here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, we ll talk about the sanctions imposed today. and i m hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell joining us live from outside of the white house. i want to start with you here. and what we ve just heard now, from president biden, as he is casting his eye toward 2024, although with no formal announcement. at least toward the next two years of his presidency. while also having to manage the political footballs that he s got on his plate right now. to mix a metaphor and i m sorry about that. the white house has just released a clip of a conversation between the president and his vp. i want
somebody else run, it does go for the biggest challenge is what is his health, can he end up campaigns an can he campaign vigorously and i think that is a open question. mark, thank you very much into let s watch news out of the justice department. because officials there are making some new promises to cooperate with requests from new republican led house oversight committee and but, but it is an important but, to jim jordan, they re making clear they re not giving up any information on their pending investigations because long standing department policy prevents them from doing it. this is a response just a week after jordan first asked the doj for information involving this investigation. his committee s investigation into those classified documents found at president biden s delaware home and office. i want to bring in justice and intel correspondent ken dilanian and garrett haake is with us as
they re going to try and you re going to see an effort to haul top officials to the hill to testify in a broader over sight of the department capacity and then hit with the kind of questions they have said they will not respond to directly. i think from a political perspective, bringing top officials to the hill and asking them questions they refuse to answer is almost as effective as getting meaningful answers out of them and i think that is probably the road we re going down. but as you said, this is sort of step one in what is going to be a month s long battle between these two groups. how is that being received at the doj, ken, more broadly? they re very adamant about this issue of pending investigations. and they re afraid, because to garrett s point, the republicans do have some leverage here. they have a right to a lot of documents as the oversight committee of the justice department and they worry about things like classified information and law enforcement sensitive inform
that is it is confusing. because there is so many cross lanes here as all of the different republican-led committees are now scrambling for their handle on how they want to try to hold the biden administration accountable. the letter, if you re a republican, it comes off quite ped antic. it explains how to make an oversite request and how to request. house republicans know this. jim jordan has been on this committee as the ranking member and part of this investigations before. the letter is in response to seven different letters that jordan and judiciary committee republicans sent out earlier this month. not just to doj but to a host of other agencies. basically saying we have a backlog of requests, not just the ones that ken was laying out here but the requests that you ignored, guess what we re in the majority now and we intend to follow up on all of them. i think ken s point is good, they have a hard time forcing cooperate from the doj bup
obligation to go to congress and provide the public through this congressional committee information about what they re doing on behalf of the taxpayers. they re just flot going to talk about pending investigations. ken and garrett, thank you to both of you. i have a feeling this is a pairing often in the months to come. appreciate it. guys, thanks. president trump is looking at another run at the white house, new concerns that that support is eroding. we ll talk about that plus the white house cracking down on a private military group which has been helping russia in ukraine. the consequences they could face straight ahead. but first, the fight to control the senate come 2024 is already heating up. some moves now being made public today. and behind the scenes. we have our teams reporting on how the map is looking in just 60 seconds. stay with us. when you shop wayfair, you get big deals for your home - every day. so big, we ll have you saying. am i a big deal? yeah you are, beca