. >> james comber, who is the new house oversight chairman, said this is a further concern there is a two-tiered justice system. we don't know that. the question is what this leads to, what the documents were, how it is handled, but there are legitimate questions that the biden administration needs to answer on this. and it also comes at a time when the situation for merrick garland, the attorney general, just got a lot more complicated. even though there is a special counsel handling the trump mar-a-lago documents, doesn't this optics-wise and just process-wise complicate things for him? >> one thing i'm hoping the media sort of has learned a lesson from the hillary clinton investigation and the emails on the server and sort of how the media would run with that in terms of comparing candidates, right, and saying this is the same thing. president trump, the former president, is in trouble because of obstruction. because he took the documents and because he fought the whole way in terms of giving them back, okay. so and then saying i can declassify things just by thinking it. that's a

it's unclear if they provided information james comber wanted. getting the logs seems unlikely. they don't keep that kind of information. also, the secret service did not actively monitor joe biden's house from 2017 -- middle of 2017 until about 2020 when he became the presumptive democratic nominee so there will not be information that the republicans want. there are other communications they are seeking including from the white house which is indicating that it will talk in good faith with comber about trying to get some of the information that he is seeking on these matters. the question though is if it does not -- if the republicans don't get what they want, what do they do next? some are threatening subpoenas. will we see what we saw in the trump years? democrats battling with the trump administration went to court, trying to get information, sometimes successful, sometimes leading to lengthy, protracted court fights. that is still a possibility here as the new house republican majority presses ahead. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >>> ukraine's deputy defense minister has r

let's start with house oversight chair james comber and what you have deemed his two-prong strategy fories. one thing that kicked that off was, yesterday, james comber went to the national press club and had muted rhetoric when talking about the investigations he was going to launch. he reminded he was certified biden's election. he conceded in the hunter bden investigation, there might not be anything there. he wants to work on the keeping of classified documents, which has been in the news a lot. the split-screen moment is to compare that to the way he talks on fox news and newsmax, when he said hunter received gifts from the chinese. he said the biden administration can be compromised by the chinese influence. he's taken a different stripe on the news networks than when he is speaking in washington. if you look at the polling data, independents are not as enthused with many of the investigations, especially into the hunter biden situation, as hard-core republicans. republicans, now they're in power and in the majority, they want to keep the majority and don't want to go too far as th

over the weekend, in an interview, house oversight committee chairman republican james comber called santos a bad guy. cnn national politics reporter eva mckend is with us now. so republicans now, i guess bad mouthing him, but they're not actually doing anything more than that, at least not yet. what can you tell us? >> they aren't, victor. what i can tell you is the democrats are taking this fight right to his district. new york congressman ricky torres will be meeting are residents. torres and goldman have been leading the charge here. they sent a note to republicans asking who knew what and when? a superpac expressed concerns about santos prior to the election. as for house republicans, they are clearly trying to keep their distance. take a listen to congressman comber. >> look. he's a -- he's a bad guy. this is something that, you know, it's really bad. he's not the first politician unfortunately to make it to congress to lie. you know, it's pretty despicable, the lies that he told, but at the end of the day, it's not up to me or any other member of congress to determine whether

the house oversight chairman james comber, one thing he wants to see is visitors logs from the white house for those people coming and going from president biden's home up in wilmington, delaware but the white house and secret service say those logs simply don't exist. the white house counsel's office noting that as has been the case with previous presidents, that the president's personal residence is personal. they don't keep tabs of who is coming and going from there. but this all comes as there are growing questions from this administration, not just about the handling of those classified documents but also for how they've revealed a lot of this information to the public. one of the president's top allies, former alabama senator doug jones telling our colleagues here that in many ways it's an unforced error, that they were not fully offering a complete picture of what exactly was known as the news came out over the past week. certainly these are questions that will continue to face this white house in the coming months. >> one of the things that the special counsel rob herr is goi

joining me now is house oversight committee james comber. what's your response to the house statement that came out today? >> ian sams has no shame. give me break. this administration was quick to criticize president trump for having classified documents which he would argue weren't classified, but that's another case that will be determined on down the road. joe biden was quick to call trump irresponsible. joe biden claimed he would be the most transparent president in the history of america. once again, this is another example of how i can make a strong case that joe biden is at least the most intransparent president in america. the reason we know about these documents is because cbs had an investigative report their broke the story. the white house was never going to tell us. this was going to be another one of many cover-ups with joe biden, and we want simple questions to simple answers and this administration fights us every step of the way. >> a hundred percent they do. by the way, they have been gearing up these investigations since i

