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Problem has mushroomed into a crisis in the past five days. we re cooperating fully with the justice department s review. reporter: the outward normalcy appearing to cover what s going on behind the scenes as they scramble to adjust to a new normal, all as new documents emerge after a biden affiliated think tank stored in biden s office. store plans show a small closet to the left of biden s desk and storage space in the adjoining conference room. the documents refer to president obama as well as two briefing memos of a phone call. we ve been transparent in the last couple of days. remember there s an ongoing process, and we have spoken when it s appropriate. reporter: even as other documents have been found at biden s delaware home that remain under wraps after their existence was publicly revealed a month after their discovery. ....
It would be curious if he was told about november 2 s discovery but not the one on december 20. and if he did know, then why didn t he say so on tuesday or a lot sooner? so far we know that among the documents were a memo from biden to president barack obama as well as two briefing memos preparing the then vice president for phone calls, one with the british prime minister, the other with the president of the european council. it s unclear how much of this material remains sensitive. friday judiciary committee member jim jordan announced an investigation into biden s handling of classified documents, house oversight committee chair james comer is asking the white house for more documents for his committee s probe. comer pointed out that the address of president biden s home where the additional documents were found was the same one listed on hunter biden s driver s license in 2018, the same year he was conducting business deals with foreign countries. look, there s no evidence suggesti ....
Briefing memos preparing him, vice president biden, for phone calls. those calls, one was with the british prime minister. the second was with donald tusk of poland, who was the president of the european council from 2014 to 2019. for clarity, anderson, these were classified documents, but it s unclear how much of this material remains sensitive. over time, classified material becomes perishable. sometimes because it s made public or sometimes because it s just no longer relevant. and even though president biden has said he doesn t know what s in the documents, there may be a way for him to find out. yeah. one of the things people don t understand is even though the fbi and the justice department have these documents, they have copies of the documents, at least those that were in the first batch at the penn biden center. so even though president biden has said he doesn t know what s in the documents, he could have ....
Jim you can get has done great reporting on this, certainly on the first set of documents. we now know that there is at least one of these being a memo from joe biden, the then vice president to president obama and at least two briefing memos, one of them having to do with a phone call that then vice president was going to do with the uk prime minister. another one having to do with the call that he was preparing to do with the eu council president. these are all things that put this a little bit in perspective. we don t know how sensitive this stuff is still, whether it still is at the highest level of classification, but obviously, these are documents that did not belong in these locations, including, of course, the presidents garage in wilmington, delaware. norm, what s your impression as to the decision to have the special counsel? i want to take a step back as well, because when you hear a special counsel, who we have heard so many times now with presidential administrations, no ....
Merrick garland was facing a decision that was almost certainly this is where he was going to go because he got a recommendation from the u.s. attorney in chicago who said, after doing this review the past few weeks it merited a special counsel. one of the things i think we have to sort of step back and think about is the documents. what are in these documents? what do we know? and we ve had great reporting on this. certainly on the first set of documents, the ten, we now know there was at least one of these is a memo from joe biden then vice president to president obama. and at least two briefing memos, one having to do with a phone call the then vice president was going to do with the uk prime minister and another one to do with a call he was preparing to do with the e uu council president. these are things that put this a little bit in perspective. ....