good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but he s making it clear he s staying in congress. can he and gop leadership ride this out? and finally, investigators have now identified the systems glitch that delayed 12,000 flights on wednesday. but how did they make sure it doesn t happen again? we start with new revelations about a second batch of classified documents found by aids of president biden. fueling calling for a congressional investigation or even the appointment of a special council. right now, we are waiting for attorney general merrick garland to give a statement. he s expected in minutes
talking about. more facts will come out about why robert hur was the choice here, but as barr and i expected, the announcement of a special counsel doesn t come as a huge surprise to those who have been watching this closely over the last few days. thot a huge surprise, but what s his first order of business? how does this investigation unfold? well, he s going to take the handoff now from john loush in chicago. they are saying it seems that loush would have been the pick except he s leaving the justice department some time this year so it was handed off to robert hur. i imagine he will get a briefing from the team to find out what they have learned so far. then the question really becomes his commitment here. not a all the handling of classified documents is a crime, but opposed to the comments that this is being examined wholesomely. we have a special counsel, who
was a trump appointee. he was the trump u.s. attorney during the trump administration. so i think that helps rebut any negotiations that there maybe somebody with biassed political agenda. he likely will be conducting interviews of anyone who might have had access to the documents or any damage assessment that needs to be done. see if it there s a chain of custody, whether there was any spill or exposure outside of people within the united states government. so jonathan, the appointment of robert hur is the headline. it s going to be the part of this that people talk about most. help us to sort of deconstruct the rest of what the attorney general had to say, and does the timeline that he laid out jive with what we have heard in terms of reporting of how this all came to be? the timeline largely does, but there is one piece that
25 marked top secret. they were immediately turned over by the biden team to the national archives. having said that, now that we have heard from merrick garland, we heard about the appointment. what are you hearing on the hill? reporter: republicans see an opening here to draw somewhat of a comparison to the situation with the former president trump even though the comparison is not the same. we saw a number of different talking points from republicans today as it relates to this. those that are the most art dant supporters of the former president suggesting there should be a raid on the white house and various other locations where documents could have ended up. those are people like lauren boebert and matt gaetz, who are as close to donald trump as possible. then others are raising the very
united states, you obviously have access to a broad range of security documents. so it is possible that some of them were not filed, that pages came out. it doesn t mean it was done with mall intent. talk about how the discovery of the second batch of documents could complicate the poll tibs of this for biden, especially when he s been so adamant about being transparent and drawing clear contrasts with donald trump. there s no question that they do. these are separate legal matters. it s worth taking a second just to note there are obvious similarities between the biden and trump cases. they are very different. these documents were discovered by aids and notified the department of justice. it stands differently than what donald trump did for those in