And we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, dont want to get ahead of this. The Department Of Justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the Department Of Justice and now as you all know there is a Special Counsel. Thank you, korine. Another one on garagegate. What is the white house trying to hide . Nothing. Someone gave the President A Statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. Who . So i have read out the president s statement. I have read it out yesterday and what he said. He said that he respects or he takes Classified Information and documents very seriously. Thats what he said. He said he did not know that the records were there. He does not know whats in them. He said that. You heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, ill say this, the Attorney General said this himself, that he heard from the team shortly after. So we have laid out, laid out what has occurred here. You heard from the white house counsel. I just read the statement from his lawyer and, again, you know, we take this very seriously and the president does as well. When will the white house release a log of visitors to the Wilmington House . You know, peter, youve asked this question or your colleagues have asked this question before. Lets not forget what we did here in this white house. We instituted something that the last administration got rid of, which is putting out the white house putting making sure there was a white house log, extensive white house log the Wilmington House where there is potentially unsecured classified material. Again again again, we did something that the last administration got rid of which is instituting the white house lost. Did you ask the last administration why they got rid of the white house lost . Fox did. I was calling the gentleman who wanted to ask a question not related to this. I know im a little behind the news cycle. I want to go back to yesterdays comment. In Washington StateCongresswoman Rogers said lets do it, lets put forward this bill that passed for committee almost unanimously last congress, the Privacy Protection act. All right. As the white house continues to field questions, we saw the subject change. We will come back if we need to. Weve been watching this briefing from White House Press secretary. Shes faced with this barrage of questions giving few actual answers after this Major Development in the investigation into President Bidens handling of classified documents. Im jake tapper. This is the lead. Merrick garland announced he has appointed robert herr as a Special Counsel. Herr is a d. C. Lawyer right now. He previously served as a u. S. Lawyer until 2021. He had been appointed by President Trump, the previous administration. The announcement from garland came just after the white house announced Classified Records had also been found at President Bidens home in wilmington, delaware, including some in his garage. This discovery was in addition to the Classified Records that had been found at bidens private office in washington, d. C. , as Phil Mattingly reports for us. It is confident the documents were, quote, Inadvertently Misplaced. Im here today to announce the appointment of robert herr for Special Counsel. It was in the Public Interest to appoint a Special Counsel. Reporter Attorney GeneralMerrick Garland appointed robert herr to investigate and revealing a lot more detail about an issue biden and his lawyers kept quiet for weeks and had desperately tried to manage since the story broke four days ago. People know i take classified documents, classified materials seriously. Reporter special announcement coming after a second statement about a second set of documents found at a second location. As part of that process my lawyers reviewed places where documents from my time as Vice President were stored and they finished the review last night. They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in Storage Areas and File Cabinets in my home and my personal library. Garlands time line underscored at the time of the first statement on the issue earlier this week were cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. Reporter his lawyers had been aware of the second set of documents discovered at his wilmington home for a month. It started with the November 10th discovery. Ment which led garland to appoint u. S. Attorney john lausch to investigate the matter. On december 20th, more documents discovered. President bidens personal counsel informed mr. Lausch that additional documents were identified in the garage of the president s private residence in wilmington, delaware. Reporter all key factors for what lausch would recommend to garland last week. On january 5th, 2023, mr. Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a Special Counsel was warranted. Reporter the recommendation that came four days before the initial discovery of classified documents leaked and before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details or obfuscated key details in part out of an effort to avoid this very moment and to follow strict limits set by his lawyers. Im going to get a chance to speak on all of this god willing soon. Reporter as a Due Diligence was still ongoing. This morning President Bidens personal counsel called mr. Lausch and stated an additional document was identified at the president s personal residence in wilmington, delaware. Reporter jake, while there was not a lot of information from the Press Briefing that has been going on for the last hour, she did confirm that the internal review is complete. There are no more areas they are going to search. As for the president s position on the Special Counsel, they said we are confident a thorough review will show they were Inadvertently Misplaced and they acted promptly. They pledged full cooperation, jake. Phil mattingly at the white house for us. Thank you so much. Joining us is mike turner, the brandnew chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence. Do you think Attorney General garland made the right decision appointing a Special Counsel, not just a Special Counsel but one who had been a u. S. Attorney under donald trump. He had no choice because he had so unevenly handled this. The it is so uneven with former president clinton and Hillary Clinton and President Trumps house being raided and then we have President Biden who has documents in his home for a period of six years. Having appointed a Special Prosecutor for the trump issue, he had no choice but to do this. Hes lost a tremendous amount of