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president biden is facing increased criticism after his lawyers say five additional classified documents were found at his delaware home. house oversight chairman james comber is demanding answers. we'll tell you what he wants from the white house as he plans to congressional investigation. plus, parts of california seeing a new round of treacherous weather. flood watches in effect. president biden approved a declaration after storms ravaged the state killing 19 people. cnn is live on the ground in northern california. in a moment. first though, we begin with the discovery of the five additional pages of classified material at president biden's home in delaware. paula reid and our senior white house correspondent is with me this morning. paula, first to you. what is the latest on the five pages? >> on the five pages were discovered among previously disclosed documents uncovered at the president's wilmington

residents. they thought it was just one page. but then someone with the proper clearance started going through them, they discovered it was six pages. now we have 20 documents with classified markings found at two different locations connected to the president. over the weekend, we saw a shift in strategy. from the president's team. over the past week, we have seen most of the new information, seemingly a new breaking news story every day is coming out through the press. the white house following along with the begrudging statements. overed weekend, the president's lawyers got out in front of this. they're the ones that disclosed the five additional pages. they say going forward, they're not necessarily going to offer updates continuously on this case. instead, they want to defer to the justice department and its criminal investigation. but that is not stopping republicans from calling for their own probe. let's listen to what our representative said over the weekend. >> at the end of the day, my biggest concern isn't the

classified documents, to be honest. my concern is how there is such a discrepancy in how former president trump was raided and getting the security cameras and taking pictures of documents on the floor by going through milania's closet. there have been so many investigations of president trump i don't think we have to spend a lot of time investigating president trump because the democrats have done that for the past six years. >> let's be clear, in fact, the congressman there, even a federal judge in atlanta, a trump appointed judge, said this was not a raid. this was a duelly executed search warrant at mar-a-lago after they realized they didn't have everything and believed it was possible the documents were being moved. the biggest difference between the two cases is cooperation. that's why the former president is also under investigation for obstruction. to the average american who right now is worried about what they're going to do with kids on the ho will day, price of eggs, they may not necessarily be

paying attention to the differences. it will be difficult for the white house to continue to draw these differences between the two criminal investigations. also very important for the viewers to understand at this point our sources, we know not every location is searched. it is still possible that additional classified documents could still be found. >> and that's a great point. we'll talk about athat in a mom. >> the white house is mulling the response to republican oversight chair who you heard a little while ago. cnn's senior white house conditioned m.j. lee with me this morning. what are you hearing from the president's attorneys? >> john, we have entered the stage of things where the white house is on full defense trying to explain the seeming lack of transparency and also what seems to be a breakdown in the messaging with so much information over the last week really coming out in piecemeal fashion. five page thats that were disco last week, he said he had gone

to the president's home on thursday along with the doj officials to hand over one document that had been found the previous day and said it is of this moment and during this visit that the discovered that there were five additional pages with classified markings. he said that doj officials immediately took possession of those documents. and then over the weekend, the we also heard from the president's personal lawyer trying to explain in a really detailed statement the different process that's the white house has followed throughout this process and really trying to balance transparency but also not interfering with an on going review. i just want to read a part of that statement because kind of explains a key part of their thinking and how they have handled these classified documents. he says, because the president's personal lawyers do not have access to security clearances, whenever a document bearing classified markings was identified, the search was suspended, potentially classified material was left in

place as found. the government would then p promptly notified and for this reason the president's personal attorneys did not know the precise number of pages in the discovered material nor have they reviewed the content of the documents consistent with standard procedures and requirements. now, the white house counsel's office says because of congressional counsel has now been appointed to investigate this matter, they're going to refer all incoming questions going forward to that office. so we fully expect that is going to be the excuse and the response that we hear from the white house going forward to all questions related to this matter. john? >> m.j. lee at the white house, thank you. great to see you this morning. here now susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today and a former federal prosecutor. there is the legal side of this and then the political side of this. i understand there is a lot of crossover between the two. but i can start with the legal one first? what would good lawyering be from joe biden, the president of the united states, his

