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found in his private office the source tells cnn that fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden s own, including some they found them on november 2nd. they say the white house counsel s office notified the national office immediately in the archives took possessions of them the next morning, the president ignored shouted questions in mexico from reporters tonight [inaudible] now, there are questions about how the documents got there, who knew they were there, what exactly they contained. the u.s. attorney in chicago, who by the way is a trump appointee, is conducting a damage assessment. but there are important distinctions between this and the swirl of controversy around donald trump. and the documents at mar-a-lago. biden s lawyer say they immediately turned over the documents and cooperated with the doj as soon as they found them. it took several asks and subpoenas to get the documents that trump had. not to mention the search warrant. in that case, ther ....
Present and we also heard from jamie raskin. he was smart offensive. he says that attorneys from president biden appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. what do some of these people say about donald trump and the mar-a-lago documents on that whole issue? i think a key sentiment we heard from republicans at the time was, don t look at all these classified documents that may have been squirrels away at mar-a-lago, don t worry about that, this is about the search at mar-a-lago and how the government has overstepped. that is really what a number of republicans focused on. frankly, that is what they are continuing to focus on, as we go into this new congress. as you point, out they have an opportunity now to investigate the biden administration and this now becomes part of it. one more question. what about the timing of this? if biden s lawyers discovered ....
They are no doubt going to face this issue that is percolating over the last few hours with these documents that were found in an office that joe biden used, that were marked classified. here with me, cnn political commentator alyssa farah, growth and and senior political analyst john avlon. i want to go quickly over about what we are just talking about with these documents found in joe biden s former office, here john. what are the most important issues that you see, the real issues ac? the real issue on the political side is that republicans are going to have to be able to play the whataboutism game, see, joe biden did it to end any charges against trump are gonna be purely political. look, we often let politics play the wraparound legal decisions. the obvious thing is to apply the same standards to whatever political parties involved. but we also have to have perspective, and he did a great job at the top of the show putting this in perspective, there s a difference between less ....
david i ve got to let you go in just a second. david gergen s, joe biden did not answer questions about this tonight how long yes, he got to do it immediately. the more quickly acts, and schools as what s there, you can get this under control. but at this point, if you re the prosecuting attorney and thinking about the having a court case against donald trump, there is a lot of the sting of documents being in wrong hands, that sting is going to evaporate. making those arguments now in front of the country about how serious this is from a democratic point of view it s gonna be very difficult to argue. okay david gergen, john dean, thank you to both of you. so last week everyone was watching, it was something of a nightmare for republicans. that red house of representatives. so, what is the impact now of this news of joe biden? what will republicans in the ....