archives. despite the vast differences between president biden s case and donald trump s, attorney merrick garland made this announcement earlier this week. i m here today to be announced the appointment of roberts her as a special counsel, pursuing department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independents and accountability, in particularly sensitive manners. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts in the law. joining me now is why our correspondent allie raffa. ali, will come in. thank you for starting us off this morning. what are you hearing from the white house this morning? cory, yeah. good morning. president biden is waking up in his bloomington home, where we now know that two of those three discoveries of classified materials were found just in the last month and this is, those discoveries and the timing of the white house acknowledgment of them now under intense
to former president donald trump, you are literally talking about hundreds of documents that we know of. that is not even including places that haven t been searched, things that have been thought. so, there is a very big discrepancy in terms of the amount and size and scope of the documents in both cases. so, there s a number of different differences. you hit the nail right on the head when you talked about the fact that intent is probably the biggest differentiator between the two. and glenn, let s go back to special counsel robert s harass the choice by merrick garland. do you think he made the choice? he is a veteran attorney, top justice official under the trump administration, of, course he also served as a special assistant to christopher arab before he became director. do you think he is the right choice? i think it s an open question. i would never engage in guilt by association, so, mr. hur was a longtime federal prosecutor. i think that recommends him for the job. i thin
unnecessary elements of both crimes if you re trying to talk about it from the standpoint of whether to prosecute, and i think that is the key linchpin that viewers need to understand. there is a significant interest between the intent displayed in the mar-a-lago investigation and the repeated attempts for the national archives to get back documents from the former president as well as the search warrant, which also is executed, and the notion that donald trump instructed people to move documents that he knew were being sought by other authorities versus joe biden and what he has done in this situation as president, stepping forward and acknowledging, basically cooperating with investigators to try to make sure that all questions have been answered. when you are talking about the difference, that line is intense. that line is very different when you are looking at what both situations entail, not to mention the size and scope of the documents that were found. you are talking about roug
have and probably kept classified documents at one of his offices and it is delaware home from time to time as he was vice president. immediately prompted comparisons to the classified documents seized from donald trump. however, biden s lawyer or lawyers who found the documents reported it then selves to the national archives and are cooperating fully with authorities. donald trump meanwhile and his associates resisted turning over roughly 300 classified documents. illegally being held at mar-a-lago even after the federal government repeatedly asked for them. the doj eventually had to serve a search warrants in order to retrieve them. joining me now lucy caldwell, political strategist and former campaign manager for joe wells s 2020 presidential campaign and fernando monte, msnbc s political analyst and democratic pollster. welcome into both of you, thank
archives. despite the vast differences between president biden s case and donald trump s, attorney merrick garland made this announcement earlier this week. i m here today to be announced the appointment of roberts her as a special counsel, pursuing department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independents and accountability, in particularly sensitive manners. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts in the law. joining me now is why our correspondent allie raffa. ali, will come in. thank you for starting us off this morning. what are you hearing from the white house this morning? cory, yeah. good morning. president biden is waking up in his bloomington home, where we now know that two of those three discoveries of classified materials were found just in the last month and this is, those discoveries and the