found in his private office the source tells cnn that fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden s own, including some they found them on november 2nd. they say the white house counsel s office notified the national office immediately in the archives took possessions of them the next morning, the president ignored shouted questions in mexico from reporters tonight [inaudible] now, there are questions about how the documents got there, who knew they were there, what exactly they contained. the u.s. attorney in chicago, who by the way is a trump appointee, is conducting a damage assessment. but there are important distinctions between this and the swirl of controversy around donald trump. and the documents at mar-a-lago. biden s lawyer say they immediately turned over the documents and cooperated with the doj as soon as they found them. it took several asks and subpoenas to get the documents that trump had. not to mention the search warrant. in that case, there is a
opinion. many were silent on donald trump mishandling classified information, however, their counter point is going to be that no run raided the vice president s former school that he had, and i m already seeing that percolate. it s gonna descend in the political corners of each side. i agree with david gergen, the sooner the president gets out and says we try to be above board, we came forward, we turned them over, the better for him. but, i am not a lawyer, i m a political adviser. this makes merrick garland s case a lot harder, as i see. it how comfortable is mark arland tonight? merrick garland has kind of made s name on this by ignoring the politics. you would hope that in this moment he would kind of stay on the course that he has set, but that is going to be harder and harder to your point is more people are looking to make that equivalence between trump s actions and biden s actions. now, we know that there is a factual false equivalence. we should not make those two things
the inauguration of the next president, this is how the two, leaders bolsonaro and trump, discuss their election results. in eight years, two minute statement, he said that he would respect the constitution, but that he never admitted defeat or recognize the results of the election. frankly, we did win this election. now, bolsonaro happens to be in florida right now, in florida, bolsonaro s. where donald trump has been since eat lost his election. bolsonaro did condemn the rise in his country, we should say, that brazil s justice minister says that there has already been some 1500 arrests since the rioting and in the u. s. more than 950 people have been charged in the attack on the u.s. capitol. so, you are looking at of course the chaos in brazil. what may be happening around the world following of course what happened here in the united states.
present and we also heard from jamie raskin. he was smart offensive. he says that attorneys from president biden appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. what do some of these people say about donald trump and the mar-a-lago documents on that whole issue? i think a key sentiment we heard from republicans at the time was, don t look at all these classified documents that may have been squirrels away at mar-a-lago, don t worry about that, this is about the search at mar-a-lago and how the government has overstepped. that is really what a number of republicans focused on. frankly, that is what they are continuing to focus on, as we go into this new congress. as you point, out they have an opportunity now to investigate the biden administration and this now becomes part of it. one more question. what about the timing of this? if biden s lawyers discovered
as fully and fulsomely as he possibly can. maybe he will say i didn t know they were. they re based on the audio that we have heard of him condemning donald trump for how it was irresponsible of how these documents, i suspect that he probably did not know. but, just taking a step back, why do so many of our senior leaders not know how to handle classified nation? when i was at the department of defense, if i had taken one classified document out i would ve been prosecuted and thrown into prison. i think there s a different set of expectations or at least understandings with the senior rank and file here. i want to talk about something that is happening in the house of representatives. george santos, the member of congress from the state of new york here who said a whole lot of things that were not true about himself, is now a sitting member of the house of representatives. that part is all true. everything else it is true. kevin mccarthy was now the speaker of the house has been as