bret: president biden s document scandal now a scandal that involves other could have for the is kellyanne conway and celinda lake. thank you for being here. this weekend the question was asked many times on sunday shows about this and how does it have implications here is senator chris coons on what it means for president biden. i do not think that when we get to the next election, this will be the deciding issue. the fact that this will take up time and be a distraction, yes, that has a political impact. bret: what do you think, celinda? how much impact does it have when all these candidates are forming and the president hasn t announced yet? i think, first of all, the president s job performance has been improving not declining during this period. the documents scandal, so-called scandal has absolutely no correlation with his job
act. and, of course, president biden also nominated the first black woman to the supreme court, justice ketanji brown jackson. but as biden marks two year anniversary today, there were storm clouds, storm clouds in the form of the classified documents investigation. today, the new york times published a new report on the 60 days between the first discovery of the documents and when the public learned the news. here it is. the handling of the documents case has eroded his capacity to claim the high road against mr. trump, while also raising questions that his team s ability to navigate republican attacks from capitol hill. joining us now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent to the new york times and one of the reporters bylined on his very these. peter, thanks for joining me tonight. tell me a little bit about how complicating the documents scandal has been in terms of how the white house sees its agenda writ large. because they have accomplished so very much. two years of la
today, the new york times published a new report on the 60 days between the first discovery of the documents and when the public learned the news. here it is. the handling of the documents case has eroded his capacity to claim the high road against mr. trump, while also raising questions that his team s ability to navigate republican attacks from capitol hill. joining us now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent to the new york times and one of the reporters bylined on his very these. peter, thanks for joining me tonight. tell me a little bit about how complicating the documents scandal has been in terms of how the white house sees its agenda writ large. because they have accomplished so very much. two years of landmark legislation big achievements on a number of fronts is this but a passing storm, or do they really seriously think that this is shaping public opinion? well, at the white house they would tell you, this is not that big a deal. it s politically outside the
a lot of people are talking about the hypocrisy, remember, when president trump had his documents scandal, president biden went out of his way to go on 60 minutes and tv, the infamous quote, and then you hear him there s no there there. hypocrisy in washington? we re joined by the representative from michigan and house and energy committee, congresswoman debbie dingell and the resources committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us this afternoon. good to be with you. bill: first want to get your reaction to what president biden said the other day, finally speaking out about this latest batch of documents. you heard him he essentially said, look, there s know there there, i ve got no regrets about what happened. and what was your reaction when you heard him say that, and is that the right messaging to the american public right now? bill, i want to say this
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