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more than $100,000, it's the first corvette to run at least partially on electricity. aaron gilchrest takes us for a test drive on our series, "the future of the road." >> reporter: on the 70th anniversary of the corvette, chevrolet tonight introducing the new corvette e-ray, in the race to electrify the auto industry. >> a 655-horsepower missile that's at your fingertips >> reporter: corvette engineer cody took me for a spin around new york city. the e-ray is hybrid with the power of the v8 and the stealthiness of an electric motor >> if you did an electrified variant where you're just looking at propulsion and fuel economy and emissions, you would miss some of the fun vehicle dynamics that comes along with an all-wheel drive. >> reporter: chevy now entering a growing group of american automakers ramping up production of cars that run on electricity instead of or in addition to gasoline >> more people are considering electric vehicles than ever before, and more people are purchasing electric vehicles. >> reporter: more than 800,000 evs were sold in the u.s. last year,

. >>> chevy unveiling the fastest corvette ever, and it's a hybrid our test drive >>> and after more than three decades on the air, a beloved member of our nbc news family is signing off. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening. a defeated republican candidate for a state office in new mexico has been arrested and will be charged with paying and conspiring with gunmen to shoot at the albuquerque homes and offices of four local democratic leaders. no one was hurt in the frightening series of attacks, which began in december. authorities accuse solomon pena of orchestrating the attacks, hiring four men to carry out the shootings. pena had blamed his election loss on what he called a rigged and fraudulent election. he was defeated in a landslide. the case fuelling the conversation about rising political threats and violence in america hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: new details tonight on an escalation of extremism, with nbc news learning the alleged ringleader of a plot to shoot at democratic officials confronted some of them weeks before, tra

in the corvette? [bleep], you got a corvette! take whatever you need. you are a g." you what is going on in boston. >> a monument meant to honor the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. and his wife coretta scott king's legacy facing something backlash. it's called the embrace. the statue was unveiled friday on the boston common. it was inspired by a photograph of the couple hugging after dr. king won the nobel peace prize back in 1964. so look at the hands in the picture. the art piece features the couple's arms during the embrace and not their heads, which has sparked a mixed reaction. >> leslie: has anyone in here ever been [bleep] out? [cheers and applause] i'm serious! i'm serious! has anyone ever participated in the munch munching munch munch? cause they are celebrating you in boston. they are celebrating you in boston right now. [cheers and applause] listen, listen, i know doctor cain went down in history, but this is not -- how it should be. and let me tell you something. even though i'm about to go straight hard on this statue, i got to talk to the white peop

the corvette was like kit from night rider. it would just run over any spy who tried the compromise the garage. are we supposed to believe that when we know joe has been sloppy his whole life? the biden's delaware home history of failures. joe's security system was malfunctioning so badly in 2015 when he was vice president that the secret service just shut it off for months. just shut it off. they even shut off his security cameras they call that pulling paul pelosi. can you imagine how many people walked in and out of the vice president's house. joe said he wasn't worried at all about his faulty security. if he wasn't worried when he was vice president, do you think the secret service finally fixed it when he was a private citizen? has anybody done any background checks on biden's landscapers? who is that guy right there? is that joe's arborist? is that landscaper look russian to you? maybe joe kept him a little more secured in his library? let's take a look. look at this right here. joe had files scattered next to the window.

classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? mi; your corvette? what were you thinkin: ? y ., , your corvette? what were you thinkin: ? g ., , ., thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, _ thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, 0k? - thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, ok? so - thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, ok? so it's l thinking? my corvette is in a l locked garage, ok? so it's not like they— locked garage, ok? so it's not like they are sitting out on the — like they are sitting out on the street. iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a british iranian man who's facing the death sentence. he says the confession was forced. ukraine says heavy fighting with russian forces, continues in the eastern town of soledar, with a senior defence official calling the situation there "difficult". and the brit award nominations are out, but with a notable absence of women, in the category of �*artist of the year'. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we begin with some breaking news, in the

