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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

DAY 721: Biden makes first public comments after discovery of classified docs

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

President Biden said he’s “surprised” by the classified documents found in an office he used after his vice presidency. Meantime, House Republicans approve a new subcommittee to investigate the “weaponization” of the federal government. Plus, former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is sentenced to five months at Rikers Island. Leigh Ann Caldwell, Susanne Craig, Glenn Kirschner, James Carville, Carlos Curbelo, Mary Beth Sheridan, and Darsha Philips join.

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0:00.0

Tonight, the first order of business for the Republican-led house, not inflation, not

0:09.8

immigration, it's investigating the investigators, not exactly a kitchen table issue.

0:16.0

And Trump's top money man sentenced to a rikers island in a tax fraud scheme.

0:20.6

But what is it he's really facing?

0:22.6

Plus, the punishing and powerful storm battering the West Coast with heavy rain flooding and

0:28.3

a new threat of dangerous mudslides.

0:30.8

A live report from the ground as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night.

0:35.3

Good evening, once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl.

0:43.4

President Biden is now talking about those classified documents found in a former private

0:48.4

office he used after leaving the Obama White House.

0:51.7

Two sources telling NBC News, less than a dozen documents with classified markings

0:56.1

were found.

0:57.1

And here's what the president said earlier tonight about that very subject during a summit

1:01.6

in Mexico City.

1:04.4

People know I take classified documents of classified information seriously.

1:10.1

When my lawyers were clearing out my office at the University of Pennsylvania, they set up

1:13.9

an office for me, secure office in the capital.

1:17.0

When I, before years after being Vice President, I was a professor at Penn.

1:22.0

They found some documents in a box in a lock cabinet or at least a closet.

1:27.8

And as soon as they did, they realized there were several classified documents in that box.

1:34.4

And they did what they should have done.

1:36.2

They immediately called the archives and immediately called the archives, turned them over to

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