can be of assistance. when community policing started years ago, it effectively brought down crime. we are not involving the people. the young people. the people on the street in the promise and the distrust is there because of many of the situations of abuse like stop and frisk, like things that have been dealing with petty crimes getting mass incarceration. you must reestablish what policing is. reimagine what policing is.

the way it's been done now does not work. i think after the covid pandemic we've seen even more and more situations of people with mental health not being dealt with. they should not be dealt as criminals, they should be dealt with as people who need help. but at the same time, black, latino, white store owners should not be the ones that are without the engagement of the communities that they're trying to service. >> there's another issue under way right now with the mayor making his case to the new york state legislature and the roll back provisions in the bail reforms, right. the mayor is asking for judges to evaluate a defendant's dangerousness when considering whether to offer bail. do you support this? >> when you look at the fact that the bail reform and i've talked to the majority leader of the state senate cousins and i

believe that she and the speaker of the new york state assembly meeting with the mayor. i think what their reform is they're not in any way trying to have violent people not be held but when you deal with the elderly that are still incarcerated, many of which are no danger to anyone and many of them did not come in as that kind of violent danger. when you deal with the overcrowding of jails. you can't on the one hand say you have to get off the street and those that use them but the other side and say they're in many ways pack the jails with petty crimes and of the court logs for petty crime. you can't have it both ways. we have to reimagine how we police at the same time we have to have public safety. disproportionate impact of crime is on the communities that are black, latino, communities of color and poor. and they also have a disproportionate victims of police misconduct. we need to solve both together

collectively and build the trust to do it. >> okay. always love our chats, rev. safe travels as you make your way through the snow that is still falling outside when you come into the studio. on "politics nation" today he'll talk with mitchell andrew at 5:00 p.m. eastern. breaking news at the busiest crossing between the u.s. and canada. cal perry is joining us from windsy, ontario. what is going on there? >> hey, alex. what you are looking at and bill will give you a shot. this line of police moved really about half a city block from when you last saw us. the reality is this a complete mess because you have a couple dozens protesters who are over here on the sidewalk to the left, as bill makes his way around and it's impossible to corral these folks unless the police are just going to run at them and arrest them and that seems to be exactly what they don't want to do. so, we saw the police move down this street about 100 yards or so, alex, and then retreated. when they retreated, it left

people feeling reinvigorareinvi. there's not a lot of protesters out here. but when the police moved back, it gave people rise for more hope and they're not going anywhere. this is about a mile from the bridge, the busiest crossing in north america and that road at that stoplight runs straight to the bridge. unless police can secure these intersections that's a three kilometer road that runs across one of the major interstates that connects to the united states. unless they can secure, this will continue. i don't see a resolution unless they commit to it and a real deterrence. i don't have to tell you, alex. in the u.s. the police just handle things differently. this is canada. this it is not a confrontational scene here. but, again, police moving back and forth does not solve the overall problem, which is getting that bridge reopened. >> way more police officers there than anything else. looks like they far outweigh

media protesters and then some. >> ottawa the capital the protesters there outnumber the police. it's a resource issue. that's a conversation happening in this country. here at this scene the police now completely outnumber the protests and the journalists. as you look at this crowd on the sidewalk, you can see about half of them are journalists. these are protesters here and as you make your way down and we get closer and closer to the police line and you'll get to this group of journalists. little bit confounding why we're still here and why we're still able to stand in the middle of this road because this is a major thoroughfare and you hav money being lost. this now has been going on for a week, alex. >> yeah.

