Biden under investigation
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A special counsel has been appointed to investigate President Joe Biden after aides found classified documents at his private office and home. The Americast team explains what we know so far, why this spells trouble for the president, and the comparisons between this story and the discovery of hundreds of classified documents at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
President Biden has also been trying to get his immigration policy in order as his administration's approach faces criticism from both Republicans and Democrats. Cecilia Muñoz, a former political adviser to President Obama on immigration, helps the team get into the complexities of America's border politics.
And we investigate the self-styled true crime ‘investigators’ of TikTok, who are gripped by the case of four students murdered in Idaho. We speak to one of them about the dangers of the public getting involved in criminal cases.
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's social media and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
Email Americast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments and send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, to 03301239480. Find out more about our "undercover voters" here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63530374.
This episode was made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor was Simon Watts. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Yikes, this is not like doing normal broadcasting where you have to sort of pretend that everything's |
| 0:09.8 | in order and you know what you're doing because it's Thursday afternoon here in London. |
| 0:14.6 | We are going on air in inverted commas with America, but as we're all sitting here, |
| 0:19.2 | just ready to record it all in the order that we had decided to record it, |
| 0:24.4 | there is an awful lot of stuff going on. |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah, there is breaking news coming in and we're getting it on our phones and seeing it on TV screens |
| 0:32.5 | and we're learning that Joe Biden is facing more questions about classified files that were found. |
| 0:37.9 | First of his private office, which we knew about a couple of days ago, |
| 0:40.5 | but we're just learning more of them have been found in a garage at his home in Delaware. |
| 0:45.3 | Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, thank you, Mr. President. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, he just gave a speech on the economy and was answering questions almost at the same time |
| 0:54.3 | that we were learning more about these documents found in Delaware. |
| 0:58.3 | Class of my material, next to your Corvette, what were you thinking? |
| 1:03.3 | Let me get a chance to speak on all of this, God willing, soon, |
| 1:07.3 | but I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette's in a lock garage. |
| 1:12.3 | Okay, so it's not like you're sitting on the street. |
| 1:15.3 | So, in any way, was it a lock carotid? |
| 1:17.3 | Yes, as well as my Corvette. |
| 1:19.3 | But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. |
| 1:27.3 | Okay, we're going to get into this on today's America's, we will get to it, I promise. |
| 1:31.3 | We've got other things to talk about, but we will certainly get to this because this feels to all of us, |
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