right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the monterey park california community devastated by a weekend mass shooting leaving ten dead, ten others injured and the 72-year-old alleged gunman dead while investigators search for motive. i'll speak to the district's congresswoman about the tragedy as well as top law enforcement experts. and a pulse nightclub survivor of that 2016 orlando mass shooting about continuing scourge of guns and high capacity magazines. also this hour, an unprecedented fbi search the private home of a sitting american president, uncovering more classified documents. how the drip by drip of this controversy is eroding support even among leading democrats. >> should be held accountable and responsible is what we all are and for those in unsecured spaces is irresponsible. >> at its heart of the issue is the same. those documents should not have

been in the personal possession of either joe biden or donald trump. >> good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in new york today as law enforcement trying to make sense of another senseless deadly mass shooting. the 33rd in the u.s. just since the start of this year. this time, a predominantly asian community. monterey park in l.a. county. the suspect, a 72-year-old, evading capture for 13 hours before being found dead sunday from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. why did he enter a dance hall filled with people celebrating the chinese lunar new year opening fire with a automatic semiassault pistol then moving to another location where two heroic men disarmed him. kathy, where are law enforcement focusing their investigation now? what are you hearing from family

members? you've been there since this all started. >> reporter: well, andrea, a day of celebrations and festivities here in monterey park ended in tragedy. i am standing in front of the dance hall. the deadly shooting took place around 10:30 saturday night. we are told the gunman entered this building behind me, began shooting indes. we are told the suspect managed to get into separate ballroom studio, a dance hall, and there was an individual, a worker, who was inside and reacted very quickly. right now, officials are calling him a hero for actually disarming the suspect. here's a little bit more from the interview exclusively on abc news. take a listen. >> something came over me. i realized i needed to get the

weapon away from him. i needed to take this weapon, disarm him, or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. finally, at one point, i was able to pull the gun away from him, shove aside, point the gun at him, intimidate him, shout and him and say get the hell out of here, i'll shoot. i thought i would have to shoot him if he came at me. when he turned around and walked out the door. >> reporter: and andrea, that worker went on to say that he contacted police right away and authorities, based on the description they received, they were able to track down the white cargo van in a parking lot, in a shopping center in torrance, california.

so there was a third location where authorities narrowed in on the suspect and eventually they were able to breach the vehicle and once they did, they saw the suspect was kind of hunched over the steering wheel and he died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. obviously, this is still an ongoing investigation. we still don't have a motive at this point. but i want to talk about those victims, andrea. we know among the ten dead, five are women. five are men. and we do have some names that were just released a few moments ago. one being mai nam. another, mi long lee. the victims are at least 50, 60, if not 70 years old. obviously this community predominantly asian, shaken up by this senseless act of violence. this comes off a wave of violent attacks against asian americans. especially during the pandemic. so this event obviously we still don't have a motive at this point. there are reports it might be

domestic in nature. regardless, this has been triggering for this entire community. andrea? >> kathy, just so awful. thank you so much for being there and democratic congressman, judy chu joins me now. she represented monterey park. former mayor and council member as well. first of all, talk to me about the community reaction to this tragedy. >> well, it's been a terrifying 24 hours. woke up to learn that a shooter had killed ten people with a gun and that ten more were in the hospital. but what was even more terrifying to people in this community is that the shooter was loose. that law enforcement was still looking for him. so they were terrified about attending other events with the plethora of lunar new year events going on.

even more fundamentally, they didn't know if they should send their kids to school. so it was with great relief that at 5:00 p.m., sheriff luna announced that the suspect had been captured and that he had shot himself while he was in his van. a sigh of relief for everybody. >> happening on the lunar new year, the most important celebration annually with the aapi community, so awful. obviously awful and tragic. some indications you've been talking to law enforcement that he had frequented that dance hall. >> yes, news reports actually are the ones that have uncovered the fact that he fancies himself to be a dance instructor. he would offer free lessons. he frequented these two dance studios. he met his wife there.

