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well, i thought your interview, first of all, jake, was terrific. i think you asked really important, very, very strong questions. and you followed up, you gave him an opportunity to make his case. he did make his case. and he also made some news, i thought, on several key issues. i was taking notes on ukraine, for example. he made some news on iran. i had never heard the prime minister of israel acknowledge, confirm, that israel has already launched military action to try to destroy various iran military weapons, weapons that could be given to russia, for example, sold to russia and its war against ukraine. and he made that clear, that israel was doing that covertly, clearly. i thought that was significant. and you had a good discussion on u.s. israeli relations right now, which are going through various elements. i thought it was very significant a couple of ago, when the u.s. and israel had their largest ever joint military exercises, the u.s. military s central co ....
the administration is under intense scrutiny as it tries to put out firestorm of criticism over a lack of transparency, but president biden says he is fully cooperating with investigators while arguing, quote, there s no there there. all this coming as two senate democrats are calling for a full investigation. former federal prosecutor alex little is standing by with the big picture, but first, let s go to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the very latest. hello, lucas. reporter: good afternoon, arthel. many republicans asking more questions about the timeline and why the decision was made not to reveal these classified documents before the midterm elections. nobody should be above the law, but what it comes down to here is the deliberate misleading of the american people. again, when did they know, how many people knew, and did they choose to keep it secret from the american people. reporter: now two democratic senators, tim kaine and joe manchin, sa ....
that office. i don t know what s in the documents. laura: hold on a wilmington minute. the man who promised to raise the bar for ethics and trust in government. he is now feigning ignorance? i see nothing. i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. laura: more than two months after these ten classified documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this inconvenient truth. president returned dignity to government, had actually been derelict with government records or someone close to him was. now, when trump was found with classified documents, biden called it totally irresponsible. of course, the media has taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. accidents do happen. it is not a good reason but it is a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number is smaller. in president biden s case, he and his lawyers appear to have actually do ....
newsroom and good to have you with us, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto, and soon former vice president pence could be answering questions, because he has been subpoenaed, and what the special council is wanting to learn from him and what it could mean in terms of executive privilege. and plus another major review in tennessee after the death of tyre nichols, and the shelby county district attorney is expected to review all prior cases involving those five officers is charged for their role in nichols death, and what that could mean. and if the death toll continues to rise in turkey and syria and we are hearing of remarkable stories of survival and one girl survived after 107 hours under the rubble, and hope is understandably dimming in hopes of finding survivors as the crews continue their search there. we begin this hour with vice president pence who is under investigation in regard to former president trump, and so, in regard to this subpoena, what does the whit ....
america s gun violence epidemic. plus, ruben gallego joins me here in the studio as he launches his bid to evict conservative former democrat kyrsten sinema from the senate. and the latest from the devolder files. george santos claims to have been mugged on one of the busiest and fanciest avenues. when it comes to the january 6th assault on the capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy, the wheels of justice are indeed actually turning. in the two years since the insurrection, the department of justice has made more than 950 arrests. nearly 500 of those people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges. at least 40 have been found guilty at contested trials. just yesterday, four members of the extremist group the oath keepers were found guilty of the most serious charge lobbed in the attack, seditious conspiracy. this follows november s conviction of two other oath keepers including the group s leader, elmer stewart rhodes under the same charge. an ....