indiana residence. he had requested a search of his home out of an abundance of caution. it is still not clear what the documents are related to or even their level of classification. we have our legal expert barbara mcquaid ready to break it down and what we know in a moment. and meanwhile, the fbi and justice department s national security divisions have already launched a review of the material and how they ended up in pence s home. and we re also on capitol hill with the latest reaction from republicans who are already ramping up their congressional investigations into jean-pierre s handling of classified documents after leaving his post as vice president. and today s bombshell marks the third time in recent history in which a president or vice president has inappropriately possessed classified material after leaving office. so where does that leave merrick garland? joining me now is monica alba, ali vitali and also barbara mcquaid. what do we know about the search of pen
had extensive training, rigorous rules, consequences for the failure to comply. and as a result, we took it seriously if we ever had a classified document, it would be like a hot potato, just read it and get it back where it belongs as quickly as po possible. possible. i think the white house is a scif. and so as a result of that, you can leave it on a desk in the white house and then the aides scurry about and put them away. and i think that in the hectic pace of everyday life at the white house, it is easy for those documents to get set aside. but before anyone checks out a document, they should be they should have to sign their name to it and let people know what the chain of you custody is and they should have to return it or put it in a burn bag. instead of documents seem to be getting scooped up with all the
people voting under different names. back to morial. nobody denies there are some case whereas somebody may have cheated. but the idea it would have affected the results of an election has never been established or any numbers of people established as crooked. yet it s used all the time as a target for republicans to say we ve got to have more rigorous rules. this is pinocchio. made-up stories, false arguments, specious suggestions. there are things that are absolutely not true. and we re going to see more of it and more of it and more of it as some people try to hold on to power through these sort of shenanigans and unfair tactics. we re going to be transparent and we re going to throw a light on all of these bogus false
in 2012, south carolina s republican attorney general said we found out there were over 900 people who died and then subsequently voted. well, these allegations according to the post emerged as state officials tried to impose new photo voter id laws during the election. it turns out none of it was true. the post dug up a law enforcement report that so-called dead people voters were the result of clerical errors or mistaken identities, people voting under different names. back to morial. nobody denies there are some case whereas somebody may have cheated. but the idea it would have affected the results of an election has never been established or any numbers of people established as crooked. yet it s used all the time as a target for republicans to say we ve got to have more rigorous rules. this is pinocchio. made-up stories, false arguments, specious suggestions. there are things that are absolutely not true. and we re going to see more of it and more of it and more of it as some peo
than off a floating rig. but environmentalists say it s a clever way of gaming the federal permit system. rebecca noblin represents half a dozen environmental groups. if there were an oil spill, that oil is going into the ocean. it s not on land. so, this really is this is drilling in water. reporter: that s the heart of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32-acre pile of gravel mean bp s liberty island project should be subject to federal rules for drilling on land or should it be subject to the more rigorous rules of offshore drilling? the fact is, three years ago, bp succeeded in getting a land-based drilling permit. in an e-mail to cnn, a bp spokesman says the company carefully followed the state and federal permitting systems and addressing environmentalists complaints, he added, it s hard to imagine anyone who knows the facts or the history of this project would make such a claim. but after the gulf oil disaster,