The Presidents and the Classified Documents

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel after the discovery of two batches of classified documents from Mr. Biden’s time as vice president. How are the two cases similar, how are they different and what might that mean for both? Guest: Glenn Thrush, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernice and this is The Daily.
0:11.4	First it was Donald Trump and now it's President Biden who's being investigated on how classified
0:17.1	documents ended up in his home.
0:20.4	Today I spoke to my colleague Glem Thrusch on how the two cases are similar and how they
0:26.4	are different and what that might mean for both.
0:35.1	It's Friday, January 13th.
0:44.2	So Glem we find ourselves at this really kind of bizarre moment where two presidents are
0:51.1	now under investigation by a special prosecutor for how they've handled classified documents.
0:57.2	Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
1:00.5	Tell us about this new case involving Biden and how he got here.
1:05.9	Well, we were all sitting around on Monday night.
1:09.8	Let's turn out of that breaking news.
1:12.1	When boom, the CBS report hits out of Chicago.
1:14.9	CBS News has learned the Department of Justice is reviewing classified Obama Biden records
1:20.9	found at a private office once used by Joe Biden after he was vice president.
1:25.8	With the news that the US Attorney in Chicago is investigating Joe Biden for having classified
1:32.4	documents, this was a real bolt out of the blue.
1:36.0	This development comes as the Justice Department is investigating former president Trump's
1:40.0	handling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
1:43.7	It really completely scrambled the jets in terms of the folks who covered this.
1:49.7	And as the details of this came out over the next couple of days, we began to realize that
1:54.1	this was not a small matter.
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