presidency itself. the impeachment in the house took place without a hearing, without one witness being called, without a lawyer for the president of the united states. you can t get a traffic ticket based on the procedures they used to impeach president trump. harris: also in focus this hour republican senator john kennedy joins me as he is about to walk into that impeachment trial himself. new questions about potential conflicts of interest for the bidens. joe concha will weigh in on that. and rocker bruce springsteen now preaching unity after years of attacking president trump. cat tymp with her take. let s begin with griff jenkins. here we go. the second historic trial begins with a debate whether it s even constitutional in the first place to try a president. four hours of debate today over the constitutionality question with a vote this requires only a simple majority to proceed. tomorrow at noon house managers have up to 16 hours to make their case. that will be fo
team previewing the defense on the eve of the 2nd on the impeachment trial. how democrats prosecuting the case responding and the rules just unveiled, will they call witnesses? the dangerous freeze, al roker is tracking it 15 killed in avalanches and after a glacier collapses. the celebrity doctor opening up about her teen son s tragic death. what every parent should know. the price you pay your taxes, why this year, why you should file as fast as possible and my conversation with the star of the super bowl, inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lestor holt. good evening everyone, a delayed super bowl hangover may be a covid surge concerning images of watch party with people closely gathered after the big game it is what we can t see what makes it more concerning the u.k. variant of covid, that early study suggests rapidly taking a hold here, more contagious and more lethal the vaccines we have still appears effective and on that front here is
corruption charges. a live report from jerusalem just ahead. new team, no problem. tom brady scores his seventh super bowl win to close out a football season unlike any other. we will have the highlights. good to have you with us. the u.s. is now bracing for what is said to be a dramatic week in washington as lawmakers kick off the historic and unprecedented second impeachment trial of donald trump. that begins tuesday with house impeachment managers set to argue before the brez that the former president was responsible for inciting last month s riot. the pretrial legal briefs are due today. still, questions remain including how long the trial will last and if we ll hear from any witnesses. cnn s joe johns has more. reporter: some republicans in the united states senate say they are reserving judgment until all the evidence is in. some compare themselves as members of a jury. for whatever reason many republicans over the weekend said they were reluctant to convict donald
action. good, gronkowski again with the touchdown. the tampa bay buccaneers have a second super bowl title you re looking at the greatest right there. they did trail 3-0 and then got it back scoring and scoring and scoring this tampa bay buccaneers own super bowl 55 final score, 31-9. they have won their second title in too many history, and for tom brady this is 54th super bowl win, and for him to win just about all of them is just fantastic. and the thing about it there is with gronk, it was so much fun to watch those because even though he s all business you could tell that especially with kronk, when he got that first super bowl catch, he was loving. and it is so rare that you can actually see the greatest of all time working in real time. that s him right there. that s the play i m talking about. they had so much fun ainsley, you know, i m from kansas city, and i, you know, it was a bad day to have a bad day but kansas city had a bad day. such a great guy been
the merits. that s no lick rule, chuck cooper who represented a former adviser to senator cruz s campaign, driving a stake into the central argument we re going to hear from the former president s counsel. now, i understand why this fringe constitutional theory is being advanced for the past few weeks, the political right has been searching for a safe harbor, a way to oppose the conviction without passing judgment on his conduct to avoid alienating supporters, without condoning the despicable, unpatriotic, undemocratic behavior. but the truth is no such safe harbor exists. the trial is clearly constitutional by everybody frame of analysis, by still text, historical practice, senate and basic common sense. a president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for an impeachable offense, nor can they escape judgment by waiting for the final few weeks in office to betray our country. the impeachment powers assigned by the constitution, cannot be defeated by a president wh