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let's get now to the breaking news on the ukraine crisis. ukraine foreign minister is calling for a meeting with russia and other states within 48 hours. this request comes after ukraine's president spoke with president biden for almost an hour by phone this morning. a new shipment of military aid from the u.s. has arrived in kyiv. the latest part of a $200 million package of u.s. aid to ukraine. also arriving in ukraine a shipment from lithuania and this one including anti-aircraft stinger missiles. u.s. staff of the organization for security and cooperation in europe today leaving eastern ukraine and new details from yesterday's phone call between

president macron of france and vladimir putin to share. putin told macron the russian forces in belarus will be repatriated to russia and putin had no towards ukraine. tracking the latest josh letterman at the white house and matt bradley in kyiv. matt, we're starting with you. where do things stand with the phone call of the ukrainian president. >> the russians insisting it is troops in belarus will go back to russia after these exercises are over. we heard this morning from the pentagon. trying to cast some doubt on that. saying, look, the russians have added military capability that they did not have before in belarus to carry out these exercises, as well as the black sea where these naval exercises according to the pentagon have been involving the same types of ships that you would use to

rapidly put troops on shore. such as if you were invading a ukraine by sea. and this the latest example, alex, about the strategy you're talking about with your next guest that the biden administration has been using over and over to try to publicly expose what they believe russia is doing behind the scenes to try to muddy the waters and blow up their spot as the kids would say and make it difficult for the russians to try to cast this as some type of a defensive action, if they do decide to invade. including this latest warning this morning from national security adviser jake sullivan. take a listen. >> we also are watching very carefully for the possibility that there is a pretext or a false flag operation to kick off the russian action in which russian intelligence services conduct some kind of attack on russian proxy forces in eastern ukraine or on russian citizens and then blame it on the ukrainians.

>> as you mentioned, alex, president biden did speak with president zelensky this morning for just under an hour and reiterated the u.s. would respond if it did further invade ukraine, we did not hear any signs from this call that anything has really shifted, just like yesterday after that call that president biden had with putin. it seems that the two countries, the u.s. and russia were still very much in the places that they were before this. and that means that we're heading into this week with the increasing levels of anxiety over this incursion that the u.s. insists could take place at any moment, alex. >> josh, thank you for that. let's go right now to matt bradley standing by in kyiv for us and what can you tell us about this new request with that meeting with russia within 48 hours. >> yeah, this is part of the vienna document and the idea behind this, this is sort of a

group agreement of several countries within the osce, the organization for security cooperation in europe and without getting into too granular boring detail about security arrangement the idea is to ensure transparency amongst european countries to do exactly what we're looking at right now. overt a war. so, this is a standard procedure in this document that goes back from the 1990s saying that, you know, they can demand to see, demand a meeting, demand some transpairacy and military exercises are two of them. one in belarus north of where i am about 30,000 troops and the other one is south of where i am in the black sea. that is a sprawling naval exercise that the ukrainians have said is important, crucial port towns that are necessary to feed ukrainians.

so, from here on out, you know, i'm sure this was brought up in that phone call with joe biden and president zelensky and i'm also sure that president zelensky wanted to know some information about why the americans have this intelligence that there is an imminent invasion that is going to be rolling across their borders from russia. that's been a real point of conserination and one of frustration from officials here in ukraine. they want to know why the americans want to know and they want to see evidence and they declare that quite publicly. but the fact is when we look at an imminent invasion and u.s. officials including mr. sullivan said it could come as early as this week and as early as wednesday. the ukrainians aren't that prepared and we spoke with a recent military analyst and an expert on ukraine just recently and here's what she had to say about ukrainian's preparedness. >> ukrainians are not ready.

they have not pardoned the northern border and small interventions that the ukrainians can do now. they will line that long, long border with drones and with mines. there's a lot of low-cost things that they could be doing now and they're not doing it. and they're also not preparing the people. the job of a leader is to prepare people. i know that zelensky doesn't want war. no one wants war. >> in fact, the government here in ukraine has been saying that they have been preparing people and a lot of reserves who are ready to fight and a recent survey just last month and, excuse me, in december said that more than 50% of ukrainians are willing to pick up a gun and fight against a russian incursion. whether or not they would do so responding to a survey is quite different than picking up a gun and fighting in the street. hard to know if they'll do it, but all eyes are on german chancellor who is headed this week to kyiv and moscow.

