right now on "andrea mitchell reports," fbi agents searching president biden's delaware beach house today as the mishandled classified documents controversy continues to plague the white house. in contrast to the mar-a-lago fbi search, this was planned and done with the president's consent without a subpoena or a

search warrant. a preview of president biden's one on one with kevin mccarthy as they make their opening moves on the looming debt ceiling showdown with no compromise on the horizon. the memphis community today along with the nation saying good-bye to tyre nichols in a service this afternoon with thousands of mourners, including kamala harris paying their respects and renewing calls for police reform. former president trump about to get his first declared primary challenger as his former u.n. ambassador nikki haley gets ready to announce she's running for the republican nomination in 2024. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. breaking news of another extraordinary development in the classified document saga. the fbi conducting a planned and consensual search on president biden's beach home in delaware this morning. the president consenting, aware and cooperating with his third

fbi search of his homes and former private office for missing classified documents according to his attorney. in contrast the mar-a-lago. the mar-a-lago search was conducted after a judge signed a warrant because donald trump had defied a subpoena. joining me now, kristin welker and joyce vance. what prompted this search of the biden home? you have been all over this story. do you know what they are looking for? >> reporter: we don't yet know what they are specifically looking for. we do know that this fits into, as you just laid out, the fact the fbi has searched president biden's think tank here in washington. that search happened in mid november as well as his wilmington, delaware, home where they did recover classified documents. of course, all of this was prompted by the s discovering cd documents in his think tank here in washington. the white house has been

bedevilled by the drip, drip, drip of information that has been coming out. in this instance though, we did learn about this in real time. sources confirming to us the fbi search was under way this morning. let me read you the statement from the president's personal attorney who writes -- big picture, of course, there's a special counsel investigation that's under way. there's a special counsel investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents. the white house continues to make all of those distinctions that you pointed out at the top and stressing that they are cooperating fully with the searches. >> garrett haake joining us. what's the latest in terms of

the frustration by democrats and republicans on the senate intelligence committee? chairman warner and his republican counterpart demanding to know more from the justice department about the material that was recovered and more from the intelligence community, which they have oversight of. >> reporter: they expect to get satisfaction on this in the not too distance future. they made it clear to the doj and to their intelligence community organizations, which they oversee, that hearing nothing is not an acceptable objection. they anticipate getting briefed if not on the specific content of the documents at least on the level of classification and the broad strokes of what's at stake here. i can tell you this morning i have been talking to house republicans about this latest search at the vacation home. i'm hearing a cautious response from house republicans.

they think this was a necessary step. but even now they are concerned that they feel like the justice department has treated president biden and former president trump so differently in terms of how these searches were negotiated, how they were conducted, kind of out of the spotlight. obviously, former president trump brought his own spotlight down on the search and march mao by posting about it on social media. this has stuck out to republican house members as something that's going to probably lead to further investigation and oversight on their part as the house majority continues to get up and running. >> joyce, i know garrett is just reporting the facts here. but let's get real. it took more than a year and negotiations and defied subpoenas and insistence by the former president he could declassify anything and they were his to keep before they could even get in there with a

search under a judge -- they satisfied a judge that they couldn't get it any other way. and then they didn't even deliver everything. they had to go back and find it at another location, find more. >> right. i think our vocabulary is too limited here. when we use the term search, what's going on is miles apart. what we are seeing with biden is a consensual process. it's important to remember that the fbi has more than just criminal investigative authority. it has national security responsibilities. once you find a spill of classified documents in one of the president's residences, it makes sense to search every place. it's not satisfactory to let the biden team do it themselves. you need someone outside and objective to complete that. compare that to trump. as you point out, there was a lengthy back and forth where the national archives tried to get documents back voluntarily. doj got wind of that in april of

last year and still tried to negotiate to get documents back. when they get a search warrant from the federal judge, they have to convince him that there's probable cause to believe that they will find evidence of crimes or fruits of crimes. it's a serious standard, probable cause is not the highest burden in our criminal justice system, but allegations of criminality and evidence of that are taken seriously by judges before they sign off on a search warrant. miles apart from what we see going on today in rehoboth beach. >> let's switch gears. something that everyone is focused on, meeting over the debt ceiling between speaker kevin mccarthy, the president at the white house. i think it's the first one on one that i know of. yesterday, mccarthy called the president, quote, childish because he won't negotiate. you framed this, i saw on

