changed hands, and it is unclear what they found so far, but had is a pretty broad subpoena, more than two dozen categories, communication with more than 100 people, including all of these fake electors, and it seems like they re still casting a pretty wide net on this investigation. michael steele, make sense of all of this politically speaking, we have republicans controlling congress, they are going to beat the drum as i said before, on investigations into president biden, there is new fodder with the classified document, they re going to go after hunter biden as well, joe biden by way of hunter biden, and at the same time, they have donald trump running for president again, and that proved to be a hangover for them, in 2022, for the midterms, what happens next? you ve just laid out what happens next, everything you just described will be an ongoing, every day occurrence, for the gop. from congressional hearings, to kevin mccarthy, wailing from the
are at the moment, this now layers more on top of all of that, and that s why it is going to be incumbent on the biden administration and the biden, president biden himself, to get out in front and stay out in front on this, pushing him to saying, everything you want is right here. i ve got nothing else to hide. there are no more documents. if that can be safely stated at some point. and we ve cooperated. and to david s excellent points, then the justice department piece will unfold itself naturally around this, and there will be a moment where the special prosecutor hur will come out and say done it, we ve put everything into the pot, on the table, rather, and we took off the table the stuff that didn t matter anymore, and what s left is nothing. so we ll see if that happens. that s when it might matter more that it is a trump appointee saying that. that s right. and come out and say that. josh dawsey, thank you very
same way, presumption of guilt from the outset, the way president biden was treated. how is that argument going to play when republicans start beating that drum over and over again, michael? well, they will beat that drum knowing that the facts belie the drum that they re beating. they know damn well why president trump s home was raided to use their term by the fbi, they know why, but they re not going to cede that ground politically because it is a better narrative going after the current president going and saying he is being treated differently, and our guy, his home was raided, why haven t you raided their home. their lawyer within 24 hours did their job and the president announced, he then claimed these are my documents. your guy did. and the archives say they re not your documents. and that got into a head-long battle over getting those documents back. you then promised, your guy promised he was going to deliver the documents and they didn t do it. which is why they took the l
hur is an outstanding choice for counsel and i knew him from my time at the department of justice and i think he will do a good job in concluding the investigation and reaching sound jums and decision, judgments and decisions to merrick garland. we don t know why there is a haphazard approach to locations used by the former vice president, now president of the united states. it seems to me that at the outset there should have been a blanket surge of activity by counsel on president biden s behalf to examine all logical locations where records might be located. but we ll have to wait and see how the investigation unfolds, to the extent it explains that sequence of events. but what we do know is that the controlling legal standard, with the attorney general, to appoint special counsel, is that this matter warranted criminal investigation. and as ken pointed out, the attorney general did not expound on the factual reasons that
good to be with you. i m katy tur. here we go again. attorney general merrick garland appointed another special counsel today, this time to investigate president biden s handling of, pred biden s handling of classified documents. robert k.hur will oversee the probe before going into the public sector, he was a u.s. attorney for the district of maryland, from 2018 to 2021, a trump appointee, unanimously confirmed by the u.s. senate. this now means there are two special counsels working for the d.o.j. right now, one investigating the current president, and the other investigating the former. there is a lot to unpack. including why attorney general garland made this decision, what