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classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? mi; your corvette?corvette? what were you thinkin: ? g ., , ., thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, _ thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, 0k? - thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, ok? so - thinking? my corvette is in a locked garage, ok? so it's l thinking? my corvette is in a l locked garage, ok? so it's not like they— locked garage, ok? so it's not like they are sitting out on the — like they are sitting out on the street. iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a british iranian man who's facing the death sentence. he says the confession was forced. ukraine says heavy fighting with russian forces,

garage or joe biden having the keys to a corvette?in the files for your go oh, yes, the old "grandpa caught shoplifting" maneuver. "is that something in my pocket? oh, charleston shoe?" "how could that happen?" >> john: i thought it was interesting when peter doocy posited the question to the president, classified documents next year corvette, what were you thinking? and his response was, well, the corvette was in a locked garage. [laughs] not the documents were in a locked garage. >> sandra: amazing. >> john: the car was in a locked garage. >> sandra: as peter pointed out, that was included in his question because the president was seen backing the corvette into the garage in that campaign video. >> john: we do know at least at one point in the history of those documents being in that garage that the garage is not only not locked, but that the door was wide open. and there was a camera crew there, as well, so you had classified documents in proximity to people who didn't have security -- >> sandra: if they were there then. >> john: w

when you talk about corvettes. i love them they are made outside my district but those are expensive toys. this guy has a pattern of money coming in from china, the reason we're investigating is we're concerned that he is compromised. he may not have known he even had those documents but the fact is somebody around joe biden has documents and we have all this influence from china with his son's business dealings, with his own biden center at the university of penn, now with the artwork that hunter is selling in the art gallery. china is always connected. we need to know who all had access to these buildings and who these lawyers were. and why hasn't the department of justice not been transparent with the american people? we are supposed to get a briefing. when i was ranking member on house oversight any time something like this happens the national archives should have briefed me and the chairman of the house oversight committee. that's their responsibility. the only reason we know about this is because of investig

president, classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking? >> let me -- i'm going to get a chance to speak on all this, god willing soon, i said earlier this week, and by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage, it's not like they are sitting on the street. >> locked garage. >> yes, as well as my corvette. >> the video that inspired that question we remember seeing posted during covid to the campaign's account at one point he backs the car into the garage, you can see a stack of boxes and what looks like some papers. we had a chance to ask the president after the special counsel to the white house said this. during the review, the lawyers discovered among personal and political papers a small number of additional obama-biden administration records with classified markings. all by one of these documents were found in storage space in the president's wilmington residence garage. 1 document, 1 page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room. no documents were found in the rehobo beach residence. the chairman of the judiciary co

as well as my corvette. but as i said this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material serious, they discovered a small number of documents of classifyd markings in story an areas in my home in my personal library. >>> that does not seem suspicious, video from a few years ago, our fearless president backing said corvette into the very grgarage in question, don't worry, he locked door, secrets are safe like the tool kit and paint buckets, but not enough for attorney general garland, he explained why he is launched a special counsel. >> on december 20, president biden's personal counsel, that dti additional documents were identified in garage of president's private residents, he briefed me on results, and advised me further investigation by a special counsel was warrantd. kennedy: sounds like there is a raid coming to wilmington. so many unanswered questions before. among them who had access to the documents? how secret are they. >> white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said

is a corvette. >> it's by the corvette?ha: it goes up and down all the time we have images of his driving in and out of there. >> joe: it didn't look like the hardest garage to break into but here's the hardest part for media perspective paired with sign abc needs today and abc they said that the documents were planted but then hank johnson the georgia democrat is also perpetuating that myth as well, republicans now planted this like watergate to. 's >> martha: to go to karine jean-pierre. >> it very seriously this is something you all know he will not shy away from saying. and has continued to say this this week. he is surprised these have been found, he does not know what is in them and his team once they identified these documents were there, they immediately reached out to the archives in the department of justice and did rightfully so did the right thing by turning that over. and they been cooperating very closely with the department of justice. you actually heard attorney general garland say today that they heard from

next to your corvette. what were you thinking? >> i'll have a chance to speak on this god willing soon, by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage. not sitting out on the street. >> in a locked garage? >> yes, as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. they discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas, in file cabinets in my home and my personal library. >> no one ever breaks into a locked garage, breaks into a garage door and leaves it open. today the doj discovered another document in biden's house. the president's lawyers claimed they were inadvertently misplaced. a lot of questions here. the white house is more than happy to answer them all. >> i refer you to the department of justice or mire colleagues in the counsel office. i'm not going to go beyond what the president said. i'm not going to go beyond what the president said. i'm not going to go into the particulars of the doj di

