white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don
state department is rejecting steve bannon s sudden willingness to testify before the january 6th committee days before his criminal contempt trial is set to begin. bannon produced a letter from donald trump, trump saying he is waiving executive privilege so bannon can testify. here s the thing, the committee and most legal analysts say no privilege existed in this case to begin with. what s more, federal prosecutors argue, trump never invoked executive privilege here. so, this doj court filing also reveals that former president trump s attorney justin clark was interviewed by fbi investigators two weeks ago. let s go to washington, whitney wild is there for the latest on what we can expect in the committee hearing tomorrow. the oath keepers front and center. absolutely. this will be a very robust hearing and this hearing will focus on how the violent mob came together and the role of extremist groups in that deadly insurrection. to connect trump allies to militia groups, s
the results and he should con seed. the video also showed evidence that trump called on his supporters to march on the cal toll was planned. cnn correspondent jessica schneider joins us from washington. so what are you learning? interestingly, alison, chairman betty thomson just talked about this. he says the committee is finally handed over some materials to the doj, but it s mostly pertaining to the fake elector scheme. so all of that from the hundreds of interviews they have conducted they have now handed over the doj. this has been about how much the committee would share. now it seems those records as it pertains to the elector scheme, those are finally being shared possibly with more to come. what s even more significant here is vice cheney s chair of possible witness tampering. she s brought it up twice now. she says the committee alerted doj that trump tried to contact a witness and the witness alerted their attorney who then informed the committee that this phone
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laptop which might suggest joe biden was actually profiting. live at national park ahead of today s congressional baseball game. play in a big league ballpark. that s something that never gets old. put me in coach i m ready to to play today put me in coach i m ready to play the game. ainsley: 7:05 the congressional baseball game will take place on fox sports 2 also stream on fox nation if you want to watch. brian: slow arriving crowd. steve: 7:05 p.m. brian: isn t traffic terrible in washington, d.c.? what are they waiting for? [laughter] steve: we have somebody who is actually near the stadium. she is posted at a fantastic van daniel point across the street on the top of the hotel. last time i went to the game i stayed in that hotel. carley shimkus joins us right now. carley, the view from that hotel is fantastic. carley: isn t it amazing? look at this. this is national park right behind me. it s been so wonderful being here all morning long. and this