a sixth memphis police officer relieved of duty today in connection of the death of tyree nichols whose officers have been charged with the brutal murder as new questions swirl about why they pulled him over in the first place. i'll be joined by the family attorney about the deadly use of force and failure to provide immediate medical help as well as others who may have been involved. also this hour, secretary of state blinken in israel for his first meeting with benjamin netanyahu as prime minister as tensions are exploding between israel and the palestinians in the weeks following netanyahu's return to power.

>> calls for vengeance against more innocent victims are not the answer and acts of retaliatory violence are never justified. i'll make that clear throughout my time in israel on the west bank with everyone i meet. >> and steve kornacki will join us to discuss our new poll highlighting national concerns over president biden and former president trump's handling of classified materials. even though they had very different circumstances as mr. trump makes a low energy return to the campaign trial. a sixth police officer has been relieved from duty. they're declining to say if hees

on paid or unpaid leave, when the decision was put into effect. the police chief has disbanded the scorpian unit in respond to demand from the civil rights community. more charges could be coming for those involved and other who is responded to the scene and did not intervene. joining me now, elson barber in memphis. what can you tell us about the sixth officer, about the growing concerns about why nichols was even stopped by police? >> reporter: yeah, there are still so many questions about that night. the moments that led up to this incident, but the biggest news is that the sixth officer who was there that night has been relieved of his duties. you said his name and his officer, preston hemple. according to a spokesperson, we're getting this information in slowly right now, but a speks person for the department is telling nbc news this offer was relieved of duty with the other

five officers shortly after the january 7th traffic stop, but they are saying his name was not originally released to the public because he was not fired. in terms of his status right now, that spokesperson declined to say whether or not the officer was on or is currently on paid leave or unpaid leave. she is telling us that the investigation is ongoing and that once they have additional information available, the department will provide an update on their social media platforms. this officer, according to the spokesperson with the memphis police department, has been with the department since 2018. this is a name that actually started to appear on social media. some local activists were talking about this officer and then a local publication, the tennessee holler, started talking about his name as well, saying that this name had appeared in some of the affidavits or at least one

affidavits incident reports saying this officer was there that night and he had possibly deployed his taser. that was raising a lot of questions online as some of the local publications now. a spokesperson for the police department saying this officer has been relieved of his duties, but no details about what his involvement that night might have been. you mentioned the initial regions that nichols was stopped. there are still a lot of questions about that. we heard from the d.a. for shelby county and said they have seen no evidence that this traffic stop was legitimate even in the moments prior to the video released friday evening. andrea? >> and we just saw a heartbreaking picture of nichols with his 4-year-old. that is his 4-year-old son who is now of course without his father. thank you. tim alexander, based on your experience in law enforcement,

what is your reaction to this officer being relieved of duty, but no notice of it to the public? it only came out through activists, but apparently, this was done days and days ago when the others were charged. >> i think that that again goes to that failure of transparency. and letting the public know exactly where they are. it's understandable that this investigation's unfolding. it's rapid. things are going to happen. they're trying to get more witnesses. they're going to be interviewing more officers involved. some of the officers who came and did nothing. where was the supervision? there's a lot going to occur over the next few weeks, but the absolute necessity to keep the public informed exists more than anywhere else we've seen in a case like this and i hope that the department will change that direction. get back on course and make sure the public knows each and every thing that's going on as it's unfolding in real time. >> a lot of questions are being raised about even why he was

stopped. they said it was you know, reckless driving. there's no indication of that. we don't know what happened before the body cam, but what we see is we see these officers approaching the car, yanking open the door, using profanity, driving, you know, pulling him out of the car. they don't say, you know, can we see your driver's license? this is not a traffic stop that anyone, you know, has seen or experienced. >> well, exactly. the chief even acknowledged that it did not appear to be a legitimate reason for stopping the car. what we would call pretextual. something made up after the fact to say why they stopped the car in the first place. those officers directly involved certainly appear to be operating under the theory that they're in charge of everything that goes on in that town. that everybody will obey them at all times and if not, you will pay the ultimate price as we saw

