getting up way too early ton friday morning and all weekend long. morning joe starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden s handling of the documents. i m not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that s not good. that s not good. all right. republicans get the special counsel they have been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. it comes as we are learning more about the files and where they were found. we ll also take a look at some of the hypocrisy inside the gop when it comes to the special counsels for trump and biden. meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him
analyst, steve rattner. inflation continues to fall, at the same time, you go to the grocery store, and you re not feeling that way. no, that s exactly right, mika. you have overall inflation falling and good news as you heard in that report down to a 6.5% year over year rate. you can see on this chart, the top line is what we call headline inflation. all items including food, energy, things like that, up 6 1/2%, and as you heard in the report, it peaked at 9% back in june. inside of that, you have good news from energy, you have good news from a bunch of services which we ll get to. food, unfortunately, is a problem. up 11% year over year, and that s why you heard the bad news about groceries. if you look at the solid line just below. that s what we call core inflation. it takes out food, takes out energy where we have had a lot of good news. it looks at the central parts of the economy, goods and services,
comical holiday movie, and eat all the stuff we shouldn t eat. haagen-dazs. mr. santos, your favorite family tradition. ours is just family time. we have always been, you know, it doesn t matter if it s a tuesday night or a sunday night or if it s christmas, every moment we can get together that s kind of a down time, it s sweat pants, pints of haagen-dazs all over the place. you agree on something. it s the best ice cream in the world. i m not organizing. that s george santos in october, effectively copying his opponent s answer during a conversation, right down to the type of clothing, the brand of ice cream, when asked about family traditions during a debate on local television. perhaps, mika, that should have been one of the first warnings that something was up here. i just, again, we have more to report on this. but how did this not get how
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complex sensitive investigations with integrity, and the attorney general remains in charge as he would in any case, and so i don t see the appointments as necessary. i see the investigations as necessary. but not through the appointment of a special counsel. and just really quick before we get to republican reaction, chuck, what s the bar for appointing a special counsel, and is it criminality? well, that s a great question, mika. first the attorney general has to determine that a criminal investigation is warranted. and i believe a criminal investigation is warranted in both cases. doesn t mean necessarily that anyone will be prosecuted. but a criminal investigation is warranted. threshold number one, and then in these cases, both of them, the attorney general determined that there were extraordinary circumstances which required the appointment of a special counsel