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
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