"today," as one of the opening bids from both sides. >> reporter: that's right. this is a starting point. the expectations are really quite low that president biden and speaker mccarthy will make any real progress toward reaching a deal to raise the debt limit. here are the stakes. the president saying he is not going to negotiate because the nation cannot default on its debts. the debt limit, of course, is the debt the u.s. has already racked up. it's like a credit card bill. speaker mccarthy saying, he is not going to agree to anything unless it includes spending cuts. the white house calling his bluff or trying to and saying, show us exactly where you want to cut. i asked president biden yesterday whether he would sit down and actually negotiate with speaker mccarthy. look at the exchange.

>> reporter: he reiterated the same thing to me yesterday before he left, andrea. we are getting a new statement from the white house just moments ago essentially digging in on this point. saying president biden promised to release his budget plan to ensure our economy works and to build on the historic deficit reduction. he called on house republicans to commit to the same transparency about their vision for the american economy. so far, they have refused. essentially, this is significant because digging in on their stance in the hours leading up to this meeting, and as you point out kevin mccarthy is saying, this is all playing politics, let's sit down, let's talk, let's work through these differences. the real deadline is in june. that's when the nation would default on its debts. that's when experts say the u.s. would really undergo an economic calamity.

the u.s. never defaulted on its debt before. >> we played the video of you asking that question again yesterday morning as he was leaving. this shows you are on it rain or shine, let's just say. making sure you get an answer. garrett, our polling shows 54% of americans say republicans will be inflexible compared to 45% saying the same about president biden about this debt issue. have you heard any reaction or specifics from the speaker about the budget cuts that he would like to see? >> reporter: the short answer is no. that's the problem. kevin mccarthy has said he wants to have a negotiation, he wants to get into the room with the president and talk. he is going to be in the room with the president. a negotiation require u.s. to have a policy position. mccarthy hasn't articulated one. he has 200 plus members in the house. if you ask them about what you think should be cut, you might hear 200 different answers. there's different plans floating around. there's talk about cutting waste

or fraud or abuse, which as you know doesn't get you anywhere near the savings the republicans say they want. at some point mccarthy and his conference will have to decide what it is they agree upon to take to the president if they really do want to have a negotiation. i think what that polling indicates is that what we're going to see over the next couple of months are this boxing match, if you will, of the two sides circling each other trying to make the other's position look unreasonable. i suppose could you make a political argument for mccarthy and the house republicans that by not having a specific position and just saying, the federal budget is too big, we should cut some of it, they sound more reasonable. getting to something that all house republicans can agree on or a majority to present to the president as a starting point for negotiations is going to be a heavy lift.

>> mccarthy is going along with them. how much control does he really have, to your point? >> reporter: right. some of the hardliners may want to see cuts to the defense budget, which would be unacceptable for other more moderate members. this is past the point of getting to a speaker. republicans have in their rules they will not put anything on the floor that a majority of the majority does not support. maybe there's a deal that's going to pass with democratic votes. even then, you need a majority of house republicans to agree on a framework to raising the debt ceiling. mccarthy said he doesn't want to have a default. okay. what can a majority of your members agree on? they don't have the answer to that question. >> thanks to all of you. remembering tyre nichols. as memphis comes together today to celebrate his life, we learn more about the investigation into his death. the latest is right ahead. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports."

