Biden Fights Back
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This episode: national political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, senior editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, political correspondent Ashley Lopez, and White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez.
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| 0:17.0 | Hi, this is Lori. I'm at Houston Airport getting ready for my second leg home after celebrating my parents 75th wedding anniversary |
| 0:26.5 | and my father's 100th birthday. This podcast was recorded at 1243 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, February 9th, 2024. |
| 0:36.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, |
| 0:39.0 | but my mother and father will still fall asleep holding hands even after 75 years. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:50.0 | That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard. That's amazing. Well, |
| 0:54.2 | congratulations on longevity and always. Perfect tee up for Valentine's Day next week. |
| 0:59.3 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon I cover politics I'm |
| 1:04.7 | Tamar Keith I cover the White House and I'm Domenico Moncanoo senior |
| 1:08.0 | political editor and correspondent so Thursday was a good news bad news but |
| 1:12.2 | mostly bad news day for President Joe Biden. |
| 1:15.4 | A special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents decided not to bring any |
| 1:20.2 | charges, so there's the good news for him but the headlines coming from |
| 1:23.5 | that report created some fresh problems for Biden. So first I'm going to start |
| 1:27.5 | with you Tam just remind us what was the purpose of the Special Counsel |
| 1:30.7 | investigation and what did it find? |
| 1:33.3 | The Special Counsel Robert Herr was appointed to investigate President Biden's handling |
| 1:38.8 | of classified documents. |
| 1:40.8 | Biden's team found some documents at an office he used to use in the time after he was vice president and then after the investigation was going |
| 1:49.2 | President Biden's lawyers found more documents in his home in Wilmington and then the FBI searched his homes and found yet a few more documents. |
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