john berman. this is cnn tonight. our headline, several classified documents from president joe biden s time as vice president discovered in a private office. he periodically used it in washington. they tell cnn a fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden s own people. his lawyer say they found him, some with the sensitive department designation. they found them on november 2nd. this is a notify the national archive immediately. they took possession of than the next morning. the president ignored, showed questions in mexico from corners tonight. now, there are questions tonight about how the documents got there. who knew they were there, what exactly they contain. the u.s. attorney in chicago who is a trump appointee there are important distinctions between this and the swirl of controversy around donald trump in the documents at mar-a-lago. biden s lawyer said immediately turn over documents and cooperated as soon as they found them. it took several asks, subpoenas
are important distinctions between this and the swirl of controversy around donald trump in the documents at mar-a-lago. biden s lawyer said immediately turn over documents and cooperated as soon as they found them. it took several asks, subpoenas to get the search warrant. in that case, there was also an investigation of possible obstruction. the documents found in biden s office, fewer than a dozen. the ones found in mar-a-lago are in the hundreds. there was also a legal side and of course the political. everybody who watched the chaos in congress this past week knows that there is a new republican majority in the house with the gavel, new committee chairs. they are hungry for investigations. this could be the top of their list. now all of this against the backdrop of joe biden. cnn is reporting that he is getting ready to run again. i wanna bring in evan perez and sara murray. evan, you have the reporting on these documents.
in a closet in the office for our guest six years, right? that s a long time for documents to be sitting there in a place it is not secure. that is been part of the issue for the investigation for the former president. it s the handling of classified information. it s a big issue. that s what president biden has made a point to and perez sara murray thanks to both of you for the reporting on this. i want to bring in john dean and david gergen. cnn senior political analyst. this isn t a certain extent in the hands of u.s. attorney and chicago. you re dealing with this from a legal standpoint? obviously all of the facts on the think tank that biden was associated with. it all has to be developed. it s done informally.
john berman. this is cnn tonight. our headline, several classified documents from president joe biden s time as vice president discovered in a private office. he periodically used it in washington. they tell cnn a fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden s own people. his lawyer say they found him, some with the sensitive department designation. they found them on november 2nd. this is a notify the national archive immediately. they took possession of than the next morning. the president ignored, showed questions in mexico from corners tonight. now, there are questions tonight about how the documents got there. who knew they were there, what exactly they contain. the u.s. attorney in chicago who is a trump appointee there
that part of. share everything you said is true. kevin mccarthy is now the speaker of the house. he has been asked, what are you gonna do about this guy who lied about himself. he is now in your caucus. kevin mccarthy had refused to comment on it until now. but now he told cnn tonight, just a short time ago. you know high handle internal. stuff i handle it internally. i m sure at times i ll come tell you. so, this guy who ran on a bunch of lies and is now being investigated. that is an internal issue? and kevin mccarthy s reality of distortion, yes. you can understand someone saying, look this is an issue is one of my members. i m gonna handled behind closed doors. but there s investigations occurring that are quite public. this guy lied about everything. this is not going away. even if the speaker might like to contain it behind closed doors. it s also, the leader of my party kevin mccarthy also decided to hash out a public debate throughout 15 speaker