underscore what president biden laid out. that evidence he points to. that evidence will be rolled out day after day in the weeks ahead by the president himself. he ll be traveling at multiple events, the economy, the days ahead all leading up to the state of the union where the economy, contrast with republicans and the agenda he s passed and will be implementing will be a critical focus. also, probably a critical focus of another big announcement coming, re-election. something he could do as soon as next month. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. the u.s. justice department will have to decide whether to appoint another special counsel to deal with the mishandling of classified documents. his lawyer discovered a dozen documents at pence s home in indiana last week. the review is underway into how they got there. pence has repeatedly said that he had no classified documents in his possession. he has not yet announced whether he plans to run for u.s.
meantime, i want to go to rich edson in miami. the vice president of the united states, former one, mike pence, also caught up in this document mess. he had a chance to sit down and talk to rich. good afternoon, neil. mike pence made his first comments since news had broken that he had classified at his home in indiana. we asked him that just a couple months ago he denied having any classified documents and now only to discover that he had them. he said he launched a review after seeing what happened with president biden and a small number was encountered. we asked him in his long time in gong if this had happened before. here s what he said. i remain very confident that during my time in the congress of the united states that we were very careful and very cautious as we were during my
in the mccarthy s office, mccarthy s birthday we re told and wishing him a happy birthday but while jeffries was in there, plusk came in and mccarthy introduced them and by proxy he met with hakeem jeffries and it earned jeffries a follow from musk on twitter, so one of the outgrowths of the meeting there in a digital space. we will see as congress goes on, what is happening on twitter is front of mind for democrats and republicans alike and we will see as the push on capitol hill, especially from the senate side, can break up big tech, and we ll see if that manifests at all with twitter but certainly notable that musk was on the hill meeting with republicans. thank you. for the first time on camera publicly, we are hearing from former vice president mike pence talking about the classified documents found at his home in indiana. and we have a take and we want to play it back what he said, the whole thing. watch. those classified documents should not have been in my personal resid
is and we ll continue to operate with any inquiry. this is a really big focus by transportation secretary pete buttigieg he wants consumer advocacy here because passengers have dealt with so many cancellations and delays not only in 2022 but also 2021 and the question now is whether or not airlines recovering from the pandemic have overexcererted themselves. thank you very much. to a cnn exclusive this morning. learning more about the 12 classified documents discovered at mike pence s home in indiana. sources describe them as briefing binders prepared for pence s trips. sometimes they include basic information but sometimes they have more sensitive information. cnn is told the papers may have been overlooked as they would not have been visible unless the
that distance boom you hear is his head exploding watching this unfold in front of him and oh, by the way, that s before we add the fact that now sweden and finland, two highly capable turnkey modern militaries, are going to join the alliance probably this spring. so when you put all that together, it s been a bad year for vladimir putin and that s a good thing for nato and the west and for ukraine once they get through this patch. admiral, it is not sunday, but you can get an amen on that. bad year for putin is a good year for the world. thank you, admiral. it s been much appreciated. up next, political whiplash as classified documents are found at mike pence s home in indiana. but does all this point to a larger problem of government overclassification? we ll discus when we come back. overclsiasfication we ll discus when we come back