there was no subsequent rate of biden's private offices or home and biden and garland in biden' at doj said nothing to you the american people information you should have had before the election. two weeks later, november 18, only investigating donald trump. not joe biden. it was not until today that garland appointed a special counsel to investigate biden. at the white house continues to claim the president had no idea classified documents or housed in multiple unsecured locations. donald trump has we pointed out yesterday had every right to declassify there's news that process if there is no legal process. ray means he has to follow. that is not something a vice president has. as jonathan turley points out, the claim is probably a boldfac live. at least someone moved multiple times. we will find out in time. that's because of the year invited center where much of th materials turned up did not ope their doors until 2018. that means over a year after biden left the obama white house . where where the documents store before them and who moved them around and who might've saw them ? spe

secondly, joe biden is a joke. at the end of his day, i do not know how anyone can believe this imbecile of a president. everything he touches goes to pot, i will say that word. at the end of the day, he is the worst president in american history. at the end of the day, the bottom line is if biden had the same thing going on with the classified documents as trump and not only trump and bill clinton, not even clinton, but obama. i remember when obama was there and protected susan -- and she was getting ready to get in trouble and he took her stuff and put it in his library to keep her from being convicted or prosecuted or brought up on investigation charges for whatever it was. with her corruption. host: that is ivanka in california speaking of president biden in mexico city meeting today as part of the north american leaders summit is this part of the 10th north american leaders summit they had meetings this morning with the prime minister and the so-called family photo with lucas over door -- and the event at the

biden was not allowed to take them at all. biden should eventually be prosecuted.ost: california, bob is on the line. good morning. caller: good morning. i am definitely for the investigation. i want the investigation of hunter biden. how does a man who gets kicked out of the military for drug use wind up on the board of directors with burisma in ukraine getting $100,000 per month? he knows nothing about the board of directors. he knows nothing about anything having to do with the field that he got a job in and he is getting $1 million per year. talk about corruption. let me mention something about ukraine. it kills me to see ukrainian babies slaughtered by russia. what we need to do is give ukraine long-range missiles so they can kill russian babies. that will end the war a lot sooner when there is a cost to russia because putin is the real carnation of hitler. host: we will talk about the investigations into the biden administration broadly. we have focused on classified documents but we welcome your calls and comments. carol is next in stafford, virginia. caller

and adds about the bidens.n transfers, gifts and other matters that could prove criminal. it gets even worse for hunter. he is fighting to prevent his daughter with her ex-lover from using his last name. hunter's legal team is trying to stop the request to let the 4-year-old sake the biden name. here is the wisconsin senator ron johnson. thanks for being here. he had the gall to come out and say i have yet to see any evidence. has he looked? why won't he take seriously those who have and realize the connection between hunter and joe is not just a connection between 2 private citizens but a private citizen and the president? ? >> well, pete fyou don't look for evidence you will never find it. buck made a good point in the previous segment -- counters who helped install president biden into his office. they call him a moderate. they censored my report on the hunter biden laptop story. they don't want to defending his record. inflation and on the other hand and rising crime. i am suspicious about the revelation of

at biden's private office upend the biden center made possible. by the communist party of tha china. you can't make that up. thatou is exactly whereed top secret classified obama era documents turned up.mplete but years later, we have full, complete details. grea at specificity. breaking news coming up now. tonight, we are witnessing a white house in full crisis mode. they are panicking in the westk wing tonight. biden visibly shaken after the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the classifiede top secret obaa era documents that recently turned at three now separate unsecured locations. that includes joe biden's garage in delaware next to his don't worry, the garag vintage corvette. but don't worry, the garage wast locked. well, at least most of the mostf the time. take a look. there's the garage right there. anyway, the scandathl gets worse by the day. now, coming up, we'll take you through a shocking timelinebothj that is very for bothoejustic joe biden and the department of justice. his department of justice will follow the money al

