president. his attorneys found them while cleaning off an office at the penn biden think-tank. he used the office from 2017 to 2020. it immediately handed them over to the national are chives. the day after. the discoveries prompted an investigation. merrick garland traveling with the president in mexico today has tapped a trump-appointed u.s. attorney to handle this. dana: months after the f.b.i. raided president trump s mar-a-lago estate in response to the alleged mishandling of classified documents by the former president. is the f.b.i. taking it easy on president biden? documents that are classified are not under protection and they re being accessed and do they know? do d they get all the documents? how come the f.b.i. isn t looking at all the documents to make sure there aren t more there? that s why they did a raid on trump and should be doing the same thing on biden. dana: alexandra hoff is covering the story from the white house. a lawyer for the president
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s great to be with you. we are following a major development in a criminal case against donald trump and his allies. the special grand jury in georgia investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election is now done. this is the panel set up by fulton county s district attorney after trump lost the election and made this call to georgia s secretary of state. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. well, since its inception nearly a year ago, the special grand jury has interviewed some of trump s closest allies. a new court filing reveals the panel is now dissolved and that its investigation is complete. cnn s correspondent nick valencia joins us now. this kind of grand jury we now understand, does not issue indictments. so now what? reporter: their work of may of 2022, this grand jury did not have the power or authori
president biden visited and wasn t invited to join him. when i tried to be part of this el paso visit, which i represent el paso, i represent nearly 50% of the southern border, the white house told me i wasn t able to be part of it. they think this is a political challenge, not a policy challenge. you hear them say that they want to work with republicans. i m not this crazy extremist republican. dana: this is not going to get solved by any one party alone. what would you say to tony or to the white house about that decision? again, i don t know how that decision was made to who was going. i didn t know about it even myself until the very end. i can tell you about tony. tony gonzalez is a friend of mine. senator john cornyn is a friend of mine. those two individuals, we talked many times to try to find bipartisan ways to address this issue. i will continue working with tony in appropriations and i
to be part of this el paso visit, which i represent el paso. i represent nearly 50% of the southern border. the white house told me i wasn t able to be part of it. i m not this crazy extremist republican. i m jumping up and down, pushing against my party when i think it s right, looking for ways to solve problems. admiral, what about that? why not just take help from wherever the president and get it on this issue? oh, there were members of congress as apart of the delegation with the president. he has also had a chance to be escorted by the mayor of el paso. of course, governor abbott from texas greeted him upon arrival. they were able to share a few words, and the president as i said in my first answer, alisyn, really wanted to take a kpe hencive look here at those who are involved with this doing the best they could and he wanted to make sure they could meet the challenges they re facing and the capabilities need. doesn t sound like governor abbott thinks that the president is
certainly, the nra is a powerful organization in terms of mobilizing voters, and certainly, it s at a point where its leadership is weaker right now, and that might affect this debate. and the president thinks so. but it remains to be seen. you guys have both been reporting on the president s visit to el paso this week and there is new reporting from the new york times that says by the time president trump arrives in el paso on wednesday, he was frustrated that his attacks on his political adversaries had resulted in more coverage thereafter the cheery reception he received at the hospital in dayton, ohio. he allegedly, reportedly screamed at his aides to begin producing proof that in el paso people were happy to see him. so, sonam, is there any sense here that the white house may have regretted making that trip to el paso, given the reception? i don t know if they regretted making the trip as much as they might have regretted letting him have his cell phone on the way to el pa