agreements from trump officials, if they are not paying for their own lawyers, and information about dominion and smart mad mattic, two of the voting machines that had the most spurious conspiracies about them and as for the election of the election defense fund, the false fund set up by the trump folks to raise money after the election that officials say did not exist. what we also reported is that the grand jury in this matter, which is speeding up specifically, there s been a lot of witnesses brought in, and in recent day, and recent weeks, there has been a, there has been interest, and we re two years interest. it is somewhat surprising that it is so broad when so much activity was caught on camera and they are looking for things that they do not have, ties to these groups, and money that
hur is an outstanding choice for counsel and i knew him from my time at the department of justice and i think he will do a good job in concluding the investigation and reaching sound jums and decision, judgments and decisions to merrick garland. we don t know why there is a haphazard approach to locations used by the former vice president, now president of the united states. it seems to me that at the outset there should have been a blanket surge of activity by counsel on president biden s behalf to examine all logical locations where records might be located. but we ll have to wait and see how the investigation unfolds, to the extent it explains that sequence of events. but what we do know is that the controlling legal standard, with the attorney general, to appoint special counsel, is that this matter warranted criminal investigation. and as ken pointed out, the attorney general did not expound on the factual reasons that
story? it s hard to know the answer to that. i mean one question that we have had, talking about it other here, is why would, over year, is why would you have lawyers, $1500 an hour lawyers packing your boxes at the penn biden center. that doesn t seem normal. and it would seem more likely that sort of office support folks would be packing boxes and maybe if they saw a classified documents, then they would call the lawyers in. so i have a question about that. i mean there is no reason to doubt a statement made by a member of the bar who is, you know, the white house counsel who has been making these statements, but it seems like it is likely that there is more to the story, because it was just simply a matter of some mislaid documents, some mistakes and sloppy packing, we wouldn t need a special counsel, katy. don t go anywhere. let s bring in white house correspondent carol, and counter-intelligence and export control section of the d.o.j.
these things are just ruined because of the water. even cars have been left stranded. so you re seeing this in every single neighborhood as you re walking. there s 32,000 people in the county that are under evacuation orders and the county telling me there could be more. sheriff s deputies are working around the clock with loud speakers telling people to get out of their homes. many people listening to those warnings, others saying, look, i just want to stay inside of my home and do as much as i can from here, but it is a very dangerous situation no matter how you look at it and they re expecting more rain over the next ten days. so they re telling people, look, maybe it s not raining right now, but all of it is just not over. jim, erica? camila bernal, kyung lah, be careful with how quickly the water is rising. thanks so much. overnight cnn has learned several classified documents from joe biden s time as vice president were discovered in a private office last fall. that s right
biden s lawyers say they immediately couldn ted,cooperat turned over the documents and continue to cooperate. with trump, there were months of back and forth where he refused and ignored the government requests and really only handed over many of the documents when subpoenas were onbtained. and biden is not under investigation for potential obstruction. tru trump is. as well as potential violations of the espionage act. so mar-a-lago 35ers to be a much more complex investigation, more complex set of legal issues. but the biden matter only come to light in the past 24 hours and we ll continue to report it out. former president trump is also under investigation for possibly mishandling that classified information. this is going to be politicized i imagine it is already politicized by those on the right and former president. how is he reacting? the former president posted on his truth social platform