very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
So theyre scrambling. Theyre trying to figure this out as well, chuck. No indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. Hes about to hold an event with sheriffs. In fact im told he just entered and so well try to get more questions to him about all of this. But this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. Thats what it is, someone sounding the alarm. The call is coming from inside the house. By the way, i should make a point, no Press Briefing today, no Press Briefing yesterday. How many are we up to how many Press Briefings have we had in the last six weeks . We havent had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. I think then its typical, for the record. So its becoming sort of the diminishing Press Briefing. Now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. That is true, and well take it. But of course shouted questions, yeah. Exactly, exactly. Shouted ques
of nuclear material. so the minute we launch a nuclear weapon to north korea, they re launching back at us. we have 100,000 dead. it s war on the korean peninsula and potentially world war iii. john kelly, if he manipulated donald trump into going for the bromance, which i think yielded very little, at least it was not war, and it also just goes to show you how easily manipulatable the president of the united states, the commander in chief in fact was. right. to people who weren t trying to avoid a world war. jeremy, i want to follow up with you. i remember being on the today show after one of those north korean missile tests. and i think one of the assumptions we made is even donald trump didn t want death and destruction. what the new reporting reveals is trump was not swayed by the assessment you just gave, by the things that were being said on television. that if there is war, there would be thousands, millions of lives lost on the korean peninsula. our institutions aren t made