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MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg praised the federal prosecutor tapped to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified materials, but he cast doubt on the need for a special counsel to lead the probe.

Attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur, who served as assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland during Donald Trump's administration, to investigate classified materials found at Biden's private residence, and Rosenberg questioned the Department of Justice's decision.

A former federal prosecutor of thirty years is blasting Merrick Garland in light of the Attorney General appointing a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents after just weeks, with those documents being voluntarily identified and turned over, while taking 557 days to appoint a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump's refusal to hand over hundreds of classified documents.

Glenn Kirschner on Thursday afternoon told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace it "sure doesn't feel like Merrick Garland is sprinting" in the investigation against the ex-president, Donald Trump. "It feels to me like he was walking at a leisurely pace at a time in our nation's history when we needed a flat-out sprint."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to release all security camera footage of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a backroom deal he made with far-right Republicans to get them to step aside and allow him to be elected Speaker, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is claiming.

This revelation came from CNN's Melanie Zanona, who reported Gaetz's new claim about the details of the deal.

Three of the state presidential electors in Michigan who followed the law and backed President Joe Biden's win in their state in 2020 are now suing the slate of fraudulent electors who were chosen as "alternates" to be used to flip the state to former President Donald Trump.

The Detroit Metro Times reports that the three electors -- Blake Mazurek of Kent County, Robin Smith of Ingham County, and Timothy Smith of Ottawa County -- are asking a judge to declare that the scheme by their Trump-backing counterparts was "illegal under Michigan law," as it "attempted to subvert the sacred right of qualified voters in Michigan, enshrined in the state Constitution, to have their votes counted."

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace revealed that sources she's spoken to over the course of the past few days have indicated that the Justice Department is terrified because it is concerned Americans can't understand the difference between Donald Trump's deliberate stealing of thousands of government documents and Joe Biden accidentally sweeping up a few documents.

"Therein lies the problem," Wallace said. "The DOJ is not supposed to be driven by sound bites and politics, and it would appear very much from the outside and from the informed folks close to that I've spoken to over the last 24 hours, it is also the impression on the inside that they are running scared about what this subcommittee holds for them. And they are just trying to throw everything -- you know, the alligator is in the swamp and the boat is gone and so they're trying to feed things to the alligator to keep it from eating them. The alligator always eats them! The alligator will chew up the chair and come for them anyway. What is your make on what is driving this?"

Classified documents from the time President Joe Biden was vice president have now been discovered at one of his private offices and his garage in Wilmington, igniting a political crisis that many say undermines investigation targeting former President Donald Trump, who was found to be hoarding classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

According to Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson is "suspicious" of the "timing."

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel Thursday to investigate into classified documents found in President Joe Biden's office and the garage of his Wilmington, DE, home.

Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney during Trump's term in the presidential office, will head the investigation. Garland said that the FBI went to Joe Biden's home with his attorneys to secured the documents that were found in the garage. The search at the home came after the Penn Biden Center documents were found and Biden attorneys did additional searches to ensure if there were other documents they too were returned. It was then that they discovered additional documents in boxes in the garage.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced he is appointing Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents by President Joe Biden, after a small number of classified documents were found in a locked closet in an office at a think tank in Pennsylvania that Biden used, and later, in the President's Delaware home.

Unlike the case against Donald Trump, who repeatedly refused to return hundreds of classified documents and other items belonging to the federal government, ignored a lawful subpoena, and caused a false statement to be made to DOJ about classified documents in his possession, President Biden's team immediately notified the Dept. of Justice and National Archives, and returned them.

NBC News is reporting more information about President Joe Biden's cooperation over the documents extends to his aides and former staff from the vice president's office working with the investigators to ensure they have the details about how White House documents ended up at the Penn Biden Center and at the VP's home in Delaware.

It was reported Wednesday that Biden's Willington home had another small batch of documents that were found, though it is unclear how many or the level of security necessary to read them. The National Archives didn't know that the documents were missing and it only became an issue when lawyers moving boxes discovered them and informed the National Archives to return them.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) insisted that he's lived an honest life, despite the unraveling of major portions of his biography, but he refused to say where he's gotten his money.

The embattled New York Republican, who's under investigation by county prosecutors back home, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Election Commission, appeared on the "War Room" podcast with Rep. Matt Gaetz, who filled in for host Steve Bannon while he made a court appearance.

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with its June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, former President Donald Trump reportedly said, in private, that he feared the decision could hurt Republicans in the 2022 midterms. Trump, however, didn’t say that publicly in June 2022, and many of the far-right MAGA candidates he backed campaigned loudly and aggressively against abortion rights.

But the things Trump reportedly said about Dobbs behind closed doors proved accurate. From Pennsylvania to Michigan to Arizona, a long list of Democrats who campaigned on abortion rights in statewide gubernatorial or U.S. Senate races won in 2022. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defeated her far-right Republican anti-abortion challenger, Tudor Dixon, by 11 percent.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is considering appointing a special counsel to investigate whether President Joe Biden mishandled classified information during his time as a private citizen, Bloomberg reports.

Classified documents have been found at two locations privately owned by Biden after his time as vice president. According to Bloomberg, Garland has asked Chicago US Attorney John Lausch to look into the matter.