i mries rosemary church. just ahead here on cnn newsroom, two presidents, two special counsels, and classified documents that neither should have had. we ll discuss the politics and possible punishment. just hours after celebrating back-to-back national championships tragedy strikes the georgia bull dogs football team. what we are learning about a deadly car accident in athens, georgia. plus epic flooding in california, deadly winter storms have forced evacuations, shifted landscapes and caused millions of dollars in damages. we re live in monterey county with the latest. good to have you with us. well, u.s. president joe biden is under growing scrutiny over his handling of classified documents. and republican lawmakers who now control the house of representatives are now ramping up the pressure. the chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs for joe biden s residence where several classified items have been found. also seekin
launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the late reverend martin luther king jr. here i
not told where. oh, wait, in his wilmington garage. and then yesterday, a fourth batch discovered at the wilmington house. i m not going to argue this is exactly like donald trump s case. he kept saying he d turned over all the classified papers only to have fbi agents find 100 more curl that curl that raid on mar-a-lago. bind voluntarily cooperated, it s different, nothing to see here. but once robert hur was appointed to investigate biden s mishandling of classified documents, the media s tone gradually became more skeptical. republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s privacy office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government materials stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges really. thanks to joe biden, america s most sensitive secrets were floating around in an unsecured office that was bought and paid for by the ccp. of course, joe biden doesn t need to defend himself. why should he? he s got don lemo
the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping classified documents next to stingray and the president fired back that
a moment. coma is now planning to extend his committee s critical investigatiol n into joe biden and his family s lucrative employment at penn biden center that mysteriously coincided with upends lucrative relationship with the communis t party of china during biden s employment at loop in tendste and tens of millions of dollars, we believe. sixty seven up to date fromersiy china pouring into.t the university at the very same time, hunter biden wasit the beneficiary of a very lucrative deal with a chinese energy company. and can you believe it.?at biden s private office upend the biden center made possible. by the communist party of tha china. you can t make that up. thatou is exactly whereed top secret classified obama era documents turned up.mplete but years later, we have full, complete details. grea at specificity. breaking news coming up now. tonight, we are witnessing a white house in full crisis mode. they are panicking in the westk wing tonight. biden visibly shaken a