reported in 2018, for politico, a brilliant story, the president had a habit of ripping up documents that he carried from his past life as businessman into the white house, despite it being unlawful and despite being warned by his former chief of staff and white house counsel repeatedly. the entire apparatus around record archiving and the whole process of the white house records management, and the transfer to the national archives had a completely changed approach because of the former president s habits, he was shredding everything in sight, and it was almost involuntary and pretty habitual. but this actually continued through 2021. right until he left office, which we found out in our reporting about the january 6th investigation, that we were not, we really had no idea that it was going to lead to where we are today which is the national
0 tomorrow. oh thanks you at home for drove-ing us for this next hour. rachel s on hiatus, but as she told you before she left she will be here in a few weeks for the state of the union address. and that is scheduled for march 1st. it will be joe biden s very first state of the union address as president. not to be confused with the address last year which was made to a joint session of congress. and that s because when a new president gives a speech to a joint session of congress, shortly after taking off, it s technically not a state of the it s technically not a state of the union address. so next month will be his first state of the union address. as president. obviously, it s not going to be the first one he s attended. in addition to being in congress for decades, as vice president, he sat behind president obama for seven state of the union addresses so he is very familiar with the view from up on the dais. and the most memorable thing about the president obama memorable state of