in that horrific, horrific beating where they literally stood him up so they could try to knock him down again. it's just one of the most egregious acts i've ever seen in my career and i was in homicide for two different tours. i don't think i've ever seen anything so egregious as this. >> tim alexander, agreed. i'm not a former police officer, prosecutor as you are, but it was, made me sick to my stomach. thank you very much and joining us now is benjamin crump, attorney for the nichols' family. mr. crump, thank you for being with us. first, i want to ask you whether you know anything about the sixth officer. why we don't know about it sooner and what reason there is for him to be relieved of duty. perhaps you know more from the investigation. >> well, andrea, what we know is that five minutes of the video being released, several people contacted me directly as well as people on social media saying

what mr. wells, his father, had said from day one. who is this guy? why hasn't he been terminated? arrested? because he also was assaulting his son. we know that he's been relieved of duty. we think that he should be terminated like the other five black officers that were terminated. and so when we look at the initial police report, we think that it's right with conspiracy to cover this matter up. when you look at that initial police report and you look at this tragic video documenting the last minutes of nichols' live, you know that people were lying on that police report. so did he have something to do

with that. we have a lot of questions that have to be answered over this sixth officer as well as others. >> is he visible on the video? forgive me for not knowing that. >> his hand, then you see him talking during the first altercation when the officer is trying to get the pepper spray out of his eye and somebody, andrea mitchell, says we think it's him, we're trying to verify that, that i hope when they catch him, that they stomp him. >> that brings me to another question, which is that they seem to be saying things like you know, we're trying to handcuff him and things relating to his hands when his hands are clearly up. they seem to be creating a false narrative through statements that they knew would be on the body cams and they had no way of knowing or didn't seem to realize there was an overhead camera, a stationary camera as well. am i right about that or is, you know, are you reading anything

into what they physically said? >> you're absolutely right. and the fact that they continue to try to make this false narrative tells you that it's more attempts at conspiracy. the fact that nobody can reasonably articulate why he was stopped in the first place. you hear him on the audio saying he was driving reckless then he was going down the road the wrong way. well, we don't see any evidence of that whatsoever so we have to get thom bottom of everything that led to the death of nichols, which is very similar to what we had to do in the tragic killing of breonna taylor. we had to just keep digging and digging and digging and it is such a coincidence, andrea

mitchell, that nichols and taylor were born on the same day and the same year. >> a tragic coincidence, indeed. mr. crump, was this random? i mean, he was a couple of blocks from home. this was the route he took every night. worked with his father at fedex. mom made dinner and the lunch break for him. was this random or do you have any suspicion or information that he was in some way targeted, that they knew who they were following? traffic stops were not supposed to be part of their beat. that wasn't what the scorpian unit supposedly did. >> we're continuing to dig to find out the truth of the matter, but everything based on what we know now was this was a regular stop that the scorpian unit engaged in all the time in this community. in fact, we have two other young

african american men who have come forward to us that we're representing that have alleged that they have been stopped by this same scorpian unit. in fact, one of them is a young man who happened to be stopped just four days before nichols was stopped and he was going to get pizza. he said they stopped him at the stop sign. they grabbed him out the car. they used all kind of profanity to him. they assaulted him. and put a gun to his head while he was on the ground. thank god he survived and then the next day, he called the internal affairs at the memphis police department twice and they never responded to him and you just want to believe had they responded to him, maybe nichols would not have suffered this fatal encounter three days

later. >> i had heard that, which makes me think would want to know more about this police department and that unit. they've been praised for their rapid response in comparison to others of these horrible incidents that took years before anyone got you know, charged or even dismissed, but why was the scorpian unit so unchecked? why were young officers without supervision in it? what was their purpose? i know they've been disbanded now, but that's after he's dead. >> this is not unique to memphis. these organized crime units often known as the jump out bars in many communities of color, they don't do this in white communities but they do it in communities of color where they are very aggressive. they trample on the constitutional rights of the citizens, they engage in excess

force almost with inpunty. when you watch this end of this video, you will see they're acting so nonchalantly. i mean, they are, it's like business as usual. he's on ground moaning in obvious distress. nobody's running aid to him. like they have done this before over and over again. and our civil rights death lawsuit on behalf of his family, the attorney and i are going to be able to point out that this is a pattern and this was their practice and hopefully that's why the federal government will look into pattern and practice investigation of this memphis police department. >> which is the terminology for when they have a legitimate civil rights investigation into practices in these departments. we heard from his mother and stepfather who was really a father to him from you know, their family connection. they joined you on "morning joe"

