President Biden breaks silence on classified documents
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good evening, everyone. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Laura Codes and this is CNN Tonight. |
| 0:06.5 | Now, President Biden is responding this evening to the discovery of at least 10 classified |
| 0:12.0 | documents in his former private office. |
| 0:17.0 | People know I take classified documents of classified information seriously. |
| 0:22.3 | I was briefed about this discovery and surprised and learned that there were any government records |
| 0:27.4 | that were taken there to that office. |
| 0:31.4 | But I don't know what's in the documents. |
| 0:33.8 | My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. |
| 0:38.0 | I've turned over the boxes. |
| 0:39.4 | They've turned over the boxes to the archives and we're cooperating fully, cooperating fully |
| 0:45.1 | with the review and which I hope will be finished soon. |
| 0:48.4 | Well, the documents were discovered on, wait for it, November 2nd. |
| 0:54.6 | And Joe Biden's time as vice president, including, and they include US intelligence memos and |
| 1:00.4 | briefing materials about Ukraine and Iran and the UK. |
| 1:04.2 | We're learning exclusively at CNN that a couple of days later, Biden's lawyers handed |
| 1:09.1 | over everything in the office, some 50 or 55 boxes out of an abundance of caution. |
| 1:16.0 | And here we go. |
| 1:17.0 | The House Oversight Chairman has all raised and letters to the White House Council's office |
| 1:21.1 | and the National Archives and the opening salvo of congressional investigations to Biden's |
| 1:25.9 | handling of those documents. |
| 1:27.5 | Now, the DOJ already has its hands full with two very different document cases. |
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