the review that i hope we will be finished with soon. there will be more detail that time. coming as the new sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in senior political columnist, a political, jonathan martin. and cnn political commentator, carl finney, and david irvine is with us as well. i m glad to have you all here, what are you thinking right now? because look. this is not the news or the way i think president biden wanted to start the new year or the new congress. i am sure there was a bit of rumbling, and the dysfunction that was happening with the republicans, last, week with the speakers vote. but, the fact of the matter is, he s got to contend with this. what do you take out of it? well, two things, one is the circumstances are different and obviously his folks called when they realize they had classified documents there, which is the right thing
but, also that biden is not his best defender. he watched that clip there in somewhat circuitous, and obviously, this is going to create a challenge for him if for no other reason, and just because the republicans in congress are going to use this to money the old waters. look. that is what partisans do, they like to try this to undermine the other person s case by muddying the waters. and this gives people like home or a chance to do just that. there is ammunition and also in the fact that, look, karen he knew about it in november. why did he come sooner? november, the only reason that we know about the documents that were found at mar-a-lago is because donald trump itself couldn t keep his mouth shut and he made the announcement thinking that he was politicizing. politicizing it! because remember, it is doj protocol. and, as he would, not to protect the individuals were under investigation to protect
a page off the desk and sort of put it down at one stage the head of police face be sitting on piece of paper whether that was the piece of paper in which mcgarvie said i have i resigned i m not sure or whether he just pulled a switcheroo himself and you know had no intention of actually resigning on air it s completely unclear what seems to be fairly clear is that the generals went into that press conference that announcement thinking that he would resign on air and they looked as gobsmacked as everybody else and in general to weighing his face looked like stunned yeah it was it was bizarre and amazing at the same time watching it last night before we run out of time let me ask you about these impeachment charges aimed at mugabe s wife grace if is she being demonized more then she really should be simply because the system can t take it out on mugabe no i mean i think there s
weird going on with the papers at one point general seems to take a page off the desk and sort of put it down at one stage the head of police basically sitting on piece of paper whether that was the piece of paper in which mcgarvie said i have by resign i m not sure or whether he just pulled the switcheroo himself and you know had no intention of actually resigning on air it s completely unclear what seems to be fairly clear is that the generals went into that press conference that announcement thinking that he would resign on air and they looked as gobsmacked as everybody else and in general to a in his face looked like stunned yeah i was it was bizarre and amazing at the same time watching it last night before we run out of time let me ask you about these impeachment charges aimed at mugabe s wife grace if is she being demonized more than she really should be simply because the system can t take it out on