leaves questions unanswered. so long as they keep this posture, those questions remain unanswered. that means there are going to be we re going to keep asking them and certainly lawmakers are going to be asking them as well. manu, as we ve said, according to jamie gangel s reporting, briefing materials that cover topics including ukraine, iran, the uk, are house republicans interested, is there some relevance to the content of these documents or simply their existence, the discovery gives them everything they need. both really, victor. but expect this to be an area of focus going forward especially how the justice departmented handled this. they ll vote to create a new select cubby committee on the overall house judiciary committee likely to be jim jordan, the chairman. he didn t want to discuss whether he would probe this issue specifically but they plan to look more broadly into the justice department, into ongoing
race. president biden was supposed to talk about the explosion that hit poland and he went to this news conference and i thought he was good to answer questions, he said this instead. reporter: can you tell us what you know so far about the explosion in poland? no. trace: it is highly unusual in that kind of circumstance for the commander in chief to say no, no comment, got nothing for you. there is 1 of 2 instances that happened here. the white house communications team didn t tell the president he would be giving remarks and they failed to prep him. the other instance is they did tell him and his briefing materials and he forgot or he didn t care to give the answer. either instance isn t great for the american people it s not great and geopolitically speaking one yet again joe biden goes abroad and fails to step up, step in and show american leadership on the world stage we just saw it yet again. trace: i got ten seconds want to wrap us up?
escalation, how critical is it for the u.s. and the nato allies to establish the facts before deciding next steps? wolf, thank you for having me. and as we speak, the national security council at the white house and the u.s. intelligence community are working to establish those facts. i expect to review briefing materials on this subject in the hours to come. and the u.s. commitment to nato remains iron-clad. i know you re very committed about that as well. let s talk a little about the senate runoff in your state of georgia coming up on december 6th. senate democrats have clinched control. how do you convince voters who don t see this runoff as very much high stakes? well, raphael warnock is an extraordinary public servant. this is a man who has won
and that could be the committee s responsibility. maybe they haven t done a good job in organizing their requests and monitoring those requests that they have outstanding to all the different agencies and the different players that are involved in this massive investigation. but on the other hand, it might be on the agency s side for failing to respond, for obfuscating, for not responding in a fully forthcoming way. but you know, this is the sort of thing, anderson, that could be very simply investigated by a competent investigative entity. this is you know, it s almost unbelievable to think that the department of defense doesn t have a system in place to make sure that those people who serve at a high enough level, that their communications, their personal notes, their briefing materials, all that stuff, comes under the federal records preservation requirements. it s impossible for me to believe that they don t have a
outstanding to all the different agencies and the different players that are involved in this massive investigation. but on the other hand, it might be on the agencies side for failing to respond for obfuscating, for not responding, you know, and a fully forthcoming way. but, you know, this is the sort of thing, anderson, that could be very simply investigated by a competent investigative entity. you know, it s almost unbelievable to think that the department of defense does not have a system in place to make sure that those people who serve at a high enough level, that their communications, their personal notes, they re briefing materials, all that stuff comes under the federal records preservation requirements. it s impossible for me to believe that they don t have a process and an entire staff that s responsible for collecting that material and sending it to the national archives. so, did that happen? if not, why? i should say, i misspoke