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i'm bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden's former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we're told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden's former execute assistant had been questioned. we're also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? >> well, bianna, one thing he's trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on.

already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. attorney who did the initial preliminary work on this and as phil mattingly reported, the president's former executive assistant kathy chung was already interviewed. a number of other interviews took place and then rob hur is coming in and he's going to probably want to talk to a number of other people. one of the things they'll want to make sure there are no other documents out there and that's something he will have to work with the president's team, rob hur is a very experienced career prosecutor here in washington. he did serve as a political appointee in the biden administration and the documents that we're talking about, we know a little about, the initial batch, the ten documents that were turned over at first in november. they included a briefing memo from the vice president then,

joe biden, to president biobama and some prepared for biden before he made phone calls with foreign leaders including the uk prime minister and official from the european union. those are the types of documents we're talking about. the question is, you know, what else is there, bianna, and the level of classification on some of those are sources and methods at risk in the way those documents were being stored. bianna. >> phil, all this has happened. a press briefing is currently under way. but as you and i speak right now, as you know, the white house is under scrutiny for how it has handled this with details coming out piecemeal throughout this week. after everything that happened with president trump's documents scandal why wasn't the white house better prepared now? >> you know, bianna, to some degree i think the view inside the white house that this was a

dramatically different case with former president trump particularly in his lack of willingness to turn over documents, they just viewed these as two very different things and to some degree that may have played a role in the fact that they were caught on their back foot over the course of the last several days and they have now reached a moment i think, one, you knew from talking to officials they didn't want to be in dealing with the special counsel but even a few days ago they didn't expect to be in particularly not this quickly and that has underscored a reality over the course of the two months where this has been under way where the review is under way. where white house officials were cognizant of the fact that not only was there one set discovered there was a second set discovered on december 20th. not disclosed when the first statement from the house acknowledging those classified documents was released when the first comments from president biden came out, only referring to that first set of documents is that this was kept to a very small circle of senior advisers and lawyers in the white house

counsel's office and now obviously expanded out and they are in the process of to some degree one person said scrambling to try to meet the needs of this moment. those need, i think, bianna, as you know well, are very real and i think they are widespread to some degree. just as the special counsel has to set up an office and set up a team and has to set up processes to move under way to start this investigation from his side of things, the white house is now in a very different place as well in terms of who will lead and be a part of the president's legal team outside the white house, how they will respond within the white house, how that operation will work. that is now currently a process under way. again, underscoring this wasn't something they were prepared for expected and most certainly not something they wanted. >> fast-moving chain of events, monday, when we first heard about the documents and now here we are friday and talking about a special counsel that had been appointed to investigate all. evan and phil, thank you so much. well, we also have an update

on the other classified documents probe headed by the other special counsel. this one centered on former president trump. we've learned those investigators want to interview the trump staffers who searched his properties in november for additional classified materials. cnn's katelyn polantz is tracking this us. you're reporting special prosecutors have gone back and forth with trump's defense lawyers about whether trump has fully complied with the subpoena issued last may for classified documents. so are they still not convinced that he's turned everything over? >> they appear not to be at this time or at least they want to make sure that he has turned everything over. bianna, there's a lot of talk about special counsel jack smith, his poimth in november, now his new appointment of rob hur on the biden investigation. but this investigation into the handling of presidential records and national security information after donald trump left the presidency, that

criminal investigation has been going on for a year. part of that investigation is an obstruction of justice investigation, whether trump and his team could have obstructed justice or wanted to obstruct justice after there were classified documents discovered being kept at mar-a-lago in florida a year ago. we also know that the justice department still to this day they're investigating that criminal probe. they're also trying to secure the national security secrets, make sure there's nothing else out there and to finish or at least to continue that investigation, kaitlan collins and i confirmed they want to interview the two people the trump team hired in november to do searches who found two classified documents just this past november. it's likely those people will talk to the justice department but we know the trump team is trying to negotiate and narrow that a little bit if they can. bianna. >> katelyn, thank you. let's discuss it with former

federal prosecutor elliot williams and abby phillip. we have two special prosecutors. i know the circumstances are different and as we just heard from indicatelyn, trump has not been complaining. jack smith's team not confident that all the documents have been turned over. it does appear at this point that biden's team is complying. so given that how will it impact rob hur's investigation into the biden case? >> well, you know, certainly his level of cooperation or any subject of an investigation's level of cooperation will have an impact. in terms of are there obstruction charges down the road? it's important even though the justice department had to almost, you know, their hand was forced here into appointing a special counsel to treat and regard these two as very, very different. and, frankly, they ought not

even be communicating with each other because of how different the two investigations are. but, you know, you're right with that question, bianna. by cooperating and by being more forthcoming they'll make their lives easier on themselves in a way that the former president trump has not. >> so these documents for biden's time came when he was vice president. that's what we know thus far and the doj has spoken to his former execute assistant. who else do you think they'll likely speak with at this point? could you see a scenario where they speak with the president himself? >> i would -- >> i'm sorry, elliot then abby will jump in. >> i'm sure eliot has thoughts about that too. i think do that at this point the president and really anybody who had involvement in the white house at that time in packing those boxes, getting them out of the white house, we know that they went to a storage facility before they were then

transferred to other plates, like his personal office at penn. there's some really important questions leer about the chain of custody of these documents and whether president biden even knew what was being packed and where it was being sent. one of the key pieces of information that we learned in our reporting earlier in the week was that some of the documents were in or around really highly personal, highly sensitive personal documents to biden. information about his son's funeral, et cetera, and so it really leads to the question of were those files really touched in the last several years because of how sensitive they were? and would biden even have known what was there? who was responsible for putting them there and did anybody -- was it a mistake, did they do their due dill scombrens or negligence? were they supposed to have looked through their documents and didn't do it because they were rushed or lazy. >> let me get you to weigh in.

you think we could see president biden actually being interviewed by rob hur's team? >> well, let me put it this way, i think you're far more likely to see president biden interviewed over president trump over the little of coop rath the biden team is pursuing here. now, look, i think the president was and his team were very deliberate on that -- at that first press conference saying, number one, he was not aware of the documents, surprised being known they were misplaced trying to make some distance between the president and, you know, and the documents that were found so perhaps the argument is that, you know, it was an inadvertent mistake by others and not the president himself. you don't need to be the president to confirm that but certainly i think it's in their interest if law enforcement wishes to speak to him to comply with that request. >> abby, it's important that elliot ache a note on how different these two are.

that having been said this is an administration which touted and ran on their level of competence, their experience, the fact that president biden has served both in the senate and obviously as vice president and took classified materials very seriously. that's what he has said before and weighed in on the investigation into how president trump, former president trump handled these materials. how does this impact the administration right now and how they're perceived. >> look, i think it's a real problem for them that the argument about the trump case from the president himself was basically who does this. how could something like this have happened and, well, now, he phasing a similar problem where documents that should have been turned over to the government at the end of his time in the white house were not. and that's a real problem. it's a political problem. it's a public relations problem. and those problems matter too. i think people's perception of

how egregious trump's behavior was will be colored by the fact that it has happened in another instance with this very president who is in the white house right now when he was vice president. and i think it's going to make it difficult, not only that, if you look at what's happening on capitol hill this is getting folded into all the investigations that republicans are planning to do anyway. they're bringing in the president's son, hunter biden into this and bringing in china into this and we don't know if any of those things have any merit but that won't stop it from being part of an investigative drive from republicans that's highly partisan in nature and designed really to damage biden politically. >> elliot, before we wrap up, if i could get you to weigh in. clearly you the attorney general wanting to isolate himself from these two investigations right now by bringing in two special counsels. i'm curious, what happens in

this area that jack smith investigating former president trump comes it garland and says, i recommend that the president be indicted on obstruction or whatever charges, given that you have another ongoing investigation, does that impact his ultimate decision because it does lie with him and here you have a scenario where there is a long-standing policy in the doj that a sitting president cannot be indicted? >> look, it's very much in the attorney general's interest to ad here to the recommendation that the special makes and the attorney general i believe has said that he intends to give serious consideration to what the special counsel recommends and moreover if he ends up going against that recommendation he has to report that to congress anyway to the point that abby was making a moment ago, lord knows you know how that will go when he has to testify before congress about recommendations that he's made. so part of the reason for putting special counsels in in the first place was to insulate himself from some of the

political blowback and would probably follow those, whatever they were. >> all right, elliot williams and abby phillips, thank you so much. a lawyer for the trump family business says they will appeal a judge's ruling that slapped the organization today with a $1.6 million fine. that is the maximum allowed to be fined. cnn's kara scannell is here with the latest. can you walks through the ruling? >> reporter: yeah, bianna, this was the sentencesing day for th trump organization convicted of 17 23e8nys for running a tax fraud scheme and paying off the books compensation to cop statute tiffs through company paid apartments and cars sentencing the trump organization entities to a $1.6 million fine. as you said that's the maximum amount allowed under the law. no individual will go to jail because it was just the company that was on trial but it is still a symbolic moment for the former president's business being sentenced after that

conviction. i caught up with the manhattan district attorney alvin brad and asked why it was important. take a listen. as you said earlier, this is the first time a former president's company has been criminally convicted that we can think of in modern times. why was that an important case to bring and see through to today? >> we all stand, you know, before the court equal. and this time of conduct, we sent it to the jury. the jury so found, greed, pure and simple. bilking our public fix, hard earned taxpayer money. and being done, you know, by someone, you know, who was the former leader of our country. very consequence shall. >> now, bragg said this find is not high enough. he will work with lawmakers in albany to try to increase this. that was one of the arguments his attorneys made before the judge arguing for the maximum --

>> i have to cut you off. to the white house at the daily briefing where karine jean-pierre is now talking about these. >> my colleagues over at the white house counsel, i'm not going to get into any specifics from here. >> okay, mary. >> aside from the special counsel aside from that, i have a question about processing classified documents. there is confusion. what is the process to make sure classified documents are acc accidentally or intentionally taken when a president or vice president leaves office, you know, what's the protocol or sort of a self-review system. >> it's a good question. i would on the process and how that works i would certainly refer to you the white house counsel's office. they would know that. they can walk you through that. my colleagues there and i know many of you have been in touch with my colleagues in the last 24 hours and in direct touch answering many of your questions so i would refer you to them on

the specific process so they will certainly guide you in the right way. >> as far as you know is it ever okay for classified documents to be mixed with personal. >> look, what i can say is what the president has said before, what i have said multiple times. we take this very seriously, the president takes classified information and documents very seriously. but, look, you know, i've said this before. we have addressed this issue multiple times at length. and we have been fully cooperating with the department of justice and now we will be doing the same with the special counsel's office out of just to be prudent here and just to make sure that we are consistent, i would refer you anything that is related to this, as it relates to the review to the department of justice or my colleagues at the white house counsel office and this is -- we see it as the best way to move forward. we want to respect the process and so that's what i'm going to do. refer you to the department of justice. >> you're confident he followed

protocol? >> again, this is something that he takes very seriously. the president when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to classified information, i'm not going to go into any specifics from here. if you have any questions, anything further that's related to the review or i refer you to the department of justice or my colleagues over at the white house counsel's office who i know many of you who i'm staring at have been in close touch. >> i i believe it was the president who suggested has spoken with speaker mccarthy. any plans for them to meet in person. >> they spoke and i think we shared that with all of you, the day that speaker mccarthy became speaker, you heard or saw a statement from the president and the first lady congratulating kevin mccarthy becoming speaker and then the next day i believe it was, that was on a friday. i believe the next day, a saturday, the president had a

direct conversation. he connected with speaker mccarthy and congratulated him in person. >> no plans yet -- >> i don't have a scheduled meeting to share with you at this time. >> a few things from yesterday. when was the president informed about the attorney general's decision to appoint eye special counsel? how and by whom? >> so, the specifics on that, i can -- here's what i can tell you. we were not given a heads-up. i was asked that question yesterday. we did not know the announcement was going to come until after it happened so i can clear the deck there and let you know. anything else specific to when the president knew or anything related to this, i would refer you to the white house counsel's office. i know many of you i'm looking at right now has been in close touch with my colleague there so i would continue to refer you to my colleague at the white house counsel's office. >> one thing that they finally confirmed for us is that bob,

