it s over. it is over. and the kansas city chiefs have won it. whoo! it s my hometown! okay. so i was really torn about this one. you know why, right? i love mahomes. and joe burrow. i like both of them. i was really torn. i just kept rewatching it and rewatching. we re not talking about the vikings. i know. are you a mind reader this morning? how long have i known you? patrick mahomes did that on one good ankle is incredible. did you see him hopping around. he had that high ankle sprain eight days ago. amazing he played that well. we re on tv right now. good morning. good morning, everyone. for the first time in super bowl history, two black quarterbacks will lead their teams in the big game. so who s the favorite and who s the underdog? we re going to have much more on this story. we ll have that in just a moment. also, taking a turn here, new questions this morning in memphis. will the death of tyre nichols lead to actual federal nationwide police
look when we were covering george floyd, if you look at the initial statement and you would say, wait, are we talking about the same thing? yeah. and and we weren t. and what that speaks to a little bit is something that i think attorneys would say would be consciousness of guilt. if the officers are giving this information and it is so different from what actually happened, you have to wonder if they re trying to suppress the true information knowing that something was wrong. even in the beginning when we were watching the videotape, you listen to the officers at the scene, on the scene there. they were sort of making it up as they go along. hey, man, did you see what he did? he did this and they tried to they were coming up with a scenario. as a potential pretext. and they put it in the report. i think part of it wasn t just the report. sometimes when, you know, you get a bunch of people together, they start making excuses for why they are treating a human being
responses specifically. i think you understand we re careful about talking about that. that said, your point is a good one. if you look at the russian play book, they use cyber, offensive cyber to disrupt perhaps infrastructure, railroads, other means of transportation, other kinds of utilities, and to try to shut down an adversary s ability to communicate, so i think we have to be looking for those signs going forward. certainly we would be of a piece of the way they have conducted this hybrid warfare going forward. we have not ruled that out as an option available to mr. putin, and we re mindful of that. how concerned are you about those autonomy talks about the russian areas of ukraine, russian-speaking areas of ukraine, that they for all intents and purposes hold right now. autonomy talks in russia s parliament, that started today, and could be a vote in the next day or two. as a potential pretext for some
the latest. today french president macron called russian president vladimir putin what is being described as a last ditch effort to avert war. in the call according to to the kremlin which lasted for two hours, president putin blaming ukraine for the recent violence in don bas. urging the west to meet the security demands as for the situation in eastern ukraine, thousands continue to be evacuated from the separatist control areas speaking to journalists on the russian side of the border. he s been seeing women and children being separated from their husbands. husbands being sent back into eastern ukraine. where there s been a call to arms. the women and children being boarded onto trains, destination unknown. and what s being described by western leaders as a potential pretext for a further russian invasion. a situation that is very real
right now vice president kamala harris is in germany leading the american delegation to the munich security conference set to focus on the russian threat. we have reports this morning from moscow to washington and we begin our team coverage with senior national correspondent alex marquardt in ukraine. alex, what has been the response in ukraine for false flag operations, pretexts for attacks and so-called genocide? reporter: laura, there is significant concern not just here but across nato that president putin, as you say, could use what s going on here as a potential pretext or excuse to justify an invasion. that has been warned of by u.s. officials and many others that he could come up with some kind of story or use what s happening