| The White House contrasted his returning documents voluntarily with Trump holding his records. |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hey there, OnPolitics readers. Classified documents are in the headlines, but this time it's about President Joe Biden, not former president Donald Trump. | | USA TODAY political reporters Bart Jansen and Kevin Johnson report: | | The revelation Monday that classified documents were found in an office President Joe Biden used before his campaign echoed the discovery of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago after former President Donald Trump left the White House. | | What we know, briefly: | | • | A special counsel to Biden said the documents were turned over in a timely manner and Biden's personal lawyers have been cooperating with the archives and the Justice Department. | | • | House Republicans plan to investigate what they contend is different treatment between GOP and Democratic presidents. | | • | The White House contends it was a small number of documents in a locked closet, and "not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the archives." | | | 🔍 Dig deeper: Who is investigating, and the differences between the two cases. | Real quick: Stories you'll want to read | | • | Meanwhile, Biden at North American Leaders Summit: This afternoon Biden is in a trilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. What to know from today -- so far. | | • | House gets down to business: The rules package passes, an early win for speaker Kevin McCarthy, but it came after a fiery debate with Dems accusing Republicans of caving to "MAGA extremists." | | • | How did the Republicans get here? Groups of conservative activists have fought ever-evolving Republican establishments for more than a half-century. Here's how the GOP went from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party to Donald Trump to, now, the House Freedom Caucus. | | • | Feinstein challenged: Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat, says she'll run for Senate in 2024. But incumbent Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, hasn't announced she's retiring. | | | 📺 C-SPAN cameras are out of the House: The view of the chamber is back to the norm of party-controlled cameras, Ken Tran writes: | | Thanks to McCarthy's win, per standard procedure, Republicans put their own cameras in the House, and party-run cameras tend not to wander around the chamber in pursuit of interesting shots. C-SPAN was able to televise the McCarthy debate because, technically, no one was in charge of the House. | | ICYMI: A near fight on House floor, other dramatic moments caught on camera in McCarthy speaker saga | | | | | | | | | |
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