but she said he was quick to be angry and hostile if she missed her dance steps. so he divorced her in 2005. so there is some rumor that he went to these two studios that night in order to find her. obviously he did not. but he had his anger and hostility at full level. and the fact that the gun, as far as we know, it had the extender. you know, the larger magazine. what do you take back with you? i know there was a breakthrough on some gun measures in the last congress, but it's been so difficult to get meaningful background checks. meaningful extensions of what many people would consider gun reform. what are you taking back in

terms of what you could do in washington? >> first of all, what is top on my list of questions to be answered with regard to the shooting is how he got this gun. actually, there were two guns. what we know about that second gun that was wrestled away from him is that it did have an illegal extender on it. but we still have questions about the first gun. how did he obtain that? did he evade the background checks if it was legal? and that brings me to the kind of legislation that we have been trying to pass in congress. common sense legislation that would close the loopholes on the universal background checks. the universal background checks are very effective in making sure these guns don't go into the hands of people who are violent and criminals, but people evade them by buying guns at gun shows, on the internet or

through private sales. we have to close those loopholes. >> and have you spoken with the two community members who were heroic, who disarmed the suspect of the second location? >> well, it turns out it was one young man who was 26 years old and happened to be standing there when the man came in and saw that he had a gun. so he wrestled him, got into a fight and was able to get that gun away from him, pointed it at the shooter and told him to get out of there. i tell you, that guy is such a hero in my eyes because had he not done that, we would have seen more people dead. so i have not been able to talk to him yet, but that is high on my agenda and he should be honored as a hero by everybody here. >> absolutely. congressman, i know this is a terrible time for you and so difficult, so thank you for sharing your experience with us.

appreciate it. >> thank you. and joining me now, jim kavanaugh, former atf special agent in charge and former attorney, special fbi agent, head of the fbi's active shooter program, the author of stop the killing, how to end the mass shooting crisis. catherine, the focus now, shifting to motive. it's rare that the alleged gunman of this kind, mass shooting, he's in his 70s. of that community. what does this tell you? >> it's not uncommon for a 14509er to shoot in his community. we had an 85-year-old shooter at a holocaust museum. that's one of the oldest i dealt with. we hardly ever have a shooter up in this age range.

to me, that points towards personal. it's a personal issue. so maybe that is the situation here. i know we don't know the motive yet, but i see that the age is kind of indicating that maybe there's this historical you know, relationship issue with the community and the people in the community. >> jim, the officers who briefed on sunday said that the gunman was carrying a semiautomatic assault pistol. not the long gun rather. ar-15 style gun, but in any case, a really dangerous weapon and illegal in california. >> that's right. that's right, andrea. what happens is a lot of these guns, short style assault pistols were developed to be machine guns. that was the original development of them. they take 30 round magazine. of course you could put a 30 round magazine in a standard handgun as well. they're not some of the models are not real expensive. they're stamped steel.

they proliferated years ago. they looked sexy. but a lot of them are not the highest quality. the higher quality style of those kind of guns is like an oozie made by israeli industries in like the secret service would carry those on the presidential protection detail under codes easily concealed, top quality guns. but this isn't that kind of quality, still very deadly. we don't know if he had a shoulder stock affixed to it, which would make it a lot more accurate. when legislatures talk about all these laws, what they have to understand is that when the bans came in, they skirted the stuff they did. the most effective part of the law was the reproduction of the magazine capacity of all new weapons sold they were trying to regulate because the other things they changed were mostly

cosmetic. they didn't change the rate of fire. the round that was fired. the velocity that was fired. so overall, the biggest thing that was the most effective and we saw those larger magazines drying up toward the ten years of the assault weapons ban was the new ones only had ten-round magazines. i think that was the most effective part of the law. but i don't think we'll get any new laws about it for sure. >> under the federal code, catherine, you're an attorney. this could be a hate crime, which would increase the potential penalties. >> definitely. >> of course in this case, the suspect has died, but in in case, it does carry a lot of legal weight. >> yeah. i think the idea anytime we're looking at a situation from a hate crime situation, a lot of people might say, oh, this is a person from this community. a hate crime is a hate crime. you can do a hate crime on your own community. so it's not a question of oh,

this person is asia so therefore, couldn't have attacked his own family. his own somebody. a hate crime is a hate crime, so we don't have a conviction here potential, but i think the community needs an answer on why it occurred and that's what law enforcement will be looking forward to. that's what l.a. county sheriff's office with monterey police will be looking for. >> it's terrible we always meet under these bad circumstances but thanks for your expertise. and we have breaking news this hour from the justice department. a former top ranking official within the fbi's new york counterintelligence office has been arrested over alleged ties with a russian oligarch and putin ally and help that oligarch invade u.s. sanctions on russia. this is an incredible story. the russian himself was arrested in 2021 for his work on behalf of the kremlin. joining me now, tom winter and

