Speaker 1 (00:00):
The President returned to the White House today facing a wider, more complicated bind with more classified records found at his Delaware home, this time during an unprecedented FBI search of a sitting President’s residence. The White House said, “Agents were invited with no search warrant issued.” Some of the additional six items discovered date back to his Senate years according to the President’s personal lawyer, suggesting those were not part of packing up his vice presidential office. Today, I pressed the White House counsel spokesman. Are there any other searches that are being planned or any other locations?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Look, we’re not going to get ahead of the Department of Justice in their investigatory process. This is responsible, the way to make sure that they’re able to conduct an investigation independently and thoroughly without undue influence from the outside.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But the White House refuses to answer key questions, including how many classified documents were found.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This smells to high heaven with the constant drip, drip, drip of finding more of these after he tells us one week after another, there’s no there there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Government secrets have been found on five dates since November, at the Biden home, garage, and an office in DC. The White House stresses its full cooperation with the DOJ. While some top Democrats say, “Damage has been done.”
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Let’s be honest about it. When that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it because it’s not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Today, the White House Council’s office responded to house Republicans who requested answers on the documents matter, saying, “Officials here will try to accommodate legitimate oversight interests.”