perspective right now. what would good lawyers do with this case? >> well, a good lawyer back in november when this issue first arose, would have immediately searched all the other relevant locations. would have hired individuals with clearance so we didn't have to have that sentence that was just said a moment ago where you have lawyers that were stopping their search and, you know, they don't know what was in the materials. and then there would be statements that were given to the public that were very carefully crafted and were vetted so that there aren't any, you know, disagreements about what they mean. there isn't any ambiguity and we're having debates about whether or not the white house is referring to numbers and documents. ultimately, what you want to do when there is a doj investigation is outrace the doj, get to the bottom of the fact yourself so that this way you're able to craft your

defense around that. >> that's not what happened in this case. you're saying nasdathat's what lawyering would have been. that's not what happened. and then the politics tie into this a little bit, susan. the dribs and drabs we keep hearing, documents here and there. what is the political impact of that? >> and let's be clear, we think the political risks are much higher for president biden and the legal risks. people at the white house insist this was a mistake. that something that was a surprise to the president. there was no intent. very different from the case involving former president trump. but the political risks are incredibly high in terms of the distracting his administration and raising questions about his own treatment of these sensitive documents. and so they chose the worst possible course for a white house that face s a problem as almost every white house has done. every white house has done since obama has watergate had a special counsel appointed to investigate something about them.

and the first thing you do, get all the information out there. get it out accurately. make sure that you look transparent or answering all possible questions. and that was not how the white house got started with this. >> interesting. both of you are saying the same thing n this gase, good lawyering is good politics. neither seem to have happened exactly in a timely fashion. and you point out fror all the people trying to compare this joe biden and donald trump here, there is not that much of a comparison, you say the better comparison to what is happening is hillary clinton. why? >> well, in the hillary clinton case, you had the, you know, it was alleged mishandling of classified material. ultimately the statute that james come looked at is a statute that had a standard of gross negligence. he pointed out, a statute very rarely prosecuted in the united states history. the bar actually was very high. and there was really not even

no -- no legal culpability there. you just heard from susan a moment ago. she thought the political danger here outweighed the legal. same thing here for president biden. ultimately, if the, you know, the statement that's had been made are true, ultimately this is inadvertent mishandling of classified material that he voluntarily brought to the government's attention, you know this is something where literally you're going to have the same statutes, same legal unless and i would not expect charges. but nonetheless, if this is handled with the special counsel here handles the matter the way james comey did, there will be political ramifications which is why i think he can hopefully learn from the mistakes of james comey. >> susan, we heard a little while ago from the oversight committee basically saying there is a double standard in his mind between the treatment of president biden and former

president trump. jamie raskin says there is a double standard but the opposite kind. listen. >> it's a bit disturbing to me. people are saying there was no problem with donald trump did which was to defiantly reject any cooperation in turning over hundreds of classified documents are upset about president biden's voluntary and rapid turnover of a handful of documents that they found. >> does he have a point, susan, in terms of what republicans are saying now versus several months ago? >> sure. i mean, you need to be consistent on these things. if republicans didn't think this was a big deal with trump, how do they argue a particular fight? democrats face the same standards. if they said this is the apocalypse for trump to have gotten the classified and secret documents and taken them with him when he left the white house, they have to also acknowledge a serious matter warranting investigation when it happens with president biden. >> susan page, great to see you

both this morning. >> so california's looking forward to dry weather later this week. but this morning they are dealing with a new round of heavy rain and flooding. over the weekend president biden signed a disaster declaration for the state. so far there have been 19 storm related deaths, fatalities blamed on rushing water ands falling trees. we're there this morning. natasha, what are the concerns where you are? >> yeah, john, the rain has stopped for the moment. we know it will be letting up the high wind advisories will be letting up later today. but because this storm after storm after storm for a couple weeks now, the ground and rivers are so saturated. there is nowhere for the water to go. so what we're seeing behind us right here is an example. this road is this ramp is closed. you see the traffic diverting off of the highway here. because the next chunk of state route 37 has been shut down

since saturday afternoon. the water from the creek has been spilling over on to the highway. they're keeping this close because they knew the rain overnight whas going to bring te water back up. this caused a lot of problems around the area including landslides, mudslides, where the soil is so wet. in fairfax, we met a man who had to evacuate his home after part of a hillside came down on to the back of his apartment complex. >> i thought i heard thunder. it was no the thunder. it was a hillside giving way behind the two flats behind us. trees went into their bathrooms. there were little kids there. there were floods. this is nothing. it was coming down this broad about, this deep.