ken dilanian. what can you tell us about charles mcgonigle, the retired agent, and another case in 2021? >> he was an fbi agent for more than two decades. he was the head of the task force investigating wikileaks for example. he ultimately became head of counterintelligence in the new york city office, which is a big spy catching job. his job was to protect the united states from foreign influence but, what the u.s. government is charging him with today is participating in foreign influence in two separate cases. one in that case about helping the russian oligarch after he left the fbi, but this other case out of washington, d.c. charges that he accepted $225,000 in cash from a forme al bane yan official while serving in the fbi as a top agent. the indictment says he failed to

disclose that income on his financial disclosures, essentially hid a conflict of interest. at one point, he made this same person a confidential source. he allowed this to influence his fbi work. this is a huge, huge black eye for the fbi. it's essentially a case of they're alleging corruption here. we have not heard from mcgonigle or his attorneys today. he was arrested over the weekend on a flight back from the middle east. >> ken, it's just an extraordinary story. tom winter is here with me and to both of you, we just showed some video that was taken in october of 2021. let me give you the context there. that is a mansion on embassy row. and that mansion on 30th street and embassy row was raided by the fbi. that was owned by a family of the oligarch. when we saw that all going down and we were the first to get there on the scene, tom, you know, this was a very expensive house on embassy row right under

the eyes of everyone in washington that he had tied with people closely connected to the trump campaign. >> i remember getting your phone call this morning saying the fbi is at the house, what's going on. so we were able to confirm they were searching that. we haven't heard details since. his own representatives say well this was an investigation tied to sanctions violation so we don't know whether it was tied to the matter that's been charged in new york today or has something to do with anything else. this is somebody who's no stranger to the fbi and certainly to mcgonigle, to somebody that's been under investigation since the mid 2010s. someone whose visas were denied multiple times. because it was based on the fact that he has significant ties, they believe, to russian organized crime. this is somebody who defines the

term russian oligarch according to u.s. officials in his past in the early 1990s. he's somebody who along with several other businessmen were competing in what were called the metal wars. people died over control of state-owned businesses in the aluminums industry, which became his chief business until about six, seven years ago, he was the number one aluminum company in the world. that should give you a sense of the size and scope of his company. this is somebody who's been well on the fbi's radar. somebody who mcgonigle knew what he was about, his background, what the fbi knew about him. when darpaska's been circle around him, this is an individual who does what a lot of oligarchs do. they seek to create influence in favor.

they don't know anything beyond what worked for them in russia. this is somebody who's close to putin. the last time we saw him was at a putin press event to discuss the ukrainian invasion. notes his role of paying people to get things done and what they say he was doing was investigating a rival oligarch. given his ties to u.s. politics, he had significant business ties and in fact, at one point sued paul manafort and rick gates. they did business together. he's known his way around washington literally and figuratively for some time here. >> is it within the realm of possibility that the government is squeezing daripaska and that's how they got to mcgonigle? >> they have evidence involving this whole separate case involving the albanians.

that's a possibility. we've known he's been under investigation for some many months and that it was very serious and involved a counterintelligence matter, but these revelations today are absolutely shocking on both counts. both that he took money allegedly while an fbi official then tried to help this russian oligarch after leaving the fbi. >> and stand by a second, ken, tom. you have something to add to that. >> yeah, it's certainly possible that is the many time that is the fbi has tried to or actually on several occasions, spoken to daripaskai. it could have been mcgonigle's on work to get a daughter of the suspected russian intelligence agent's on the nypd as an intern and statements she made to an nypd sergeant that could have first tipped off the nypd that maybe he was up to no good. >> as they said, the plot thickens. another story breaking, richard

barnett, a man arrested in the january 6th attacks has been found guilty on all eight counts. >> he testified in his own defense, not very successfully. he did apologize and said he regretted being in the capitol that day, but kind of wilted under cross-examination. didn't really speak well for himself and now he's facing significant prison time. >> tom and ken on all fronts. as always. thank you and hitting home. more documents discovered by the fbi at president biden's delaware home. the details coming up next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. watching "anl reports" on msnbc.