take a listen to james comber who is leading some of these investigations. >> we have his laptop anddence that he took millions and millions from china for influence peddling. what part of that revenue did joe biden earn joy? >> will this go anywhere? >> gop leaders don't want to impeach president biden but what they deal with is that they know they have a base thirsting for revenge. they hope to channel it to impeachment of secretary mayorkas. maybe enough to throw red meat to the base but even then again they can only lose four votes and unclear if the moderate wing goes with it. there's risk if they do that. >> the democrats for a second. we know about the squad. the folks aoc, ilhan omar, these are the progressives. there's a new class of incoming fresh men maybe making a squad but the democratic party is pretty united up until this point. will they flex the muscle in the new congress? >> this is the first time the members have been the minority so i think there's an effort to find the footing because this is a whole new world in the house minority. but that leadership team does

host: that is representative james comber. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, c-span.org (202) 748-8001 --(202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can text at (202) 748-8003. one of our viewers saying on facebook, -- dave or nor saying doing the business of constituents who elected them, which they never do. justin lavoie from facebook saying, "when it comes to the highest priority, working together" is the highest priority for him. facebook is how you posted there. the twitter feed is at c-span wj. highest priority for congress, paul, what do you think? caller: my highest priority is to create -- is to protect social security and medicare. host: why do you think social security and medicare are concerns now or has this always been a concern of yours? let's hear from mitchell in new jersey, democrats lined, you are next up. highest priority for congress? mitchell, go ahead. caller: good morning, pedro. my highest priority would be to ensure the debt ceiling is passed. i don't look at what i want and what the republicans want. there is no l

house oversight chairman james comber is demanding answers. we'll tell you what he wants from the white house as he plans to congressional investigation. plus, parts of california seeing a new round of treacherous weather. flood watches in effect. president biden approved a declaration after storms ravaged the state killing 19 people. cnn is live on the ground in northern california. in a moment. first though, we begin with the discovery of the five additional pages of classified material at president biden's home in delaware. paula reid and our senior white house correspondent is with me this morning. paula, first to you. what is the latest on the five pages? >> on the five pages were discovered among previously disclosed documents uncovered at the president's wilmington residents. they thought it was just one page. but then someone with the proper clearance started going through them, they discovered it was six pages. now we have 20 documents with classified markings found at two different locations connected to the president. over the weeke

speaking of subpoenas, joining me is the incoming chair of the house oversight committee, congressman james comberucky, who was a backer of kevin mccarthy on all 15 ballots. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> let me start with the deal that was cut before we get to your focus. are you convinced that we can go the entire congress without having a motion to vacate? >> well, i'm not convinced we can go the entire congress without having it, but i believe if that's used, i believe that right now the overwhelming jersey -- that's 218-plus republicans realized that kevin mccarthy needs a chance to govern. we're going to give him a chance. i won't say there won't be one person that trying to abuse that motion, but i'm confident that mccarthy will be given the green light to govern and lead this conference, do the things that we told the american people we are going to do. >> the last time you were on, you worded it that way about kevin mccarthy, hey, i think you have to give him a chance. many people entered that comment as not a robust endorsement. it doesn't always sound like

. >> republican james comber said they'll investigate why the classified items were found in mr. biden's former private office. cnn's phil mattingly has more on the developing story. >> reporter: president biden on the world stage but grappling with a serious problem back home. the high stakes leadership in mexico overshadowed by biden's handling of classified documents. ten classified documents discovered in november in a personal office no longer in use. among documents a source tells cnn, intelligence memos and topics involving ukraine, iran and the u.k. >> we want this to be a gathering place. >> reporter: at the university of pennsylvania biden center. the white house in a detailed monday night statement saying the white house counsel was immediately notified. the national archives recovered the materials, quote, the following morning. the justice department also notified triggering a review from u.s. attorney john lausch. the investigation has been completed and submitted to merrick garland without echos of the case tied to biden's predecessor. >> upholding the law means ap

. >> reporter: house oversight committee chairman james comber asking the secret service for details, quote, who had access since serving as vice president. as the white house pledged to respond to legitimate requests even as it noted the, quote, critical need to protect the integrity of law enforcement investigations. the challenges confronting a white house in transition as ron clain is set to be stepped down and replaced by jeff sains. >> reporter: white house officials view that role for zions as essential in this moment, in part because of the posture they've had related to the investigation up to this point. he will very much not be involved in any way and that is intentional. that is something that is designed to help the trains run on time, as one official told me. make sure the white house is focused on the day-to-day operations of the west wing and allowing the lawyers to handle the investigation and it's the former that the president is most interested in according to the officials and it's the former that will help drive what happens in the next couple of months in the min

