were found in his delaware home as late as this morning. we are still trying to sort some of this out. the two men who could potentially face off for the presidency in 2024 are now both under a special counsel probe, another word for probe is investigation. so oversight committee member byron donalds is standing by we will speak with him in just a moment so first let s talk with peter doocy white house correspondent waiting for the two-minute warning at the white house and we ve been waiting about an hour and a half now for this to go under way. hi, peter, tell us what you are expecting at this point. martha we are expecting them to come out at some point, and the topic du jour today is why isn t this administration, we have this ms ration claims to be so transparent with everything including on this issue, and yet we are finding out more details about this case from the attorney general. here at the white house somebody sent president biden out in mexico city on tuesday ni
martha: what is the framework for finding out the answer those questions? the fbi needs to question the president. jonathan: yeah and the president is using counsel, i m sorry go ahead. martha: go ahead, jonathan and i will get brett s thought on it too. jonathan: that s the problem with the president s transparently weak argument that he was told by counsel not to ask about what the documents were. why? he is the chief witness. is also president of the united states his duty to is to protect national security. the fbi needs to know! if he is familiar with these documents, then he may be able to tell the fbi how they were used or how they were divided or distributed. martha: yes so brett, this argument and you mentioned geraldo making it earlier and you know if the newsworthiness of it and the distraction from other things that are perhaps more important in terms of the life of the country in the long term is a valid one, i
for president biden now separated out? was there a reason these documents were the ones that he wanted to hold onto? jonathan: well i think the timeline for the biden documents are is really increasingly intriguing. you know, his counsel said this was an inadvertent misplacement of documents, but this was not a one-and-done problem. presumably all of these documents were in the group of documents removed from executive branch when biden left as best president. that was in 2017. s the penn biden center did not open its office in d.c. in 2018 so he had to move in after that day. so these documents had to go to some other location. now the question is why were they divided? they end up in different places, some are in d.c. summer at his
attorney general never spoke to the president about this investigation, not in mexico, not in the united states, not anywhere. were also told the white house was not given a heads up about the special counsel appointment today. martha? martha: david, thank you very much. with that we bring brett tolman former u.s. attorney and executive director of right on crime and constitutional attorney and fox news contributor jonathan turley it s great to have you with us at this point. brett, the appointment of the special counsel your reaction to it and as david tells us the doj says there was no heads up on the white house to set at up to you? brett: i will tell you martha thank you for having me on. i think this was a box garland can t get out of and they put in place standard procedure for something this monumental involving classify document. so he really had no other choice.