host: jeff mordock? guest: there are a lot of things we do not know that we will learn through the committees. the decision making in the chain of command in the afghanistan withdraw. that is something we need to know. with the documents, even if nobody committed a crime it is still a massive national security risk and there still a lot of questions the white house needs to answer. as i said earlier, the documents were discovered november 2. they were not made public until cbs news broke the story on january 9, in the white house was forced to come clean. when they came clean they acknowledge the documents at the biden penn center but never acknowledge the documents at the president delaware residents. why was it that brought up? we get into the origins of covid. we are still not sure what we know about that, if we can trust what china has said about that. there is a lot outstanding. i think we will learn a lot from these investigations. i do not think it is there entirely. i think there is partisanship.

washington times reporter jeff mordock and then later we have julie rovner. "washington journal," starts now. ♪ host: good morning everyone on friday, january 20. the annual march

host: jeff mordock?st: there are a lot of things we do not know that we will learn through the committees. the decision making in the chain of command in the afghanistan withdraw. that is something we need to know. with the documents, even if nobody committed a crime it is still a massive national security risk and there still a lot of questions the white house needs to answer. as i said earlier, the documents were discovered november 2. they were not made public until cbs news broke the story on january 9, in the white house was forced to come clean. when they came clean they acknowledge the documents at the biden penn center but never acknowledge the documents at the president delaware residents. why was it that brought up? we get into the origins of covid. we are still not sure what we know about that, if we can trust what china has said about that. there is a lot outstanding. i think we will learn a lot from these investigations. i do not think it is there entirely. i think there is partisanship. i d

here to talk about that with us is jeff mordock, white house reporter with the washington times. there are several parts of this. the weaponization of government, which houseepublicans created a committee to look into that. you also have the biden family business as part of these investigations. the origins of the covid pandemic. china competitiveness. in the withdrawal from afghanistan. along with border enforcement and the treatment of the january 6 defendants. it is a lot. guest: it is a lot and it is a lot they want to accomplish through the seven investigations. the republicans have been preparing for this since long before midterms when it seemed clear they would retake the house they started sending preservation letters to different officials, to attorney general garland, asking them to preserve documents and hold onto documents because subpoenas will be coming and they will have to turn the stuff over to their committees. host: will we see hearings on these topics? guest: absolutely we will. republicans are gearing up. it looks like the first set we will see is on border

here to talk about that with us is jeff mordock, white house reporter with the washington times. there are several parts of this. the weaponization of government, which house rubcans created a committee to look into that. you also have the biden family business as part of these investigations. the origins of the covid pandemic. china competitiveness. in the withdrawal from afghanistan. along with border enforcement and the treatment of the january 6 defendants. it is a lot. guest: it is a lot and it is a lot they want to accomplish through the seven investigations. the republicans have been preparing for this since long before midterms when it seemed clear they would retake the house they started sending preservation letters to different officials, to attorney general garland, asking them to preserve documents and hold onto documents because subpoenas will be coming and they will have to turn the stuff over to their committees. host: will we see hearings on these topics? guest: absolutely we will. republicans are gearing up. it looks like the first set we will see is on border se