conduct the assigned investigation with fair, impartial, and dispassion at judgment. i intend to follow the facts swiftly and thoroughly without fear and fab and will honor the trust placed in me to perform this service. this continues as new details come to light about president biden s mishandling of documents during his time in the obama administration. nbc news was the first to report that the biden team was the first to locate documents in a second location, different from what we learned at the start of the week. we now learned the second spot was a garage in biden s wilmington, delaware home. their discovery was reported to the justice department by biden s team on december 20th. that search was triggered by the first discovery of documents in early november inside an office previously used by biden at the penn biden center in washington, dc. according to two sources, one of those documents found at the
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michel schnell. you have that exactly right, the opposition to santos and the calls for him to resign. by my count, we re up to seven republican lawmakers who have called on him to resign, the majority of whom are from the new york delegation. it s entirely possible that that number will continue to grow, particularly if we see more revelations about discrepancy in his background or more issues with his financial disclosure forms. we saw that speaker mccarthy has no plans to remove him from congress. he mentioned that he would not seat him on any top committees but taking any committees out of the picture, and santos is remaining defiant. the only way he will leave the house is if an investigation takes him out or an ethics probe takes him out. speaker mccarthy, doesn t look like he s going to take
punishment towards him, and santos is not going to leave. let s talk about the ethics probe. mccarthy mentioned it. what is that going to look like? has that committee been sort of created? what kind of time line would it work under and how would the mechanics of such an investigation put together? in flux right now. the democratic members of the ethics committee have been announced. i don t believe the republican committees have been announced. that s because we re still in the first legislative week of the 118 congress after everything was pushed back because of that delayed speaker s race. ethics investigations are known to go for a very long period of time. they re very arduous process. it s a very arduous process and only sometimes does it come with harsh penalties and any real substantiative punishment for these lawmakers who come under scrutiny. it s really unclear if santos will face repercussions from the ethics investigation. one thing that s becoming clear
the documents over voluntarily versus the way the former president handled them. i think he looked at it and said if one case is headed for indictment, i have to make sure that the decision in the biden case, which looks to be routine investigation, based on what we know now, there could be facts we don t know. but if the facts we know turn out to be the only facts, it is a case that s very unlikely to end in any criminal indictment, i have to give the confidence that both cases are treated fairly. i have two special counsels, one knowing the recommendation, and that will give further credibility to possibility further indict president trump. charlie, what does special counsel do on a classic level? there doesn t seem to be as much here. there are questions about the timetable and when these announcements were made and when the biden administration chose to acknowledge that these