president pence s indiana home. the wall street journal first reported the news citing people familiar who say the justice department is talking with pence s legal team about scheduling. last month, the former vice president s lawyers admitted they discovered several documents with classified markings at his home and turned them over to authorities. nbc news has reached out to both the fbi and mike pence for comment. haven t yet heard back. joining me now is correspondent julia ainsley and nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. julia, you and i were talking about this very thing 24 hours ago. reporter: i thought about you, because maybe you predicted this. you asked me if we could assume that the fbi had also searched the residences of mike pence because of their searches of, at that point, the president s beach house in rehoboth, and now we understand that they are in talks. this is of course not yet confirmed by nbc news but the fbi plans to search both the
republicans targeting the biden border crisis ongoing as you know. congressman rodney scott telling us what he will look for in today s hearing as cartels control the border and more. there are real threats coming across that border every day. the mass migration that the current administration wants to say is asylum seekers is providing cover for the cartel to bring in all the other threats. we have no idea who or what is coming into our country and that s on the back of the biden administration. bill: aishah, hello to you from the hill. good morning. we re watching both of these hearings closely not only because of the topics of conversation but watching to wait and see if these chairmen the oversight chairman and judiciary chairman will come out and talk to reporters about what is going on in rehoboth as well. the judiciary hearing which is about to get underway. doesn t quite look like it s
will be fully cooperateive with th that. have they told you specifically? at this point, what is the total number of documents bearing classified markings? that s a good question. i think that s probably more appropriate question for the justice department. i don t want to characterize what they re reviewing and going through all of that. thank you, guys! you ve beis there to a spokesman from the white house council s office after an fbi search at the president s beach house in rehoboth, delaware. it s the third fbi search for documents with classified markings, according to the president s private attorneys, his personal attorneys, i should say. there were no classified documents found, but there were some hand-written notes that were collected there by the agents. let s bring in cnn s paula reid, jeremy diamond, and former senior official at the fbi who is now president of the wave
president biden s home, or homes rather, plural, in rehoboth and wilmington, after they had discovered classified documents at the pen biden center. it raises questions as to what lever of classification these additional pages fall under after one of those pages at the penn biden center was discovered to be sti. the highest level of classification. also, who had access to these documents in the years that they were there? who packed them, why did some of them end up at the penn biden center, and others at biden s wilmington home? as with so many more questions at this point, that we have answers, questions that we hope to get answered. by the white house at some point over the next few hours, possibly days. okay, and we hope to get some insight right, now thank you so much, ali roth up for that. let s bring in luke broadwater, congressional reporter for the new york times, and aggressive reuben joining us again. welcome to you both, look let s put this on perspective, give
get out ahead of given the fact that the midterm elections are five months away and the economy is so central to so many voters choices. josh, in rehoboth, a town i know well. thank you. let me pick up on what josh is talking about. this strong jobs report for president biden. on the other hand the continued issue of inflation and what this means for americans. you have this dichotomy where you have business leaders like josh mentioned elon musk saying in an internal email i have a super bad feeling about the economy. you have jamie dimon saying, brace yourself, that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. how are we to think about the messaging we re hearing on the one hand from the administration and on the other from some of these business leaders? i m confused by the business leader commentary. jamie dimon a few months ago was suggesting that the economy was strong and consumers were doing quite well. now he s come out and said they have about six to nine mo