getting up way too early ton friday morning and all weekend long. morning joe starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden s handling of the documents. i m not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that s not good. that s not good. all right. republicans get the special counsel they have been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. it comes as we are learning more about the files and where they were found. we ll also take a look at some of the hypocrisy inside the gop when it comes to the special counsels for trump and biden. meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in america where there are now two special counsels investigating whether two us presidents broke the law in their handling of classified records. after a second set of classified documents were found atjoe biden s home, the us attorney general has appointed robert hur to investigate whether any crimes have been committed. former president donald rrump is also facing a criminal investigation for taking classified papers to his mar a lago estate. here s our north america editor, sarah smith. after admitting he was keeping classified documents at his delaware home, stored in the garage alongside his vintage sports car, president biden has a lot of explaining to do. classified materials next to your corvette, what were you thinking? my corvette s in a locked garage, ok, so it s not like it s sitting out in the street. people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously.
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the january 6 select committee saved the best for last. they have just wrapped up. the first public hearing in months with an extraordinary historic moment. the panel tasked with investigating the capitol insurrection voted unanimously to subpoena the twice impeached disgraced ex-president himself. here is that moment. this afternoon, i am offering this resolution. the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from donald john trump in connection with the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. the gentle lady yields back. the question is on the resolution. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. i request a recorded vote. a recorded vote is requested. the clerk will call the role. miss cheney. aye. miss loftgren. aye. mr. schiff. aye. mr. agular. aye. mrs. murphy. aye. mr. raskin. aye. mrs. lurai. aye. mr. kinzinger. aye.
the justice department that we suspect may occur during this hour. in the meantime, i have a few things to report about lindsey graham including the lies he told on fox tonight about what he said on fox the last time he was on fox. that is the modern republican party selective amnesia part deletion party. basically anything they said they could land him in trouble, like it never happened. he tried to make it disappear tonight. i don t think that s gonna. work you re gonna keep him honest, and i will be waiting for those 40 pages of explanation by the doj ride-alongs but side you. lawrence weakness gonna see some live reading on tv television. thank you. well, lindsey graham is now afraid of himself. a quisling quisling afraid of a shadow. and he proved that tonight by going on fox to lie about what he said on the fox propaganda channel. he s afraid of his own words, so he s afraid to repeat them, so he lied about them tonight. lindsey graham did not dare to repeat wha