garage gate. some of that sensitive material was stored in the same space biden s beloved corvette is stored. attorney general merrick garland under a lot of pressure to appoint a special counsel. yesterday he tapped robert hur for the role. this means the current president and his predecessor are now both facing special counsel investigations. president biden meanwhile was openly critical if you remember of former president trump s handling of classified documents. now he is getting the same. these facts and circumstances are outrageous. completely miss handling. did he get them when he was vice president and take them with him when he left? he clearly mishandled them. putting it in a garage next to a leaf blower is not secure. julie: biden s corvette excuse won t cut it. adding the newly appointed special counsel has a lot to do. matt whitaker weighs in and first we go to peter doocy at the white house joining us live. good morning. good morning. somebody on the biden
little relief from the rain in california, as the chaos caused by deadly downpours becomes clear. there s warnings of worse weather to come. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, and around the globe. an investigation into the failure of the safety messaging system, which led to all departing flights in the united states being grounded early on wednesday was caused by a damaged file in a database, and not by a cyber attack. that s according to an investigation by the federal aviation authority. flights have been getting back to normal, but the us transport secretary said the faa must find out why backup systems did not prevent the failure. our north america correspondent, gary o donahew reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the us to ground their planes until further notice, causing
a single corrupt computer file brought all of america s air traffic to a complete halt. how did it get there? and more republicans call for resume faker george santos to quit congress but not the republican with the power to push him out. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a second batch of classified documents found by president biden s legal team. they found the first batch from mr. biden s time as vice president set off the search for this new discovery. it s unclear how many documents were in the second batch, where they were found or what they re even about. cnn s phil mattingly has more from the white house. reporter: as president biden and the white house counsel s office described the initial discovery of ten classified documents, documents that were turned over to the national archives and the justice department, justice department review ongoing, they never actually weighed in on
j . so i m just going to leave it there. want to be prudent there. this is under review by the justice department, i m not going to go beyond what the president shared yesterday what my colleagues at the white house council shared with all of you as well. not many answers there, but a lot of questions about classified documents and a lot of no comments from the white house. good morning, everyone. poppy is off today. it s kaitlan and i in new york city. but we have a lot to cover in washington. you could be in washington again today with all the news. we brought washington here basically. we re talking about president biden s legal team finding another batch of classified documents. the new revelation now intensifying the republicans attacks on the president. also congressman george santos is under pressure to resign from members of his own parties. and kevin mccarthy side deals going into effect, a handful of detractors now on top of committee assignments. we be
we start with the growing fallout facing the white house this morning after a second batch of classified documents have been discovered in a separate location linking back to president biden dating back to his time at vice president this is after the initial discovery of classified materials in his former office at a washington think tank. republicans are using this, they have a new majority on capitol hill, now they are calling for a special counsel to oversee this matter similar to the one doing that for former president donald trump and the documents he took from office. there are a lot of questions so far not a ton of answers. so i m going to leave it there. want to be prudent here. this is under review by the department of justice i m not going beyond what the president shared yet, what my colleagues at the white house counsel shared with all of you as well. the president saying he was surprised to learn about these documents, is he saying he did not bring those docu