. >> reporter: republican congressman james comber now chairs the house oversight committee and has set on joe biden's son, hunter. a mysterious laptop now in the hands of the fbi and long held conspiracy theories 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 their 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 though it's unclear exactly what was discussed. one example the republicans cite, a mexican businessman and son of the former president who hunter was trying to woo. in 2014 he and his dad were photographed at the white house with then vice president biden. in a later email hunter biden reminds him of the favors he's done for him. we have been talking about business deals and partnerships for seven years. i have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the f'ing white house and the v

earlier today james comber announced that the first border oversight hearing will be february 6th.border. speaker mccarthy said some hearings would be held at the border. this will be here in d.c. >> neil: thank you. dan crenshaw, he has his own worries about the border. this might need to involve the u.s. military. explain what has you very, very concerned. >> well, we introduced authorized use against the cartels and organizations trafficking fentanyl. why not years ago? the difference is fentanyl. this is not a war on drug problem. it's a poisoning problem. they are killing 80,000 americans a year. the mexican government does little to thwart this. there should be a bipartisan effort in congress to deal with them. that gives our president more leverage trying to get the mexican government to do its job regarding immigration when the cartels control and thwarting fentanyl killing american citizens. these people are more like isis than the mafia. we saw a war after the mexican government arrested el-chapo's son. this looks more like a war. these people are well quipped. well armed

now james comber has sent a demand letter to the white house to turn over evidence for a congressionalnvestigation. he's defending his decision to focus on the probe on president biden and not the former president, donald trump. >> with respect to investigating president trump there have been so many investigations i don't feel we need to spend a lot of time investigating president trump because the democrats have done for the past six years. who hasn't been investigated is joe biden. >> congress has an independent constitutional obligation to oversea all aspects of the justice department. so we will have a role in what's trance pyring here. >>> house democrats are focused on differences between president biden's handling of classified material and the former president trump. >> we were delighted to learn that the president's lawyers, the moment they found out about the documents that day turned them over to the national archives, and ultimately to the department of justice. that is a very different posture than what we saw with donald trump where he was fighting for a period of more t

to take a listen to james comber, republican on the air yesterday. >> every american, regardless of partyat we need to stand up to china. china is stealing intellectual property, stealing our patents. continuing to put americans at risk. this administration is tied into china every which way imaginable. >> and yet anna presley says this. >> i voted no because, again, it is another sham effort here. it is really clear that this is just a committee that would further embolden anti-asian rhetoric and hate and put lives at risk. >> a sham committee she says that we'll just put asian american lives at risk. what do you say? >> that is ridiculous. other democrats voted with the republican committee to create this. a terrific initiative from the new republican speaker kevin mccarthy. their reason for that is because we have been talking about a geopolitical competition with china for so long. we need to focus the agenda of the congress and the american people around what will we do about it. we need to explore the economic dimensions of our relationship with china. we need to keep them as an exp

one of the big investigations will be james comber and jim jordan. we're in washington, d.c. we're in the swamp. we're only here for 24 hours or less. we'll be back in just a short time. stay with us. >> sean: welcome to fox's live. for the first time earlier this evening president biden addressed the controversy over classified documents found in his former office, saying his lawyers are cooperating fully. >> i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what's in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. >> the white house confirmed yesterday that a small number of documents with classified markings from biden's time as vice president was found at the private office. the revelation sparked a flurry of criticism from republicans and former president trump, whose florida home was raided last year in search of documents removed from the white house. i'm matt finn. now back to hannity. for all your headlines log on to fox news.com. >> sean

recent report found 47% of federal workers participate in some form of teleworking, congressman james comberislation to require federal workers to go back to traditional settings. the white house says many federal workers are back on a regular basis, and point to groups like the tsa but they say forcing everyone to go back at once could backfire. >> to tie federal managers hands to prohibit them from operating the work arrangements widely available in the private sector, remote work, hybrid arrangements, would essentially guarantee that our recruitment and retention problems would only get more severe. >> it's also clear for d.c. mayor it's about economics, they want to bring more people into the city to keep the economy afloat. but the government union john said not just federal workers are missing from the places downtown. john. >> john: mark, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: hbo host bill maher is putting the white house on notice for the problems in the nation's schools. >> anything to do with schools or education is something really the democrats have to answer for because they control it.

