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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. ....
And it just totally irresponsible. cnn special correspondent jamie kincade joins us with the ainge with the news. what can you tell? us this new information is regarding the tan classified documents that were found back on november 2nd and president biden s office at the penn biden center. we have to briefing memos preparing obama, vice president, biden four phone calls. those calls, one was with the british prime minister, and 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. overtime classified material becomes perishable. ....
Those things. i also do not know that biden can just rock these off because at the end of the day it was just a couple of briefing memos about phone calls. it is in many respects not shrug-able because it is spiraling in a way that was perhaps in dissipated or not. when we think about the trump administration we think about a lot of self inflicted wounds, a lot of a pr moments that, or things that were saturn outside correctly, or moments that invited greater speculation, opening pandora s box. when we look at this they ve not answer the question as to let s just say or hedge in a political way, look, to the extent that there is anything out there, we will be diligent and sincere about our approach to alerting the authority. that did not happen. i think that is partly why a lot of us, certainly some of us who have lived these types of situations before, you get your spidey sense is up and there are just things that do not add up, right. look, again, the story that we have now settl ....