indiana residence. he had requested a search of his home out of an abundance of caution. it is still not clear what the documents are related to or even their level of classification. we have our legal expert barbara mcquaid ready to break it down and what we know in a moment. and meanwhile, the fbi and justice department s national security divisions have already launched a review of the material and how they ended up in pence s home. and we re also on capitol hill with the latest reaction from republicans who are already ramping up their congressional investigations into jean-pierre s handling of classified documents after leaving his post as vice president. and today s bombshell marks the third time in recent history in which a president or vice president has inappropriately possessed classified material after leaving office. so where does that leave merrick garland? joining me now is monica alba, ali vitali and also barbara mcquaid. what do we know about the search of pen
if you visit these killing centers today, you ll see thousands upon thousands of shoes like this. the shoes of the victims. the german took their shoes because they were going to reuse them and recycle them if you will. but of course the victims would be killed. this is what s left of those lives. reporter: these shoes are here and the only surviving elements where all those people who were exterminated. this is the trace of the people before they were gassed. reporter: i think of those shoes, you know, my four grandparents. we didn t have anything. we had nothing. it was just horrendous, horrendous situation. it was so important, so timely to remind people who don t know anything about it. and i think it s so important and i m sure you ll agree, jim. people who come to visit washington go to the washington mall. take a tour of this museum. even those of us who have grown up, children of holocaust survivors, we learn a lot every time we go there, and it is so importan
reference the idea that the biden white house knew the documents were found in november and they weightsed to disclose them publicly until january. but this does present a problem for the republicans that you and i cover all the time which they were eager to go after biden on this, it becomes a lot more difficult when now two instances on their own side of the i ll, republicans, former president and vice president, who now have the same kind of problem.i ll, republicans, former president and vice president, who now have the same kind of problem. and notably james comer left out donald trump in that statement. so barb, back to you. it seems to be a theme of this conversation that beyond who did something wrong here, this t. seems that the system is messed up. how is it that you can even take a classified document and just leave it in a box somewhere without someone knowing about it until you do some self policing? what needs to change here to prevent this from happening again? it is
kyle, let me begin with you here because now we know the tally of classified info just in those january boxes, right? 184 classified documents, 67 confidential, 92 secret, 25 top secret, and what s more some of these docs had an alphabet soup marking on them. what was so alarming to the investigators about this? well that alphabet soup you described gave us the best sense of why the justice department took this as seriously as they did. hcs human source intelligence, you know, people out there risking their lives to get an intelligence team into the united states are in this information sitting in an unsecured basement essentially. things like special intelligence. things that are gathered from far and intercepts. again some of the most highly classified and protected secrets of the u.s. government has, sitting in a box somewhere,
melvin novel moby dick, and due process confront the accuser sprayed accusers. and it looks like one of those third world countries or some dictatorship like in china russia, iran, north korea. we are better than this. laura: this is a deep state whistle-blower revenge from the outside. i mean, again, we will find out more, but it sure looks like that. they got barr on there, cleaning it up, you got durham, and then you suddenly have the detailed leak from the cia hanging out at the white house here from other people listening. this is just outrageous that this is even allowed to happen. i put those calls in a locked box somewhere, too, given that what was going down to the white house. that s all very clever, you can something that s very sacrosanct in our society, the whistle-blower, now they re using that process in a very cynical way. and now, defaulting to impeachment which is an entirely