merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president pieden s classified documents that were found. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. the special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department. earlier president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered in a second location at his wilmington, delaware, home. the president said the materials were in his locked garage. his lawyers said another document was found in a room in the house. just days ago the white house revealed the first case. the president s attorneys found classified d
especially if somebody was trying to obstruct or anything like that. one of the copkey parts of this going to be the personal documents found alongside the president the classified documents, right? one of the things that we heard in the last few days from officials is that these documents were found with purely personal things having to do with the vice president s family and so on. the question is the dates of those documents, right? they re going to want to know the fbi will want to know how far back are those documents that might indicate an intent to try to conceal the classified documents. those are the things that are going to be key here. the co-mingling of the personal with the classified documents is going to be a key part of this investigation going forward and i think that s where we might see, you know, the direction of this investigation. of course one of the complications here that we all have to talk about is the fact that we have a sitting president who is being in