he very much leaned into and highlighted the distinctions robert herr made between how he handled the classified documents versus former president donald trump, saying he immediately turned in the documents. he allowed for multiple searches, that he sat down for a multi-hour interview. but clearly, sara, this is a white house that is fuming about the fact that almost 400 pages were released when at the end of the day, there were no criminal charges. >> yeah, mj lee, i know the story has legs. we'll be talking a lot about this. thank you for all of your reporting. >>> white house in full damage control mode this morning. >>> also this morning, donald trump is the proud winner of republican caucuses in nevada and the u.s. virgin islands and the supreme court appears to be leaning his way in his fight to stay on colorado's ballot. cnn's kristen holmes is in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where trump is scheduled to speak later today. kristen, any word yet if trump plans to lean in to biden's issues when he takes the stage later? >> reporter: well, it's been so notable that in response to robe

cheryl: now they're attacking robert herr.f you look at the coverage, they're attacking robert herr, saying this is a political hit job. i a want to ask about the supreme court issue. the supreme court did you appear skeptical yesterday of colorado's decision to kick former president trump off the ballot there. here is president trump reacting. watch. >> i would just say that in watching the supreme court today, i thought it was very -- it's a very beautifuls process. i hope that democracy in this country will continue. cheryl: joe? >> it will be marked as a good day for the court when they decide on this, this is a great opportunity for the three liberal judges on the court, based on their questions, where they were more than fair to the opposite side, this is an opportunity for the court to really show itself as nonpartisan arbiters of justice and we should all root for them. cheryl: even sotomayor, if you listen to the audience, like one state should be deciding a national election? it did not go well for colorado yesterday

and to be clear, robert herr's report text those boxes in great detail, it lays out what he found and why he is not pursuing charges. the difference with the situation with jim comey, he was not a special counsel, he was not under any sort of obligation, certainly not under an obligation to make a public statement about what we thought of the investigation being conducted into the emails. jim comey felt that it was important and necessary for the public to understand, for us to be transparent about what we found and what we thought about the case. because the case had been so public since its inception. the public knew about the investigation before we ever got it from the inspector general of the intelligence community, so there was so much anticipation that jim felt that there was no one in a better position than us, we had done the investigation, we should go out and tell the public what our conclusion was. i think those are questionable decisions. i think where we step far over the line and made a mistake was in his rhetoric, clearly criticizing hillary clinton but of course not r

that special council robert herr wrote in his report released yesterday that the president's actions present serious risks to national security, but he also made clear distinctions between a potential case against biden and the pending case against former president donald trump. he wrote, quote, unlike the evidence involving mr. biden, the allegations set forth in the indictment of mr. trump if proven would present serious aggravating facts. herr added that the evidence does not establish mr. biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. but later in the report the special counsel wrote that the president could also portray himself at trial as a, woet, elderly man with a poor memory who would therefore be sympathetic to a jury. let's be clear herr's descriptions of biden's memory are the most politically damaging aspects of this report. the special counsel claims biden was confused about when he was vice president and also had difficulty remembering the timing of his son, beau's death. the president then defended himself saying his memory is fine. during a hastily called news conference h

specifically on president biden's response to special council robert herr clearing him of classified documents but describing him as a, quote, well-meaning elderly man with poor memory. a press conference in which he called the egyptian leader, and the former president mentioned it but did not harp on it. >> they tried to spin the disaster into oh, wasn't trump -- trump was peanuts by comparison. that was 50 years. and he did a lot of it when he was at a very young age. he was mentally a little better than he is right now. >> to be fair as we'll show you in a moment the former president is also known for his mental lapses including about which leader goes with which country. first, though, president biden's three fold cleanup effort. the first part focused on the cleanup front today from the white house press briefing room. >> one, when the clatsified documents were found, it was self-reported. two, he took unprecedented action to get the special counsel what he needed. three, he didn't exert executive privilege over any contents of the report. the special counsel interviewed 150 wit

, it appears robert herr is saying were met. what he ends up doing is looking at the soft factors. and you have to do that as a prosecutor. and he takes into consideration things like what he says, maybe this is overstated. maybe not. he says essentially, joe biden would have created a sympathetic picture in front of a jury. he had memory issues, he had age issues, and that goes into was he able to form the mental intent? and the jacket that joe biden cooperated. you can't say i cooperated. it cancels what i did. but it is perfectly appropriate to say from the moment we engaged with them, they were cooperative and to give that a plus. >> is it a given that the entire framing, that this is a comparative scandal. meaning, it's about what trump did versus what biden did or pence did. so fundamentally, the thing that trump is still in trouble for is not cooperating. so in isolation, you're making a very specific argument. but politically, he's going to look out in the public and say fundamentally i did what was asked. he didn't. tha

