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By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News

Good Thursday afternoon. Lester Holt has an exclusive one-on-one interview with President Joe Biden, the Jan. 6 committee has found gaps in former President Trump’s White House phone records during the riot, and the DHS is warning trucker protests could disrupt the Super Bowl.

Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown.

Lester Holt’s NBC News Exclusive interview with President Biden

Our broadcast tonight will have the first look at Lester Holt’s one-on-one interview with President Joe Biden that will air during NBC’s Super Bowl LVI Pregame Show on Sunday.

This is the president’s first sit-down interview of 2022, and his first since marking one year in office.

Additional highlights will also air Friday on TODAY, Nightly News, MSNBC, NBCNews.com and NBC News NOW.

The surge in consumer prices is not letting up, jumping 7.5 percent last month compared with a year earlier, the highest surge since 1982.

The biggest price increases were for food and energy, each rising 0.9 percent, and for shelter, which went up 0.3 percent.

Price indexes also rose for household furnishings and operations (1.3 percent), used cars and trucks (1.5 percent), medical care (0.7 percent), and clothing (1.1 percent).

The Dow Jones dropped 400 points during the day, amid fears the Federal Reserve will soon take aggressive measures to tame the soaring prices.

Former President Donald Trump has denied a report from an upcoming book that he flushed documents down the toilet during his time in the White House.

That detail, from an upcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, “Confidence Man,” was first reported by Axios.

Haberman tweeted, "Here’s some reporting from the book’s later years — White House residence staff periodically found papers had clogged a toilet, leaving staff believing Trump had flushed material he’d ripped into pieces."

Trump said in a statement: “Another fake story, that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book.”

The National Archives has asked the Justice Department for an investigation, two administration officials told NBC News, after the agency said on Monday that Trump had to return 15 boxes of documents improperly taken from the White House.

The January 6 committee, meanwhile, has found gaps in official White House call logs as the violence unfolded that day, showing no calls to or from Trump during hours that investigators know he was making them, according to a source familiar with the records.

Team USA’s Nathan Chen put on a stunning performance to win his first gold medal in the men’s individual figure skating competition at the Beijing Games.

The 22-year-old scored a 218.63 in the free skate, building on his record-breaking short program earlier in the week to become the seventh American man to win title.

USA superstar snowboarder Chloe Kim cemented her status as the queen of the halfpipe, winning her second straight gold medal with another dominant performance.

Tonight, fellow snowboarder Shaun White will appear in his last Olympic event, as he competes in the men’s halfpipe final.

Mikaela Shiffrin will enter the women’s super-G, a U.S. Ski team spokesperson confirmed, after her disappointments in both the giant slalom and the slalom.

And Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was back practicing on the ice in Beijing today, after reports she tested positive for a banned substance prior to the Winter Olympics, delaying the team figure skating medal ceremony.

Nathan Chen talks pressure put on athletes, if he will compete in 2026 Winter Olympics

Nevada has ended its mask mandate effective immediately, joining the list of states with Democratic governors that have made similar announcements in recent days.
DHS warns that trucker protests over vaccine mandates could disrupt the Super Bowl in Los Angeles this Sunday.
A massive, wind-fueled brush fire in California has forced hundreds of evacuations in the Laguna Beach area.
Russia has begun 10 days of military exercises in Belarus amid tensions along the Ukraine border.
Actor Bob Saget died of head trauma after he “accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep," his family in a statement.

Watch us this evening at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT on NBC, or check your local NBC station listing. After the broadcast, access Nightly News video on NBCNightlyNews.com or the NBC News app.

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