. >> reporter: republican congressman james comber of kentucky. reform committee, he's determined to investigate whether joe biden and his son, hunter, are, as we puts it, compromised. >> this evidence raises troubling questions about whether or not president biden is a national security risk and about whether he is compromised by foreign governments. senator this all dates back to 2014 when hunter biden joined a board of a private ukrainian gas company. he was paid $50,000 a month. at the time, his father was vice president and handling some foreign policy in ukraine for the biden administration. at the heart of the planned investigation are dozens of suspicious activity reports that republicans claim banks filed related to hunter biden's financial activities. as the incoming majority in the house, republicans can use subpoena power to get those reports as well as subpoena of foreign entities and others who did business with hunter biden. there is no evidence joe biden did anything wrong and hunter biden has denied any wrongdoing. >> we went to a

. >> reporter: house oversight chair james comber wasting no time into its probe on the biden family. >> i want to be clear, this is an investigation of joe biden and that's where the committee will focus. >> reporter: comber demanding financial records and testimony from former twitter executives after they temporarily suppressed a story about hunter biden and his laptop. they want any communications between the white house and the refresh try. the kentucky republican said that former deals could compromise the president. >> what is the biden family business? joe biden was not truthful to the american people when he said he had no idea what his family was involved in. >> reporter: but that is merely an allegation, one the newly minted chairman has yet to prove. >> i have never talked to my son about his overseas deals. >> reporter: the bank reports don't necessarily indicate wrongdoing. financial institutions file millions annually. white house spokesman dismissed the gop moves as political moves in an effort to get attention on fox news. as republicans flex their new investigative p

hundreds of documents here and wouldn't give them back, literally ignored that and that includes james comber who will be investigating this stuff. he left very quickly to investigate the biden case and he told cnn just a few weeks ago that the trump case was quote not a priority for him. his tune has changed radically in the past weeks. >> let's talk about another issue facing speaker mccarthy. democratic lawmakers filed an ethics complaint against santos. santos said he did nothing unethical. speaker mccarthy won't comment. he calls the lies to voters an internal matter for those who may not be familiar with the story. george santos misrep ceresented almost every single thing about his biography and republican members of congress are attacking him, criticizing him, calling for him to come clean. it truly is embarrassing. is mccarthy now that he got santos' vote in that election, is he going to have to maybe take a look at what is going on here? >> i think he'll continue to punt this. he may need the vote again in the future. >> many times. >> because we have that mechanism, the vote of no c

in a letter sent to house oversight committee james comber obtained by nbc news, the white house council'ssight interest within the committee's jurisdiction while respecting the obligations of the executive branch. the letter comes in response to a series of requests for comber for information about the documents which the white house has turned over to the justice department and national archives. meanwhile, comber made another request yesterday asking the secret service for information about who visited president biden's home in wilmington, delaware. in a letter, comber called on the agency to turn over all documents and communications related to visitor information from january 20th, 2017 through to the present day. earlier this moshgs the secret service made it clear it does not maintain the logs of the president's private home as customary for presidents of both parties. comer reported to a statement where they said the group does generate some records for individuals who may come in contact with the first family. the secret service responded last night saying it was reviewing comer's

matter by the end of the month and so too did democrat mark warner and chair of the committee and james comberf kentucky who chairs the oversight and reform committee has gone further asking the white house for all relevant documents and communications related to the documents by january 24th. on friday representative jim jordan who chairs the house judiciary committee and representative mike johnson sent garland a letter asking for executive branch documents and communications indicating their determination to investigate as well. let's go to ben in new jersey and lewis is on the line. caller: good morning. first of all, you put adam schiff on there, please. when the russian hoax was going on, every night he was on cnn, msnbc saying he had evidence. he didn't have evidence. the guy's a liar. as far as biden, i thought as president you could declassify anything you wanted. biden had stuff when he wasn't even in office. he sold out to the chinese. who gives a crackhead money to investigate. only a democrat would. thank you. host: next up is maryland, calling from st. petersburg, florida. go ahe

here's some sound from the house oversight chair, james comber. >> they never care about it.s at the top of all of this gain of function research is eco health alliance and this administration just gave them more money even though the ig report and even though everything that has come out about the money that they already received proves that they were never in compliance with the grant to begin with. >> trace: he made two valid points. they did try to brush this aside. and two, the money just kept flowing. >> yeah, i think again, very disappointing. very hard to justify and understand why we continue to fund research that has been shown to be very high risk. and to an agency, an organization that has shown a total disregard for their clients to reporting this research in the manner that they're supposed to. it comes back to the fundamentals of whether we should be doing this gain of function research. i think it's really been concocted that people try to argue that this doesn't meet the definition of true gain of function research. we heard that from our nih leadership. i wa

