en that is something we are all extremely we want to know. a gunman attacks a dance hall. we ll have the latest on a mass shooting in america. plus, a search of president biden s home turns up more classified documents. the white house tries to track down any remaining files with sensitive information. and also ahead, we ll explain what s behind a disagreement among allies over supplying tanks to ukraine. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, january 23rd. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin with the deadly mass shooting saturday night in monterey park, california. ten people were killed. at least ten others were injured when a man opened fire inside a ballroom packed with people who were celebrating the lunar new year. authorities say the 72-year-old gunman died yesterday from a self inflicted gunshot as police closed in on his van in a parking lot in torrence, california. that s about 30 miles from the scene of the shooting. the
two women ukrainian soldiers who are on the front line at the combat zone. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york. a major win for the justice department last night after a appeals court ruled that president trump has no claim to the documents seized at mar-a-lago. two trump appointed judges and one obama appointee said that he had no claim to those documents clearing way for the investigation into the former president. trump on fox last night seemed that somehow he could magically declassify a document by thinking about it. as i understand it, it doesn t have to be, if you are the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying that it is declassified even by thinking about it. it does not have to be a process, and there can be a process and there doesn t have to be, but when you send it, it is declassified, and so i declassified everything. all of this after another stunning legal blow to former president, and another $250 million lawsuit brought again
said this: the democratic party, they have a majority. they can stop this crime today. some people say, well, they are soft on crime. no, they are not soft on crime. they are pro crime! they want crime! and they want crime because they want to take over what you got! they want to control what you have! they want reparations because they think that people who do the crimes are owed that! bullshit! they are not owed that. you ll note that he stopped short of identifying juiced who these criminals are, just who it is the democrats want preparative justice for. but then for his audience, identification is unnecessary. because whether it s a campaign ad or a trump rally, gop candidates in swing states have weaponized crime as the cudgel against democrats. with that, they ve embraced a time honored tradition on the right. when all else fails, blame black people. even in states they barely live in. across, the irony of insurrection apologies, making statements while criticizin
2020 election results. if they are denying about the past while seeking power you can bet they will act on those lies in the future. you can see the quote here from the washington post. they are running in every region of the country and nearly every state. over half, 174, are running for what are called safely republican seats, while another 51 are in tightly contested races. a sobering account from the washington post. the reason those numbers matter is if you follow politics you probably know while we hold these elections across the country, the midterms have every house seat for example up for grabs, the numbers, the way the districts are drawn and other factors mean of the races are all by decided. when they refer to safe seats they re referring to republicans who are vowing in the future to do what they failed to do in the past in some sense, which is act on the lies and say, whether they win or lose, they ll work to keep their party in power. if that lie becomes a
tonight, more classified documents from biden s time as vice president found at a second location. first telling cnn, the president s legal team discovered this batch during a search conducted after the other classified documents were found back in november. it s just adding to the chaos and maybe the delight of some in washington d.c. tonight. if you look down pennsylvania avenue from the white house to congress, investigations are brewing. you can argue that some are absolutely warranted. you can argue some are absolutely not. but this is president biden s new reality, as he navigates the next two years with republicans controlling the house. i want to bring in former republican congressman, joe walsh, cnn political commentator, ashley allison, and téa mitchell, washington correspondent for the atlanta journal constitution. look, biden does not have the smoothest of paths ahead of him. we can say that with a straight face and perhaps a little bit of a smile or a friend. as