welcome to a special edition of inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your holiday with us. democrats go public with complaints about the white house in what one calls an embarrassing transparency stumble. this as we learn more about the classified documents discovered in president biden s delaware home. plus, he s a bad guy. republicans more and more call out george santos for his lies. but many stopped short of saying he should absolutely be booted from the congress. and mangled lives. first responders pulling people out of the wreckage in dnipro after russia sets the ukrainian sky on fire. the latest missile barrage killing at least 40. in just moments the president of the united states marks this important holiday with a speech reflecting on the work and the legacy of martin luther king jr. we will bring you those remarks live when they happen. this event comes as the president confronts a crisis of his own making. the weekend brought
this sunday, classified controversy. attorney general merrick garland appoints a special counsel to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. just months after a special counsel was appointed to investigate donald trump, the biden administration revealed classified documents were discovered in the president s private office, and even in his private garage. my corvette is in a locked garage. it s not like it s sitting on the street. they re both facing criminal investigations. i ll talk to rod rosenstein, the former trump attorney general. plus house with that reset. i think congress has to investigate this. after a rocky week, house republicans unite around biden s trouble, and launch their very first investigation on the biden documents, just as the white house struggles to answer new questions about the timeline of disclosure. they suppre
what donald trump did was careless. s you are those words he has to eat? i lost you for a second. he said what donald trump did was careless. does he have to eat those words, considering what happened with him? well, it s certainly embarrassing, right? it s embarrassing that you would find a small number of documents, certainly not on purpose. they don t think it s the right thing. they have been moving to correct it, working with the department of justice, working with everyone involved, it is archives. from my perspective, it s one of those moments that obviously they wish hadn t happened. what i am moss concerned about, this is the kind of things the republicans love. we just heard it from my colleague, senator johnson, let s talk about investigations, let s create chaos. let s not talk about the fact we have a manufacturing renaissance going on in this country, more jobs created, lower unemployment rate, higher wages. what they are proposing to that had interfere with you.
biden s delaware home. the disclosure adds yet another instance of government secrets found where they should not have been. a special counsel is investigating whether laws were broken here, and that s a new source of anxiety inside the west wing that we are constantly learning more details is the source of frustration among the president s fellow democrats. more and more of them now say the special counsel review is necessary, and more and more of them say mr. biden was sloppy at a minimum here, and the result is a gift to republicans. well, it s certainly embarrassing, right? i mean, it s embarrassing that you would find a small number of documents, certainly not on purpose. what i m most concerned about this is the kind of thing that the republicans love, we just heard it from my colleague, senator johnson, let s talk about investigations, let s create chaos. let s not talk about the fact that we have a manufacturing renaissance going on in this country, more jobs created, lower