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Advance public notice and will cooperate. today is a further step in a thorough timely doj process. we will continually further support and the conclusion of today search. today, also doj in washington, robert and his staff at the justice department and he has a special counsel appointed a few weeks ago and getting up to speed over the last few weeks and the staff fully on board meeting here today a few hundred feet where im speaking to you. he will receive a complete briefing what was discovere...

Quickly. thank you for that. you guys got to go back and forth. this is happening right now. weve been watching this for a couple of hours. f.b.i. agents are searching the presidents beach home in rehoboth, delaware for the classified document discoveries at multiple locations. i want to point out this is the home he went to a couple of weeks ago when they were searching for a second time the other house in wilmington. they had done it once and went back for more. this is where he went. the pres...

And we agreed to cooperate. the search today is a full step in a thorough and timely doj process. we will continue to fully support and facilitate. we will have further information at the conclusion of todays search. now, it is not clear if the agents are looking for particular documents or more general classified documents, but to put all of this into perspective this comes, we learned the fbi searched the presidents think tank in washington here in mid-november. thats after that initial discov...

Surprised at the revelation that there were documents in his personal office. what he didnt do was saying anything about the documents that were later discovered in his garage. the white house says that theyre being transparent, that they are playing this by the book, but, you know, there are questions out there that they are not being totally transparent in the moment, and instead theyre letting this come out drip by drip. >> neil: yeah. even when you say youre ignorant about it, ignorance is n...

That he can declassify documents, i dont know if thats accurate, if that extends to a vice president in that capacity, even a senator, a cabinet secretary, but as far as i know no one can just declassify something thats classified, can they? >> well, thats exactly right. i mean, theres a process that even the president of the united states needs to go through. it needs to be documented. it needs to have subject matter experts familiar with the content of the classified information to determine w...

In an unclassified setting. joining us now is virginia democratic congressman elaine luria, a member of the january 6th investigation in the house of representatives. congresswoman, thanks for making time tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> let me first start by asking your reaction to this news about the search of the former presidents home and let me ask if you you know anything more about this than weve been able to report yet this evening? >> well, rachel, ill start out by saying as a...

-- just furtively try to get trump here. meadows could already face up to a year in jail if tonights vote leads to an indictment and he is convicted. he also could find another way out of this, through cooperation or beating the case. where do we go from here? well, we are lucky to have someone who knows the doj process very well. were back in 60 seconds. well. were back in 60 seconds move to sofi and feel what its like to get your money right. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ move to a sofi personal loan. earn ...

Its growing even more. there is never a stupid question in that white house, no matter what people think. everything comes to the white house and michael cohen happens to be everything in between. >> any time a president pardons someone, right, kirsten, the media questions why did they pardon it? whether it was a good pardon or bad pardon, why did you do it at this time? we discuss it, right? there is nothing unusual about that. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think one of the distinctions you also w...

Its growing even more. theres never a stupid question in that white house. everything comes to the white house and everything in between. michael cohen is everything in between. >> the media questions every time someone is pardoned. whether its good or bad, we discuss it. theres nothing unusual about that. >> absolutely. one of the distinctions you would make between donald trump and other pardons from other presidents, look at obamas pardons, he went through the doj process. he wasnt picking an...

Front. lets not forget that president obama pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2,000 people, including people like which he see m -- chelsea manning. but im saying that -- >> lots of presidents pardon. the question is timing. is it a coincidence -- >> whether you go through the doj process and also whether you personally benefit from it. these people werent -- this in no way impacted whether someone was investigating him. these were people that he felt their sentences should be commuted and i ...