room are pushing the white house for more transparency. a sliver of what we just heard and heard it over and over again. karine jean-pierre a second ago. we have been transparent in the last couple of days, and remember, an ongoing process and we have spoken when it is appropriate. sandra: things we don t know at this point, john, what triggered the search for the documents, who has access to the documents both at the office and joe biden s private residence, and did he hold on to these documents after leaving office. there was a pretty good question from a reporter in the room a minute ago about bringing the president s attorney into the briefing room to take questions since she continues to refer everyone to the white house counsel, obviously as well as to the justice department for answers. john: yeah, i mean, it s very rare that the white house counsel ever goes before the press. they like to stay as anonymous as possible. more on the briefing and why he didn t get a question
and said wait a minute, you know, 3, 4 years after you left the white house the former vice president apparently has not returned all the documents he received when he was in office. i don t know. but lots of questions to be answered. john: nara seemed to know right away what president trump had not turned over to them, why didn t they know after five years what joe biden had not turned over to them. karine jean-pierre at the briefing yesterday didn t have a lot of answers to the sort of questions from the press corps. listen here. i would refer to department of justice or my colleagues in the counsel s office but again, i m just not going to go beyond what the president said. i m not going to go beyond what the president said. i m not going to go beyond what the president said. again, i m not going to go into the particulars or the specifics of what the department of justice did. again, ongoing process, it s being reviewed, don t have more to share. again it wasn t because
about the cpi data and how important it was to see inflation go down in six months, and how we are seeing record low unemployment in 50 years. that is conversation and that work is going to continue. thanks, everybody. have a great weekend. sandra: all right, there you have it. karine jean-pierre taking some questions at the white house, not offering a lot of new information, john. john: yeah, not taking a question from peter doocy, who you heard at the end there trying to get a question in. it was peter doocy who questioned the president yesterday about what he was thinking, keeping those classified documents in the garage alongside his corvette. that s when the president said well, the car was in a locked garage, and it s not like the documents were out there in the street. but according to national security policy, they don t see any difference between that, whether it s a locked garage or out on the street, if it s not in a secure facility where classified documents, top secret
one, you make a phone call, wait for a phone call back, ask your question, maybe get an answer, maybe not. but it s never on television and it s never in a comprehensive fashion. it strikes me highly unlikely they take a member of the white house counsel and put them in the briefing room, have them go through what they knew and didn t know and answer questions. that s the way to put it behind them but they are not going to do that if karine jean-pierre s behavior is any indication at all. john: thank you, we will stay in touch with you and get your expertise on this. you ve been there, you know what goes on behind closed doors at the white house. thank you. john: new at 2:00, deadly storms across the country, devastating floods in california, powerful tornadoes in the south. wicked weather and we are live on the ground with the latest on
doocy is live at the white house. she passed you over today. i don t know why, if i would have had an opportunity to ask a question the first one i have on my sheet was why is president biden going to wilmington today. isn t that a potential criminal scene. we are not getting a ton of new information today about the president s knowledge of this probe, about his thoughts on the probe, everything is being referred to either the private lawyer bob bauer or to the special counsel, richard sauber, the special counsel at the white house, basically the president s government lawyer. and karine jean-pierre said today she was not involved in any of the decisions about when to go public, about how to go public with any of this.