hours, conducted just yesterday. and what s perhaps most damaging to the president is not the fact that this search occurred but the fact that it is yet another instance of this kind of drip, drip of how much more is there still here? we saw, of course, initially the president s personal attorneys found the first set of classified documents at his office in washington, d.c. at the former penn biden center on november 2nd. then on december 20th, they conducte eed a search of his ho and found documents at the wilmington home. subsequently they found another page of documents on january 11th when the white house special counsel, dick saaber, went to that wilmington home to hand over those documents to the doj. they discovered five additional pages of documents. and now we have this other search. now this time conducted by fbi agents with the cooperation and the permission of president biden s legal team where they
harder. we did hear from president biden today on the classified documents situation, he is dealing with. i know you have new reporting on how the white house had been handling all on all of it. what can you tell us? well, i think president biden s comments reflected some of what came up in the reporting which is that there is a lot of frustration among some white house aides that when they first discovered these documents at the penn biden center on november 2nd, they reported it to the national archives, which then led to the justice department, and from there they adopted this strategy of caution and deference where they were going to follow the lead of federal investigators. they got this letter from a justice department lawyer asking them to cooperate in the investigation, not to release too much information. and so they feel like they were trying to follow what doj was telling them to do, and still in the end they got a special council appointment and because they were not rele
as cbs first reported the existence of these documents at the penn biden center, it also did not disclose that they had fountain of the badge of documents at biden s wilmington home. they have looked less than transparent and they have not been leveling with the american public about what they are finding in realtime. i think in their view they seal like they were trying to do what justice department lawyers were telling them to do, and that strategy maybe has not worked out for them as well because now it looks like they were not revealing information as they had it and there are some questions about why things were not released earlier. i think when president biden says, look, i do not have any regrets about following the lead of lawyers and doing what my lawyers told me to do, it s reflective of that they tried to do this by the book from the beginning. maybe that has not panned out well on the public communications side, but they ve been looking at this from a legal perspective.
biden today on the classified documents situation, he is dealing with. i know you have new reporting on how the white house had been handling all on all of it. what can you tell us? well, i think president biden s comments reflected some of what came up in the reporting which is that there is a lot of frustration among some white house aides that when they first discovered these documents at the penn biden center on november 2nd, they reported it to the national archives, which then led to the justice department, and from there they adopted this strategy of caution and deference where they were going to follow the lead of federal investigators. they got this letter from a
justice department lawyer asking them to cooperate in the investigation, not to release too much information. and so they feel like they were trying to follow what doj was telling them to do, and still in the end they got a special council appointment and because they were not releasing information as they knew it, even when they concerned what as cbs first reported the existence of these documents at the penn biden center, it also did not disclose that they had fountain of the badge of documents at biden s wilmington home. they have looked less than transparent and they have not been leveling with the american public about what they are finding in realtime. i think in their view they seal like they were trying to do what justice department lawyers were telling them to do, and that strategy maybe has not worked out for them as well because now it looks like they were not revealing information as they had it and there are some questions about why things