so many investigations, so little time, so few answers. let s go to david spunt and what we re learning right now. hi, david. i m at the famous justice department where karine jean-pierre is instructing everyone in the briefing room to relay their questions to. i ve reached out multiple times to folks here at the justice department with attorney general merrick garland s office. also with special counsel robert hur s office. no surprise, no comment. they re being incredibly tight lipped with information about this investigation in to the president of the united states and these classified documents. now, something that is curious, we re trying to find out more from the white house side, from the doj side, last thursday white house special counsel, white house attorney richard sover went to delaware to collect documents. he was there with doj officials at president biden s resident. this was several hours after attorney general merrick garland announced the existence of spec
the statute continues. on the top secret stuff, unlike a lot of information, they keep track of the scic stuff. so i know the biden administration wants credit for self-reporting but they may be government documents report record the fact that he got this information. so if they destroyed it or didn t report it, they could have made things worse. neil: they would have been aware of that years ago and been looking for it ever since, right? yeah, but the point is that there could be a government record that he had this and never returned it. so that has to go in to the mix of how much credit we give them for self-reporting something that somebody could have found out without them. neil: like a library book that was missing. that i get. aishah hasnie on the fallout on capitol hill. there s all sorts of investigations being planned as we speak. aishah, what is the latest? hi, neil. not only investigations that are
and may not be the president of the united states because the whole idea of can you indict a sitting president is up in the air. we dealt with this with the 45th president. donald trump. it s possible that biden aides or other people could face some trouble from robert hur. the biden s team argument, mainly his attorneys are that they are cooperating when they found these, they turned them over right away. whereas trump s team, looks similar on the surface but trump s team went back and forth with the national archives and letters back and forth and was not cooperating and that s what jack smith is investigating to look into potential charges of obstruction. neil? neil: the special counsel looking into all things donald trump. i was a little confused, david, if you forgive me on the justice department and whether it did or did not go or representative from the justice department did or did not go to the president s
negligent than that. neil: tom, does the level of classification matter here? you stumble on classified documents. does that matter in this argument? it could potentially matter, neil. my guess as a practical matner this case, it doesn t matter. in other words, my understanding is that these people carrying out the search didn t have any sort of security clearance. so it doesn t matter precisely where on the classification spectrum these documents fell. neil: we re showing something from 2013 when president biden was the vice president and he was showing, i guess we can show it again, and accidentally revealing what was a secret document. now, does that, you know, trigger questions? in other words, you were a public venue with media in the room to say nothing that these situations are. i grants you, that is a major faux pas. sure.
located in the mud room, in the pool room, in the garage, in his office. where are they going to appear tomorrow? this is absolutely inexplicable. when you confronted with a situation like this, you want your head around the situation. figure out where there s classified documents. do a thorough search, put it out there to prevent this drip, drip of dock men interruptions of what we re seeing now. neil: we didn t learn right away. we didn t learn until well after november 2 what was going on. forget about november 9 and cbs getting first wind of this. for the general public and everyone else for that matter, this idea that the president was immediately proactive and jumping on this, we might get more revelations here that i m missing, but that was not the case. that absolutely was not the case. in fact, that s the big challenge the biden administration will have when they try to distinguish their situation from president