whether former president trump has fully complied with a subpoena issued back in may to hand over all classified documents he took with him when he left office. sources telling cnn federal investigators want to talk to two people hired to search trump s properties back in november for any additional records that have not been turned over. and now president biden faces his own special counsel investigation after his lawyers discovered obama era documents in his garage and a personal office in his wilmington home and also in a washington, d.c. office. mr. biden used it during the trump presidency. there are important distinctions between the two investigations. the trump reviews involve way more classified records and questions of obstruction. once the government demanded their return. team biden says it immediately notified the appropriate agencies when the first documents were found and that it worked with the justice department on the search that turned up additional classif
conduct his work. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. republicans get the special counsel they ve been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. and it comes as we re learning more about the files and where they were found. meanwhile a prominent name in the republican party says it s time for the gop to move on from fallen president trump, calling him a proven loser. we ll have those comments just ahead. and george santos vows to stay in congress despite more members of his own party saying he should resign from making up just about all of his resume. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 13th, friday the 13th, folks. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. attorn
medals. republicans aren t the only ones out there who want to get rid of george santos. two democrats requested a house ethics investigation, and hand delivered a copy of the complaint to santos office, he wasn t there at the time, they had to give it to his assistant, admiral slorge santos. there are a lot of developments this morning with congressman george santos that we ll be updating you on. we re also learning a lot more this morning about the justice department s wide ranging investigation into january 6th. we re going to dig into new reporting on subpoenas sent to officials from former president donald trump s presidential campaign. which is significant, because, again, a lot of people have said, you can investigate a lot of different things, but at the end of the day, with everybody getting tried that was part of the riots and some people being charged with sedition, they re all pointing their finger at donald trump. most of them are saying he s the reason he
it s a poison. [ applause ] running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. [ applause ] none. look, failure in saying that is going to complicity, silence is complicity. it s complicity. we cannot remain silent. i call all americans to reject the lie, and i condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit. [ applause ] president joe biden s clear eyed denunciation there of white supremacy as a poison marks a return to an issue that animated and inspired his run for the presidency, what he described at the time as a battle for the soul of america. but now the new york times reports, quote, the challenge for a president who came to office preaching unity may be how to take on those preaching hate, and in the wake of the mas
capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t