." >>> the fallout from special counsel robert herr's report.erated him, but language suggesting is age and lack of mental fitness causing him to forget detail has caused a great headache. kamala harris leading the fight, pointing out the interviews took place during a major international crisis. the white house says it's now considering whether to release a redacted transcript of the interviews. >>> the portrayal of mr. biden's report is affecting the 81-year-old's re-election. >> reporter: the white house continues to deal with fallout from special counsel robert herr's report which concluded bide lab not face criminal charges but detailed several concerning conversations he had with is his ghostwriter and concluded observations about his memory and fueled attacks by republicans and allies of donald trump. the white house pushed back, pointing out the current president never took any actions to on strength the investigation. >> he did not intentionally take classified documents. he understands documents like that belong with the government. he

this is special counsel robert herr looking into the handling of classified records that wouldn't be in joe biden's possession after he left the senate and vice presidency found in two locations connected to him. president joe biden did speak to this, along with other witnesses. when this report is released, the special counsel has to get findings to congress and to the attorney general. it will lay out the findings of what happened with the classified documents. important point that the sources are telling others on this story, there are no criminal charges expected in this special counsel investigation. the special counsel has the power to bring criminal charges. the other expectations here is that politically, this report -- and its release, could invite comparisons to the case against donald trump. the criminal case against donald trump, related to the mishandling of classified roar records after he left the white house at mar-a-lago. to reiterate, there's a difference in the special counsel's report, where one results in criminal cases and the other is a report of, this is the l

now we should say the special council robert herr declined to bring criminal charges and made a favorable comparison between biden and former president trump's own handling of classified documents. but certainly the political ramifications of this report will reverberate for days to come. and particularly when it comes to this question of president biden's memory. and his mental acuity and it is of course occurring against the backdrop of an election in which the president's age is a central issue. majority of voters and polls suggesting that could be a deterrent for them as they head to the ballot in november. and president biden in this press conference tonight certainly flashing a lot of anger but not necessarily doing a whole lot to dispel concerns voters had. in the press conference talking about the conflict in the middle east, when he meant to refer to egypt, he referred to mexico instead. now one of the defenses that the president and his aides have made when it comes to these questions about his mental recall during his interview with the special counsel was it occurred in the da

we saw an emotional response to that from the president last night as he basically said to robert herr, how dare he ask that question. we are also learning this morning that in private yesterday he really erupted in anger again about that issue related to his son, but he said in a private meeting with democrats in virginia, how would i effing forget that? obviously, the issue here we are talking about is not about the white house taking issue with these unflattering and gra tus us to, according to them, comments about his memory lapses and, you know, recall problems, and that they do speak to this broader issue that voters have raised about his age and his mental acuity that is going to be a big issue heading into november. here are some of the ways the president answered a number of those questions last night. >> i'm an elderly man, and i know what the hell i'm doing. >> how bad is your memory? can you continue as president? >> my hememory is so bad i let u speak. that's -- >> do you believe your memory has gotten worse -- >> look, i'm the most qualified person in this country to be p

. >> let's turn now to the report from special counsel robert herr who concluded he's not going to bring criminal charges and one of the reasons he's not bringing criminal charges is because he thinks it would be difficult to prosecute president biden because he might appear quote, sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. the white house is pushing back. one official telling cnn they viewed some of the criticism well out of line and just wrong but this is going to be used quite a bit. it's already being used by speaker johnson. if you're too old and feeble, i'm paraphrasing, then you're too old and feeble to be president. >> here's my take, jake, and i say this as someone who publicly doesn't want donald trump anywhere near the white house again. this is troubling. and kate and i have talked about this before. this age issue is a huge issue. and i think only joe biden can address this issue. even before this report today, this was going to be a huge issue. biden's got to get out there and aggressively show the american people he can do the job and if he can do that, he'

robert herr's special report and the investigation to the uncovered evidence that president biden was willfully retained and disclosed for materials after his vice presidency was a private city. citizen and report called biden an elderly man and poor memory and diminished faculties and is the 25th amendment now on the table to remove him from office. we're going to ask congressman byron donalds and claudia tenney later in the show and how he's going to stop biden's $95 billion ukraine aid package and senator katie britt taking what joe biden said regarding prime minister. first up, let's go straight to our own edward lawrence standing by at the white house after a very roucous news conference. reporter: yeah, it was interesting and you've been on the other side of some of the big questions smear there were a lot of big questions and news conferences as well as white house press secretary and press briefing and the president defiant over how the special council robert herr characterized him in that report over mishandling classified documents and in the report, he described a man being

