For maryland and was appointed by former President Trump. I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a Special Counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public, the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Now earlier, President Biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as Vice President were discovered. This time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. They were locked in his garage. Another document was found inside the house. Now the Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. It was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents in a d. C. Office that
For us. What do we know about the documents in this second batch . Reporter we dont know much other than bidens attorneys uncovered a second batch. The first batch was found in early november in an office that his attorneys were clearing out. That included ten classified documents, including information about iran, the uk and ukraine and even included topsecret information. Were told it was that discovery that spurred the searches in additional locations looking for other documents. We dont know where the second batch was found, what it includes. One of the biggest questions, is this it . The white house has been very careful not to say that the first batch or second batch is all they know is out there. Thats a really big question to have hanging over the white house. How is the gop responding to this on capitol hill . Im sure theyre pouncing. Reporter of course theyre pouncing. House oversight wants briefings. You showed the clip of Kevin Mccarthy asking why it wasnt disclosed. The sp
Culture there are plenty of people willing to point out the problems. But every now and again it would be nice to have answers, we know the challenges. What are the remedies . What are the solutions . That is what were going to focus on tonight, find the solutions or at least begin the process of looking for them, we start with obvious, people lost trust in the institutions we used to rely on, government, politics, media, Health Care Even the church. People have lost confident, they have lost confidence in polls too. Our first guest served in military, still does, has been for State Government and federal government and ran for president , she is unafraid. Aloha Tulsi Gabbard Happy New Year. Aloha, my friend, Happy New Year to you. Trey lets start with politics as a whole. You were in , you got out, is something politics you could encourage people to get involved with . If not what can we do to change that. That. The people who are must hungry for power and fancy titles and fame are th
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th