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this afternoon, the funeral for tyre nichols will be held in memphis. the celebration for the life of the 29-year-old father of a 4-year-old boy who died after a brutal beating by police. last night, a heartbreaking appeal from his father. >> keep fighting for justice for our son and my family. protect my wife, because she's very fragile right now. we need that for her. trust me. i need it, too. >> tyre nichols' family and friends will be joined by kamala harris, thousands of local residents and their families and the families of other young black men and women who have lost their lives due to police violence in cities around the country. five police officers now facing murder charges. two other officers and three fire department first responders

have been relieved of duty with more charges in the coming days possible says the d.a. joining me now, priscilla thompson in memphis and mark morial and david henderson. priscilla, we will see the outpouring of love for tyre nichols this afternoon. bring us up to date on the latest information on this ongoing investigation. >> reporter: yeah, we saw the hearse pull in as this funeral prepares to get under way. even as this is happening, we are learning new information about this investigation. overnight, our affiliate confirming they received personnel files on the five officers fired and charges. four had previous disciplinary action in their file, including two of them who were both

reprimanded for failing to file mandatory reports about use of force after an incident occurred. as we are learning about those officers, we are getting a look at that initial and unofficial copy police report. they said he was fighting them on the day this incident occurred. that he grabbed for one of their guns at one point. it also -- it mentions in terms of what the police did was they tased him, they pepper sprayed him and one officer hit him in the arm with a baton. clearly, it does not match what we are seeing in the video, raising more questions about the discrepanies based on what we are seeing. i should point out while we have received an unofficial copy, the district attorney confirmed he has a similar account and a copy of the report he has. we did reach out to the memphis police department on this. they tell us that the official

report is not yet ready to be released. still so many questions here as this funeral prepares to get under way. we are experiencing a delay. it was supposed to start earlier this morning. due to the weather that you see around me, a number of people have had their flights delayed and cancellations, including vice president harris who is coming into town to attend and stand in solidarity with this family here later today. >> david, do you expect more charges to be filed in the next few days? we see thediskrep an -- diskrep ansy between the first responders and one or two of the officers who have been, let's say, relieved of duty but not officially fired. do you expect more action? considering how quickly the first five officers were charged.

>> we certainly should. with regard to charges, we should see a bigger indictment here of the way the system has chosen to behave. what this reflects is what the true motivations of the memphis police department were from the beginning. give them credit and say what they are trying to do is hold these people accountable. but the truth is, part of what they are trying to do is cover up the way policing is handled in memphis. doctoring reports is part of what these units do. it's part of what they are trained to do. i know because i have had contact with some of them before when i was a prosecutor. if you watch them, they discuss this. officers are trained to write some action that justifies them taking excessive force towards individuals like, for example, saying they pose a threat to the public. that's what they say when they subject he was recklessly driving. he threatened them with lethal force. they suggested he grabbed for one of their weapons. we forget they didn't know what

the visual evidence was going to be after the fact. body cameras are something police officers asked for so they could collect information about other people. it just so happens now they collect information about police wrongdoing. what we really have to balance today is honoring tyre nichols and our memory of him and his life with recognizing him. we have to do this to honor him. we have to recognize that his death is part of an ongoing problem with policing as reflected by what we see in memphis. >> mark, regarding that ongoing problem, benjamin crump talked to us about the fact that there were other incidents, in fact, one that prompted complaints, other incidents of men stopped by this unit and had complained at the way they were treated, one with gun drawn, tried to call the hotline or police complaint line four days before tyre was killed or attacked,

rather, before his death. never got a response. >> this is an indication of a systemic failure by the memphis police department and the city of memphis because they apparently from beginning to end, this entire ordeal that led to the death at the hands of the police of tyre nichols, was corrupt. the lack of meaningful probable cause for the initial stop. the way in which he was pulled out of the vehicle in such a violent fashion. the way in which there was a chase and then the multiple beatings that took place. and then after that, the way in which they cavalierly ignored him as he lay dying on the ground. it was corrupt. now we are seeing systemic issues. for example, that these officers seem to have had a

predisposition, prior incidents and also a prior habit of not recording their interactions with citizens, which is not only corrupt and a violation of administrative rules, but i think suggests a broader problem with the memphis police department. while we will honor tyre today and mourn with his family, this conversation about the system of the police and how it gets responded to and fixed has to elevate in this country. i think the american people are seeing something that many of us have long known. here is the point. ten years ago, there would not have been any cameras. ten years ago, few would have questioned the police officers if you will, fraudulent reports. this entire incident would have been swept under the rug. now because of technology, now because of cameras and vigilant