my corvette is in a locked garage, so it_ corvette is in a locked garage, so it is— corvette is in aocked garage, so it is not_ corvette is in a locked garage, so it is not like it is sitting out — so it is not like it is sitting out on _ so it is not like it is sitting out on the street. ukraine says heavy fighting with russian forces continues in the eastern town of soledar with a senior defence official calling the situation there �*difficult�*. as more storms are forecast to hit california, the human cost of the floods becomes apparent. #as it # as it was... and the brit award nominations are out, but with a notable absence of women in the category of artist of the year. the singer—songwriter lisa marie presley has died in hospital in california. her mother, priscilla presley, is believed to have been at her bedside. the 54—year—old daughter of rock—and—roll legend elvis presley had reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest. she was last seen in public on tuesday when she attended the golden globe awards. peter bowes is following events from los angeles. we heard some hours ago that s

have you seen this box that stands next to biden's corvette. it looks like a box with all sorts of things that are in the garage, literally. at each, the president insisted that he approached classified data very responsibly. well, what we see now says that according to his words , believe it or not, but the white house told nan that joe broke the law because he was in a hurry and had many trips planned. last week. his vice presidency. zhou flew to davos, where he met with his friend chinese president xi jinping this time. they did not visit st. gregory himalayan. biden once boasted, joe even flew to ukraine where he met with the president of ukraine what our big uncle was doing in ukraine a week before trump's inauguration all the time joe was too busy working on his escape routes to his aides. all night hard. his things were packed, so it is not surprising that joe once opened his garage and saw there an intelligence briefing on iran, ukraine, great britain, which lay right under the bottom of his corvette. joe is not particularly i thought t

but anyway -- yes, as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. i also said we are cooperating fully and completely with the justice department's review. as part of that process, when reviewed where other documents from my time as vice president were stored in finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents of classified markings in storage areas in file cabinets in my home in my personal library. this was done in the case of the biden -- this was done in the case of the center, the department of justice was completely as was done at the department of justice was immediately notified. and the lawyers arrange for the department of justice to take possession of the documents. so, you will see all of this unfold. >> harris: yeah, we will see it unfold. white house correspondent peter doocy with the latest unfolding developments, peter. speak with the council office did not say anything about the corvette but the reason

>> president biden: my corvette is in a locked garage, okay?ot like they are synth on the street. >> the material was in a locked garage. >> president biden: as well as my corvette. >> here is the core vest in one of his campaign ads in 2020. days after the f.b.i. began an investigation into biden's handling of classified material garland announced a special counsel into president trump's handling of classified material. biden's were found two weeks before the attorney general made the announcement launching a special counsel to probe donald trump. garland announced the new probe yesterday afternoon. >> i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. >> speaking of that delaware home that's where president biden is heading after he meets the prime minister of japan this afternoon. >> bill: thanks, more to come from there. lucas tomlinson. thank you. >> dana: w

next to his corvette. he insists he is cooperating fully and completely with the justice department investigation. newly elected house speaker kevin mccarthy says congress must also investigate. we have fox team coverage tonight. david spunt at the justice department with the timeline of attorney general garland's involvement. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy and what he asked the president this morning. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. white house officials aren't saying tonight whether president biden would sit for an interview with the special counsel who revealed today a third discovery of classified documents this time at president biden's house. that's what we talked to him about today. >> classified material, next to your corvette? what were you thinking? >> let me -- by the way my corvette is in a locked garage, okay? it's not like they are sitting out in the street. >> peter: so the material was in a locked garage. >> yes, as well as my corvette. >> pete: the a

so the documents were in a locked garage, just like my corvette. that's biden.orvette and here are the same boxes - this is a pre-election video, controlled by a machine from the mstingray character. in the sixty-seventh year, as a symbol of america, the future us president showed that the steering wheel a copy of the only newspaper published, new york, we immediately went there for the news of the week. if you hear this is the house that joysis lives in, this is where the road to this barrel mill road appears, this is 12:07 barrels of a mill road, if you google a beautiful long road, and here is a secret service post located right here in the east, where the trees are hard to see here. here are the parked cars standing half-crouper pasted over with stickers in support of trump to biden's corvette, of course, it was not good enough, but the neighbor of the future us president was sure that the power was in truth, therefore, a couple of weeks before the election, he introduced agitation among passing motorists we will close joe and put the hunters in jail when we

as well as my corvette. i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the justice department's review. >> pete: the locked garage defense. what it is. >> brian: believe me, this is not it. there's got to be more. whether it's his delaware library or through his house. i guarantee you this is not it. >> ainsley: they said they checked the rehoboth beach house and didn't find anything there. >> pete: again, back to your original point. >> brian: investigating themselves. >> pete: rely joe biden lawyers tell us what the status of classified documents is while donald trump's home gets raided and they go through his son's drawer and wife's closet. that's the double standard. don't worry the biden lawyers have told us there is no classified information. don't worry. hunter biden totally above with board everything he has done. self-investigate. we will see if this special prosecutor is a real process. >>