credibility as a result there was such an over abuse of discretion in the way the trump issue was handled. There is a significant difference in the sense that classified documents are classified documents. Whoever has them, they should be dealt with appropriately. From what we can see, President Biden and his team telling the national archives, telling the Justice Department about it. President trump resisting any negotiation and quantity its different. There are a number of questions that need to be answered. With former President Trump, he says he was cooperating all the way until there was an inspection and he agreed to put an additional lock on. There were ongoing negotiations but he said these had been declassified. He said they were declassified because a president can think about them being declassified and he did add that. As i said with you before. Thats a facts based issue hes going to have to deal with whether or not they were actually declassified. The issue is especially in the light of just the irony of President Biden being so scathing that these documents were found at maralago and now he has them in his garage behind his corvette next to the leaf blower. He said he takes classified documents very seriously, when i hear that in my mind im thinking hes obviously pretty serious when he takes classified documents. The question is why did he have them to begin with . Whats inadvertent . When he took them in his home . Where were they before they ended up in the back of his corvette . What do you say to a critic who says you sound very animated about this. I was animated then and now. Its not just the classified documents. The issue is the abuse of discretion, we talked about the concern of the raiding of maralago. The second issue here is the irony of the indignation from the biden administration, the fact that theyre the ones that ordered the raid, his political rival. He ordered the raid the Attorney General ordered the raid on his home. This is how outrageous this is. Imagine if someone said there were classified documents found at bidens home. Lets go look in jills closet. They looked in mimelanias clos. Again, i would say that from what we know and, again, this is about what politicians tell us, but from what we know, the biden people told the national archives, told the Justice Department, said we have these and gave them over and from what we know about the trump case, the Justice Department was told about it and the trump people resisted it and did not turn over these documents to the point that the fbi felt they had to go there and get the documents back and the only reason we know about that is because trump announced it. Theres a couple things here that youre missing. One, there were a number of documents that were surrendered in those negotiations. Not all of them. And secondly the documents that had not yet been surrendered, the biden team excuse me, in the trumps team view they were in ongoing negotiations and they had secured the facility further. The biden team, the only reason we know about it is somebody leaked it. They didnt say, this is inadvertent and weve leaked it. The theres more. Additional ones. Just the callousness of this being in boxes in the back of the garage shows you the disparate treatment between the two. The irony between the biden administrations treatment of trump and the fact that this is now an issue for President Biden i think is something the American People take note of . So i do want to ask you because youre a new chairman. Weve talked about this before. The top democrat and republican on the Senate Intelligence committee, mark warren and marco rubio, im sure they disagree on a lot of things. That committee, at least from where i sit, seems to operate in a functionally bipartisan way. They seem to cooperate a lot. The House Intelligence Committee, youre just the fresh chairman so im not holding you responsible. Im not a Ranking Member yet. You will be. The House Committee hasnt operated like that since mike rogers, different mike rogers than the one who got in a fight with gaetz. Years. Its been years since the House Intelligence Committee operated in a bipartisan way. Is it your goal to do that . Or do you see the house intelligence way that jim jordan looks at the Judiciary Committee . Its a place for the party in charge to be in charge. I dont think this is a goal, i think were going to achieve it. The Intelligence Committee is going to be looking back on Classified Information and were going to work on a bipartisan basis but on bicameral. I believe the members of the committee, both republican and dem democrat, are ready for the committee to regain focus. My hope and in many things that are being discussed that have a number of overlapping committee jurisdictions, is some of these areas will not be areas where our committee is handling them. Were only handling them with respect to National Security, Classified Information. Theyre public and when they have a Hearing Everybody gets to see. The other aspect is some of these overlapping areas of jurisdiction are true oversight of areas of the government that arent in our committees jurisdiction. Do you know who the top democrat is going to be on intelligence . No. Mr. Chairman, mike turner, good to see you. Thanks so much for being here you coming up, former House Speaker paul ryan is going to weigh in on bidens classified documents, and trumps and current concessions to get the gavel by mccarthy. George santos continuing to resist calls to resign. What he says it will take for him to step down. 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The former president fought every step of the way. He filed a lawsuit in court in florida which forced the Justice Department to show a lot more of its investigation, right . They showed the search warrant, they showed pictures and so on. All of those things came about because the former president went public and was fighting. He is too this day fighting aspects of this. The Justice Department is trying to get the trump team to say there are no more documents, right . This is a fight that is actually still happening in court behind the scenes at the federal court here in washington. So the idea that the former president has been cooperative is far from the truth. So lets talk about the current president , this process. How is it going to play out . Well, you know, the problem, as i think we all know with Special Counsels, is they are easy to appoint perhaps as we have seen and theyre hard to get rid of. Thats one of the reasons why