{"id":104245,"date":"2024-02-09T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/what-biden-has-said-before-about-his-classified-documents-probe\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T00:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:04:50","slug":"what-biden-has-said-before-about-his-classified-documents-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/what-biden-has-said-before-about-his-classified-documents-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Biden has said before about his classified documents probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-08\/GettyImages_Biden_020824.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212;\u00a0As the report of a special counsel investigation into classified documents found at locations associated with President Joe Biden became public Thursday, here&#8217;s what he has said about the matter before now.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 10, 2023 &#8212; President Biden said he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; to learn that there were any government records at his Penn Biden Center office in Washington, D.C., which he used after leaving as vice president, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in the documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 12, 2023 &#8212; Biden spoke about the documents found in the garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home and said he was complying with the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Biden about the documents:<\/p>\n<p>Q: Mr. President, classified &#8212; classified material next to your Corvette. What were you thinking?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: Let me &#8212; they&#8217;re &#8212; I&#8217;m going to get a chance to speak on all this, God willing, soon, but as I said earlier this week, people &#8212; and, by the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage. OK? So, it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re sitting out in the street. But at any rate &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Q: So, the material was in a locked garage?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: Yes, as well as my Corvette.<\/p>\n<p>But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. I also said we&#8217;re cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department&#8217;s review.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that process, my lawyers reviewed other places where documents might of &#8212; from my time as vice president were stored. And they finished the review last night.<\/p>\n<p>They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and in file cabinets in my home and my &#8212; and my &#8212; in my personal library. This was done in the case of the Biden Penn &#8212; this was done in the case of the Biden Penn Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice was immediately &#8212; as was done, the Department of Justice was immediately &#8230; notified, and the lawyers arranged for the Department of Justice to take possession of the document.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 19, 2023 &#8212; At the end of remarks on extreme weather, in Aptos, California, reporters shouted questions at Biden, who said he had &#8220;no regrets&#8221; and that &#8220;there is no there there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Q: Mr. President, may I ask you a question about the classified documents, sir? Do you have any regret &#8212; regret, sir?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: You know, the only &#8212; I will answer the question, but here&#8217;s the deal: You know, what quite frankly bugs me is that we have a serious problem here we&#8217;re talking about. We&#8217;re talking about what&#8217;s going on. And the American people don&#8217;t quite understand why you don&#8217;t ask me questions about that.But having said that, what&#8217;s your question?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Do you have any regret, sir, that you did not reveal the existence of the documents back in November, before the midterms?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: Just hang on, OK? Look, as we found &#8212; we found a handful of documents that were failed &#8212; were filed in the wrong place. We immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Justice Department. We&#8217;re fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly.I think you&#8217;re going to find there&#8217;s nothing there. I have no regrets. I&#8217;m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. It&#8217;s exactly what we&#8217;re doing. There is no there there.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wong\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212;\u00a0As the report of a special counsel investigation into classified documents found at locations associated with President Joe Biden became public Thursday, here&#8217;s what he has said about the matter before now. Jan. 10, 2023 &#8212; President Biden said he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; to learn that there<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/what-biden-has-said-before-about-his-classified-documents-probe\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}