>> we do commit, but we cannot reveal. >> the secret is in my office. again, congratulations freight you guys are such crowds come w are proud of you. thank you to everyone for watching our show, don't forget to dvr "outnumbered" and now here is "america reports". >> we begin with a live look at that white house press briefing room where any moment now karin jean-pierre is said to take mor questions from reporters as she and the white house come under intense scrutiny for lack of transparency on the president b didn't glowing growing classified document scandal. we will go to those questions i soon as the briefing begins. >> good to spend friday with you . a great job

karine jean-pierre said they would let their legal team and all the questions. that they didn't stop by didn't. he said he has no regrets with how he handled top-secret material claiming there is no there there to this kendall. >> the house judiciary committe and republican congressman jim jordan. great to have you here. the briefing as set to begin an moment now, why is the white house not answering more questions, why is karine jean-pierre so unprepared to have any transparency with the american people. >> nothing makes sense with thi rate i kind of go back to the fundamental question why were they looking into it in the first place? why did they send lawyers to search i think pointed out to date in the wall street journal that joe biden gets his players they get to search the documents , trump can't even have his present when the fbi is there. this double standard, the lack

of transparency at think has been evident from the get-go when it comes to transparent, o december 2nd they find documents , december 18th they find documents his lawyers find documents at his garage at his home, then it's reported on january 9th in the white house, we can confirm that report, but they only confirmed yet about the november 2nd documents they didn't confirm about december 18th with which they knew about, and the big questio if you knew all of this why didn't you let the american people know, they say they have been transparent, but it's been anything but throughout this crazy process. >> there are so many questions involved surrounding this. i want to play what president biden said about this yesterday when he was on a trip as we await the white house briefing. he seemed to deflect right off the top. >> what quite frankly bugs me i that we have a serious problem here we are talking about we ar talking about what's going on

and the american people don't quite understand why you don't ask me questions about that. i think you will find there is nothing there. i have no regrets i have followed what the lawyers said they want me to do that's exactly what i'm doing. >> so, with the president there in california surveying the damage from all of these that have been rolling there, seem t suggest they were far more important things to talk about than the mishandling of classified documents. he also says he has no regrets and what happened to this idea, people know i'd take top-secret documents seriously. >> i think they are trying to deflect it. never forget also the money per china gives big money to the university of pennsylvania, the give millions of dollars to the pen biden center, and then you have joe biden gets elected president we find these documents, these classified documents and what does he do? he names the head of that university of pennsylvania make her ambassador to germany.

and then they are asking about the money from china? none of that make sense either. he is trying to deflect, but th american people i think i understand there is a double standard they kind of want to know the answers to these fundamental questions for it. >> as far as the investigation into this matter, you are in this letter demanding that all documents and communications regarding the appointment of her , the special counsel, obviously involved in between the doj and related to classified materials garlands a this, he said his appointment o her special counsel is critical for quote an evenhanded review of that matter. based on her demand for all documents and giving occasions regarding the appointment of her , are you lacking confidence that it's even handled review o this matter will take place? >> i think the american people already understand there is not an evenhanded application of th law. as i've said many times we've

had over two dozen whistleblowers talk to us about a number of issues at the justice department that show a double standard you can look at this specific example and say why does president trump get hi home rated 91 days before the election, but they find out about classified documents a week before the election and we know nothing about it. and then when the white house a the story and the press, they still don't give us all the information. why were the biden lawyers allowed to pick up the document win again, president trump's home was raided. there are inconsistencies throughout so that is our concern. it's not just that whistleblowers that have talked to us, it's a broader problem o the un- evil even application o the law. one of the applications we have here is why it was this kept under wraps for 70 days, particularly when the day after he became president of the united states, president biden said this. >> vice president harris and i and our entire administration

will be honest in transference with you about the good in the bad news. >> what happened to that pledge? big again, the white house, the want to keep a promise, but i'm concerned about the justice department, the same justice department justice department that handled these things in such a different way is the justice department that spied o president trump's campaign they lied to the court, the justice department that paid a confidential source even after they knew that soares had lied to them. the same justice department tha played twitter money to keep information from the justice from the merkin people. and that is why i think you see this dark. it is political unfortunately. this is why we are going to mak sure all the facts get on the table. type said this so many times, but it is so true. the first step in stopping this kind of behavior and getting back to equal application of th lot in this country is to expos it and get all the facts on the table for the country. >> congressman, it was about