citizens, there's an opportunity not only for there to be justice, but forced to truly have a conversation. final thing, the test is going to be in washington, d.c. whether the congress of the united states has the courage and conviction to align itself with what the american people are saying. and that is, now is the time for there to be meaningful police reform in congress. you have to do your role. every local elected official has do their role. there are no easy answers. everyone must be a participant in bringing about change. >> mark, by nature i'm an optimist but also a veteran of washington. if it didn't happen after george floyd, when the nation was aroused and marching, white and black together across the country, what makes one think it's going to happen now with this new house and even more divisions on the hill?

>> we have to continue to fight. we have to continue to be optimistic. it took many, many years for the civil rights bill to pass, for the voting rights act to pass. i think we are going to need the engagement of people, the protest movement of a peaceful nature, the political activism and the voices to continue to be loud. we cannot give up. we cannot allow tyre nichols and so many others to just die in vain and we do nothing and we not say enough is enough. i know the political system in d.c. is what it is. but we are simply not going to give in and not going to give up. let me call on the congress, the president and all of the power there is to prioritize police reform in this nation. do it on a consistent basis. we do need a bill. we do need more than a bill.

but congress should do what it does. it's easy to be pessimistic. i am absolutely realistic. but we will not give up. >> that's the spirit with which the families of others who have died at the hands of police brutality are going to be gathered at that church 2:00 eastern according to the weather delay is the new time for this celebration of life of tyre nichols. thank you, priscilla, for your great reporting and mark and david. thanks to all. the challenger. it's no longer looking like a race of just one for the republican nomination in 2024. nikki haley appears poised to throw her hat in the ring. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. orts." this is msnbc. you can easily get helpful customer service over the phone or on the progressive app pretty much anywhere. like at the coffee shop, at the park, or on the moon.

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nomination. the field is likely to also get crowded, including trump nemesis florida governor ron desantis, mike pence and others, mike pompeo, for instance. joining me now ali vitali, donna edwards and brendan buck. ali, what do we know about nikki haley's big announcement? has the former president responded to his former u.n. ambassador? >> reporter: this is going to be fascinating to watch unfold. in my conversations with my sources last night, those of them familiar with this rollout say this is how it was supposed to play out today. emailing out this invitation to supporters, inviting them on february 15th to come to charleston and see nikki haley make this special announcement, which is, of course, likely to be she's running for president. we have seen her sort of teasing out these breadcrumbs in the last few weeks, starting to get people acclimated to the idea she might run. we heard from former president

trump, her old boss in effect, when she was the ambassador to the u.n., you know from having covered her there that was a relationship that she was a very big part of the trump administration. the former president said over the weekend as he was campaigning that she had called him and said that she was exploring a run for president. he noted the fact that she had previously said she wouldn't mount a bid like that if trump himself were running again. that's true. she said that at one point. then, of course, in recent days and recent weeks had been preparing for her own presidential run, clearly, in spite of the past comments. a sign that the landscape around trump might be shifting in that he is the presumed frontrunner right now as the former republican president, trying to get back into office. but at the same time, that's clearly not scaring off anybody else in the field. he is not clearing the way for a one-man primary. in fact, she will be the first official challenger. you see on the screen there are several names in the mix who could take on trump.

>> donna, over the weekend, former president trump said it would be disloyal for ron desantis to run. >> look, what i would say is this. i roll out of bed, i have people attacking me from all angles. it's been happening for many, many years. if you look at the good thing about it is if you take a crisis situation like covid, the good thing about it is when you are an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions. you have to steer that ship. the good thing is is that the people are able to render a judgment on that whether they re-elect you or not. i'm happy to say in my case, not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of florida.

