A Special Counsel for Biden's Classified Documents
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:22.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:27.0 | Attorney General, Merrick Garland, points a special counsel to examine President Biden's handling of classified documents. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Colin Levy. |
| 0:45.0 | Last week, after news broke, that classified material had been found not only in Joe Biden's garage, next to his classic Corvette, but also in his home library. |
| 0:57.0 | Attorney General, Merrick Garland, announced that he would appoint a special counsel, Robert Herr, to investigate. |
| 1:03.0 | Mr. Herr began his law career as a Supreme Court clerk for Chief Justice William Rennquist, before starting a career as a federal prosecutor. |
| 1:12.0 | And let's start with a clip of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on CNN saying he supports this move. |
| 1:19.0 | There is a real question about transparency and what the American people deserve. |
| 1:23.0 | Let me just let me let me just let me just let me get to the bottom of this and let's let them do it for God's sake. |
| 1:29.0 | I care you. I want to buzz around all of that, but let me buzz for a minute. |
| 1:33.0 | Let me buzz for a minute. Let me buzz for one minute, and I promise we'll get us something out. |
| 1:38.0 | It's not just buzzing around. You're the Democratic head of the Senate. This is a really important issue. It's not just buzzing around. |
| 1:45.0 | No, and if there were no special prosecutor, there would be, you know, you might have a different thing to say, but there is. |
| 1:51.0 | And now we have the law enforcement people who have the power to get all the facts out doing it. |
| 1:57.0 | I support both. I think we should have a special prosecutor on each. I don't mind your asking these questions, but my view is I'm not going to say anything. |
| 2:05.0 | Let the special prosecutors do their job on the other side of the aisle and on the other side of the Capitol. |
| 2:11.0 | Here is Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying that Congress still has a role in looking into this as well. |
| 2:16.0 | I think Congress has to investigate this. Here's an individual that's been in office for more than 40 years. |
| 2:21.0 | Here's an individual that sat on 60 minutes that was so concerned about President Trump's documents locked in behind. |
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