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official saying that they thought these references were simply out of line, and they said when robert herr came to the white house back in october, remember, this was the same weekend that the israel war broke out, that he said to the president, look, i'm going to be asking a lot of questions from a long time ago. just try to do your best to recall some of these things from a long time ago, and he even thanked him for doing this multi-hour interview in the middle of an international crisis. and they said look, of course the president was understandably distracted, given everything that was going on that weekend. but that doesn't speak to a broader sort of memory problem that this report alleges the president has. >> mj, in the president's remarks about the report itself, there's some things he said that didn't match with the report. what were they? >> a couple things from our colleague, daniel dale, that i think are worth highlighting on air. for one, the president said that everything that was discovered in his home were in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked. wel

the white house counsel has gone even a step further to ask the special counsel, robert herr, to reviset. the lawyers at the white house are declaring the descriptions of the president's memory inflammatory, quote, unquote, inflammatory. biden is pushing back against the report in his memory despite mixing up the president of mexico with the president of egypt on the night he's telling us his memory is fine. watch this. >> my memory is not -- my memory is fine. take a look at what i've done since i've become president. none of you thought i could pass the things i got passed. how does that happen? as you know, initially president of mexico, sisi did not want to he open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. i convinced him to open the gate. i talked to bibi to open the gate on the israeli side. i've been pushing hard to get humanitarian assistance into gaza. maria: we don't want to talk about this. we are all patriots, we love our country but this is in plain sight and if we're watching this, imagine what our adversaries are saying. china is laughing all the way to the ba

diablos se atreve, senalo indignado por las referencias en el en el reporte del fiscal especial robert herracidad para recordar sucesos y fechas clave, como el dia que murio su hijo beau. >> asi concluyo la investigacion por su confidenciales sin cargos criminales en su contra y un reporte que califica sus acciones como graves riesgos para la seguridad nacional. >> encontraron evidencia de que tras dejar la vicepresidencia, biden voluntariamente retuvo y divulgo material clasificado. >> el reporte agrega que la decision de no procesarle penalmente fue en parte por l mala memoria y vejez del mandatario octogenario, pues durante sus entrevistas con los investigadores, biden no pudo recordar cuando comenzo y termino su vicepresidencia y de imputarle cargos dificilmente lograrian probar su culpabilidad en corte. >> no tiene lugar en este energicamente, confundio a egipto con mexico egipto con mexico al nombrar a su presidente. >> la documentos clasificados de la administracion obama en una de sus oficinas. >> posteriormente hallaron mas documentos en el garage de su casa en delaware. >> en un c

. >> eso tras el reporte del fiscal especial robert herr, donde indico que el mandatario tenia problemas, lo que le ha dado municion a los republicanos. >> javier vega con los detalles. >> los aliados del presidente biden han emprendido una energica defensa. >> es hurd, que lo caracteriza como un ho hombre mayor con pobre memoria con una campana de comunicacion apoyada en funcionarios clave para intentar desarmar las criticas al y la campana tiene que cambiar de curso desesperadamente. >> los democratas y los estrategas democratas estan pidiendoselo a gritos a la casa abogado y no un medico, ademas de haber sido designado por el entonces presidente trump, con quien los democratas buscan ampliar el contraste, al tiempo que senalan tambien sus errores, como este viernes en un discurso en pensilvania, tras el que la campana biden-harris califico a trump de confundido y trastornado, senalando que mintio docenas de veces, arrastro palabras y confundio hechos basicos. >> trump, por su parte, critico a biden por retener informacion clasificada y acuso de en la campana democrata por darle la vue

la mejor opcion del partido democrata, insistio, pero su defensa del reporte del fiscal especial robert herrendo llamada a un desastre politico. >> yo lo vi un poco un poco malo, un poco para un termino yo creo que ya ya no. >> hurt determino que biden r retuvo y compartio volun voluntariamente material clasificado, pero dijo que no le presento cargos criminales porque a diferencia de donald trump entrego los documentos voluntariamente. >> anadio ademas que un jurado dudaria de su capacidad mental afirmando que tiene facultades disminuidas pero que es un a anciano bien intencionado que olvido fechas clave en sus horas de su hijo, bo biden. >> ¿como demonios se atrevio a decir algo asi? >> dijo biden claramente i indignado. >> un momento despues, confundio al presidente de mexico con el presidente de la hoy su equipo salio a defenderlo, diciendo que cualquiera que lidie con tantos lideres mundiales se equivoca y arremetiendo contra el fiscal herr. >> mas equivocados en los hechos y claramente, motivados politicamente. >> contraatacan el presidente presidente biden esta decrepito su capacidad