this time yesterday that the supreme court revealed and said that so far they have been unable to identify the leaker o the draft opinion that overturned realty wade. that happen before the ruling was actually issued and made public. are you surprised that we haven't been able to identify the leaker. it entailed forensic analysis. 126 formal interviews, with employees which denied disclosing that opinion paid this 20 page report that was released yesterday and will continue by the way, are they going to find the leaker class. >> we need too. the only way you're going to stop this in the future is to make sure you hold them accountable. we had these protest at supreme court justices home day after day and week after week, all designed to change in direct

violation of 18 usc, and we hav on the books and maybe most importantly we have an assassination attempt of one of our sitting supreme court justices. that is frightening. helper with the investigation. we don't really want to do the investigation. if there is something we can do with congress to better help th marshal get to the bottom of this and find out who did this because we saw what happened over weeks and weeks and frankl months, not to mention what happened to crisis centers across after the leak of this draft opinion. >> you try something once, and if you get away with it, then you can try it again and maybe it escalates into keeps elevating the criminality or th wrongdoing involved here. you expect now that this person believes, and scared them off, the fact that this person has gotten away with this?

what does this pretend for the future in terms of other controversy great gig it's a fundamental issue. that's why it's important we find out who it is and make sur they are accountable. if you let it go. if you let the justice department continue it will get worse and more people will be targeted. moms, the first whistleblower that came to us and talk to us about the 25 parents who we're targeted by the fbi, the fda showed up at their house becaus they went to a school board meeting to speak up for their kid. that is not supposed to happen in this country. this is the designation that's been put on their name as a result of the apparatus that they are garlin put in place grade that's why we want to investigate. >> we want to turn our attentio to washington, we know there is been a lot of street closures they are. impacting traffic i'm sure. thankfully you've got to us on time, but there is in the nation

's capital today, the march for life. it as a rally that has been happening here it's been held since january 19th, 1974. this is a big year after a lot of change and this country. >> this is adele to celebrate life. it's been 50 years since the roby wade. time when pro- laypeople come from all of the country and realize just how sacred and precious life is so it's a grea day and we are having some of the ohio folks were having them in out of the cold here in a while for some pizza and refreshments so we look forward to visiting with those folks working in this is happening as they say there needs to be federal legislation. congressman, good to talk to you , thank you for coming in. >> thank you, congressman parrott. >> we will be talking more abou all of the supreme court stuffe stuff with sheehan and bream wh does double duty. we look forward to that coming

up. >> shannon will join as soon. >> cartels strengthening their hold on the southern border. workings traffic and while border states feel the direct impact, cartels are expanding their distribution cells in cities literally across the nation. bloodshed, human smuggling, record fentanyl seizures have been daily occurrence. the growing influence of mexico's drug cartels and the u.s., but first to jenkins coming he is live at the border in eagle pass, texas,. what do border agents say about the situation on the ground because we've seen differing accounts of it from the president, eric adams, the people in new york city, what are people on the frontline seeing? >> good afternoon, john, that i the question to ask because the will tell you unabashedly, that they are frustrated, they are tired, and they have had enough.

we go now to our drone you can see here in eagle pass, the bridge connecting, this is one of the hottest if not the hottest spot. they've had 160 migrant encounters. over 100 pass days they've had that money. the video we keep showing you every single day in this one, came this morning well before dawn, this it's a large group o about 70-75 migrants, they are from columbia and cuba, we ask everyone as they passed, about the cartels, did they fear the cartels, did they pay the cartels, not a single one of them would talk to as about it because they go on to acknowledge that nobody crosses this river without paying that cartel in the smuggling is on the increase and it's really frustrating border officials. look now at this footage of fox cameras embedded not far from

where we are. in a span of six hours, the texas dps stopped three separat smuggling operations arresting one driver as well as one mexican national driver after recovering more than a dozen migrants that we're being smuggled that we were able to speak with her the border patro council vice president that represents the del rio sector about how much the cartel controls this operation and her is what he told us. >> they are ruthless, they are effective and in betty wait man ways they have better intelligence of media because their resources are completely unlimited. when we are stuck into a proces they can do whatever they want. >> as far as all that talk abou got a ways we hear so much of, remember got a ways wouldn't ge away without the cartels in the smugglers and the 14 days they've been here, there have been more than 7,000 known got ways just in this sector, that

