white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don
from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. press secretary is the only person around here talking about any of this even though she says she was not involved in any of the decisions about waiting two months after finding this classified material to go public with it. the officials who had those conversations are keeping quiet tonight. mr. president, what s your reaction to the special counsel? peter: president biden wanted to talk today about the u.s. and japan. he did not want to answer any questions about a growing classified materials scandal. they like you. white house officials are calling a special counsel interview of president biden a hypothetical; however, the president will sit for any special counsel interviews requested if officials stick to this. what i can say is his team is going to fully cooperate with the department of justice. peter: and they re already claiming the doj won t find anything wrong with the white house s
archives office inspector general contacted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and global engagement on november 9th the fbi commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand where the classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law. on november 14th, pursuant to section 600 point to be of the special counsel regulations, i assign the u.s. attorney laos to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a special counsel. on this number 20th, president biden s personal counsel informed mr. laos that additional documents were identified in the garage of the private residence in wilmington delaware. this morning president biden s personal counselor called mr. lausch and stated that additional document bearing classification
night. alice wagner tonight starts right. now california has a lot on its plate, chris. but housing has they need to build more housing in upstate and given where they are in terms of environmental decline, the housing situation is complicated as well. thank you, my friend. thanks for being here tonight. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting school board members. take a listen. a leave it at this, general garland, you weaponize the fbi in the department of justice, it s wrong, it s unprecedent
others not to limit themselves either. well i hope matthew knows we are all inspired, and lucky, i m one of those people who watched that acceptance video. i saw on instagram, i think i watched it 38 times, and i m so grateful to our affiliate in connecticut for sharing matthew s incredible story. and on that note, i wish you all a great great night. from our our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up, late i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting