>> good evening. breaking news tonight. new details on the first classified documents found a november but only the knowledge on. many more on that shortly. this comes at the end of the day that saw the name in the special counsel to investigate president biden's handling of those under the classified documents found in the profit office of the current president and his home in wilmington, general. where the most recent discovery just this morning at the same residence. that's according to attorney general merrick garland. this afternoon he named robert hur special counsel, and lead out a timeline of the case. >> on the evening of november 4th, 2022, the national

archives office inspector general contacted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and global engagement on november 9th the fbi commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand where the classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law. on november 14th, pursuant to section 600 point to be of the special counsel regulations, i assign the u.s. attorney laos to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a special counsel. on this number 20th, president biden's personal counsel informed mr. laos that additional documents were identified in the garage of the private residence in wilmington delaware.

this morning president biden's personal counselor called mr. lausch and stated that additional document bearing classification documents was identified at the presidents official residence in wilmington, delaware. >> so lausch recommended special counsel be named so into robert hur, to answer many questions as to how and why did the time the classified material from his time as vice president and up here. a statement says we're confident that a review will show that these documents were misplaced. it's not like there's been a timely information about this for the white house whose existence of these documents, nothing was said back then noren december 2020 additional items were found. and on monday with the administration did acknowledge the existence of that first batch, nothing was said about the second, discover nearly three weeks before. presurgery kareen jean pierre explained that late today. >> the lawyer said we have been

working closely with the department justice in coordinating a surge that was still ongoing to ensure any additional documents were in the proper possession of the government. after that search, after this just concluded last night, we released a statement disclosing the facts from that search, as you all know. this morning. >> so there's that. there's also the question, what exactly these items pertain to, what the president knew about, them and when. he says he doesn't know what's in the documents that were found. >> i don't know what's in the documents. my lawyers about the gestured i ask what documents they were. i've turned over the boxes. they've turned over the boxes to the archives. we are cooperating fully. cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon and will be more detail at that time. >> so he said he doesn't know the documents, it most of his team say they don't know what's in the documents. yet the same day the row eight

house can be to top call with top allies, to people familiar that call telling us the white house official said none of the documents were, quote, particularly sensitive, and were, quote, not of high interest to the intelligence community. which of course raised the question, if they don't have the documents, how can they say that? and if they do, someone as. did that person tell the president that statement untrue? and lastly but certainly not finally, it is a question of what the president now thinks of what he said just a few months back, when asked about former president evidently quite different version of what he is now facing. >> when you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at mar-a-lago, what did you think to yourself? looking at that image? >> how that could possibly happen. how anyone could be that irresponsible. and i thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? by that i mean, names of people who helped, et cetera.

and it just totally irresponsible. >> cnn special correspondent jamie kincade joins us with the ainge with the news. what can you tell? us >> this new information is regarding the tan classified documents that were found back on november 2nd and president biden's office at the penn biden center. we have -- to briefing memos preparing obama, vice president, biden four phone calls. those calls, one was with the british prime minister, and the second was with donald tusk of poland, who was the president of the european council from 2014 to 2019. for clarity, anderson, these were classified documents, but it's unclear how much of this material remains sensitive. overtime classified material becomes perishable.

sometimes because it is made public, or sometimes because it is just no longer relevant. >> even though president biden has said he doesn't know what is in the documents, there may be a way for him to find out. >> one of the things people don't understand is, even though the fbi in the justice department have these depart documents, they have copies of the documents. at least those that were in the first batch at the penn biden center. so even though president biden has said he doesn't know what's in the documents, he could have access to those documents. those ten classified documents from november 2nd are actually sitting at the national archives and i'm told according to the guidelines a source familiar told me, if the president wanted to send a trustee over, they could go over to the archives, even though it's part of the investigation, and see what they are. >> so what more do we know about the special counsel who was appointed by attorney general garland?

>> attorney general garland announced the special counsel will be robert hur, he was appointed to two positions by former president trump. he was the attorney in maryland and had a high-level position in the trump justice department working with former deputy attorney general rosenstein. in addition to that, hur got his start for the former justices to the united states, william bratton quizzed, bottom line this is someone with impeccable conservative credentials. >> all right, appreciate. new details on classified documents. appreciated. when reagan cnn -- from the white house who is reporting a mentioned earlier. law enforcement analyst and former if you buy -- also cnn please senior political commentator and obama advisor david axelrod. i know you know special counsel robert hur. what do we know about him? >> jamie subs summed it up. well rob has an extraordinary background.

he's a hardworking guy, a straight shooter. i knew him when he was the assistant, principal assistant deputy attorney general as we referred to him is the paid ag for rob rosenstein. he was a key member of that leadership team the department at the time. attorney general jeff sessions and rod rosenstein being his bosses. he's a straightforward guy with a right background and reputation. obviously deeply connected on the republican side of things, we should protect him for a very short period of time. >> this as the sitting president's immediate predecessor, whether be interest inside the u.s. department in finding out whether they are classified documents that got removed after other presidencies? >> there's always an interest in returning classified documents back to the authorized storage places where they belong. i think the fact that we haven't seen issues like this

with other presidencies, we didn't see it from the obama administration or others that we are aware, if it's really a test of the professionalism and the training of their staff. it becomes much more of a staff issue than it is an issue that the principle themselves actually deals with when it comes to the packing of the office, the moving of those materials that are going to go with former president and how that stuff is stored wherever they end up. so i think i'm not surprised at all that president biden's position so far in this thing is that he doesn't actually, he's not familiar with the documents, says he doesn't know what's in them and may not have actually seen them in his office or incidents. >> what do you think about how the white house has handled this since the first revelation? >> sub optimal, anderson. look, when you face what is essentially graces communications, you have to recognize that this is at least

awkward given his comments on what president trump had done. you know you would want to gather everything at once and gloomy as open as you possibly can for his not to create the impression of furtiveness and i have no doubt that this argument of inadvertence is true and that will be the end result of this but because of the way they've handled it, i think it makes it easier for republicans to do what they want to do, which is to create a sense, i think a false sense of the equivalency with what happened with trump. and one point i want to make. president trump never denied that he wanted to take these documents invitee claim that he made some sort of vulcan mind exercise and made them all unclassified without telling anyone. so there was no even pretense of inadvertence and i should

say he hasn't made that argument in court, he is argument his lawyers have, and so this is quite a different situation and he is partisans to say why is he being treated differently how does this square with what other people are saying. the >> president has said he was surprised by the finding of the city doesn't know the specifics of this but that's what i'm told is the difference here. the specifics being the central thing he. has not seen these documents, at least since he had them since he was vice president he has not seen them recently but i'm told there was a conversation among white house officials and some top level allies in washington in the hours after the story broke, essentially downplaying it and saying that these documents were not particularly sensitive or of high interest to the intelligence community. i am told what the specifics of the classified documents have not been seen by the president or others, the general topics have become known through the course

of the investigation and now to jamie gangel's reporting. as you're saying, someone simply can't go over the archives and look at this, but i think in the context of this, as i've been talking to many people in former presidencies -- the offices of former presidents and vice presidents, vice president material is handled in a very different way. the presidential actor pertains to the president. the vice president staff is largely left to its own in some respects, so yes, the classified material was being taken out for months, but it seems like a few random papers were caught up in the mix, as he was in a flurry and whirlwind of activity in the final week of his vice presidency. so he is saying he was surprised by the finding of it, and he does not know, but that is not necessarily the fact that people don't know the general topics of these memos. >> jamie, we're learning that the doj have started interviews, some of president biden's

former aids as part of the investigation. know anything about that? >> i think they're interested in talking to anyone who may have been involved in packing the boxes, specifically, we're told that kathy chung, who was his executive assistant, when he was vice president, has been interviewed. she is now the deputy director protocol at the pentagon. anyone who may be able to shed some light on what was happening in those final days, the fbi is going to want to talk. just as a side note, anderson, it is unprecedented to have a president and a former president with these two special counsels being investigated at the same time. i do think it is important, as david axelrod said, the way they have handled it, has been not the greatest damage control in the world, but they are very different. the key here, i've

been told by sources in the archives, is cooperation, and i am told that they really believe that this was just a mistake. >> andrew, can you explain exactly how the fbi works with the special counsel on an investigation like this? >> sure, so, certainly in the mueller special counsel example, which i was deeply involved in building that team for special counsel mueller, the way it typically works is those fbi agents and analysts and support staff, administrative staff that are necessary to stand up that effort, are essentially sent over to the special counsel office and told to report only to the special counsel and the attorneys working with them. you want to have a very clean break between those resources and their prior reporting structures back at fbi headquarters or any field offices that they may have come from, so the special counsel really has a completely independent fbi workforce to

deploy, to do interviews, to work on search warrants, to review evidence, that sort of thing, it's completely at their unilateral control. >> david, when you look at the timeline of what we know so far, about when things are found, when things were announced, what questions are unanswered that remain in your mind? >> i think that there will be questions about the timeline and why there were these gaps between the discovery of these documents, why they were announced when they were announced. i think that makes, it's made the situation more complicated, politically. again, the substance is the substance, and this probe may end up being the president's freind here, because it may be from exactly what jimmy said. she served with the people at the archives, but from a political standpoint, it was not exactly ideal crisis communication. >> david axelrod, andrew mccabe, jeff zeleny, jimmy gangel,

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>> republican congressman george santos scent is under growing pressure to step down for his serial dishonesty, said again today he's saying put, putting on a podcast for republican congressman matt gaetz. he said he would only leave if he's voted out of office two years from now, by the 142,000 people he said he represents. gaetz also gently asked him about where he got all the money he poured into his campaign. >> one of the principal critiques i have heard is that a lot of money was donated to your campaign by you. 700, 000, i believe. where did it come from? >> i will tell you where it did not come from. it did not come from china, ukraine, or berisma? i've worked my entire life, lived an honest life, never been accused of any that doing, so it's my -- it's the equity of my hardworking self. >> i've lived an honest life, he says. what number law is that? george santos said he lived an honest life. he's never been accused to, quote,

do of any better doing. that makes no sense but dramatically and factually. >> the guy who's lied about his career, heritage, religion, athletic prowess is under investigation for check fraud in brazil, said he's never lied in his life. manu raja tried to talk with the mysterious mr. santos and let's take a look at how that went. >> mr. santos, why did you lie to your voters about your qualifications, your past, and why did you lie to them? i think they deserve an explanation about lies that have been passed. it is a sense of information, mr. santos. how can you say that your voters elected you, if they did not know who they were electing? >> have you've been talking about all of the check fraud charges that you're facing? are you concerned about losing your seat? or the democrats picking

up the seat? this is what they said, mr. santos. if you're staying in office, and it is going into those assignments. mr. santos? mr. santos? why did you say your family fled the holocaust, or did you say that? is that true? what about those classified security files mr. santos? mr. santos, why can't you reply to any of these questions about your past? >> wow. awkward. the other guy there, what was his job? hardworking manu raju, joins us now. what is the latest house republicans are saying about him? >> we hear more republicans calling for his resignation. max miller, an ohio republican freshman called on george

santos to resign, and is raising the claim he was jewish, and has fled the holocaust. both neither of show, saying in a statement, that it is not okay to fabricate, or life, or political gain. this is especially true when the lies seeks benefit from millions of the murder of jewish people. now, there are five others from the new york delegation, calling on him to resign, but very significantly, kevin mccarthy, the house republican, and house speaker, is not doing so. he said, it is up to voters, in his district, to decide. he said, there is a process by which things can get determined in the house. the house ethics committee revealing that, then they can decide their recourse, but, the very real issue here is he comes from a district carried by biden for eight points, in 2020. if he resigned, this could open up this seat that could flip to the democrats. kevin mccarthy would continue to battle to hold his razor-thin majority, and does not want to make his margins any tighter. he is willing to see santos stay in office, and

despite concerns about his credibility. even santos himself, admitting, all of those mistruths, and lies. >> i know he said, he's lived an honest life. a spoke to seth moulton tonight and, the concerns he and colleague says about santos, a national security grounds. so, too many republicans seem to share that concern? i know mccarthy, of course, has the reasons not to. >> there are not really echoing those concerns. this is going to step aside, and there are other aspects of his lies. even some more concerned about him, not going to say that he has concerns about the national security aspect of it. their kevin mccarthy on those press conferences. so, the fact that they have someone here who is, potentially, in brazil, who are fabricating major portions of his life. how can you trust him to have classified briefings, and get access to the nation's

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>> breaking news tonight, in the anna walsh mystery, the mystery was missingfor over well over a week now. they are charged with misleading police, as they search for her, in the national correspondent, jason carroll with brand-new information in the past. there is no doubt interest to the investigators. what if you've been learning? >> that is for sure, anderson. this is another disturbing development, and there are so many, in this particular case. another emerging tonight, according to a public incident report, from 2014, and it is the cup of a got married. they

told police, in washington d. c., it is a real estate firm, and she told police, brian walsh at the time, made a statement over the telephone that he would kill her, and her friend. going to repeat that, he made a statement, over the telephone, that he was going to kill her and her friend. this, again, is back in 2014, making a threat like that is a felony, but according to this incident report, it said that the victim refused to cooperate in the prosecution, which is never going forward. it is going forward with them. order -- earlier tonight, there was a candlelight vigil for two or three small children, and spoke to a number of people there, and it was going with the news it was so many horrific news is their prayers are for anna, and

her three children. anderson? >> her children are still in the custody of the state, is that right? >> that is correct. the young is to, the oldest, six, still >> was saying that her hope is that the three children can be kept together and not separated, because you can imagine all that they are going through, missing their, mother trying to sort out what has happened with their family. and they hope at this point is that the children can be kept together. >> jason carroll. i appreciated. i want to bring in martha coakley, former massachusetts attorney general. you heard jason's reporting. where do you make of where this investigation stands tonight? >> it is making progress, obviously. a lot that we can't see, but i will say it is likely those three kids will be kept together in the short run.

but on the latest evidence, one of the things i would be concerned about, as far as the case goes, is that it is very old. it is almost ten years old. anybody looking at that in terms of a trial, would have to say, what is the evidentiary value of that? really it doesn't go to intent or motive in 2023. having said that, it starts to complete a bigger picture of who he was, how he behaved, and what the relationship may have been like. and that is important for investigators as they move forward looking for evidence, both testimonial, real, including dna, and circumstantial evidence that all goes to whether they can and will indict, and what a jury would with the case. the evidence >> the evidence of a pass threat, a threat before they were married, obviously ended up staying together and getting married. that would not be allowed in court, you don't think? >> it is unlikely at this stage it. doesn't have much evidentiary value. and it is inflammatory. it could be prejudicial.

it is helpful to investigators to take a look at what was the relationship passed between these two and does it help them now? that is different from what would be admitted before a jury if it were to go to trial. >> this investigation obviously spans several jurisdictions. how difficult does that make it for law enforcement and prosecutors who will have to stitch all these pieces together? >> interestingly, most of this is happening in massachusetts, and so although there are local district attorneys, one of the things viewers may not know is that in massachusetts, by and large, every district attorney has just jurisdiction over the homicide investigation. and they work with state and local police. so state jurisdictions should be an issue but. they would also get cooperation if they need to work with d.c. police or other jurisdictions. that won't be a big issue for them. there are a lot of crime scenes, and there is a lot of work to be done. but this is where dna, and

assistant dea who was working on the search warrants, the investigators who can work with crime scene investigators as a team to see what they need to get, how they need to cross their t's and dot their eyes on these warrants to make sure they are seizing evidence properly and to make sure that, and in this case i think you can see that because he is being held on that charge of misleading investigators, it gives them a little more breathing room to make sure that they are doing it right and that if there is a charge, if it is brought to trial, and there is a conviction, then it would be upheld. going back >> going back to the children. in a case like this, who determines what happens to them. obviously i assume an effort would be made for relatives, friends of the family, or something who may be able to care for them in the short term or obviously longer term. but who decides that sort of thing? >> they are within, and rightfully so, a mother missing, a father in custody, they are

