The cache and the caucus: How Biden's documents may strengthen his enemies
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On 9 January a story broke that classified documents had been found at a Washington DC office used by President Biden. In the weeks since, four more discoveries have followed. This has been a boon to the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, who were already chomping at the bit to investigate Biden. So how bad could this get for the President? And how does this compare to former president Trump's classified trove in Mar-a-Lago?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, today we're learning that President Biden's legal team found another batch of classified |
| 0:10.0 | documents. |
| 0:11.0 | Classified documents. |
| 0:12.0 | More documents. |
| 0:13.0 | More classified. |
| 0:14.0 | We're found in President Biden's house in Delaware. |
| 0:16.0 | Six more documents with classified markings. |
| 0:18.0 | My God, how long is this going to go on? |
| 0:20.5 | I don't have that many unclassified documents in my house. |
| 0:29.9 | For more than two weeks now, President Biden has found himself enduring the most embarrassing |
| 0:35.5 | and personally damaging period of his presidency. |
| 0:39.6 | So far, five discoveries of classified documents that should have been given to the national |
| 0:45.1 | archives when Biden's term as Vice President ended six years ago have been made in two separate |
| 0:51.4 | locations. |
| 0:52.4 | True, they were mostly found by Biden's own lawyers and the Biden team say they are fully |
| 0:58.2 | cooperating with the FBI. |
| 1:00.2 | But even so, the president's public response hasn't always been reassuring. |
| 1:08.2 | Classified material. |
| 1:13.2 | Next year, Corvette, what were you thinking? |
| 1:18.2 | Let me, I'm going to get a chance to speak on all of this, God willing soon. |
| 1:22.2 | But as I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette's in the lock garage. |
| 1:27.2 | Okay, so it's not like you're sitting on the street. |
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