the person's attorney is handling some of this. given that the justice department cited the personal counsel as having made this initial outreach to national archives and in touch with the justice department, is that the person who these questions should be directed? why the white house counsel? >> i will say this again. i would -- whatever the white house counsel, my colleague told you in your conversation, i know you guys just spoke or connected earlier today. i would ask them that question and anything related to the review, i would refer you to the department of justice. >> and regarding of extraordinary measures that the treasury secretary announced a little while ago in advance notice to congress, is there a policy that requires her to give advance notice of those plans. >> you would have to reach out to the department of treasury on how that process works. what i can say is that everyone knows the folks who are watching, the debt limit is

projected to be reached, thursday, january 19th. treasury will begin to take extraordinary measures to prevent default. secretary yellen did not name a specific date as well. the day treasury would know no longer be able to pay the government's obligations but quoting from her letter it's unlikely that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted before early june. but that does not mean that congress should not wait until then to raise the debt ceiling as we have been saying over and over again. the sooner congress acts, the better since even the process of not raising the debt ceiling will have damage, the full faith and the credit of our nation and, again, we are going to continue to encourage congress to act. but as far as the steps and how this all works, i would refer you to the department of treasury. >> six days until the 19th. a few ears ago she did it ten days before. >> i understand. i would refer you to the

department of treasury. >> knock to it being announced today? >> i would refer you to the department of treasury and just to be very clear here, ed, we have -- i've been in here almost every day since we got back from mexico city taking your questions at length so we're not avoiding anything here and you've heard from the president at least twice and we have put forward multiple statements from the white house counsel's office. so that suggestion, i just disagree with. >> thank you. so much. does the white house and the does the president agree to fully cooperate. >> we said we will continue to fully cooperate. we have been, the president's lawyers and team has been fully cooperated with the department of justice and will do that with the special counsel. >> so by that reasoning would the president agree to sit for an on the record in person -- >> i'm not going to get into specifics or get ahead of what's

going to happen or get into the hypotheticals. is a hypothetical. we addressed this at multiple times at length and the president's team will continue to fully cooperate with the department of justice and respect that process and that's what we'll do. >> the president said he hopes to speak about it soon. when? >> that's -- that is something that i don't have a magic wand here. i don't know when that is going to happen. what i can say is his team is going to fully cooperate with the department of justice. let's not forget. the president side during the campaign when it comes to the department of justice independent, he respects that. that is something he said was incredibly important to make sure they had their independence. that's why we say we'll make sure they have their independence and that's why i'm saying that we're going to refer to the department of justice. >> and, let me just ask you a big pick question.

does the white house broadly speaking have an opportunity to share not just with the national archives, with the american people when the existence of classified material is found in a private location? >> there is a process in this. >> just big picture. not in this instance necessarily but is this the policy of the white house to share that, not just with the national archives but with the american people. >> so, i will say this, kristen, we have been transparent in the last couple of daysary and, remember, it is an ongoing process and ex-shared. i've been here almost every day, but from yesterday and today taking your questions on this. the white house council has put out a very extensive multiple statements on this as well and you all, i know, have been talking, many of you have been talking to my colleague in the white house counsel so what the actions that we took were right

actions that his team took in dealing with the department of justice and also the archives. look, i have -- >> answer questions when the press has broken in the news -- >> because it's an ongoing process. it is an ongoing possess. there is a process here. the department of justice is independent. we expect that but i have taken question, i can take two questions through 100 questions, i have answered your questions as almost every day on this issue and, again, anything else you may have, anything that's related to the review i would refer you to the department of justice. >> one last question, i know you have to move on here. the press campaigned on the argument he would rediscover confidence and knowing whether he's officially going to announce for re-election. does this episode undercut that argument that he would restore confidence because here we have in the headlines he's now under

investigation. >> he's restoved independent in the department of justice. that's what we're doing here. when we say we'll refer you to the department of justice that is restoring independence as it relates to issues like this. that's important to the president and been consistent. what i am saying about investigations has been consistent for the last two years. you've heard me over and over again when it comes to a legal issue or a matter like this, we have always referred to the department of justice. so there's nothing here different here. we have said we wanted to restore the independence of the department of justice. that is what you're seeing and, again, we -- this has been done in a transparent way when it relates to how this was dealt with with the department of justice and or rives. the president sakes this seriously. any other questions you may have about this particular issue, about the review, i would refer you to the department of justice. you guys have been in touch with my colleagues at the white house counsel office and suggest you

