kristin welker, rep strategist brendan buck. peter baker, and kimberly atkins stohr. to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longs running show in television history, this is sunset "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. we feel like we're at a breaking point. the supreme court strained after -- they have yet to issue an opinion this term. >>> and another matt shooting at a lunar new year event at a park in monterey park, california. these events don't bring comfort. adding to this, we have the current and former presidents under investigation. after a 13-hour fbi-led search at the home of a sitting president. it wasn't a subpoena, it was with cooperation, and six more items were indeed found, including biden's time as a senator. this comes just days after biding said he had no regrets how he handled the issue testify classified documents, but it's likely to prompt more t de13heo comparisons between the current and former president. then we have the issue of election denialism, and sadly, it appears that it's

. >> joining me now, kristin welker. those are questions the president has not answered, but the secretary of state did. he was one of the biden -- former biden officials, obama/biden officials. he was at the state department. he did go over to the penn biden center and had somewhat of a role, not directing it, but he was clearly a managing director. >> you are right, andrea. for five days now the president hasn't answered questions. you heard some of the messaging there with you pressing the secretary of state that we have been hearing more broadly from this administration, namely that the president was surprised and that they are doing everything possible to fully cooperate with the special counsel investigation. it comes as we got this new data point overnight with "the wall street journal" reporting the justice department considered overseeing biden's attorneys searching for material in his delaware home. ultimately, they decided not to, according to "the wall street journal," citing sources familiar with the matter.

kristin welker kicks off our coverage >> reporter: the controversy over president biden's handling of classified information is growing, revelations a second batch of classified documents has been discovered by aides to the president. this time in a different lo location from where the initial documents were found a source familiar to the matter tells nbc news >> i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. we're cooperating fully. >> reporter: still unclear when these new documents were discover and if biden attorneys are still searching for more now top republicans are calling for attorney general merrick garland to appoint a special counsel, the same action he took in response to president trump's handling of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home >> if you're listening mr. garland, you need to do the exact same thing to president biden. >> reporter: they were found in an office used by mr. biden after the vice presidency. they were not handed over until just this week while the trump and

this comes after aides found a second batch of documents at his home in delaware kristin welker is following latest >> reporter: with growing questions over whether president biden mishandled classified information, including the revelation of a third discovery of classified material, attorney general ma merrick garland making a bombshell announcement naming robert hur, a former federal prosecutors and u.s. attorney to see if laws were broken garland saying classified document from the obama administration were found by biden attorneys in two locations. mr. biden's private office he used after he left the vice presidency and president biden's home in delaware the president saying classified material was in his personal library at home and his garage, allocation seen briefly this this campaign video. >> classified, classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking >> as i said earlier this week and by the way, my corvette's in a locked garage, okay? so it's not like they're sitting out in the street. >> a locked garage >> yes, as well as my corvette but as i said earlier this

kristin welker has details. >> reporter: facing growing pressure, president biden in el paso tonight,ing face-to-face with the crisis at the border for the first time since taking office two years ago. while the president didn't meet directly with migrants, he assessed enforcement for himself in el pass oh, where crossings reached record highs in mid december but have since slowed. republicans, including texas governor greg abbott, who handed the president a letter, calling for him to secure the border blasting mr. biden. >> he should have been down leer from day one to fix the problem that he created. >> reporter: but the president is touting his new plan, which he says aims to expel from the u.s. to mexico 30,000 migrants a month who unlawfully entered the country from orgins including venezuela, nicaragua and cuba. meanwhile, at least six migrants were arrested today gabe gutierrez was reporting live on msnbc whether one of the arrests happened. >> he's venezuelan. he doesn't know why he's being arrested. >> reporter: some are accusing authorities of trying to sanitize the crisis f

joining me, kristin welker, ben rhodes, jeff mason and barbara mcquade. the president refusing to answer questions about whether he would talk to the special counsel if an interview is requested. the president and his advisers not talking about. that isn't making this any less of a political problem for the white house. >> it isn't. it isn't making the questions go away. we are keeping track. this is the fifth straight day president biden ignored questions about this matter has been has been looming over his administration. the latest flashpoint is that republicans are asking for the visitor logs from the president's delaware home, one of two locations where classified documents were discovered. both the secret service and the white house counsel's office saying we don't have you those logs. we don't independently maintain our own visitor logs because it's a private residence. this is a growing problem for the administration. the president is frustrated based on conversations with sources familiar with his thinking, in part, because he sees this as a mome

. >> joining me now is kristin welker and yamiche alcindor. white house and justice department are getting a lot of heat from republicans and democrats now as well as from the press. is there any plan to change how they are handling this inside the white house? >> reporter: it will be notable and interesting to see what the justice department decides. as it relates to what we are seeing inside the white house, they are dug in on this strategy of essentially referring all questions to the white house counsel. what has changed is that the white house counsel's office has been giving reporters more background briefings, more background information to try to fill in some of the major blanks and major gaps in questions that exist surrounding the president's handling of classified documents. there doesn't seem to be a wholesale shift in strategy here or any intention to do so. they continue to make the point that they do want to be careful about the justice department's investigation. doj, as you know, has come out and said, we haven't told the whit

let's bring in steve kornacki, chief white house correspondent kristin welker, robert gibbs, michael steele and brendan buck. kornacki, let's talk at the big board. 217 because one member had to go home. they still -- he still can only lose four. >> yeah. what he just said to garrett was interesting. if i heard right, he said there's a couple of members who are out today. we are aware of one whose wife gave birth who had to fly home. we are told ken buck from colorado, who missed a couple votes yesterday, reporting he is coming back today. my understanding was that there would be one absence. if i heard mccarthy right talking to garrett there, he was saying they might be missing a couple. that could complicate the matthew little bit, especially if it's more than one and they have been voting for mccarthy. you could get in a scenario where the threshold gets lowered in terms of what he can afford to lose from four to three. if you get a couple of absences. >> that's assuming -- that's his number, of course. we are assuming, of course, that the democrats are going to hold, that they ha

joining me now kristin welker, jonathan lemire, robert gibbs and andrew weissmann is back with us doingble duty. the president not willing to talk about this to reporters. now we have new nbc reporting about how the white house is weighing all of this as they look ahead to 2024 and his decision on whether or not to run with all indications up until now that he was certainly leaning towards running, intending to run as he put it. >> that's right. by my count, this is the sixth time the president has ignored shouted questions about this matter. he is on his way to california to tour the storm damage there. i was among correspondents shouting questions at him trying to get him to engaged. he acknowledged we were asking questions and kept walking toward the helicopter. i think that to your point in that new reporting by my colleagues carol lee and mike memoli, white house was getting pressure from allies to potentially think about delaying any announcement that the president was running for re-election. what we are hearing is that basically, this firestorm swirling around the white house is

let's listen to an exchange that kristin welker had with the president this morning. >> the most responsibleis that we sit down. we have a time period between now and june. we find places we can find savings for the american public and put ourselves on a path of the majority. any gimmick or political games is irresponsible. >> this is the classic washington where they can't agree what the meeting is about. that doesn't bode well for where this conversation is heading. the president believes the divisions on the republican side play to his political advantage in trying to press them for a clean debt limit increase. we can have a fight over spending down the road. >> having talked to a lot of senators this weekend, that includes -- senators believe in the debt ceiling, believe in increasing it but think the president should negotiate. this is probably opening bid. meeting to talk, not to negotiate. but eventually, they will negotiate something. on the republican side, mccarthy has a problem. some of his republican senators and house members are talking about cuts in medicare and social securit