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thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. beth beet with ari melber start rights now. >> we start with breaking news -- a legal first for president biden. attorney general merrick garland upending washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe biden's office at home. this is a significant legal development. no matter what happens from here. it's also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when ...

thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden's lawyers confirm a second batch of classified files were discovered in his delaware home. the president says he's fully cooperating, but can't resist sniping at reporters' questions. >> classified material next to your corvette. what were you thinking? >> let me -- i'll have a chance to speak on this, good willing, soon, and as i said -- by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage. it's not like it's sitting out in the street. >> plus, a picture of fraud. more and more republicans plead with congressman george santos to quit as we ...

merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president pieden's classified documents that were found. >> on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. the special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department....

for maryland and was appointed by former president trump. >> i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public, the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. >> now earlier, president biden confirmed that more classified documen...

and we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, don't want to get ahead of this. the department of justice, you all can -- will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the department of justice and now as you all know there is a special counsel. >> thank you, korine. another one on garagegate. what is the white house trying to hide? >> nothing. >> someone gave the president a statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. who? >> so i have read out the president's statement. i have read it out...