the review that i hope we will be finished with soon. there will be more detail that time. coming as the new sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in senior political columnist, a political, jonathan martin. and cnn political commentator, carl finney, and david irvine is with us as well. i m glad to have you all here, what are you thinking right now? because look. this is not the news or the way i think president biden wanted to start the new year or the new congress. i am sure there was a bit of rumbling, and the dysfunction that was happening with the republicans, last, week with the speakers vote. but, the fact of the matter is, he s got to contend with this. what do you take out of it? well, two things, one is the circumstances are different and obviously his folks called when they realize they had classified documents there, which is the right thing
office. i do not know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they are. they turned over the boxes to the archives and we are cooperating fully. with the review and i hope that is finished soon. there will be more details at that time. this is coming as the new house oversight chairman sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in jonathan martin as well as karen and david. i am glad to have you here. we begin with you jonathan. this is not the news president biden wanted to start the new year. there is a bit of dysfunction with the speaker both but the fact of the matter is he needs to contend with it. what is your take? the circumstances are different, obviously his folks called when they realized they had classified documents there and also biden is not his best defender. obviously this will create a challenge for him.
but, also that biden is not his best defender. he watched that clip there in somewhat circuitous, and obviously, this is going to create a challenge for him if for no other reason, and just because the republicans in congress are going to use this to money the old waters. look. that is what partisans do, they like to try this to undermine the other person s case by muddying the waters. and this gives people like home or a chance to do just that. there is ammunition and also in the fact that, look, karen he knew about it in november. why did he come sooner? november, the only reason that we know about the documents that were found at mar-a-lago is because donald trump itself couldn t keep his mouth shut and he made the announcement thinking that he was politicizing. politicizing it! because remember, it is doj protocol. and, as he would, not to protect the individuals were under investigation to protect
office. i do not know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they are. they turned over the boxes to the archives and we are cooperating fully. with the review and i hope that is finished soon. there will be more details at that time. this is coming as the new house oversight chairman sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in jonathan martin as well as karen and david. i am glad to have you here. we begin with you jonathan. this is not the news president biden wanted to start the new year. there is a bit of dysfunction with the speaker both but the fact of the matter is he needs to contend with it.
what we heard going into the congress. there will be aggressive oversight of the weaponization of the department of justice. that is just one committee. that is the view at the republican side of the aisle. many feel that the doj has been weaponized and they will investigate and this will all get fleshed out. if you are garland today you are saying this is not another great fact pattern for me to go to the hill and explained. one thing we can all agree on is garland s future is looking different than it appeared five years ago when he was poised to be on the supreme court. justice garland would be having a much more scholarly life surrounded by clerks in the law than the political hothouse he will find himself in for the next few years. they are under the microscope as well but i do take your point. karen give your last words. we have every indication that garland will follow the law to the letter of the law.