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Other shrug and say all this dumpster fire, its just fake news. >> if you came to washington an served in the congress in were walking down the street on capitol hill and saw a dumpster on fire, how would you respond to it? >> i think i would call the fir department on that one. >> not a fireman, but a law professor at the university of minnesota, the chief white hous ethics lawyer. we thought we would speak to yo again about the new dumpster fire. thank you so much for coming on tonight. you ar...

This talk of a dumpster fire , i its just fake. thoste. came >> if you came to washington wad served in the congress and you were walking down a street on capitol hill capiw a dumpster on fire ,how would you respond to it? >> well, i think i call the fire department on that one . richard painter, not a fireman, but a law professor at the university of minnesota. as we said, the chief white house ethics lawyer, we thoughty we would speak to him again about a new dumpster fire . thank you so much ...

Staff and people around him and its humiliating politically and its going to be damaging to him politically. the white house has been counting on the next few months being ones in which president biden could continue to go upward on his path to reelection and at the same time donald trump would be going downward as he gets ensnared in more and more legal activities and may be indicted and that sort of thing, and that robs -- it robs for the moment a lot of the sting of the anti-trump arguments, ...

This happen? what will it mean for other former presidents? whether well see a review of anybody else in the oval office, whether or not the documents go back to other administrations. i would be curious to hear from those who have been in similar positions of power what kind of custodial system they have set up for something like this. they have their libraries. a lot of questions even to be answered today. >> bill: stand by along with bret as well as we continue to wait here. want to get to da...

Is actually a cover up o ofpica typical washington proportions . one in fact, it looks now like at least one of these troves of documents was identified before the midterm elections. but were just hearing about it now. soidfied before it was concealm the country to affect the outcome of an election. . secondly, it looks like therein have been at least now three instances of these document s being moved. the first is out of the white house in 2017, as the obama and biden administrations are vacat...

Presidents to remove classified documents, knowingly or unknowingly, and storing them, has it happened before. and also to the question of the impartiality and the respect that members of both parties have for prosecutor rob hur because im just a bit skeptical given that we heard the same accolades in the initial early days of bob mueller being assigned to investigate the former president until that all changed. >> sure. so to your first question, i think jamie is absolutely right. i think this ...

Which involved, you know, possible obstruction and attempts to hide them and denials that they exist, and the case where the presidents lawyers were going through spaces, looking for files, and found them and immediately reported it. but the special counsel regulations say, does the matter merit investigation, which clearly this did, which is why it was referred to the u.s. attorney in chicago. but, also, are there extraordinary circumstances. and i think it was the judgment of the attorney gene...

>> yeah, that was incredibly unfortunate the fact that we have had now at least a couple of administrations in a row not handle classified documents well is a problem. and it is the kind of thing i think youll see the republican house ask a lot of questions about, maybe we need new procedures in place. the idea that somebody could just take a folder of classified information and walk out the door with it, that is really problematic. >> james comber who is chairing the house oversight committee r...

Than previously announced. what more should president biden ask of mexico? >> this is a great start. look, these are two countries that need each other on a whole host of issues related to migration, the united states, of course, is pressing on the issue of fentanyl thats getting across the border, but also on how migrants right now are treated. and for mexico to have a process in place to be able to insure that people are treated humanity and compassionately, but that influx into the united sta...

Democratic and republican administrations along. it reminded people theres a child between them. i wonder how much of one. >> it was a very sharp conversation. as you said, the president did push back on that. he said the u.s. sends more foreign aid than any other country in the world. almost all of them combined. he pushed back. amlo snubbed biden in los angeles. he did not go to that meeting. he was rewarded with an oval office visit. the president, biden, wants to try to sort of repair this. ...