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discovery of a second batch of documents. in the last 30 minutes, the white house counsel revealed all but one of the classified documents were found in a storage space in the president s garage at his home in wilmington. his lawyers found them while conducting a search after that first batch was found in an office he used in washington. we re going to start with those new details here from the white house on those. i want to bring in two reporters who broke that story. ken dilanian and carol lee. also with me, ali vitali and joyce vance. let s go ahead and listen, carol, before i ask you the first question. the president addressed this. let s listen. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents, classified materials seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s review. the department of justice was immediately notified and the lawyers arranged for the department of justice to take possession of the ....
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but he s making it clear he s staying in congress. can he and gop leadership ride this out? and finally, investigators have now identified the systems glitch that delayed 12,000 flights on wednesday. but how did they make sure it doesn t happen again? we start with new revelations about a second batch of classified documents found by aids of president biden. fueling calling for a congressional investigation or even the appointment of a special council. right now, we are waiting for attorney general merrick garland to give a statement. he s expected in m ....
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 ex ....
reporter: has it hit you, what if you were on the other side of the bench with him? how close you guys were? i don t want to think about that. i don t want i don t want to think about that. here in washington the white house is responding to growing outrage over what experts call a russian show trial for wnba super star brittney griner, the administration officials say the president has read the letter from griner, talking about the terror she feels about never being freed from the prison. it s a priority for this president, he is doing everything that he can. he takes this to heart. he take this is job very seriously, especially when it comes to bringing home u.s. nationals who are wrongfully detained, it s a priority. we are going to make it happen. and we are following a big development in the georgia investigation in to donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. as a fulton county special grand jury hands down the subpoenas to current and form ....