classified documents into there s a new special counsel to investigate the handling of classified material after the president s lawyers return a document stored in his garage next to his corvette. by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay, it s not like you re sitting out in the street. tonight jamie raskin on what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump s coup. then what i find is voters have elected george santos. a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. it s a national joke, he s an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn t a senate race for the incumbent hasn t announced retirement. what s happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorn
counsel to investigate the handling of classified material after the president s lawyers return a document stored in his garage next to his corvette. by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay, it s not like you re sitting out in the street. tonight jamie raskin on what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump s coup. then what i find is voters have elected george santos. a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. it s a national joke, he s an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn t a senate race for the incumbent hasn t announced retirement. what s happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent inv
last year. the white house notified the national archives of their discovery that same day. in the archives picked it up the next morning. today the white house counsel office disclose of the president s lawyers found quote, a small number of additional obama biden administration records with classified markings. in bindings wilmington, delaware, garage. they notified the department of justice and arrange for doj to take possession of the documents. of course, and not really surprisingly. fox news jumped on the idea. that these documents were found near the presidents sportscar. okay. classified material in your corvette? what were you thinking? i don t get a chance to think about this. but as i said earlier this week, by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay. , it s not like it s sitting out of this. right so the material is in
chris, is that herr will come and say there s no criminal charge to file. it s gonna make, i think garland will accept that recommendation. i think the opposite will happen with smith. he ll make the recommendation. so, they ll still be what they ll call disparity. but the idea is that each of them has operated independently. and there s no physically they re separated, they have their own offices, each keeps his head down. and does his work. i think this is designed in part to give smith a little bit of operating maneuvering room. it s interesting, andrew weissmann had a similar point, he s a contributor here and worked on mueller s team with the department of justice. he said the appointment of herr, makes it easier for jack smith gives doj the necessary reality an appearance of balance and fairness it sounds like you think that way to, as someone that s been inside the building?
good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent investigator. this one will review president biden s handling of classified documents. i m here today to announce an appointment of robert kerr. as special counsel, department of justice regulation governing matters. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independents and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. this announcement comes in the wake of the biden menstruation revealing on monday that the president s lawyers had discovered quote, a small number of classified documents and his former office at the penn biden center in washington, d.c., that s the thing tack that biden founded. the document which date from the obama biden administration were found on november 2nd of