launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the late reverend martin luther king jr. here i
mar-a-lago, but also a communications professional, how you think the biden people are handling it? i will say i think the biden people are handling it kind of poorly. biden, when he was asked about finding documents in his garage, he was quite flippant in his garage. he said, well, i keep my corvette in a locked garage. why are there classified documents in your garage? it wasn t just his garage, but other locations, his office as well. i would imagine the white house did give him talking points on it, but i think he probably got upset and went a little bit off script. don t you know how much i love my corvette? exactly. so that was not the appropriate way to handle it. this is a very serious issue. we re talking about classified material that was out in the open for six years as scott noted. that is a serious concern. i do think, too, while the biden administration is cooperating which is a difference that we saw compared to trump, there is a little bit of a transparency
launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the
we just want equal treatment and hopefully we ll get some answers very soon. just to give the answer that the trump lawyers gave, because i also have been asking why did it take so long for them to disclose this given the fact that biden attorneys i said trump, i meant biden biden attorneys discovered this november 2nd and we didn t find out about it until january. and the explanation from biden s attorneys are they there s a balance here between wanting to disclose and also not wanting to impede any department of justice investigation because when you announce it, then you are getting potentially in the way of investigators when it comes to witnesses and stuff. that s what they say. hard to believe. i would consider the fact that it was right before a midterm elec election, a very important midterm election that was close that was going to determine the balance of power in congress,
the proper thing for a former president to do if he finds that there are government documents or classified documents that are in his possession. my understanding is they did the right thing by immediately alerting the archives and turning them over that day. maybe there s a different procedure for dealing with them that we re unaware of. that s a meaningful thing we could look at. obviously we don t want to turn this into just a political football. it s a bit disturbing to me, the people who are saying there s no problem with what donald trump did which was to defiantly reject any cooperation in turning over hundreds of classified documents are upset about president biden s voluntary and rapid turnover of a handful of documents that they found. speaking of political footballs. take a listen to president biden s reaction last year when he was asked on 60 minutes about the classified documents found at trump s home in