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And we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, dont want to get ahead of this. The Department Of Justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the Department Of Justice and now as you all know there is a Special Counsel. Thank you, korine. Another one on garagegate. What is the white house trying to hide . Nothing. Someone gave the President A Statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. Who . So i have read out the president s statement. I have read it out yesterday and what he said. He said that he respects or he takes Classified Information and documents very seriously. Thats what he said. He said he did not know that the records were there. He does not know whats in them. He said that. You heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, ill say this, the Attorney General said this himself, that he heard from the team shortly after. So we have laid out, laid out what has occurred here. You heard from the white house counsel. I just read the statement from his lawyer and, again, you know, we take this very seriously and the president does as well. When will the white house release a log of visitors to the Wilmington House . You know, peter, youve asked this question or your colleagues have asked this question before. Lets not forget what we did here in this white house. We instituted something that the last administration got rid of, which is putting out the white house putting making sure there was a white house log, extensive white house log the Wilmington House where there is potentially unsecured classified material. Again again again, we did something that the last administration got rid of which is instituting the white house lost. Did you ask the last administration why they got rid of the white house lost . Fox did. I was calling the gentleman who wanted to ask a question not related to this. I know im a little behind the news cycle. I want to go back to yesterdays comment. In Washington State Congresswoman Rogers said lets do it, lets put forward this bill that passed for committee almost unanimously last congress, the Privacy Protection act. All right. As the white house continues to field questions, we saw the subject change. We will come back if we need to. Weve been watching this briefing from White House Press secretary. Shes faced with this barrage of questions giving few actual answers after this Major Development in the investigation into President Bidens handling of classified documents. Im jake tapper. This is the lead. Merrick garland announced he has appointed robert herr as a Special Counsel. Herr is a d. C. Lawyer right now. He previously served as a u. S. Lawyer until 2021. He had been appointed by President Trump, the previous administration. The announcement from garland came just after the white house announced Classified Records had also been found at President Bidens home in wilmington, delaware, including some in his garage. This discovery was in addition to the Classified Records that had been found at bidens private office in washington, d. C. , as Phil Mattingly reports for us. It is confident the documents were, quote, Inadvertently Misplaced. Im here today to announce the appointment of robert herr for Special Counsel. It was in the Public Interest to appoint a Special Counsel. Reporter Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed robert herr to investigate and revealing a lot more detail about an issue biden and his lawyers kept quiet for weeks and had desperately tried to manage since the story broke four days ago. People know i take classified documents, classified materials seriously. Reporter special announcement coming after a second statement about a second set of documents found at a second location. As part of that process my lawyers reviewed places where documents from my time as Vice President were stored and they finished the review last night. They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in Storage Areas and File Cabinets in my home and my personal library. Garlands time line underscored at the time of the first statement on the issue earlier this week were cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. Reporter his lawyers had been aware of the second set of documents discovered at his wilmington home for a month. It started with the November 10th discovery. Ment which led garland to appoint u. S. Attorney john lausch to investigate the matter. On december 20th, more documents discovered. President bidens personal counsel informed mr. Lausch that additional documents were identified in the garage of the president s private residence in wilmington, delaware. Reporter all key factors for what lausch would recommend to garland last week. On january 5th, 2023, mr. Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a Special Counsel was warranted. Reporter the recommendation that came four days before the initial discovery of classified documents leaked and before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details or obfuscated key details in part out of an effort to avoid this very moment and to follow strict limits set by his lawyers. Im going to get a chance to speak on all of this god willing soon. Reporter as a Due Diligence was still ongoing. This morning President Bidens personal counsel called mr. Lausch and stated an additional document was identified at the president s personal residence in wilmington, delaware. Reporter jake, while there was not a lot of information from the Press Briefing that has been going on for the last hour, she did confirm that the internal review is complete. There are no more areas they are going to search. As for the president s position on the Special Counsel, they said we are confident a thorough review will show they were Inadvertently Misplaced and they acted promptly. They pledged full cooperation, jake. Phil mattingly at the white house for us. Thank you so much. Joining us is mike turner, the brandnew chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence. Do you think Attorney General garland made the right decision appointing a Special Counsel, not just a Special Counsel but one who had been a u. S. Attorney under donald trump. He had no choice because he had so unevenly handled this. The it is so uneven with former president clinton and Hillary Clinton and President Trumps house being raided and then we have President Biden who has documents in his home for a period of six years. Having appointed a Special Prosecutor for the trump issue, he had no choice but to do this. Hes lost a tremendous amount of credibility as a result there was such an over abuse of discretion in the way the trump issue was handled. There is a significant difference in the sense that classified documents are classified documents. Whoever has them, they should be dealt with appropriately. From what we can see, President Biden and his team telling the national archives, telling the Justice Department about it. President trump resisting any negotiation and quantity its different. There are a number of questions that need to be answered. With former President Trump, he says he was cooperating all the way until there was an inspection and he agreed to put an additional lock on. There were ongoing negotiations but he said these had been declassified. He said they were declassified because a president can think about them being declassified and he did add that. As i said with you before. Thats a facts based issue hes going to have to deal with whether or not they were actually declassified. The issue is especially in the light of just the irony of President Biden being so scathing that these documents were found at maralago and now he has them in his garage behind his corvette next to the leaf blower. He said he takes classified documents very seriously, when i hear that in my mind im thinking hes obviously pretty serious when he takes classified documents. The question is why did he have them to begin with . Whats inadvertent . When he took them in his home . Where were they before they ended up in the back of his corvette . What do you say to a critic who says you sound very animated about this. I was animated then and now. Its not just the classified documents. The issue is the abuse of discretion, we talked about the concern of the raiding of maralago. The second issue here is the irony of the indignation from the biden administration, the fact that theyre the ones that ordered the raid, his political rival. He ordered the raid the Attorney General ordered the raid on his home. This is how outrageous this is. Imagine if someone said there were classified documents found at bidens home. Lets go look in jills closet. They looked in mimelanias clos. Again, i would say that from what we know and, again, this is about what politicians tell us, but from what we know, the biden people told the national archives, told the Justice Department, said we have these and gave them over and from what we know about the trump case, the Justice Department was told about it and the trump people resisted it and did not turn over these documents to the point that the fbi felt they had to go there and get the documents back and the only reason we know about that is because trump announced it. Theres a couple things here that youre missing. One, there were a number of documents that were surrendered in those negotiations. Not all of them. And secondly the documents that had not yet been surrendered, the biden team excuse me, in the trumps team view they were in ongoing negotiations and they had secured the facility further. The biden team, the only reason we know about it is somebody leaked it. They didnt say, this is inadvertent and weve leaked it. The theres more. Additional ones. Just the callousness of this being in boxes in the back of the garage shows you the disparate treatment between the two. The irony between the biden administrations treatment of trump and the fact that this is now an issue for President Biden i think is something the American People take note of . So i do want to ask you because youre a new chairman. Weve talked about this before. The top democrat and republican on the Senate Intelligence committee, mark warren and marco rubio, im sure they disagree on a lot of things. That committee, at least from where i sit, seems to operate in a functionally bipartisan way. They seem to cooperate a lot. The House Intelligence Committee, youre just the fresh chairman so im not holding you responsible. Im not a Ranking Member yet. You will be. The House Committee hasnt operated like that since mike rogers, different mike rogers than the one who got in a fight with gaetz. Years. Its been years since the House Intelligence Committee operated in a bipartisan way. Is it your goal to do that . Or do you see the house intelligence way that jim jordan looks at the Judiciary Committee . Its a place for the party in charge to be in charge. I dont think this is a goal, i think were going to achieve it. The