in the custody of our department of children and families. they may end up, depending on where this goes, making that decision. the first effort is always going to be to place them with family members if possible who are able to care for them. but as we know, anna walsh's family, mother, does not live in this country. the father is an only child. that will remain to be seen. but that is up to the state in these very unfortunate circumstances. >> when it comes to forensic evidence that may have been disposed of in the trash frasch or somewhere else, what sort of clock or authorities up against to find it? those sorts of leads can grow cold quickly, can't they? >> actually, dna is pretty consistent, it's pretty resistant. they can find any kind of clothing, anything that may have dna on it. we know that there are some weapons, potentially or articles that were used in the

house. if they find articles of clothing or any kind of matter that they think they can get samples from, they are fine right now. really, the clock is ticking, in some respects, but again, because he is in custody, they can take their time, do the tests they need to, and make sure they are gathering the evidence properly, thoroughly, so that it can be used if there is to be an indictment. i am sure they feel that getting it done right, so that it can withstand appeal down the road, is more important right now they're getting it done quickly. remember, this is still a missing persons case, and we have a person of interest. watch the dea has to decide, with his investigative team is, was there murder, and who did it? that is what they are working on now, determining, circumstantially, with other evidence, was there a homicide that took place here or not?

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great emphasis on a siege in the eastern ukrainian town soledar of that. ukrainian soldier who was there told cnn this evening, quote, we were just abandon. the soldier who had not identified for security reasons for security reasons said, they tried to withdraw on their own, if they wait on the order to be said. they likely don't have time to go out. they're struggling on the wounded comrades, and joins us even more than in kyiv. clarissa, thank you for being with us. what are things like in ukraine tonight? >> i think, anderson, if i had to describe the mood, i would say that it is a grim determination. it is really an emphasis on grim. it is bitterly cold, rolling blackouts, and regular bombings. it was grinding on, and is sort of in a stalemate,

and there is some growing realization for many ukrainians that this is going to end in the next few weeks, and the people take, it day-by-day. there is some optimism about the flow of weapons, the type of weapons going in, and in the u.s. next week they could have been trained to use that patriot missile. it is the fact that air defenses are improving. it is the days are done, but it's tough on the generals. >> there could be another attempt to attack his ground >> that's obviously got to be a huge concern. >> this is something that you hear a lot, and particularly last month in the run up to president zelenskyy's visit to the u.s.. you heard a lot of top ukrainian leaders and military leaders talking about this much vaunted spring offensive that

they believe the russians are planning for. and the reason they give behind believing this, or fearing that it's going to happen, makes a lot of sense. putin mobilized 300,000 troops, anderson. roughly half of those are still in training. that training will come to an end sometime probably in february or in the springtime. and so the theory is, or the logical supposition is, that they will then push to make another big offensive. whether that is in donbas, whether it's in the south, or in kyiv, as general zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of armed forces here in ukraine has suggested, nobody knows. but it's definitely a big fear, and that is part of the reason that you are seeing the acrania 's trying to keep their foot on the gas, keep the pressure going, keep international support coming. in >> we've also been covering this week some of the fiercest fighting of this war in the past few weeks in the eastern ukraine near soledar, bakhmut. a new ukrainian florida keys, well, what do they think about the tempo of the conflict?

>> there is no two ways about. of the situation is very difficult for ukrainian forces right now in bakhmut and in soledar. cnn spoke to ukrainian soldier in soledar who said, wanted to keep anonymous, but he said the situation is dire, we're running out of food, we're running low on water. and the ukrainians themselves, even leadership acknowledge that this is a very difficult situation. from soledar potentially you're looking at black boot, it's six miles away, and really this area is seen as being the kind of gateway to the donbas region. so strategically it is important for the ukrainians to try and hold on to it. but they are getting hammered hard. they have managed to stand their ground thus far, but it remains an open question how long they can keep that up. >> russia has now appointed a new general to oversee the war. the previous one i think lasted just three months. how is that interpreted on the