the latest leader to try to negotiate a diplomatic end to this crisis. so far everyone has failed, alex. not quite clear if mr. shoelts is going to be able to succeed. i'm joined now by john sifer who ran operations in russia and now co-founder of spy craft entertainment. john, welcome back. it's awfully good to talk to you in these particularly troubling times. we had the call earlier with president biden and ukrainian president zelensky. an hour long or so and the white house read out said the countries agreed to pursue diplomacy and deterrence. for zelensky's part he had been warning and due to the proliferation of u.s. intelligence and what has been put out there what he wonders about and take a listen.

>> we have a lot of information because it's on our borders and our territory and the truth that we have different information and now the best friend for enemies that is panic in our country. and all this information that helps doesn't help us. >> how do you interpret those comments? >> i think zelensky is a little over his head in this. he was essentially a comedian and we don't select the best presidents for our countries and autothe other thing they have been at war for eight years and he's trying to keep things moving forward and trying to stop the war and the bigger issue here is that indicators are all looking bad. and so therefore i think the white house is right to share some of this intelligence and try to put clearly to show that putin is lying on a lot of these

issues. >> in fact, part of the reason why the biden administration is doing this is because they want to delay or avoid an invasion. that said yesterday i spoke with retired four-star general barry mccaffrey who had a different take on the release of this kind of information. take a listen, sir. >> i never saw the u.s. intelligence being rolled out in near real time. we're burning sources and methods doing this, trying to prevent, i guess, through information war fare deterrence of the russians. but, we'll have to see what happens. it's a perilous situation. >> so, two sides of that coin. which one do you think is the better approach? >> well, general mccaffrey i respect him a lot but i have to see an intelligence professional i would worry about that, too. right now the white house is trying to throw everything at the wall to try to deter and stop the russians from invasions. i don't think people understand

how awful this would be a massive war in europe that we have no way to know where it is going to go. the white house is trying to complicate and try to make putin wonder what do we know and give him pause and slow things down. they're the only ones that are in a position to know whether sharing this intelligence is helpful or potentially blowing sources. they're pretty professional and probably doing the right job. >> there are those who are concerned by the mega phone strategy and some are saying that intelligence can then be spun and it could be wrong comparing it to a textbook example, that being the weapons of mass destruction saga and the lead up to the iraq war. do you see any comparisons to be made there or are you looking at this level of intelligence disclosure completely differently? >> i'm looking at it differently here because in the iraq case people and journalists and others rightly distrusted of the intelligence and dug in and

found it to be faulty. in this case, the administration is not trying to convince the american people. not trying to convince journalists here whether this is true or not. it will be time for them to look into these things. this is to put out what vladimir putin knows is true and what other things did others know about him. influence vladimir putin and not influence the american public. i think the administration is doing a pretty good job of doing everything they can to deter putin, obviously not enough, perhaps, but they have to start getting american public prepared for this here. i think most americans are very inward looking and they don't realize how a war in europe might affect them and might affect the economy and affect long-term relations of allies and how china is looking at this. things that will affect the american people and the administration has to start preparing people for it. >> that's an extraordinary statement there, john. if you were still a senior cia

officer running things in moscow, what would you be doing right now? >> well, that's a really tough thing because we have relationship, intelligence relationship with the russians where we share things that are compatible and also the russians are all over us and watching us and pushing us and i was there during an intelligence crisis when some spies were caught and they were quite aggressive and all over us and sort of pushing us around and so i think it's, you know, i my heart goes out to some of the people that are both in kyiv and moscow right now because it has to be a very tense situation. if they're doing the best they can to get all that information back to washington so they can make good choices. >> always a good choice to have you on the show, john sipher, thank you. a new political poll may raise doubt about the presidential contenders in 2024. we'll talk about that ahead. 20. 20. we'll talk about that ahead.'s h better ingredients,

