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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...

got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let's get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president's corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? >> that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn't a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and und...

Point, which really kind of explains, at least for me, why hur has been engaged here and why the justice department is taking the aappropriates that they have, is to be as hands off and to be as transparent, and just presume as much as possible into this. and then take it off the table. it is easier to take stuff off the table than to have to go back and add, oh, now this looks like it is a criminal thing, it's easier to take that off the table by including it upfront and saying we want to come into this, in light of what president trump's story line has unfolded before the country, we want to...

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...

Got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let's get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president's corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? >> that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn't a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and understand wh...