MTP NOW Jan. 13 — Biden’s special counsel investigation political impact; 2024 presidential race

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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President Biden and former President Trump’s special counsel investigations on mishandling classified information differ legally but strike similarities for voters. Both investigations may impact the 2024 presidential cycle if Biden and Trump are on the ballot.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, politics and probes one president, one presidential candidate, two special councils, and a divided Congress.
0:10.2	How the White House is gearing up for a potentially ugly year of political and legal confrontations.
0:16.1	Plus, top secret discovery, the latest revelations about the classified documents found at President Biden's home and office, as the White House vows cooperation with Dodges mounting questions
0:26.6	about transparency from the press.
0:31.0	And who controls Soledon, the key salt mining town in eastern Ukraine. On the front lines of the war,
0:38.1	what we know about the battlefield dispute
0:40.3	that Russian forces are claiming
0:41.7	as a major strategic victory.
1:12.3	Hello there, Happy Friday, and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd. We are less than two weeks into 2023, but already we can say with a high degree of confidence that President Biden is facing an ugly, confrontational, and brutal political climate, perhaps in the entire year ahead, but at least for the next three to six months.
1:17.1	A special counsel is investigating classified documents found at Joe Biden's office and home.
1:24.1	A senior U.S. official tells NBC News that one of those documents contains classification markings reserved for the nation's most important secrets.
1:30.1	Top secret, sensitive, compartmented information. It is unclear right now if the special counsel poses a significant legal problem for the president himself, but it certainly
1:35.5	poses a major political problem. The new House Republican majority is already ramping up its
1:40.2	own investigation into the matter, formally announcing a congressional probe today.
1:46.1	The White House, meanwhile, is facing a barrage of questions from reporters
1:48.9	that they have struggled mightily to answer.
1:51.6	It was Press Secretary Corinjean Pierre at today's White House briefing.
1:55.4	Very last thing.
1:56.0	Have White House officials been interviewed by the special counsel or by the Justice
1:59.8	Department involving the classified
2:02.1	documents.
2:03.1	So what I'll say from here is any questions that we may have about the review, about
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