biden s desk with just days to spare before the default deadline. and breaking this morning, the latest monthly jobs report is out and the news is beating expectations. we ll break this down with senior biden adviser jean sperling. new video of the moment an apartment building partially collapsed in iowa. engineers warned the building could crumble days before it actually fell. and the death of an 8-year-old girl in border patrol custody now being called unacceptable by the acting cvp commissioner, an internal review showing multiple failures leading up to the child s death. and we begin with breaking news. the justice department has closed its investigation into classified documents found at the home of former vice president mike pence, according to a letter obtained by nbc news. this comes days before the former vice president is expected to announce his run for president. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and msn
Expected to announce his run for president. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. laura, why did the justice decide to close its investigation into pence? it is a good question, jose. the department isn t saying today, but you have to imagine it has to do with a number of different factors. number one being it was always a small batch of materials as we understood it, this all goes back to january when after the news of the classified documents found at president biden s think tank and home first surfaced, pence directed his attorney to affirmatively go search to make sure he too didn t have any classified documents and it turns out that he did. now, according to pence s attorney, those were collected inadvertently in a sweep of the white house as the term was coming to an end. it wasn t as if pence took them himself. according to pence s attorney. and he actually invited the fbi over, they had a vol