got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let s get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president s corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn t a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and understand whether there is any need for a criminal investigation. and in order to do that, you need to know where are all of the classified documents, how did they get there, and as we ve been reporting today, the fbi interviewed some of the biden aides involved in packing the boxes and moving the documents, so that u.s. attorney had been reporting to merrick garland. well then, all of a sudden, toda
point, which really kind of explains, at least for me, why hur has been engaged here and why the justice department is taking the aappropriates that they have, is to be as hands off and to be as transparent, and just presume as much as possible into this. and then take it off the table. it is easier to take stuff off the table than to have to go back and add, oh, now this looks like it is a criminal thing, it s easier to take that off the table by including it upfront and saying we want to come into this, in light of what president trump s story line has unfolded before the country, we want to aggressively go after this on the front end, looking at all of the possible scenarios, and then taking those scenarios out of play, as this investigation unfolds. i think to the extent that the administration stays forthright, and there are no more drip-drips of documents, they can get past
the task force, a congresswoman who has a mark-up in her committee about workers right in aappropriates. you ll hear from mike thompson of california, terry sewell of alabama. jimmie gomez from california. where are my others? john larson of connecticut, earl blumenauer of oregon. and now it s my honor to yield to ritchie. he was a maestro to make all this happen. with great respect and admiration and gratitude that i yield to the chair of the ways and means committee. thank you, madam speaker. [applause] every once in a great while you get to participate in a it
really make progress so after now after almost two decades americans billions and bms of dollars and all of the lives and sacrifices americans had been would be properly honored. when did you find out the taliban were coming here and when did you find out the meeting had been canceled? we were working on those for a while and it was the case when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say that s not going to work. we re going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends to the negotiations, not rights or appropriates for americans and there s no reward for that type of behavior. the taliban have been doing these types of attack and killing u.s. service members and innocent civilians for generations, as you know. what is different about the murder of the 16th u.s. service member this year as the 15th?
and sacrifices americans had made would be properly honored. when did you find out the taliban were coming here and when did you find out the meeting had been canceled? we were working on those for a while and it was the case when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say that s not going to work. we re going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends to the negotiations, not rights or appropriates for americans and there s no reward for that type of behavior. the taliban have been doing these types of attack and killing u.s. service members and innocent civilians for a generation as you note. what is different about the murder of the 16th u.s. service member this year as opposed to the previous 15th? we ve been working on this peace and reconciliation program