>> yes, as well as my corvette., as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the justice department's review. >> jesse: joe seems to think no place safer for documents than joe's corvette. put it at the border and the migrants would stop coming. joe's corvette so safe, can he run the documents over and nothing would happen. >> sounds good. is. >> how are the brakes? >> they're good. >> jesse: we're sure whatever joe takes the car out for a spin the automatic garage door locks shut. dangles the motion sensor and sends the garage door back up? that's never happened to anybody. but maybe joe's not too worried these docs are probably stored away in a highly secured safe, right? no. this is joe's garage. look, cardboard boxes just stacked right on top of each other back there if you can see. are the top secret docs on ukraine in one of those boxes. halls joe ever backed the corvette into those boxes? kind o

>> yes, as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. maria: attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel, a new special counsel to oversee the probe into how and why these documents made their way into this entirely unsecure location. joining the conversation all morning long this morning is campus reform higher education fellow, nicholas jordano and columnist and fox news contributor, liz peek. thank you so much for being here this morning. liz, this is like a saturday night live skit. there's joe biden up there explaining away, telling us that there's actually a perfectly fine reason behind having these documents in a locked garage next to his corvette. your reaction? >> well, my reaction is, he takes his corvette more seriously than he does secret documents. maria: yeah. >> maria, look, i think there's so many unanswered questions here. yesterday, watching the press secretary trying to answer questions without answ

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with the corvette. said quote because i have security clearance i went to wilmington thursday evening providing the documents the president's personal counsel on wednesday to the justice department while i was transferring it to the d.o.j., officials who accompanied me five additional pages, markings were discovered among the material with it for a total of six pages. don't worry, the president is so very serious about classified documents, the white house making sure that you know that. the press secretary saying at least 28 times between wednesday and friday. watch. >> he said he takes classified documents and information seriously. he takes classified documents very seriously. he takes materials seriously. he takes classified documents and information very seriously. >> he takes this very seriously. he takes this seriously. >> the president takes this very seriously. >> the president takes this very seriously. very seriously. very, very seriously. >> i take classified documents and materials seriousl

> >>> y >> y>> yeah, i can't be a corvette when he had oil cancer.aised by puerto rican and he was really jewish and all the stuff he said like -- shut up. there are differences. they didn't say hey, we found these. trump didn't do that. here is the differences between biden and trump and i thought it was going to be an article about the differences. it was limited to all the ways and differences made biden looked better than trump. rather than hey, the thing we should be pissed off about is all of us should be pissed. they found ate week before the midterms and we don't find about it until now. i don't care who you are, you should be able to vote with as much information that you can, regardless of what your party is. everyone should be pissed off about that and a lot of people are ignoring that. [ applause ] >> do you think this special counsel is just for show? >> probably. they have to make it like they would do what they did for trump. they did not raid his garage, did they? this was all a voluntary episode based on the fact that he had been cau

>> yes, as well as my corvette.s i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with justice department review. >> brian: the corvette thing was off the script twice. >> ainsley: bizarre. >> brian: and back to the script, whatever his lawyers wrote for him. >> ainsley: picture of the box in the garage, we don't know if that is where they were found, in the garage somewhere. looks like a box in our parent's garage of old stuff from our grandmother's house and that is where national secrets are kept in that garage right there? >> from a military perspective, if you take one clasified document and handle it improperly, you could be court marshalled for that, worse for guys that took pictures inside a submarine that were benign, go to jail. >> ainsley: good point. >> he is commander-in-chief or was vice president and in a box in the garage and your think tank gets money from china? >> ainsley: discovered a third some

