A.G. Garland roils D.C. with surprise announcement

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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MSNBC’S Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Thursday, January 12 and reports on Attorney General Garland appointing a special counsel to oversee the investigation of classified documents found in President Biden’s old office and home. Plus, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defends George Santos’s epic lies. Emily Bazelon, Karen Loeffler, Howard Dean, and Barbara Boxer join.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat I'm Ari Melbourne.
0:01.4	We start with breaking news,
0:03.5	illegal first for President Biden.
0:05.7	A Attorney General Merrick Garland upending Washington
0:10.2	today with this surprise announcement.
0:12.2	He is appointing a new special counsel
0:14.7	to probe the handling of classified documents found
0:18.3	in Joe Biden's office and home.
0:20.7	This is a significant legal development,
0:22.7	no matter what happens from here.
0:24.7	It's also the kind of twists that would have seemed
0:26.8	like a movie plot even just a few months ago
0:29.5	when former President Trump was clashing with the DOJ
0:32.1	over his handling and alleged mishandling
0:34.6	of classified material.
0:36.7	Would have felt like a twist even honestly
0:38.3	the last couple of weeks when Biden's team was very
0:40.4	optimistic after the midterms
0:42.3	and then the GOP's chaotic start to the new Congress.
0:45.9	Now Garland did not preview any plans on this at all.
0:50.3	He just announced that he would deliver remarks today.
0:53.0	Didn't even reveal the topic
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