is roughly 500 day. that is quite remarkable we hav no idea where these people are, where they're going, or what their intent is. get mexican drug cartels tightening tightened their grip across the america while controlling much of our souther borders. senior national correspondent's life in los angeles with a closer look at there leadership in their connection to american street gangs. the term cartel can be used pretty loosely, but what does that really mean? >> it is kind of a mistake of ours in essence. we don't mean when we talk cartel that every associate as an employee id and gets a w-2, usually they get a cut of what or who they move, but a drug cartel is a business organization. they have a structure, they hav a chain of command, and every cartel is going to control its own supply chain, manufacturing

smuggling, transports, accounting, and distribution. >> the drug cartels, the kingpins rely on that to make them their money so they are pushing their drugs up here, it is the street gangs making the profits to send to mexico. >> today roughly there are five cartels let's compete for territory in mexico among the first was the golf cart to whic had routes freight you had the new generation cartel would mov from southern mexico up north, and the tiny tijuana cartel was battling for west coast corridors in l chapels saw that lower cartels that move from cocaine to synthetic drugs like meth in fentanyl that don't nee a growing season. today each cartel is a multibillion-dollar they employ thousands and police ate nothin illegal crosses into the u.s. without cartel approval with

migrants paying 5-$20,000 each to drugs worth millions. >> i can tell you that cartels are here, they are here for multiple reasons, selling drugs is lucrative, there is a lot of money to be made. >> once over the border, the drugs will go to a stash or a warehouse where us-based member usually a former felon will use local street gangs to sell them off in the dealers don't even know what's what cartel provide the drugs. >> someone will go to that city and set up a distribution cente and once they are there get the drugs out to the lower at nonaffiliated cartel people who are controlling the streets. he get the bottom line is every mexican felon has tried to knoc out the cartels, remember cut off the head of the snake, he did come in many cases it didn' matter. these cartels survive, they wer here yesterday and will probabl be here tomorrow.

>> thank you for covering it. coming up, the former el paso u.s. marshal with trained polic officers in dealing with these cartels, it is a tough job as you can imagine. we will ask more about it. >> when you look at what happened in california earlier this week, just the brutality o those gangs and these cartels t shoot point-blank in the head a 16 -year-old mother and her to -month-old baby. who are these people? any moment now we expect press secretary karine jean-pierre to face more tough questions about the president. we get got the two minute warning almost five minutes ago now. we will dip into that as soon a the question and answer part of the briefing. >> we will listen and there to see if there's any more transparency, brand-new e-mail showing the great links that dr

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and the resolutions. we send them with the d prk st. james committee panel of experts . we will continue to raise these violations at the security council alongside our partners. when we saw them today, at the eighth iteration of the contact group, we are continuing to provide ukraine with weapons an equipment it needs to defend itself. use today the significant new package of security assistance which included more than 500 armored vehicles including bradleys, stryker combat vehicles, and ambition addiction . all addition to the armored vehicles we already announced right this package also contain critical defense capabilities including more air defense

systems and more air surface-to-air missiles. that the u.s. has already previously provided ukraine. we have been clear. we want to continue to. >> we have the news they are from john kirby as he continues to brief the white house press briefing room on this mercenary group being designated as an criminal organization in the treasury department he is sayin is not expected to make that designation. that is the news off the top from kirby and we are waiting jean-pierre great obviously going to take a lot of question on the growing document scandal we will be listening and get back into the briefing room for that. >> they are apparently becoming a rival to the russian military and ukraine. we will see where this goes fro here. unredacted records obtained by the nation in the intercept reveal new details about origin of covid, the documents show th

great links that the doctor and that national institutes of health apparently went to to rule out the lab leak theory. which with bring in fox news medical contributor dr. mark siegel. it retained unredacted e-mail that involved dr. the head of the nii, here is what the intercept sites and parts, the documents show that in the earl days of the pandemic, they took part in a series of e-mail exchanges and telephone calls and which several are all just expressed concern that the look potentially quote engineered that participants had the possibility that the laboratory activities inadvertently lead t the creation and release of the virus. the conversations apparently go conveyed and anxious urgency. wetmore dimino about this? >> this is a surprise to me. he wrote about this for that

