reset. good morning. parts of america s largest state under water as millions face a flooding disaster in california. dramatic rescues under way now as roads buckle, cars submerge and downtown l.a. at risk. we ll take you there live. more classified documents and another investigation, this time it is a different president. the current one. what president biden s team has discovered in his private office, but also why his case is different than the one playing out at mar-a-lago. rudy giuliani subpoenaed as the special counsel follows the money. chilling discoveries in the search for a missing mother. what her husband searched online and what he bought after her disappearance. deborah norville will join us live. and new twist in russia s war, why the united states is making a significant change involving the weapons it is sending to ukraine. we have new reporting just moments away. cnn this morning starts right now. and thank you for joining us, everyone. we re goi
president biden s lawyers alert the justice department they discovered obama-era classified documents at a washington office biden used during the trump presidency. plus, a juggling act abroad today. the president sitting down with neighbors to the north and south. the biden white house wants help curbing migration and drug trafficking. mexico s president says the united states needs to pay for attention and give more respect to latin america. first on cnn the special counsel jack smith hits rudy giuliani with a new subpoena. it s for records about how donald trump paid him as giuliani tried to overturn the 2020 election. up first for us, new cnn reporting on the classified discovery kicking up a storm of questions for the current president of the united states. a source telling cnn the documents found in joe biden s private office included intelligence memos an a range of allies and adversary, iran among them. more detays in a moment. minutes ago, no response from presid
administration did, not good, not right. that s worth calling out. i don t know enough about the difference in the volume and the difference in cooperation. i think those are questions that we have got to have a committee ask. i guess at this point, i m not willing to take the biden administration s word for it. let s ask a few follow-up questions. we will be asking follow-up questions. congressman dusty johnson, thank you for sharing your time with us this morning and weighing in on all of these very important topics. absolutely. thank you. that was really interesting. i feel like you made a lot of news there, especially on mccarthy and the committees. yeah, well, it is a big question of what they look like. obviously this is something that republicans said, they said there will be retaliation for members being kicked off and now we are seeing that. we ll see it was interesting, he said kevin mccarthy should not abuse that, though. also interesting they re not saying, well
of the documents and the investigation quiet for two plus months now. already, republicans making a very public case, congress should look into this. how long have they been sitting around? who had access all of this time? how many people had access all of this time? where is the fbi raid? you know, where is this big show of force to make sure there s no other classified documents there? i don t know enough about the difference in the volume and the difference in cooperation. i think those are questions that we ve got to have a committee ask. i guess at this point i m not willing to take the biden administration s word for it. let s ask a few follow-up questions. with me in studio to share their reporting cnn s dana bash, cnn s evan perez, the former prosecutor prosecutor shan wu and jamie gangle. w what was discovered? your reporting is the search of
that, specifically the transcripts and the underlying evidence gathered by this committee in the 18 months that they have been investigating january 6th and the former president s role in that insurrection we know on the criminal referral front that trump and husband lawyer were referred to the department of justice by this committee on monday. but you re right, the things that we re looking for are the key moments from those hearings, more fully flushed out, being able to read the full trupts from people like pat cipollone, but also the moments there height be discrepancies between what players told the committee ask what people lower on the chain of command in the white house told them as well. at one point in the executive summary, lawmakers advised we should compare the transcripts of people, like those recall less details than some of the aids in the white house. it was contradicted by people