continue to reach out. >> i want to press you about the idea of disclose ires when it's proper. it seems like ray communication strategy to protect the president from capitol hill damage. was it the hope it would have remained a public matter. >> that's your version of the case. i've been clear here and i've answered that question multiple times in different versions, right, in the last couple of days. look, want to be here, we will respect the progress all part of the department of justice process. and we are cooperating fully. we are cooperating fully this this process and, again, the president believes that the justice department and its independence needed to be res restored. that's what you have seen under this administration under the last two years and want to be consistent and prudent in what i'm saying when i say that we

are going to defer any questions related to this to the department of justice and any other items that you have. if you don't want to talk to the department of justice you're free to talk to the white house counsel office. i know you have been in touch with my colleague there is. >> we have done both. oftentimes in the careers of white house press seconds there comes a time when they are asked what they knew and when they knew it. were you or any member of your stoved in the crafting of the strategy of when this should be in advance of cbs breaking the story? >> no. >> did you have a question? >> do you have a estimate on how high the debt limit should be raiseds. >> well, i mean -- >> what i'm saying more broadly speaking, not getting into the specifics of that. we believe when it comes to the

debt limit it's been done this a bipartisan way over the years. and decades and it should be done in a bipartisan way and should be done without conditions. that is important here. and so we're going to continue to encourage and ask congress to take vax and that's where we're going to leave it at this time. we're not going to do any negotiations or should get done without conditions. >> all is to congress or -- >> i mean i've said that the -- our office of leg affairs in touch with the new congress to make sure that they know who to reach out, the appropriate people to reach out to on leg affairs. we're always having conversations with members of the congress and the president does too, as you know, he has a longtime friends who are over on the other side of pennsylvania. and so that is something that continues, but when it comes to this and the debt limit, it should be done without conditions, it was done under

the last president three times, in a bipartisan way, and so this should continue. >> very quickly on the cgi data, pretty good result coming on 0 the heels of the jobsons data which was pretty strong. your position has been kind of jazzed about that. it seems on the tv in the last hour or so. is it fair to say the white house is thinking what a soft landing could look like or not getting that far? >> i'll say this, as you said you heard from many of my colleagues in -- who are economists who have been working on this issue. pushing forward the president's economic plan. look, it just goes back to the president's economic plan and we see it as it's working, right? the vision that the president has for this country when you think about when he came in, he passed the american rescue plan and all the other historic pieces, the infrastructure

legislation, i talked multiple times at the top about the inflation reduction act. look, it is -- it matters what the vision of a president is and him acting out on it. that's what you saw. when you see inflation down for six months, that matters. right? that's because of the presence and economic plan. when you see annual inflation down 6.5% from where it was this summer, thus? summer, 9.1%. gas prices down by more than a buck 70 from its peak. all of that matters. and so that's how we're seeing this. we're seeing it as the president's economic plan is indeed working. we are going to continue to put the american families and american people first and work on this issue that you hear us talk about all the time. his number one economic issue bringing down inflation. that's why the act, what i talked about when you think about health care in georgia,

200,000 will be created. all of that, all of that matters and all of that is in important and more broadly spiking point president's economic plan. we believe we continue to be in this transition of stable and steady growth and i think that's what we believe that's what the numbers continue to show as you talk about the jobs report we saw recently and as we talk about the cpi data. i'm saying we are in this transition of -- transition to stable and steady growth and believe the president's economic policies he's put forward in the past two years, we'll see that working. >> john lausch is looking into this for several weeks -- >> looking into what? >> the classified documents. >> he was in touch with president biden's counsel.

i wouldn'ted to know was president biden, was the white house surprised along with merrick garland that they decided more investigation was needed and a special counsel was called? >> what i can tell you we were not given a heads-up that attorney general garland was going to make -- made his announcement on the special counsel. that is something that we learned like many of you watching the news. i'm not going to get into anything further from that. i can't speak to this person who you news mentioned who has been having conversations or making comments. i'm not going to get into that or give reactions from here. what i can tell you is, again, i'll refer to you the white house counsel, and office to talk to my colleagues on any particular questions that you may have that's related to this process and if it's something that you want to know specifically about the review i

