us . we re waiting tonight for the doj police raid on joehous biden s house.e, maybe waitinges for that. we re getting g more details on that story in just a minute. meantime, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. so think back .n. two years was two years ago that pete buddah, judge of south bend, indiana, was in a very hard place, really. he was unemployed. hebe was pushing 40 . staras staring down the barrel of a grim and nonproductive middle age for mayor pete.prod the back nine diucd not looke promising, but then helpp arri arrived in the unlikely eithdoddering form oved daughtfn ,either because of his innate decency or because he is a nasty sense of humor. joe biden may put a judge the federal secretary of transportation, despite the fact that people, a judge had no decency relevant experience with transportation of any kind, apart from occasiona l riding a bicycle with a little helmet. this was a huge promotion from unemployment to the white house
there is new information tonight about the statement to mar-a-lago. the former president asked one of his lawyers back in february to tell the national archives everything they wanted had been returned. but the lawyer refused because he wasn t sure it was true. the washington post also says that it was trump himself who packed up the boxes that will return to the national archives in january. we re going to bring in britney while, also former deputy assistant harry lippman and former assistants prosecutor nick akerman. good evening, one and all. nick, let s start with you. what does this new reporting mean for donald trump and the classified documents. it is all bad news. it shows that he is that guy who packed the documents, for starters. he knew it was there, he knew what he was taking. he knew he had classified documents. he can t blame it on anyone else. and then he tries to get a lawyer to life for him and he refuses. there are going to be at least two or three of dona
there is new information had about those documents to mar-a-lago. sources confirming to cnn that the former president asked one of his lawyers back in february, to tell the national archives everything they wanted had been returned, but the lawyer refused because he wasn t sure it was true. the washington post also said that it was trump himself who packed up the boxes that were returned to the national archives in january, we are bringing out cnn law enforcement correspondent renewal. and former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick akerman. good evening, one and all, nick let s start with you, what does this new reporting mean for donald trump and the classified documents? it is all bad news. it shows that he is the guy who packed the documents, for starters, so he knew it was there, he knew what he was taking, he can t blame it on anybody else. and then he tries to get a lawyer, basically it alive for, him and he refuses. there are going to be at least two or
ian are unlivable. the scenes, apocalyptic. responders working by boat and aircraft. nearly 2,000 rescues in southwest and central florida since last week when hurricane ian hit the state. this morning, the number of customers without power is now below half a million in florida. president biden travels to florida tomorrow for a firsthand look at the devastation. cnn s randi kaye is live this morning in fort myers beach. randi? reporter: john, i know you ve seen fort myers beach from the air, but seeing it on the ground firsthand is certainly like nothing i have ever seen before. there were stairways to anywhere because homes were literally blown out of foundations. there were homes on top of homes. as you said, fort myers beach is still closed to residents, but we got a firsthand look up close with a search and rescue team out of miami, florida, and here wrap we saw. this is our first look from the ground at fort myers beach. hurricane ian s winds combined with storm s
biden s former office to the nearly 200 pieces of government material that were stashed at mar-a-lago. and a new discovery could help the muddy the waters even further. we ll explain. meanwhile, gop leadership in the house gets the ball rolling on the long promised investigation ofs president and his family. also ahead, we ll have the latest on that massive system failure that grounded flights across the country for hours yesterday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 12th. thanks for starting your day with us. aides to president biden have found more classified documents outside the white house in different location than the batch we learned about earlier in the week. a person familiar with the matter tells nbc news that during an exhaustive search of the president s belongings from his time as vice president at least one other batch was discovered. that search started in november. n. response to the discovery of about a dozen other classi