prominent figures, many who had been previously linked to epstein, like former presidents bill clinton and donald trump, were named in the filings, though not accused of any wrongdoing. the documents stem from a civil defamation lawsuit that was settled in 2017 by virginia roberts giuffre against epstein s former confidant ghislaine maxwell. the unsealed filings contain a 2016 deposition from one of epstein s alleged victims, juwana schoberg. there was some new information that came out especially with respect to the deposition of joanna schoberg and understanding who she is in this whole epstein web. she was the primary accuser of prince andrew. many of this information was her firsthand accounts of what she had seen, observed and heard in her dealings with epstein. reporter: schoberg recalled that epstein spoke to her about bill clinton. quote, one time he said that clinton liked them young, referring to girls. when asked if clinton was a friend of epstein she said she
those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
this. thank you all for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening, would be content with breaking news. exclusive reporting on a story we were first to bring the discovery documents of classified market inset mike pence indiana home. tonight, we know just what kind of material the former vice president had. a special correspondent joined us now with the very latest. what have you learned, jamie? according to multiple sources, we learn that among those roughly 12 classified documents that were found at the home, our materials described as background briefing memos, that were prepared for then vice president pence foreign trips. we told some of the classified documents, were likely used to prepare pence for foreign meetings, and actually may have been overlooked during the packing process. because they were found tucked into old binders, kind of interspersed with other papers. perhaps, they would not have been visible unless the packers actually went through these binde
actually went through these binders page by page. just for context, it s not unusual for presidents and vice presidents to be given these travel briefing binders. that include background memos on people there leaving with in foreign countries, our sources say, sometimes, they just include basic biographical information on foreign leaders. . government officials. sometimes, they also include more sensitive information. our colleague, evan perez, says that the fbi is working with the excess with it. it is potential risks, and let s remember, these papers were not in a secure location. they were in the pence private home. according to one since that was briefed on this classified documents. it is nothing, particularly, unusual in the paper s. they described the classification markings, which are for some of the documents, as on the, quote, lower level. the source also said, there was no mention of a sihai, or s cp markings. those are two of the designations of the most sensiti
good morning to you, a sad morning in the news. i m jim sciutto. a sad morning, one that s become all too familiar, i m erica hill. for the third time now in as many days california rocked by mass shootings. in oakland at least one person is dead, seven injured. seven people also dead after a gunman opened fire in half-moon bay, and 11 of course were killed over the weekend in monterey park. police say a 67-year-old man attacked two separate locations in half-moon bay, this morning one person remains in critical condition. it s a big rural location, so people are working, it s spread out, there s people that live at the location as well. so, you know, it s it was in the afternoon when kids were out of school and for children to witness this is unspeakable. we can say the regularity of this kind of gun violence is not normal, perhaps more accurately it s not normal anywhere but this country. in that shooting right now the can you say spect is in custody, his arrest cap