Brooks and Capehart on Biden's handling of classified documents, George Santos scandals
PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Questions swirl around President Biden's handling of classified documents. |
| 0:04.8 | House GOP leadership provides cover for a disgraced New York congressman, as his colleagues |
| 0:10.0 | back home demand his resignation. |
| 0:12.5 | And the world reckons with an attempted coup in Brazil. |
| 0:15.9 | To analyze this week's news, we turn to Brooks and Capehart, that's New York Times columnist |
| 0:20.3 | David Brooks, and Jonathan Capehart, associate editor for The Washington Post. |
| 0:24.5 | It's good to see you both. |
| 0:25.5 | Hi, Jeff. |
| 0:26.5 | So, Jonathan, let's start with this news this past week. |
| 0:29.2 | Democrats found themselves in a real tough spot in trying to handle the revelations that |
| 0:34.3 | President Biden mishandled classified documents. |
| 0:37.4 | The latest reporting is that there are roughly 20 documents found across his private home |
| 0:41.9 | in Delaware and the private office here in Washington. |
| 0:44.7 | Some marked top secret. |
| 0:46.6 | He is now facing arguably the worst political crisis of his presidency. |
| 0:51.9 | Worst political crisis. |
| 0:52.9 | Can we just put this into perspective, especially, I mean, we're talking about this as the |
| 0:57.0 | worst political crisis because of his predecessor for President Trump and his classified documents |
| 1:03.8 | problem. |
| 1:04.8 | Hundreds of classified documents at the highest classified markings. |
| 1:10.9 | And we're talking about 20 documents, classified documents from when Joe Biden was vice-president |
| 1:17.0 | of the United States. |
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