mr. lausch continued the investigation, the department identified mr.ointment as special counsel. this morning, president biden's personal counsel called mr. lausch and stated an additional document bearing classification markings was identified as the president's personal residence in wilmington , delaware. when i first contacted mr. lausch about this matter he said he could lead the initial investigation but be unable to accept any longer term assignment because he be leaving the department in early 2023 for the private sector. u.s. attorney lausch and his team of prosecutors and agents have conducted this initial investigation with professionalism and speed. i am grateful to them. earlier today, i signed an order appointing robert herr, as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. a special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department but he must comply with the regulations, pro

mr. lausch that additional documents were identified in the garage of the president's private residence in wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: all key factors for what lausch would recommend to garland last week. >> on january 5th, 2023, mr. lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. >> reporter: the recommendation that came four days before the initial discovery of classified documents leaked and before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details or obfuscated key details in part out of an effort to avoid this very moment and to follow strict limits set by his lawyers. >> i'm going to get a chance to speak on all of this god willing soon. >> reporter: as a due diligence was still ongoing. >> this morning president biden's personal counsel called mr. lausch and stated an additional document was identified at the president's personal residence in wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: jake, while there was not a lot of information from the press briefing that has been going

mr. lausch that additional documents bearing classified were identified in the president's garage. >> reporter lausch would recommend to garland. >> on january 2nd, 2023, mr. lausch advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. >> reporter: the recommendation that came four days before the initial discovery ofofofof clas documents leaked and before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details or obfuscated key details in an effort to avoid this very moment and to follow strict limits set by lawyers. >> i'm going to get a chance to speak on all of this god willing soon. >> reporter: as a due diligence search was ongoing. >> this morning president biden's personal counsel called mr. lausch said an additional document was identified at the president's personal residence in wilmington. >> reporter: while this investigation has clearly moved into a very new, very potentially dangerous phase at least based on historical precedence, the white house counsel is stressing they will continue to cooperate, say they have cooperated and worked closely wit

mr. lausch's investigation, i concluded it was in the public interest to appoint special counsel. s sense, the department identified mr. herr as appointment for special counsel. president biden's special counsel called mr. lousch and stated an additional document was identified at the president's personal residence. when i first contacted mr. laotian, he said he could lead the investigation but would be unable to accept any longer-term assignment because he would be leaving the department in early 2023 for the private sector. u.s. attorney lousch have conducted this with professionalism and speed. i am grateful for them. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert herr as a special counsel. the document authorizes him to investigate whether entity violated the law. the special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official in the department, but must comply with the procedures and policies of the department. mr. -- mr. her as a distinguished career as a prosecutor. he joined the department's criminal division, where he worked on counterterrorism, co

mr. lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage in the president's private residence in wilmington, delaware. >> on january 5th, 2023, mr. lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me a special counsel investigation was warranted. >> reporter: this came before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details or obfuscated key details altogether in an effort to avoid this very moment, sources said, and to follow strict limits set by his lawyers. >> i'm going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, very soon. >> reporter: as a search was still ongoing. >> reporter: this morning were plp biden's personal counsel called and said they found more at the president's personal residence in wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: while the investigation has moved into a very new, very potentially dangerous phase,@least based on historic precedent, the white house counsel is stressing they will continue to cooperate and they've cooperated and worked closely with the justice department up

mr. lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the president's private residence in wilmington, delaware. the fbi went to the location and secured those documents. >> reporter: and then this morning, the president's personal attorney notified the justice department that one more classified document had turned up at the president's home. garland telling reporters that by then, lausch had already recommended that he appoint a special counsel. today, the president on the defensive. >> mr. president, mr president, classified -- classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? >> let me -- i'm going get a chance to speak on all this, god willing, soon. but as i said earlier this week, people -- and by the way, my corvette's in a locked garage, okay? so, it's not like it's sitting out on the street. but anyway -- >> so the material was in a locked garage? >> yes, as well as my corvette. but as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating

mr. lausch do. we understand the u.s. attorney from illinois assigned to the case in early november.concluded his investigation on january 5th. well, what did he find? because we know after january 5th they found another batch of these classified documents. so, what kind of investigation was that for the first two months? what is the white house lawyer doing accompanying doj officials when they go to the biden residence to pick up these documents? looks to me like he just made himself a fact witness and is part of this investigation now. why was he there? this was supposedly biden's personal attorneys and the department of justice. what's the white house counsel's office doing accompanying the doj to his residence? that certainly didn't apply to president trump. and maybe the best one is secretary clinton, i remember asking her specifically when she testified in front of the bengals committee. secretary clinton, you've got 60-some thousand emails. we don't want to see personal emails. there is a thing called privacy in america. we have no right to see those. but we don't exactly trus