riesgos para la seguridad nacional, segun revela el reporte publicado hoy por el fiscal especial robert herrigacion contra el presidente biden sin presentar cargos criminales en su contra. >> por ende, el expresidente donald trump continua siendo el unico mandatario en la historia de estados unidos en ser procesado penalmente por su manejo de documentos clasificados. >> al presidente biden cuando se se dieron cuenta de que tenia estos documentos se le pidio que los entregara y los devolviera los documentos y se rehuso en repetidas ocasiones. >> el reporte detalla que los investigadores encontraron evidencia de que el presidente biden voluntariamente retuvo y divulgo material clasificado despues de su vicepresidencia, pero las pruebas recabadas no establecen la culpabilidad del senor biden, mas alla de toda duda indagatoria comenzo en 2022 cuando uno de los abogados personales de biden reporto documentos clasificados de la administracion obama en una de sus oficinas. >> posteriormente hallaron mas documentos en el garage de su casa en delaware. >> trump asevero que el caso de biden es 100 vec

el expresidente trump reaccionÓ en un comunicado al conocerse este reporte del fiscal especial robert herrÍa que hay un doble estÁndar en el sistema de justicia de estados unidos, ademÁs considerando trump que el caso de biden serÍa mÁs grave que el suyo por el nÚmero de documentos involucrados, sobre la memoria del mandatario no hizo comentarios el dÍa de anoche que estuvo en nevada pero sabemos que es una de sus crÍticas constantes y es un tema que viene al primer plano en este aÑo electoral. >> tambiÉn sabemos que biden se defendiÓ diciendo que realizÓ estas entrevistas dÍas despuÉs del ataque de hamas a israel, vamos a ver las implicaciones polÍticas en su campaÑa, gracias, javier vega. >> ♪ ♪ ♪. >> y precisamente hablando de elecciones, no hubo sorpresas y donald trump ganÓ ampliamente en nevada en su carrera por la nominaciÓn republicana. >> es su tercera victoria luego de imponerse en iowa y new hampshire, despuÉs del recuento final se llevÓ el 98% de los votos nevada es un estado que otorga 26 delegados. >> y en otros temas, bÚsqueda en tennessee de un hombre sospechoso de matar a

robert herr submitting his report after a year of investigating biden. in case you forgot classified documents going back decades were found at joe biden's house, in his tkwarage. at one point they were housepugh in china town. despite that reports show no charges against the president. despite his gross negligence. a million migrants encountered at the border since october. that's already a record. that's more people than live in austin, texas. border patrol arrested 160 gang members but many got away and infest our neighborhoods. where is the fbi? the bureau is busy catfishing american citizens. en trapping a dad in tennessee, paul f. ey. a under cover agent messaged the dad on-line. he was suspicious and asked are you with the fbi. they said no, for a year they built a relationship. paul f. ey fantasized about taking a sniper rifle to the border. he didn't do that. he wasn't arrested for that. instead a under cover agent asked paul about a silencer. paul said i can get that for you. he gives him a hundred bucks and paul gave him a silencer. now paul i

. >> special counsel robert herr also writing the evidence does not establish mr. biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. the report did establish that biden kept sometimes top secret material pertaining to the military and foreign policy. they also said that biden kept handwritten notebooks that had information implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods, some found inside his delaware home. next to ordinary items, which they deemed was considered junk. the special counsel, noting that that set him apart from trump, stating biden turned in classified documents to the national archives and the department of justice consented to the search of multiple locations, including his home, sat for a voluntary interview, so shah, abc news, los angeles, is. >> my mom was a hero. >> a son's pain put into words as police in the east bay say they've now identified his mother's killer for more than 50 years ago, a california woman false dozens of feet down into a hole. >> and you would not want to be where she ended up. we'll tell you how it turned out. plus, hey , sa

robert herr saying they didn't have enough evidence to fully establish his guilt beyond a reasonableowel. this has pain staging details about the notes in the garage, the den, the offices that contained classified materials in some decrepe i documents. one is a handwritten memo that was classified that the vice president wrote to president barack obama, encouraging him not to send in more troops, but what's more problematic, some of these materials were shared at the time with the president's ghost writer working on his memoir. what is striking about the report is many, many harsh details about they memory problems that the president had, including when he was being interviewed by the special counsel. a couple examples, it says the president didn't remember what years he served as vice president. another example is that it says in a trial, biden would likely present himself to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning man with a pier memory. the report also lays out the full scope of the president's operation in this matter. turning over the documents immediately, all of that, of course,

