kevin mccarthy says congress must also investigate. we have fox team coverage tonight. david spunt at the justice department with the timeline of attorney general garland s involvement. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy and what he asked the president this morning. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials aren t saying tonight whether president biden would sit for an interview with the special counsel who revealed today a third discovery of classified documents this time at president biden s house. that s what we talked to him about today. classified material, next to your corvette? what were you thinking? let me by the way my corvette is in a locked garage, okay? it s not like they are sitting out in the street. peter: so the material was in a locked garage. yes, as well as my corvette. pete: the attorney general isn t convinced appointing special counsel robert herr to investigate. on december 20th, president
and we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, don t want to get ahead of this. the department of justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the department of justice and now as you all know there is a special counsel. thank you, korine. another one on garagegate. what is the white house trying to hide? nothing. someone gave the president a statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. who? so i have read out the president s statement. i have read it out yesterday and what he said. he said that he respects or he takes classified information and documents very seriously. that s what he said. he said he did not know that the records were there. he does not know what s in them. he said that. you heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, i ll say this, the attorney general said this himself, t
announced by the media. the attorney general took no questions. also tonight though, new questions about how the fbi learned about the alleged classified information at the trump facility. the specific document or document, did someone in former president trump s inner circle tip off the bureau? and what comes next in this high stakes legal back and forth? correspondent david spunt has the latest tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. after days of intense political and public pressuring attorney general merrick garland stepped up in front of the cameras and told the nation the justice department filed a motion town seal the search warrant involved in that search of form everywhere president donald trump s home monday in mar-a-lago, florida. attorney general garland says the search warrant will reveal some of the items taken and he said unsealing this is in the substantial public interest. first, i personally approved the deci
poll. his age is the top reason. opinion page publishing this. joe biden is too old to be president again. the white house circling the wagons. we aren t going to pay attention to polls. not what we ll do here. we ll focus on is delivering for the american people. bill: the trend lines for the president heading in the wrong direction. approval rating on a downward slide since last year. the biggest concern among americans inflation. it continues to rise crushing americans every time they head out for groceries or gasoline. dana: former trump advisor kellyanne conway standing by. first mark meredith live at the white house. good morning to you. the white house says it is not focused on polling, interest groups and lawmakers running for reelection sure are. as you talked about the recent polling shows the president is facing political head winds here. he insists the country is in better shape than when he took office. the new york times says it its latest survey 64% o
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening there is significant movement to report tonight in the effort to bring home americans brittney griner and paul whelan, both separately imprisoned in russia. late today, secretary of state antony blinken acknowledging there was a substantial proposal on the table to facilitate their release. griner, the wnba star detained since february, who has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil whelan, a marine corps veteran, serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of spying in 2020. both, the u.s. says, are wrongfully imprisoned blinken says the next step, a call with his russian counterpar sergey lavrov. believed to be on the table, a prisoner swap that could prove to be a bitter pill for the biden administration which has been under fire in its efforts to gain freedom for the americans. all this unfolding as griner told her story today inside a russian courtroom. andrea mitchell now