>> i think you can distinguish something from hunter biden from president biden.that case implicated the president -- as long as it's just hunter biden, i don't think that decision needs to be reached. you worked pretty closely with christopher wray? >> i think he's doing a superb job under challenging circumstances. this criticism of the fbi has been ongoing for some time. if you work at the day-to-day basis, i think the american people should have confidence, and i think christopher wray is the right person. >> do we have to figure out another way to politically appoint members of the justice department? >> i don't think there's any reason to mess with the appointment process, chuck. the majority of employees of the department are career employees. the leadership is subject to political appointment. i think that's an appropriate way to manage the department. >> rod rosenstein, we appreciate you coming on and lending your perspective. >> thank you. >>> joining me is republican senator ron johnson, top republican on the subcommittee on investigations. senator john

biden has not done that.ited the doj and the fbi and all of the investigators into his home to take a look. that, same sorry -- >> it was probably between that and a search warrant being executed. intent is important here and that is what investigators are looking at. >> i can just say, look, again, the comparisons and the what-ism is going to be natural. i will be the first to admit, as i've said many times, the volume regarding former president trump is much greater and the secrecy is much greater. there is a special counsel investigation looking into that. what we are talking about today and this weekend is a special counsel investigation of the current president who said there is no there there, and there apparently is something there. and let me remind everyone that when this was going on with the former president, president biden said said, how could anyone be so irresponsible with classified documents? that's the question we need to be asking the current president, how could he be so irresponsible? and

department to naomi biden.ear naomi, i want to invite you to take part in a major conference in china at end of march, i have been asked to recruit a prominent young leader. they will fly you business class and supply your accommodations, they are interested in you thanks to your family name. i would not take offense to that, better you than tiffany trump, if you are interested, can you send me a bio, i would forward that and expect a formal invitation. pretty remarkable. that has not been previously reported, as far as we know. employee of university of pennsylvania, ivy league school, sending an invitation on behalf of the chinese communist party to recruit joe biden's granddaughter, she would stay in government controlled acommendations. people on television seem concerned about national security, former cia and fbi employees going on cnn and msnbc to tell you national security implication are first in mind, are they concerned about this? they asked a single question about it? of course they won't. tonight w

or the biden set residence. in fact, after the special counsel was announced, we findl out that joe biden's personal attorneys, who don't even havenn security clearance are still rummaging through looking for documents. ugh looking for documents. this is so wrong, this is another i this is so wrong. this is another example of a two tier system of justice inl america. and this is one reason whys ar republicans are so outragee sogd over this whole process and the hypocrisy of the biden administration. >>the can you clear up one thig for me?administration. because adam schiff was talking about saying, listen, we was had a briefing on the documents that donald trump had.ald tr we should alsoum get a we briefing on the documents that joe biden had last time i checked. i don'd i dot think adam schiffs on a committee any longer, and i don't think he's probably entitled to any en y classifiedy documents of any nature becausef he was kicked off the intelligence committee. >> yeah, no. adam schiff stays with theh th intel

did biden have any idea the documents were there when they moved out of the office at the penn biden center and is that why attorneys might have been present? had he any idea. we have plenty of old footage of him in that car. he loves that car and talked about it before. loves to drive it. and today he talked about it several times saying yeah, the classified documents were with his locked up corvette in that garage. we also know there was at least one document in an adjacent room. we don't know if that room was locked up. there wasn't a corvette in it. >> very sloppy. this is something that won't go away. why didn't they tell us this yesterday when the story broke about the documents being found in the biden center? we're going to find out more. >> harris: you think they knew? >> i don't know if they knew or not. but if they didn't that's a concern. we know that what we learned two days ago happened in november. they may have known and thought they had it bottled up. if they did know when the first set of documents was found and didn't talk about the second, then that's a huge probl

biden center. what was going on there? whatever it was, it is shady as all get out. and i'm convinced that once enough subpoenas are issued, once enough investigations are launched, what we're going to find is going to shock people. >> no doubt about that. >> molly, activist chuck todd put on his i'm a journalist hat for a while. watch this. >> senator, do you have a crime that you think hunter biden committed because i've yet to see anybody explain, it's not a crime to make money off of your last name. >> so, chuck, you ought to read the marco polo report, where they detail all kinds of potential crimes. >> senator -- >> let me stop you this. potential -- >> about -- >> i'll take it at your word that you're ethically bothered by hunter biden. i'm curious, though, you seem to have a pattern -- >> are you not? >> i'm a journalist, i have to deal in facts. >> molly, he's unhinged. what do you think? >> chuck todd is not a journalist first of all. he spent years pushing the russian derangement hoax, t

but some democrats can't admit that biden was irresponsible. >> by biden's own standard, wasn't bidenally irresponsible with classified information? >> hoping that we will keep a sense of symmetry about our analysis of these situations and a sense of proportion about the underlying offenses, there are some people who are trying to compare having a government document that should no longer be in your possession to inciting a violent insurrection. >> judge jeanine: and others like adam schiff are now saying they are not rushing to any conclusions. >> white house knew about this on november 2nd. should this information have been revealed earlier? >> i think the administration will need to answer that question. i'm going to reserve judgment until they do, but i think it's important to point out that the biden approach was very different in the sense that it looks, as far as we can tell, that it was inadvertent that these documents were in these locations. >> judge jeanine: since when is adam schiff ever reserved judgment? it would have been nice if he reserved judgment over russia gate. i