now, president biden, his number 2 and democrats alike are all blasting robert herr for the remarks in that report about bidens age and his struggle to remember things in his interview. >> the comments were made, inaccurate, inappropriate. they are calling this the sequel of the attack of the six foot monster. >> james trashed hillary clinton. >> there is a feeling like this. >> herr went so far. >> he is out combing it is not good >> this is not like what he did. according to the legal team for starters, james comey worked for the f.b.i. but he is running the department of justice, he legally required to right a report. compiling a report highly critical of trump even though he was not charging trump, either. while it is fair to question how hur came to his conclusions, it is questionable to suggest that he should not have included them at all. now, republicans, their view depends on the letter next to the name. while mueller was investigating trump you heard this. >> the big complaint have mueller was not senate approved. >> you tweeted about bob mueller and his thugs >> bob mueller

but the issue is how he chose robert herr to explain why. did he paint outside the lines, in your view, when he included what democrats to be editorializing about the president's age? >> there was a generous amount of editorializing, no doubt. but i'd rather be an indictment of my memory and ability to understand certain things than an indictment of a grand jury. no doubt the special counsel pointed to president biden's age, his ability to remember things and that it would be convincing before a jury that, you know what, maybe this is a regular guy. but it went a little more than one would expect. >> when you talked about that and said, well, you'd rather have this than a grand jury saying, okay, you're indicted, but there is politics at play here. >> of course. >> and it is being used politically. i'm just curious if you've seen something like this, not when it comes to a president but a special counsel talking about such personal things as he couldn't remember the date, as he says in the report, of his son's death. >> the relevancy of that

he gave robert herr wide latitude to write the report. it comes back to merrick garland's aimed -- aims to politicize the justice department. he said he let them reach their own conclusions. host: destruct that out? guest: i think people inside the justice department think that merrick garland should have narrowly tailored the report so it wasn't so descriptive about bidens memory. host: less than 10 minutes left with hugo lowell from the guardian. this is john waiting in new york, thanks for waiting, independent. caller: i've been watching this but i get the impression that this journalist is focusing like a laser beam on donald trump. i wouldn't, journalist, i would call him a lobbyist for the democratic party, that's my opinion. host: how long have you been working on political investigations and what other ones do you cover? guest: i've been covering the trump investigations and week covered the january 6 committee as well as biden. before that, i covered sports corruption like the national olympic committee and the russian doping sca

a last night and katie yelling at reporters and reporters coming on the white house council and robert herr taking from his report and his assessment of president biden's cognitive decline. what do you think? >> well, i think that the white house want it is both ways. essentially her's -- herr's ken polcari tear is the reason why because there's enough to indict him for wrongful materials and the justification was based again on his lack of mental faculties, which herr suggested would lead to problem securing a conviction. that was the bone he threw them and i don't know what they're looking for, but i guess both. elizabeth: what katie said, on top of that, the thing is, gene, he's not allowed his vice president or u.s. senator to have u.s. secrets at all. he was blaming his own staff for keeping u.s. secrets in multiple locations like his basement den, his garage, and open boxes on things like afghanistan and more. we're in a strange world today and it's being prosecuted and essentially the same exactling. thing joe biden has done whenever. they've seen the pictures of the garage and suppo

note robert herr. what's worse?t that he didn't remember or the fact that he didn't remember that he was the one that brought it up. >> i think there is a fairly direct answer that serves the interest of the american people. forget republicans and democrats. forget the congress. and that's to release the transcript. take out anything which involves a genuine secret, and release everything else. if it's true, that, in fact, herr did not ask the question about biden's son and biden himself brought it up, then what does that tell you, that part of biden's deliberate defense at a white house press conference is to lie to the american people, or it's possible, once again, he just forgot. he didn't remember who did what. i think it's a very serious issue. as you know, i think it's way beyond politics. i think, if it's true, that we have a commander-in-chief who is literally incompetent, and the issue for the attorney general is pretty straightforward. merrick garland aside, is it true that they can't prosecute joe biden b

. >>> we talked before the break about what went into special counsel robert herr's decision to clear biden in mishandling classified documents and the propriety or lack of it inputting observations about the presidents cognitive state into his report. now the effect it may have on the presidents arrays when compounded by last night's press conference, three guests have also been white houses, kate bedingfield president biden, van jones with president obama, all three are cnn political commentators. paul earlier today i heard you say i'm a biden supporter, i slept like a baby last night and i woke up every two hours and wet the bed. this is terrible for democrats and every anybody with a functioning brain. the record, my kids don't wake up every two hours, they just in their diaper, but what concerns you the most? >> that this, this is a pre- existing narrative. every politician has one. with president obama they worried he was to elite, with president bush they were he was too dumb, president clinton, he had no flaws. this goes right to that. what do you do? i think you can't unring