nation, the ultraleft publication. you can see he started to raise on both sides of the outlet. unsurprised about that e-mail that i saw there from fauci he said what is this doing here. in that site is what doctor robert redfield is raised all the questions about, in other words it allows the virus to attach more easily two human cells and it is not usually found in a bad coronavirus trai what are some of the other sequences that are doing there. there is a big stir over this apparently internally and christian anderson from scripps of la was involved, i've interviewed him as well on this and he said over time looking a different versions of full published version of the virus he was pretty sure it'd come from nature, but here is the point, and narrative emerged with nih, and that narrative wa this came from nature, i have interviewed fauci multiple time and i'm convinced he thinks it came from nature but the proble

is the other possibility was never given full air to breathe and as time has gone on, they haven't found it which is where it would go from a bad coronavirus trait it doesn't go from about coronavirus to be in and they never answered the question about that. redfield says, how did this virus suddenly spread a symptomatically to millions and millions of humans overnight? mount sinai probably the most experts on this path when i asked him that and he said, it doesn't do that, so yeah, it evolved, but the lab looks pretty suspicious right now. >> and some scientists were actively entertaining the idea if they didn't come from lab, o wasn't engineered, may be it di emerge from lab somehow through an animal experiment which is a type of gain of function research, some scientists thought that they had found the answer when they noticed that

these weird looking creatures that kind of like a little like armadillos were with armor on them were showing that, but it didn't include that cleavage site that you just talked about but there did seem to be an effort here and all out effort to dispute the lab leak theory, instead of what science normall does with this is a possibility in this hand and this is a possibility on this hand it was kind of like what this one is worrisome but this one is reall scary, so let's get rid of it before it gains any traction, why would they do that? >> i can tell you why, they are committed to what is called an international consortium of scientists in the law, obama wa trying to push back on gain of function research and was reall worried about it but under the current law, for emerging, for enhanced pandemic passages, as long as it is under strict

supervision, you can do it, the problem is how much of the strict supervision and we have in the netherlands? how much do we have in china? by the way, how much do we even have a north carolina where thi work is going on. i don't think the nih really wants to admit that the genie got out of the bottle. it is going on around the world. you could be a scientist in china, but the chinese communis party is looking over your shoulder there. >> they are certainly suppressing anything you are doing in terms of sharing your information of what is really going on. speaking to what's really going on, are we ever going to really know where this thing came from? >> we should've had boots on th grounds in china at the beginning. i think even boots on the groun now would help i think what we need what you just called for, open disclosure. we might be able to figure this out if scientist admit what was going on. we should have a look inside these labs, we should know what

is going on and one more thing, and major study came out of japan and the uk in the summer and basically said in the meantime, we shouldn't be doing these experiments that probe an push viruses to see where they can go. we can figure out treatments an vaccines without that. i think a moratorium is called for while we figure this out. but we could still figure it out . >> let's hope we do. always good to catch up with you . >> gangs and cartels are workin in partnership many times the cartel our members of these gangs is clear to law enforcement, we know what's happening, and it's very disturbing and disheartening when we have been a ministratio that doesn't recognize or at least put some type of limits within our border. the california sheriff investigating the f6 people and a teenage mother and her child says the unsecured border is to

blame for the vicious cartel violence becoming a reality in his jurisdiction. what stops can law enforcement take to stop the situation from getting even worse? let's bring in the former u.s. marshal based in el paso, he's also a trained police on how to handle these cartels freight first up, how are these cartels here at home in this country? >> i don't think anybody has an idea the average american i should say doesn't have any idea , they are extremely prevalent, the mexican cartels have read throughout the united states and they have had them for quite a while now. the difference now is there are even more cartels here in the united states freight obviously like what we saw happen in california, that mexican cartel and activity for sure, that is the kind of stuff they are doin in mexico. it is happening here two years

ago a 13 -year-old girl was beheaded by a mexican cartel in alabama. >> just terrific, these crimes are absolutely horrific and thi most recent case of this young teenage mother and her baby, yo trained police on how to deal with these cartel members i wil ask you about that in just a moment, but that means that you have experienced them first-hand , you have seen these people up close and personal. you are they? >> you know, the mexican cartel that are here in the united states, they are from mexico an they have their subgroups here and they're working with this street gangs here in the united states just as the sheriff said. you have prison gangs that are working with the mexican cartels . that's why i won't rule out the possibility that some street gangs working for the mexican cartel were responsible for thi hit. again, they are just people fro

