john hank john johnson is not ad hank johnson is too dumb to be. scared. hank johnson is the congressmanriedt from atlanta who once famouslyhe worried that the island of guam might, quote, capsize if too many people stood on one side of it. so hank johnson is a confirmed t wanius , but a set up when he sees one . >> watch this. i'm suspiciousis fred. of the ta it. i'm also aware orethe faf the ft things can be planted on people ,places and things can planted be planted. things things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently. that may be what hasthat m occud here. >> i'm not ruling that out. so we laughed at hank johnson when he said guam might capsize. capse not laughingen h at him n. the classified documents that d joe biden, quote, storedocumen garage and left at the penin center have been floating around for a full six years since joe biden left the vice president's office. presidin january of 2017.r to s so it's fair to assume they've been moved around a lot, butghte they're suddenly surfacing now right after the midterm election. why

they know it's not normal, but there too afraid to say otherwise except for hank johnson, hank johnsons not afraid. he's too dumb to be scared. he is the congressman from atlanta who famously worried th island of quam might capsize if too many people stood on one side of it. he is a confirmed non- genius, but he knows is set up when he sees one. watch this fred. >> i'm suspicious of the timing of it. i'm also aware of the fact that rings can be planted on people. places and things can be planted , things can be planted in places, and then discovered conveniently. that may be what has occurred here. i'm not ruling that out. >> we laughed at hank johnson when he said that quam might capsize. the classified documents that joe biden left stored in his garage have been floating aroun for a full six years since joe biden left the price vice president's office in january o 2017 so it's fair to say they'v been moved around a lot but they're suddenly surfacing out right after the midterm election ? white is that? no one has even tried to have a excellent nation. if you admit you have committed

some democrats taking to the house floor to oppose this committee, among them hank johnson, the democratorgia. here's a little bit of what he had to say yesterday. >> we watched china rise, we know their activities, we know what kind of competition they pose us economically, national security, intellectual property, human rights, all of these issues. we mow where we stand with china, and each of those issues are covered by jurisdiction -- by committees of jurisdiction that exist right now. and any investigation that is done can be done through the economisting -- existing committees. so why are we creating this committee? i fear that that it is to create a platform to unleash anti-asian hate a and division. >> host: hank johnson, one of 65 members of congress who voted against this committee creation yesterday, about 365 members voting for this committee. his two with concerns there, i wonder your thoughts on it. >> guest: i think it's natural to see that some lawmakers are opposed to it. and i think it's a good reminder that as we try to sort of stand up against china, as they say, or b

listen to hank johnson, congressman from georgia. >> i'm suspicious of the timing of it. i'm also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people. places and things can be planted. things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently. >> john: seemed to get a little confused about what was going on there, but there are some people who have posited if they were planted, it was democrats to stop joe biden from running in 2024. >> members of the georgian delegation, space lasers starting fires, and now hank johnson saying people are sneaking into the locked garage in wilmington and hide documents and then the penn biden center and take classified documents there. what kind of lunacy is that. no, who took them. did the vice president of the united states, then former vice president joe biden or did a member of his staff, also question, did he rely upon that material in order to write his book. he writes a memoir about being vice president, some have to do with ukraine, he was in charge of the administration of ukrainian policy to helping ukraine to fight co

i expect it from "the view," i wouldn't expect it from hank johnson, a democratic congressman sayinglicans must have planted these in two separate locations, 31 flavors of stupid, carley. >> carley: consequence, freedom of speech and other people disagree, they are allowed to criticize them, like us. karine jean-pierre in the rare position this week of having to answer serious questions from a lot of different news organizations about this upon toic, why do you think that is? >> joe: i was on with martha maccallum yesterday with geraldo and watching the press conference live and i stopped counting after the 20th, "there is a process," she cannot comment the president takes this seriously. we witnessed worst day of someone's life yesterday and that was karine jean-pierre. for once, shes bombarded by questions outside of jacqui heinrich and doocy. keeping documents and corvettes in wilmington, delaware, no press secretary could have done well. >> todd: more indefensible when your possess is up there pretending to read from a statement and going off the cuff and making admission against

jon: we heard in the opening report from lucas tomlinson, democrat congressman hank johnson said he'suspicious of the timing of the finding of these documents but as you pointed out, the first batch was apparently found november 2, ahead of the midterm elections and we didn't find out about that until cbs reported it just this week. >> this is what we see happen, this would make now or elections we know about where the dod is involved in an either withholding information or not letting information get out that's favorable to the democratic party, it is very concerning and why one of the things we did last year was establish a new committee to look into what's going on in our government. we need to know that justice is blind, the american people can get a fair shake. when you seek protesters against conservative supreme court justices kind of get away but oh my gosh, you protest in abortion and your home is rated, this is the stuff american people are watching play out and it's very troubling. jon: you're on the house oversight committee, you expect he will be examining a case of these

