Interest if he starts coordinating on the virus with the biden team. Like it or not, the president didnt win. The fall out this morning with ron klain, plus insight and analysis from our power house round table. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning and welcome to this week. We may not be surprised, but we should still be shocked. The Election Results have been clear for more than two weeks. Joe biden defeated donald trump. By recent standards it wasnt that close. More than 6 million votes nationwide. More than triple Donald Trumps 2016 margin in the key mid western battle grounds. Plus wins in georgia and arizona. 306 electoral votes. The same total trump called a landslide in 2016. Faced with those facts, the president and their allies have taken their baseless claims of voter fraud to court. Theyve lost 32 times. Last night in pennsylvania a judge dismissed their case with this words, the court has been presented with strai
That you read. Moat notably given the chance to avoid prosecution, mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and to lie about it. You may stop there. Thank you, you mentioned the indictment against mr. Trump for mishandling classified sensitive security information. That indictment says tend of his presidency, mr. Trump im looking for my indictment here i have it here. Mr. Trump himself ordered that boxes containing classified materials go to maralago. Where he hosted Tens Of Thousands of guests. Then he kept the sensitive materials carelessly about the property as you can see here. Classified documents ended up in a bathroom. A ball room, on a floor strewn about. And when a grand jury subpoenaed the documents, what did donald trump do . The indictment again shows against him what he responded by. Suggesting that his attorney falsel
And Briefing Materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u. K. All of this at the center of a Special Counsel investigation. Lets get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. Evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found . Not always a good thing whenela saturday. Not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. What the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. And a lot of it, frankly, theyve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. What we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. Thats in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. And the issue for the white house is that now were talking about around
groundhog day. tom brady announced he is retiring again. yeah. everyone got emotional watching the heart felt message. even bill belichick s shirt holes grew three sizes. brady is done in a related story. tickets to the buccaneers games are now free. that was funny. that s a good one about the groundhog day. i didn t think of that one. i like the belichick. clever there, jimmy fallon. i like the holes. good morning, everyone. we re going to speak with robert kraft a little later on in the show. we re in new york. kaitlan is in capitol hill. there is a lot going on there. the u.s. military signed a deal to ramp firepower on china s doorstep. beijing is responding. a busy day on capitol hill. the president is going to be arriving soon. he is facing a series of investigations, of course, into the documents or the investigation into his classified documents. and also standoff potentially that could tank the economy. we re going to talk to rick scott of the budget commit
top of the hour. a busy wednesday morning. we begin with breaking news this morning. cnn has learned that the fbi conducted a search at president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the search taking place this morning as a special counsel investigation into the president s handling of classified material picks up. mj lee is at the white house. paula, what more can you tell us about this search. was it expected? sfwlr it was absolutely expected. back when the classified documents were discovered in the office, his attorneys went and also searched his two homes. one in will mington. they say they did discover classified materials at his wilmington home, but they did not uncover any at this property. once this baim the subject of a special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the reho