statement that five additional pages of documentsad with classified markingsdition e found at biden s home thursday evening. now, surely this new hs was to those democrats who have spent the past seven years squawkingre about the rule of law and normsa whght? wrong. t what is the proper thing for a former president to do if he i finds that there are government documents or classifiedovernmen documents that are in hisession possession? and my understanding is they did the right thing. my de a different procedure for dealing with them that we are unaware of. uand that s a meaningful thingo that we could look at. bu.t obviously, we don t wantca to turn this into just a political football. i know exactlotball.y what president biden said when he was informed that these documents were found in his office, in his office in washington. and that was a oh, followed washin, by a four letter explet. and it s an embarrassment, no doubt, about it. e to i there more to it? i doubt it. y
by colmer the white house unsel.today, actually got mad at house republicans for launching, quoteepublica, hypocl investigations into president biden s improper classifi retention of classified records and accused the gop of a politicizingnd the matter while defending biden s cooperation with the special counsel probe. house republicans are playing politics and they shamelessly hypocritical attempt to attack president biden. the white house spokesman sammsn told fox news digital. so joining me now is house oversight committee chairman james comar. congressman, good to see you.t so what s your response to theea pathetic posturing from the white house? statement that came out today?tc ian samms has shame. i mean, give me a break. this administration was quickico to criticize president trump for having classified documents ,which he would argue weren t sa classified. but that s anothernoth case thae will be determined on down the road. joe biden was quick to cal rlirp president trump
trump supporters in congress stormed the scif. they stormed into the secure hearing room that s reserved for classifi took over the place ev though they didn t have clearance to be in there. they, like, ordered pizza and broke security and mounted the stunt in there for hours and hours to physically block the impeachment proceedings from going ahead. laura cooper is the pentagon official whose testimony got delayed that day for five-plus hours because of that stunt. but ultimately, she did testify and we got the transcript of that testimony today. and in that transcript, we get this really interesting window into her bewilderment as a seen year defense department official responsible for that part of the world. we get a sense of sort of her bewilderment and shock about this crucial u.s. aid to ukraine being held up. it was, for example, laura cooper s office at the pentagon that put together the announcement that ukraine was about to get their long-planned
late december signed off on a relaxation of the sanctions, under law, under a beefed-up law beefed up by the house and senate in 2017 passed with veto proof majorities despite president trump objecting to it, under that new u.s. sanctions law, congress has 30 days to review an announcement like this, review any announcement fromm the aadministration they relaxes sanctions. congress can investigate and overturn it if they think it is improper and that is what led to this appearance today on capitol hill by the treasury secretary and as you can quickly tell from the reaction from members of congress coming out of the classifi classified briefing, secretary mnuchin s explanation why he wants to drop the sanctions on the russian oligarch did not go well. i m very dissat tisisfied b
if they violated the law, in that case we ll prosecute them. including white house officials and members of congress? including anybody who breaks the law. joining me to talk more about this is democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, a member of the senate judiciary committee. thank you very much for being on new day this morning. you heard that from rod rosenstein. he also said separately we re after leakers, not reporters. there is a review of the media subpoena process in the department of justice. that is part of this. who do you see in the crosshairs here? government officials who break the law by disclosing classifi classifi classified information, eng dangering national security, should be pursued and prosecuted. i m afraid they this is for political ends and specifically