biden personal counsel informed him that additional documents were found at biden's private home.ot them. in his garage. next to his corvette. we have january 5, briefed garland on the investigation. advice a special counsel was har wanded. -- warranted. i might add january 8, was my interview with more comer, january 9, the leak, i think by the biden administration to cbs news, about first batch to get in front of it january 12 biden counsel called lausch saying that an additional document was identified, three times. why didn't the biden lawyers receive subpoenas? or fbi take it on themselve to investigate all of biden's offices? and hang outs or what have you? why were they relying on private lawyers for biden? this reminds you of hillary clinton situation, in trump's case, they send in fbi s.w.a.t. that is because trump wouldn't turn them over, no, they are negotiating, this is the normal way to be handled, they were negotiating. they pulled trigger. to criminalize their negotiations with donald trump they were looking to perhaps make a charge or charges of be on vehicle you s

. >> i give you my word as a biden. >> reporter: while joe biden swears by his name in politics, histrying to benefit from the biden name. it is all now the focus of a republican-led congressional investigation. >> we want to know what the biden administration tried to hide from the american people and why they're not being transparent. >> reporter: republican congressman james comber now chairs the house oversight committee and set his sights on joe biden's son hunter. a mysterious laptop, now in the hands of the fbi, and long held conspiracy theory about president joe biden and what he does or doesn't know. >> i have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with our businesses, period. >> reporter: despite his denials, a cnn review of the laptop data as well as other public material shows that joe biden did interact with some of his son's associates while serving as vice president, but it is unclear what was discussed. one example the republican site, miguel mignani, a mexican businessman and son of the former president, who hunter was trying t

jill biden? what kind of a person must you be to be so incredibly ambitious to put your husband through that, to be ridiculed, to shake hands with the invisible air as he has done on the multiple locations, to trot him out when he clearly doesn't know whatat to say or where he is or what's going on. it wasn't reported very much, but about four weeks ago he was in vail colorado and he stated that his late son, beau biden, died in iraq. beau biden served in iraq but he died of brain cancer. it is so sad to see what we have to see each in every single moment for these last two years. it's not good for america. it's not good' for americans, ad it's certainly not good for the world. because the world's fortunes travel with the united states of america. when the united states is strong, the world is strong. when the united states ista wea, world becomes a week and dangerous place. and that's what we have right now. the democrats, joe biden's handlers in particular, have joe exactly where they want him,

think tank called the pen biden center. the president says he doesn't know what's in those documents, but the discovery has prompted charges of hypocrisy. in january 2022 classified documents were found at the florida residents of former president donald trump. a justice department special council is also looking into that case. biden has called trump totally irresponsible from his handling the classified materials. another fo paul by the, by an administration, but treating lot differently based upon your political beliefs. one president trump one way, but treats president by the whole different way. president biden's republican critics are also questioning why it took so long for the biden administration to reveal the existence of the documents. the 1st batch was discovered on november 2nd just days before the congressional mid term election. it only became known to the public this week. kimberly held can al jazeera the white house. well, let's take a closer look at the timeline of events. on november, the 2nd biden's lawy

joe biden, that's months after the f. b, i recovered secret papers from the residence of his predecessor, donald trump, though how significant are these latest discoveries and what are the political implications. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully back table. an investigation by a special council has been ordered into why classified papers were kept at us. president joe biden's, home and private office that says a similar inquiry is continuing into why secret documents were found stored at donald trump's florida residence. what are the implications of the latest find and it's timing and how do the 2 cases compare? these are some of the questions we asking our guests in just a moment. but 1st, this report from our white house correspondent kimberly hawk it the discovery of a 2nd batch of classified documents. this time inside the garage of president jo biden's, private residence has made it difficult for bided to quell this latest political controversy. people know, i take classified docum

