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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, there is also an investigation of possible obstruction. the documents found in biden office, numbered fewer than a dozen. the documents at mar-a-lago, in the hundreds. there is also the legal side and of course, the political. everybody who watched the -- knows there is a new republican majority in the house with the gavel, with new committee chairs, and they're hungry for investigations and this could be at the top of their list now. all of this is against the backdrop of joe biden, cnn's reporting, getting ready to run again. i want to bring in cnn's evan perez and sara murray. you have the recording on these documents -- laid out for. us what we know? >> john, we know now, from the white house, that these documents were found in november during a process that the president's legal team was doing to shut down an office

that he had set up when he left office back in 2017, when he left office as vice president, he had set up a think tank with the university of pennsylvania. and it is during that process, last november, that they uncovered these government records that needed to be turned over, should have been turned over to the national archives. now, among those documents, as you pointed out, were what is president biden's teams says -- fewer than i doesn't documents that were marked as classified. sources telling phil mattingly that at least some of these documents were at the -- sensitive compartmented information level. some of the most closely guarded secrets of the u.s. government. the president did not know and still does not know what exactly was in those documents. at this stage, we know that the justice department is doing a review, and investigation of

this is being handled by the u. s. attorney in chicago, and we will see if that is where this remains. at this point, that's all we know. >> the u.s. attorney in chicago is still a trump appointee, one of the very few u.s. attorneys who is a trump appointee. and then, people look at the sense that, classified occupants, in possession of a president or a former president. what are the differences here between the biden case and the trump case? >> right. a big distinction. according to president biden's team, we are talking about fewer than a dozen, according to them. we know from the court fights that we have been watching, with regard to the documents that were turned over from the former president trump, that we are talking over 300 documents of various classifications. 92 at secret -- a couple of dozen that where the highest classifications, and as you pointed out, it took

months and months of arguing and letters and threats from the justice department, the fbi, and the archives, to try to get trump to turn over some of those documents and in the end, he still did not turn over all of them, because when the fbi went in in august to do a search, they found additional documents and we should point out that the justice department says in court filings that the reason why they conducted an extraordinary surge that we saw in mar-a-lago in august was because they had received information that documents were being moved out of that location, so we know that that is the reason why the former president is now the subject of an investigation that includes obstruction, according to president biden's team. they turned over these documents without being asked, they turned over immediately, and so, that is where the distinction flies. >> standby for a minute. i want to bring in sarah murray. sara, what is the reaction from capitol hill? >> for republicans, this is a centrally a political gift. they were awfully amused, as we

were talking to them about the story tonight. kevin mccarthy seemed skeptical that all of a sudden these documents have emerged any sort of seem to suggest that biden should've known better. he said president trump had been in office before and had just left, came out, and here's an individual that spent lease last 40 years in office. it shows that they were trying to be political president trump. now the top to james comer about this, then you oversight chair they are planning on sending documents to the archives as well as to the biden white house about this matter -- he said, how ironic that biden now finds himself in this position. we also heard from jim jordan, chair of the judiciary committee. he will says -- the democrats, as you might imagine, we're more muted. some of them talk to my colleague, manu raju -- both said, these classified documents do need to be kept in a secure space. obviously, that was not -- when he left office as vice

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

them on november 2nd, that was before the midterm election. why are we only hearing about this now? >> exactly. that is the question we have. we don't know why this took so long to come out. we certainly know that what the national archives did after viewing the situation was they decided to make a referral to the justice department for them to do something similar to how they handled the mar-a-lago situation. the question now is what happens next? after this review, after this investigation that has been done by the fbi, do they ask for more information? do they do interviews to see who handle these documents? remember, these documents have been sitting there apparently in a closet at this office for six years. so, that is a long time for documents to be sitting there in a place that is not secure and that is been part of the issue of the investigation into the former president, which is the handling of classified information is a big issue and of course, something that president biden has made a point of pointing out with regard to trump. >> thank you both for your

reporting on this. i want to bring in former nixon white house counsel -- john, first to you. this is now, to a certain extent, in the hands of the u. s. attorney out of chicago. what questions need to be answered here from a legal standpoint? >> all the facts around the discovery of these documents at the think tank that biden was associated with have to be developed. that needs to be done informally. i don't think it will go to grand jury. i think the fbi will investigate it, they will ask all the people the right questions and get some information. if it is serious, if it is just not a civil wrong and irresponsible act by the former vice president and former president, then it will be a grand jury.

