i m bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden s former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we re told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden s former execute assistant had been questioned. we re also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? well, bianna, one thing he s trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on. already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. attorney
he is storing mail in here? evidently. jesse: joe biden s aides have been doing a little early spring cleaning for the big guy. it feels like everywhere they look they find something new that surprises joe. or as joe s lawyers put it, they keep finding highly classified documents that were inadvertently misplaced. first they found docs in the closet at the u penn center. storming with thousands of people a day. in fact, i was there in 2018 on the roof hosting the five. today they find more documents and just as predicted yesterday, they found them in delaware. right in joe s personal library, a library without any books. but joe is not responsible. he is not irresponsible. the most important documents were stored aed away in his garo his 72 vet. classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god-willing, soon. what i said earlier this week by the way my corvette is in a locked garage,
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meeting with japan s prime minister. but there s an issue loming over the white house. the mounting fallout over biden s handling of classified documents during his post obama years. thbz has learned one of the classified documents found at the d.c. office was marked with the highest classification in the u.s. government. that s according to a senior u.s. official and another person familiar. we got that development after attorney general merrick garland announced he s appointed a veteran prosecutor to serve as special counsel to review the documents. ahead, what we re learning about hur and how he s proceeding. plus the tight rope both the white house and justice department are walking considering there s another special counsel investigating president trump. also this morning, devastation across the southeast. search and rescue operations are underway after tornadoes in multiple states. by the grace of god, we all survived. we jumped out the car and we all got in the
george santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. house speaker kevin mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. we re tracking severe weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with this special counsel investigation that s about to get under way. amid new revelations about classified documents found at president biden s home and office. let s go right to our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. the white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. that s right, wolf. the white house counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new special counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will b