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for the fifth time, classified material has been found inside president biden's home. a search on friday conducted by the fbi came at the suggestion of the president, we were told,

according to the white house. the level of classification on this latest group of documents is not known. but they date back to mr. biden's time in the senate and as vice president. "the new york times" is reporting now that mr. biden's lawyers explained the delay in searching the home and that they thought all files were at the penn biden center in d.c. where the former vice president had worked after he left the white house. the revelations coming amid growing criticism of the president by democrats and a major change at the white house. former covid coordinator, jeff, is going to soon become white house chief of staff. joining us now, kelly o'donnell and charlie savage. broke that latest story in the times today. kelly, this is the fifth revelation about classified terrible. four batches in total. talk to us about the unprecedented search in his home that took place in secret on friday, which was disclosed on saturday. >> really extraordinary when you

think about a sitting president opening his doors and allowing the fbi and the department of justice to go room by room and have access to anything. that's how it's been described to us by the white house through a spokesman and they say there was no search warrant involved here. that it was voluntary. that president biden wanted to give access as a part of this investigation and there have now been five dates since november across these last three months in which four batches as the white house describes it, of materials that are at some level of classification that belonged in government control and not in the personal possession of the president. those have now been turned over. but there are questions. we don't know what kinds of documents these are. we don't know what level of classification of the differing levels, some more sensitive than others based on the president in various capacities he would have had access to. so there are a lot of pressing

questions. those are not being answered by the white house or to a great extent by the president's personal lawyer and they are saying they want to defer all this to the department of justice to let them carry out their investigation to assess the records that are now back in their control to better understand how could these records, which should not have been in the home or in an office used by the president, but instead of government controls and properly turned in. why were those there and was there any risk, exposure, damage assessment? all those questions are still to be sorted out. the president has been getting more criticism even from members from his own party. at this point, he has said he's following the lawyers directions on this and he believes there is no there there. andrea? >> and charlie, your new reporting today gets to this drip drip nature of it.

the president's lawyering thinking you're reporting that all the files have gone to mr. biden's d.c. office post vice presidency and that's why there was no immediate search of his home. >> as i understand it, after the initial batch of files were found where biden had an office in between being a vice president and running for president on november 2nd, biden's lawyers tried to understand how those documents had gotten there. and for about a week, they conducted their own review by talking to people who have been overseeing or involved in the process, packing up files from his office as vice president and from the naval observatory from the vice president lives at the end of the obama administration. they were told that all the documents that would be involved in something that biden might want to use in his life as a teacher went to the penn biden center by way of a couple of transition offices and the

materials that had to do with old political campaign documents, memorabilia, went to his garage in wilmington. so when they, justice department told them we are now looking at this on november 10th, the representation made to them by the biden legal team was we have no factual basis to think that any official documents went anywhere other than the penn biden center and that was, it was only weeks after that as the justice department investigation continued and didn't wrap up quickly. they decided on their own maybe they better double check those boxes that went to the garage in wilmington. so that explains why there was almost seven weeks of a gap between when that initial batch was found in early november and before they looked in wilmington. >> charlie, one of the things that's a real red flag for me in this latest batch that was

discovered is from his senate time in the senate. it's one thing to explain with january 20th, you're packing up quickly as vice president, got to get out by noon on that day for the transition, things are flown into a box. that's more of a credible explanation than he took things home from his senate. doesn't that complicate it? >> that's certainly complicates it. we still don't know anything about those documents in terms of what they are, what they are. were they in a box from his senate office that was taped up somewhere and never looked at or in a draw in his desk and he was looking at them every day. he was in the senate for 30 years. and lived in that house for a long time. so you could see how stuff would retreat there, but until we have more details about where they found it, what it's nature was, i think it's going to be difficult to draw conclusions. you're absolutely right that is a new wrinkle and this isn't

just stuff that came out of 2017 when they were vacating the executive branch. >> all of this kelly, is going to land on the desk of a new white house chief of staff because ron klain has praised for an extraordinarily productive tenure is being replaced by jeff sites, who is widely praised for his handling of the covid crisis. >> that transition is to come in the next few weeks, we think sometime after the state of the union. then ron klain is likely going to still be a fixture in biden world from the outside. he expect influential in all things 2024. but jeff, who's a familiar face to our viewers because of his work as a covid response coordinator, will step in as chief of staff. a key role here at the white house. >> kelly and charlie, thank you both so much and making a run

for it. has president biden's document debacle opened the door for other democrats to want to challenge him in 2024? that's next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. new science shows it gets in between teeth to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. listerine. feel the whoa!

