During an exclusive interview with PBS News Hour, President Joe Biden sat down with Judy Woodruff to talk about the economy, China, and his classified documents scandal (although Joe wasn’t very forthcoming on that topic).
“Two other quick questions, Mr. President,” Woodruff begins. “Classified documents. It’s clear there’s a difference between the way you’ve handled this and former President Trump. You’ve cooperated with the archives, with the FBI. But I want to ask you about quickly about what you said last September. You said just possessing classified documents is you said ‘totally irresponsible.’ So what was totally irresponsible about the fact that you had some?”
“What they’ve informed me not to speak to this issue to anyway, try to prejudice the investigation that’s going on,” Biden responds. “But what I was talking about was what was laid out. All these documents were a top-secret, code word and all the rest. And I’m not at liberty and I’m not even sure, I made voluntarily — no one’s had to threaten to do anything — voluntarily opened every single aperture I have in the house, offices, everything. For them to come and look and spend hours searching my home. Invited them. Nobody. And so, in the best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up were things that from 1974 and stray papers. There may be something else, I don’t know. But one of the things that happened is that what was not done well is as they packed up my offices to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that’s there. But, I’ll just let the investigation, you know, decide what’s going on and we’ll see what happens.”
Watch the clip above.
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