more members of president biden's own political party are taking on biden over his document scandal. senator joe manchin says it couldn't get any worse. senator mark kelly, i don't think any classified document should be at somebody's house. senator john tester. we have to get to the bottom of it to find out what the hell happened. his words. our own legal analyst andy mccarthy titled biden's blame shifting excuses for classified documents makes scandal worse. congressman, your reaction to all of that. >> as usually often agree with my good friend andy mccarthy and the op-ed is on point. you recounted democrat senators from west virginia, arizona, montana, red states. those are three senators who know exactly what is at stake right now and they know this president is out of touch. he doesn't want to have to deal with the truth in front of us and we need to pursue the truth. they know it and they'll go down that road. i think this is also a recognition in this town they want to try to move a different direction in 24. there is disarray in the democrat party and disarray from a leader

biden may be responsible for it. in 2011, he sat in negotiations and he negotiated a debt ceiling that has significant spending changes. you can't say it's never been done, because he personally did it. >> how do you think it's going to play out and over what time period? >> speaker mccarthy is going to win and significant that senator manchin and said you're right, can we get together and other centrist senators will say we have to do something. when you look at the spending cycle that biden and the left wing has its on, it is clearly unsustainable and going to cost our children and grandchildren huge amount. at the rate we are going right now, we will spend more just to pay interest on the debt than we'll pay for national defense. that is an irrational position. and if a family did that, you would tell them they need counseling pretty badly. >> spending in ukraine and the speaker said he would not give the biden administration a blank check on ukraine. what does that mean? and what is your position on whether to fu

by biden's own standard, wasn't biden totally irresponsible with classified information?we right to wonder, to use biden's words, quote, what data was in there that might compromise sources and methods? >> well, i think we'll get to the bottom of all of that. that's why special counsel has been appointed by attorney general merrick garland. he did the right thing there, to look into it. i'm hoping that we will keep a sense of symmetry about our analysis of these situations and a sense of proportion about the underlying offenses. there are some people trying to compare having a government document that should no longer be in your possession to inciting a violent insurrection against the government of the united states. those are obviously completely different things. that's apples and oranges. so we should keep a sense of proportion and measure about what we're talking about. >> the first batch of documents was found on november 2nd, a week before the midterm, but the public didn't learn about it until it was reported in the press just this past week. even then the white h

it makes joe biden doubly irresponsible. in the trump case, unfettered authority before he leaves office to declassify documents. joe biden -- >> >> sean: let me ask you a question, this is important. there is no set standard or procedure that a president needs to follow to declassify information. i know president trump was on the show, i could declassify it i am done. that is all it takes. is that true? >> that's right. there are recommendations in the executive branch you notify effective agencies. no provision that says president has to tell anybody or pit it in writing. he can do it act on his own. good luck, merit garland trying to prove he didn't try to declassify the documents. entire dispute should have been a civil one. proper remedy for garland to sought records through subpoena. go to a partial judge. controlling statute is a civil statute. garland decided to criminalize a civil matter. >> we need a new law. laws that make it clear that we are overclassifying things, how the president can declassify should be made

every person in the biden administration told us that including joe biden himself.ta compromised sources and methods biden asked? he was doing the same thing he accused donald trump of doing. joe biden was storing classified documents in a private office at a think tank set up for him at the university of pennsylvania. it's the biden center for diplomacy and global engagement at the university of pennsylvania. we don't know what the classified documents are. we won't speculate. accord to cnn they were sensitive. quote: so what were these materials? nuclear codes? we will find out soon but garland will unleash a pre-dawn raid on the university of pennsylvania at any moment. [laughing]. that's a national security threat. merrick garland will get right on that. penn takes a lot of money from the chinese communist party. i am not making that up. penn received more than $50-million from chinese donors. were those donors peering at the class tied documents that joe biden had been stashing at the fake think tank that penn set up for him? we are looking forward to the "wash

the sensitive material was stored at biden's unsecured private office at the u penn biden center, hisbrary and next to his special corvette in his locked garbage even though we have pictures of it wide open. that little circle in the "new york post" showing the papers just laying there. breaking this week the president of the united states is under an investigation. are you happy? special counsel appointed. one sketchy depraved self-serving individual had easy access to those documents and that was the president's deeply troubled and frankly corrupt son zero experience hunter. he lived at the delaware mansion where the secret material was found. he listed the home as his billing address for credit cards and apple account. according to the "new york post" he claimed he owned the property on a presental application. when hunter was in the throes of his crack cocaine addiction. he used prostitutes -- and had his hand in business schemes with china and russia with business patterson who are -- partners who are now in prison. is this a save environment for classified documents? i don't thi

