Garage gate. Some of that sensitive material was stored in the same space bidens beloved corvette is stored. Attorney general Merrick Garland under a lot of pressure to appoint a Special Counsel. Yesterday he tapped robert hur for the role. This means the current president and his predecessor are now both facing Special Counsel investigations. President biden meanwhile was openly critical if you remember of former President Trumps handling of classified documents. Now he is getting the same. These facts and circumstances are outrageous. Completely miss handling. Did he get them when he was Vice President and take them with him when he left . He clearly mishandled them. Putting it in a garage next to a leaf blower is not secure. Julie bidens Corvette Excuse wont cut it. Adding the newly appointed Special Counsel has a lot to do. Matt whitaker weighs in and first we go to peter doocy at the White House Joining us live. Good morning. Good morning. Somebody on the biden team knew that ther
House. Surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. He sees it serious very seriously when it comes to taking classified documents and information. Im not going to go beyond what the president laid out. He does not know whats in them. I would refer you to the white house counsels office. We want to respect the process and so thats what im going to do, im going to refer you to the Department Of Justice. And welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon, im sandra smith. John im john roberts. Seems to be a contradiction between what the president said and did, that he takes classified documents seriously, but they were in a garage next to his corvette. Reporters are more frustrated as the Press Secretary Dodges Question after question after question, you get it, on the matter. Sandra and we heard it over again, the Press Secretary defers all the questions to the Department Of Justice but we are not getting much from the d
we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there s a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people o
biden s handling of documents. media firestorm, documents linked to the president found at his home in delaware. a story with a lot of moving parts. here is what we believe we know at the moment. dana: let s go back. november 2nd is when the president s lawyers find classified documents in a closet at his former office in washington, d.c. alert the national archives and they retrieve them the next day and refer the matter to the department of justice. this is just days before the mid-term elections. the story was kept under wraps. bill: on november 14th garland appoints special counsel for trump. the president s lawyers tell him they ve found a second set of documents inside the president s garage. dana: that seals the deal. a week later garland appoints a special counsel. bill: documents in question were scattered across two locations, the penn biden think-tank in d.c. and president s home in delaware. some in the garage and what he described as his personal librar
garage gate. some of that sensitive material was stored in the same space biden s beloved corvette is stored. attorney general merrick garland under a lot of pressure to appoint a special counsel. yesterday he tapped robert hur for the role. this means the current president and his predecessor are now both facing special counsel investigations. president biden meanwhile was openly critical if you remember of former president trump s handling of classified documents. now he is getting the same. these facts and circumstances are outrageous. completely miss handling. did he get them when he was vice president and take them with him when he left? he clearly mishandled them. putting it in a garage next to a leaf blower is not secure. julie: biden s corvette excuse won t cut it. adding the newly appointed special counsel has a lot to do. matt whitaker weighs in and first we go to peter doocy at the white house joining us live. good morning. good morning. somebody on the biden