earlier. i want to play part of what we heard. >> the thing that bothers me the most, it's just so many children that's being brutalized and killed by the police. as i see it before, i feel like my son was sacrificed for the greater good and it's going to be a lot of good that comes out of this. my son will always be remembered and i will continue to fight until justice is served for him. >> mr. crump, you've been with them almost every step of the way. their extraordinary grace in the midst of her unimaginable grief is just inspiring and heartbreaking. you know, i -- how do you, how do you describe these people, these parents, what they're going through and how they're responding? >> it really is incredible, her

grace, but we have to make her coping mechanism come true. she says that's how she copes with this, that she believes that something good is going to have to come out of this and so we have to make something good come out of it whether it's finally getting the justice and police, the george floyd policing act pass that we talked with president biden about when he called them to say march it back in the united states senate, have senator schumer and booker put it back on the table and work with your leaders and the house of representatives because we have to use this opportunity this moment to try to make our prophesy that he was an assignment from god and this is for the greater good. we know, andrea, and i want to be exceedingly clear about this.

we know that those five black police officers were arrested, terminated, and charged within less than 20 days after this tragic killing that was captured on video of them engaging in excessive use of force. and so this is now the blueprint going forward. they can no longer tell us it takes six months to a year to investigate when it's white police officers who abuse us because just like they did with these five black police officers, when the chief said that it was important for the community to see swift action, to see them swiftly moving towards justice, well, it doesn't matter whether it's black police officers or white police officers. we want to see the same swiftness from now on when they kill us in the future. whether it be white officers who kill eric garner in new york.

who killed la kwon mcdonald in chicago. who killed ej bradford in montgomery, alabama. who killed crusher in oklahoma. who killed pamela in houston, texas. all these captured on video, but yet we had to go a year or two years on an investigation when they saw the video day one. >> indeed. important raising. thank you so much. joining us now is "washington post" columnist, eugene robinson and jenae nelson. you've been calling for federal funding in the memphis police department. i think ben crump was talking about there's a federal role here for sure, calling for comprehensive federal legislation. are you any more optimistic about this because we didn't see after george floyd after that

george floyd act ever got through congress. >> yes, it's hard to muster optimism in this moment. i will say though i think each of these incidents advances the public's understanding about the depth of police violence and the pervasiveness of it and it will call more people to action. i don't think anyone can see that video or hear about the contents of that video and not be moved to action and so it is the job of all of us as mr. crump said to make sure that his mother's wish is fulfilled and that we have comprehensive federal legislation. we have a national police funding database that tracks the funding that law enforcement agencies receive across the country and the memphis police department has received over $18 million over the past decade. and we need to trace that money and make sure none of it is being used to support discriminatory and violent policing practices. so a full investigation is

warranted here from soup to nuts. every dimension of that police department needs to be investigated and interrogated. >> do you want to extend that nationally because there are similar units in departments across the country. and see what kind of training goes into these police officers in unmarked cars responding in minority communities. >> yes, these units are deputized and empowered to become more brazen than the average police officer. when you are operating in plain clothes. when you have an unmarked car, you're able to infiltrate a community in a way that can do damage to the community and law enforcement. it emboldens those offers to take advantage of their ability to be embedded in these communities in a way that is

deeply dangerous. what we saw happen to tyre nichols is happening across the country. maybe not in ways we all see and result in the horrific end that tyre met, but we know he's not the first to be killed at the hands of law enforcement from these specialized units or from officers engaging in a routine traffic stop that escalates by their own effort that winds up to be a lethal situation. >> eugene, i want to read an excerpt from your column in reaction. you write that the perpetrators sometimes matters, but the race of the victims always matters. too many -- with the culture of us versus them do not see a black man with a broken taillight or makes an illegal u turn as a citizen who makes a

mistake. they see him as a threat to police dominance and control and must be subdued, humiliated, cowed, put in his place. so eugene, according to police, to the "washington post," more than 1,000 people have been shot and killed by police in just the last 12 months. >> right. and this, we have to attack this mentality. we have to get back to the basics of why do you have police forces? why do people become police officers? they are, police are there to serve and protect the citizens of the communities and they are citizens until proven otherwise. this is such a common theme. the way they approached tyre nichols as guilty before even been encountered or charged and