. >> reporter: republican congressman james comber now chairs the house oversight committee and set his 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 to woo. in 2014, he and his dad were photographed at the white house with then vice president biden. in a later email, hunter biden reminds him of the favors he's done for him. we have been talking about business deals and partnership for seven years. i have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the effing white house and the president's house and

we know that james comber has reached out to the national archives and the white house for documentsrounding all this. you can expect that, pulling out of afghanistan, covid-19, hunter biden these are topics we'll hear more about in the coming weeks and months. don. >> thank you, jessica. >>> republicans are now pouncing on biden for these classified documents, some went out of their way to down play former president trump's potential mishandling of documents. here's a reminder. >> what i've seen that the national archives was concerned about trump having in his possession didn't amount to a hill of beans. >> i don't know what documents were at mar-a-lago. >> is it fair to say that investigation will be a priority. >> that will not be a priority. >> this is concerning. this is now the second location that the president was in possession of classified documents. what's the vice president doing with classified documents? >> this is so outrageous this has to rise to the level of this better not be a clerical issue between the archivist and the former president. >> i've been in the oval

that is coming from oversight chair james comber.eople deserve to know when the chinese communist party influenced biden policies with large anonymous donations that may have gone through this penn biden center". justin correspondent david spunt digging into this and reporting live from the doj. hi, david. >> good afternoon. we heard from the university of pennsylvania a few hours ago. we can confirm as you say, they are in the process of responding to oversight chairman comer and what officials at the school call a timely manner. we've been talking about penn over the past several weeks since this story broke. now the penn biden center is not in the i'll -- philadelphia. it in washington d.c. it opened a year after president biden became president. it's important to reiterate that the penn biden center never received gifts from chinese or foreign entities. since its inception in 2017, there's been three gifts from two donors which combine $1,100. both doughers -- donors are americans. while the penn biden center may not receive a ce

james comber is hoping to put joe biden under the hot seat. he has sent over 200 letters to groups requesting information on classified documents provided in president's home and undermining president biden's -- hunter biden's -- at the southern border. tomorrow they will be hosting former twitter executives on the block on hunter biden's laptop. and wednesday the panel will look into race -- waste fraud around federal covid funds. chairman comber has also pledged to investigate covid-19, and last year spiking gas prices among a number of things it is an ambitious agenda. the role of the bird -- republican kentucky -- kentucky republican representative -- chairman comber has pushed back saying democrats have not done enough to investigate the federal government. noting that they gave the panel and f in oversight hearings. he says that nothing will be on oversight stationary unless it is available. please welcome me in welcoming chairman comber to the national press cup -- club. rep. comer: thank you for the invitation to be here. i am a big fa

we're already seen a number of letters including from the incoming house oversight chairman james comber on this. the intelligence committee as well looking into this, questioning damage assessment from the intelligence commune i. but in terms of this claim of a double standard, there is no question that there are very serious issues at stake here with classified domcuments foun in unsecure spaces stemming from him time as vice president. but we also need to be clear that there are tremendous difference between what happened with former president trump and what is happening right now with president biden and that is if you look at the number of documents with president trump, we're looking at hundreds of documents in this case we know that ten documents were found in that initial batch, several more in the second batch. but beyond that, there is this issue of cooperation. and of potential questions of obstruction. remember, that that search, that was carried out with a search warrant by fbi officials at mar-a-lago was only carried out months after there had been zpu discussed between tru

is the raid and let me - >> where is the fbi raid >> we have a quote here from representative james combere oversight committee who said, quote, "is the white house going to be raided tonight are they going to raid the biden center?" >> monday night in a post, trump asked, "when is the fbi going to raid the many homes of joe biden? perhaps even the white house." >> seth: why would the fbi raid someone who is already handing over everything they're asking for? i don't know, maybe so they could get a sneak peek of that corvette [ laughter ] "fbi, open up! now hand 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 - "t

