going to begin with the growing crisis

at the White House the Attorney General

Merrick Garland appointing a special

counsel to take the reins of an

investigation into classified documents

found at President Biden's home and his

former private office this brings us to

a very unique moment in American history

with special counsels looking into both

the sitting president and his immediate

predecessor at the same time for similar

matters while Republicans are now

pouncing on Biden some went out of their

way to downplay Trump's potential

mishandling of classified records

what I've seen that the National

Archives was concerned about Trump

having in his possession didn't amount

to a hill of being I don't know what

documents were at mar-a Largo is it fair

to say that investigation won't be a

priority that will not be a priority

this is very concerning I mean this is

now the second location that the

president was in possession of

classified documents look what's the

vice president doing with classified

documents this is so outrageous that

this has to rise to the level of there

better be this better not be a clerical

issue between the archivist uh and the

the the former president I've been in

the Oval Office with the president and

I'd be very surprised if he has actual

documents at Rice level immediate

national security threat these facts and

circumstances are just absolutely

outrageous I mean this is completely

mishandling of classified information

why did he have these documents uh when

did he get them did he get them when he

was vice president and then take them

with him when he left are you going to

hold hearings it is possible that we

will hold hearings on them if they try

to prosecute president Trump up for

mishandling class classified information

after Hillary Clinton set up a server in

her basement they literally will be

rights in the street I worry about our

country if there's not a special counsel

appointed to find out how this happened

with President Biden regarding

classified information there is going to

be a lot of ain't

it will hurt the country okay that was

Republicans and now we look at what

Democrats said then and now

the fact that they were in an unsecured

place that is guarded with nothing more

than a padlock or whatever security they

had at a hotel

is deeply alarming I think whenever

passed my documents or somewhere that

shouldn't be

we see no evidence of deliberate intent

or obstruction of justice as we see in

the case of Donald Trump in our life

out

ability I have committed a felony and if

a president takes them out of a out of a

facility he too has broken the law of

classified information needs to stay in

Secure spaces so we'll wait to see the

facts but uh you know classified

information needs to be in Secure spaces

this is likely criminal what has

happened at Mar-A-Lago and you have to

wonder why was he hiding these documents

even when they were requested but you

also have to wonder with someone who you

cannot trust like Donald Trump what else

is there of course I'm concerned I think

the president is concerned that is

obviously you know unintentional and and

outside of the requirements of our

intelligence laws classified information

must remain in secured compartments but

cooperation is coming from the Biden

Administration and the president's

lawyers and there was Zero cooperation

from Donald Trump who tried to do

everything possible not to cooperate

the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

joined CNN this morning and also weighed

in

there's special prosecutor in each

situation I think President Biden has

handled this correctly he's fully

cooperated uh with the prosecutors when

the documents were found he notified

archives it's total contrast to

president Trump who stole stonewalled

for a whole year but the point is we now

have special prosecutors on for both of

these situations very serious people we

should let it play out we don't have to

push them in any direction or try to

influence them that's all I'm going to

say let the special prosecutors do their

job

noticed he said special prosecutors

that's because yes there are two of them

now there's the other documents

investigation and there are developments

in that this morning as sources are

telling me and my colleague Caitlin

polans the justice department wants to

talk to the two people who were hired to

search for president Trump's properties

in November obviously Federal

investigators are still questioning

whether after months the foreign

president has actually fully complied

with the subpoena that he got to return

all classified documents Caitlyn Collins

is here with me this morning Kayla and I

we you're not even talking to our

sources about this trying to get a check

basically on what's happening in this

other special counsel's investigation as

we're learning about the new special

counsel that was appointed yesterday but

when it comes to this documents

investigation with Trump what's so

notable here is what we heard from

sources about the fact that they want to

talk to the people that Trump's team

hired to go and look and make sure there

were no other classified documents at

any other Trump properties

right Caitlyn so we know that this

Justice Department investigation is

continuing on they're still making moves

to try and talk to people that we're

working with Donald Trump's legal team

we are confirmation this morning as the