would refer you to the department of justice. >> when president biden did say good willing -- >> we have been listening for the last few minutes, karine jean-pierre. acresting a couple of issues clueing the debt ceiling which the government is set to hit next week. the prevailing issue has been on how this administration and the how the president specifically has been handling in their response to news that a special counsel has been appointed to investigate the president's handling of classified information and documents, i want to get back to phil mattingly at the white house. we kept hearing a recurring line, that is i refer you, i refer you to the doj. i refer you to the white house counsel's office. can't help or blame a reporter for trying to ask that question a number of ways. what was your takeaway from what we heard? >> this is the new normal kind of evolving over the course of the last three or four days and gotten more serious inside the white house, since attorney

general merrick garland decided to appoint the special counsel yesterday. there has not been a lot of disclosure or transparency according to the special details with the review under way by the u.s. attorney in chicago or the process that the president's private attorneys were going through in their own search for documents that incconcluded a d or two ago. as it's been explained, because lawyers made clear as long as the president's private attorneys were continuing their search. hasn't completed going through all the locations documents may have been held and ensured they had a full understanding of where things were and what might be out there that weren't going to be kind of lengthy or fulsome negligents about what was going to happen. whether or not that was going to change, when that search ended as it did really is kind of a nonfactor now that there is a special counsel so you've seen this posture be maintained and i don't get the sense that thinks it is going to end any time

soon. everything will be referred to the white house counsel's office, they're all lawyers and not exactly fulsome and their responses in all things, and more importantly i think everything related to the investigation itself over to the special counsel's office which is still in the process of being set up or the justice department. i think the reality is right now this is a white house very cognizant of the fact they need to be careful about everything and everything they said. the downside which is very obvious and you have seen it in the briefings is there are just a lot of questions outstanding about time line, about messaging, about when things were said publicly and why some things weren't said about processes, all questions remain outtanning and at least this this point in time the white house sees no incentive in answering them giving the fact they're spacing a special counsel investigation. >> the only bit of information was they were not given a heads i have human and according to karine jean-pierre the president and the administration are

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who notified officials this boy may have a gun and how did officials respond to that? >> that's a little unclear. the spokesperson told cnn the superintendent did not say who initially reported that the 6-year-old student may have had a weapon. the superintendent, george parker, did say that at least one school administrator was notified earlier that the student potentially had a weapon. parker said a search of the boy's backpack found nothing. that's according to wtkr. we did get a hint he may have concealed it elsewhere. sr. other than his backpack from the newport news police chief drew. he said that on tuesday morning. take a listen. >> put it in his backpack and was driven to school by his mother later that morning and then at some point it came out and was concealed on him. >> we have another new development in the case this afternoon. the chairwoman of the newport

news school board now says that walk-through metal detectors will be installed at richneck elementary school and want to get it done as soon as possible. the school re-opens monday and putting metal detecters, 90 of them in schools throughout newport news, the superintendent says that was something he hated to think about doing but that is where we are. metal detectors in elementary schools at least in that district. >> unbelievable. we're talking about 6-year-olds here and also another reminder of the harreroism of their teac. just unbelievable. thank you. >> sure. well, today families across the southeast are picking up the pieces after dozens of reported tornadoes. at least seven people died in alabama. the storms thursday hit the central part of the state especially hard with one corner saying officials keep finding more bodies today. severe damage also in georgia. a 5-year-old killed after a tree fell on a car.

falling debris also killing a state employee. some students and staff in griffin, georgia, spent the night in a middle school and couldn't go home until early this morning because storm debris made the roads impassable. out west in california a different potentially deadly weather event is once again unfolding. more heavy rain is moving in. weeks of wet weather already has led to 18 deaths. we have teams on both ends. ryan young in selma, alabama. the damage behind you was caused by a tornado on the ground for at least 50 miles. tell us what you're seeing now. >> reporter: i can tell you people are still shaken by this. they are looking all around them and see these signs of destruction as they try to start cleaning up. this is one of the cars that was damaged. you can see it was pretty much torn up from front to back. this is the famous broad street right mind me where the edmunds pettus bridge is down the street the other way. traffic snarled as people have