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to windsor, canada, because some action on behalf of police there. that trucker convoy is broken up as a result of vaccine mandate protests. but, cal, what have you been seeing that warranted us getting back to you. >> i was saying to you about an hour ago i didn't understand what was happening and since then police were moving this front line-up and going behind the protesters. they have been clearly picking out who they think is instigating the protest and i don't want to say the leadership because largely leadership protest and arresting them and a handful of arrests. those folks have been arrested and taken away. what remains now is this police line. again, that is slowly and methodically moving forward and keep moving us back to, again, clear this street. bill, on the other side, you can see, alex, what remains of these protesters. about a dozen or so people waving the canadian flags and

very nationalistic and singing the national anthem and almost dwindled down here, we almost dwindled down to nobody. police wanted to serve that deterrent that you will go to jail and you will be arrested and now seeing the arrests being carried out, alex. >> give me a sense, how much have you moved towards that line of police and how much have they moved towards you? has it been equal or have they done all the moving? they moved up since we last saw you. >> moved about two football fields from the stoplights down there. again, they will give us a warning, we're going to move. they are trying to corral the last remaining protesters in what is the goal to get this road open and to get the roads open in windsor. windsor and detroit are connected. that's what they're trying to do, alex. >> when you say people are snatched, what do you mean? has it been rough and have

people been taken and handcuffed? what happened? >> it's been forcible arrests and what we mean by the snatch and we see it in the united states and the police will come out and snatch the person and bring the behind the line and the associates will have no choice but back up. again, a handful, four or five people. >> cal perry, thank you so much. glad we went back to update things. a new poll shows neither president biden or trump has the full support of their party for a 2024 run for the white house. only 45% of democrats want to see president biden renominated and 50% of republicans want to nominate trump again. joining me now is hayes brown columnist and editor for "nbc daily." always good to welcome you. let's get into this. are you surprised by these numbers? >> not really surprised. they're interesting for sure and i'm really glad that over at cnn

wrote up this poll and tried to unpack it. a lot of great things inside these numbers. one thing that i think is most interesting is the top two reasons why democrats and republicans are saying no thank you is, number one, they don't want to see this person re-elected back into office and the other is, though, that they don't think the candidate for their party could win against the opposing side. they don't think biden could win against republicans and they don't think trump can win against a democrat. within that a really interesting look at what people are trying to choose and people are going to be looking at when we get into 2024 and that presidential cycle. they're going to be looking at electability along side the records of the potential candidates. >> here's what's interesting maybe you don't want biden or trump relative to this poll. i'm looking at the democrat details here. they offer no singular names,

however, there is the name for republicans. florida governor ron desantis. you have 21% of those who don't want donald trump to come back into the fray there. they want him. what does that tell you? >> that tells me that ron desantis' plans are working and trump has a right to be worried about desantis. they had a cold war going on over the last couple months and trump take small jabs and desantis pushing his national profile for the last year or so trying to make himself as the nontrump alternative out there and it seems to be paying off for him, according to those numbers. like if republicans are looking at him as a potential alternate to actually put trump back in office and trump himself hates that. so we're going it see, i think, more work from him to undercut desants as the year goes on and how that plays out within the party is going to be really fascinating to watch.

>> give me a more big picture sense from you on what this says about the state of the two parties? a disconnect between party leadership and their constituents? >> that's a great question. i think if you really drill down into, i want to see more polling over the next year especially. drilling down into what it is that has people dissatisfied with biden and what it is that makes people not want to put trump back into office or for either side, you know what i'm saying. i think for democrats on the one hand there are people who are worried about electability and worried about his age and people who feel disappointed in that democratic leadership has not put enough effort into keeping its promises that it made during the last couple of campaigns with the trifecta that they have of the senate, the house and white house. people wonder why are more things not getting done. on the republican side, i think it's fascinating that we do have this large number of people who say no trump is too chaotic and they don't like his personality and all that but i don't know we're still so far out from the