justice department wants to talk to two

people the Donald Trump's legal team

hired in November to search multiple

properties of his about four properties

and that they had found two classified

records in a storage unit in Florida and

so this is the latest step of an

investigation that is going on uh for a

year now that we know of and it is an

investigation that differs from the

investigation we've been talking about

this morning related to to Joe Biden

because there are questions that the

justice department has on whether

Justice is being obstructed here by the

Trump team and also they clearly may not

believe all of the records that are

classified are asserted to be back in

the hands of the federal government that

is something the Justice from it clearly

is is still trying to make sure that

they have everything back now we did

speak to one of Donald Trump's attorneys

on the record Timothy Timothy parlatory

he was telling telling us that his team

is trying to be very Cooperative with

the justice department at this stage

they did these searches they hired their

people they're trying to negotiate now

potentially to talk to the justice

department team and his quote to us on

the record was that President Trump did

nothing wrong and a proper investigation

would have concluded months ago amicably

but Caitlin our understanding now from

our sources is that the justice

department wants to do an interview with

these invest with these people that were

hired by the Trump team pretty soon yeah

and Caitlin if this is borne out what

we're hearing that they do want to talk

to these two people these two

individuals who searched these

properties what's the sense of what that

looks like with attorney client

privilege or Trump's team trying to

limit some of the questions that they

can ask them

well I think that is where the

negotiation comes in so these people are

not lawyers as far as I can gather from

the sources I've been talking to but

they are people who were hired to work

as part of the legal team and everything

that they would have done uh Donald

Trump's team is going to want to try and

potentially keep covered so that the

justice department may not be able to

ask them all of the questions that they

want all right Caitlin Poland's great

teamwork I love working with you um all

right we'll check back in with you on

this thank you

let's talk about the big picture here

and all that is transpired in the last

24 hours on this CNN anchor and host of

who's talking to Chris Wallace Chris

Wallace good morning Chris

morning to you poppy what do you think I

mean here we are with two presidents

presidents we

since before us Jamie gangel says Knight

in a word never and two people that

might face off in the 2024 election

well it's why we all got into the news

business because we know that no

Hollywood scriptwriter could have come

up with this and and you know it's it's

just so astonishing in those clips you

showed before of Republicans making

excuses for Trump and piling on Biden

Democrats doing exactly the opposite

that does remind me of a Hollywood

script Casablanca where their French

inspector leaves the casino comes out

and says I'm shocked to find out that

there's gambling going on in the back

room here I mean it's all politics and

it's quite extraordinary and you know

yes they're going to be investigating as

Caitlyn just pointed out they're

continuing to investigate Trump and

whether he still has documents but given

the fact that we just found out

yesterday there was a third batch of

documents or at least one document a

third group uh coming from Biden you got

to assume that the the new special

prosecutor special counsel will be

investigating that and whether we have

found all of the Biden documents

if you're explaining you're losing yeah

and so listen I I think obviously I

think the viewers at home are very smart

because people when I said you know

people at home are going to see these

and they're going to see them as very

similar situations right and other

criticism was well people you know

you're saying that the viewers are dumb

people I know people aren't dumb but

people aren't paying attention to every

single Nuance Chris and when they look

at when they say Biden had documents and

Trump had documents

um and Biden is gonna the Biden people

are gonna have to explain how this is

different every single time if they're

explaining are they losing at least

politically absolutely you know there

may be legal differences and I think

there are obviously in the case of trump

there was a year fight with a grand jury

subpoena and eventually they had to raid

uh and at this point we have no evidence

of that with Biden that everything

they've found again so far we have no

evidence that if they found something

they didn't immediately turn it over but

in the political sense you're exactly

right it's one guy had documents and

remember how Biden went after Trump back

in September on 60 Minutes how is this

possible it's just unimaginable and then

it turns out that he's got three sets of

documents and and you know for all of

the talk from the White House yesterday

about how transparent they were remember

the first batch of documents they found

before the midterm election in November

we didn't find out about it until there

was a response to a media break of this

story this week so uh This Modern White

House was anything but transparent about

the fact that they had classified

documents