the initial discovery that the white house to the white house acknowledged earlier this week, that an additional batch of documents were found at a second location. this was a think tank wherejoe biden had a private office in the time after he left office. he worked there for some time. joe biden said that he was surprised at that discovery. he didn t know what was in those documents and that the white house was cooperating with the investigation. the justice department also have had nothing to say about reports of a second batch of documents being discovered. this is potentially politically sensitive, perhaps even awkward for the white house, given the fact that former president trump is still under investigation over a very similar scenario, although different because many more documents were involved. those documents that were found at the mar a lago estate in florida.
stoltenberg and president duda on poland. the white house has issued a readout of the conversation that took place. it says that president duda described poland s ongoing assessment of the explosion in the eastern part of the country near the border with ukraine, and it goes on to say that president biden offered full us support for and assistance with poland s investigation. the statement says president biden reaffirmed the united states s ironclad commitment to nato, and indeed, that is a commitment thatjoe biden has given on many occasions most recently last month in fact, when he said that there was a sacred obligation, as he put it at the time, to defend every inch of nato territory. so,
its numbers to the tune of 20,000 additional forces. its numbers to the tune of 20,000 additionalforces. it has 10,000 troops in poland, and during the summer, president biden announced plans to basically make their permanent headquarters in poland rather than having this rotational system of troops going to the country. there were also plans to provide missiles to poland as well, but that said, these are heavily political times in this country. the midterm elections have just taken place country. the midterm elections havejust taken place here. over the next couple of days, perhaps even as soon us tonight, the republicans are expected to cement their advantage in the lower house, the house of representatives. they re the house of representatives. they re close to the house of representatives. they re close to the 218 seats they need for a majority of the house. and that will change things forjoe biden. the
deliberations, but all of that is going to depend on the investigations about what happened, possibly of the attribution, and then, based on that, they will take some action. i expect that, regardless of even if this was some sort of accident, that the united states and nato will beef up their air defences in eastern poland. there will certainly be a lot of pressure to reassure our eastern european allies that the united states stands with them and will protect them against incidents like this in the future. if it turns out this was intentional in some way then the response could be more robust, may be more equipment going to ukraine, may be more forces in eastern europe. that would be quite serious. figs forces in eastern europe. that would be quite serious. as you oint would be quite serious. as you point out. would be quite serious. as you point out. the would be quite serious. as you point out, the potential- would be quite serious. as you point out, the potential for- point o
people s worst fears, whether it was intentional or not. the conflict in ukraine has got the potential to spill over and to cause issues here in poland, which is nato. this is very close to the spot wherejoe biden landed at the beginning of april in air force one. that was a show of support for the polish people, for people right across eastern europe who were concerned at that time, a show of support for nato, a message that nato would be with these nations that border ukraine, should the conflict spill out of that country. now, these reports are unconfirmed we need to say that. we need to find out exactly what has happened, what has caused this loss of life, but it will cause major concern to people here. life is still going on here in krakov and the cities around this part of poland tonight, but this is news that will concern people. it does show that the conflict has got the potential to spill over the borders and to cause damage and loss of life in poland,