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after his time as vice president. sources tell cnn that it is possible that more searches elsewhere may happen. also that the white house is shifting into damage control. sources say president biden is growing frustrated by how the saga has played out. he cannot escape the questions about the timing of publicly disclosing the classified documents when some of the first pages were initially discovered in november. once again, today, the president chose not to take reports questions. [ inaudible ]. cnn s mj lee is at the white house. a spokesman for the white house counsel is defending the communication and strategy so far. tell us about that. yeah. victor and alisyn, we just wrapped up a lengthy phone call, a press call, with reporters ta that the white house counsel s spokesperson held trying to offer a robust defense of how the white house has handled all of this so far including sort of the timing of the disclosure of information and sort of the decision to wai ....
Missing and tried to negotiate with the trump team and weren t getting full answers. they got boxes. until final they couldn t get the pieces, whatever the documents were, they needed to have a search warrant, with, as i understand it, so far, it was the biden lawyers who alerted the national air. they didn t know anything was missing. that s a real difference and important distinction. they got boxes and boxes back. there are ongoing discussions. from what we know thus far, the things in question were things like personal correspondence between the president and the leader of north korea that has a rightful negotiation of whether that s a national security issue or whether that s a personal effect of the presidency. hang on, congressman. you don t think that belongs to the american public, documents like that? you think those are mementos president trump could keep? i think that s i don t think that is worthy of an fbi raid on a sitting president two days before the blackout p ....
Dealing with an ongoing investigation and basically feeling like they re very limited, but also dealing with the criticism about the lack of transparency as well. mj lee for us at the white house, thank you, mj. joining us republican congress man mike wall from florida. he tweeted about the classified documents at biden s office last week wondering why there has not been an fbi raid. congressman, thanks so much for being here. an fbi raid, isn t that a little premature? the fbi didn t go in to execute the search warrant with president trump until 16 months they had been waiting for him to turn over the documents. it s only been two months for biden so far. why would you want the fbi to go in. well, your math is interesting it there, alisyn, because by my math it s been five years that these documents have been sitting there and so if, you know, the white house s rendition of kind of events here is correct, that we ve done the right thing, we ve told the national archives, we ve t ....
Should, this white house and the attorney general really has no control. but to my point on, you know, asking about the fbi raid is, i think, you know, americans continue to feel like they re seeing two tiers of justice here, and the question that i had on that raid, is why at some point, did the attorney general no longer trust president trump s attorneys in the back and forth, in the negotiation, but they re still trusting president biden s attorneys? why are we taking everything they re providing at face value? my goal is not to do the what about, but to say look, we have to restore trust and a lot of trust has been eroded for a lot of reasons over the last few years across our national security. let me try to answer that for the viewers. i think it s the timeline. i think that the reason that the trust was eroded with the trump team, for 16 months, the national archives said we know these are missing. here are the ones we know are ....
Unknown at this point. jason, in addition to the potential evidence that s been discovered, you mentioned the knife with the blood there at the home and what was found at the trash facility. there s also the question of the first report of a missing person in this case, and that s new reporting it didn t come from brian walshe. it did not. we took a look at the police log, victor, which showed that on january 4th her employer in washington, d.c., remember, she worked there in washington, d.c. during the week at that real estate firm, it was the head of security from that firm that called cohassett police and said that she was missing and so that was the first indication that cohassett police had that ana walshe was missing. it didn t come from her husband, it came from her employer. again, another piece of circumstantial evidence that prosecutors are surely going to be adding to their case. okay. jason carroll, thank you for ....