Intelligence Committee is going to be looking back on Classified Information and were going to work on a bipartisan basis but on bicameral. I believe the members of the committee, both republican and dem democrat, are ready for the committee to regain focus. My hope and in many things that are being discussed that have a number of overlapping committee jurisdictions, is some of these areas will not be areas where our committee is handling them. Were only handling them with respect to National Security, Classified Information. Theyre public and when they have a Hearing Everybody gets to see. The other aspect is some of these overlapping areas of jurisdiction are true oversight of areas of the government that arent in our committees jurisdiction. Do you know who the top democrat is going to be on intelligence . No. Mr. Chairman, mike turner, good to see you. Thanks so much for being here you coming up, former House Speaker paul ryan is going to weigh in on bidens classified documents, and trumps and current concessions to get the gavel by mccarthy. George santos continuing to resist calls to resign. What he says it will take for him to step down. 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The former president fought every step of the way. He filed a lawsuit in court in florida which forced the Justice Department to show a lot more of its investigation, right . They showed the search warrant, they showed pictures and so on. All of those things came about because the former president went public and was fighting. He is too this day fighting aspects of this. The Justice Department is trying to get the trump team to say there are no more documents, right . This is a fight that is actually still happening in court behind the scenes at the federal court here in washington. So the idea that the former president has been cooperative is far from the truth. So lets talk about the current president , this process. How is it going to play out . Well, you know, the problem, as i think we all know with Special Counsels, is they are easy to appoint perhaps as we have seen and theyre hard to get rid of. Thats one of the reasons why Attorney General Merrick Garland was hesitant to do the first one on donald trump and felt he was forced to because of the situation of donald trump running for president and against his boss and then he was forced to do this one. Once he received the recommendation from john lausch, the u. S. Attorney in chicago, the facts of what he had found, the Attorney General felt he had to take this step. It didnt, of course, help that the Biden White House has had trouble putting out a straightforward time line of what was found and when, right . Certainly i think the Attorney General made a quick decision, jake, about what to do. The problem is, as you know, i mean, john durham is still around, right . A Special Counsel appointed a few years ago. Thats the reason why its difficult to put a time line on these things. People might not remember ken starr but i think the original charge was not to be looking into whatever president clinton and Monica Lewinsky was doing. It was about whitewater, the land deal. In any case, do you think President Biden is going to talk to the Special Counsel . Is he going to be interviewed . Well, thats a question for the investigation in terms of whether they think that there is a reason to talk to him. My guess would be that what theyre going to do is first theyre going to talk to everybody else. I would think the investigators would leave a current president to the very final person that they would investigate if they think they need a reason to interview him, i mean, interview. So first theyre going to talk to all of the aides. One of the complications in this particular investigation is the time lapse. This is now were talking years that these documents have been in these locations presumably since the time he was Vice President. In some ways its a harder investigation than the former President Trump investigation because theres just much more time. They have to go back and find people who were involved in the handling of these documents many years ago. But i think President Biden would be one of the last, if not the last person that they would come to if they need to. Jamie, put this into context for us. How unusual is it, two president s being investigated by two Special Counsels, about their handling of documents. In a word, never. When you talk to former president s, Vice President s, people at the archives, it is true, unclassified papers, things happen. Folders go astray. Mistakes are made. Honest mistakes are made, but looking back, weve reached out. You know, bush 41, bush 43, clinton, obama, quayle, cheney, weve never seen anything like this before. Can i just go back to the word cooperation here when you were talking to chairman rogers. The reality is this is one area where these two things are completely different. We dont know yet whats in this second batch of documents that were found, how sensitive it is. Right. What the National Security implications were, but as soon as they discovered there was a problem, they immediately cooperated and that day immediately turned things over. We still dont know, evan, if there are other classified documents there in the president s possession, President Bidens possession or anywhere else. Right. The representation from the white house is that theyve completed a search of all of the possible places they can think of that would be relevant. The question, jake, is