all mud flow. >> some dangerous situations including orange county authorities having to airlift or rather rescue this person who was hanging on to a tree. that was in laguna hills. they brought in swift water rescue teams. you can see them lifting her out and bringing her to safety overnight. the same team posted on social media a photo of them rescuing a man out of the water. so a lot of really risky situations there. the high winds bringing down trees on top of vehicles in a parking structure in southern california. so throughout the state, people have been dealing with this for the last couple of weeks. people we talk to said they really welcome the rain to help with the drought. but they really wish this was more spread out, john. >> stunning pictures. thank you so much for your reporting. >> investigators are searching for answers after a devastating

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nepal's worst plane crash in 50 years. the airlines flight went down sunday in the central part of the nation. at least three people are still listed as missing. but authorities say the chance of finding survivors at this point is extremely low. what are investigators learning at this point about the crash? >> i think the significant development like you mentioned, john, the black box flight data recorder is retrieved. this should have the answers to the questions that the investigators and government and family members have lost near and ones are looking for. they appointed five members to look into what happened inside the cockpit moments before the plane crashed. now the leaders from the search ops, 69 bodies have been recovered. today there is just one body recovered in addition to the 68 that were recovered yesterday.

but these bodies were pulled out using a crane from the gorge. investigations will be conducted after bodies are handed over to family members. 38 bodies have been identified. we know 15 foreign nationals who were onboard that plane. we do know that their bodies will be airlifted. those bodies will be handed over to family members. according to officials, the weather did hold up yesterday. so that is perhaps could not be one of the reasons they say for this crash. but we, of course, we'll have to wait for the report that should be out in about 45 days from sunday. that's what the government expecting. and like i said, the black box really holds the key. meanwhile, there have been families grieving outside the hospitals. this is a huge loss to them and they're hoping they finally get to know what happened on that flight. >> they're looking for answers.

thank you so much for your reporting. please keep us posted. in ukraine this morning, crews still searching for survivors after a russian missile strike destroyed an apartment building in a city. 40 people were killed. that makes it the dezliest single attacks of the war to date. we know three of the victims were children. there could be dozens of people still buried in the rubble. we're on the scene outside that apartment building. fred, give us the latest. >> hi, john. indeed a devastating scene here on the ground. i'm going to get out of your way and show what you is going on. you're right. the rescue crews are still searching to see whether or not anybody might be under that rubble. i spoke to a local mayor a couple minutes ago. he said with every minute that passes, chance of actually finding anyone becomes slim eastern slimmer. you can already see some of the

crews there on that building. they are use something pretty heavy equipment. as we can slowly see as this is churning from a rescue operation more and more into a recovery operation, and, of course, with all the devastating things that go with that. you already mentioned that at least 40 people have been con dirmd -- confirmed to have been killed. there were a lot of people who turned up with flowers, a lot of people in dispair and agony. that is really something around the scene here that we have been seeing a lot. a lot of people cursing the russians. a lot of people grieving and a lot of people in a lot of anger. and you know, john, one reason why this building was destroyed as bad as it was is because the russians used a cruise missile that is normally designed to destroy aircraft carrier strike groups and obviously completely annihilated this building when it impacted. the russians, we have to mention, they came out earlier

today in the form of a spokesman for the kremlin saying they were not behind any of this. saying they do not target civilian areas as they say and they believe this was a stray ukrainian missile defense rocket that hit this building. obviously, the ukrainians not having any of. that they say they are absolutely sure that it was this russian cruise missile that hit this building. they also say that they do not at this point in time have the means to defend against such cruise missiles. one thing that could change that is the patriots. the patriot missile defense system that the u.s. is currently conducting training with the ukrainians on. but needless to say, a devastating scene here. certainly the authorities fear that more bodies could be found under this rubble. john? >> just an awful scene, fred. people killed in their homes. our thanks to you for your reporting. please keep us posted. stay safe. this morning, italy's most wanted man mafia boss captured after 30 years on the run.

