Biden Won't Face Charges For Keeping Classified Documents
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:26.1 | And I'm Tamar Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:28.0 | And it is 5.18 p.m. on Thursday, February 8th. and this is our second episode today. |
| 0:34.8 | There's another episode already in your feeds breaking down the arguments at the Supreme |
| 0:38.5 | Court earlier today in the election's case challenging Donald Trump's appearance on the ballot in Colorado. |
| 0:44.6 | But just hours after we taped that, Special Counsel Robert Herr released his report on the |
| 0:49.5 | investigation into President Biden's handling of classified documents after leaving the |
| 0:54.4 | Vice Presidency back in 2017. The conclusion of the report, while Biden did |
| 0:59.6 | knowingly retain classified documents, he will not face prosecution. |
| 1:04.0 | Ryan, before we get into the details of the report, let's just back it up for a minute |
| 1:08.6 | and remind us what prompted the special counsel investigation in the first place? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, some of Biden's AIDS back in November of 2022 were packing up boxes, going through boxes |
| 1:18.8 | at the offices of Biden's think tank down near the Capitol and came across some classified materials or what they thought was. |
| 1:25.9 | And that is what ultimately was the trigger for all of this. |
| 1:29.4 | The Justice Department ended up investigating in January of 2023 a special counsel Robert Herr was |
| 1:35.7 | appointed he has been investigating it for the past year and now we have his |
| 1:39.5 | 300 and nearly 50 page report on his findings from his investigation. |
| 1:45.0 | So what are the documents in question and what exactly did bind do with them? |
| 1:49.0 | Well, there are kind of two buckets of documents in particular that her focuses on. |
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