privilege here. i have covered the archives for a long time. they are the least partisan people in this town. they are historians. they are librarians. they famously describe themselves as introverts who even when they ve been working together for 30 years, when they pass each other in the hall they look the other way. this is not a political group of people, anderson. jamie gangel, i appreciate it. as we mentioned the president spoke for the first time about this before returning home tonight from the summit in mexico. what he said and what was unsaid. what can you tell us? reporter: white house officials have been very clear. they put out an on the record statement and there would be little if anything else they would say as this justice department review continues to play out. but the president gave his version of the event, events that track very closely with his white house counsel s team and also his response when he discovered these documents
did. the documents were discovered november 2nd, six days before the midterm elections. do we know why this wasn t paid public for more than two months? we don t. we don t know whether it was because of the investigation we don t know whether it was political, there is no question that people are going to ask about the timing and certainly republicans and donald trump are going to try and make political hay out of it. i understand the house oversight committee, the chairman is already looking into this. welcome to the new congress. i just looked at the memo and it said that the oversight committee is investigating whether there is political bias at the national archives. i am going to take a point of privilege here. i have covered the archives for a long time. they are the least partisan people in this town. they are historians, they are librarians, they famously described themselves as introverts who even when they have been working together for 30 years when, they pass each o