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a popular netflix documentary best on a best-selling memoir. we're talking about "becoming." michelle obama's book that sold at least 14 million copies and breaking sales records. the book led to a film released in 2020. it was nominated for four emmies including best director. it is filled with moments like this one of the former first lady with a group of students who had lots of questions for her about her post white house life. >> how do you feel, how do i put this? how do you feel transitioning back to your normal life because it got, i don't want to say interrupted, but it was -- >> you can say it. >> it was like a huge bump in the road pause you thought you were going to lead this normal life and then your husband became president. how does it feel getting back on track to your normal life that you had before? >> get back on what track? it's a whole new track. it's not going back. you know, it's just all

different and it's different forever. >> that was a great answer. and joining me right now nadia, award winning filmmaker who directed "becoming." so great to see michelle obama there. what was it like for you to watch michelle obama with those students and why do you think it's important for her to have these kind of interactions? >> well, first off, thank you for having me today. it was just incredible to watch young people interacting with michelle obama. they definitely don't hold back in asking the hard questions that was always the fun part. but it was really just such a special experience for the young people, for mrs. obama herself and also i had just an extraordinary time witnessing and observing these interactions with someone who just meant so much to so many people in this world. >> 100%. you know later in that clip we played part of michelle obama points out of so little of who

she is happened in the eight years in the white house. why do you think it's important for her to make sure that people understand that? >> well, you know, michelle obama had a life before the white house. she had a full career, a family, children and she was and is her own person before being a first lady. and i think that's such a part of her identity that she wants people to know about. >> and given how closely you followed her in the duration of time, was there something, nadia, that you were like, i did not know that when you were following her that you learned? >> absolutely. i did not know that she was so funny. she has incredible sense of humor. she has fantastic comedic timing and, you know, there was just some scenes in the film where i had to really hold back from laughing out loud so i wouldn't

mess up the audio, especially when michelle is with her brother craig. i mean, they're just like a comedy duo. they're really fun together. that was something about her that really surprised me. >> even just saying that you remind me of a couple times when you would see her at her, and sd push right back at him, like okay, you go michelle. she would get the upper hand. i'm not surprised to hear it when you put it that way. when you look at your entire body of work, and i know this is a hard question, but is there something that is your favorite? you cover so many topics. you had the film about the three puerto rican women impacted from hurricane maria. you have a film about the making of the 2021 super bowl halftime show, you have becoming about michelle obama. it's like saying which one is your favorite child, but is there something that means the most to you? >> you know, all of the films i have made really mean so much to me, and have come to me in a

very particular time in my life, but the honor of following the first lady, michelle obama, and her journey, you know, there's just nothing like that. i think that will probably be the greatest honor of my life, for sure. >> we can't discount the fact that you are who you are, given the level of success you have had and the things you choose to document. do you think of yourself as a role model? in any way, shape, or form, whether it's for aspiring filmmakers and beyond? >> you know, i think that i have perhaps become to be a role model as a woman of color working in the film industry, i'm also a cinematographer, and i have young people write to me from all over the world, especially after "becoming" came out, saying we looked you up and you look like me. these are young people from placing way far in the world.

and if i could be a role model and be a positive force in anyone's life, that encourages them to follow their dreams, then i hope i can do that. >> amen to that. what's next for you? >> oh, i have a film project probably coming out on netflix this summer. so everyone can stay tuned for that. it will be a new documentary. >> okay, and you're not going to give us more than a hint other than stay tuned to netflix? >> yes, for now, we'll keep everyone in suspense. >> oh, that's the best. you know how to keep us guessing. all right. nadia hallgren, thank you so much. congratulations with "becoming." it's fantastic. >> meantime, today's historic win at the beijing olympics. the pictures next. e pictures ne. . otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not a cream.

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