otherwise, it will just really be dealt with in some sort of report that the attorney general, because of the politics of it all, it's going to have to decide whether to release it or not. >> from a legal standpoint, what matters is has the documents ended up there and who knew that they were there -- >> well, you know, it is very unusual for this level of classification to be outside of a skiff or a proper filing system, i don't know if this think tank has that. that's part of the fact we don't have. if it was a mistake in delivery by some staffer, who left them there, the vice president has no exposure at all. he claims he doesn't even know what the documents are today. so, i think what will happen here, because republicans are so good at making mountains out of molehills, they will make a mountain out of this. and, so it will not go away,

but politically, it is a gift for them. legally, it will not change trump situation at all. >> not change trumps situation at all. david gergen, to you here. in terms of how the current white house has handled this according to them, they told the national archives, as soon as they knew they were there, what is your assessment here? >> they did not go public with it and this whole -- will be tried first any court of public opinion. what happens in the next 2 to 4 weeks as the investigation goes on and we get more facts? clearly, they should have disclosed this when they first found out. they did the right thing -- but they would have saved themselves a lot of grief politically have they showed it to the public right away. i imagine there are very worried about the midterms, just around the corner. they had some momentum. this would have planted it.

i think in the long term, the democrats will come out -- this is polarizing -- the other side has a group of arguments. and we just go on a farther polarized -- i don't see this settling the polarization issue at all. >> what are the issues -- you have worked in many different white house as here. how easy is it to walk away with classified documents? there is the issue of the possession of, them merely having the classified documents, and then there is the issue, and this is where you get into the trump world, of having -- being told you should not have them. being asked to get them back and not turning them over. the act of having them, how unusual or how many questions does that -- >> well, you mean the active asking everything, can you give me this, give me that? >> but they existed in the closet if bay --

>> i think it is unbelievable that the stuff has been sitting in a closet for six years. it is sort of stunning in and of itself and the question i have is, were there -- why in the world was the vice president keeping classified documents anyway? why -- at a site that is probably unprotected. there is a lot about that that i think he will get scolded for in the weeks ahead. but i do think that john dean is right, republicans have become awfully good at making mountains out of molehills. >> john dean, put yourself in merrick garland's position. you just told me that you don't think this changes donald trump's legal situation, but does trump and his team now have a defense in a court, where a jury would have to decide beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump is guilty. does trump now have a defense where other guys took documents to -- >> i don't think so.

i don't think it will hold up. what trump's problem is, he obstructed the process of getting the documents back. had he returned the documents with the national archives, -- this would have never developed into an issue. it is because he stalled them, refused, than steph them on a subpoena, and obstructed and misrepresented what was their. that is why he is in trouble. it is not the fact that he had the documents. even if he took them for some sinister or improper reason. he probably could have gotten away and just returned them. but his refusal to return them -- and that is what the general needs to look at when the special counsel refers the case to him if he decides it is prosecutable. that's what i was getting it with my getting out with the question of if possession is enough dinner. if it gets to the legal question of do you think the attorney general would support

a prosecution based on obstruction alone? not necessarily the possession? >> it is a question of the intent. what was the intent that each of them -- i think it happens much more than we know, that former high officials and up with classified documents in their files. we know former cia director had them, a former military people get them, and they're generally just returned and no issues made of it. it is the way that trump behaved once he was discovered to have these documents that raised the criminal issues with it. so these are very different criminal cases, versus civil. there is no evidence at this point that mr. biden has done anything that is a criminal, he certainly made an abuse of the norms for handling classified documents by taking them has a former vice president to his think tank. we do not know how he got them there.