>> donna, your reaction to ron desantis going after donald trump? of course, desantis has not declared -- he signalled and he polls better in new hampshire than donald trump but he has not declared. >> he does. but i think what's going to happen with ron desantis, nikki haley and other former trump supporters, former trump appointees in the administration, are going to have the challenge of separating themselves from trump and really from trump's perspective really dividing up the spoils. so i think that trump has to look at this and say, the more the merrier. for ron desantis, at some point he supported trump. trump supported him. he followed along with a lot of trump's ideas and policies. it's going to be hard for him to distinguish himself. nobody has the experience of being attacked by donald trump in this field. they are going to feel the brunt of that.

>> ali, the reaction on the hill, how are house republicans going to hand the fact that so many of them are maga republicans and others are election deniers but not in the complete maga frame? there's a whole division there. how do they decide between a desantis, a nikki haley and, of course, donald trump? it could be a bigger field with pence and pompeo and others getting in. >> reporter: even larry hogan last night saying he is considering a run. chris sununu saying that he is thinking about it. it's a governor-heavy fiel if you look at the people seriously staffing up, seriously having conversations and looking at this presidential bid. i don't think as we are considering this conversation that republican voters are looking at this through the lens of election denialism in that way. i think instead, it's kind of what donna is saying which is they're going to have to tread

carefully around the issue of trump. who will, of course, be attacking them on debate stages and on the campaign trail. we know that that is his m.o. that worked for him in the past, draw his opponents into a food fight on the campaign trail. for these people, many of them who backed him, worked for him, benefitted from the trump era and the trump-ist turn in republican politics, they're going to have to carefully maneuver around not overly offending trump voters, but trying to bring them along. the conversation here is right. they are splitting up a small piece of the pie. they're going to have to attract in people who might not support donald trump on top of that. >> brendan, talk about what could happen with a large field. donald trump can win with 17 candidates again and get the nomination. >> yeah. obviously, that's what happened in 2016. i think the biggest impact that nikki haley is probably going to have is that she invites

everybody into this. as discussed, it is a real win for donald trump. i think donald trump is most vulnerable when there's just one or two people who are going at him head on. look, nikki haley has a lot of challenges here. first of all, she's only polling in the low single digits. she represents a republican party from just a few years back. it feels like it wasn't that long ago. we changed a lot as a party. she's strong on national defense. we're more isolationist now. she's a traditional economic conservative. the party is more populist now. we will see if there's an audience for that. it feels like there's a handful of people who will try to take that traditional lane. not only is the anti-trump lane relatively small. i think the anti -- the traditional republican lane is crowded and a small lane to be in in the first place. >> just to play devil's

advocate, who could be more effective against a democrat, especially a democrat like an older gentleman, white and male, from the northeast, from a small state? south carolina, an early primary state, but someone who stood up on the issue after the mother emanuel confederate flag and monuments, after the tragedy in the church in charleston, who also has foreign policy experience, who is not typically anti-trump. she got out of the administration early. not during most of the scandals and the first impeachment. she got out gracefully early. is a woman of color could reach -- could divide democrats. >> very appealing general election candidate. we don't get to jump ahead. that's the problem that republicans have been having. we produce not very appealing general election candidates through our primary process.

there's a handful of people who would probably qualify. scott would be a fantastic candidate. glen youngkin is a great candidate. see if she can get traction. the best thing for donald trump to do is ignore her. >> want to point out vaughn hillyard getting the new information first on the trail is reporting that kari lake, born in iowa, is heading to iowa for two events coming up. of course, iowa is no longer most likely on the democratic side the first caucus state but that still is important in the republican primary battles. there you go. ali, donna, brendan, you have it all covered. thank you so much. round one. the new republican house majority opening its first investigations into the biden white house today. what it all means coming up next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc.

