biden s attorneys searched the president s wilmington home, where they found documents with classified markings. on january 5th, the national findings were submitted to the u.s. attorney general, merrick garland. on january 11th, biden s attorneys searched his delaware home and found additional documents and garland appointed a special counsel, robert herr on january 12th. that same day, white house lawyers found five more pages of classified pages. and then finally, on friday, january 20th, the fbi searched biden s wilmington home. once again, finding more classified materials. now, earlier, cnn spoke with a professional lecturer in law at george washington university law school and he discussed the declassification authority that s been claimed by former president donald trump and whether that could be a factor in this case. listen. president trump referenced declassification authority during his presidency, but there was no evidence of the declassification that i was able
one of the big questions that will surround the ukraine defense contact group in germany on friday where 50 nations or so will come together to find and ship and organize weapons to ukraine revolves around the issue of tanks. congress and the white house engaged in a risky standoff as the u.s. reaches a 31.4 trillion borrowing limit. down by the river singer, songwriter, guitarist david crosby was an american music icon. david crosby was 81 years old. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 20th. 9 a.m. here in london. 10 a.m. in ramstein, the airbase in germany where western allies are gathering at this hour to
good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the treasury department now is forced to take extraordinary measures so the government can continue paying its bills. in a letter to congressional leadership yesterday, treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed the country will be able to meet its obligations until at least june 5th. until then treasury will sell investments to raise cash and not reinvest in some retirement funds to save money and, therefore, not create new debt. this ginkgos congress a deadline of just 136 days to craft legislation to raise the country s debt ceiling before the united states officially defaults. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell noted the debt ceiling legislation has been completed in the past and believes congress will be able to reach an agreement once again.
good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 20th. along with willie, joe and me, we welcome you to our four-hour show, and this morning, joe, we say good-bye to a legend. yeah, say good-bye to a music legend, and you know, willie, yesterday afternoon when we heard david crosby had passed. obviously a lot of people were sending some of his greatest clips across twitter and across other social media. and my gosh, you look at him and what he did in the birds. they were just absolutely cutting edge. and they were almost the birds were almost out of time. they were so ground breaking, and to move from that to all the other great things that he did, of course.
news tonight. this is one of those days when it sort of feels like all of washington is on egg shells and something is about to crack and fail. but in the middle of all that, i would like to pile on something new, because we do have a little bit of a scoop tonight. okay. this is dana boente. dana boente, first became a public official of national interest when president trump fired sally yates. sally yates was the acting attorney general of the united states. she was fired after she told the white house that she believed trump s muslim ban was likely unconstitutional. that s the reason she was fired. but we soon learned that while she had been acting attorney general, she had personally gone to the white house to give the white house a warning about national security advisor mike flynn and his communications with the russian government, which he had been lying about. and this all happened very quickly, at the very start of the trump administration. trump got sworn in on friday, january