can you think of any legitimate reason, real reasoofn tied to actual national security concerns to keep this footage secret? hino, i mean, we already know from whistleblower interviews that there were federal agents and assets that were on the grounds that day. and i think what they really want to do is protect those people. they don t wans tot the answers to the questions about coordination, exculpation, t criminal acuity. and i thintok that is whatt of they are trying to preserve. usuall is stay when the department of justice is standing in the way of disclosure, it is becaused no they are trying to protect against embarrassment, not protect our safety. ou it s self-protection. yeah, protecting the nation. mac, it s great to see you tonight. thank you so much for this. honor. so joe biden staff discovered and joe biden admitted that he d been storing classified documents in several in seveoccasions, his office, s garage near his corvette, something called a pin biden center.
that these new documents hold after earlier this week, that one of those classified documents at the pin biden center was the highest level of classification. so definitely a lot more questions in addition to the outstanding ones that we already have for the biden white house in light of this new news about more classified documents that we just discovered. yeah, it s been a lot treated like just the last few minutes. ali, thank you for that. i know you will continue reading this, and joining me now on the phone, we have charlie savage of the new york times. we also have lisa rubin, of course msnbc legal analyst, and she is joining me. we should be able to see on camera second, there you are lisa. all right charlie, you have written the definitive article on this. and it is breaking news, incredible developments, but let s put this all into context. how do you see it? i think the biggest question raised on its face is, why did the white house say on thursday, hey, there was one mor
biden center, effectively where president biden had his office in washington after serving as vice president in the obama administration. he vacated offices there effectively when he declared his run for president in 2020. the center is sort of the biden home in d.c., in terms of his work life out of office. on november 2nd, lawyers for president biden, lawyers who work for him in his present capacity, were reportedly packing up the office space the vice president used at the pin biden center, in so doing, they found classified documents there. classified documents they say, were in a locked, inside those offices, mixed in with some nonclassified documents. this is, of course, a weird set of circumstances, but that is what they say happened. the white house has since confirms the basis of this