police took the 60-year-old into custody during a raid on a private hospital. our cnn contributor is in rome for us. so this guy was able to elude authorities for decades. right? how were police able to find him, get him now? >> well, that's a big question. this is a man that didn't look much different from the age progression image that's the police have been putting out over the years. he was basically kind of hiding in plane sight, it seems. 30 years on the run during which time he was conducting a business of sicilian mafia. he was involved in the murder of two prosecutors and an 11-year-old boy. this is terrible, terrible history of this man. but what is interesting is that there is going to be any other kind of arrest. there is some complicity. this is a private clinic.

the largest city in sicily. surely someone saw him go in and out of there. so we're expecting to have more information about who is hiding him, how he got away with it and, of course, who is in charge now that he's behind bars, john? >> yeah, 30 years in the making. a lot of questions about why now. thank you so much for your reporting. so from triumph to tragedy. college football champs the georgia bulldogs are mourning one of their own killed in a fatal car accident just hours after their victory parade. a team staff member was also killed. we're live in athens, georgia. pn with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensurere® high protein. boostt® high protein. now available inin cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv the hiring process used to be the death of me. but with upwork... with upwork the hiring process is fast and flexible. hold... all that talent! ♪ thiis how we work now ♪

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today tragedy, georgia defensive lineman and a staffer died in a car crash early sunday morning near uga's campus. it happened just hours after the team celebrated winning back to back national championships with a parade through athens. we now know offensive lineman warren mcclendon was also in the vehicle. he received minor injuries. we join you now. what updates you have heard? >> hey, john. good morning to you. with he have new details on that fourth person who was inside of the car who survived alongside mcclendon. first, let me walk you through what happened here early saturday morning. 2:45 a.m. for some reason their car veered off of the road striking two power poles and then take a look at all --

the trees and continuing down this slope, down the small hill and the car coming to a rest and striking this edge of this apartment complex. they died from their injuries. this crash happening making this even worse, john, happening just hours before that crash the team was out in athens happy, celebrating, cheering on with fans and students celebrating their massive national championship victory. making all of this just even worse. new this morning, i have confirmed with the athens county police department the identity of that fourth and final person inside of the car. her name is victoria bowls. she was seriously hurt, john. but she survived. >> what a sad story. thank you so much for bringing it to us. keep us posted. joining me now is the publisher of uga sports.com.

thank you so much for being with us. just give us a sense of the impact this has had in the bulldogs community. >> good morning, john. it's been a devastating thing. you go from the highest to the high. georgia had not had a national title celebration in 41 years until last year. then they have a back to back celebration that all day saturday. the entire community. you would think that maybe after having won one previously that excitement for a second would be lesser. it was greater. the streets were filled with people. and just the absolute high that everybody was feeling, guys declaring for the nfl, everyone cheering. everyone excited about the next year team as well. and then to have this news first thing in the morning about the two. willic is one of the most beloved players on the entire team. there are players from other schools that were talking about ch chandler and he is also one of the players on the team. so it's just an absolute gut

punch to this community. >> yeah. tell us more. you were talking about how beloved devin willick is. tell us about him and also, you know, taylor mccroix. >> she brought so much energy to the recruiting office. and that's what this system needs. it's a situation where when you bring people in, you try to sell them on the university. that's what she did. and again, when you see a kid who is going to florida, auburn, alabama, changing his profile ticket to a picture of him and chandler, that says a lot about how much they loved her and how much they are missing her. ben willick, he was letting little kids try on his national championship ring. en that is a thing -- his poor mother, she lost an older son the same way, same age in a car crash. so she's been heavily afflicted by this. but when you talk to people in the community and it's not saying you wish it would happen to anyone else. but everyone sells why devin. devin was a gentle giant. well spoken.