as someone who had to submit in a way that said he wasn't a citizen. a subject at best. they were showing who was in charge of that community. that is the wrong way for police to approach the communities they're supposed to serve and protect and these specialized elite in quote units are particularly guilty of this attitudinal crime, i think, and thus implicated in these real crimes. it's a systemic problem that has to be dealt with. if your department doesn't see african american communities as composed of citizens and sees it as composed of suspects, then

that's a huge problem. >> indeed. and of course the parents are going to be at the state of the union. we now know that. and it's an opportunity to try to reengage congress for the president to try to reengage congress in this issue and the george floyd bill, but it remains to be seen. whether the momentum will stand. will continue. thank you both. and deadly violence in israel. israel on edge as tensions heat up following the worst attacks by both sides in decades. plus, we're talk to the writer and activist who the department of justice says was the target of an iranian assassination attempt here in the u.s. iranian assassination attempt here in the u.s. qulipta® can help prevent migraines. you can't always prevent what's going on outside... that's why qulipta® helps what's going on inside. qulipta® gets right to work. in a 3-month study, qulipta®

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worshippers killing seven. including a 14-year-old boy. the gunman was shot dead. on saturday, a boy shot dead in east jerusalem. this video showing the moment an israeli military office on leave fired back, shooting the boy who is now recovering in hospital. all of this coming after the deadly israeli commando raid thursday night. in theccie west bank. left ten dead, seven of the militants according to israeli officials. though palestinians have denied that. blinken reaffirming today the way forward is through a two-state solution. something that would be impossible critics say given netanyahu's new government policies, limiting palestinian rights and expanding jewish settlements into palestinian territories. >> west way to achieve it is through preserving then realizing the vision of two

states. as i said to the prime minister, anything that moves us away from that is detrimental to israel's long-term security and long-term identity as a jewish and democratic state. that's why we're urging all sides to take urgent steps to restore calm. >> joining me now from jerusalem, kelly. secretary of state blinken calm after those deadly attacks over the weekend. that's happening tonight? >> reporter: well, andrea, israel is on its highest state of alert. that alert raised after the shooting outside the synagogue on friday. police are on 12-hour shifts. security forces across jerusalem to maintain calm. there have been some skirmishes late in the night on saturday night. sunday night between palestinians and israeli police and also attacks on jewish settlers on the homes of

palestinians in the west bank. nothing along the lines of the kind of violence that israel saw on friday night. still, this is something that as you mentioned, secretary blinken was forced to address not once, but twice on this trip. just moments after stepping off the plane then again in those joint statements with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but there is another big issue that these two sides wanted to talk about that is iran. there was a drone strike over the weekend on an iranian military facility. the iranian blamed israel for that strike. israel's defense ministry isn't commenting. the cia isn't commenting, but this is something that the secretary of state said the two sides have in common. keeping iran's military ambitions in check. of course the u.s. accuses iran of supplying russia with iranian-made drones to use against ukraine. blinken saying today that both

sides were committed to making sure that iran did not acquire a nuclear weapon but another big problem there to solve, what's the plan b if iran does not rejoin the nuclear report. if that plan is dead, what happens next? other issues to talk about as well, andrea, but again in the forefront is this problem of the palestinian-israeli conflict and the violence. the palestinian health ministry saying it's already the bloodiest january since 2015 for palestinians. more than 30 people killed in the territories. among them, eight children. andrea? >> tragedy all around. thank you. and the justice department has charged three men with attempting to assassinate a prominent iranian american activist. they're accused of targeting the writer and act vikt who's been relentless in iran's government

over women's rights and peaceful protests. one of the defendants had an assault rifle and about 66 rounds of ammunition when pulled over by the nypd last year. joining us now is the iranian american who was targeted. good to see you again. we've talked about this before and i don't know whether you feel any comfort that there is now an arrest. he's been in custody for a while. that they've actually charged this iranian and the unit, the irgc from the government, of being responsible. >> to be honest, i feel a bit of relief. especially when i found out from the fbi on friday that there were two other men who were part of crime organization from eastern europe helping with the guy who got arrested with loaded gun in front of my house. they got arrested as well. so clearly now three of the

killers who were actually hired by the islamic republic revolutionary guards are in prison in new york, but i feel, i mean, i feel like i have been given a second life but at the same time, the war is too luxury for me because the fbi told me they don't even know what's going to happen if they come with a third attempt to kill me. >> and we just saw the ring camera video from your home with the man outside. so you know, if they could hire one eastern european assassination team, they could hire another. >> exactly. >> is the fbi giving you any confidence that they are still looking and are they surveilling? are they trying to find, you know, find others who might be out there? >> yeah, i mean, to be honest, i'm very thankful to the law enforcement. i mean, at the same times, it's