because what special counsel's robert herr's report did is put not writing what many in the democratic establishment have already known but didn't want to say out loud that biden is not fit to serve out the rest of this career let alone another four years. but now it's out in the open. they cannot put these concerns back in the box where they've kept them so the question is, what do they do now? >> trace: yeah, that's the question, what do you do now and i want to put this up because an attorney general in west virginia a idea, mike, i'm going to get your take on this but first the abc news ipsos poll showing you, not this, the abc poll where it says 86%, is it 86% people say that he is not going to make it, too old to serve another term. now if you can put the west virginia attorney general patrick mores situate letter, i am writing to urge you, talking to kamala harris, to invoke your powers under section four of the 25th amendment and declare that president biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. mike davis, some are asking, maybe at least get the ball roll

. >> we think robert herr the special counsel decided not to charge the president with anything.the attorney general should make it public. so we will know what joe biden did. we know the white house is worried about any photos that might exist of classified documents, maybe in his garage or some other place and here's the thing. democrats will point out that the difference between the biden case and president trump's case in which he has been indicted on dozens of counts involving classified information the difference there is that trump is accused of obstructing justice in the and biden is not. but on the basic issue did they mishandle classified documents, i think in the end you will have a lot of republicans saying biden did it, too? what is the big deal here? >> bret: right. then you have the possibility alleged some of the documents go back to the time of senate. that's where you have a scif, an area in the senate where you can't really take the documents out of there and senators even on the democratic side say how in the heck did that happen? the attorney general's letter

robert herr's report shows he held the documents willingly.e's chairman comer with me yesterday on sunday morning futures. watch. your reaction to the special counsel's report? >> what i'm concerned about is the fact that hidden within that document is evidence that some of the classified documents he mishandled were from ukraine and china. we've been leading a major influence peddling investigation of the president where we've proven that at the very least his son and brother had been influence peddling with those two countries. we want to know exactly what those documents were and we want to know if herr actually interviewed jim biden and hunter biden because, look, this family as you know very wells has been involved in influence peddling for decades. this is shady. this is counter to everything we stand for in america and it's a threat to our national security. maria: joining me right now is missouri congressman and house armed services committee member, mark alford. congressman, thank you very much for being here this morning. has your co

statement explaining why all of that extraneous stuff was irrelevant and why the relevant conclusion by robert herris a very conservative republican, the relevant conclusion was that joe biden committed no crime. he was careless. a lot of people are careless. but he did not commit a crime and the distinctions between his careless retention of some documents that were classified then cooperating fully with the government's request to get them back. the distinction between that and the blatant obstruction of justice that is charged against donald trump in the case pending before judge cannon's court, that distinction is sort of night and day. and the suggestion by donald trump and his quite frivolous motion that this was selective prosecution, the latest gambit he's claimed before the judge is just without any merritt. although given judge cannon's record, you never know what she's going to do next. i think the time has come and it will i think be upon us soon, for jack smith to seek in the 11th circuit to have her removed from this case because she has handled the prosecution in mar-a-lago in a way

the first lady suggesting in a fund-raising email special counsel robert herr was trying to score political report. willie? >> aaron gilchrist with the president in wilmington. aaron, thank you so much. kristen welker is the moderator of "meet the press." great to see you. a lot to wade through. you had the decision from a federal appeals court this week that donald trump does not get immunity in some of these cases and that special counsel report, we should point out, said no charges should be brought against president biden in the classified documents investigation. but all of the focus seems to be on president biden's mental fitness. of course he's skipping that super bowl interview again today. is there new strategy from the white house to attack what is an issue not just for republicans but for democrats as well? >> well, willie, i think that the white house, the biden campaign, are in the process of working on a new strategy, because if you talk to allies of president biden, they say this is a five-alarm fire. that scathing language in the special counsel report, which, you're right,

coming up, in the next hour of velshi, special counsel robert herr uses his report on classified documentsared to then fbi director james coleman's decision to talk publicly about the hillary clinton email investigation in the run up to the 2016 election. a move that was later called, quote unquote, extraordinary and insubordinate by the inspector general. we will talk about what the herbert report really says, legally how it is being used politically, and what it can use for the 2024 election. that's coming up after a quick break. you are watching velshi, i am charles coleman junior. charles coleman junior. i don't think you can clear this. i got this. it's yours now. this isn't charmin! no wonder i don't feel as clean. here's charmin ultra strong. ahhh! my bottom's been saved! with its diamond weave texture, charmin ultra strong cleans better with fewer sheets and less effort. enjoy the go with charmin. if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. good to go binge-watch. good to go out even later. with cabenuva, there's no pausing for daily hiv pills. for

