it s investigating the investigators. not exactly a kitchen table issue. and trump s top money man sentenced to rikers island in a tax fraud scheme. but what is it he s really facing? plus, the punishing and powerful storm battling the west coast with heavy rain, flooding, and the new threat of dangerous mudslides. live report from the ground as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once, again i m stephanie ruhle. president biden is now talking about those classified documents found in a former private office he used after leaving the obama white house. two sources tell nbc news left a dozen document with classified markings were found. here s what the president said earlier today about that subject during a summit in mexico city. people know i take classified documents seriously. when my lawyers were clearing out my office at the university of pennsylvania, they set up an officer me, a secure office in the capital, four years after being of vi
too early on this wednesday, january 11. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president biden says he is cooperating fully with a review into how classified documents from the obama administration ended up in an office he used after his time he spent as vice president. he commented for the first time. people know i take classified documents, classified information, seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. and we re cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon and there will be more detail at that time. two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that president biden s personal lawyers discovered fewer than a dozen classified documents at the penn biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c., that discovery made back on n
delayed for hours and airlines are scrambling to get things back on track but that could take awhile. i have school tomorrow, so i have to change my flight to tomorrow morning and i have classes in the morning. we ve had a lot of airport issues this season. we have, yeah. over new year s we had issues as well. it hasn t been fun. just delays and a lot of canceled flights. it s just the latest disruption to travel after the difficult holiday season that affected millions of travelers. we re going to get an update from one of the nation s busiest airports. plus, what we re learning about how the biden administration is responding. also this morning, the new dangerous scenes unfolding out west as dangerous storms are walloping california. at least 17 people have died. millions of people remain under flood watches. hillsides and roads are giving away as folks across the state brace for more storms and rain. two feet of mud and water coming down the street and into
washington. we re in the situation room. we want to welcome our sures near the united states and around the world. we re standing by to hear from president biden as he faces reporters to hear about the classified documents found in his former private office here in washington. any moment now, president biden will face reporters as he attends this key summit in mexico city. right now let s bring in our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the revelation of classified documents found at the president s former office here in washington has clearly overshadowed his trip to mexico right now. he is about to face questions from reporters there. we ll have live coverage of that coming up. but set the scene for us. what you re looking at right now is where the president s focus has been and where white house officials have wanted it to be over the course of these last two turbulent days, given the revelations tied to those ten classified documents that were discov
deadline right now. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the gop is entrenched in another civil war today, this one intrastate, not intrachamber, but gop versus gop all the same. in one corner the talented mr. ripley of kevin mccarthy s house republican conference, and in the other his hometown republican detractors who say he should resign for telling, quote, lie after lie. the second political thrilla in manila political-style duel isn t at all how the republicans planned to roll out their new grip on power, but it was happens when a party lowers the bar to subterranean levels. here are the fireworks from new york republicans today. george santos campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, fabrication. he s not welcome here at republican headquarters for meetings or at any of our events. as i said, he s disgraced the house of representatives, and we do not consider him one of our congresspeople. today on behalf of the nassau county republican committe