Get this story out when the white house was aware that this was an issue, and essentially Karine Jeanpierre had a similar answer pretty much every time. Watch. Where you or any member of your staff involved in the crafting of a strategy as to when this disclosure should be made . Seemed like he was thinking the investigation would end soon. Was he surprised . Does this episode undercut that argument, that he restored confidence . Here we have in the headline that he is now under investigation. Follow whatever protocol was in place. Again, this is something that he takes very seriously. The president , when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to Classified Information. I am not going to go into any specifics from here. John on sat with me, harold ford jr. And Kellyanne Conway, but first, bret baier, fox news Chief Political Anchor and Executive Editor and interim special reporter joins me. Bret, good happy with us today. He goes into that weekend and into delaware. I am told
Dangerous humanitarian crisis getting even worse. We cant continue going to way were going. The drug cartels will get richer and the criminals will embolden themselves more and well have complete disregard for the laws of our country at all. Fox Team Coverage begins with former Acting Dhs Secretary Chad Wolf Standing by. But first to matt finn live in los angeles. Matt . Hi, guys. I was at the border last week. When youre there in person, the humanitarian crisis is undeniable. In the summer in the extreme heat, men, Women And Children arrive in the United States pleading for water and on the verge of heat stroke. We see migrants just collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. The migrants tell us about graphic stories of rape and robbery. Some say they have their money taken along the routes by police and criminals. Migrants tell us about walking through thick jungles and exposed to wild animals and bugs. Once the migrants make it here, they have no guarantee of roof over their head. Child
Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form
his attorneys found them in a closet while cleaning out an office at the pen biden center in washington. biden used that office from 2017-2020. the white house is immediately handed them over to the national archives. the discovery has prompted a doj investigation. the federal prosecutor is now reviewing the classified documents and watch as a president ignored questions about the discovery when asked about it yesterday in mexico city. [ s people speaking over each other] speech it was just four months ago when he criticized his predecessor following an fbi raid on mar-a-lago, remember this? when you saw the photograph of this top secret documents laid out on the floor of mar-a-lago, what did you think yourself. looking at that image? how that could possibly happen. how anyone could be that irresponsible. emily: it appears the media is already downplaying the discovery. tonight the white house is acknowledging that a small number of documents marked classified were
the u.s. justice department warns the u.s. supreme court that classified documents seized from mar-a-lago are extraordinarily sensitive, urging the high court to stay out of the government legal battle with former president trump. and top republicans stand with herschel walker in georgia. closing ranks around their embattled u.s. senate nominee, walker lashing out at political opponents and speaking out tonight about the abortion controversy weighing on his campaign. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. this hour officials in ukraine are bracing for russia to strike again after two days of vladimir putin s new and widespread assault on cities across the nation. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the ground in the war zone. the second day of smoke over the capital in skies that had had been quieter for months. a power plant one of many hit today here by an iranian drone attack, officials said