and robert herr knew because he was operating under the special counsel regulations which provide for there to be a report that the attorney general will then decide whether it will be made public, and garland, you know, i think has long said i'm going to make this report public. robert he, r knew, had every reason to believe this would be made public and still included a level of detail well beyond anything even that you would see in a prosecution memo, and certainly knowing it would be made public knowing we're just months out. we're in the midst of primaries. months away from a general election. these kind of information is the kind of information that will be directly used in campaigning. it will be directly used against joe biden in this election. even though the bottom line is no criminal culpability. >> exactly, and it was 400 some odd pages. if you as brilliant as you aren't going to read the whole thing, and they know 99% of the media aren't going to another. i have read the executive summary, this is 400-some odd pages to answer one question, are we indicting him, and the an

which i had not thought about, but it's a good one, is that republicans would've had loved to have robert herr testify before congress because he's making points that aligned with their political view. so i think it's just a question of what's beneficial. yeah, five hours of testimony will certainly tell you a story. it's also important to remember that it's pretty, it's a pretty common tactic, not tactic, but pretty common for people who are being interviewed in scenarios like this to say, i don't remember, i don't recall. and part because that's what's constructed if you don't. that's also something ivanka trump did 29 or 30 times when she was interviewed. no one thinks she's losing, at or senile. of course, she's not. >> you know the inner workings of all this, so, let's go with what the washington post said. it is a very detailed account of all the events surrounding this interview. the presidents team had spent significant time preparing biden to discuss his role in handling the documents, as well as his views on the propriety of keeping note cards work he had jotted down classified infor

biden's handling of classified documents while the president was not charged, special counsel robert herre'snging into question president biden's mental acuity. the report, calling the president a, quote, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. vice president kamala harris responding, calling it a political attack. >> the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. the way that the president's demeanor in that report was character sized could not be more wrong on the facts. and clearly only politically motivated, gratuitous. >> the spokesman for the white house counsel also firing back yesterday, he repeatedly attacked robert her questioning his motives for highlighting the president's memory lapses. still ahead on abc seven mornings, a plane making an emergency landing hits a vehicle on a florida freeway before erupting in flames. dramatic video ahead, and here's a live look closer to home at the golden gate bridge. it's 540. we'll be you made a cow! actually it's a piggy bank. my inspiration to start saving. how about a more solid way to save?

robert herr could testify. are there steps the administration would take addressing that specific issue in relation to overall medical physicians reports of the president or other things to demonstrate what is the issue with memory and is it a factor that deals with his capacity to serve? ian: i have a lot of issues with that question. karine talked about his transparency, medical records, things of that nature. i will leave that to karine to handle. i just read you this. page -- later in the report he says, "we expect the evidence of mr. biden's state of mind to be compelling, pointing to clear and forceful testimony." i can explain why the report veers all over the place on this issue. i can just say, as you heard from the vice president and members of congress talking about their recent interactions with the president, congress and goldman talking to his interaction with the president the day before this interview one congressman goldman was on the ground in israel in the long , detailed conversation about w

robert herr could testify. are there steps the administration would take addressing that specific issue in relation to overall medical physicians reports of the president or other things to demonstrate what is the issue with memory and is it a factor that deals with his capacity to serve? ian: i have a lot of issues with that question. karine talked about his transparency, medical records, things of that nature. i will leave that to karine to handle. i just read you this. page -- later in the report he says, "we expect the evidence of mr. biden's state of mind to be compelling, pointing to clear and forceful testimony." i can explain why the report veers all over the place on this issue. i can just say, as you heard from the vice president and members of congress talking about their recent interactions with the president, congress and goldman talking to his interaction with the president the day before this interview one congressman goldman was on the ground in israel in the long , detailed conversation about w

. >> that's right, amanda, special counsel robert herr released a report after his investigation into president biden's handling of classified documents. now in the report, herr, who was appointed by former president trump, wrote that his assessment of mr. biden's mental acuity and his power of recall was hazy, fuzzy, faulty and having significant limitations. the report suggests that the documents could have been brought to his former office in dc and at his home in delaware by mr. hirsch said the evidence does not establish mr. biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. the president is lashing out at his assessment of his memory, especially his statement claiming he did not remember even within several years when his son beau died. >> how in the hell dare he raise that? frankly, when i was asked a question, i thought to myself, wasn't any of their business. >> former president trump called this report selective prosecution action since he is facing criminal charges over his mishandling of classified documents at mar a lago. now, in contrast to president biden, who cooperated with the

