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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.
>> cnn was reporting that the former legal team thinks that they will benefit from this. that was obviously before the second batch was found. this is certainly something which i would assume the former president is pleased about. >> he and his team are very happy about this. we have seen the former president ticked in social media website and spike the football about it. it is not surprising because one of his play books this muddying the waters and taking anything that could take similar. so they do have reason to be happy about anything that might make republicans likelier to defend trump o...
Biden attorney Richard Sauber said that Biden and his legal team are “fully cooperating” with the National Archives and the Department of Justice.
The trump documents were so much greater in number than the biden documents, and be so comparing the two situations to me is a false equivalency. if trump had just returned the documents, there would be no criminal investigation, potential indictment of him and in this case trump refused to cooperate. biden is cooperating fully. that's what led in the trump case to the subpoena and forced the department of justice to obtain the search warrant and here we are today. >> months of back and forth trying to resolve that between the trump team and those documents and we know that the biden team is n...
>> the justice department, already, investing in the first round of documents, now that there is some documents in the second round. how do you think that is investigating, and with illegal exposure, how does it increase? >> first of all, it is not entirely clear to me that the justice department, how that timeline worked, in terms of the justice department knowing about this second tranche of documents, and where that fits into the timeline of their investigation, from the documents, found in november. i think the timing matters, the location matters, the number of documents, and the classifi...