his attorneys found them in a closet while cleaning out an office at the pen biden center in washington. biden used that office from 2017-2020. the white house is immediately handed them over to the national archives. the discovery has prompted a doj investigation. the federal prosecutor is now reviewing the classified documents and watch as a president ignored questions about the discovery when asked about it yesterday in mexico city. [ s people speaking over each other] speech it was just four months ago when he criticized his predecessor following an fbi raid on mar-a-lago, remember this? when you saw the photograph of this top secret documents laid out on the floor of mar-a-lago, what did you think yourself. looking at that image? how that could possibly happen. how anyone could be that irresponsible. emily: it appears the media is already downplaying the discovery. tonight the white house is acknowledging that a small number of documents marked classified were
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looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica
destruction or any of that. i and i agree that the police had to stop it. and, you know, that makes perfect sense. i guess, you know the one thing i would be curious about, though, is what why is the distinction of people being from out of town so important? i mean, the first amendment certainly applies to the people out of town as well. their contention would be that these are national issues, that the questions around policing, around the environmental issues, the construction of the police training facility, all of these issues are national, and in fact global issues. so i m confused a little bit sometimes when there s so much emphasis placed on people being from out of town, as if that takes away their right to protest. yeah, what do you make of that, juliette? we did hear the police sort of emphasize that point. here s why the police were emphasizing it, and i totally agree with david, these are national issues, you re going to have people from out of state. if