going to be when the Special Counsel sets up his office and he gets his fbi people who are going to be doing this thing, how do you make sure that thats true . Do you get a representation from the president and his team that we can swear there are no more documents . Or do they ask to go take a look . And those are going to be sensitive questions that are going to have to be approached. The only reason Donald Trumps house was searched in the way it was, because they clearly had refused to turn over documents and they knew documents were being moved after being told not to. Thats why jamies point is so important as the investigations continue. The most important thing the Justice Department has to flush out is the intent. All of the criminal statutes that deal with the handling or misha mishandling. They point to whether the conduct was knowing, whether the conduct was willful, whether there was an intent to mishandle or remove them in an unauthorized way. Both of the investigations of both the former president and the current president is going to hinge on whether or not people were intentional in their mishandling or whether it was a big accident. There is going to be a constant comparison between trump and biden. Jamie, carrie, evan, thanks for being here. Growing calls for George Santos to resign and why the magic number here might be 142. Why . Well tell you. Zicam is the number one Cold Shortening brand highlyly recommend it zifans love zicams unique zinc formula. It shortens colds zicam. Zinc that cold today embattled republican George Santos is remaining Defiant Dismissing the growing calls to resign from his fellow republicans and refusing to answer where more than 700,000 he donated to his own campaign originally came from. As manu raju said, santos says there is one way he will leave office. Reporter freshman congressman defiant. I will be continuing to hold my office elected by the people. Reporter facing gop calls for resignation over his web of lies but saying he is not going anywhere after winning 142,000 votes last fall. If 142 people ask for me to resign, i will resign. Reporter refusing to answer questions about why he fabricated his story. Reporter mr. Santos, why did you lie to your voters about your qualifications, your past, being jewish. Why did you lie to them . Dont the voters deserve an explanation . How can you be trusted with sensitive security information, mr. Santos . Telling the fellow republican hes been honest. Ive worked my entire life. Ive lived an honest life. Ive never been accused of any bad doing. Reporter yet santos has admitted to lying, including by saying hes jewish and that his family survived the holocaust, that he owned 13 properties, that he worked for citigroup and goldman sachs, even saying he graduated from the top of his class at Baruch College and was a star volleyball player, none of which is true. Hes lost the confidence of people in his own community. You know, i think he needs to seriously consider whether or not he can actually do his job effectively. Right now its pretty clear he cant. Reporter are you saying he should resign . Theres no way i fully believe he can fulfill his responsibilities. The fact that he claimed he was jewish, he had family who escaped the holocaust, thats not something i can tolerate. He has full support from speaker Kevin Mccarthy who will not call on him to resign. The voters elected him. He is seated. He is part of the congress. Reporter some raising National Security concerns given santos is potentially facing Fraud Charges in brazil. Hes got a long way to earn trust. There are concerns. He will go before ethics. If anything is wrong, he will be held accountable. Reporter if santos resigned he would vacate a district President Trump won by 8 points. Le. Is this someone who you trust to have access to the nations secrets . I think well still keep looking at this and get the facts. Now there is one new york republican who is not calling on santos to resign. That is elise stefanik. Le she raised money for santos in this past election cycle. She was asked by her colleague whether she agrees with these calls for him to resign . She said, it will play itself out. She said there are democrats who have faced investigations before but she would not say whether she agrees whether she still supports him or not or any of the conversations shes had. She said, im not going to get into any private conversations. Manu raju, thanks so much. Coming up next, what former Speaker Paul Ryan is going to say and calls for congressman santos to resign. Paul ryan, does he think Speaker Mccarthy gave away too much power . Stay with us. Bye, bye cough. Later chest congestion. Hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours not coughing . Hashtag still t coughing . mucinex dm givesou 12 hours of relief from Chest Congeion and any type of cough, day night. Mucinex dm. Its comeback season. Lets get started. Bill, wheres your mask . I really tried sleeping with it, everybody. Now i sleep with inspire. Inspire . No mask . No hose . Just sleep. Learn more, and view Important Safety Information at inspiresleep. Com gronk speaking. 