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fireworks broke out today during a house judiciary committee meeting with a debate about the pledge of allegiance. this was the first meeting of the new congress with one democratic lawmaker saying that insurrectionists should be banned from leading a pledge that the republican firebrands wanted to add to the meetings as a regular start for all committee meetings. >> stating this pledge is an affirmation of your defense of the constitution and democracy. it's hard to take that seriously if an individual who in any way supported an insurrection against the government of the united states is allowed to lead the pledge. >> my concern would be if your definition of an insurrection is objecting to electors, then there would be many democrats on the committee that wouldn't be eligible to lead the pledge since so many -- >> that's not my definition. >> it was a heated argument. the pledge is already stated,

voiced at the beginning of all house sessions when they open the session, before they get to committee hearings. the objection was they don't have to say it twice in one day to reaffirm their patriotism. this is the new house majority, of course, officially starts holding hearings today. republicans push ahead with plans to investigate the biden administration spending on immigration policies and covid relief. joining us now, ryan nobles in the middle of the action up there on the hill. tell us about this pledge of allegiance controversy which was an unexpected start to the first hearing. >> reporter: the simple way to frame this is, welcome to the 118th congress. this is a microcosm of what we will likely see. this was an hour-long debate over what would be 30 seconds of time devoted to each one of the congressional hearings. it turned into a back and forth between some of the most firebrand members of the democratic house and the republican house going back and

forth other the pledge of allegiance. this is something they do at the beginning of every session of congress in the house chamber. it's important to keep in mind, there are hundreds and hundreds of hearings that take place over the course of a congressional session. if you start having the pledge of allegiance added to all of them, it could become redundant. republicans say it's an easy thing to do to demonstrate loyalty to the country and patriotism. why don't we do it? arguments to be made on both sides of the aisle. what it devolved into was a tit for tat over who is an insurrectionist, who is not. it shows if they can't agree on something as simple as whether or not to say the pledge at the beginning of a committee hearing, how are they going to be able to get some of these big policy fixes the country needs to continue moving forward? >> how do you define insurrectionist. the republicans are critical of the biden administration with the crisis at the border.

is this something we can see more of? >> reporter: there's no doubt about that. they have hearings planned, not just within the judiciary committee but also a number of other committees, homeland security and others expected to be focused on this. they will take aim at the current head of the department of homeland security, the cabinet secretary, with a push. there's legislation in the works to attempt to impeach him. this is something that republicans feel is a true liability for biden in his administration. they feel they have not done enough to focus on the situation at the border. they believe in their role as overseers of the executive branch that it's a responsibility of congress to point out where they think the biden administration is falling short, where it becomes an actual legitimate question about the policies of the biden administration or a political tit for tat, that remains to be

seen. >> of course, there's something to be said on both sides. the biden administration inherited this immigration mess. it got worse, reaching historic levels. that's the argument. there's been failure on both sides to deal with it. let's talk about the house oversight committee. everybody is having their first hearings today, first meetings. what republicans are calling the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in the covid relief problems, what do you expect there? >> reporter: that's right. they have some high level members of the biden administration that will be testifying today in front of the oversight committee about what the chairman of the committee, james comer, describes at fraud, waste and abuse. hundreds of millions of dollars going out across the country over the covid pandemic to try and stave off the economic disaster that occurred with the country basically shutting down during that period of time. comer and his colleagues believe just not enough care went into

how that money wag distributed and how it was spent. this is the beginning of the process and unpacking where the money went and prevent it from happening in the future. >> ryan nobles, a busy time up there on capitol hill. breaking news now from delaware. president biden's attorneys have put out a statement saying no documents with classified markings were found during the fbi's search as the president's rehoboth beach house. let's bring in kristin welker. is this an indication that they are going to respond in real time on some of these issues af publicly report things until now? . >> reporter: it certainly could be an indication of that. that's not entirely clear. what we know is the white house has come under a lot of scrutiny, and frankly, bipartisan criticism for not being more forthcoming about some of these developments as it relates to the president's handling of classified documents. we learned earlier this week

that his think tank here in washington was searched in mid november and that was a story that broke in the news media instead of being divulged by the white house. he says the doj's planned search of the president's rehoboth residences conducted in coordinator nation and cooperation with the president's attorneys has concluded. the serge was conducted from 8:30 a.m. to noon. no documents with classified markings were found. they took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president. so that is the update about this latest search. again, his think tank was searched in washington as well as his wilmington home where fbi agents did discover some classified documents. now, that is the legal matter, and of course there's a special counsel investigation that is underway. politically speaking and the

