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plus, from dribbling to diplomat? our nbc news reporting on the basketball power house now getting involved in brittney griner's case. and why one white house official is telling us he's more likely to hurt than help. i'm hallie jackson in washington. we'll start this hour with those new developments out of arkansas. just in the last few minutes, you watched it untold live here. a video appeared to show three offers making an arrest, violently. the video, we're about to show, is disturbing. you can see the officers basically pummeling the suspect's face and body, smashing his head wh...

He also has a swollen ear. so a lot going on for him right now, and also a lot going on as officials work to investigate this. but interestingly enough, when i spoke to his attorney, something that she mentioned is that one of the officers seen in that video, she had requested a use of force investigation into that officer about a month ago. yet that officer was still able to be out and obviously this happened. i think that is something that we may hear and learn more about as this investigation goes on, and we learn more about these officers' records. we know that at least one officer, the mu...

Outgoing members and the president who is leaving washington. there will be some work to do. so congress will have a president who is perhaps on the same page. certainly more than when it's divided government. but it will be a challenge to navigate this with a president-elect trump who has never had to deal with a legislature or the responsibility of governing until january 20th of 2017. hallie? >> looking ahead to that inauguration day. kelly o'donnell in janesville, thank you. chris jansing at the white house, thank you. the white house is where we heard president obama take a dig at what so...