got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let s get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president s corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn t a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and understand whether there is any need for a criminal investigation. and in order to do that, you need to know where are all of the classified documents, how did they get there, and as we ve been reporting today, the fbi interviewed some of the biden aides involved in packing the boxes and moving the documents, so that u.s. attorney had been reporting to merrick garland. well then, all of a sudden, toda
decided to search other areas where he may have stored documents, including his two homes in delaware, and when that search specifically began, we don t know, we just now know that that second batch of documents was discovered on december 20th, and we know that the search concluded, according to the president s legal team, last night, and that this morning, the president s legal counsel reached out to the justice department to say they had found one additional document. so when that search started, we don t know, when it concluded, the president s team said last night. let s see if it has concluded, whether or not they re still looking for other documents, i think an industrial strength vacuum may have passed through your life shot, carol, thank you. itching to get your analysis, and curious, i haven t talked to you since this information has been broken and what do you think of the documents found in the former president s office and now his garage? let me start by saying rob
action they took, by sending in the fbi, and getting the courts involved. so it is very clear the differences here. but you re absolutely right, katy, there is no getting around the good reporting by our reporters, the strong legal analysis that lays out the factual case, that distinguishes between these two in the face, the full frontal assault of the politics of this, to try to stain the president and to be honest, to divert from everything else that the republican party has got going on right now, from mccarthy to what s going on down in mar-a-lago. all right, ken and carol, thank you very much for joining us. david and michael, do not go anywhere. we are going to continue this conversation after the break, get to the apples to apples or maybe not apples-to apples comparison to president trump s case and president biden s case. we also have what a new trump subpoena reveals about the
story? it s hard to know the answer to that. i mean one question that we have had, talking about it other here, is why would, over year, is why would you have lawyers, $1500 an hour lawyers packing your boxes at the penn biden center. that doesn t seem normal. and it would seem more likely that sort of office support folks would be packing boxes and maybe if they saw a classified documents, then they would call the lawyers in. so i have a question about that. i mean there is no reason to doubt a statement made by a member of the bar who is, you know, the white house counsel who has been making these statements, but it seems like it is likely that there is more to the story, because it was just simply a matter of some mislaid documents, some mistakes and sloppy packing, we wouldn t need a special counsel, katy. don t go anywhere. let s bring in white house correspondent carol, and counter-intelligence and export control section of the d.o.j.
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