mexico here, but they are working with people, u.s. citizens here that are here in the united states. >> you are training members of our police forces to actually deal with these cartel members, the vicious cartel members and many cases. how do you do it? >> you know, when i trained the law enforcement officers, first of all they need to know i don' care what city they are in indian estates, they are here and they are dangerous. i teach them how to be safe whe they are investigating the mexican cartel. i teach them investigative techniques that i won't go into detail, but i'd teach them investigative techniques to hel them identify mexican cartels i the community in then how to conduct investigations with them . as far as what needs to be done our federal government needs to send more help to the southwest border because that's where the come in from. it's an open border, it's not secure.

we need more border patrol agents were dea agents, we need to hit these cartels with everything we've got we need to stay on their heels and not let them catch their breath. we need to do that at the borde and we also need to do that in every city and the united state because they are there. how you do that? addressing them proactively end-use programs that are an example. i have been trying to lead drug trafficking area. that is federally funded progra for estate, local, and federal officers work together to take down a mexican cartel organization to dismantle them. the other thing is the federal government needs to provide mor funding to the counter drug training program because they provide free training to law enforcement officers that otherwise would not have the money to receive training. >> you are doing important work and you are a big voice in all of this great a growing number of voices are putting pressure

on the ministration to address the cartels and address the border. we appreciate you joining us today. thank you. >> a rough start for air travel in 2023 and now united airline ceo is warning passengers to expect more cancellations and delays as the industry struggle to adjust to a post- pandemic reality. jeff, this post- pandemic reality appears to be business is booming, but they can't handle it. >> they are writing checks in terms of the schedule that thei personnel can't really cash and it's not really just the airlines, but it appears to be getting worse for it you talked about the cancellation in the delays, here is something you may have not heard about that i getting worse and that is the practice of bumping people from flights. here are some numbers in the wall street journal. frontier airlines typically bum about 800 people you're commit

last year they bumped 6,000 people and that is true for other airlines as well. bumps are apparently up double, that is pretty bad. southwest and american are also right behind them. you show up at the airport and you have a ticket, they won't let you board because they sold too many seats. in terms of the worst delays ou there, wall street journal does this kind of a measurement of all of the airlines and the pas year they say jetblue, frontier and allegiant have the worst delays this past year. in the airline say it is hardly their fault, yes, but it is als partly the fault of the federal government specifically the big meltdown that took place where the faa and the head the ground stop that occurred, that they say is a result of the lack of faa funding according to the ce of united airlines that you mentioned. >> i think this ought to be a

wake-up call for all of us in aviation, something many of us in aviation have been saying fo a long time the faa needs fores resources, the faa have outgrow their technology infrastructure and simply cannot operatin this more challenging environment. >> it is indeed a challenging environment, i will leave you with a little bit of positive news for they did pretty well with on-time performance delta, alaska air and united worth noting, the big winner there, apparently about 80 percent according to the journal of its flights were on time so essentially, if you want to fight the best carrier, you hav been eight in ten chance of getting where you want to go when you want to go there. >> the ceo of united says. >> it is a parable. >> the head of united airlines as the faa needs more resources.

hello, pot. what is 2023 going to shape up to be? jeff, great to spend time with you as always. >> you're probably not going anywhere, john peart figure he is kind of the grim reaper when it comes to this stuff, isn't he ? >> the misery index goes way up. >> i always stop and listen to anywhere that he is, a headline and the new york times today, air travel debacles put pete buttigieg in the hot seat. where is pete? this is a growing crisis with our transportation system in this country, and you are not hearing a lot from him. >> where is pete? how many times can you ask the same question and expect a different answer? i'm not sure. >> we will see what happens. it's been a rough start to the

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here is shannon bream. one thing we did learn from thi report from the high court is a lot of people had access to the draft freight look at the screen . 82 people, 82 people had access to this draft decision. whoever was responsible covered their tracks while. >> they did, because they did a forensic look at all of their internal department they asked people for their personal cell phones and text, they said everybody cooperated they did all the interviews they said everybody did swear to an affidavit that they were not th ones who were the leakers so they said they basically hit a bunch of dead ends, i thought i was interesting the report also cited several people admitted they had either side the conten of their decision with their spouse or partner how the vote had gone down and what the vote was, so a lot of people admitte they were sharing information they should never.

