the review that i hope we will be finished with soon. there will be more detail that time. coming as the new sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in senior political columnist, a political, jonathan martin. and cnn political commentator, carl finney, and david irvine is with us as well. i m glad to have you all here, what are you thinking right now? because look. this is not the news or the way i think president biden wanted to start the new year or the new congress. i am sure there was a bit of rumbling, and the dysfunction that was happening with the republicans, last, week with the speakers vote. but, the fact of the matter is, he s got to contend with this. what do you take out of it? well, two things, one is the circumstances are different and obviously his folks called when they realize they had classified documents there, which is the right thing
around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. it s house after house that has been flooded. it s great living on the river. not so great living in the river. we were expecting a flood, but not like this. we re cooperating fullfully. i m wondering why the vice president of the united states had classified documents outside the hands of the intelligence community. this is an investigation of joe biden and that s where the committee will focus. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s wednesday, january 11th. 9 a.m. here in london, 1 a.m. in ka california where officials and residents had to clean up and dig out of mudslides. there s more massive winter storm heading to the state. we re not out of the woods. we expect these storms to continue at least through the 18th of this month. we expect a minimum three more of these atmospheric rivers in di
it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this mor
this one. system meltdown. the faa tries to get flight backs on track after a pilot notification system failed. what caused the massive outage that led to massive delays and cancellations? the dangers of tiktok. beyond suspicions that the child e chinese government can access your company, how the addictive content puts teen girls at risk of depression. republicans rolling out committee chairmanships and assignments with interesting and provocative picks. george santos is denied his first choice for a committee seat. his fellow republicans begin to call for his resignation. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. major decisions under way on capitol hill. republican lawmakers say their party steering committee is deciding which republican members will sit on the most powerful committees in the house of representatives. it s giving us all new insights into the deals that now speaker kevin mccarthy may have made with his hardline opponents
this as one former wagner group commander flees to norway, and his lawyer is outfront tonight to tell his story for the first time. plus, just in to outfront, new details about the investigation into biden s classified documents. we now know more about who federal investigators have been speaking with about the case. and ron desantis launching a new charm offensive. he s trying to shed the notion that he s dry and reserved, those are the quotes. why now? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, convicts on the front line. new audio into outfront of the chief of the brutal private russian army fighting on the front lines in ukraine, the wagner group. the chief yevgeny prigozhin s influence with putin has been surging. this is what prigozhin is now telling convicted criminals who have finished their tours of duty with him about staying out of prison. listen for yourself. translator: don t drink a lot, don t use drugs, and don t