mr. lausch to recommend a special counsel.ve a little time while the ag and his team decide what to do. >> see what they decide. guys, thank you. >>> just ahead, russia inleashing devastating new strikes against ukraine just houred ar president biden pledged to send battle tanks to ukraine. now's the time to learn more about an aarp medicare supplplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare and get help protecting yourself from the out-of-pocket costs medicare doeoesn't pay. because the time to prepare is before you go on medicare. don't wait. get started today. call unitedhealthcare for your free decision guide. what the buck? when every buck matters, it matters who does your taxes. trust the experts at jackson hewitt. you'll get your biggest refund guaranteed or your money back plus $100. buck yeah. file your taxes today at jackson hewitt. nothing. nothing. absolutely, nothing. it really is something. as an expedia member, you can save up to 30% when you add a hotel to your flight. so you can have a bit more money, to do eve

mr. lausch out of chicago, has already conducted. he'll want to hire some staff and get an office set up as a routine course of things. but you're right. this doesn't look like, based on what we know now, like there's that much to investigate. we don't know exactly who packed up those boxes. we don't know, were those documents accessed? did anyone go in that closet and rifle through the documents? they're going to be asking questions like that to the extent that lausch hasn't already established it. again, we don't know what his findings are. there doesn't seem to be nearly the complexity of the mar-a-lago documents matter to examine. one question in my mind is how long this possibly could last. >> maybe it won't last that long. maybe it will be a pro forma exercise. we'll see. charlie savage and matt miller, thank you both for joining me tonight, guys. >> thank you. >>> the special counsel appointed today is the fourth one in the last six years, so what does that statistic tell us about the state of american democracy? >>> plus, the

mr. lausch and stated that additional document bearing classification documents was identified at the presidents official residence in wilmington, delaware. >> so lausch recommended special counsel be named so into robert hur, to answer many questions as to how and why did the time the classified material from his time as vice president and up here. a statement says we're confident that a review will show that these documents were misplaced. it's not like there's been a timely information about this for the white house whose existence of these documents, nothing was said back then noren december 2020 additional items were found. and on monday with the administration did acknowledge the existence of that first batch, nothing was said about the second, discover nearly three weeks before. presurgery kareen jean pierre explained that late today. >> the lawyer said we have been working closely with the department justice in coordinating a surge that was still ongoing to ensure any additional documents were in the proper possession of the government. after that search, after this just concluded last n

mr. lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the president's private residence. >> that date is a problem because that means the president's team knew about a second discovery of material and left it out of tuesday's initial comment. >> they found some documents in a box, in a locked cabinet or at least a closet. >> white house lawyer richard sauber says we have cooperated closely with the justice department throughout its review and we will continue that cooperation with the special counsel. we are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced. republicans have questions of their own. >> i think congress has to investigate this. >> some democrats claim something else may be afoot. >> 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. >> white house officials say that they will let the special counsel work. >> don't want to get ahead of this. >> but they are prejudging the outcome like thi

mr. lausch were really trying to get their hands around the big picture and the basics of what happened.ho are now working for rob hur, the special counsel, will do is likely reproach any those witnesses that have spoken. and give them an in-depth interview to get the entirety of the scope of their knowledge of and involvement with these documents. whether it's from the office of the house. it's going to first be -- you think of it as chain of custody type questions. they're going to say to someone who was present when the documents were discovered in the pen biden office, they're gonna say, okay, where were you in relation to the closet where the documents were found, what did they look like, what were they stored in, was that storage container sealed with tape or with other materials, you know, who lifted it out of the closet, what did you do next, you know, where did you then keep these documents until the national archives folks came to retrieve them. all down to the details of every movement involving those things. and then broader scope, people who were in that office who can talk

mr. lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the president's private residence in wilmington, delaware. this morning, president biden's personal counsel called mr. lash was identified at the president's personal residence in wilmington, delaware. >> so lasch recommended a special counsel be named. now robert hur will have to answer many of the questions we have. for starters, how and why did the classified material from president biden's time as vice president end up where it did? an attorney to the vice president put out a statement saying we are confident that a thorough review will show these documents were misplaced. keeping them honest, it's not like there has been a flood of information whose existence was first known on november 2nd. nothing was said back then nor on november 20th when additional items were found. on monday, when the administration did acknowledge the first batch, nothing was said about the second discovered nearly three weeks before. here is how press secretary karine jean-pierre explained that today. >> we

mr. lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. >> reporter: the recommendation that came four days before the initial discovery of classified documents leaked and before days of white house statements that intentionally avoided key details in part out of an effort to avoid this very moment, sources said, and to follow strict limits set by his lawyers. >> i'll get a chance to speak on all this god willing soon. >> reporter: as due dill vence for more documents was still on going. >> this morning president biden's personal counsel called mr. lauch and stated an additional document was idea food at the president's personal residence in wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: wolf, white house lawyers say they've cooperated closely with the justice department in the review up to this stage. that cooperation will continue going forward. also, we have now reported that during that review they interviewed individuals tied to the then vice president's time in office including kathy chung currently at the depart