he gave robert herr wide latitude to write the report.t comes back to merrick garland's aimed -- aims to politicize the justice department. he said he let them reach their own conclusions. host: destruct that out? guest: i think people inside the justice department think that merrick garland should have narrowly tailored the report so it wasn't so descriptive about bidens memory. host: less than 10 minutes left with hugo lowell from the guardian. this is john waiting in new york, thanks for waiting, independent. caller: i've been watching this but i get the impression that this journalist is focusing like a laser beam on donald trump. i wouldn't, journalist, i would call him a lobbyist for the democratic party, that's my opinion. host: how long have you been working on political investigations and what other ones do you cover? guest: i've been covering the trump investigations and week covered the january 6 committee as well as biden. before that, i covered sports corruption like the national olympic committee and the russian doping scand

the fact that he's not going to face any any charges on, you know, with this indictment by robert herrlder shows, if anything, it's elder abuse. but it really, i think, exposes that the democrats knew this as far back as 2017. that's pretty clear. so what they did in in 2020 really was a fraud. you know , keeping him in the you know, keeping him in the basement and running the campaign like that. it was just deceitful . and it's a shame that deceitful. and it's a shame that it happened to the american people. okay, greg swensen, good to see you this morning. >> very much. thanks >> thank you very much. thanks for sophia wenzler for having me. sophia wenzler now your headlines . now has your news headlines. >> thanks. early. it's 1133. now has your news headlines. >> thanks. early. it's1133. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . the prime minister newsroom. the prime minister says president vladimir putin's accusations that the west and nato are the cause of the ukraine war are clearly ridiculous. us, in an interview with tv presenter tucker carlson, the russian president says the inv

this is all off the back of special counsel robert herr's report , um, which essentially report, um,hich essentially describes biden as an elderly man with a poor memory is going to be pretty damaging, isn't it? really >> it's pretty damning if you're an american president. i mean, you know, the problem is in the west, we don't really value age. west, we don't really value age. we don't value wisdom, and we don't value it in our politicians. we like young, fit people got lots of people that have got lots of vigour of energy. and, vigour and lots of energy. and, uh, know, biden's competence uh, you know, biden's competence has in question for has been, uh, in question for quite you know, quite a while now. you know, he's forget forgets basic he's forget forgets quite basic things. stairs, things. he trips over stairs, etc, so yeah, of course etc, etc. um, so yeah, of course this is, this is kind of this card being played. know, card being played. you know, obviously the republicans are going love this because going to love this because that just of gives them the just kind of gives th

life events, including his vice presidency , special counsel presidency, special counsel counsel robert herrions , to bring criminal convictions, but he praised the president for cooperating fully. >> here's what president biden said confusing the presidents of eqypt said confusing the presidents of egypt and mexico at a press conference last night. >> the same press conference he called to showcase his mental agility . agility. >> as you know , initially the >> as you know, initially the president of mexico, sisi , did president of mexico, sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. i i talked to him, i convinced him to open the gate. my convinced him to open the gate. my memory is not my memory is fine . my memory. take a look at fine. my memory. take a look at what i've done since i've become president. none of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. how did that happen? you know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. >> well, there you go. >> well, there you go. >> that's what president biden had say. but joining us now had to say.

special council robert err is expected to release his investigation into president biden's possession of documents. cnn said special vector herr has. >>> new findings into the investigation of why a panel called a door plug blew off in an alaska airlines boeing 737. at least three of the four bolts that were supposed to be holding the door plug in place were missing when the plane left the boeing factory late last year. here's cnn's pete muntean with a quick look at how these bolts were supposed to work. >> reporter: this is the actual 250i7 of bolt. an an-6 bolt, pretty common in aviation. this is the bolt itself. there's a castle nut and a could the tercotter pin to keep it together. in actuality, the ntsb says none of these bolts were in place at the time of this blowout las

jack smith, robert burke has been investigating the possible mishandling of classified documents at two locations for president biden. the attorney general sent a letter to congress saying herr has submitted a report to the attorney general but that report has gone to the white house counsel's office. they're reviewing it for possible privilege. our reporting is there are no criminal charges expected here. this is expected to being a very detailed report. >> anxious to read it. paula reid, thank you guys very, very much. big day coming up tomorrow. >>> just ahead, we'll have the latest on the diplomatic efforts to secure a hostage and cease-fire deal in gaza as u.s. and israeli sources are weighing in. two leading candidates for senate. two very different visions for california. steve garvey, the leading republican, is too conservative for california. he voted for trump twice and supported republicans for years, including far right conservatives. adam schiff, the leading democrat, defended democracy against trump and the insurrectionists. he helped build affordable housing, lower drug costs, and bring good jobs back home. the choice is clear. i'm adam schiff, and i approve t