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