appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
reassemble or re-create the architecture of the coup plot, is that a prosecution that can be adapted to other states where that was perpetrated by rudy and others? yeah. so, you know, that is a great question. because one of the things that lots of people including joyce said and me what we think about is why just georgia? we know this is going on in other states. and just to be clear, also, as i said this is a subset of the federal investigation. so you could end up seeing jack smith including the information that it was charged in connection with the bonnie willis indictment in a federal case. because those are to be of legal nerd those are separate things. can you bring a federal case and a state case and they can both go forward. and so, yes, it could be a model for other states. and you could imagine jack smith also looking at it and in a
it is true that there is reporting that was what was found in biden s personal home did in part date back to his time in the senate. but it also was much more recent. and we also don t know with respect to the vice president vice president pence exactly what was found. i do share joyce s concern. and you have to remember the reason that the department of justice authorized its search of mar-a-lago went to that step is because you had no cooperation which obviously is completely different than president biden and vice president pence. but also, because there was a real concern that you had national security information in the wild. and that is really a systemic issue. it s very hard when we re in the midst of politics and everyone s thinking about how to, you know,
we know based on the president s own word, mark meadows own words there was a conspiracy to replace legitimate electors with fake electors. there was an effort to overturn the legitimate results in georgia. can the prosecutor bring charges under the four corners of the law? it appears so. that s why everyone is so impatient. at the end of the day, the impatience is about accountability. if can you not hold a president accountable as a sitting president for mounting an insurrection against the united states for encouraging seditious behavior, where those under und him have already been convicted. if you cannot get him on tampering with laws in georgia then what do we have? it s a question of discretion and judgment of the prosecutors. it s time for them to make a decision. joyce, i want to come back to a point you made about the documents cases. the national security question.
broader context and using it as a model. i can imagine/hope. i ll ask you all to stick around. blaine alexander, we re grateful for your time today. thank you. when we come back, david jolly, i want to get your take on this as well as joyce s and reaction to what the january 6 lead congressional investigator said on this program about another imminent indictment in his view. donald trump by doj. i ll show it you to. don t go anywhere. doj. i ll show it you to. don t go anywhere. what will you do? what will you change? will you make something better? will you create something entirely new? our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things. because we believe there s an innovator in all of us.