very heartbreaking that my country that i was born, iran, the government of my own country trying to kill me, but my adopted country, united state of america, trying to protect me. yes, of course i'm in the safe house. i'm under protection, but this is not the whole story. i want the biden administration to lay out their policy towards the islamic republic because look, at the same time, they sanctioned the killers. some of the clerics, revolutionary guards, but next day, they go and negotiate with the same murderers. the islamic republic is a threat for the people in ukraine. right now, they're spending drones to putin to kill innocent ukrainians, so this regime is a threat for people in the region as well. they have been assassinated, kidnapping more than 500 innocent dissidents abroad.

i want to u.s. government, i want to meet president biden, thank him for protecting me, but at the same time, i want to take his attention to protect democracy. to be tough on islamic republic and call the eu to designate the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. >> according to credible published reports in "the wall street journal" and "new york times," the u.s. is signaling they have nothing to do with this attack on the weapons facility, but all signs point to israel having done that, but those are, those are separate issues. thank you very much. thanks for being with us today. >> thank you for having me. and the war crimes. the massive undertaking needed to hold russia accountable for the atrocities being carried out in ukraine for almost a year now. ukraine's prosecutor general joining me next. ukraine's prosecutor general joining me next. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...the burning, the itching.

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more than 66,000 war crimes have been reported in ukraine since the start of russia's invasion a year ago and that number is growing by the day with every deadly missile strike including everything from theft to murder, torture and rape. documenting the crimes is a massive undertaking and trying those cases, putin himself in an international criminal court will be an even bigger challenge. joining us now is the prosecutor general. welcome and thank you very much. very good to meet you. so what kinds of crimes are we talking about? we saw the brutality and importantly in mariupol and all these other cities, but every attack on an apartment building in odesa is a war crime on or electric utilities. so where do you start? >> you know, everything started

on 24th of february with large scale invasion in our country and this is what we are talking about. the crime of aggression. the as many people say, the mother of all other war crimes because if crime of aggression were not committed, the other war crimes had been not committed and if we're talking about the war crimes committed, the number is really huge. you have mentioned it's more than 65,000 at the moment. and we are working with investigating and prosecuting the crime of genocide, the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. you mentioned the types of war crimes and it's really the killing of civilians, indiscriminate shelling, the forced deportation of our children and civilians. conflict related sexual violence crimes and many others. of course, these cases are the

cases of our priority and we actively cooperate with international institutions. for the most severe international war crimes, we are working closely with the office of prosecutor of the international criminal court and his team who are constantly in ukraine working with our prosecutors. as for the crime of aggression for international try bual to punish russia for the crime of aggression. >> when we saw some of the pictures, the extraordinary footage. i saw some video that was shot by a ukrainian team that stayed behind and stayed there for three weeks and it was just incredible. you find bodies with a shot through their head, but arms tied behind their back. this is such an obvious war

crime. you take pictures first and document it, right? >> definitely. this is hard work for investigators, for prosecutors, for forensics, for police officers. but we need to document every war crime. we need to document because we need russia and as the country and russian representatives of russian armed forces to be accountable for war crimes they committed. this is not only for justice for the victims and survivors of this war crimes, this is for the sake of justice for the whole world because this war is more of democracy against tyranny and we need to win this war for the whole world. >> will there be accountability? do you have any expectation that putin, the other leaders, will ever actually be put on trial?

>> this is our aim. this is our aim and with this, we closely as i mentioned, work not only with our international partners, but also with government organizations. there is a coalition of ngo trooi bunnal with putin and they share with us evidences of war crimes in order to make everyone in russia liable, including highest military leadership. this could be done only within the international system because highest political leadership have immunity in our national jurisdiction. it's why our work with international tribunal is crucial. >> briefly, there was recently action on corruption internally and at the same time, have a new house majority here. some of whom are skeptical about what they call the blank check to ukraine. do you have to prove that the

money from weapons, 25 billion so far and more actually in the next couple of days, is going to be well spent? >> this is our aim. we're absolutely transparent for any inspection from our partners because we all understand that trust to each other is a corner stone for our future, cooperation of future support of us. we react on every fact of corruption. and no one has any immunity and our law enforcement system despite the war work every day together with our anticorruption authorities to make everyone responsible for potential corruption liable. >> thank you for being here. best of luck with your very challenging venture. >> thank you. and trump stump. the former president hitting the campaign trial for the 2024 republican nomination as new poll numbers show shrinking

