share information about ongoing investigations. including donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. what that means for the gop s efforts to probe the agency. plus, donald trump dropped the lawsuit against new york tierney general letitia james a day after he and his lawyers or saw plus 1 million dollar fine for another, quote, frivolous case brought against hillary clinton. could we see trump upending even more lawsuits? and, congressman george santos long list of lies and controversies just keep piling up. a small newspaper exposed much of his inconsistencies weeks before the election. but, no one paid attention, why? i ll put that question to the papers publisher straight ahead. we have a team of reporters from capitol hill to the white house and ukraine following the latest for you this morning. and a good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. thanks for starting your saturday here on msnbc. house republicans have made it clear that they plan to use t
to investigate investigations carried out by the doj. now the department is sending those republicans a warning. congressional correspondent julie tsirkin is live on capitol hill force this morning. what do we know about this morning? yes, good morning to you if i could just read you a piece of the letter to the committee in charge of oversight on this chaired by jim jordan in the house judiciary committee. they said any oversight requests must be weighed against departments interest in protecting the integrity of its work, namely they are talking about those two ongoing documents investigations. both former presidents mishandling of classified documents and president biden s documents that were found in his wilmington home and at the penn biden center over the past few months. now, what department s telling committee is that they are willing to work with you, they re willing to see where they can compromise to see where they can provide some of these documents are requesting, but re
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not the tank that make sense right now for ukraine, instead they want the germans to supply those leopard tanks. ukrainians are saying they do not care who s tanks come as long as they get them in time to face off against what they fear will be a fresh russian offensive. potentially, in the coming weeks, back to you. rat, thank you for that, and coming up the doj stiff arms house republicans as they get set to launch their investigations, why the department says it will not turn over certain documents and what that means for the gop s pros. and, a little later a small long island in newspaper expose the george santos lies it almost everybody else missed, how did they do it? we will be talking to the publisher coming up. her coming up.
this after the new house you to sherry chairman jim jordan sent a letter to the department demanding documents and testimony on several documents including immigration enforcement, school board threats, as well as the departments active investigation into the classified documents found at mar-a-lago, and several subjects related to president biden and his family. the department of response to jordan s letter included this quote, long-standing department policy prevents us from confirming or denying the existence pending investigations in response to congressional requests. so, what does this mean for house republicans who are fairly targeted in those investigations? joining me this morning michigan congressman dan kildee, also the chief deputy for the top democrat congress, thank you for being here and helping us break all this down. i would like to get your reaction to this back and forth between jordan and the doj. well, i think jim jordan and many house republicans know better, th