i m bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden s former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we re told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden s former execute assistant had been questioned. we re also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? well, bianna, one thing he s trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on. already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. attorney
counsel investigation. president biden dodged questions about it today in an oval office photo-op. [ inaudible ] moments ago the white house press secretary repeated that the president will cooperate with special counsel robert hur and failed to explain why the public was not told about the classified documents when they were first discovered in november. is it the policy of the white house that that should share that information not just with the national archives but the american people? i ll say this. we have been transparent. there s an ongoing process and spoken when it is appropriate. we are learning more about the investigation. the justice department interviewed biden s former executive team on the team that packed up the office. one document was a memo from vice president to president obama. it s unclear how much of this is still sensitive. let s go to chief white house correspondent phil mattingly and evan perez. phil, the white house press secretary more ques
shocking statements from the duke and duchess of sussex, known by their earthly names as harry and meghan, in their interview with oprah winfrey, meghan revealing for the first time thoughts of suicide and stunning questions about racism within the royal family. in those months when i was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, he s not going to be given security, he s not going to be given a title. and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he s born. what? and who who is having that conversation? with you? what? so um there is a conversation hold up! there are several conversations. there s a conversation with you with harry. about how dark your baby is going to be? potentially. and what that would mean or what that would look like. who. and you re not going to tell me who had the conversation? i think that would be very damaging to them. meghan also shared her fe
Spoke to the insurrectionists whenever before th before they invaded the capitol. And in a brand new interview, the head of the Capitol Police, steven sund, who resigned, says he suspects that plant bombs who were planted at the rnc and dnc headquarters on wednesday were designed to draw officers away from the capitol as the band of domestic terrorists searched for lawmakers. This morning, we have new video and photos from the assault that show more of how crazed and violent the mob was. Here are the rioters Beating Police officers, trying to keep them from breaching the capitol. And theres more violent, extreme, online chatter from Trump Supporters ahead of inauguration day, including armed protests, another attack on the u. S. Capitol, and State Capitol buildings. The mayor of washington, d. C. Is asking for a preemergency to be declared with a significant increase in National Guard troops. But we begin with cnns sunlen serfaty. Shes live on capitol hill with our top story. Whats the