appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
robert mueller. there is an actual predicate for finding intent. that is the key fact. obviously, there s been right now there is zero, zero evidence of obstruction either in the biden case or in the pence case which is a huge differentiator with the former president. andrew, i don t mean to drill down near any raw nerves here. i don t mean to pick on the current attorney general. but all we as a general public is what the public is facing. this is what the public is facing. we got to see the confident that led to a court approved search
to published reports he was the one that insisted on finding intent. he was also part of the email chain that helped draft the so-called exoneration statement. this statement in july that was drafted two months before hillary clinton was even interviewed. in the same fbi agent was also part of the review of houma aberdeen and anthony weiner s emails. that is when classified information was found and because the case to be reopened and shot in the matter of days. he is right there in the sweet t spot in the investigation. harris: does the shape or form how that turned out? if he is at the core of it, and if the core is compromised, what does that mean? i think we also want to see this in the context of his role in the russia case.
pro-hillary, anti-trumpers out there. steve: and we ve seen some stories from administration officials about how mueller has stacked the decking with a bunch of pro-hillary, indiana-trump people anti-trump people in the investigation giving donations and stuff like that, but it all comes down to this could only be one guy because he s so key. when you look at it, apparently this guy, this peter stroke guy, was central to the issue of finding intent whether or not to prosecute hillary clinton in the, urn the gross negligence under the gross negligence statute, and he s the one that said there s no gross negligence there because she did not intend to break the law. is really he was so critical on the hillary thing, and now we find out he was critical in the russia collusion case, but he s been fired from. that now he s working in personnel because he broke the rules. ryan brian he did that interview, and james comey didn t think he should be there. you know he s anti-trump, and we