good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but he s making it clear he s staying in congress. can he and gop leadership ride this out? and finally, investigators have now identified the systems glitch that delayed 12,000 flights on wednesday. but how did they make sure it doesn t happen again? we start with new revelations about a second batch of classified documents found by aids of president biden. fueling calling for a congressional investigation or even the appointment of a special council. right now, we are waiting for attorney general merrick garland to give a statement. he s expected in minutes
talking about. more facts will come out about why robert hur was the choice here, but as barr and i expected, the announcement of a special counsel doesn t come as a huge surprise to those who have been watching this closely over the last few days. thot a huge surprise, but what s his first order of business? how does this investigation unfold? well, he s going to take the handoff now from john loush in chicago. they are saying it seems that loush would have been the pick except he s leaving the justice department some time this year so it was handed off to robert hur. i imagine he will get a briefing from the team to find out what they have learned so far. then the question really becomes his commitment here. not a all the handling of classified documents is a crime, but opposed to the comments that this is being examined wholesomely. we have a special counsel, who
true point that there s a difference between the ability to declassify information as vice president than there is as the. meaning the president has the ability to declassify things where a vice president would thot. these documents came during the vice presidential time. i do think the most important discussion that s coming out of capitol hill is that there are these congressional committees both on the house and senate side who do have authority to investigate this information and to investigate this particular situation. almost all of them are gearing up to do that. the oversight committee that is now chaired by james comer of kentucky, have already sent letters to the white house counsel informing them of their plans to investigate. comer said he s in discussions with the archives about a briefing. we saw the senate intelligence committees putting out statements saying they are interested in briefings and are