now they are asking all the former vice presidents and presidents to look through their offices and look through their homes to see if they have classified documents. brian: says no problem. i don t know what obama has come up with. they seemed to have signed off on things to get yesterday for his museum. quayle says i was never asked. jimmy carter predated the records act. al gore says i m clean and should be interesting answer from bill clinton still waiting. the entire quell is really what, to your point earlier, brian. what is in the documents? that is what matters. that is what we asked senator tom cotton earlier when it comes to joe biden s documents. how does this relate potentially to national security? ainsley: well, that s what senator tom cotton. it s whether the mishandling of these documents and any of these cases caused any damage to national security. that s why republicans and democrats alike are outraged at this administration is refusing to show us these docum
national archives has formally asked all former presidents and vice presidents to scour their records to look for any classified materials. jamie gangel joins us at the table, elliot williams is back with us as well as phil mattingly, jamie is dealing with a little laryngitis so the national archives, is this out of an abundance of caution or have some reason to believe there are more records missing so, please, president obama, president clinton, vice president cheney, vice president, quayle and so on, look through your records. they don t know what they don t know but after trump, biden and now pence, sorry about my voice, they re just asking everyone to go back, triple check, quadruple check, we should say that over the past weeks, cnn has reached out to all the former presidents, all the former vice presidents, their representatives, everyone has said that they don t have
office is itself a skiff. documents are floating around in places and they re clearly, there clearly is not a good system for accounting for them all and i think that s in part what s happening here. interesting. ken, jonathan. who s next? the answer actually jimmy carter. ap reported at one point during carter s post-presidency they found classified materials at his plains, georgia, home and returned. no sense exactly when it was but it happens. we assume the likes of obama, bush, quayle, bush, all going through their files too. we know the department of justice conducted a search of both the trump and biden property. had to do the warrant to do the mar-a-lago one. key difference. any back-stepping here with vice president pence? can t rule it out, jonathan, but voluntary, as you said. you know, interesting to me that the justice department bypassed
two special counsels, about their handling of documents. in a word, never. when you talk to former presidents, vice presidents, people at the archives, it is true, unclassified papers, things happen. folders go astray. mistakes are made. honest mistakes are made, but looking back, we ve reached out. you know, bush 41, bush 43, clinton, obama, quayle, cheney, we ve never seen anything like this before. can i just go back to the word cooperation here when you were talking to chairman rogers. the reality is this is one area where these two things are completely different. we don t know yet what s in this second batch of documents that were found, how sensitive it is. right. what the national security implications were, but as soon as they discovered there was a
party to kind of counter and come back in, and actually talk amongst themselves about what they want to do you. several publicans have stayed silent on it. and some spoken out, saying that they are not happy that he is going to be a part of the party. but and others, like representative marjorie taylor greene have come to his defense. so on different factions within the republican party you are hearing to her responses. but, what s really important to note in this is that even when santos has come out and try to kind of quayle that concerns about, him it s even raised more questions about what source of money he is coming from fight for example his financial disclosure form. he said that he loaned himself in this campaign $700,000. but, still there are questions that remain about where that exact source of income was actually coming from. so, he s gonna have to answer a lot of questions. not just for democrats, but for members of his own party. about where he stands and things about hi