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i think it was disappointion for some folks. >> all this as a brand new nbc news poll shows republican voters are not lining up behind the former president for a 2024 run. joining us from the big board is nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. a different political climate. walk us through the findings of the new nbc news poll. >> a new year, although the climate i think in 2023, republicans now in control of the house, starting to look ahead to 2014, the climate according to our new poll does have a lot of similarities to 2022, to the midterm we just got through. starting with this, joe biden's approval rating 45% in the new poll, he's under water. 50% disapprove. pretty consistent with what we saw right up until the midterm last november. this is what his number looked like heading into the midterm. it's one of the reasons why

expectations for democrats in that midterm were so low. typically in the past that kind of approval rating had not added up to the kind of midterm that democrats ended up having which was, by historical standings, pretty decent midterm elections. biden remains under water in terms of popularity. in terms of attitudes about the economy, a lot of pessimism out there still about inflation, asking folks about the income compared to the cost of living. in the new poll two-thirds of voters say they feel they're falling behind, their incomes are not keeping up with the cost of living. something we were talking about, a concern being prominent in 2022. still very prominent in 2023. what you see is a whole list of traits we asked folks about, about president biden and do you have a sense of -- a positive or negative sense when it comes to the different traits. again what you see, overall, a lot more red ink, more unpopularity than popularity.

he does good in the easygoing and likable. look at competent and effective, mental and physical health. you see scores there for biden that place him under water. that was the dynamic in 2022. low approval rating for joe biden. a lot of economic concerns and some specific concerns, politically alarming concerns for joe biden in the polling. yet, as we said in 2022, democrats ended up gaining a senate seat and coming close to actually keeping the house. why was that? that's the other element of the 2022 climate that we're still seeing in our poll in 2023. it's the trump factor. joe biden in our poll more negative than positive. he's not popular. the democrats, more negative than positive. they're not popular. but the republican party is even less popular, and donald trump is even less popular than joe biden. it was that trump factor, that prominence of donald trump in public square heading into the

midterms in 2022 that helped democrats in so many of those key races in 2022, that helped them to overcome some of those political liabilities that you see in those biden numbers. it becomes the question for 2023 and 2024. is this still donald trump's republican party? is he going to be their nominee again? is 2024 going to be another trump election. we asked republicans, do you consider yourself more a supporter of the republican party or of trump. there's still a third of the republican party that says trump, i'm mainly a trump supporter. you ask a broader question, of republicans, do you consider yourself a supporter of the maga movement, make america great again movement, a trumpism. two-thirds of republicans say yes. you saw that effect, the trump effect in the 2022 midterms. it's a big question. you showed the clip of chris christie, it's one that republicans have to grapple with in 2023 and 2024.

are they going to make trump their face in 2024 again? >> if the field is big, he could win in plurality and get the nomination. >> we saw it happen in 2016. >> exactly. steve kornacki, thanks so much. two weeks from today we'll be talking about the champions of super bowl lvii. will it be the philadelphia eagles or the kansas city chiefs? last night quarterback patrick mahomes playing through an injured ankle, scrambling in the final seconds to put the chiefs in position for a tie-breaking field goal to overtake the bengals for the afc championship in a 23-20 nail-biter. in philadelphia, jalen hurts and the eagles easily flying to a commanding 31-7 win over the san francisco 49ers. the 49ers were playing with their fourth quarterback this season to clinch the nfc championship because of injuries. so that was really a mismatch. the super bowl is going to be a battle of firsts with black

quarterbacks leading both teams and brother versus brother for the first time. with chiefs tighten travis kelce against his sibling jason who is the eagles star center. a big problem for the kelce parents. also, 24-year-old buffalo bills safety damar hamlin speaking publicly for the first time since suffering that nearly fatal cardiac arrest four weeks ago. >> what happened to me on monday night football was a direct example of god using me as a vessel to share my passion and my love directly from my heart. >> in the time since hamlin has been focusing on recovering from his injuries, his chasing m foundation and toy drive has raised more than $9 million, which is extraordinary. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." fellow us online. chris jansing is in after these

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