mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi.
this is chris wallace this morning on fox interviewing mitch mcconnell on the senate side as to what he thought. given all the politics on all sides, the continuing controversy, why not appoint an independent 9/11 style commission, have the justice department appoint a special council so you have a truly nonpartisan independent investigation that everybody can trust. it s just not necessary. based on what we know now. we ve got a bipartisan investigation under way. it s called the senate intelligence committee. senator burr and senator warner had a joint press conference this week. i think they clearly laid out they re going wherever the facts take them. we don t need yet another investigation. sir, given the collapse of confidence in the house process, is the senate intelligence committee good enough or do you disagree with mitch mcconnell and think there needs to be an independent 9/11 style