after his time as vice president. sources tell cnn that it is possible that more searches elsewhere may happen. also that the white house is shifting into damage control. sources say president biden is growing frustrated by how the saga has played out. he cannot escape the questions about the timing of publicly disclosing the classified documents when some of the first pages were initially discovered in november. once again, today, the president chose not to take reports questions. [ inaudible ]. cnn s mj lee is at the white house. a spokesman for the white house counsel is defending the communication and strategy so far. tell us about that. yeah. victor and alisyn, we just wrapped up a lengthy phone call, a press call, with reporters ta that the white house counsel s spokesperson held trying to offer a robust defense of how the white house has handled all of this so far including sort of the timing of the disclosure of information and sort of the decision to wait to d
additional records with classification records marked confi confidential, and every level of the classification structure, and those are the documents found at mar-a-lago, and on top of that, hundreds more that he had kept after the presidency, and not returned to the national archive until and just to be clear, when they are looked at by the justice department, you don t need hundreds of documents, but one to trace it and find intent to bring a charge. katelyn polantz, thank you for the reporting. i know that you will be watching to find out what happens next. joining us now is katy kerk asski and former prosecutor
sorry. we were also just with one ear listening to the white house press secretary who is still being asked about documents, so it s, obviously, a frothy situation today. frothy. with lots of frothy is a good word. yes. i appreciate your point about that, that boxes were moved, but also, i think it s also true, they just weren t getting back some of the documents that they were hundreds, right, hundreds of documents. at this point in the biden case we re still talking approximately 20 documents or so. thank you. joining us bradley moss, partner and national security attorney at the law office of mark suede, ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. let me start with you, and a bit of the conversation that alisyn was having with the congressman and what we heard from evan, the searches that will now happen next, and the question of who should do them, how the justice department should treat these
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with hole $400 million in military aid to ukraine as standard operating procedure but emails from within the federal budget office, the omb, show that those officials were actually scrambling to find a justification for the decision and wondered if it was even legal. the washington post reports that the white house has uncovered, quote, hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after the fact justification for the president s decision to freeze the aid to ukraine and a debate over whether the delay was legal according to three people familiar with the records. one person briefed on the records told the washington post that white house lawyers are expressing concern that the review has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. it s unclear whether the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney or other records pose any legal problems for trump in the impeachment inquiry, but some