it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this mor
emerged around this case have left them feeling devastated. i pray that in all of these trash facilities she s not found there so we have somewhere to go to honor here and like and for her children to go to have somewhere to honor her. we re in absolute shock and disbelief as to reporter: one of anna s friends told me over the phone, don, one of their great concerns obviously are for the children, the youngest 2, the oldest 6 years old. we re told the children now are in the custody of the state. don? just awful. jason, thank you so much. kaitlan? this morning president biden is commenting saying he was surprised to learn that classified documents from his
materials my lawyers did exactly what they were supposed to do. take a listen. people know i take classified documents and information seriously. reporter: president biden tuesday denied any knowledge of classified information uncovered late last year in a space he used while working for the university of pennsylvania before he became president. we want this to be a gathering place. reporter: cnn has learned that among the items discovered were ten classified documents dated between 2013 and 2016. including u.s. intelligence memos and briefings materials that covered topics including ukraine, iran, and the united kingdom. cnn has reported that some of the materials included top secret files. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. they were found in three r on four boxes that also contained unclassified papers that fall
mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this morning on what those documents were. we begin with the weather battering california. you don t need me, just look at the pictures. i don t have to describe them. they describe themselves. flash flooding, winds, mudslides lashing that state with no end in sight. here what s we know at this hour, at least 17 people are dead as a result of the winter storms that brought rainfall totals up to 600% above average
president trump but there are skeptics. cnn s jessica dean is joining us live on capitol hill. what is this committee going to look like? i know jim jordan is saying it s not intended to go after people that work in the agencies, but the way they talked in the last two years, seems like it is an avenue they ll explore. and where their head is as they put this together. this was a result of a lot of the negotiations and concessions that kevin mccarthy was making as he became speaker. the hard liners were pushing for this subcommittee to look into the doj, the fbi and those are the two entities that have been investigating former president trump, and this is something they want to be doing. we know jim jordan, as you mentioned, tells you everything you need to know, that he s going to be involved with this. we know a lot of these hard liners want to be part of this as well. this is something that republicans have promised, what they ran on, itching and wanting to get into oversight, th