that the president only bekale aware of the classified documents when he was informed by his lawyers immediately after they found them. a white house statement sheds more light, saying they were found when his personal lawyers were packing files in a locked closet. the white house counsel s office notified the national archives on november 2nd, the same day they were found. the white house says the president has been cooperating with the doj and national archives. i want to bring in nbc news justice correspondent ken dilanian, and peter baker. the doj is reviewing the documents. marek carland has asked the u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois, who is a trump appointee, to look into all this. what more do we know? if they were found in november, why did it take so long for the public to find out? that s a great question, your second one, and one the white house has to answer and have not yet answered. clearly, a lot of people in the white house knew about this for a lon
handling of this. ken and peter, thank you. and coming up in just a few minutes, we expect to see president biden sit down in mexico city with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. what we expect from that meeting and the rest of his mexico trip. plus, one of the biggest priorities of the new republican house. investigating the federal government. the new select committee that could get the green light today. and a community demanding answers after a middle schooler was shot and killed. i ll talk to a member of the d.c. city council who wants to know why the shooter hasn t been arrested. playing detective. but the real mystery was her irritated skin. so, we switched to tide pods free & gentle. it cleans better, and doesn t leave behind irritating residues. and it s gentle on her skin. case, closed! it s gotta be tide.
merrick garland intentionally steered this to a trump appointed u.s. attorney in chicago to make sure that the perception of independence was maintained. and that that office in conjunction with the fbi is conducting a preliminary review to determine whether a criminal investigation needs to be opened. if that happens, if there is a need for a criminal investigation, presumably a special counsel would be appointed. we re a long way from that. there s been no determinations either way in the investigation and the review as far as we know is ongoing. ken, do we know if they re checking for any more documents in any other locations affiliated with biden? we believe that they are, and we don t know the results of that search, but it stands to reason that the biden folks upon discovery of these classified documents, the next question would be, do we have any others anywhere else? if so, where are they? and how do we find them? one question that remains unanswered in my mind is why two y
their stories. we don t want to give annotation to the bad guys where the investigation was going and how it might get there. and in addition toens wpss aligning their stories, which is one problems, let me tell you about another. sometimes witnesses are vulnerable. sometimes they can be intimidated or harassed or worse. so while appreciate benefits of transparency, i live my life as a federal prosecutor in a different sort of world, in a world in which we kept our information close to the vest. i appreciate the upside of transparency. but speaking as a former prosecutor, i think there s much greater risk than there is advantage. and ken, you have some new reporting today about the kind of intelligence the fbi had in
biden at the white house next hour. but we begin with the full january 6th committee report about to be released. members suggesting that the summary released was the tip of the iceberg. the report expected to provide a much fuller piture of what happened before, during and after january 6th it could also shed new light on the investigation itself with witness transcripts expected to supply new details from critical testimony of key witnesses like mark meadows aid cassidy hutchinson and fuel new questions about the credibility of witnesses like deputy chief of staff, former secret service tony ornato. i m joined by ali vitali, justice correspondent ken dilanian, politico bureau chief jonathan lemire, senior fbi official chuck roseberg, former