trump are not the same. plus, week one of the radical republican agenda, what we learned from kevin mccarthy s first week of the cast making speaker and freedom of the press, here the harrowing story of one journalist fight to report the truth, despite intense pressure and threats from far-right politicians. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. breaking news, more documents have been found at president biden s delaware home, according to the presidents own special counsel, richard silver. and a statement today, silver said he found the documents on thursday, as he was working with justice department officials to hand over one final page of classified material. and while there, silver who has the security clearance needed to handle secure documents, set a found five additional pages
we ll see if we learned anything new about who this man really is. indeed. alicia, thank you, my friend, enjoy the rest of your evening. good evening, welcome to ayman tonight. we have new news in the biden classified case. there will be a massive fat check from us. why the issues from biden and trump are not the same. plus, week one of the radical republican agenda, what we learned from kevin mccarthy s first week of the cast making speaker and freedom of the press, here the harrowing story of one journalist fight to report the truth, despite intense pressure and threats from far-right politicians. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. breaking news, more documents have been found at president biden s delaware home, according to the presidents own special counsel, richard silver.
least the perception of similarity or consistency in the way he approached these cases? it s a very good question. it s 1 million dollar question. a lot of former prosecutors and current prosecutors have been chitchatting and discussing what we thought garland appointed as special counsel. i really think here, it s about perception and about public perception to the justice department, was it necessary, i really think it s not clear to me that there is any reasonable crime, a chargeable crime that has been committed here, but i do think that as you pointed out, there s already a special counsel investigating the past president, also here, obviously, biden is the current president, attorney general garland, i think this is to make sure that the justice department is not involved in outside politics. i think these will be two cases though i will watch very closely. but it out, donna edwards, stick around. for not a mariano, thank you. up next, the first week under the new republican
according to nbc news reporting. how do you think the administration has handled the issue so far? for the president to some members of the democratic party commentary about it? look, it does not help that there s been this kind of drip, drip, drip, and i think it s easy for the public to conflate the situation of donald trump and with president biden, so that does not help either. and you are right, even though the cases i think are very different, and we understand that and talk about it, but i think from the public perspective, and the political perspective, it s politics. it s not a surprise that republicans who have not said blip about donald trump and his handling of hundreds of classified documents, that they will pounce oh over and probably initiate hearings and investigations on this, so i think it s important for the president and for the white house to be forthcoming, to make sure that this is all. and then turn it over to the special counsel and continue to cooperate in t
shuffling of papers that happens in the course of transitions. i think that definitely makes sense given what we have seen. i wonder what previous presidents are doing right now, if they re going to the library book ensured a dome of classified documents, as well. renato, one final question to you about the special prosecutor. once garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the trump investigation because he was going to be a candidate in the next presidential election, was he backed into a corner to do the same for joe biden? did he need to maintain at least the perception of similarity or consistency in the way he approached these cases? it s a very good question. it s 1 million dollar question. a lot of former prosecutors and current prosecutors have been chitchatting and discussing what we thought garland appointed as special counsel. i really think here, it s about perception and about public perception to the justice department, was it necessary, i really think it s not c