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my corvette is in a locked garage not like they are sitting in the street. as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the justice department review. as part of that process my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents of classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home in my personal library. this was done in the case of the biden penn center, the department of justice was immediately -- as was done, the department of justice was immediately notified and the lawyers arranged for the department of justice to take possession of the documents so we're going to see all this unfold. i'm confident -- thank you very much. thank you. [shouted questions] >> how is the first lady? >> president biden: doing really well. she was under a long time, for five hours. what they were doing is redo the moles, remove

it's not the most expensive corvette, and the average transaction prices for corvettes last year, andonstrained because of the semiconductor shortage, was pretty much close over $90,000. so it's expensive, but people are spending this much on the heavy corvette. stuart: it's still got that look, the corvette look. wide and low to the ground. that's a pretty good description, i would say. would you agree with that? >> absolutely. lauren: can you get in it? stuart: no. that's the thing about old guys and -- [laughter] you you know how to wind me up, don't you? i could not get in and out of that corvette easily. >> it is pretty roomy for a sport car -- stuart: once you're in. i need a crane to get me out of that thing. [laughter] hold on a second, gary. lauren, a serious question. stop laughing. what percentage of vehicles sold last year were electricsome. lauren: 5.8%. stuart: that's it? lauren: yeah. it's small but globally it's the double that. worldwide it's 10 percent. that's pulley electric the cars, not hybrid. the biggest growth is happening in china, 19% of all cars were fully e

. who; the president's corvette. corvette. why did it take straight _ the president's corvette. why did it take straight talking joe as he likes to be known so long to tell the public about these classified documents that he had withheld?— he had withheld? well, i will sa that he had withheld? well, i will say that there _ he had withheld? well, i will say that there are _ he had withheld? well, i will say that there are big - say that there are big differences in the way that president biden has handled this in the way that donald trump handled it and this in the way that donald trump handled itand in this in the way that donald trump handled it and in one word, cooperation. so we will say that the president is cooperating with the national archives, he is cooperating with the department ofjustice, and clearly there is, we have a problem, he's got a black eye but there is a big difference in the quantity of documents between these two presidents and the cooperation that this president is going to do right now, so i

>> yes, as well as my corvette.d earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the justice department review. >> carley: joe concha with his take. "new york post" is covering this story on their cover, showing biden pulling out of the garage with cardboard box in the corner and asks, does this look secure to you? >> joe: this guy, the post headline writers, underpaid completely. >> carley: absolutely. >> joe: carley, take your wedding ring or todd, take your college fund and put in the garage next to your car, probably not a corvette, proenl more of ford fiesta guy. you have knowa acura? me, too. tell me if you think it is totally safe and that is what the president was implying. i have a corvette and the garage was locked, it was safe. that is a campaign ad for many months to come. two major points here. in sane world, donald trump cannot be indicted now, if you indict trump, you have to indict biden. trump had a

ed: this is the fastest ever production corvette.lectric, or electrified propulsion system is a big part of that. going back to basics, this is not a plug-in hybrid, there are two similar propulsion systems that work in conjunction with one another. my question is, is this a sign that the corvette customer is not ready to go full electric, to go full battery electric? mark: that is a great question. i think the corvette customer is ever-changing, and so is the car. and so i would say this is the next step in the evolution of getting 160 horsepower in the front and 490 horsepower in the rear, all to the ground. and so it is a little faster, a little quicker i should say than the z06, at 2.5 seconds. but it's very different. so when you drive the car, it is at home on the track, it is at home every day, as corvettes usually are, on all streets. this is the next step. as i said, the corvette buyer is ever-changing. and so, this is a pretty exciting time for us. i don't think it is a question of whether someone is ready or not. i think p

my corvette is in a locked garage, so it_ corvette is in a locked garage, so it is— corvette is in ait is sitting out on _ so it is not like it is sitting out on the street. ukraine says heavy fighting with russian forces continues in the eastern town of soledar with a senior defence official calling the situation there �*difficult�*. as more storms are forecast to hit california, the human cost of the floods becomes apparent.