matter by the end of the month and so too did democrat mark warner and chair of the committee and james comber of kentucky who chairs the oversight and reform committee has gone further asking the white house for all relevant documents and communications related to the documents by january 24th. on friday representative jim jordan who chairs the house judiciary committee and representative mike johnson sent garland a letter asking for executive branch documents and communications indicating their determination to investigate as well. let's go to ben in new jersey and lewis is on the line. caller: good morning. first of all, you put adam schiff on there, please. when the russian hoax was going on, every night he was on cnn, msnbc saying he had evidence. he didn't have evidence. the guy's a liar. as far as biden, i thought as president you could declassify anything you wanted. biden had stuff when he wasn't even in office. he sold out to the chinese. who gives a crackhead money to investigate. only a democrat would. thank you. host: next up is maryland, calling from st. petersburg, florida. go a

house oversight committee chairman james comber is criticizing president biden's handling of classifiede house. in an interview on cnn yesterday, he was confronted with a clip where he previously said investigating trump's mishandling of classified documents would not be a priority for his committee. take a look. >> i don't know much about that. that's not something that we've requested information just to see what was going on because i don't know what documents were at mar-a-lago. so that's something we're just waiting to see what comes out of that. >> but is it fair to say that investigation will be a priority? >> that will not be a priority. >> so what are you saying to viewers who don't understand why president biden's documents seem like a big priority for you but president trump, who took hundreds more documents, did not comply with the subpoena, did not reach out to the national archives or the justice department to say, hey, we found these documents, it's not a priority? do you only care about classified documents being mishanded when democrats do the mishand snlg. >> absolutel

they will have to work out jurisdiction issues but james comber said he would out in look into the justice criminal investigation into trump's mishandling of classified documents. now this is a political gift handed to them and will see republicans try to milk this despite it being a political headache. >> what is the sense on the white house side? this is a drip-drip-drip. we did find another. i found another one. the way they handled this, do you view this as a problem for the president, a political one? >> yeah. i think they do. a political headache. i think they also are frustrated with the media coverage with this. this is an investigation into sensitive documents so the white house can't get out there and sort of pre-emptively look at this. it's something that no one should comment on. there are questions why did biden not disclose this earlier. but again, it's not common practice or standard practice for people to get out in front of a justice department investigation and look like they interfere. they also are at this point just following the department of justice's instructions, t

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let's bring an james comer chairman of the oversight committee. congressman comberk about the raid over the weekend and what happened friday but what is the biggest takeaway for you? the fbi asked to go in and valued lawyers asked to stay and look? >> the biggest takeaway is i still don't leave the doj, fbi are taking this seriously. we learned that initially they just took the president's personal attorney's word that there were no further documents. at the very least, this should put to bed whether president biden's attorneys actually know the extent of his responsibility, or they are not being truthful with the doj. they need to take this very seriously. i think any premise where the president has spent any amount of time needs to be searched. i wouldn't rule out searching anywhere where certain relatives of the biden family, we know has been involved in influence peddling schemes. i wouldn't rule out looking at their locations, which this is a pattern and no one believes the documents delivered five to six different locations where they left the vice president's

morning house oversight committee james comer is demanding answers after another batch of classified documents was discovered in president biden's delaware home. comber is now asking the white house to turn over evidence as he plans a congressional investigation. all of this as you might imagine further dividing democrats and republicans in congress. >> i still would like to see congress do its own assessment of -- and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was any sk exposure of those documents and harm to national security. >> it shows the hypocrisy and why the american people don't trust their government. congress has an independent constitutional obligation to oversee all aspects of justice department. >> paula reid is following all of this. paula, let's just start with these five additional pages of classified material that were found at the president's home in delaware. what do you know about that. >> reporter: these were found uncovered at the president's wilmington home. let's take a step back. right now there are approximately 20 known documents of classified markings have been uncovered at two different locat

oversight chairman james comer will formally request records from the secret service now after that agency said it would share the list of visitors to biden's wilmington home. comber house intelligence chairman mike turner shared their frustration over the scandal. >> what's amazing about all of this is it takes us to the question of why were these documents here when now we learn some of these go back to his senate time and clearly he has become a serial classified document holder. >> edge took the president at his word when the first set of documents were found at the biden center for diplomacy that he just inadvertently misplaced those documents, but now this has gone from simply being a responsible to downright scary. >> harris : it's not just republicans now were outraged. listen to a members of the president's only political party are saying. >> it's unbelievable how this could happen, totally response will. >> to think any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable. >> then needs to be this independent investigation ended peasant pros independent prosec. >> harris : this is so messy my mind's eye is make-believe but sor