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counsel investigation. president biden dodged questions about it today in an oval office photo-op. [ inaudible ] moments ago the white house press secretary repeated that the president will cooperate with special counsel robert hur and failed to explain why the public was not told about the classified documents when they were first discovered in november. >> is it the policy of the white house that that should share that information not just with the national archives but the american people? >> i'll say this. we have been transparent. there's an ongoing process and spoken when it is...

Of people involved in this and from the scope of the appointment memo yesterday you can see that this is an investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents. we'll see whether there's something else that pops up but at this point we are in a far different place than the trump investigation. >> okay. thank you both very much. joining us is david chalian. tom, i want to start with you. what do you see in terms of the difference of scope and the timeline? >> sure. you got to think about in terms of months, not years. the scope of the bob hur investigation is narrow. so i don't ...

We support federal law enforcement and want to make sure they are not adversely affecting our electoral process. >> tucker: but, like a lot of things, i don't disagree with what you say in theory. but i wonder if we are not undermining democracy in its defense? you have a special counsel who is not accountable to any branch of government. that's not a democratic system where you have someone with the power to destroy your life and put you in prison who can't be accountable to anybody elected by voters? that's the opposite of democracy, is it not? >> i looked at the appointment memo for robert ...

Are and most of the viewers are, we support federal law enforcement and want to make sure they are not affecting our electoral process. >> tucker: but, like a lot of things, i don't disagree with what you say in theory. are we undermining democracy in its defense? you have a special counsel who is not accountable to any branch of government. that's not a democratic system where you have someone with the power to destroy your life and put you in prison who can't be accountable to anybody elected by voters? that's the opposite of democracy, is it not? >> i looked at the appointment memo for robe...

Anything along the way and staff with prosecutors, if rod rosenstein is such a hot shot and so good at specificity and legal matters, why did he draft that appointment memo that initial memo so sloppily and why did he surreptitiously amend it hoping to retroactively correct it and won't reveal the appointment memo to devin nunes and others to see. whitewater was available. watergate was available. why all the cloak of secrecy in everything these people are doing if all they're doing is trying to find out about russian interference in our elections. it's very suspicious to me. mark: let me just...