there is no scandal here it's biden after all. if there is a scandal it's that they spent the past two years trying to smear his predecessor as of media ignored the long-standing corruption of biden incorporated. long before the hunter biden laptop story that they dismiss and ignored. the president of the press was aware the biden family had been on the take for many years. they knew hunter was being paid millions by foreign interests including china because of his daddy's position. they still won't demand the names of the anonymous buyers o his lousy paintings to this day. today, the only reason the press , the white house in the doj are worried about biden stock is it because of the possible fallout politically provided. >> because they lacerated trump over the records issue for months and months, they have to at least pretend to be consistent in press of the whit house on obvious questions. like, why did the records even come to light six years after biden left office as vp? can you tell us when the search is my searching in th

or joe biden.ress conference, i feel, is a defense of donald trump. a real game here is to say, hey, everybody is corrupt. everybody is doing this. everybody is on the cake. we certainly know donald trump benefited, profited from presidency. he will say others profited from their presidency. he wants to say other family members, you know, i've made money the way jared kushner made money off the trump presidency. trump really feels that creating an atmosphere where you talk about how everybody is corrupt benefits him, because it makes his corruption seem normal in comparison, and the house republicans are following that trump playbook. that's why i kind of think that having trump as a gop nominee, look, i'm a democrat, i want democrats to win, but in america, it's something i really don't want to see. >> it's interesting. the way you put that analytically is a little different than a straight read. margaret, i'm curious to your view. not all politics is personal, although it can be. chase points --

that joe biden lied. when joe biden said not one time did he ever talk to his son hunter about his foreign business dealings. we have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings that have taken place, and witnesses that will attest to such. >> got documents they denied us. do you know the president, 40 years of being elected, why do you think he went to the border? because we were sworn in. he knows what's coming. you've got to secure your border. we're going to use every power we have to make sure we protect this country and look out for the american taxpayer. >> sean: i think last week, at least part of it, was republicans around the country were disappointed in past speakers. john boehner. i was disappointed in john boehner. i think that there were people that wanted the assurances. i had interviewed you enough. i had asked you repeatedly the commitments to america. i have my version right here, which we'll talk about. they wanted to know these investigations were real. what other investigation? >>

and china, president biden. connected. and this isn't about being punitive, this is this is about doing the fundamental things that protect the american people. maria: i mean, we know that adam schiff lied for four years telling us that there was russia collusion with trump in plain sight, now he wants to run percent senate. should this guy get another chance in a law making, leading position after misleading the american people, dividing the country so much? >> so, maria, i served with adam schiff mt. house of representatives on the intelligence committee, and then i had to deal with him when he was the chairman of the house of intelligence committee when i was cia director. maria: right. >> he lied to the american people. he kept promising just wait, there's documents, there's stufm a member of the gang of eight that sees the most sensitive classified information. i'm going to share this with you someday. that was all a lie. we know that he knew that it was a lie. it was fundamentally indecent. speaker mccarth

this was done in the case of the biden penn -- done in the case of the biden penn center. department of justice was, as was done, department of justice was immediately notified and the lawyers arranged for the department of justice to take possession of the document. so you are going to see -- we are going to see all this unfold. >> so you can see he eventually started reading from a prepared statement, a statement that was prepared for him very careful with his words, a special counsel will determine if he was careful enough. back to you. >> sandra: peter doocy, we have that live shot up in the corner of the screen there, that is the white house press briefing room. that briefing is expected to begin shortly, we'll get in there when it does. peter, thank you. john. >> john: the discovery, sandra, is raising questions about timing and transparency from the white house. mark meredith is live at the white house where we are expecting a briefing to begin a few minutes from now, and statement from richard sauber, the white house seems to be suggesting the documents were inadve

learned from hundred biden, i don't want to see anything marked personal and the biden family, it'st so gross. i want to see anymore but i do think is instructive, joe biden would not be in the white house but for the strenuous actions of the press and it's a different situation. he's not going to be able to run the campaign, he ran in 2020. >> you cannot prosecute one presenr a former pwhile the curt president is guilty of the same thing, that's conflict of interest for them so they have to -- >> i want to see an fbi raid because that's the president. >> don't you think it's amazing you have a sitting president about to announce he's going to run again for reelection and now these things are discovered after they've been your. >> but they are next to the corvette. >> i think the corvette is a parting gift. >> he drives a corvette. he has a corvette. >> coming up on the big saturday show, will there be more turbulence for the transportation secretary after all flights were grounded this week? growing concerns mayor pete isn't up to the job. that's next. ♪ ♪ welcome back to the big s

