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A Trump-appointed former federal prosecutor experienced in dealing with litigation involving classified information has been tapped to lead ...

Political way, evan, look. to the extent there is anything else out there well be diligent and sincere about our approach to alerting the authorities. that didnt happen. >> thats right. i think that is partly why a lot of us certainly some of us who lived these types of situations before, you get your spidey senses up and there are things that dont add up. the story they have settled on may well be the final story and charitably i can say i can see it is a very difficult situation to be doing th...

Counsel is unnecessary. why do you say that? >> ive said that twice now, willie, once respect to the special counsel appointed to investigate mr. trump and most recently with rob hurs appointment. i know rob hur, hes a wonderful guy. this is in no way to impugn his integrity. hes smart, honest, fair, a terrific prosecutor. that aside, i think the department of justice can do both of these investigations with the men and women who have worked there for years and with integrity. and by the way, th...

On the other classified documents probe headed by the other special counsel. this one centered on former president trump. weve learned those investigators want to interview the trump staffers who searched his properties in november for additional classified materials. cnns katelyn polantz is tracking this us. youre reporting special prosecutors have gone back and forth with trumps defense lawyers about whether trump has fully complied with the subpoena issued last may for classified documents. s...

Federal prosecutor elliot williams and abby phillip. we have two special prosecutors. i know the circumstances are different and as we just heard from indicatelyn, trump has not been complaining. jack smiths team not confident that all the documents have been turned over. it does appear at this point that bidens team is complying. so given that how will it impact rob hurs investigation into the biden case? >> well, you know, certainly his level of cooperation or any subject of an investigations ...

Japan. this is his first visit to the white house since becoming prime minister. a lot to discuss there. well get to more of that later in the show. lets get back to paula reid as were talking about the other issue that president biden is dealing with in the back drop or hanging over everything at the house right now. what is the latest about the special counsel -- that they have been selected to investigate. >> it is hanging over the white house and will be for quite sometime. the first thing t...

I wouldnted to know was president biden, was the white house surprised along with merrick garland that they decided more investigation was needed and a special counsel was called? >> what i can tell you we were not given a heads-up that attorney general garland was going to make -- made his announcement on the special counsel. that is something that we learned like many of you watching the news. im not going to get into anything further from that. i cant speak to this person who you news mention...

Would refer you to the department of justice. >> when president biden did say good willing -- >> we have been listening for the last few minutes, karine jean-pierre. acresting a couple of issues clueing the debt ceiling which the government is set to hit next week. the prevailing issue has been on how this administration and the how the president specifically has been handling in their response to news that a special counsel has been appointed to investigate the presidents handling of classified...

Department of treasury. >> knock to it being announced today? >> i would refer you to the department of treasury and just to be very clear here, ed, we have -- ive been in here almost every day since we got back from mexico city taking your questions at length so were not avoiding anything here and youve heard from the president at least twice and we have put forward multiple statements from the white house counsels office. so that suggestion, i just disagree with. >> thank you. so much. does th...

Dramatically different case with former president trump particularly in his lack of willingness to turn over documents, they just viewed these as two very different things and to some degree that may have played a role in the fact that they were caught on their back foot over the course of the last several days and they have now reached a moment i think, one, you knew from talking to officials they didnt want to be in dealing with the special counsel but even a few days ago they didnt expect to ...