here he is with chuck todd on "meet the press." >> you run for office in 2024. you going to run as a democrat? >> chuck, i haven't made the decision. i've got two years ahead of me to do the best for my state and country. >> is running for governor on the table? >> i've done that. >> so everything on the table, there's basically only one other thing. the presidency. is that something you would do outside the democratic party? >> the only thing i can tell you what i will do is whatever i can to make my decision what is the best so i can support and represent the people of west virginia but also be true to this country and the constitution of this country. >> you're not telling me no. >> when i make my decision, i'm going to make it on what i think

i can do to best support my country and state. >> as we say, that was not exactly sherman like. joining me now are two former members of congress. democrat former congresswoman, donna edwards of maryland, david jolly of florida, and jeff mason. donna, senator manchin is not ruling out 2024. a primary run for the white house. how seriously should people take those comments? >> i heard that. it seems highly unlikely and certainly not in a democratic primary. maybe he'd just like to run as an independent, this would be almost, kind of like the ralph nader move that would probably guarantee that a republican who knows, maybe it's donald trump, becomes president again. i think president biden announces running for president for re-election, all democrats

are going to stand down. >> jeff mason, it's our reporting also that the president has already delayed the campaign announcement until after the state of the union contrary to what they're saying publicly because of the classified document scandal. it was originally going to be earlier. >> my reporting is that it was always going to be after the state of the union address. that's coming up pretty soon. i think it's february 7th. so only a couple of weeks away. i think what will be interesting to watch and no doubt my colleagues at nbc along with i and my team, to see if it gets delayed further than that. this scandal has taken away an argument they had before against former president donald trump which now will apply to the sitting president as well. >> david jolly, also chuck todd asked manchin about the high five between him and senator sinema in davos last week. they were talking about the filibuster and their shared agreement. as you can see, they were on a panel together.

this as the congressman, a former marine, launching his bid against sinema, who's now an independent. can it help republicans in the senate? >> it could. look, manchin and sinema are about to take two different paths. sinema will have to defend her seat as an independent. manchin, the not so great secret on manchin is he is being courted by a group out of washington, no labels, which is trying to get ballot access for an independent ticket and they believe they could create a bipartisan ticket out of maryland. the question always is could an independent possibly win? history in the polls sut suggests now, but if manchin or sinema were to give it a run, who does it dilute away from? the current landscape suggests it helps democrats and hurting republicans. that's what democrats will have

to calculate. >> wanted to do this four years ago. this is something that comes up you know, frequently, but it's so hard to get on the ballot as an independent in enough states to have an electoral victory. >> ballot access would cost $75 million for a candidate to compete and many states already, it's too late based on the state rules and laws for ballot access, but could a bipartisan ticket create enough momentum that then people say hey, look, i want to vote for this team. i'll ride on their name if i have to in some states. history suggests it's a long shot. >> yes, of course, it's certainly enough to trouble the white house. even the talk of this. thank you very much. and under investigation. one of the nation's largest baby

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where the government alleged that the powdered infant formula was quote, adulteratored, because the plant was unsanitary. one inspector identified standing water, which is a problem. >> what is the response from the company? >> so the company confirmed to us they're under investigation and cooperating fully with the justice department and as part of their agreement with the federal government, they've agreed to more intensive monitoring. >> that's got to be reassuring to parents around the country who rely so critically and abbott is the largest supplier of the most popular brands of formula. thank you so much. and the lunar new year celebration shattered by a mass shooting. the 33rd in the u.s. already this year. the impact on california's

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so many questions remain unanswered about the gunman in monterey park. >> we're supposed to be celebrating the new year. but something like this has truly impacted and it's, it weighs a lot. it has a lot of weight and i think it's very sad what has happened to this, in this community. >> hearing this happen now is just very shocking. very sad. you know? because just confirming there's no safe place anymore. >> joining me now is brandon wolf, a pulse nightclub shooting survivor and the press secretary for the state's lgbtq civil rights organization, and joyce vance who grew up in monterey park, california. joyce, first, tell us about the

community. you grew up there. what are you thoughts today? >> well, it's a small community. it's just east of los angeles but it's a city of its own. people tend to be close and over time, the city developed a concentrated asian population which made it very unique. so celebrations like the lunar new year festival, very important to the community's identity, which i think is what makes this in many ways such a singular tragic event in the community. that it came on the heels of years of canceling the festival because of covid and here the community was finally together again. >> brandon, there have been now as we pointed out, 33 mass shootings first three weeks of this year according to the gun violence archives. as as survivor of gun violence and someone who has seen what was done in florida afterwards, what can be done? >> well, first of all, i don't want to lose sight of what this means to this community.

