we re watching the white house where the president is set to deliver a speech any moment now. touting what he calls the achievement of the last 18 months. and while, yes, there are plenty of achievements for the biden administration to harold, like any leader, he faced his share of setbacks. if he runs, would he have the political momentum needed to win re-election. regardless, any 2024 plans announced by president biden will come under a cloud of covers. the doj s investigation into the handling of classified documents is just getting started. we re learning more about why president biden and his top aides chose to keep the first discovery a secret for almost 70 days before it blew up in their face. former fbi chief of staff is with us. joining me now is monica alba and a washington post reporter. thank you for joining us. monica, let s start with you. in listing the wins today, is president biden laying out a case for his re-election before announcing his bid for re-elect
january 2017 report, quote, we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. over at the justice department, which announced two days ago, the indictment, of course, of 12 russian military intelligence officers for conspireing to interfere in the election. they met for two hours with interpreters present. no other aides, not even secretary of state pompeo. he attested to russia s meddling last year. i am confident that the russians meddled in the election as is the entire intelligence community. so, not only did president trump disagree with that today suggesting strongly siding with putin because he didn t see any reason why russia would do what he is accused of doing and who he believed he launched into an attack on hillary clinton and the dnc e-mail server and american journalists seeming to suggest that democrats, democrats are the one to blame for the cyberattack that the democrats should have h
do you feel, lawrence, that you have clarity about how the democrats are going to pursue this? i do not. it s not a version of this that we ve seen before, but i do believe they can work it out. i actually think the pelosi structure of this saying that all six committees are involved now in an impeachment inquiry is designed to allow sharing of information from one committee to another that otherwise might not be easy to do. especially information from the intelligence committee to any other committee and the ways and means committee if they have information will be in the form of the trump tax returns eventually. so it s designed, i believe, to facilitate that, but ultimately the impeachment committee is the house judiciary committee. there s just no constitutional way around that. yeah. and there aren t very many precedents in history for how to do this sort of thing, it just hasn t happened very many times. talking with financial services committee chairwoman maxine
he has. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. the impeachment inquiry now moving quickly on capitol hill. nancy pelosi says she s looking to focus on the explosive allegations contained in this whistle-blower complaint and the fallout with a possible vote as early as next month. and there are new questions about how the complaint was handled and who inside the white house may have assisted in the possible cover-up of president trump s call with the ukrainian president. in which he pushed for dirt on a political rival joe biden s family. the complaint says a transcript of the call was, quote, locked down and moved to a top level code-word-protected computer network inside the white house. the washington post reports this could only be ordered by a very senior white house official. someone as high as the chief of staff or the national security advi
now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. this is moving really fast. we are now at 218. 218 democrats in the house favor the impeachment proceedings against president trump. that s the magic number. the magic number. it was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. you know, the question of how broad they re going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly they re going to draw these articles is fascinating. i think that it s worth knowing, though, that they ve got, you know, it s like bird in the hand, two in the bush. at this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, they re done. they ve got that in hand if they want to do it. they also have the mueller report, and we ve never seen one article go forward. there s a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, f