in biden's office. joe biden's lawyers found the documents couple days before the midterms. big takeaway from party to pare perspective, if this is good for one party, it has to be good for the other party or the corollary. congress did not see it that way, they jumping to the president's defense. watch. >> this is republican hypocrisy at its finest >> this is an emerging issue, referred to doj and they are going to -- >> do you think it is a national security concern? >> i think it is one of the things that is up to the doj to determine. >> do you have any comment on president biden keeping classified documents -- >> i'm sorry. >> todd: best answer from aoc, pete, it is hypocrisy on the democrat side and nancy, put down the cookie. >> todd: nancy pelosi was vocal when the trump raid occurred and criticizing trump over classified documents and you have sound bite from hillary clinton saying no one is above the law and that would include president biden. james comer has a reasonable take on this, he was

biden is betting against that. that's why he says no negotiation. >> if we pick the right fight, i was discouraged to see don bacon announced on meet the press that he believes no cuts and entitlements could be acceptable to his swing of the republican party. i think we should have work requirements. if we impose work requirements on snap and medicaid we would have the ability to save $1 trillion. >> will republicans unite? >> a mother with three children at home, make her work? >> yeah. you can meet work requirements and a lot of states by volunteering at nonprofits and helping out at a local church. even job-training. >> how about medicaid? >> we have to let this go. we had gotten along better than we thought. we may do this again. thank you both. >>> straight ahead tonight we have interesting information from attorney mark geragos. exclusive information on what you can expect with the paul pelosi body cam footage that is expected to be released tomorrow why did he open the door to the cops and say come on in whe

the biden white house faces.aria: senator ebert in the skiff plenty of times, how doim you get documents out ofes the skiff, you have to sign in andim you have to sign out, when youyi sign out your making a commitment, i am not holding anything that i just looked at. >> you are, the fact thatht he m documents from the senate tenure i have to admit is baffling i've been in the senate ten years, i stay to a certainty there are ne classified documents at my home, how do i know that, i read classified documents is only one place. it is in the skiffn an which isi secure location of thers basemet of the capital you go down and down and down the stairs the reporters probably as a goingst and they stop atop the door they're not allowed to gort further in you gheo through a whole series of doors it's almost like the opening of get smart walking through a whole series of doors and it is ath police officerer new check-in ay electronics you give them your cell phone and your pods in your fitbit and no electronics at all you

jill biden and joe biden's property in rehoboth beach, delaware. we are told by the white house that these documents, like the other batch, were immediately turned over to the national archives once they were found. the bottom line is for the president, this expands what has been a growing controversy. not the least of which, it's a political challenge for the president as well who was supposed to be making decisions whether he would run in 2024. there's a higher likelihood we will hear from the attorney general the appointment of a special counsel as we have heard growing pressure, growing calls from lawmakers, specifically republicans on the senate side, most notably lindsey graham yesterday saying in an interview on fox news basically to merrick garland, if you thought we needed a special counsel, which there is, in the investigation of donald trump's handling of classified documents, those hundreds that were found at mar-a-lago, then you have to have one in this situation as well. as you have noted and we repeated, the circumstances are very di

a donor with deep ties to ukraine loaned biden's brother, james, half a million buck when is biden was vice-president overseeing u.s. policy to ukraine. instead of asking serious questions about the bidens, a former cia black mflack made excuses for him. >> i worry about overcriminalizing it. it can disincentivize people from serving in the federal government. >> laura: well, okay. he is worried about criminalizing public service. that's hilarious coming from a guy that served at the agency under john brennan, which leads us to a fifth question. when merrick garland, the attorney general, on november 18th, announced the appointment of a special counsel in the trump documents case, did garland know about biden's classified documents? inquiring minds want to know. joining us now to make sense of all of this, george washington constitutional law professor, jonathan turley. jonathan, good to see you. happy new year. >> thank you. happy new year. >> laura: why could this be a problem for joe biden? >> it is a problem because it can be a crime. it is true that the unlawful possession of remo

host: let's talk about the biden family businesses. this you are in florida says all i want to know is what started the search, is a fact the republicans were going to look for papers of hunter? guest: is she talking about the document search? host: let's say yes. guest: what started the november 7 document search, the documents were found at the university of pennsylvania office in d.c. -- host: i'm sorry. i think they're talking about going to look for papers of hunter? we can take both. guest: to prime minister with the laptop? are they asking what sparked the republicans? host: i think so. guest: what sparked that is we still have a lot of outstanding questions about this laptop. we have a lot of questions about hunter biden's business dealers, influence peddling, there are still a lot of questions. how republicans will pitch this is they will use the same tactics democrats did when they went after trump's taxes. they pitch this, it is not about trump, it is about the irs and how the irs is auditing public officials and other gover

