Classified documents found at former VP Pence’s Indiana home

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Sources tell CNN that about a dozen documents marked as classified were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week. The former Vice President is on the record saying he didn’t have any classified material in his possession. One of Pence’s lawyers found the documents and turned them over to the FBI. This discovery happened just a few days after additional classified materials were found at President Biden’s Wilmington residence. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper how concerned Americans should be for the safety and security of the country with these classified documents in the private homes of politicians.

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0:00.0	Good evening. We begin tonight with much more on the news that CNN was first to report
0:04.6	documents with classified markings found at the home of former Vice President Pence.
0:08.8	CNN, Jamie Gangell, who broke the story, joins us in a moment. First, though, the iron
0:12.9	new classified documents ending up where they did of all places.
0:18.1	Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House?
0:21.5	I did not.
0:26.2	Do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving the White
0:30.5	House?
0:31.5	Well, there'd be no reason to have classified documents, particularly if they were in
0:36.4	an unprotected area.
0:38.9	So that was the former Vice President in November talking about the former president saying
0:42.2	there's no reason for anyone to take classified documents with them after leaving office.
0:46.1	Here is three days after the first batch of Biden-Documents was reported, suggesting that
0:50.4	he knew how to handle such things and then Vice President Biden did not.
0:56.6	The handling of classified materials and the nation's secret is very serious matter.
1:03.1	And as a former Vice President of the United States, I can speak from personal experience
1:09.8	about the attention that ought to be paid to those materials when you're in office and
1:16.6	after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case.
1:23.3	Or apparently in his.
1:24.6	That said, just as with the Biden-Documents, they are a small and number and there's
1:28.1	no evidence of anything nefarious, such as willfully taking them or obstructing government
1:32.0	efforts to retrieve them, which of course isn't stark contrast with the more log of documents.
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