so many investigations, so little time, so few answers. let s go to david spunt and what we re learning right now. hi, david. i m at the famous justice department where karine jean-pierre is instructing everyone in the briefing room to relay their questions to. i ve reached out multiple times to folks here at the justice department with attorney general merrick garland s office. also with special counsel robert hur s office. no surprise, no comment. they re being incredibly tight lipped with information about this investigation in to the president of the united states and these classified documents. now, something that is curious, we re trying to find out more from the white house side, from the doj side, last thursday white house special counsel, white house attorney richard sover went to delaware to collect documents. he was there with doj officials at president biden s resident. this was several hours after attorney general merrick garland announced the existence of spec
attorney general merrick garland announced the existence of special counsel robert hur to lead this investigation. it s not clear if those doj officials were part of the special counsel s office. rather curious that the white house attorneys were allowed to cooperate with doj hours after an independent special counsel was there. now, they put out this statement. according to the wall street journal, the doj wanted to monitor the search by biden s lawyers but decided ago it. why? we don t know the official answer but perhaps the optics of having fbi officials searching the home of a sittingn t that is being cooperative by reporting the first batch of classified documents, this is against the backdrop of increased scrutiny over government agencies, being
confused when they hear special counsel. john: richard sober and special counsel hur. a lot of special counsel there s. the special counsel at the white house does not hold the same weight at the department of justice looking at potentially charging someone. the special counsel was brought in specifically to deal last summer with what was predicted to be a gop majority and deal with house investigations. that s why he was brought on. neil: got it. special justice department reporter, david spunt. thanks very much. while we re on the issue of special reporters, jacqui heinrich at the white house right now. i don t know if you got any answers today. there was certainly a lot of questions about who knew what and when today. particularly with the administration and their willingness to share. what was drawing a quick
delaware home and whether they defer to the president s lawyer and his people. okay. a great question. a very important part of the timeline. so last thursday around 1:00 p.m. eastern time here at the department of justice, merrick garland announced robert hur would be appointed special counsel in this case. that is taking doj out of the many mix, letting robert hur hire a staff, have a big bucket and take as long as he needs. several hours later a white house lawyer named richard sover hired by the white house, he went to wilmington, delaware, with doj officials. so this is part of his statement that doj officials accompanied him to wilmington, delaware. that s where he found five additional documents. one document found wednesday. he found five additional
they didn t have the clearance, so if sober is saying is i was the only one that handled these documents, they at least saw the outside of them. exactly. that could be a huge problem. and the other important point, if i could make this. richard sober is the white house special counsel. robert hur is the special counsel. a lot of special counsels there. there s a white house counsel. his name is steward dellery. he s the chief lawyer for the white house for the administration. you typically hear of a white house counsel in every white house in modern era. you don t always have a white house special counsel. the special counsel is an attorney within the white house counsel s office who is bright in to deal with a myriad of issues. during donald trump s team, it was ty cobb, if you remember that name. he was not the white house counsel. i don t want people to be