i don't know, maybe so they could get a sneak peek of that corvette [ laughter ] "fbi, open up!d over the keys to that car and retract the roof i want to feel the wind in my hair." [ light laughter ] why does trump think they should raid the white house if there's anywhere classified documents should be, it's the white house. [ light laughter ] trump would make an awful detective. "okay, guys, now we just need to find some evidence i say we raid the evidence locker [ laughter ] they're all in bags, this is very suspicious. [ laughter ] they're all -- there's labels, everything's in a bag. [ laughter ] again, the situation - "there's dead bodies in the morgue bad news [ laughter ] call homicide. i opened up one of those drawers. [ laughter ] i figured it out." again, the situations are very different, although the timing is not great, given that biden has been riding high in the polls. and as a general rule, whenever biden is riding high, the gop and fox news crank up the freak-o-meter to try to scare you about something dumb, like the war on christmas, or woke m&ms for example,

but anyway -- >> it's in a locked garage. >> yes, as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. stuart: i'm not going to suggest that the rest of the media will be doing their job like peter does it. they're not going to treat biden like they did trump, but clearly there is now an element of hostility and that's going to be a problem for this president? biden's transparency, transparency, that's the right word, and the competence of his press secretary are now being questioned. there's a political price to be paid for that. third hour of varney starts right now. ♪ stuart: steve hilton with me this friday morning and i think the turn around of the media will be a big problem for this president, a political problem for him. what say you? >> well, look, i think it's certainly changing, but they are still covering for him, stuart. i'll give you exhibit a in that and this massive investigation in the new york times about the biden corruption scandal and repeating all the facts we'v

. >> classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking? >> let me -- i'm going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon, but as i said earlier this week, and by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage, ok. so it's not like they are sitting out on the street. >> on december 20th, president biden's personal counsel informed mr. losh additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the president's private residence. he advised me further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. >> sandra: big announcement last hour, a special counsel into the investigation of president biden's classified documents and his handling of them. >> john: all of this as we await the white house briefing where karine jean-pierre will get another stab at dodging questions on the markings. >> sandra: continuing coverage as we enter hour two of "america reports." it is another jam packed news day. i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: john roberts in washington. friday eve, what a friday eve i

and the president is at the house in delaware where the documents were found near his corvette. and lucas, the drip, drip, drip, just keeps going, doesn't it? >> just took the words out of my mouth, bill. just a few days ago we learned about the existence of some classified documents first here in the nation's capitol at president biden's think tank and later in the week we lettered that more documents were discovered at president biden's home in wilmington where he's spending the weekend and now minutes ago before coming on air, the white house saying additional documents with classified markings were found at president biden's wilmington home where he is now. the white house insists it never know a special counsel was coming to look into this matter. >> what i can tell you is we're not given a heads-up that attorney general garland made his announcement yesterday on the special counsel and something that we learned like many of you, watching the news. >> thanks to our colleague beater doocy who was not called on at the briefing, peter doocy. it was near his 1967 # corvette, a

>> yes as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week i took classified documents and classified materials seriously. >> carley: corvette stingray was featured 2020 campaign ad and prize possession, clearly as possession of the obama era documents appear at the white house is on the defense. >> there was going to be -- public nonlegal transparency. >> i disagree, i disagree. there's not been a limit of transparency. that is, there has not been a limit of transparency. that i will disagree with you on that. >> carley: back to the corvette, the question who had access to the garage whether locked or not the classified documents found there for a fox digital confirmed in emails the president's son had to clean the president's wellington home where the garage is as his home in 2018 and 2019, carley, todd. >> carley: the garage is not on the doj's list of. and this from jesse watters, he says president biden is taking a page out of hillary clinton's playbook. >> we will find more documents and as predicted yesterda

it's the corvette defense. it's okay to have classified documents because i'm sitting next to my corvette. >> does that look locked to your ? there's a picture right there. how many people had access to that that didn't have security clearance? they won't give us the visitor logs. joe biden is at greater risk of donald trump. >> by the way as a bad choice o corvettes he can keep its tearing out at the visio six if he could ever find when. >> joining is now former national intelligence director john radcliffe. let's get you a broad overview of all of this it. i want to focus especially on the amount of money that we kno that the biden family was getting through hunter biden an that we know that joe lied when he said he never discussed foreign business deals with hunter pure we have photographi evidence he attended with his partners is foreign business partners. the amount of money from all these countries the number one geopolitical file in that is china. the money and is staggering in terms of its magnitude. te

street. >> material was in a locked garage. >> yes, as well as my corvette. >> that corvette, biden's prized 1967 stingray, a gift from his father as a wedding present. his father owned a chevy dealership at the time. stand robert hur from maryland to lead the new special probe into biden's handling of classified material. remains justice department policy a sitting president ask not be charged with a crime. however, they want it investigated after a similar probe to investigate former president trump in november 2nd weeks after biden's first classified documents were found. >> i strongly believe the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. >> president biden is expected to depart soon for his home in wilmington, the same place where the classified documents were found, leading some to wonder why he's returning to a potential crime scene, guys. >> sandra: lucas tomlinson, thank you. >> john: easy, there's a beautiful spo