did they give them to biden or did biden steal them?hen the last six or seven years, we don't know where all those papers have been. maybe they were planted in that bag. we don't know where they been or who done it. let's investigate him the same as we do trump, because democrats don't want him investigated. what happened to equal justice under the law? this is still america. everybody should get the same treatment. thank you. host: from kyle in maryland on our democrats line, hello. caller: good morning. what a night and day difference. it was interesting hearing the hypocrisy of kevin mccarthy yesterday speaking about how -- the lawyers signed off on trump, saying all documents were released, and that was not the case. that's exactly where they had to continue on with the f.b.i. raid to get the remaining documents. to me it falls in the same vein ads what happened with the roe vs. wade decision that was released by samuel alito, a conservative. that just has fallen underneath the radar. no one has gone back and requested on that that

ukraine, hunter biden, joe biden. to something else that charlie kirk said interesting last night on dan bongino's show, you know filtered. what we need to know about the documents, are the, are the deals that hunter biden, jim biden and joe biden, because he is the big guy getting 10%, are those deals made in the past affecting current foreign policy in ukraine? how important is that? we need to know what those documents were, what was inside of them. pete: current foreign policy in china as well. rachel: thank you. reporter: that is. pete: that is a theory pointed out by charlie. all you have to do so connect the dots that the media is refusing to connect, find one or two original sources which they may or may not have access to shine a spotlight on him to make i am unelectable in 2024. this could continue. i'm not saying that original leak of documents came from the source. now it cascaded become a problem because this whole whiteout is a mess. what else might they know. and how quickly will i will come out. rachel

now that we're in the second half of biden's first term. >> president biden faces enormous challengesgoverning but so do republicans. speaker mccarthy has been in charge of the house for two weeks, 25% approval of republicans' handling. this could be significant. as for president biden, it's a portrait of instability. not a good one. we're seeing his leadership under water on a range of issues around the economy, inflation, crime. far more than that even. but it's basically where it's been for months and months. well before the midterms. the approval of his handling of the economy 38%. that hasn't changed. perceptions of president biden seem to be pretty locked in.ge republicanrothe annow they'll gein de. >> rick ein, tha >>> the roundtable weighs in on all of this, plus the growing standoff between the white house and congressional republicans over the nation's debt ceiling, as president biden and speaker mccarthy prepare for direct talks. stay with us. prepare for direc talks. stay with us. ers and oceans by travel and leisure, as well as condé nast traveler. but it is now time for

we have new details on biden phamly overseas deals profiting off the joe biden's government jobbing ofe report the president will cost taxpayers more money than expected to replenish the strategic oil supply he drained to a record low. thousands of nurses rattle health officials coast to coast. they go on strike in new york city as hospitals get hit by the double-whammy by the tripledemic and u.s. crime. i'm lid bet elizabeth macdonald, the "the evening edit" starts right now. welcome to the show, take a lech of your money, they ended mixed. there are fears about fed rate hikes and inflation. china though is reopening after its recent covid wave but we've got this layoffs in finance nearly doubled. they are up about 1/5 in real estate and big tech too. still this, new york fed survey, consumers expect inflation to drop to 5% by year-end. to the house gop vote in less than an hour on new set of rules for the chamber, things like reining in trillion dollar government spending and more, after kevin mccarthy won his dramatic battle for house speaker. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with mor

how do you know biden wasn't being political?hired personal attorneys. >> he is not handling this in the media. you are not supposed to alert the public about classified information. what he did was the correct way to approach it. he went to the national archives and went to the attorney general and the justice department. the difference between him and donald trump is donald trump took classified documents, lied about it, prevented the national archives and d.o.j. from getting it back and then alerted the public through social media that the raid was happening. that's a stark difference between trump and biden and i know it's not exciting and it's boring to cover but that's how it is supposed to happen. >> harris: don't accuse me of being in the weeds and not looking for excitement. i'm looking for the facts. president trump could declassify the documents. not something biden can do. he took them from another president. he took them from president obama who could have declassified them. cassie, that's a point i want to get into

