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The right as a former president to retain classified documents, even though there is no evidence any of them had been properly declassified. >> when biden is admonishing me for documents that im allowed to have as president, i am allowed to have, we were allowed to take this, many presidents took things with them. >> he was not allowed to take them. peter alexander reporting there. lets bring in nbc news national security annual igs jeremy bash and simone townsend. she was chief spokesperson for...

Justice, previously served as chief spokesperson for senator doug schumer. and my colleague, simone townsend, the host of simone on msnbc. she was formally as chief spokesperson for vice kamala harris, and worked and the presidential campaign, and the bernie sanders 2016 campaign. simone, let me start with you. and ask you from your perspective, why you think this congress, and this president, and these two tracks, the riot conciliation democrat, only bipartisan bills, was able to be as producti...

So we are going to pass this. so theres a little bit of pushback there, but once republicans have control of the house, it is just gonna be a lot of gridlock. there are some places where the white house feels like maybe they can get things done. immigration was one of them, that is one thing that is moving around the senate and during the lame duck session, but there is not a lot of expectation that really anything significant is going to get. on >> immigration, i cannot imagine anything will ge...

Between 1992 and 2021, 6,500 people were convicted of simple possession. the president also called on governors to issue pardons for those who face state charges of simple marijuana possession. i want to bring in simone townsend. and the founder and ce of os grass lands. he served as the first ever marijuana editor. so monica, what can you tell us about what led the president to make his announcement now? >> reporter: this is something that candidate biden promised and talked about repeatedly. w...