requirements are to go out. you know, you can t bring personal devices in and you certainly can t leave with material unless that material is appropriately secured. sandra: you don t even get a fraction of that answer when you hear karine jean-pierre, the press secretary taking questions on the issue. jonathan turley tweeted this, why can the coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby, answer basic questions about classification rules but not the white house press secretary? both appear in the press room to answer questions and kirby had no difficulty answering questions about the rules regarding the removal of classified docs from scifs. the position of the white house is entirely untethered, he says, from any legal or logical justification. what remains is a calculated use of the investigation to stonewall the public and the
though, and were asked about this documents issue, by our counts, some 18 times. at that point, the president s lawyers had found these five additional pages of classified documents. so did you not know on friday that those documents had been found when you were at the podium? i have been forthcoming from this podium. what i said yes to was what the statement at the time that we all had. right, you all had the statement and i was repeating what the what the council was sharing at that time. reporter: the press secretary finally acknowledging she didn t know the new documents had been found. i provided the information that you all had at the time. reporter: did you know? no, i did not know. reporter: house republicans, who have launched their own investigations, today attacking president biden for taking months to admit he kept classified documents from the obama administration. this is why there s such hypocrisy behind the biden s once again something big that comes for
newscasts that night. nbc, i think, used it as the second story. story. cnn devoted about an hour and 45 minutes that night, it s gotten bigger and bigger. obviously, fox news was on it, but they did 28 minutes compared to cnn. msnbc, a lot skinnier there. the most important thing is when you start to see i guess you could call it the dominant i wouldn t say mainstream because fox is number one, but dominant media, this morning jake tapper interviewed the house oversight chair. james comer gave him 19 minutes as the lead. so that s important. number two, what you showed, that clip, shows hat press got a lot more aggressive once they saw the stonewalling by the press secretary the, karine jean-pierre. howard: right. she did not take that the lanny davis, clinton press secretary, tone to heart which is if there s a problem, tell the it early, tell it all
for the same thing, but like you said, they are very different. that is kind of where those two situations seem similar is going to get at this point. but when it comes down to how the white house has talked about these things, how they have presented to the public, to the press what they re going to do and how they re handling it, it hasn t gone that well, right? first of all, when they first started hearing about this, they didn t come out and tell everybody about this. november 2nd is when the first document was found. they said, we found these things and sent them to the national archives and we re good to go. even this week when it was found out by cbs this is what happened and the documents were found, they didn t tell us about the other documents that were also found. that is where the issue has been. like you say, karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, had one long press briefing yesterday on this issue
would like to know what s up with that. sandra: senator, kevin mccarthy spoke, i believe it was the 11:00 hour, a couple hours ago, on capitol hill, he took a microphone and he promised this, listen. i think congress has to investigate this. here is an individual that s been in office for more than 40 years, an individual that sat on 60 minutes that was so concerned about president trump s documents locked in behind and now we find it just as the vice president keeping it for years out in the open in different locations. sandra: so made it very clear where he stands on this. we ll see what happens with a congressional investigation. meantime, we are awaiting the white house and the press briefing is expected in about ten minutes from now. knowing that karine jean-pierre, the press secretary will be somewhat limited what she can say, what she can answer there, senator, what would be your question to her? what did you know and when did you know it, and who else