biden rolled out this familiar attack on republicans yesterday during his speech. >> president biden: they want to cut your social security and medicare. now this is the god's truth. almost unbelievable. >> harris: senator kennedy not letting that one go and neither did rick scott. >> well, that's -- president biden says my party, i, want to gut social security and medicare and medicaid. and that's just not true. not even george santos would make up a whopper like that. and the president knows that. >> harris: oh man. >> no one is better than senator kennedy. >> harris: rick scott was on yesterday and he said we'll do everything that we can to protect not just social security and medicare for right now he said there is enough money but both of those programs down the road because democrats are the ones who want to cut it, medicare in particular. >> we have to be honest about social security. when it was instituted the average woman lived to be 62, the average man 59. never a sincere policy. we got the idea from europe. bismarck came up with the idea. offer them to push back. so we nev

my message to president biden is simple. the days of making shortcuts -- taking shortcuts to make up major policy failures are over. h.r. 21 is an important step in holding the administration accountable for their actions. and i'm proud to support this legislation and i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: mr. chairman, i yield now four minutes to the ranking member of the natural resources committee, who's worked so hard on clean energy issues, mr. grijalva. mr. grijalva: thank you very much. thank you for yielding, congressman. mr. chair, i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 21 and urge all my colleagues to oppose this big giveaway to big oil. the bill before us today is yet another effort to open our public lands and waters to major new oil and gas extraction. this is despite the fact that oil companies already control huge amounts of our public lands and waters and most of those they don't even use. right now, oil and gas companies have about 9,000 appro

he is just a big part of the biden family influence peddling as hunter biden is. jim biden construction company get contracts to build housing in iraq? this is allegations of corruption. this veers dangerously close to bribery. we have not heard that word, it is speculation right now that word used in terms of what the biden family was doing, congressman. >> right. and with respect to the jim biden he is in a federal bankruptcy lawsuit now with a former health care start-up company in nashville, tennessee, that claims they were approached by jim biden and they contracted with jim biden to help them receive funding for their business from the united arab emirates. a lot of what jim biden has been involved in pertains to the middle east. we have a lot of questions for jim biden. he is going to be hopefully answering some questions for us as we continue our investigation of joe biden. elizabeth: congressman, also this story. that the white house has 60 days to possibly block the national archives from releasing potentially 300 emails from the obama white house, plus

, hunter biden's uncle jim and joe biden.his is just stunning and clearly has put america in a dangerous position. we know that the ccp wants to overtake the united states as the number one superpower. can you give us assurances that you're going to get to the bottom of this? we know that they are already stonewalling. they sent a letter to you and your colleague, jim jordan, saying this is an active investigation, we're not going to answer any of your questions. how will you get to the bottom of it? >> well, fortunately for me with the influence-peddling investigation, we have a lot of people that worked with hunter biden that we've been meeting with for many months now. i don't think that's any secret. and, you know, there are a lot of terms that these people say the bidens use like plausible deniability. that's a term that uncle jim biden uses a lot. and then when you see that there are documents, classified documents just casually left around in different locations, it's very concerning. i mean, you see the complexity of

on this day joe biden is going to el paso.sman, thanks very much for being here this morning. >> thank you so much, maria. anytime. maria: see you soon, congressman byron donalds. >>> quick break and then house speaker kevin mccarthy promising to lead a balanced budget in the next ten years, so what does that leave defense spending? florida congressman michael waltz is here on china, mexico's drug lords and the rules package he and his colleagues are about to adopt. stay with us. ♪ ♪ oh, what's this? the sofia vergara collection at america's best? wow, amazing styles and unbelievable prices? now that's quite the duo. get two pairs of sofia vergara frames plus a free exam for $89.95 for a limited time at america's best. i'm not a doctor. i'm not even in a doctor's office. i'm standing on the street, talking to real people about their heart. how's your heart? my heart's pretty good. you sure? i think so. how do you know? you're driving a car? you have the check engine light, but the heart doesn't have a hey, check heart sign. i

and the penn biden center.hether any biden family members gained access to the dookz while stored at the penn biden center. legitimate questions. how did they get there? who had access to them and the house republicans work in the foreign influence part, innuendo with the fact request. >> the innuendo is hunter biden, a theme within the biden administration is foreign influence. now, one thing, of course, the oversight committee was just formed yesterday. but one thing i'm going to be looking for are they going to keep sending letters and make noise or hold hearings about this and what are those hearings going to look like. because republicans privately admit to me that their goal is in large part to muddy the water, to take down the temperature on the trump document saga and that might be a success in their eyes if voters can no longer understand the difference even though there are major differences between the two cases. >> and key question as we jump in, i want to listen to the senate majority leader mitch