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and i m boris sanchez. the white house is trying to go on business as usual amid the mounting question over president biden s handling of documents. why republicans in congress say they re looking into the department of justice s response. saturday night we could get blasted with rain, and that s when i thought, let s get a little bit more protection. parts of california preparing for even more heavy rain and flooding as another round of powerful storms move in. a look at the forecast, including when things will finally start to dry out. and developing this morning, powerful explosions heard across ukraine as russia launches another round of attacks. we ll take you live to kyiv for the very latest. plus, $10 for a dozen eggs? why so many of us are getting sticker shock at the grocery store when it comes to some breakfast staples. aah, take a deep breath. the weekend is here. saturday, january 14th. we re so grateful you re waking us with up. i m grateful to be ....
Special counsel, but the white house is trying to say that they re trying to answer as many questions as possible. le. i ve been in here almost every day since we got back from mexico city, standing here taking your questions at length, so we re not avoiding anything here. you ve heard from the president at least twice, and we have put forth multiple statements from the white house counsel s office. reporter: but, still, there are so many details the white house has not provided. for the white house s part, they re trying to proceed undeterred with their schedule. you saw president biden here yesterday hosting the japanese prime minister kishida. tomorrow he s traveling to atlanta, where he s set to become the first sitting president to speak at a service at ebenezer baptist church. that s the church that was home to martin luther king jr. the white house is trying to continue with business even though this is dominating so much of the conversation. of course, the officials here at ....
Because now it s a criminal investigation. they have announced several committees are now investigating. lindsey to you, politically, obviously the implications are huge, and, of course, i do want to talk to you about how much of a political liability this is for president biden, but also the drip, drip of disclosures. first we heard about documents being found on monday, and then, of course, on thursday we heard about the documents at his private home in delaware. are we also seeing a major credibility issue for the biden administration? certainly it s a problem that there s new information that has come out since the initial disclosure. this is the same thing that happened with trump where it was initially little documents found and then the situation escalated. republicans in particular think that this has been handle d ....
This is hypocrisy in the way the justice department is handling this in that they did a raid on former president trump s home. with biden, they have kept this under the rugs since the first document was found in november before the election, and they have questions about the timing of that and whether there was any coordination with the justice department. this could be a big political liability for the biden administration depending on what the answers to those questions are. right. to that point, you know, with republicans saying, you know, we re seeing a lot of hypocrisy here, shan, can we take a moment to say there are clear differences between trump s apparent handling of classified documents versus biden s, right, and a lot of it goes down to what we ve seen in terms of cooperation. absolutely. that s absolutely right. while there might be a ....
the white house is facing persistent questions about the discovery of classified documents found at president biden s home and also the office he used in washington, dc, but so far they ve offered very few answers. this is an issue that s dominated the conversation over the curse of the last five days and has entered a new phase as a special counsel is underway. if you ask owes, they re in the dark about the discovery, but the strategizing has been left to a very small group of advisers as well as outside lawyers. a source confirming that bob bauer is the lawyer that s representing the president in this matter. he s someone that worked with president biden back during the 20 campaign, and he will be the one working closely with the special counsel to answer their questions about how these documents made their way to that office and to that residence. it was on monday night that the white house first revealed after it was revealed in media reports that there were classified documents ....