Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Investigate Biden Document Storage
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and politics correspondent Susan Davis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Emily from Denver, Colorado. I'm sitting, snuggling my three-month-old, |
| 0:04.7 | and enjoying all of the last moments before I return to teaching fourth grade on Monday. |
| 0:10.6 | This podcast was recorded at 306 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, January 12th of 2023. |
| 0:18.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Okay, here's the show! |
| 0:22.8 | Enjoy those final baby snuggles. Those are wonderful moments that you don't really appreciate it. |
| 0:32.3 | At least I didn't really appreciate the time I was... Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Asma Kaleh, I cover the White House. I'm Carrie Johnson, I cover the Justice Department, |
| 0:42.7 | and I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. And we begin with a news update. Yesterday on the show, |
| 0:47.0 | we discussed a set of classified documents that had been discovered in a closet, |
| 0:50.9 | in a private office that President Biden used after he left the vice presidency. |
| 0:55.5 | But there's news now that a second set of classified documents were found at President Biden's home in Delaware. |
| 1:01.4 | And this morning, the president was asked about this all by Fox News' Peter Ducey. |
| 1:05.5 | Classified material. Next year, Corvette, what were you thinking? |
| 1:11.7 | Let me, uh, I'm going to get a chance to speak on all this, God willing soon, |
| 1:15.7 | but I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette's in the lock garage. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay, so it's not like you're sitting on the street. |
| 1:23.0 | The president then did move on to address the issue of the classified documents themselves. |
| 1:28.3 | But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified |
| 1:33.9 | material seriously. I also said we're cooperating fully and completely to the Justice Department's |
| 1:39.6 | review. As part of that process, my lawyer has reviewed other places where documents and my, |
| 1:45.6 | uh, from my time as Vice President were stored and they finished the review last night. |
| 1:52.2 | They discovered a small number of documents of classified markings and storage areas |
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