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good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but hes making it clear hes staying in congress. can he and gop lead...

Pursuant to regultions governing such matters in keeping i have notified the designated members of each house of congress of the apointment. im joined by the u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois who conducted the initial investigation into the matter that i will describe today. on november 4th, the national archives office of inspector general contracted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents baring ...

If indeed this is even the topic of discussion for merrick garland. >> i imagine one thing that could happen today is that he may announce hes apointing a special counsel. typically the process is for the attorney general himself to review a matter to determine whether a special counsel is merited. so i suppose this second round of documents at president bidens residence might call into question whether thats a line there. not every of possession of classified documents is a crime. its a violati...

Good for the white house in the long-term. but they are just going to have to suffer through the next few months or however long it takes for this investigation to be seen through by the special counsel, who was just appointed. >> kind of a similar question, matthew. theres the facts and then theres the spin of this theres no doubt that im expecting that the republicans will make something of this. but will it stick? >> it will stick in the short-term. i think the problem is once you get past th...

Documents were among other records from the period of the presidents service a as vice president. the fbi went to the location and secured those documents. on january 5th, 2023, mr. loush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on his initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. in the days since, while he...

These are aids who had may have helped pack up the vice president, but they werent specifically taking documents that they knew were classiied and putting them with the presidents political and personal papers, as we have learned has happened. >> so jen, understood. lets accept at least for the purpose of this question that im asking you that this was not done intentionally. who boxes up this stuff? i know it sounds like a silly question, but do people that have go through things have to have a ...

Good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but hes making it clear hes staying in congress. can he and gop leadership rid...

Mishandling of documents, or something more nefarious, a crime which might require additional investigation. so i see robert hurs review as potentially small, unless it is involved in something else, where as i see jack smiths investigation as something larger. i would also say this, chris. i think that the appointment of robert hur suggests to me that jack smith is serious and unlikely to result in a declaration against donald trump, i think you need to appoint robert hur to show that you are t...

Advanced training the person had, in this case, the current president and vice president had appropriate train for these things. additional crimes might be presented in the case of donald trump just because of the search warrant that we saw before that had additional probable cause for obstruction of justice. and that makes it a more complicated crime and a more serious crime potentially. the obstruction of justice allegation was based on the failure of trump and his team to turn over documents ...

Even the appointment of a special council. right now, we are waiting for attorney general merrick garland to give a statement. hes expected in minutes. we doe noent whether its related to these newly discovered documents, but it comes hours after the president himself provided details about what was found. >> people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said were cooperating fully and pleatly with the justice departments review. my lawyers reviewed other plac...