to body the waters around the classified documents. they re going to play that, card before today, but that has been supercharged. i do have questions about the timeline about when this was discovered, who knew, what, when, in terms of merrick garland announced the appointment of the special counsel after, i think, he knew about these documents in joe biden s office. that s not an interesting. it s not an interesting, and i think that there are real questions around this. when did that knowledge happen and also, why didn t they acknowledged it before when that ignition acquisition was nate? i think to your, point it does make sense to have a kind of investigative questions to be asked, but the politics is where this is going to live and die and that is going to be for a republican party that has an incentive to absolve donald trump. that s right, the only thing out add is that joe biden, president biden, has an obligation to come forward tomorrow and answer questions
david i ve got to let you go in just a second. david gergen s, joe biden did not answer questions about this tonight how long yes, he got to do it immediately. the more quickly acts, and schools as what s there, you can get this under control. but at this point, if you re the prosecuting attorney and thinking about the having a court case against donald trump, there is a lot of the sting of documents being in wrong hands, that sting is going to evaporate. making those arguments now in front of the country about how serious this is from a democratic point of view it s gonna be very difficult to argue. okay david gergen, john dean, thank you to both of you. so last week everyone was watching, it was something of a nightmare for republicans. that red house of representatives. so, what is the impact now of this news of joe biden? what will republicans in the
and obstructing requests for the documents over long period of time. and then there s the question of what is in the documents. is it something nefarious that had personal benefit to joe biden s family, or is a totally innocuous? those facts matter, and the rush to play the what about game, falling into that, i think it does a disservice to the facts of the case. we have to follow the facts. alyssa, it is interesting, and no doubt that republicans will ask about those. i do not think that there is anything even controversial about an oversight committee of either party asking for more information about something like this. but, if anyone does go and say what joe biden did was wrong, don t they also after say that was donald trump was wrong, and then don t they tie themselves up? that s where it gets complicated, but i want to say full stop, it is wrong when any one, president, vice president, mishandled classified information. i was consistent when it was hillary clinton or donald
i think it is unbelievable that the stuff has been sitting in a closet for six years. it is sort of stunning in and of itself and the question i have is, were there why in the world was the vice president keeping classified documents anyway? why at a site that is probably unprotected. there is a lot about that that i think he will get scolded for in the weeks ahead. but i do think that john dean is right, republicans have become awfully good at making mountains out of molehills. john dean, put yourself in merrick garland s position. you just told me that you don t think this changes donald trump s legal situation, but does trump and his team now have a defense in a court, where a jury would have to decide beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump is guilty. does trump now have a defense where other guys took documents to i don t think so.
stormed the countries scenes of power. you look at this and you immediately think of what happened in this country two years and two days before. we are putting the brazilian riot and the general six riot at the u.s. capitol side by side here. the brazilian rioters appear to overturn the election of lula desalva who is sworn in last week, take a look at some of the video. there really are similarities. [crowd chanting] again, u.s. on the left, brazil on the right. you are seeing the heart of two democracies here. again, you are looking at these two pictures and you can see that they are very similar. now for the record, bolsonaro did not stick around for the inauguration of his successor, he left for the u.s. three days before. donald trump was the first outgoing u.s. president since the 19th century not to go to