>> channing, do you get the sense okay, if you could standb with us, i believe are going. >> to the white house here in just a second. >> florida has an abortion ban which is on the books, so that is number one, and it is the third-largest state in the country as you all know and it is surrounded by several states several states around its order with even more restrictive abortion laws, and bands, which are in place as well, because florida's ban is less stringent than in the neighboring states, the state had increasingly become a place where women can go to access care there. right now the state is considering an even more extrem ban on the books which would be devastating not just for florid women, but if you think about again the southern region if yo think about the state that florida orders, so it is important in this moment we are

currently end. also, it was the first state that the vice president visited after the devastating situation that we received just a couple of months ago and so again, thi is something that after the dobbs decision, we felt, she felt it would be a good state for the 50th anniversary, which would've been the 50th anniversary of roe v wade. >> there are two headings there that say one says nearly 11 million, the other says what is the difference? >> that is a good question. we will have to ask our chief i'm going to be honest with you on that, let me back to the tea and i will be able to decipher. gig as the president going to his home and rehobeth beach today and does not have anythin to do with the classified documents being found in wilmington and nothing found in rehobeth? gig as it relates to classified documents which a president takes very seriously, you heard him speak to it when he was

asked with your colleagues yesterday when he was an. i would refer you to the white house counsel office for any statements coming from here or on anything, new developments coming from here, but as it relates specifically to the investigation, i would refer to the department of justice i am not going to comment on that piece at all from here, i am going to be consistent and respect the department of justice process as it relates t his travel, as you know he ofte travels to delaware on the weekends. anything related to the legal process, i would refer you to white house counsel. >> white what was the white house reactions to the governor ron depape blocking av studies saying it violates the law whic is significantly black

educational values, does the white house have concerns about this action by the ministration? >> and want to be clear the ministration does not dictate any curriculum for local schools , that is not something that we do here, but there is something we want to comment, i is incomprehensible that to see that this is what this ban or this block to be more specific that damar has put forward if you think about the study of black americans, that is what h wants to block and again, these types of actions are not new, they are not new from what we are seeing especially from florida. and we have talked about many times and this briefing room that they have banned more book in schools and libraries than almost any other state in the country great let's not forget they didn't block ap european

history, they didn't block musi history, they didn't block art history come up but with the state chooses to block a course that is meant for high achievin high school students to learn about their history of arts and culture. and it is incomprehensible again . i will just leave it they are, leave it there to make your own determination of why this occurred and why this happened. it is not our place to direct o to be involved in any local school curriculum, but this is concerning. >> he mentioned lawmakers will be back in town next week. >> i know there has been reporting on this i don't have date to confirm from here about a potential meeting with the speaker. speaker mccarthy, the president has as i just

mentioned at the top of series of meetings that he's going to have a series of meetings with leadership in congress to talk about and range of issues that matter to the american people, again, i don't have anything to confirm here. one of the things the president is looking forward to do is tal about issues that matter to the american people as we gestated, but also to continue to develop and grow their relationship their working relationship together. i don't have again as specific date to announce from here. when the meeting happens, will the president reiterate that position pretty it's a range of issues as i just said, the president has been clear about where we stand on the position of default, really very clear. i've set it, the president has cited it is something that has been repeated. when you think about dealing with the debt limit and when yo think about what congress has been able to do the last three

times with the last administration, and it is a responsibility that they have. it is a basic responsibility congress has to deal with the debt ceiling. we have been clear on this in the president has been clear on this. it should be not be used as a political weapon, we should not be putting it in any hostage situation. more this is a president who just talked through the first t years of his presidency and wha he's been able to do the president wants to continue to build on our successes. that is what republicans and th congress should want to do is t continue to build on that and work with us. that is going to focus for the president as he's been focused on this past two years.