you heard it there from those interviews, you are hearing it from joyce. this is not just another one of america's mass shootings. it is, indeed, part of our shameful history and present around gun violence, but these are lives. these are ten people who were killed. they're ten people who went to celebrate the lunar new year. they're ten people whose families now have to figure out how to move on without them, who will be empty seats at dinner tables and missing faces at birthday parties. you know, there is so much that can be done. it is worth saying that california has among the lowest death rate due to guns in the country, in part because they have some of the strongest laws in the country, but this patchwork hodgepodge of state-by-state legislation around gun policy is -- you know, it is chaotic. it is ineffective and, quite frankly, it should be embarrassing. we have, you know, right-wing politicians in this country telling us the biggest crises we have are hunter biden's laptop or a drag queen somewhere

reading "red fish, blue fish" at the local library when in fact gun violence is a crisis. gun deaths were the number one killer of children in america last year. that should make us pause. any other country on the planet would be asking themselves what can be done federally to pass common sense gun safety legislation to keep people safe. that's where our focus needs to be. we need to be talking about the things that are broadly popular in this country like a federal red flag law, like a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. those things are popular, those things are possible and they will save lives. >> and, joyce, we look at the legal complications of this. the supreme court, you know, as you know better than i do, they've had decisions that have impeded local gun laws, like handgun laws in the district of columbia. >> the supreme court has expanded the second amendment beyond anything we could have imagined 20 years ago.

now individuals have a right to possess a firearm in their home, but also after last term's decision in bruin they have a right to process in public, and the supreme court is considering cases even this term that seem likely to expand those rights. so brandon speaks i think incredibly eloquently about what happens to victims and communities following these shootings, and the popularity of restrictions like this very sensible idea that no private citizen needs to own an assault weapon, needs to own what is essentially a weapon of war. there's a disconnect between the safety of our communities and our politics, but it has so far been an im movable barrier. we have not seen a congress that is willing to act. that i think is something that as these individual communities and groups form and engage in advocacy, perhaps we can take on, but it will be a long-term proposition given the supreme

court's willingness to enforce second amendment rights at the expense of community safety. >> and the american people are there, according to polling, but congress is not because of the influence of very wealthy lobbying groups in favor of the gun industry. brandon, as always, it is so important to talk to you. brandon wolf, triumph and the rough of buffalo bills' safety damar hamlin who made his first public appearance yesterday, less than three weeks after going into cardiac arrest during the middle of that game. his presence at the snowy buffalo game capped off an heroic weekend of football as the nfl's afc and nfc championships are set with the chiefs, bengals, eagles and 49ers. as nbc's jesse kirsch there's still a shot with a shot to head to the super bowl. >> just before halftime at buffalo's playoff game -- >> they made the announcement damar is in the building.

>> reporter: damar hamlin sent us all another message. >> there's a sign. >> reporter: but this time he delivered it in person. less than three weeks after his on-field cardiac arrest, the bills' safety cheering for his teammates live at the bills' stadium with thousands of fans applauding. >> amazing. >> it is incredible, absolutely amazing. >> reporter: even before kickoff we knew damar was in the building for a highly anticipated reunion, as they were taking on the cincinnati bengals, the same team they were playing when hamlin collapsed earlier this month. >> it is still very much a playoff game. >> reporter: after what they witnessed, the two teams share a bond. >> welcome to buffalo. >> thank you. >> every fan i come across i say safe travels, but i hope you go home sad. >> reporter: now only four teams remain. >> mccaffrey, right up the gun and in! >> reporter: overnight the 49ers defeating the cowboys, two of the leagues most storied franchises, the '9ers' talent

too much for dallas to handle. one of the highlights of the night, george kittle catching a touchdown spike and throwing it to 49ers' legend jerry rice. >> he gives it to the g.o.a.t. >> reporter: san francisco now heading to their second straight nfc title. over the weekend the kansas city chiefs held off the jacksonville jaguars with quarterback patrick mahomes pushing past an ankle injury. the chiefs sealing their victory with this stunning one-handed interception by jalen watson. >> jalen watson, his biggest play. >> smith got a block, got a touchdown. >> reporter: and the philadelphia eagles soaring past their rival, new york giants. eagles center jason kelce sharing this adorable video of his daughter celebrating from her crib. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! yay! >> that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." maybe next year for buffalo. remember, follow the show

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♪ ♪ a very good day to all of you. i'm alex witt in for chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. we are following new details about the california shooting that has police asking why a 72-year-old man would shoot up a dance hall on one of the most