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
very good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. this morning lawmakers back on capitol hill facing growing pressure after the deadly beating of tyre nichols by memphis police ignites renewed calls for federal police reform. nichols family attorney benjamin crump telling cnn tyre s tragic death should force congress to act. shame on us if we don t use his tragic death to finally get the george floyd justice in policing act passed. so will things change this time around? the congressional black caucus is calling for a meeting with president biden this week to push for negotiations on police reform. remember there was a push, bipartisan push in the wake of george floyd it didn t make it through two years ago following that death, those discussions broke down in the senate, congress failed to pass the federal reforms. now the president of tennessee s naacp chapter is pleading with congress to try again. we come to call to action for congress. by faili
i m jim sciutto, and our next cnn newshour starting this hour. hello, everyone. our top diplomat is in the middle east trying to calm tensions. and the brutal beating of tyre nichols has debanded their elite crime unit. and now, children are returning to school just weeks after a 6-year-old shot his teacher. thank you for being here, i m kate bolduan, and a lot of news, so let s get to it. starting overseas, a suicide bomber detonate ad bomb in pakistan kill ing at least 30 people and injuring many more. tony blinken is there in israel to try to ease the tensions after a spike in violence that has killed hundreds in the last few weeks. sylvia, what more are you learning about this mosque attack? reporter: kate, we know that the pakistani taliban have claimed attack for this mosque, and the number of dead have been climbing, and so hundreds have been trapped under the rubble. the attack took place in the afternoon during afternoon prayers and more people are being
hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pence s bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big new york times story that was making waves. you might have seen it. he s here. he make his beat debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those hardliners, and during those clashes when he had to get all the votes on the house floor, he promised all kinds of concessions, including promoting what was then his most ardent foe to a committee to look into fbi investigations and attacking the fbi and doj. and that itself is a shift in washington s power dynamics. this is a story i m about to tell you. for decades, members in both parties lobbied to get on committees like appropriations, controlling money. some sought prestigious assignmen
that s the essential right that all other rights defend. if you can t defend your family and property, you don t have any rights at all. your a slave by definition. you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right of self-defense doing in our country? we can give a long lecture. consider two shootings that took place in gas stations in the past year in the united states. the first shooting occurred around 2:00 p.m. october 6 in the state of missouri, a 23-year-old felon called javon taylor, a long criminal record, convictions for armed robbery, began threatening a female clerk because the gas station didn t carry the cigars that he wanted. that s when an off duty fireman decided to step in. he told taylor to leave the store. in response to that, taylor began threatening him and ran towards his s.u.v. outside. he followed him outside because he expected that taylor would retrieve a gun from the car. that s what he did. taylor pulled an illegal