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Lets get some reaction on this and all the busy information from somebody who knows a little bit about the job. Joining us now is the former speaker of the u. S. House of representatives, paul ryan. Thanks for being here. Nice to be here. First, with all this news about classified documents, whether President Biden or President Trump, i want to ask you as somebody who when you were Speaker Of The House who had access to classified documents, if you could give us some sort of insight into how easy or not or difficult it might be to actually accidentally or no, i never took them home. I left them in my safe in the office. Is that right . They went from the safe in the office to the skiff and back to the office. I never took them in my body. They were in locked briefcases. I never took them out of the office. I guess it would be different if you were president maybe . Im trying to figure it out. Its the system you put in place in your office. You had a rigid system . I had a rigid system. They went from the intelligence community, the one clear staffer of mine had access to. We would take them from the safe down be to the skiff which is underground in the capitol. I would read them there, discuss them there, have my briefings there. Wed go back to the office and theyd go in that safe either in the skiffs safe or in the safe in my office and they would go nowhere else. Sounds like a pretty good process. Thats the way we did things. Yeah. The. Okay. Lets talk about the house race because this hasnt happened. We saw something last week. It hasnt happened in 100 years and longer if you want to go to the number of ballots. A serious battle on the floor of the house to be Speaker Of The House. And some very serious personal criticisms of the man who ultimately won election, Kevin Mccarthy, including about whether or not hes trustworthy and the like. As a friend of his, as somebody who was speaker when he was House Majority leader, what was going through your mind when you watched it all play out . I thought he was going to gut it out. I didnt think it would take 15 votes. I suppose between 4 and 14 i wasnt so sure, but i still thought there was no alternative. Because there was really no alternative the dynamic was different when i was there because i was seen as the alternative. I wasnt looking for the job. I got drafted into it. There was no dynamic like that at play here and kevin had done so much more. First of all, remember, i came mid midterm. Boehner, the motion to vacate was placed on boehner. I came midterm. Kevin had worked his tail off to campaign and fund raise and build over the last two cycles. He did that. Its different than what happened in 2015. Kevin was the leader of the conference as the Minority Leader for two cycles, built that majority. Then there really wasnt another alternative for people to go to so i really thought he would get through it, even with this tough margin, i just didnt think it would take 15 votes and all the concessions that it did, but it did. Theres this moment, well show it, Armed Services committee you dont have to show me the pictures. There he is lunging at Congressman Matt Gaetz after gaetz did not vote aye, thus stopping mccarthy from winning on the 14th ballot. Does this bode ill for your partys ability to unite and govern . No. Theyre very good friends of mine. Mike just got hot under the collar. They were pretty exasperated by that time. My understanding is matt gaetz was going to vote for him and then changed his mind in the vote without telling anybody. That makes people pretty upset. Look, hot heads happen. Things like that occur. By the way, thats what the floor is like whenever you have any contentious vote. Cspan doesnt usually cover that. Its always on the floor when you have difficult votes. Gaetz wants the cameras and i have to say i support it no, im not a fan of the performance. This would feed into that. No, im actually not a fan of that. That is what the floor is like when you have tough, contentious votes. Ive seen that movie a million times over. You just havent seen it on cspan. No, i dont want to see that happen. They will play on the floor like they do everywhere else. The Counter Argument is a little too much entertainment in politics these days. Id like to see that toned down. Such a buzz kill. Mccarthy made so many concessions to this wing, chip roy, matt gaetz, however you want to call it, these insurgencies, rebels, and he made these concessions to get their votes and without question the concessions weakened the speakership and empowered individual members. The motion to vacate, which you mentioned, which got rid of john boehner is back to one vote, as it was before, but there are other things in terms of whos on the rules committee, opening up the process. Anybody can offer a bill. Anybody can offer an amendment. I like some of those, by the way. Some of those are pretty good. The 72 hour one is a good one. The idea you need 72 hours to read a bill. Appropriations. I didnt want to cut you off at your question but let me say this, i think i had too much power as speaker. Oh, really . I really do. Yeah, absolutely. The thing that bothered me most were the omnibuses. A bill that thick that four people openly decide on. 15 Spending Bills crunched together. 