justice department to say they had found some classified documents from his vp days at his indiana home, and he says he that takes full responsibility. so another special counsel? are we in danger can of running out of them? no, the media reaction has been very different just as joe biden s discovery of one batch after another of classified material cast what donald trump did in a different light, the pence administration seemed to take the edge off biden s actions. ah, maybe this is a systemic problem. maybe a lot of this material is overclassified, maybe it s easy to misplace. maybe it s not that big a deal. for all the breathless headlines, nobody including journalists really believes pence intended anything nefarious or that biden really intended anything nefarious, so where does that leave the trump story? i know trump was engaged in a long subpoena battle leading to the fbi search that found 100 classified documents, but what was portrayed as utter recklessness acco
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
same sloppiness as opposed to the def con 1 coverage surrounding the former prime minister. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howe ahead we ll talk to glenn greenwald about big tech, censorship and joe biden s attempt to break up google. the disclosure that mike pence also kept some classified documents has utterly transformed the media debate. for president biden, has been a hellacious pr nightmare that, you know, just drip, drip, drip. what shows is there s a problem with the system. right? mike pence didn t think he had documents either. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe
b by pence s lawyer, we should be enclos clear, they took the classified documents and put them in a safe until the fbi picked them up. talking about the fbi involved in the trump investigation, the biden investigation. does this have any impact on those investigations? so i actually think this may be a gift in different ways to both president biden and former president trump. for president biden, this has been a hellacious pr nightmare that just drip, drip, drip. what this shows is there s a problem with the system. mike pence didn t think he had documents either. they found it here. for former president trump, i think this may help him on the legal front because even though his situation is completely different, intent, obstruction, the number of documents that were taken, it does show sort of