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Japan. this is his first visit to the white house since becoming prime minister. a lot to discuss there. we'll get to more of that later in the show. let's get back to paula reid as we're talking about the other issue that president biden is dealing with in the back drop or hanging over everything at the house right now. what is the latest about the special counsel -- that they have been selected to investigate. >> it is hanging over the white house and will be for quite sometime. the first thing that will happen is rob hur will have to assemble his team and get his office set up. special coun...

I wouldn'ted to know was president biden, was the white house surprised along with merrick garland that they decided more investigation was needed and a special counsel was called? >> what i can tell you we were not given a heads-up that attorney general garland was going to make -- made his announcement on the special counsel. that is something that we learned like many of you watching the news. i'm not going to get into anything further from that. i can't speak to this person who you news mentioned who has been having conversations or making comments. i'm not going to get into that or give r...

Would refer you to the department of justice. >> when president biden did say good willing -- >> we have been listening for the last few minutes, karine jean-pierre. acresting a couple of issues clueing the debt ceiling which the government is set to hit next week. the prevailing issue has been on how this administration and the how the president specifically has been handling in their response to news that a special counsel has been appointed to investigate the president's handling of classified information and documents, i want to get back to phil mattingly at the white house. we kept hearin...

Department of treasury. >> knock to it being announced today? >> i would refer you to the department of treasury and just to be very clear here, ed, we have -- i've been in here almost every day since we got back from mexico city taking your questions at length so we're not avoiding anything here and you've heard from the president at least twice and we have put forward multiple statements from the white house counsel's office. so that suggestion, i just disagree with. >> thank you. so much. does the white house and the does the president agree to fully cooperate. >> we said we will continue t...

Dramatically different case with former president trump particularly in his lack of willingness to turn over documents, they just viewed these as two very different things and to some degree that may have played a role in the fact that they were caught on their back foot over the course of the last several days and they have now reached a moment i think, one, you knew from talking to officials they didn't want to be in dealing with the special counsel but even a few days ago they didn't expect to be in particularly not this quickly and that has underscored a reality over the course of the two ...