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keep happening and what we can do to keep it from happening again. welcoming everybody, i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you here. i m glad i wasn t part of that ping-pong thing, but we do have lawyers ping-ponging back and forth on this. i m trying to relate that, i guess not so well. anyway, hope your weekend s going well. as for former president, present president dealing with special counsels looking into their classified documents, don t know if things are going quite as well with them. let s get thest from the white house on what president biden could be looking at. lucas tomlinson is there are. hey, lucas. reporter: speaking of ping among, a lot of back andport between the white house press secretary and the washington press corps who s been increasingly asking tough questions about how the classified documents got to biden s house which, as you mentioned, he s there today. some think it s a potential crime scene. the white house insists it didn t know this spe ....
Its own administration, and in particular its own president. but obviously what happened here is garland are and probably biden expected that trump was going to be chargedded in connection with the mar-a-lago documents, and they wanted to distance themselves from that that decision or at least project the illusion that they were distanced from it, and that was the purpose of having that special counsel. and, of course, because they did that, the next domino is if you have an investigation of biden and you have these explosive revelations, he really didn t have any choice at that point. neil: which is more explosive? st very early on, but what do you think? you know, i think that it d be nice if we took a step back and recognized that in this constitutional system the president is supposed to be checked primarily by the congress. president s not supposed to be checked by prosecutors who work for the president. these are executive branch ....
Intended, they never stay within hair area of investigation. merrick garland said this special counsel with respect to the biden classified documents would focus solely on the classified documents. i don t want them to expand their investigation for the sole purpose of blocking house oversight investigation of the widen family biden family influence peddling. neil: well, the reason why i asked, sir, is in the case of donald trump and special counsel appointed to look into him also by merrick garland, there was an effort to get jack smith to speak to various committees, the special counsel of that case, and he refused. right. neil: i m sure it would be the same posture by robert hur. so to americans watching this all unfold, their investigations continue undeterred, presumably uninterrupted. yours will go on. i don t know what s being planned in the senate. it s a lot of investigations. a lot of investigations, and, you know, it s very unfortunate that congress would have to ....
Officials no matter whether you call them special or independent or what have you. so what i fear, neil, is that that they re now going to say that because there s a special counsel on this, everything should go dark. if congress asks any questions, they re going to be accused of obstructing the special counsel s investigation, and and that s really not the way it s supposed to work. congress is supposed to be the primary vehicle for checking abuse and misconduct by the executive branch. neil: you know what s weird though is how this is the discovered. and i know in all the cases that have come to date so far, it s not the national archives that has revealed, hey, we re missing some important documents. and that s what kind of surprises me. and i don t know what the procedure is, but i ve always ventured to hi can t we have it like think can t we have it like a library system, you check out a book, you ve got to return it, the librarian knowns you have the book. the librarian in my h ....