white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don
in 2024. the stakes of that potential candidacy even higher now after he ran on a platform in 2020 of honesty and transparency, corey. yes this latest new certainly posed to be even if it ends up being nothing, certainly an annoyance for the democrats as they try to push forward with biden s strong start to 2023 and into what may be a potential continuance of his run. allie raffa, starting us off for, us thank you. back for me this, our charles corman junior, several rights attorney and msn legal analyst and glenn coroner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst as well. gentlemen, welcome back in. let s dive right in. glenn, obviously these major differences that we laid out and we heard from ali about the white house response, let s be frank though. the existence of the biden situation makes it harder to potentially bring charges against trump. true or false? i don t see it that way, cory now these two
found at his home in delaware. all documents were voluntarily turned over to the national archives. meanwhile, trump s hundreds of documents were repeatedly requested by the national archives and then seized by the fbi through a search warrant which then prompted and obstruction of justice criminal investigation. and response, attorney general merrick garland has appointed a another special counsel to oversee the investigation into biden s documents. this being in addition of course of the special counsel already being lifted in through trump s treasure trove of documents. and following up on their promise, the house judiciary committee now controlled by the new republican majority has launched an investigation of their own into biden s potential mishandling of classified documents. including one marked with the highest level of classification. so back with me this hour, white house correspondent allie raffa. ali, welcome back in. what has been the reaction from the white house and whe