soft spoken. everyone absolutely abored him. >> i do understand that the team had a meeting yesterday. what you have learned about that? >> so they had a team meeting around noon. i spoke to people at that meeting. people that were involved in it. and they said somber is not even come close. this was a thing that just 24 hours later we're going down the heart of campus. fans were cheering and music playing. they said that everybody within the organization except the people involved in that convoy, people -- because there was more than one car. this were other cars with them. the players and players were there on scene. they said everybody that was not there, everybody within the organization was at this meeting. they said it was one of the most emotional gut wrenching meetings they had. and there have been other tragedies and other, you know, sad situations. but there's never been anything like this from the highs and lows that these people saw. and they've been there 30, 40

years. >> so quick, so sudden, so hard to process. thank you so much for helping us understand what is happening there. appreciate it. university of alabama basketball player is one of two suspects charged with murder in connection to a deadly shooting near campus. darius miles is a junior at the university. he and a 20-year-old michael lyn davis not connected to the school were arrest ford sunday's shooting that killed 23-year-old jamah harris. they say she was shot while sitting in a car about a half mile from campus. >> at this time it appears that the only motive for this was a minor altercation that these individuals had with the victim as they were out on the street. >> the university of alabama athletics department says darius miles has been removed from the basketball team. stark warning, treasury secretary janet yellen says the u.s. may hit the debt ceiling this week.

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spending cuts. we have to live within our means. and that battle starts today. >> the chief business correspondent is here with me this morning. can we just start, explain what the debt ceiling is and when i say we'll reach it on thursday, more importantly, they said we'll reach it on thursday, what does that mean? it's all over thursday or something else happened? >> we're at the beginning of this process. a prostes that could take six months to default if congress doesn't get the act together. the ceiling is what sounds like, a legal amount of national debt they can hold. they put this law into place. they wanted to keep -- they wanted to keep policymakers and lawmakers, you know, thinking about the best ways to tax and spend and not just build up national debt. instead, we just repeatedly raise that debt ceiling. it's kind of like a credit card limit if you're a family. but the u.s. government is not a family. the u.s. government can issue bonds that the whole world will

run after to buy because our financing, our credit rating, our reputation in the united states in terms of investment is just in the world. >> this is not going to go boom on thursday even though we reach the limit. this shows the u.s. in a moment of weakness. that is the treasury department not deferring and putting investmentes into the, you know, the pension funds, the sufficiently service. well, retirement funds of civil service. that is not really good. at some point, can you give the mini military an iou. can you tell them if you get to the end of that line and actually are defaulting, can you not issue new debt. can you start to give ious to people that get checks from the government. again, all very big position of weakness.

it doesn't make the u.s. look strong. kit spark a financial cross-ice chis could be job loss, rising interest rates. that would ironically add more to the national debt. >> at a time when there are concerns that there could be some kind of a recession or down turn the next 12 months. you and i, we're old enough to remember, we were in our teens, but back in 2011, wasn't there a lowering of our u.s. bond rating? >> this is the last time we saw that. goldman sachs in december said we're the biggest risk for another 2011 since then because of the political makeup of congress and the leverage that the new house republicans want to have over democrats leverage using the debt ceiling for spending cuts. that is a painful period. we got over it. right? they did finally raise the debt ceiling. i think they learned from it. they kept raising the debt ceiling without too much trouble after that. 2013, there was another little hiccup there. you could shut the government down easily by not raising the debt ceiling. again, these are all self inflicted wounds at a time when there are a lot of very, you

know, very trouble some signals in the global economy. trying to figure out if the u.s. economy is going to be able to skirt past a recession this year. there is a 30% chance that could happen. not if you don't raise the debt ceiling. >> get ready to hear a lot about this over the coming months. it's going to be bruising on capitol hill. >> i think the treasury can move things around for six months before we're at that x date. >> all right. great to see. thank you very much. still happening this morning, house republicans are stopping short of calling for embattled new york congressman george santos resign despite the fact he fabricated huge chunks of the resume during will campaign. the republican house oversight chair did call him, quote, a bad guy. cnn national politics reporter is with me this morning. it's interesting. now democrats are asking basically who knew what when? what do you learn? >> that's exactly right, john.