ukrainian side? >> i think primarily it's interpreted as some kind of a failure. this is the fourth leader they have had in one year. so clearly something is not going right that they keep shifting and changing tactics. i think for people who are really watching the minutiae of, why would he change leader now and why would he choose gerasimov, this general who's basically and de facto leader of all of russia's armed forces? and different people have come up with different conclusions as to why that may be. it may be that putin is looking for a fall guy, ultimately, if things don't go right, that he would be the one to take full responsibility for. it may also be a declaration of intent, not only are we going to slow things down we're going to maximize things, we're gonna get the navy more involved. we were gonna get the air force more involved. we're going to try to increase the pressure and the scale of this operation. so different people have different perspectives on why

this may be, but certainly a lot of people are saying that it doesn't bode well for the russians that they have such a high turnover. >> clarissa ward from kyiv tonight. thank you. so just ahead, more breaking news. at least six deaths in alabama after dozens of tornadoes in the southeast. we'll have the latest on the deadly storm system hitting the area. there's also new reporting about what caused the massive failure the mount every flight in america yesterday.

>> more breaking news tonight. at least six people are dead in alabama after at least 24 tornadoes in the southeast part of a much larger storm system that struck much of the reason. jennifer gray joins us now from atlanta. so where is the greatest threat right now? >> this is still a powerful storm system. we still have a tornado watch in effect across southern portions of georgia. that's going to be an area of concern over the next couple of hours, and if we zoom in closer, you can see severe thunderstorm warning that includes raleigh right now. any of these storms could produce very damaging winds and large hail, and that's going to be the primary threat. but we could see a brief tornado or two still to come. you can see the thunderstorm warnings across southern georgia as well. as we go into the rest of the evening, we could see a few tornadoes damaging winds and large hail primarily in those areas shaded in yellow and green, anderson. >> will there still be a threat of major storms into the overnight hours? >> the overnight hours, we will

still see potential for severe storms. the storms march to the east, they still have a risk area. they will quickly make it off the coast. these storms are traveling at about 55 miles per hour so very fast moving. by the time we get into tomorrow morning, things do look much better, however, there is still a threat. during the overnight hours for potential for strong storms. we'll see about an inch of rain potentially across the southeast, could see some snow for portions of the mid-atlantic, but this was a powerful system. 34 tornado reports, 114 wind reports, hail reports, and you can see across alabama, you can see three streaks right here, those are the three significant tornadoes, one of them that went to selma, possibly on the ground, anderson, for about 50 miles. these are definitely significant storms that rolled through the south. >> jennifer gray, appreciate it. we're learning more about what cause the faa ground stoppages today that caused

thousands of flights to be delayed. what could you tell us?

>> not happy with how this update was planted he wants the system that cause these cascading cancellations fixed fast, so this does not happen again. >> does it seem like this was done on purpose? there was an accidental? >> the faa has ruled out a cyberattack here. we do not think it was caused on purpose. this seems like it was something accidental, in the faa initially says the damage database file may have been something simply uploaded to the system during the routine uploading of no drums, the database files, critical safety alerts for pilots. not totally clear exactly what caused this all to come down, although the faa does say it

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breaking news tonight's attorney general merrick garland name to special counsel in the biden classified documents a fair, we are learning what it was in the initial batch of them. ten obama era documents, found in early november, at his old think tank. finding earlier tonight the among those documents was a memorandum from vice button to obama to briefings that most preparing then vice president four phone calls, one with

british prime minister, the other with the president of the european council from 2014 to 2019. this news ends a day dominated by the garland decision. >> i'm here today to announce the appointment of robert hur as special counsel, pursuant to department regulations to govern such matters. this appointment underscores for the public, the department's commitment to independents and accountability and particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. >> now in our last hour, cnn david axelrod, a former top white house advisor, who worked alongside the biden and obama administration, called the handling of the situation, they use his words, sub optimal. others but a more bluntly, raising more dark austin's about transparency, including phil mattingly, who joins us now. how has the white house reacted to the appointment of special counsel? >> anderson, officially, the white house counsel says they believe that this investigation will a, have fl