launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the late reverend martin luther king jr. here i
violations. i think santos is being examined thoroughly. it s his decision whether or not he should resign. it s not my decision. certainly i don t approve of how he made his way to congress, and i haven t even introduced myself to him because it s pretty despicable the lies he told. at the end of the day, it s not up to me or any other member of congress to determine whether he can be kicked out for lying. if he broke campaign finance laws, he will be removed from congress. square man comer, thank you for being with us today. after appreciate your time. thanks for having me. what are the house democrats thinking on the strategy when it comes to these new republican investigations. a top democrat on the oversight committee, jamie raskin will join me to respond to his colleague. and what will happen if america reaches its debt ceiling? we re about to find out. stay w with us. ything.
comer who has said very nice things about you in the context of all of this, we re rooting for you. i should say go ahead. i was going to say that chairman comer has been very kind to me and i ve gotten loss of supports from across the aisle and i m grateful to that. let s get your reactions to what you just heard from chairman comer about biden s mishandling of classified information. i think every american wants to see classified documents are handled properly by whoever is president. all we re looking for is equal treatment. we were delighted to learn that the president s lawyers, the moment they found out about the documents that day turned them over to the national archives and ultimately to the department of justice. that s a very different posture than what we saw with donald trump where he was fighting for a period of more than eight
be in your possession to inciting a violent insurrection against the government of the united states. those are obviously completely different things. that s apples and oranges. so we should keep a sense of proportion and measure about what we re talking about. the first batch of documents was found on november 2nd, a week before the midterm, but the public didn t learn about it until it was reported in the press just this past week. even then the white house didn t acknowledge that a second batch of documents had been found in december until that, too, leaked. chairman comer has a point when he says we learned about this because cbs reported on it. now we ve learned they found more documents in previously disclosed in a third location. it s hard to argue the administration has been transparent and told the american people about this as soon as they could have. well, of course, it was a very rapid clip at which we
learned about it compared to the trump case where he fought it for nearly a year or perhaps over a year. the government investigators had to go to court in order to get a subpoena to go to mar-a-lago to get dozens of boxes of classified material and government documents that were being held down there. look, i don t know yet, and i m hoping our investigations will reveal, what you re supposed to do if one of these documents surfaces. obviously presidents and vice presidents are able to take those documents while they are president or vice president home with them. and if some of them get mixed in with their other stuff, then they re there. the question is what do you do with them afterwards. i haven t seen a set of protocols or procedures that defines what should happen. i m satisfied that president biden s lawyers did the right thing in immediately contacting the archives and turning them over as well as over to the department of justice. you re satisfied. chairman comer sounded lik