taken there to that office. but i don t know what s in the documents. hold on . ld o a wilmingtonn in it. the man who promised to raisee a the bar for ethics and trust in government, he s now feigning ignorance. hey, i see nothing.di i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. now, more than two months afters these ten classifiedsi documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this encounter. truth that president return dignity to government had actually been derelict with government records ornow, e someone close to him was now when trump was found, the classified documents. biden called it totally irresponsible. but of course, the media hasaken taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. bin s do happen.is a it s not a good reason, but it s a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number the smaller, n s an and his lawyers appear to have t actu
and just far from being able to run for office in the future. and if we were to hold biden to that same standard, obviously, then he d be out for twenty , twenty four . but i think we ve got realre to questions as to what was goingho on here and we re not getting getting those answers. so i think back to this, laura . laura , why were the lawyers going through the closet looking for these documents shortly before the midterms when they knew republicans were e the to take the majority and have oversight and investigations? all certain lawyersit woke ud a few days before the midterms and go, hey, w he better go fins these documents stashed somewhere in a closet. so and also, is it realistic to think that the attorney general knew nothing about this? i mean, classifiedney geneothins come on in. in th the president s possession and the attorney general didn t know anything about it. then november 18th, heey g announces a speciaenerything alr trump and the documents. se whal fot i think
in the federal government. well, okay,ll, okay well, he s worried about criminalizing public service. well, that s hilarious. s hilariocoming from a guy who st the agency under john brennan. der john which leads us to a h question. whenquestion merrick garland, the attorney general on november 18th, announced cous the appointment of a special counsel in the trump documentsel casetrum, did garland know about biden s class filed documents? joining us nowal to make sense f all of this, george washington constitutionale law professor jonathan turley. jonathan , good to see youan tonight. happ, good to sey new year. why could this be happening here? a problem for joe biden? well, it s a problem becauseu it can be a crime.can no,be it is true that the unlawful possession or removal of classified informatiof remon has tended not to result in major prosecutions