representative hank johnson, neil, told hillary that he thinks the documents could have been, quote,ed. that's what he's saying. former speaker pelosi says there's a big difference between the biden documents and the trump documents. she says that biden people are not obstructing access to documents. and aa lot of reaction and moreo come from capitol hill. it's going to be a busy legislative session. >> neil: thank you very much. want to go to real clear politics. we do know it's going to be a widespread investigation, leaving aside what we'll see lawyers doing in examining what both presidents, donald trump and joe burrow knew, when they knew it and what they were aware of. now the house and senate investigations to come. what do you think? >> there was speculation at the beginning of this congress that house republicans would get ahead of themselves, would get over their skis by focusing too much on the president's past, but these revelations, these classified documents found both at the biden penn center and president's home in wilmington, delaware, they give congressional investi

speaking of being serious, democratic congressman hank johnson took things to a whole new level whenoated a baseless conspiracy that these documents could have been, quote, planted. it's no surprise that some in the party have grown frustrated with the white house, which did not disclose the discovery of classified documents until it was reported by the media. nbc news is reporting that democratic allies are calling on the administration to be more forthcoming in its handling of this issue. right now, the american people need transparency, not clips about corvettes and conspiracies. the fundamental question biden and trump need to answer is why? why did they have classified documents in their position after leaving office? that's about the only question both men need to answer because that's where the similarities in their situations and. the sad thing is, wide there are stark differences in the cases against trump and biden, the facts won't stop the ex president supporters from pouncing, and a glib response from biden does nothing puckered more fodder for the gop. let's bring in our

american people should react to this and this was a particularly unique take from representative hank johnson. watch this. speak i am suspicious of the timing of it. i am also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people, things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently. that may be what has occurred here. i am not ruling that out. >> martha: that is one theory, bret. >> listen, we should point out the hypocrisy goes across both aisles and republicans, some of them including the former president and some people tied to him or suggesting maybe they could be planted materials down in mar-a-lago. there are republicans now who are saying what happened with former president trump is somehow okay and this is really egregious. both things can be very bad about the mishandling of classified material because the statute as it is written is the gross negligence of handling classified material. and you have differences. you have quantity. you have mar-a-lago protected by secret service but there are questions about who had access to those documents and why they were there. you

perspective paired with sign abc needs today and abc they said that the documents were planted but then hank johnsonrgia 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 his team really shortly after the discovery and so you know, i just want to make sure this is understood that he takes this very seriously. >> seriously, this is the kind of thing that causes them to lose security clearance. was the president sloppy handling classified material when classified materials are b

that particular feature of the mischief and i strongly suspect between my coordinate, chairman hank johnson and house judiciary chairman jerry nadler, departing speaker nancy pelosi the decision will be made to move rapidly out into a hearing on that and they can move quickly because of the way their rules work so god bless them if they go. >> what would be the outcome of a hearing that would have a long-term impact? >> build the case that something's wrong with the court. the court is desperate to convince people nothing to see here, move along. those like me who believe there is something badly wrong with the court and manifests itself over and over in innumerable ways, you've got to push back against the pressure that this is all fine and normal. it is not fine and it is not normal. the veneer of this being fine and normal is what allows them to keep doing what they are doing. anything that takes a bite out of that veneer of normalcy and everything is okay is important and at some point there's a breakthrough. we didn't get watergate on day one of the hearings. it took a lot of work and

some democrats take into the house floor to oppose the committee among them, hank johnson of georgia. to say yesterday. [video clip] >> we watched china rise. we know their activity and competition they pose economically, national security, intellectual property, human rights. we know where we stand with china and each of those issues are covered by jurisdictions that exist right now. any investigation that is done can be done through the existing committees. why are we creating this committee? i fear it is to create a platform to unleash anti-asian unleash anti-asian hate and division. host: hank johnson, one 65 members of congress who voted against this committee creation. 265 members voting for this committee -- 365 members voting for this committee. your thoughts on his concerns? guest: it is natural to see some are opposed to it. it is a good reminder as we try to stand against china, beats up on china's influence, we should not overdo it in essence that we turn it into against chinese immigrants. targeting the chinese communist party is the correct move. it is not about the chin

to dig into that particular of the and i strongly suspect that between my coordinate chairman hank johnson and house chairman jerry nadler and departing speaker nancy pelosi, the decision will be made to move out into a on that. and they can move more quickly than can because of the way their rules work. so god bless them if they go. i wish them well and i hope to help and what would be the outcome of a hearing that would have a long term impact. it would continue to build the case that something is seriously wrong with the court. the court is desperate to convince everybody to see here. folks just move along. and for like me, who believe that there's something very badly with the court and manifest itself over, over and over in innumerable different ways, then you've got to push back that pressure that this all fine and normal it's not fine and it's not normal. but the veneer of this being fine, this being normal is what allows to keep doing what their what doing. and so anything that a bite out of that veneer of normalcy and everything's okay i think is important and at some point if you

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