to glean. and that was unsuccessful for him. now, president biden is the sitting president of the united states. he is actually the ultimately classification authority under the executive order that governs the classification of national security information and its definition, essentially. and if he wanted to, although it s i don t think he ever would, it would be politically disastrous, he could declassify the very information that is the subject of the investigation and it would present a huge conundrum, but ultimately one that he would succeed in, with grave political consequences. but it s also a bit of a shame on you moment, because he is the boss. the buck stops with him right now. and also, from what i gather, there were classification markings on the documents that were found by the bureau. and i think that s a big distinguishing point in terms of the arguments of overclassification that s
access to. the statement from bob bauer says, quote, doj had full access to the president s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades. doj took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials. some of which were from the president s service in the senate, and some of which were from his tenure as vice president. doj also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice presidential years. and now a source familiar with the matter tells me that this search was not conducted with a search warrant. there was no subpoena that was issued in order to enter the president s home. instead, this was done with the permission and the cooperation of president biden s legal team. nonetheless, this is the fifth time in the last two weeks that we have learned of classifie
cooperate in every manner possible with both the national archives, the justice department, and now the special counsel s investigation. trying to draw that contrast with the way that former president donald trump has handled classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, as he is now under investigation for obstruction by his own special counsel. but certainly, this drip, drip, drip nature of this story, the very slow trickling out of information has created some complications for president biden and his white house. arlette saenz, cnn, traveling with the president in lorehobot beach, delaware. many people have understandably equated the president s situation with that of former president donald trump, since they both deal with mishandled classified materials. earlier, former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe was asked about that. here he is. the fbi, with doj attorneys participating get to go in and do the kind of search that the
joined by natasha linstad, who teaches government at the university of essex. thank you so much for being with us. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president, even if it was at his invitation, still a stunning development. yep, this is definitely something that does not look good for biden. we found a recent quinnipiac university poll showed that 70% of americans think that this is pretty important, but we re also seeing polls revealing that americans are aware of the differences that have been highlighted by the media pretty extensively, that trump had taken hundreds of classified documents and thousands of unclassified documents, that his team had made false statements, defied a subpoena, and that trump had destroyed some of the documents. that made it look like it was intentional, which is a violation of the espionage act. and a poll taken by the quinnipiac university last summer revealed that 50% of americans thought that trump should face criminal charges.
endemic in the intelligence community, which, by the way, is totally true. reporter: despite defending former president trump after more than 300 classified documents were seized from his florida estate, republicans were quick to slam president biden and the gop house oversight committee asked on twitter whether the scavenger hunt was over and said americans need answers now. the house judiciary committee account tweeted a question, both where doesn t joe biden have classified documents and house republican conference chair, elise stefanick, who s accused of weaponizing the fbi after the mar-a-lago searches called him a grave threat to our national security. well, many chinese are celebrating happy lunar new year in this year of the rabbit. this holiday comes almost exactly three years after the first covid lockdown began in wuhan, china. transportation officials estimate that more than 2 billion passenger trips will take place during the holiday season, as people travel to see