12 crunched together and its thousands of pages. It would be myself, nancy, chuck, mitch. The House Speaker we know who youre talking about. They were your friends. Well some of them are. Ish. Ish. We all got along. We all respected one another. The problem is, no four people should be doing all of that, making those decisions. I was making decisions on composition of Spending Bills. I think im a smart, principled person but the guy and the man and the woman whos in the Subcommittee Spending two years reading Inspector General reports and gao reports, they should be making those decisions, not kicked up to elected leadership. Are there any new rules or the free for all whether that i think the vacate has become weaponized. I never worried about this myself, frankly, but that was because of my own dynamic, i suppose, but i think members now see this as sort of a tool they can take for a ride. I think thats bad for the institution. The last thing john boehner the last words john boehner said to me as he walked out of the room of his smoke filled office that i took over, dont forget your number one job is to preserve the institution, defend the institution. If you are a Committee Chair as i was, i never really thought about that. Most members dont think about the institution. Right. Youre thinking about your Policy Agenda or whatever you want to do to get done. Thats not normally what you think of. So i became a big institutionalist but it took me a while once i became speaker because i realized just how important for our freedom, liberty, democracy this is. Were going to take a quick break. When we come back, im going to ask speaker ryan about his partys trouble with persuasion. Im going to ask him if he thinks congressman George Santos should resign after being caught in lie afterer lie after lie. Stick with us. S. Well be right back. To tell yo. Wait what . Get it before itss gone on the subway app im a vegas hotel. I know what youre thinking its cool, i dont want anything too serious either. Just a fun, spontaneous thing. Im looking for someone who will let loose. Dress up a little. See a show. Order the steak and the lobster. 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What if you were advising Kevin Mccarthy and House Republicans right now . What would you tell them to do . Assuming they know what i think im still friends with these guys. What i say in this book is first of all, the best case for america is a longlost generation stagflation that will last more than a japanese lost decade if we dont get our act together. Best the best Case Scenario we are likely to have more of a debt crisis what cbo talks about and projects which is ugly. The Social Contract is unaffordable. If you think we are polarized today wait until we have a debt crisis. We are putting all the solutions we think are necessary to make sure we can make good on our Social Contract which i would argue centerleft and centerright we agree on we want to believe in medicare Social Security and medicaid so lets make these things solvent. Lets make them work better. Lets make them guaranteed and make them solvent for the next generation that takes persuasion politics. I know that when you were speicher and donald trump was president , you guys would talk about this. And he did not understand why you would ever want to do it because its bad politics. Sue mckee did not think it was popular. And he has, im not blaming this on him but he has empowered the kind of populism youre talking about. Smash mouth clicks and everything on fox or you are a board member by the way he has empowered that. We saw it last week so how can this be achieved before you even get to the democrats . Sue mckee is fading fast he is a proven loser he cost us the house in 18 he cost us the white house in 20 any cost us the senate and i think we are moving past trauma. I can imagine getting him the nomination frankly and i dont mean this because i dont want him to but i dont think he will. As an analytical point. The thing i take solace in with everything you saw last week, most of that wasnt personal. Most of that was around fiscal responsibility. Most of that was about a concern about Spending Inflation and debt. Thats great. I think you need to persuade the country with the solutions on the problem and i dont think . Solves those things but what is behind that is a good thing which is republicans finally reacquiring their moorings on the party of fiscal responsibility and limited government. That is the good thing i see in all of this weird stuff and i am a republican. I am not a member of an organized party. I am a republican. Will rogers. The point im trying to make, those juices are flowing and i think we are hopefully coming back fullcircle to maybe being a populist party. But principled and with policies fiscal conservatism was a theme that you saw behind all of those tactics. When the congressman was on the State Of The Union sunday he said we know this debt crisis is coming. Lets get working on it now as opposed to july. I dont think you will fix it with a debt crisis but you need to persuade the country and offer solutions and having gavels and chairmanships, you build the case in Ways And Means and Budget Committee you show the public whats going on and why solutions are better and why frankly, if you whistle past the graveyard and ignore these problems, you are hurting americans. Not just our kids but seniors. I meant like when you and i are seniors. The last quick question congressman George Santos has lied about apparently everything on his resume. At least six House Republicans that he should resign including five new york republicans. Do you agree . Yes. And let the Ethics Committee run its course. This is an embellished candidacy to fraudulent candidacy. He helped his motor so he should step down he doesnt strike me as an honorable person. I dont know the guy but my guess is it will go to the ethics course. I can imagine hes going to stay very long. Former House Speaker paul ryan. 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