What Biden Miscalculated About His Classified Documents

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search. The search — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers — resulted in the latest in a series of discoveries that has already led to a special counsel investigation. What miscalculations have Mr. Biden and his team make throughout this ordeal? Guest: Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babbaro. This is Adali.
0:07.0	Today, for the fifth time, classified documents belonging to President Biden have been found
0:17.7	outside of a secure government location, this time by FBI agents searching his home.
0:25.6	My colleague, Mike Schier, has been trying to understand how Biden chose to handle those
0:31.4	discoveries since they began and why for so long he left the public in the dark.
0:40.1	It's Tuesday, January 24th.
0:56.2	Mike, I want to start with what happened over this past weekend in Wilmington, Delaware.
1:02.6	Tell us about that.
1:03.9	Yes, it was really quite remarkable actually.
1:09.2	The unprecedented FBI search of a sitting president's home for classified documents escalating
1:14.4	the legal and political situation for President Biden.
1:18.4	You had the scene of the FBI and a bunch of agents at the invitation of President Biden's
1:24.4	personal lawyers.
1:25.4	We found out about this on Saturday, FBI agents spent nearly 13 hours scouring his Delaware
1:31.0	home on Friday.
1:32.0	Conducting what ended up being a 13-hour search of his personal home in Wilmington, Delaware.
1:38.3	Investigators reviewed personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, number of
1:43.1	billion, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades.
1:48.0	Literally combing through every nook and cranny in every room, in office, in garage, in closet,
1:56.0	looking for any indication of additional classified documents that might have been there improperly,
2:02.0	and in fact, they did find them.
2:04.1	They said that included some classification markings.
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