Garage gate. Some of that sensitive material was stored in the same space bidens beloved corvette is stored. Attorney general Merrick Garland under a lot of pressure to appoint a Special Counsel. Yesterday he tapped robert hur for the role. This means the current president and his predecessor are now both facing Special Counsel investigations. President biden meanwhile was openly critical if you remember of former President Trumps handling of classified documents. Now he is getting the same. These facts and circumstances are outrageous. Completely miss handling. Did he get them when he was Vice President and take them with him when he left . He clearly mishandled them. Putting it in a garage next to a leaf blower is not secure. Julie bidens Corvette Excuse wont cut it. Adding the newly appointed Special Counsel has a lot to do. Matt whitaker weighs in and first we go to peter doocy at the White House Joining us live. Good morning. Good morning. Somebody on the biden team knew that ther
House. Surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. He sees it serious very seriously when it comes to taking classified documents and information. Im not going to go beyond what the president laid out. He does not know whats in them. I would refer you to the white house counsels office. We want to respect the process and so thats what im going to do, im going to refer you to the Department Of Justice. And welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon, im sandra smith. John im john roberts. Seems to be a contradiction between what the president said and did, that he takes classified documents seriously, but they were in a garage next to his corvette. Reporters are more frustrated as the Press Secretary Dodges Question after question after question, you get it, on the matter. Sandra and we heard it over again, the Press Secretary defers all the questions to the Department Of Justice but we are not getting much from the d
just ahead, powerful storms sweeping across parts of the u.s. with reports of multiple tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind and we will speak to a meteorologist on the ground. the u.s. is warning china it could face cost if it provides aid to russia for the war on ukraine and in-laws charged in murder with the gruesome chilling of model abby choi. thanks for being with us and we begin this hour with a crust storm system damaging oklahoma kansas and texas. at least nine tornadoes have been reported so far, 7 in oklahoma and two in kansas. there are reports of widespread damage down power lines and did i bree blocking roads in norman, home to oklahoma s largest university. 10s of thousands of people statewide are without power. and wind gust of 114 miles per hour was reported in northern texas in the town of memphis. more than 115 storms have been reported across the southern plains and more than 65 million people are under high wind alerts. on the phone is max unger meteo
night. gusts of winds reaching up to 114 miles per hour. when you are standing for our values, you come under assault. florida governor ron desantis speaking out against woke ideology in the sunshine state publicly sparring with disney. you have these woke taking over institutions. grammys giving rihanna one for money. now shining bright like a diamond. some critics suggesting they outperformed rihanna. thank god i got my friends i don t even want to know what i did without them he could get lost. ainsley: that is old orchard beach, maine. if you are going out on the beach take your coat because it s 6 degrees. teams like negative 5 now. i hear we are getting snow in new york city today. griff, pete, so great to have you all here. pete: it s great to see you as always and great to see my buddy griff. griff: great to be on the couch. i wonder if there are any surfers out there. looks like a little ripple in the water. there is a colonel there. pete: i bel
country like just stashed on his person or in his home, giving them out. how in the world does that happen? shocking and it raises so many questions that we re going to get to this morning. it s one of many big stories we re covering. so let s get to the five things to know for this friday, april the 14th as we were just talking about the suspect in the leak of classified million terry documents will be arraigned in court today. federal court the fbi arrested him in massachusetts yesterday. officials tell cnn he s just 21 years old and he is a national guardsmen. alright, so that s a massachusetts and then in florida governor there. ron desantis has signed a six week abortion ban into law. the white house condemned it as extreme and dangerous. the man accused of killing tech exec bob lee set to appear in court today in san francisco. police say the suspect was someone lee knew also magic johnson maybe close to owning part of the washington commanders were told that deal is ne