good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but he s making it clear he s staying in congress. can he and gop leadership ride this out? and finally, investigators have now identified the systems glitch that delayed 12,000 flights on wednesday. but how did they make sure it doesn t happen again? we start with new revelations about a second batch of classified documents found by aids of president biden. fueling calling for a congressional investigation or even the appointment of a special council. right now, we are waiting for attorney general merrick garland to give a statement. he s expected in minutes
got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let s get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president s corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn t a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and understand whether there is any need for a criminal investigation. and in order to do that, you need to know where are all of the classified documents, how did they get there, and as we ve been reporting today, the fbi interviewed some of the biden aides involved in packing the boxes and moving the documents, so that u.s. attorney had been reporting to merrick garland. well then, all of a sudden, toda
should attach either to the january 6th investigation on the part of mr. trump or the mar-a-lago piece. you know, when that goes, if he makes a recommendation to charge the president, the former president, i think the attorney general can t unring the bell of what he knows about biden, but this isn t kind of a, well, here is one for you, and here is one for you, you get a special counsel, you get a special counsel, garland is going to have to make a judgment based on what the strength of the government s case is going to be. i have said before, i think there s kind of a plus factor, not codified in law, when you re talking about charging potentially a former president of the united states, it s got to be beyond a reasonable doubt, to be sure, but i think there s going to be a plus factor there that will attach to his exercise of prudential judgment, about whether to approve charges for the first time in history against a former president. as far as mr. hur goes, he s got a much more co
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there will come a time where mr. hur is going to conclude it is time to interview, oh, i don t know the sitting president of the united states to explain what happened here. and that s going to be an interesting experience. for all concerned. that will be an interesting experience. we all do remember that donald trump flatly refused to do that multiple times when the former special counsel was looking into the russia investigation, and obstruction ended up just giving a written answer, written answers. one more, because you know this office better than i do, and you know how things of this nature work better than i, do merrick garland and everybody there will tell you that they are going to go by the rule of the law, the letter of the law. here is what we will do. but does this politically make it harder? does this factor in, the special counsel, for president biden, factor into any decision-making against donald trump? it shouldn t. and i don t think it will. i mean jack smith is