Document Drama Differs Between Biden & Trump

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Both the president and his predecessor are facing investigations from the Department of Justice over the potential mishandling of classified documents. But the two cases have strong differences between them, both in terms of scale and practice.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Devin Speak.

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0:00.0	This is Elizabeth in Fullerton, California.
0:02.2	I'm currently watching the rain from my office windows were hit by yet another storm here in Southern California.
0:07.6	This podcast was recorded at 12 12 PM Eastern time on Wednesday, January 11th of 2023.
0:15.5	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but hopefully we'll have dried out a bit here in Orange County.
0:20.4	Enjoy the show!
0:25.5	Are you seeing the photos throughout California?
0:27.3	Yeah, it's crazy.
0:28.3	It's really wild.
0:29.9	Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:32.1	I'm Asma Khaled, I cover the White House.
0:34.2	I'm Dominic Almonton, our senior political editor and correspondent.
0:37.1	And today on the show, we are joined by Greg Myrie.
0:40.0	He covers national security for NPR.
0:42.0	Greg, it is always good to have you with us.
0:44.2	Oh, my pleasure to be here.
0:46.0	So if you all have been watching the news lately on TV,
0:48.8	you have probably heard stories like this.
0:51.3	The Department of Justice is reviewing classified Obama Biden records,
0:55.9	founded a private office once used by Joe Biden after he was...
0:58.9	I think House Republicans are adding to their list of priorities,
1:02.2	investigating a small number of potentially classified documents discovered at a private
1:07.2	office that President Biden used after he was...
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