i m bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden s former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we re told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden s former execute assistant had been questioned. we re also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? well, bianna, one thing he s trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on. already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. attorney
counsel investigation. president biden dodged questions about it today in an oval office photo-op. [ inaudible ] moments ago the white house press secretary repeated that the president will cooperate with special counsel robert hur and failed to explain why the public was not told about the classified documents when they were first discovered in november. is it the policy of the white house that that should share that information not just with the national archives but the american people? i ll say this. we have been transparent. there s an ongoing process and spoken when it is appropriate. we are learning more about the investigation. the justice department interviewed biden s former executive team on the team that packed up the office. one document was a memo from vice president to president obama. it s unclear how much of this is still sensitive. let s go to chief white house correspondent phil mattingly and evan perez. phil, the white house press secretary more ques
getting up way too early ton friday morning and all weekend long. morning joe starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden s handling of the documents. i m not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that s not good. that s not good. all right. republicans get the special counsel they have been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. it comes as we are learning more about the files and where they were found. we ll also take a look at some of the hypocrisy inside the gop when it comes to the special counsels for trump and biden. meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him
medals. republicans aren t the only ones out there who want to get rid of george santos. two democrats requested a house ethics investigation, and hand delivered a copy of the complaint to santos office, he wasn t there at the time, they had to give it to his assistant, admiral slorge santos. there are a lot of developments this morning with congressman george santos that we ll be updating you on. we re also learning a lot more this morning about the justice department s wide ranging investigation into january 6th. we re going to dig into new reporting on subpoenas sent to officials from former president donald trump s presidential campaign. which is significant, because, again, a lot of people have said, you can investigate a lot of different things, but at the end of the day, with everybody getting tried that was part of the riots and some people being charged with sedition, they re all pointing their finger at donald trump. most of them are saying he s the reason he