Attorney General Garland appoints special counsel in Biden documents investigation

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the classified documents that were found at President Biden’s home and former private office from his time as vice president. A source tells CNN that the White House’s misleading statements created the impression that Biden’s team had something to hide and reinforced the need for a special counsel. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss how closely the FBI works with a special counsel. Plus, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju tracked Republican Rep. George Santos down to try and get him some answers about the lies he’s told about his education, his career, his religion and past work experience. He tells Anderson Cooper how Santos responded to his questions. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, there's breaking news tonight.
0:02.4	New details on the first batch of Obama or a classified document which were found back
0:06.2	in November, but only acknowledged on Monday.
0:08.6	More on that shortly, this comes at the end of a day that saw the naming of a special
0:12.0	council to investigate President Biden's handling of those and other classified documents
0:16.5	found at a private office of the current president and his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
0:22.2	The most recent discovery just this morning at the same residence, that's according
0:25.6	to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
0:27.5	This afternoon, he named Robert Hurr, a veteran federal prosecutor and former Trump appointee,
0:32.2	Special Counsel, and he laid out a timeline of the case.
0:37.0	On the evening of November 4th, 2022, the National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted
0:44.0	a prosecutor at the Department of Justice.
0:47.0	It informed him that the White House had notified the archives that documents bearing
0:51.3	classification markings were identified at the Office of the Penn Biden Center for diplomacy
0:57.4	and global engagement.
0:58.9	On November 9th, the FBI commenced an assessment, consistent with standard protocols, to understand
1:05.1	whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
1:11.0	On November 14th, pursuant to Section 600.2B of the Special Counsel regulations, I assigned
1:18.1	U.S. Attorney Lausch to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether
1:23.9	to appoint a special counsel.
1:25.7	On December 20th, President Biden's personal counsel informed Mr. Lausch that additional
1:31.5	documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the president's
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