reelection campaign. house oversight committee james comer calling on the white house to grease the log for biden beach house and he s here to give us his investigatit alexandria hoff live in washington, alexandria. good morning, it caught the mike todd and carley and we still don t know why they weren t filled him sooner and all of the biden load your search for them had security clearances. what we do note january 9th the news of the classified documents found in early november breaks and one more document is found in the president s home by his lawyers. and then five more documents on january 12th. two days later refills there were more documents found on a thursday. democrats are coming to terms with the most politically and ethically troubling situation. is it possible national security was to jeopardize here? i don t think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts. it is an embarrassment no doubt about it but is there more to it? i doubt it.
good morning, welcome to way too early on this monday, january 16th, martin luther king jr. day. thank you for starting your week with us. one week after we first learned that a small number of classified documents had been found in president biden s personal collection that number of files continues to grow. in the same box where a single other document was found the previous day. the president s personal attorney discovered the documents, they stopped searching because they lacked the security clearance needed to handle classified material. and they return the next day with department of justice officials, he says he discovered the additional five documents in the same box. those files are separate from two other batches we report on last week. one found inside president biden s garage and another found inside an office he used at the penn biden senter in washington, d.c. sources tell nbc news that one of the documents was marked with the highest security classificatio
while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
irritated by the backlash and what he views as the probable sloppiness of his aides who packed his things when he left office. but the constant drip of new information is intensifying calls for transparency. and on the hill it s providing fuel more republicans hungry for investigations. in moments, the latest reporting from inside the white house and on capitol hill. and the unrelenting barrage of storms battering california has 7 million more people under flood was. half an inch of rain could fall per hour for people dealing with mudslides, buckled roads and homes submerged. in ukraine, the race to find remaining survivors after a russian strike destroyed an apartment building in dnipro. we are in the region with concerns about russia s new military strategy. we start with more pains found from president biden s post obama years. nbc news reports that president biden is frustrated with the backlash. explain what we re learning and what s happening inside the white hous
would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live