reporter: writing for, quote, an immediate review and damage assessment as questions grow about why the information didn t become public for more than two months. they knew about it before the election, didn t say a darn thing until after the election. reporter: as democrats start to rally support in the face of an expanding political problem. the president s handling this the way that he the way that he should. he s disclosing it. he s letting the archives know. law enforcement is aware. reporter: and after more than a day of not answering any questions related to what happened back in washington, d.c., the president did address those ten classified documents saying he was surprised when he was briefed by his lawyers about the existence. doesn t know what they are or how they got there but he did make clear he and be his white house are determined to cooperate fully. they hope that the inquiry that is underway by the justice department will be over soon and at that point t
documents. didn t turn them over when asked, and only turned some of the documents over before more were found, all while he continues to attack the ongoing investigation. how that would possibly happen, how anyone can be that irresponsible. reporter: biden facing his own sharp criticism from republicans. when you re living in a glass house, don t be throwing stones. reporter: writing to the director of national intelligence for, quote, an immediate review and damage assessment as questions grow about why the information didn t become public for more than two months. they knew about it before the election and didn t say anything until after the election. reporter: all as democrats start to rally support in the face of an expanding political problem. the president is handling this the way that he should. he s disclosing it, he s letting the archives now, law enforcement is aware. reporter: when it comes to the lack of responses related to how long it took for this inform
they think this was an honest mistake. we don t know yet. but the way the personal lawyer found this is, he s going through a box, he says a manila folder that says vp personal. it stands to reason whoever was packing up the boxes may have seen that folder, didn t look in it, and put it in the box. question don t know yet. we don t know who had access to this, these documents over the last few years. six years. that s a lot of time. and let s just say this, president biden has said he doesn t know what these documents are, so i don t know how the white house is saying that they re not that significant. that s interesting. and what s the difference between these documents and this situation versus donald trump and his situation which is obviously it s obviously much different. much different. there s a big difference in the volume, right, we re talking about ten documents right now according to what we re aware of and, of course, hundreds of classified documents in the
information that was coming forward, and when the security information came from norfolk on the fifth, it went to the gfs headquarters in washington d.c.. we trace that. it was given to an officer of the capitol police. and somehow, that information didn t get down to the line officers. that there could be a threat to the capital but, with people armed, ready to come and enter the capitol. but but got to the line officers, through a misinterpretation of how they could use the secret information. in our review, we made recommendations about how they could better have links to. right now, all the capitol police have phones as a part of our recommendation, because they couldn t communicate that day. while they stood strong and prevented the insurrection from destroying our democracy, there were a lot of issues with security that we all saw laid out. and we highlighted that, and as