documents issue. lucas tomlinson from the white house, lucas, what is the reaction? well, bill, for days we have been hearing from republicans, they want to see this matter investigated fully and now some democrats are joining the course. i want the facts, i want the department of justice to be completely thorough, completely honest and i want we need to know who knew and when did they know and why did they chose to keep it secret for two months and before an election. lucas: two democratic senators facing tough campaigns also want to see matter investigated. manchin telling, quote, reports of mishandling documents are extremely irresponsible and disturbing. the allegations should be investigated fully. president biden spending time in beach other house in delaware. no documents discovered in that place unlike wilmington home. sent a letter to biden s director of na of na of nationag similar assessment. quote, this discovery of classified information would put preside
Even as more and more revelations pile up and we realize just how unseriously apparently president biden has taken the classified documents. but also the other thing that is really important to lack at right here is as republicans press for damage assessment, i think that they should. i think that s perfectly appropriately. what we are seeing right now as as difficult as it was and as narrow as it was for republicans to take control of the house, we are seeing the tremendous value of taking control of the house even if it s only by a handful of seats that republicans have control of the house because regardless they get damage assessment as they want, they have the authority, the power to hold hearings and do oversight that is perfectly appropriate, in fact, it s incumbent upon them to get into all of this. and obviously, you know, politicians are going to make
Political hay out of things but it s also kind of their job and part of their responsibility and also probably helps them politically as they are doing it. gillian: let s take a look at exhibit a. here is a photo of then vice president biden standing in the oval office holding what you can see there is a classified, a code ward classified document that refers to one of the nation s most sensitive secrets. he s not supposed to be photographed carrying classified information, nobody is. it violates national security policy. the presidential records management act. do you think anyone on capitol hill knows that or cares? i think that we are probably going to get a crash course in all of these rules over the coming months and that s politics and i think it s probably beneficial for for everybody involved. but i think you also put your finger on another point that is very important here. a huge difference between, we talk about the difference between president trump and president biden,
Jonathan, we will start with you, you heard president biden and vp harris talking. i ve been through four presidents when i was working in the senate. this is the most successful legislative presidency of the first two years. he s gotten so much done and i know it s done maybe in a boring and not theatrical way that donald trump used to. let s remember he came in during the height of covid, our economy was in collapse, people were staying home, people were worried that they were going to die and could they send kids to school. that has all turned around and has a lot of experience to this because when he came to vp he was coming right after economic collapse. he has done what he told the american people what to do and i think they will reward him in