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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Mike Pence the latest found to possess classified docs

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A lawyer for Mike Pence found approximately a dozen classified documents at the former VP's Indiana home, according to CNN sources. Will the DOJ have to appoint yet another special counsel to investigate? Plus: California suffers three mass shootings in as many days. The latest is a case of workplace violence. And: Sources tell CNN the US is now ready to send its Abrams tanks to Ukraine as Germany also softens its opposition. What changed?  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Any more of you elected officials out there want to fess up to classify documents in your home?

0:06.6

Belief starts right now.

0:08.3

First Trump then bought it now in my Pensive Mets, he too, had classified material at his house.

0:13.7

Will the Justice Department appoint yet another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the Pensive News?

0:20.3

And California's three mass shootings in three days, the latest, a case of workplace violence.

0:26.8

What led a government to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed and less than a week?

0:34.5

Plus, reversing core sources tell CNN that U.S. is now ready to send its Abrams tanks to Ukraine,

0:41.6

as Germany also softens its opposition. So what changed?

0:50.4

Welcome to the lead. I'm Pam LaBrown, Jake Tapper is on assignment and we start today in our

0:54.5

politics lead with a story first reported by CNN. Roughly a dozen classified documents found

1:02.0

at former Vice President Mike Pence's house. A lawyer for Pence found the papers at Pence's

1:07.1

Indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the FBI. The documents were

1:12.8

not stored in a secure area at Pence's home and the discovery directly contradicts what Pence told ABC last November.

1:20.5

We sit here in your home office in Indiana. Did you take any classified documents with you from the

1:28.1

White House? I did not. Do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them

1:38.0

leaving the White House? Well, there'd be no reason to have classified documents, particularly

1:43.9

if they were in an unprotected area. This afternoon CNN asked Attorney General

1:49.5

Merrick Garland about these revelations, but he declined to answer. CNN, Jamie Gengell was part of

1:54.6

the team that broke this exclusive reporting today. And Jamie, we just heard Pence there saying

1:59.6

he didn't take classified information. So what happened here? Look, this appears to have been

2:05.5

in it. What we know is it seems to have happened in the final days of the Trump Pence presidency

2:12.8

and the classified documents appear to have been packed up with personal items that were at the

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