Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
And we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, dont want to get ahead of this. The Department Of Justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the Department Of Justice and now as you all know there is a Special Counsel. Thank you, korine. Another one on garagegate. What is the white house trying to hide . Nothing. Someone gave the President A Statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. Who . So i have read out the president s statement. I have read it out yesterday and what he said. He said that he respects or he takes Classified Information and documents very seriously. Thats what he said. He said he did not know that the records were there. He does not know whats in them. He said that. You heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, ill say this, the Attorney General said this himself, that he heard from 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. Were 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. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with this Special Counsel investigation thats about to get under way. Amid new revelations about classified documents found at President Bidens home and office. Lets 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. Thats 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 be clear this was an inadver
And lots of questions to answer, so lets get started. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan. If the debt limit is breached. Ahead of whats expected to be a major showdown with the white house. Plus, talk about uncharted territory. A current and former u. S. President , both under investigation for mishandling classified materials. The difference between the two cases are worlds apart, but could documents found at bidens Office Complicate The Criminal Probe Into donald trump . And later, why liars lie . Is there a Science Behind embattled congressman, George Santos is a mountain of lies, or is gop deception just part of the new normal . All of that and more is coming up. And good saturday morning to you all. I am katie phang. We begin the hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan if the debt limit is breached. They threatened t
schools from teaching classes on african american history. plus, we will speak to the director of the oscar nominated documentary, stranger in the gate, the powerful story about how love and community can instill islamophobia in a small american town. that coming out, good evening. you know it stood out to me, as you at-home watched the videos of the brutal police assault of a 29-year-old father, and amateur photographer tyre nichols in memphis. he died in hospital, three days later on january 10th. the moment where he called out to his mother. he screamed her name, again and again. i don t know about you, but that broke me. not going to play for you tonight, because i m sure you have all seen some of those videos on this network. another networks, on social media. if you haven t, you can go watch it somewhere, you can go see for yourself tyre nichols, an unarmed fedex worker weighing 140 pounds, getting pepper sprayed, taser, punched, kicked, and repeatedly hit with a ba