handling of classified documents from his time as vice president. house oversight chair republican james comer sent a letter to the white house asking for visitor logs, later came the letter came one day after five more pages were found at biden s hm in addition to the two batches of records that were previously disclosed. so the administration hasn t been transparent about what s going on with president biden s possession of classified documents and we just want equal treatment here with respect to how both former president trump and current president biden are being treated with the document issue. some of the president s fellow democrats concede the administration has made some missteps in its handling of the issue. well, it s certainly embarrassing, right, embarrassing that you would find a small number of documents certainly not on purpose, one of those moments that obviously they wish hadn t happened. with us now to talk about this is ali with the president in
ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of the causeway there, that is the only way in or out, in a state overall, more than two and a half million people are without power and look at where that deep red is, some counties in southwest florida are totally we re live with officials, from across florida, as well as somebody from part of the federal response to this storm. cabinet secretary, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, hallie jackson in washington and we have the team covering every angle, and every location, and steve p
punta gorda. trees whipping, winds topping 130 miles an hour. across florida there are people trapped in their homes. entire homes being flooded out, people swimming inside. one city hit hard is bonita springs. part of that city are now completely underwater. the storm surge has knocked homes completely off their foundations as well. and to the south of there, the city of naples cat 4 winds there have completely demolished buildings. look at how high up that obviously you never know what s in these waters now. you ve got chemicals and everything in the middle of these towns. according to forecasters, the storm surge reached more than 6 feet, flooding cars and homes, even leaving rescue crews stranded. the water was so high that officials had to wade through it to rescue people who did not evacuate. and let us show you one astonishing image from just before ian came ashore. look at that. it s almost like a tsunami was coming. the winds and the storm actually sucked all the w
the justice department, according to the president s personal lawyer. that makes a total of three batches, including at least one marked top secret that were found. though the number of biden documents is far smaller than found in donald trump s possession in mar-a-lago and in biden s case were turned over immediately rather than withheld for more than a year and only recovered by the government after a court-ordered search. republicans are still claiming there is a double standard favoring mr. biden over donald trump. president biden may not have any personal legal exposure, if it turns out his aides mishandled the documents without his knowledge, politically this is becoming a five-alarm crisis. joining me now is monica, matthew, joyce, brendan and jeff. we have a full house today. all experts in their field. monica, what do we know? you ve been reporting on this all weekend, the discovery, the president s frustrations, the growing frustrations as republicans demand a visit
learning after determining there are no visitor logs for the home in delaware. out west, the california weather may finally get a break sometime soon. but not before one last batch of storms moves out this afternoon. we ve got a live report from the state now, under a major disaster declaration. plus, an nbc news exclusive, new reporting on one of next year s cril senate races and trying to unseat sherrod brown in ohio. i m hallie jackson in aurkz. with me is monica alba, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and former federal prosecutor and political legal affairs columnist rendo mariotti with us as well. the question is not taking questions from reporters on the documents. not all together surprising. but the white house is trying, to it feels, as you have new reporting on the president s mind set on all of this, flex the muscles and point the finger at house republicans to say why didn t you care when donald trump did this and you care what is happening in a different s