closer to deciding whether to prosecute him on tax and gun charges. i will be joined by a growing number of new york lawmakers calling for congressman george santos to resign. what the embattled congressman is saying today. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. republican lawmakers are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate additional documents found by aides to president biden. they were discovered in the garage of his home in wilmington, delaware, after the first batch of ten classified materials were found at the penn biden center in washington. classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. as i said earlier this week by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage. it s not like it s out on the street. it s in a locked garage? yes, as well as my corvette. merrick garland will make a statement in the next hour. we don t
people who work for the vice president, are that close to the vice president s papers and in and around his office would then have a security clearance and would be trained on how to handle classified documents. i can read you a quote from one of the sources who told us that the people who were boxing up president biden s then vice presidential office had no idea there was anything in there that shouldn t leave the white house. there was no decision made to take certain documents that should have been presidential records or classified. underscoring what we have heard from the white house, what the president himself has suggested, which is there was no intent here, which is the thing that the justice department would be looking for. they are essentially saying, this was an accident. this was not something that the president s aides who were packing up his vice presidential office intended to do. harry, let me bring you back in here. intent is a key fact, but
president biden s possession, they have interviewed multiple biden staffers, those who worked for him in those closing time in his time as vice president, including kathy chung who was executive assistant to the president, who is described as somebody who had a key roll in packing up the boxes in the final days of president biden s term as vice president. what we are told is that those who have been interviewed, they did so when they were asked to be interview by federal law enforcement, they agreed to do so quickly and that those who were involved in packing up the former vice president s, now president s, office were not they were just putting things in boxes. there was no intent here. they weren t looking and seeing what exactly was in these papers. they weren t intentionally putting classified documents among and co-mingled with the president s political and personal documents. we don t know if these
interviews are concluded, if federal law enforcement officials are continuing to talk to people who worked for president biden at that time. we do know that a number of them have been interviewed, including someone who served as his executive assistant, who now serves in a position at the pentagon. i want to drill down on that. this is such an important new fact that you are presenting here. kathy chung and how they were putting things in botchboxes. any classified document has a cover page. there s a bright orange strip on them or red. they are marked classified. anyone who worked for the vice president for a period of years, they were in the white house for eight years, i don t know how long kathy chung had this job, but they know enough that a classified document cannot be co-mingled. that was one of the chief criticisms of donald trump s procedures when he was packing in a hurry. carol? that s right. as you well know.
right now on andrea mitchell reports, the president s classified document controversy is getting worse for the white house. with biden aides finding a second small batch of classified documents, this time at his wilmington, delaware, home, raising new questions about his handling of classified materials. president biden addressing the situation this morning. my lawyers reviewed our places where documents from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents of classified marking in storage areas in file cabinets. we will see all this unfold. under this hour, the congressional investigation into hunter biden. ramping up as the new york times today reporting that the justice department could move