white house has tried to make a real distinction between president biden's handling of classified documents and former president trump who did not turn over classified documents willfully and so his mar-a-lago estate was searched under a subpoena. politically speaking, though, andrea, our latest polling shows that the american public gives them both low marks for their handling of this matter, so politically speaking, it's really a wash. all of that is the backdrop as the president gets ready to sit down to meet face-to-face with house speaker kevin mccarthy. they're going to address the debt limit and his state of the union address is looming for next week. a lot going on here. >> and briefly, kristen, they also acknowledged that the fbi did take notes and papers of the former vice president's tenure as they did in his wilmington home as well, for further study? >> that's absolutely right, and i think what is not clear, and

i'll just read that part of the statement again where bob bauer said the doj took materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president. we know that some of the other documents that have been taken from the other two locations that were searched were notebooks as well that appeared to relate to his time serves as vice president. it was not clear exactly what the fbi was searching for in this latest search, whether they had specific materials in mind or if they were just going in to make sure that they were dotting every i and crossing every t. the big headline is according to bob bauer, there were no classified documents that were recovered in the latest search, andrea. >> kristen welker, thank you so much for the breaking news there. and as it's deja vu all over again for tom brady as the quarterback says good-bye to the nfl again, exactly a year to the day after his first retirement. this time, brady says it's for real. >> i won't be long winded.

you only get one super emotional retirement essay, and i used mine up last year. thank you for allowing me to live my absolute dream. i wouldn't change a thing. love you all. >> the final tally for brady, the most passing yards, passing touchdowns, and super bowl championships in nfl history. all records for the future hall of famer that may never be broken. and now of course also a featured role in a new film. nbc's sam brock is in florida. sam, we're going to have to wait and see if this retirement actually sticks. >> reporter: i know, i think a lot of people, andrea, still have their suspicions that there could be a little bit of a chance that maybe tom brady comes back again after all. at this point, we probably have to take him at his word. it's worth pointing out, the term g.o.a.t., the greatest of all time has been around, and that has become emblazoned in our lexicon because of tom brady. that tweet came out this

morning. 52 seconds long. he didn't vamp. he did get emotional and talk about the gratitude he has for his family and teammates for supporting him on the journey. a handful of athletes reoriented what we thought was possible in sport. tom brady did so for his longevity, 23 years in the nfl, and his performance, seven super bowl rings. no other quarterback has more than four. joe montana, you might have heard of him, and terry bradshaw would be the next closest with four. his accomplishments speak for themselves. you talk about the fact that he leads the nfl passing books and touchdowns, and a whole host of records, hard to imagine someone eclipsing those seven rings. this is someone who has a high profile dissolution of his marriage with gisele, the kids involved as well. americans watched and that's always going to be a part of the story, but as it concerns sport, this man is one of one. he is in rarified air. he has an exit strategy, because we know he has a ten-year,

$375 million contract with fox sports to do broadcasting. he has a health and wellness company. he has a host of interests he's going to be involved in. he's going to be okay. his imprint on the league is unparalleled in the history of professional sports, and you're seeing athletes of all stripes saying this guy really and truly is the g.o.a.t., assuming he's retiring. >> no, i was going to say, he is the g.o.a.t. he had a disappointing end to the season, but boy, he's extraordinary, and will always be the only, the one and only tom brady, sam brock, the one and only sam brock. thank you. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" follow the show online, on facebook and twitter. chris jansing is next after these brief messages. chris jansing is next after these brief messages (woman) it's a perfect fit for my small business. (vo) verizon has business internet solutions nationwide. (man) for our not-so-small business too. (vo) get internet that keeps your business ready for anything.

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good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we are watching along with you. the grief and pain evaluate on the faces of mourners who are now arriving at the church in memphis for tyre nichols funeral. his mother speaks of hope. what can possibly make his sacrifice worth the agony? also this hour, shocking numbers from our new nbc poll that could throw the presidential race into chaos before it even gets going. 2/3 of the country don't want donald trump