>> 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

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are there is a speaker of the, house republican kevin mccarthy is the speaker. they have moved past that, although not without some scars and other republicans are running things in the house,

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 than a dozen documents and 300. there's a difference between handing them immediately over

and obstructing requests for the documents over long period of time. and then there's the question of what is in the documents. is it something nefarious that had personal benefit to joe biden's family, or is a totally innocuous? those facts matter, and the rush to play the what about game, falling into that, i think it does a disservice to the facts of the case. we have to follow the facts. >> alyssa, it is interesting, and no doubt that republicans will ask about those. i do not think that there is anything even controversial about an oversight committee of either party asking for more information about something like this. but, if anyone does go and say what joe biden did was wrong, don't they also after say that was donald trump was wrong, and then don't they tie themselves up? >> that's where it gets complicated, but i want to say full stop, it is wrong when any one, president, vice president, mishandled classified information. i was consistent when it was hillary clinton or donald trump, and in this case the president. here is the problem that i think republicans are going to encounter in trying to litigate this in the court of public

opinion. many were silent on donald trump mishandling classified information, however, their counter point is going to be that no run raided the vice president's former school that he had, and i'm already seeing that percolate. it's gonna descend in the political corners of each side. i agree with david gergen, the sooner the president gets out and says we try to be above board, we came forward, we turned them over, the better for him. but, i am not a lawyer, i'm a political adviser. this makes merrick garland's case a lot harder, as i see. it >> how comfortable is mark arland tonight? >> merrick garland has kind of made's name on this by ignoring the politics. you would hope that in this moment he would kind of stay on the course that he has set, but that is going to be harder and harder to your point is more people are looking to make that equivalence between trump's actions and biden's actions. now, we know that there is a factual false equivalence. we should not make those two things the same, but the politics of that allows the republican party to be able to say that it might not be justice but as what donald trump did but that at minimum

to body the waters around the classified documents. they're going to play that, card before today, but that has been supercharged. >> i do have questions about the timeline about when this was discovered, who knew, what, when, in terms of -- merrick garland announced the appointment of the special counsel after, i think, he knew about these documents in joe biden's office. >> that's not an interesting. >> it's not an interesting, and i think that there are real questions around this. when did that knowledge happen and also, why didn't they acknowledged it before when that ignition acquisition was nate? i think to your, point it does make sense to have a kind of investigative questions to be asked, but the politics is where this is going to live and die and that is going to be for a republican party that has an incentive to absolve donald trump. >> that's right, the only thing out add is that joe biden, president biden, has an obligation to come forward tomorrow and answer questions

as fully and fulsomely as he possibly can. maybe he will say i didn't know they were. they're >> based on the audio that we have heard of him condemning donald trump for how it was irresponsible of how these documents, i suspect that he probably did not know. but, just taking a step back, why do so many of our senior leaders not know how to handle classified nation? when i was at the department of defense, if i had taken one classified document out i would've been prosecuted and thrown into prison. >> i think there's a different set of expectations or at least understandings with the senior rank and file here. i want to talk about something that is happening in the house of representatives. george santos, the member of congress from the state of new york here who said a whole lot of things that were not true about himself, is now a sitting member of the house of representatives. that part is all true. everything else it is true. kevin mccarthy was now the speaker of the house has been asked, what are you going to do about this guy who lied about himself and is now in your caucus? kevin mccarthy had refused to comment on it until now, but now he told cnn tonight, just a short time ago, you know how to handle internal stuff?

i handle it internally. i am sure at times i will come tell you. so, this guy who ran on a bunch of lies and is now being investigated, that is an internal issue? >> in kevin mccarthy's reality, yes. you can understand, somebody saying look, this is an issue with one of my members, i'm going to head up behind closed doors. but there is investigations occurring that are quite public and this guy lied about everything, and this is not going away even as the speaker might like to contain it behind closed. doors >> it's also rich because the leader of my party, kevin mccarthy, also decided to hash out a public debate through 15 speaker votes instead of working it out behind closed doors, his issues with his members. so it is a little of inconsistency. they're all be interesting to see if he seats him on committees or committee assignments are coming down, when you put somebody who is under investigation? >> this is the speaker of the house that we do not have a

political capital shown, -- >> he speaker of the house. >> i understand that is true. i'm just saying, who has the power in that caucus, that is been clear over the last couple of days. we should not expect a kevin mccarthy to behave the same ways that the traditional leader of the caucus, since then. he is in uncharted waters. >> in the case of george santos, just this alone, who is the george santos caucus? who's rooting for this guy? why would any republican, i know that there is a very thin margin, but it is just one vote. maybe you could spare the one vote, not to have the guy lie? >> the answer is, if you are in a district when -- he would be gone. but, that is not the case. so they're going to try to live with it as long as possible. >> it was a surprise victory that he won that district, democratic candidate should have won a better campaign and a more vetting. they cannot afford it. kevin mccarthy has got such a slim majority that he's going