democrats have called on gop leadership to cooperate with any potential forthcoming house ethics committee investigation. new york congressmen sent a letter to kevin mccarthy, house gop chairman and the president of the congressional leadership f fund. that is the super pac affiliated with the house gop citing new report theg had some awareness of the lies santos used to deceive his voters. now cnn reported that the president of clf expressed concerns about santos's background prior to the election. and then contacted lawmakers and donors with those concerns. james comer of kentucky saying it's not up to him or any member of congress to determine if santos can be kicked out for lying. but says if the embattled

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this morning new york city mayor eric adams is calling for washington to deliver a more coordinated response to the migrant crisis. he visited the border in el paso on sunday and urged the federal emergency management agency to step up. he said the government's overall lack of coordination has compelled him to take his efforts to a national level. >> i'm extremely disappointed of what we have done to the cities of this country. and the impression that we're not seeing the level of urgency of getting this issue resolved. i believe that we must appoint a f fema leader that is going to come in and look at this and coordinate our response.

it is wrong for el paso to have a response, for new york to have a response. we cannot have these disjointed responses. >> the mayor said new york city received 3,000 migrants over a week ago with more than 800 arrived in one day alone. so this morning a lot of folks are in the middle of a voluntarily dry january, laying off booze for the first month of the new year. a new study thoughs sha always being mindful of alcohol could reduce the risk of an early death. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. not dying is always good for your health. what else does this study say? >> it is always good, john. so what this study did was it looked to excess alcohol intake. there is some alcohol intake that is okay and we'll get to that in a second. but the cdc scientists looked at deaths in the united states and said how many are attributable

to excess alcohol consumption. so everything from drunk driving, playing drunk plays a huge role to things like cancer and heart disease where they play a role but less so. so here is what they came up with. when you look at deaths of people ages 20 to 49, one in five deaths could be contributed to alcohol consumption. now the cdc is not saying that you shouldn't drink. they're just pointing out that there is something called drinking in moderation. so let's take a look at what the cdc defined as drinking in moderation. for men, no more than two glasses of alcohol a day. like a beer or glass of wine. for women it is no more than one a day. and i want to note that you can't add those up. you can't abstain all week and then have seven drinks on a saturday night. that is called binge drinking

and that is bad for all sorts of other reasons. >> that moderate list is generous. two drinks a day. >> yes. >> some people are doing the dry january and giving it up altogether. are there benefits to being dry all year. >> there can be benefits. if you've been drive for the past two weeks and you're feeling good and sleeping better and feeling less fatigued and less moody, that is a good ing this. maybe your body is trying to tell you something. maybe you shouldn't drink at all. but the cdc doesn't say that we need to give up alcohol. they say basically a couple of thi things, one, if you don't drink now, don't start, thinking it might be healthy for you. just keep not drinking and that drinking there in moderation, it is there and here are the numbers. john. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much for sharing this report. so travel in china is amping up ahead of the lunar new year holiday starting next week.

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i'm john berman. it is just about the top of the hour. i'm here sampling because jim sciutto is off this week. this morning house oversight committee james comer is demanding answers after another batch of classified documents was discovered in president biden's delaware home. comber is now asking the white house to turn over evidence as he plans a congressional investigation. all of this as you might imagine further dividing democrats and republicans in congress. >> i still would like to see congress do its own assessment of -- and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was any sk exposure of those documents and harm to national security. >> it shows the hypocrisy and why the american people don't trust their government. congress has an independent constitutional obligation to