up. those are things we re going to have to find out. we need to know what s in these classified documents. yes, they re top secret, but to evan s point earlier, how sensitive is it? are there sources and methods? is it contemporaneous information that could be dangerous or sensitive right now? so those are the things we have to find out. those are the things the justice department is looking at, but as david pointed out, there s a big political side to this. this is, let s assume for the moment that it was accidental, a mistake. this is the kind of political unforced error that i can t believe donald trump hasn t posted about yet. he will be shortly. it is the definition of a political gift to trump and the house. we have a lot more to report and to discuss about the
ability to declassify information. so number one, what was he doing w classified information in his possession. number two, why did it take six years? i want to stress this for the american people. joe biden left the vice presidentsy in 2017. so it s taken six years for these documents to surface. that is incredibly concerning. and point number three, the most important, everybody can go back to the hillary clinton e-mail saga. we know other presidents have had classified information, but why was there a raid on mar-a-lago and now this story kind of seeps out and everybody s saying oh, we want to get to the bottom of it and everybody s giving the wbenefit of the doubt. a vice president, secretary of state, should not be having classified information period. well, they have top secret security clearances. they can have classified information. the question is whether they can take those documents with them as they re going to a private office. that s the difference.
offices. that according to a source familiar with the story. the documents were discovered last fall and turned over to the national archives which referred the matter to the u.s. justice department for further investigation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and we begin our coverage tonight with the breaking news that we re following. classified government documents found inside one of president biden s private offices. the records dating from biden s time as vice president during obama administration. cnn s senior justice correspondent has been working the story for us. he s got the new information. update our viewers on exactly what is going on. this is reporting from our colleague and our team.
conversation that doesn t leak out. the ability to have a conversation, an honest airing of hurts and apologies on all sides including from him. from harry and meghan. and yet that seems entirely unlikely at this stage particularly because there s not any trust in that anybody has that that information would not be leaked out from what harry had told me. he s concerned that you know at times when he has tried to have private conversations with members of the royal family, those have been leaked and he s afraid that would happen as well. continually. thanks so much. first of all, thanks so much for doing this really excellent, powerful interview, but also for joining us tonight here in the swieg situation room. you can see more of anderson s powerful interview on ac 360 tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern.
they have put atop this particular headline and to the congressman s point, i mean, there is nothing new about that tweet. that is the political version of the tweet and these are the people that are going to take this information, have subpoena pour and the gavel in the republican held house to do what they will with this. i think that s really the challenge for the biden folks. i have yet to start to reach out to my political sources on this as it was just breaking here as we came on the air, but i can already hear the democrat strategists groaning about the fact that now every time they want to try to bring up what happened with former president trump, which is incredibly problematic for all the reasons we have laid out, they re not going to have to answer questions about this and from a political perspective, it almost makes it like a neutral issue despite the fact there are very significant differences between finding this information, handling it appropriately and doing the right