to hold on to this guy until he has to. >> part of the problem is that the new york times newsday, this was considered a slate safe seat. news day, they only island. but the real problem is that it was considered a safe seat, and so there was not the adequate attention. you get a guy who lied about everything. >> actually there -- was >> there was a brief moment on the house floor where his name was called repeatedly, and people started joking that maybe his name is neven called george santos. >> they're renting the seat at the cost of a lot. thank you all for being here, i appreciate it. so, a political riot in brazil has a lot of people saying, this looks familiar. the parallels between what is happening there and what happened here on january 6th after this.

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so we're back following a number of big stories. violence that is being compared to what we saw here on january 6th, brazil it is happening there. it is reeling after hundreds of supporters of the former president there are storms you to government after the refused to concede his election loss. that is going on. here in the united states, the republicans they have the gavel at the house of representatives they have a speaker, what will they do with his power? and tonight, we are learning

that classified documents from joe biden's time as vice president were discovered in a private office that he used after the ababa and ministration. with me now is former defense secretary william cohen, mister secretary, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with what we are seeing or samba over the weekend. my colleague jim sciutto asked the question, is election denialism now a chief u.s. export? when you think about that? >> well, i think it has been exported. i think bolsonaro was looking at the president trump as an example of how to follow. it may be an alter ego, but the fact is that what he and trump both have done is to undercut the legitimacy of our institutions, especially's right to vote. so, i think when you delegitimized and say unless i win, it is fraudulent, then what you are doing is undercutting the very promise and the basics of having a democracy. so, yeah, i think that

president trump although he's not the originator of the tactic, is attaching to totalitarians, authoritarians, those seeking to destroy institutions, and come in on whitehorse, a white man coming in on a whitehorse, and saying we're gonna rescue you. >> does it undercut u.s. diplomacy worldwide when the u. s. pushes the virtues of democracy? >> i think it does. i think anytime that you see action being taken in the united states, that in any way undermines the rule of law, and i believe that we have seen that take place on the part of republicans for the last two years at least, denying the election was legitimate, notwithstanding all of the court cases who reaffirmed the legitimacy of the election. they still say that we cannot support it. so, i think that we are sending a signal to other countries, this is how you do it if you want to over stroll the democratic constitution. >> so what are the 26 impressive jobs that you felt of your life is as a member of

the u.s. house of representatives, from maine. how do you like to be serving the republican caucus right now? what are you expecting from them or the next two years? >> well, i would not like to be serving, nor were they like to have me serve because i have always believed that we need to agree on the facts and i think that many on the hill right now are living in an alternate universe, naming alternative facts. so i think when you denies actual information, then you are, it was timothy snyder the professor from yale who said that a post-truth era is a precursor to pretty fascism. so post-truth, pretty fascism. i think that is what we are look at if we do not restore respect for the rule of law. i do not know that the republicans have that in, mind i think they are more inclined to see if they cannot damac great president biden, his son, and do everything they can to prepare for 2024. >> i do want to ask you about the news reports from the sea

and then cnn, about documents from joe biden's private office. the documents used from when he was vice president and then elected president, documents marked classified there. what questions do you have, what do you think the legitimate questions are about the presence of those documents? >> honestly -- is the most legitimate in terms of whether president biden knew he had the documents and if he in any way with all them once you about it. but the politics are going to override any attempt to be reasonable about this. i think it was harold mcmillon during a time when there is a scandal in great britain, he said the words to the fact that at maybe a tempest in a tea cup, but in politics we sail on paper boats. and i think that is where we are right now in terms of how the paper boats that we are in, the water will overwhelm it. however, serious it may be in terms of what joe biden had in