>> [inaudible reporter question] >> is not customary to have a meeting with the speaker who is in effect. >> the president is looking forward to meeting with speaker mccarthy, i don't have a date. >> it is going to be about a range of issues. when he has meetings about members he has a range of issues . i don't want to get ahead of a meeting that has been locked and . it's a bit of a hypothetical. when the president normally talks to congressional members or when he has meetings with them there is a range of issues talked about. we have been clear about where we stand when it comes to the debt ceiling. we have been clear, the president has not has been clear , he is looking forward to

working with the speaker and continue to build on that relationship. >> look, we think that congress should deal with this in a bipartisan fashion as they have 78 times in the past. this is something that congress has done, it is their basic responsibility as a congressional member. that is something that needs to be dealt with. we are talking about seniors, w are talking about veterans. we are talking about real life potential issues that could affect americans across the country, so it should not be used in a way to hold the debt ceiling in hostage because they want to cut social security. because republicans, maga republicans in the house want t cut medicare come out that

shouldn't be where we are right now, we should be moving forwar and conversations about the deb ceiling in that way. they should be dealing with it. >> what does the president mean when he says no regrets because he always so said he takes very seriously the handling of classified documents. i'm unclear what he means by no regrets. >> i am not going to comment further on what the president said yesterday. i think he laid out his thought he was asked about it, he laid out his thoughts of the questions he was asked. i am not going to get into specifics or i'm not going to g beyond what the president has said, but i will reiterate from here that basically what he sai to all of you many times at thi point, that he does indeed take classified information seriousl he does indeed take classified documents seriously. i would refer you to the white house counsel for any specifics on the president comments and

how the process is moving forward. >> you are referring to the rul of the ancient art of the timeline? or are you just unclear about it ? >> i totally understand the question. i totally understand why you ma want clarity here, but i am going to be prudent and consistent here. we're not going to product talk about the ongoing process from here. i would will just let the president's words stand for themselves. >> quickly, do you have any update on the president get a physical. he is entitled in any year. i don't know if he intends to get when. >> and spoke to this a couple o times. he will have one by the time th end of the month is out, so we will do the same that we did last time, back in 2021 where w provide with transparency his medical physical and so again,

we are going to do the same thing, we are going to be transparent we will share the information and we will have more to share about that. >> i also wanted to ask without speaking about the investigatio or the special counsel specifically, if you could walk us through a little bit of what the process in general is supposed to be with classified documents are improperly found and if the white house has any role in those circumstances if they refer anything to the office of national intelligence or what that process should be again,. >> i hear the questions it's been asked many different ways many different times and i appreciate the effort, again, i am going to refer you on the particulars of the process and how it goes down and how it works and refer you to the whit house counsel office, my

colleagues there will be happy they are to engage with you and listen to your question and answer the best they can, i am just not going to be speaking about it from here. i've engaged with many colleagues and probably you ove the last two weeks and i'm not going to continue to do that. >> could you just speak a littl bit more about why vice president harris is going to give this be done monday. does the president have message for the march on life march. the march for life happens ever year and so we support peaceful free even when we disagree with it clearly, it is not indicativ of there and point of view. it is critical, but it is a critical pillar of democracy to march and so of course, we support that, but with that said

, we want to make sure that we continue to underscore the attack on women's rights to mak their health their own this is something that the biden and harris administration has taken very seriously. this is something that we are going to continue to ask congress to make sure that they take actions on this as well. we go through the next couple o days into being what would have been the 50th anniversary of ro v wade. this is a critical. they made themselves clear, the want us to make sure here in congress and at the white house and the federal government that we protect people's rights and they want to see that. that is how we see that march for life again, we support peaceful peaceful speech, a peaceful march, even though we

don't agree with the particular policy. >> anybody who wants to go cove the president you are free to d so. if you are confirmed. in others if folks are registered and confirmed, feel free. >> the vice president, she as giving the speech. >> you have seen the vice president to be a leader on thi issue over the last several months since the decision came back this past summer break it' not unusual i had mentioned tha after florida was the first dat she visited after the dobbs decision so she is going back. the importance of florida, the importance of where he is located in the border states around it and why we think it i important and why she thinks it's important to make that speech in tallahassee on sunday. again, the vice president has been a leader you have heard

from both of them multiple times , you have seen her bring roundtables together to regulat figure out how to deal with thi critical issue of protecting th woman's right to make her own decision about her health care. so you continue to see that fro this white house for sure. >> yesterday, the former president called for the jailin of a pair of reporters who as well as the editor that supervised him and the publishe of politico the white house statement went out earlier toda but i was hoping that you could wait in on how the president feels about that and his commitment to press freedom. >> can tell you the president believes that freedom of press is one of the bedrock of our