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Reshly baked bread. just order in the app! ditch the burgers! choose better, be better. subway®. eat fresh. happy friday. this is andrea mitchell reports. i'm chris jansing in for andrea. as my colleague brian williams put it, former vice president mike pence proved that he is perfectly willing to be the conductor of the trump train. pence speaking out for the first time publicly about the insurrection city saying only te and the former president don't see eye to eye about the attack but defending their record. and also don mcgahn also talking

Russia is, you know, backing assad, and wants this aid instead to come through damascus. i talked to one of the young guys from the white helmets today who met with ambassador thomas greenfield. if we go to damascus, we will see none of it. they'll substitute bad medicine for the real medicine, covid medicine. they'll skim it off, assad will never let us have it. this is a people opposed to assad and they are being punished for it. he bombed them out of their homes and they're left living in tents. >> to that point, andrea, this was has been going on for ten years. did you get a sense from the...

Ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield. andrea got an exclusive interview earlier today and filed this report. >> this is point zero. this is turkey. that is syria. here turkey is working with the u.n. and u.s. to try to keep this crossing open. russia is trying to close it. she is talking to refugees and nongovernmental workers. she is getting briefed by the u.n. but this is the important critical message she is trying to bring back to the security council of united nations. that refugees down that road will be dying from starvation, from violence, from hunger and lack of s...

What do you say to them and about leading a role? >> the president started with making sure every american was vaccinated. but he also understood if we are to be safe from covid and we are to remain committed to our own values, that we have to support these efforts as well. >> andrea, thank you. you can see much more of andrea's interview tonight on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt and tomorrow morning on "today." unlikely allies. israeli leaders reaching a late night deal that could out benjamin netanyahu and bring a new leader, the first in decades. dtd dt

With stacey abrams earlier. she recounted this wonderful story that took place in 1964, andrea, dr. markey luther king junior, went into visit president lyndon johnson and said we've got past the voting rights act. president johnson is purported to say, i don't have the power. congress is it going to do this. and when they left, dr. king apparently said to andrew young, we are going to get this done. andrew yang says, how in the world are we going to do that? and dr. king said, we're going to get the president the power. i think that's what stacey and others civil rights and voting rights lead...