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the buffalo bills damar him lynn is back in buffalo tonight at a local hospital, just one week after collapsing on the field with cardiac arrest during a game against the cincinnati bengals. doctors say his recovery continues to beat expectations. hamlin tweeted out his appreciation for those rallying around, writing in part, quote,

at the same love that you all have shown me is the same love that i plan to put back into the world and more. he tweeted a photo of himself yesterday from his hospital bed, rooting on his teammates in their big win over the new england patriots. doctors say that hamlin maybe got a little too excited watching the game. >> he watched the game yesterday when the opening kickoff was going back, he jumped up and, down got out of his chair, said every alarm of in the icu in the process. but, he was fine, it was just an appropriate reaction to very so exciting play. >> he was wearing at the tv, also appropriate reaction. cnn contributor carrie champion and former nfl player -- i just have to say, it was one week ago one even our talking, just before we had any idea that dimmer hamlin was on the road to recovery here, i just want you to reflect on the

difference in emotions between this moment and one week ago. >> yeah, it has a lot to do with the grace of god. when you look at what we witnessed monday night, seven days ago, and to see where he is now and how he has been able to cheer on his team i think the only reason that the guys were able to actually go and play that game was because -- your friend and teammate, it is hard to do. i think that is why the nfl, the coaches, the players decided not to continue that game monday. but, you filters spirit on that buffalo game with both of those kickoff returns, especially the first one. i try to be tough and i'm an offensive lineman but i cried, i really shouted here when i

saw that sunday, the opening kickoff. >> i wanted nothing more than the bills to lose that game as a patriots fan, and even i was shaking my head in appreciation when they ran back. the second one i thought there was gratuitous. carrie champion, i cannot remember a time when it has felt like, we see so much controversy in sports over the last few years. when so many people have come together, there really has been this adjoining of spirit this last week, capped off by the supernatural kickoff return against the patriots. >> yeah, i think we all felt it. here's the beauty, i have such a love hate relationship with social media as most of us to, but what happened for us on monday was in realtime as a community. we can discuss what we are seeing and our hearts went out to a 24-year-old, for lack of a better term, kid who had not experienced life and that just

seems so unfair. so we knew that football is over that night, all said and done, the right decision. the progress that he's been able to make within a week has been a lot of progress. he belonged to us collectively, we all wanted to watch our friend, now our friend, damar do well because he reminded us of someone that we cared about or simply because we wanted to see something better. for the doctors to talk about his experience and how he feels at this moment and how he said of all the alarms, and for you to at the same time say, we know that you are the biggest rate patriots fan, you are still rooting for this young man because he won at the game of life, at the doctors as said. you cannot help but to wish him well. what i saw, and to me the most significant issue there john, was that his charity, he only wanted 20 $500 for the toy drive. it is upwards of 6 million maybe seven at the moment. the bulk of the proceeds came from people who were donating

$30 and $40. in this economy, and this world that we live, and we forget that $30 is a lot of money to someone. if someone was doing that in small increments, he had the entire, he had the world watching. we just wanted to say that we are rooting for you and want you to do. well that is about what we are as a group of people in a community. >> i got chills listening to you explain what we have all been feeling for the last week, because i think that really does sum it up. there are questions, now people are asking the question is an obvious, one well what happens next for him? will he play again? is that even an important question to be asking right now? >> no, that's not an important question and we do not know that. that shouldn't be the focus. the focus should be on assault, the focus should be on his family, getting as healthy as you can.

what happened all of us, the whole country who watched and the other countries who saw this -- we get so divisive, as especially with the political cycle where the far right far left, republican, democrat, what we witnessed especially with the given to his foundation, is humanity. this is what it is supposed to be about and nothing like sports brings people together from all walks of life gender, ethnicity's, that is the biggest thing that i took away from everything that has transpired this week. humanity will went out over politics, over gender, over religion, over anything. i am just happy to see that part of this country, especially, show that side of humanity that made this a great

country. >> i hope tomorrow mullins gets whatever he wants but i hope he appreciates, as carey said, he has already won out the game of life. our thanks to both of you for coming, on great to see you both. so classified documents from joe biden's time as vice president found in his private offices. now the justice department is investigating. we have much more information on this, stay with us. ♪ for skin as alive as you are... don't settle for silver. harness the power of 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins to smooth, heal, and moisturize your dry skin. gold bond. champion your skin.

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classified documents from joe biden's team as vice president found at his private office in washington, dc that he used after vice president and before he became president of the united states, fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden's own attorneys a couple months ago they turned them over to the national archives with referred to the justice department and now attorney general merit garland is asking a trump appointed u.s. attorney to investigate, that's the brought outline. let's bring in senior white house correspondant traveling with the president in new york city and evan perez let's get more details on this story, what you're hearing from your sources tonight >> john, what we know is that these documents we don't know what is in the documents but we know that they were classified at the level