on november 2nd, lawyers for president biden, lawyers who work for him, his personal capacity, were reportedly packing up some of the office space that the vice president used at the penn biden center. in so doing, they found classified documents there, classified documents they say were in a locked closet inside those offices mixed in with some nonclassified documents. this is, of course, a weird set of circumstances. that s what they say happened. the white houset since confirm the basics of this account as have other news organizations. the reason this created excitement on the right briefly tonight is that it immediately created a perceived what aboutism defense for president trump. president trump is under federal criminal investigation for apparently deliberately hoarding hundreds of classified documents at had his home in florida including hrefusing to hand th over after national archives
remember him hosting an event at or spending much time at. we don t know who exactly had access over the last few years to this facility. something else we have a little bit more clarity on this afternoon is why this is coming out now, i say we don t have more clarify but at least a response. the documents were located by a presidential personal attorney on november 2nd, before the midterms. so when we asked the counsel office why this is timed to come out right now, we did get a response, i ll read it to you, we just got it. it says this is an ongoing process under review by doj, so we are going to be limited in what we can say at this time but we are committed to doing this the right way and we will provide further details when and as appropriate. that is coming from the white house counsel s office. it looks like our colleagues down in mexico city are doing their best to try to get presidential reaction. we don t know if we are going to get that today or if it will
wegmann. when president biden starts answering questions again we will go back to that guy benson, to you first, the president was asked about the classified documents found at the biden-penn center and he said he didn t know why the documents were in there and he didn t know what documents were in there and he never asked and the white house still has not answered why not, if you found these on november 2nd, disclosed that you found them on november 2nd, six days before the midterm elections? your thoughts? right. they were apparently discovered, according to the official story the week before the election, turned over the very next day, five days before americans went to the polls. there was a question asked of him why the american people didn t find out about that until now. he did not respond. i would pointed out that the justice department sometimes is very leaky on such things but not in this case, which i think some americans will find, perhaps, peculiar. and then as for the a
can see, still has a chance of winning. and, in fact, take a look at this newsmax viewership increase in the days after election day because trump was trashing fox and he basically pointed to the outlets that were believing his big lie. but it wasn t just on tv. let me show you this. the far-right social media platform parler, they went from number 1,023 on the most downloaded free iphone app ranking on november 2nd, 2020, basically just before the election. after a week of propaganda, number one in a week. at the same time, trump and his allies were trying to come up with ways to get congress to overturn the election results, and we all know what that led to. and since the january 6th insurrection, we ve seen the republican party and the president himself perpetrate the lie and whitewash the violence that happened that day saying things like the insurrection took place on november 3rd, election day. january 6th was the protest.
peng shuai out for dinner with her coach in beijing. peng shuai disappeared after making sexual assault allegations against a former chinese vice premier, two weeks ago. the videos have been released by chinese state media which claims they were filmed today. it s the latest attempt by china to prove the tennis star is safe and well. so how did we get to this point? on november 2nd, peng shuai accused a former vice premier of coercing her into sex on the social media site, weibo. her personal feed was then censored, and she was not seen or heard in public for two weeks. then, on the 17th of november, chinese state media attribute an email to the tennis player, in which she says she is safe, and the allegations are not true . two days later pictures emerge on chinese state media