been trying to work their way around the area because power lines and trees are down everywhere. when you look back at this direction, you can see the tremendous amount of damage in this singular area. there were people running for cover. one woman said she did the best she could to hide in the closet. look at this man. >> about two or three minutes before the storm came i saw a lot of dark clouds over the school right here, this very school. >> okay. >> i went to the center of the house and sat down and, man, i really thought that -- i thought the worst. i'll be quite frank with you. >> reporter: we've been surveying the area all day long and can't move a lot of our truck and equipment around because the power lines are down. take a look from above. when you see from above almost every single roof has been touched by this storm. people are determined to try to get a tarp up before the rain falls again. when you look in this direction and see the power that this

storm had and moved some of the buildings off their foundation, you understand the cleanup will be massive. in the last two hours they've been surveying some of the damage and heard stories of people trying to figure out where they'll stay for the next few days. hotels from here to montgomery are starting to book up as power companies are supplying power and get lines back up. but, again, when you talk about the loss of life that is something that has a lot of people just so upset and understanding how dangerous this storm was. >> the two constants we always here and use to describe scenes like this, it does look like a war zone behind you and how quickly they come through as well. not much of a heads-up at all for resident there is to have to pick under the pieces. ryan, thank you so much. well, to florida now. to california now, rather, veronica miracle is in san francisco. veronica, how are conditions there right now? we know more storms expected.

>> reporter: bianna, it is coming down. first of three storms to hit the region this weekend, a startling 15 million people in the central california coastal area under flood watches this weekend starting tomorrow morning. and really truly it is coming down here but the worst is expected starting on saturday through sunday potentially into monday, officials are concerned about widespread flooding, mud, rock and landslides, high surf warnings and wind advisories. that is after a couple of weeks of destructive and damaging rain. there has been little to no relief in monterey where we were yesterday, there's already widespread flooding after what officials called light rain on thursday. so they are concerned that this weekend there will be even more destruction potentially cutting off artery, major highways into the region, and people will not be able to get in and out, bianna. >> hard to fathom resident also

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republican new york congressman george santos facing intense pressure from his party to resign as questions swirl over the fake resume. one example, his refusal to reveal the source of the $700,000 loan to his campaign. here's what santos said yesterday in a friendly conversation with fellow republican congressman matt gaetz. >> is there anything else you can say about the work you did that was the origin of those resources? >> i lived an honest life. never accused of any bad doings. it's the equity of my hard

workinging self and inside of me. didn't come from ukraine, russia, china unlike some folks that get money from those sources. >> another lie right there in that answer. santos pivoting to the familiar attack lines on president biden. joining me is a former enforcement attorney. they have filed a civil complaint accusing the campaign of violating finance laws. thank you so much for joining us. tell us how these investigations typically work now. >> thank you. a pleasure to be here. we filed a complaint with the federal election commission that start it is process to look into the allegations that we have raised and hopefully initiate a formal investigation. they have subpoena power and can

go further than the reporters so far. they can subpoena mr. santos, the campaign treasurer and get answers about where this money actually came from and whether mr. santos contrary to everything he's said publicly did get the money from an outside source and funneled into the campaign. >> how long could an investigation like this last? santos is defiant he is not going anywhere. >> right. he says he is not resigning and did nothing wrong but it's ultimately up to what the investigations uncover. we referred the complaint to the justice department and they act promptly. we would be looking at years not months. >> right. >> at least initially the justice department takes some action. >> up for re-election in two

years. this could take longer. there is a question why it was investigate i journalists that discovered the lies and inconsistencies in the stories. how can this be avoided going forward? >> one thing to make clear is that the fec flagged the campaign for problematic dispersements and reported after he had been elected represent rising with the level seriousness. it's one thing to say a campaign is reporting poorly but what was reported after the election is alarming. raised red flags because he essentially went from no money or assets to make the loans to his campaign to having millions of dollars pouring into the personal accounts which

according to him was money earned through hard work. but to us and everyone looking at the campaign claimed that doesn't hold water. >> have you ever seen a case as egregious as this in your investigations? >> i have never seen a case like this with so many problems throughout his campaign finance as well as of course the mountain of lies he's told about the personal and professional background and the two intersect here talking about money that he earned through a private enterprise and funneled into the campaign but it doesn't make any sense and as we saw in that interview he is not being forthcoming and straight with the american people and that's on brand for him. wait another day and hear another story reported about something he said that was utterly untrue. >> we'll see what the doj does

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