thought when we knew only about president trump taking documents and refusing to give them back. now we know there s a systemic problem, both administrations. they had protocols in place. they clearly didn t work. something needs to be fixed apart from the special counsels. the system of classification and protecting documents is something that has to be addressed. charlie, how much of this document revelation by mike pence is about getting any potential political land mines out of the way ahead of any 2024 run? he is just doing his duty. i don t think merrick garland has much of a choice about appointing a special counsel. susan is right. this is clearly a systemic problem. it s important to keep in mind the distinctions between the biden case, the trump case and the pence case. distinctions involving whether the documents were removed and retained intentionally and whether or not there was an effort to obstruct the
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during the years i was in the white house for eight years, a lot of the sensitive intelligence started to migrate from printed out documents to ipads. it may be that they need to cut down on paper flow, because this stuff is digitized, you can put it on a machine and you can know where that machine is. it has a signature. i m sure that s one of the things that they might be considering is just cutting down on the pieces of paper that seem to be floating around. just to drill down on that for a moment, because we understand president biden reads things off an ipad, the presidential daily brief. the former president trump s daily brief was on an ipad. they would print big bullet points on paper, because he wasn t a big reader, isn t a big reader. it doesn t explain why there s paper around and why it s not tracked better. my experience, andrea, is they switch the presidential daily briefing which i received from paper to ipads.