duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. politicsnation. tonight celine, settling scores. right now, republican critics of president biden are chomping at the bit to start extracting their revenge. and they appear they have gotten their wish this weekend or at least that is how they would like to spend the breaking news today that more, five more pages of documents with classified markings were located at the president s private residence and delaware on thursday. one, day after a one page was found at the home, and in addition to those found at the pen, biden center in washington, the president special counsel responding today in a statement leading in part quote the president s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the penn biden documents to the archives and the wilmington documents to doj. we have now publicly rele
justice department s investigation of former president donald trump over the classified documents retrieved from his florida estate in august. the difference of course being that the president and his team have voluntarily handed over their documents and are cooperating with the department of justice. whereas in trump s case, it took multiple archive requests and federal agents showing up at his door to retrieve his full cachet of classified documents. a point that republicans have been doing their best to obscure this week. joining me now, congressman benny thompson. democrat of mississippi and ranking member of the house homeland security, committee. congressman thompson, we appreciate you joining us here tonight. and we have to start with the breaking news today that five additional documents bearing
it has been formally filed with the court. what happens next and how quickly will it happen? we don t have any information on timing and that s because the case is only just assigned to a judge today. so we ll follow this closely, but at this point it s up in the air. he s making a lot of arguments we ve already seen which are that this committee is politically lopsided and that it has no real legislative purpose. but these are arguments that two courts now have said are basically without merit. to try to block archive requests and so far judges are just not buying it. whitney wild, thanks. let s discuss this. bakari, let me start with you. among the many hats you wear, one of them is a lawyer. what s the point of figuring out who paid for the rallies? the rallies themselves are not being investigated. it s what happened at the capitol. well, you can t look at one without the other. i mean, this is why you have
joe neguse, i m happy to have you back with me this sunday. i want to get into this him as a lawyer, somebody who has worn a few different hats in congress already. this is quite is showdown, i said yesterday we need to queue the clint eastwood music. we have 35 national archive requests, how should this play out? well, good morning, tiffany, it s great to be with you. i think are you right, democracy is at stake and the future of congressional oversight. at the end of the day, if witnesses can defy a duly lawfully issued subpoena without any consequence, then ultimately congressional oversight doesn t exist. it s hard to argue that congress is a co-equal branch of government. so i think it s important for there to be consequences. i suspect that if the select committee, given the statement they issued on friday is taking this as serious as, you know, the gravity of this crisis