mr. lausch, i believe, reported back to attorney general merrick garland on january 5th and as a result ofll us on monday that there was one document and then the drip, drip, you know, whenever you have a drip, there's something else going on. i think the president acted appropriately and making sure that his staff went back, took a second round, looked into the garage, looked in the closet, looked wherever. just don't look in the kitchen, okay. but things will smooth out because i know the justice department will get to the bottom. >> i don't know if you had classified as governor of new jersey. >> no, and i didn't have a corvette either. >> but i mean, it is different, obviously, than the trump case but politically. >> well, the political problem is the one that nobody has talked about yet, which is why did they wait to tell us? i mean, they knew this before midterms. >> yeah. >> six days before. >> six days before. >> should they have come out, well -- >> if you're joe biden who says i must be transparent, donald trump is not. you know, he is irresponsible for having these in his home a

mr. lausch said he determined it was a enough to merit special counsel and didn't want that job. when you look at that does that mean that he has the clues there was criminal intent, or not, because these cases as we've told viewers turn a lot on just not whether documents were there but were they misplaced or misplaced and held or can you glean anything from that. >> it's important not to glean anything from it because it is such a low bar. i mean you really need to look and if it doesn't pop up immediately that, oh, it just kind of happenstance, it was an accident, they need -- they really should particularly when you're dealing with the president of the united states, let's take a look to make sure there was no criminal intent and i think the bar as they say is so low -- >> i got it. that's an important point. >> caution people -- >> not read into that. have you met mr. hur? >> i have not. >> okay. >> i don't recall ever having met him but enjoys a good reputation. >> the credentials, i appreciate you switched from i have not to i don't recall like a lawyer in a deposition in

mr. lausch thatna additional documents bearing classification marking s weren the ga identified in the garage of the president's private residence. in wilmington, delaware, this morning. president biden's personal his l calledcounsel called mr. a and stated that an additional document bearing classificatiom markings was identified at the president's personal residence inersonal wilmington, delaware, who they got joe biden his own people got th joe biden, but they don't want to wreck the party ince the process. are you following thisss? so the department of justice had knew on november 4th thates joe biden had committed crimes. november 4th was four dayss four before the pivotal midterm election. so naturally, the doj didn'tmidc issue a prestis release about i they didn't dispatch the fbi to raid biden's home in rehoboth. en route through dr. jills underwear drawer. no chance of that. biden may be a terrible president , but he's still a democrat. he's orange. >> so merrick garland, who is and we cannot emphasize this enough, a soulless hack who will do anything requi the democratic party requi

attorney john lausch. mr.en dodged questions about the document investigation most of last week, but on thursday reiterated that he was fully cooperating with the investigation and hoped it would soon be concluded. >> i have no regrets. i'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it's exactly what we're doing. there's no there there. thank you. >> we go now to ohio congressman mike turner. he is expected to head up the house intelligence committee. good morning to you. >> good morning, margaret. thank you for having me. >> so, we have this devolvement in regard to the further materials found at president biden's delaware home. what is your reaction? and what does it signify to you that no one realized that this classified material was missing, some of it dating back to his senate years? >> this is really incredible. as you know, congratulations to you. we would not know anything about you if it hadn't been cbs had broken this story. the white house nor the department of justice had shared a

he'll take over from john lausch, the attorney who led the initial review of classified documents found at mr. biden's office and recommended garland appoint a special counsel. over the past week, new details about the classified documents have leaked out mostly through media reports with the white house deferring to the justice department. >> we're just not going to get ahead of the process from here. >> reporter: and the president trying to defend why classified documents were stored in the same garage as his sports car. >> my corvettes are in a locked garage. it's not like they're sitting out on the street. >> reporter: on saturday in what appears to be a shift in strategy, the white house was the first to reveal that additional pages had been found. that has not stopped republicans for calling for more investigations. >> we're doing the biden family influence peddling investigation. >> reporter: democrats emphasize biden and his team have cooperated while trump is under investigation for obstruction. >> president trump, who refused to cooperate, who refused to supply with a subpoena and u

mr. biden's properties? >> reporter: well, jirericka, sources tell us the justice department is considering searching other locations. now, this investigation remains under the authority of u.s. attorney john lausch, but the special counsel's expected to take over by the end of the month. jericka? >> adriana diaz in chicago tonight. thank you. >>> today activists rallied for abortion rights at women's marches across the country. the biggest was in washington, d.c. sunday marked 50 years since the roe decision that was overturned by the supreme court in june, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. >>> well, millions of americans this weekend are bracing one-two punch of winter weather. this is worthington, ohio just north of columbus. the storm is spreading snow from the midwest up to the northeast. up to ten inches could fall in some areas. and another storm is on the way this week. let's check in with meteorologist molly mccollum from our partners at the weather channel. molly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. another winter storm is taking aim at the lower 48. this time heavy snow from the southern plains all the way into the ohio valley. it really starts to take