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European council from 2014 to 2019. this news ends a day dominated by the garland decision. i m here today to announce the appointment of robert hur as special counsel, pursuant to department regulations to govern such matters. this appointment underscores for the public, the department s commitment to independents and accountability and particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. now in our last hour, cnn david axelrod, a former top white house advisor, who worked alongside the biden and obama administration, called the handling of the situation, they use his words, sub optimal. others but a more bluntly, raising more dark austin s about transparency, including phil mattingly, who joins us now. how has the white house reacted to the appointment of special counsel? anderson, officially, the white house counsel says they believe that this investigation will a, have full cooperation ....
Good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent investigator. this one will review president biden s handling of classified documents. i m here today to announce an appointment of robert kerr. as special counsel, department of justice regulation governing matters. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independents and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. this announcement comes in the wake of the biden menstruation revealing on monday that the president s lawyers had discovered quote, a small number of classified documents and his former office at the penn biden center in washington, d.c., that s the thing tack that biden founded. the document which date from the obama biden administration were found on november 2nd of ....
Department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores for the public, the department s commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to making decisions indisputably died guided by the facts and the law. david axelrod called the white house handling of this situation, the white house now, to use his word, suboptimal. others have put it more bluntly, raising more direct questions about transparency, including cnn s phil mattingly. how is the white house reacting to the appointment of a special counsel. officially the white house counsel says they believe the investigation will have full cooperation from white house officials and biden s attorneys. and it will show that in the end this was a mistake, an inadvertent mistake at that. when the attorney general made this appointment today, ....
Biden s team discovered and immediately returned a small batch of classified documents from his time as vice president to the national archives. we further learned today that at the end of december, the president s team discovered that additional documents were found at his delaware home. those too were immediately turned over. and today, we also had this announcement from attorney general merrick garland. i m here today to announce the appointment of robert herr as a special council pursuant to department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. when classified documents are found outside of government confines there are always questions that need to be answered, but it sure does feel like the attorney general was quick on the draw to make that announcemen ....
Surprised at the discovery. still, he faces serious questions ahead, as the country now witnesses two investigations at once. our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off tonight. reporter: tonight, president biden finding himself the subject of a full-scale criminal investigation by his own justice department into his handling of classified documents once he left the obama administration. i m here today to announce the appointment of robert hur as a special counsel. it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. reporter: hur is a veteran prosecutor, most recently the u.s. attorney for the state of maryland, appointed by former president trump. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability. reporter: the attorney general spelling out the timeline of the case. on november 2nd, biden s attorneys discovered classified documents at biden s former office at a washington think-tank. they ....