>> yes, my corvette.said earlier this week, people know that i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully, completely with the justice department's review. >> honestly, what i wanted to say. people know how seriously i take the security of my corvette. the justice department launched an investigation after the first documents are found in november. that will now be taken over by the newly appointed special counsel. robert hur, former federal prosecutor he worked for the doj under ex president trump. in his role as principal counselor to then deputy attorney general -- her participated in a white house press conference about the ms-13 gang which was seen as many at the time as a disturbing blurring of lines between the presidency and law enforcement. in 2017, trump nominated hur, to be the u.s. attorney for maryland. a role he remained until february 2021. so, the big question we're left with today, is what is this all mean? so, first of all, it's clear

seen here in a 2020 campaign ad were stored. >> by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage, okay, so it's not like they're sitting out on the street. >> as i said it was a bit odd of an explanation. here's the thing, we're just learning about all this this week, and that is by choice and design. the first batch of documents were found on november 2nd at biden's office in washington, d.c. thathey were given to the national archives the next day. on november 4th the doj was notified. during this the public was told nothing. biden's attorneys informed doj additional classified material was found in biden's garage. and then today word of another document found last night at his wilmington home. here's the thing with all of this it wasn't until this week the public was told any of it. and frankly, the only reason they told it broke in the news. the white house statement that came out only acknowledged those documents even though they were well aware other documents were found in the garage. it took the news media a couple days, that comes out and here we are. we don't know why they did

classified documents were found next to your corvette. shirley there's some room for regret there.s true he's claiming he didn't have knowledge these were in his residence or other locations for six years. there must be a tiny bit of regret somewhere in there. jon: we'll see. johnson turley, fox news contributor, thank you. there are new questions about mysterious death of the california public defender at a resort in mexico. elliott blair celebrating his first wedding anniversary with his wife in rosarito beach when he died saturday. investigators say fell from the balcony of their second-floor room but his family suspect foul play. they want their own investigation. christina coleman spoke to the famous attorney, live in los angeles with more. >> the family's attorney case barnett is a friend of blair elliott and described him as a caring energetic and loving guy. he shared this video of blair and his wife at their wedding. they were both lawyers who work for the orange county public defender's office. they were vacationing at the resort and spa in mexico last weekend to celebrat

my corvette is in a locked garage and not sitting on the street. but as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. i said i'm cooperating fully with the justice department's review. as part of this process, my lawyers reviewed documents from my time as vice president were stored and finished the review last night and discovered a small number of documents of classified markings in storage areas in file cabinets in my home and my personal library. this was done in the case -- this was done in the case of the biden penn center and the department of justice as was immediately done, the department of justice was immediately notified and the lawyers arranged for the lawyers to take possession of the department. we are going to see all this unfold -- thank you very much. [snecial -- indiscernible chatter] reporter: how is the first lady snr. president biden: she is doing very well. what they were doing, they remove what they thought might be cancerous and go back and test it. but shes' doing real

in the street. >> it was in a the locked garage . >> yes, as well as my corvette.s i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. i also said i'm cooperating fully and completely with the justice department review as part of that process, might we reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president or store it and finis the review last night. they had few small number of classified documents. this was case this was done in the case of the biden penn center in the department of justice was immediately as was done--the department of justice was immediately notified and th lawyers arrange for the department of justice to take possession of the document. >> that answers that question, if you're still wondering whether there is an organized effort within the white house t hurt joe biden all you need to know is this, his staff keeps putting him out there in the public to talk, which of force he can't do. notice they did not do that during the last presidential campaign in 2020 because they knew it wo

>> yes, as well as my corvette. but as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. >> reporter: the attorney general has been under intense pressure from republicans to appoint a special counsel after he named one to investigate former president trump's handling of 100 classified documents seized during an fbi search of mar-a-lago. back then, mr. biden blasted mr. trump for having classified material at his home. >> how that cod possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible. >> reporter: but just two months later and a week before the midterm election, garland says the first batch of classified documents, what sources tell nbc news is less than a dozen, were found by biden attorneys at mr. biden's private office at his washington think tank. >> that office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. >> reporter: garland saying the doj was notified after the documents were handed over. on november 14th, garland appointed a u.s. attorney to