the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping classified documents next to stingray and the president fired back that
there achance for them to get on top of this? i m not certain they can get in front of this. it s important that we distinguish these are not the documents found in the biden penn office. they were found in the garage, the room adjacent to the garage. these are the 3 categories of places where documents were found where they weren t supposed to be and what jumps out to me immediately and lucas and bill were talking about this just a moment ago is that on thursday in that room the white house press secretary told us that the searches had been complete, what we have seen from this statement put out by the president s counsel is that they found them on wednesday but they didn t alert us immediately. this has been the theme of this entire scandal, the slow drip, drip of information. gillian: not only did the white house not notify the public, reporters, but the justice department hasn t either. and what we are dealing with here the white house insisted there s a process that they are b