the entire trump rein. yeah. and i have got the marks on my back to to prove it, don. um, yeah, you know, i i think we are in worse shape than we were to some extent during the early days, i guess, during most of the trump administration. in part, because of what we have been talking about for the last hour. you know, we we are facing a crisis in this country. if we have a situation, come november, where you have elections all over our country thrown into chaos because everybody wants to act like donald trump, and not accept the fact that they lost an election, i think, yes, we could have a serious breakdown in our democracy. to some extent, things are better. i mean, today we had the president of the united states refer to a reporter as an sob. you know, don, you and i got called a lot worse back in the day. uh, we never got an apology. i don t remember that from the commander in chief. no. so, maybe things are a little bit better, to some extent. not at all. i
that s what we are seeing. josh, great to see you. thank you. reporter: any time. and new day continues right now. very good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, january 24th. i m brianna keilar along with john berman. we begin with the wildest divisional playoff in history. four absolute nail-biters. every game coming down to the final play. two number one seeds sent home for the first time in 12 years. the rams, 49ers, chiefs, bengals advancing to next week s championship round, just one win from the super bowl. in 11th super bowl for tom brady in year. they lost on sunday, the final play of the game. when asked about his future, he said he will take it day by day. that s what he always says, honesty. no reason to think he is going to quit. brady nowhere near the most interesting or most important story this football weekend. andy scholes, i think you will start with what is probably the greatest or one of the greatest foot
exclusively as he can afford to, about how to protect the franchise, because it is apparent to me and many in the civil rights community that he will have to, since senate democrats cannot get their act together. meanwhile, the entire republican party only has variations on one goal, set the table for donald trump or one of his prototypes in 2024, while retaking the u.s. house and senate in this november s midterm elections, and brand new numbers from nbc news contend that democratic voters may not have the enthusiasm to stop them. 72% of americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to the poll, and that s just one percentage point higher than three months ago. 76% of americans say our democracy is in existential peril. i reiterate my charge, in solidarity with the civil rights community, calling on president biden to issue what executive orders he can to protect and, frankly, enhance our voting rights. my next guest, a civil rights champion, now a co
it is very important. briana, have a great weekend. i will see you monday, okay? all right. see you later, don. this is don lemon tonight. and for all americans who want the truth to come out about the deadly january 6th insurrection at the capitol, you can mark today down as potentially a major turning point in the investigation. the house january 6th committee is now in possession of more than 700 pages of documents from the trump white house that the former president fought like hell to keep secret. the national archives releasing the trove of information after the supreme court cleared the way earlier-this week for the documents to be released to the committee. throwing the former president s claims of executive privilege right out the door. now, the documents likely will reveal the inner workings of the trump white house after he lost the election, up through the insurrection, and in the days after. and it s not hard to see why he tried to keep them from public scr
things around to the extent that he can, if he can on inflation, on his legislative priorities and his handling of international crises that. is where all eyes are tonight on ukraine with russian troops on the border and europe on the brink. we ll talk with our correspondent there in a moment. tomorrow, one last chance for diplomacy to send a clear message to the kremlin. secretary of state blinken meets in geneva with his russian counterpart. the need for unambiguous communication may be even more so by the president s remarks last evening. i think what you re going to see is that russia will be held accountable if it invades. and it depends on what it does. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we have to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. but if they do what they re capable of doing with the force amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for russia if they further invade ukraine, and that our allies and partners are ready to impose severe cos