my corvette s in a locked garage, okay, so it s not like it s sitting out in the street. reporter: one of many questions for the white house facing a most perilous moment. we have said we re going to continue to fully cooperate. we have been. the president s lawyers and team has been fully cooperating with the department of justice, and they re certainly going to do that with the special counsel. reporter: while president biden s closest advisers inside and outside the administration have been quietly meeting trying to figure out to navigate this new area of reality, when you talk to the west wing, they acknowledge they have no involvement. in large part they re trying to maintain some semblance of business as usual. in fact, senior white house advisers say they believe when this process plays out, the facts that have been laid out will show that the president did and his team did what they were supposed to do, follow the correct protocol when it comes to actually alerting peop
over to the archives. reporter: again, this idea that the lawyers did the right thing here, but in terms of why those documents were there in the first place in this office, not where classified documents are supposed to be, she did not provide any answers on that. she also wouldn t answer why it took so long to disclose that these documents had been discovered and found, and it emerged through this week through news reports, and then the white house counsel s office, they discovered these documents on november 2nd, alerted the national archives and handed over those documents. the white house did say in the same way that president biden said yesterday, once this process plays out, that might be a time for further details and further explanation, but we don t know when that will happen. we do know that the department of justice has been reviewing this situation. the u.s. attorney base in chicago, and we also seem to know more about these classified documents than president biden hims
that s going to be a huge task going forward. what about accountability. we heard so much from transportation secretary pete buttigieg, you know, about leveling fines at southwest and holding it accountable. what will that look like? well, i think, first, as we said, southwest will be under a mi microscope i m sure they ll be looking at it carefully to make sure it does live up to its obligations and does what it s to do, providing that and hearing to promises that it s made. i think as that process plays out, then we ll see if there s anything that they should be penalized for. also look at, whether or not, in terms of the investigation, these cancellations were avoidable. alison sider, thank you for joining us, happy new year to you. you, too, thanks so much. are you ready for some football? because the stage is set, four teams had two semifinals, one trophy. who will solidify their place in the college football national
he sowing down, so that becomes a toxic part of the process. you may have all the officials, adrian montes come out in s biggest transparently and clearly and consistently as possible about how the process plays out, but so long as you have a kari lake, a donald trump not much, just a tweet once in a while, casting doubt, people will run with it. that s happening where we lived to say an age. you know what, i will respect the process and tell folks that next, we get the latest from arizona and nevada from our reporters following all the wettest apartments on the ground. later, trump prepares to announce his run in two days, as his legal situation gets more precarious by the day. barbara mcquade is here to break it all down for us. down for us whenever heartburn strikes get fast relief with tums. it s time to love food back.
independent process that brings in external people to look at complaints and allegations, so mr williamson is now facing that probe potentially as well. and there are still, ithink, those potentially as well. and there are still, i think, those questions for new prime minister. gavin williamson will be around the cabinet table as it starts to meet round about now, actually, in downing street, and rishi sunak is facing that increasing pressure from tory mps amongst others to answer the question of why he has not taken action against mr williamson. the pm said yesterday that he thought the language mr williamson had used to when morton had been unacceptable, but it seems like rishi sunak is waiting to see how this process plays out, perhaps hoping it will take some of the heat out of the issue, but as i say, not later told that process is going to be a particularly quick one. labour are asking why if rishi sunak thinks