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good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. new political and potentially legal headaches for president biden after a second batch of classified documents is found at his delaware home. will attorney general merrick garland weigh in when he makes a statement a few minutes from now? plus george santos facing new calls to resign including from even more of his republicans in his home state. but he's making it clear he's staying in congress. can he and gop leadership ride this out? and finally, investigators have now identified the systems glitch that de...

Pursuant to regultions governing such matters in keeping i have notified the designated members of each house of congress of the apointment. i'm joined by the u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois who conducted the initial investigation into the matter that i will describe today. on november 4th, the national archives office of inspector general contracted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents baring classification marks were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and globa...

If indeed this is even the topic of discussion for merrick garland. >> i imagine one thing that could happen today is that he may announce he's apointing a special counsel. typically the process is for the attorney general himself to review a matter to determine whether a special counsel is merited. so i suppose this second round of documents at president biden's residence might call into question whether that's a line there. not every of possession of classified documents is a crime. it's a violation of rules, sometimes that results in people losing their clearances, getting fired, getting di...

Good for the white house in the long-term. but they are just going to have to suffer through the next few months or however long it takes for this investigation to be seen through by the special counsel, who was just appointed. >> kind of a similar question, matthew. there's the facts and then there's the spin of this there's no doubt that i'm expecting that the republicans will make something of this. but will it stick? >> it will stick in the short-term. i think the problem is once you get past the headlines, and i agree with jen on all this, in the end having two special counsels operating ...

Documents were among other records from the period of the president's service a as vice president. the fbi went to the location and secured those documents. on january 5th, 2023, mr. loush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on his initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. in the days since, while he conned the investigation, the department identified mr. hur for appointment as special counsel. th...