FBI finds no additional classified material after search of Biden's beach house

Agents found no new classified material but some of the president’s handwritten notes were taken for further review.
2:33 | 02/02/23

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A LITTLE BIT OF SUN . SO FINGERS CROSSED ON THAT ONE . >> ALEXIS , HOPEFULLY. MIREYA VILLARREAL FROM DALLAS, THANK YOU. THE FBI HAS CONDUCTED A PLANNED SEARCH OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S HOME AT THE BEACH HOUSE. THE THREE AND A HALF HOUR SEARCH FOUND NO ADDITIONAL CLASSIFIED MATERIAL, BUT AGENTS DID TAKE SOME OF HIS HANDWRITTEN NOTES FOR FURTHER REVIEW. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS JOINS ME LIVE NOW FOR MORE . SO, MARYALICE, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN STRESSING THIS SEARCH WAS PLANNED. >> IT IS CONSENSUAL. WHAT'S THE LATEST? THE WHITE HOUSE INSISTING THAT THIS IS A PART OF THEM BEING TRANSPARENT, THAT THEY ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE RESIDENCE. IT IS REMARKABLE TO THINK ABOUT A SITTING PRESIDENT GIVING INVESTIGATORS LEEWAY TO SEARCH EVERY ROOM OF THE PRESIDENT'S BEACH HOUSE. BUT LIKE YOU SAID, THEY CONDUCTED THIS THREE AND A HALF HOUR SEARCH YESTERDAY, A LOT SHORTER THAN THAT SEARCH OF HIS WILMINGTON HOME, WHICH LASTED OVER 12 HOURS. AND IN THIS CASE, HIS ATTORNEY IS THE PRESIDENT'S ATTORNEYS ARE SAYING THAT THE DOJ DID NOT COLLECT ANY ADDITIONAL CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, DID NOT FIND ANY ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS WITH CLASSIFIED MARKINGS, BUT THEY DID TAKE SOME HANDWRITTEN NOTES FROM WHAT THEY SAY WAS THE PRESIDENT'S TIME AS VICE PRESIDENT . AND IF THEY'RE GOING TO FURTHER SORT OF REVIEW THOSE HANDWRITTEN NOTES TO SEE, I SUPPOSE, IF THERE'S ANY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE INCLUDED IN THEM. AGAIN, THIS PLANNED AND CONSENSUAL SEARCH, THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM SAYS, IS A PART OF COOPERATING WITH THE DOJ. >> ALL RIGHT. SO IF NO CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WERE FOUND AT THAT BEACH HOUSE, WHERE DOES THE INVESTIGATION GO FROM HERE? THERE'S STILL A LOT OF DOCUMENTS TO REVIEW DOCUMENTS THAT WERE FOUND AT THE WILMINGTON RESIDENCE AT THE OFFICE HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. YOU THE BIG QUESTION FIRST AND FOREMOST IS WHAT WAS IN THOSE DOCUMENTS? WHAT KIND OF DOCUMENTS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? HOW CLASSIFIED, HOW SECRET, HOW IMPORTANT IS THE INFORMATION THAT'S CONTAINED IN THOSE DOCUMENTS? I THINK THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW. FIRST AND THEN, OF COURSE, WHO MIGHT HAVE ACCESS TO THEM. >> HOW SECURE WERE THEY OR WERE THEY NOT? WERE THEY MOVED MULTIPLE TIMES? THESE ARE STILL BIG, OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS FOR INVESTIGATORS AND FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KEEP PRESSING ON . ALL RIGHT. SO SEPARATELY, WE KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN MET WITH SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY AMID THAT STANDOFF OVER RAISING THE DEBT CEILING. HAS ANY PROGRESS BEEN MADE THERE? >> AND DOES IT SEEM LIKE ANY CONCRETE PROGRESS YET? BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT BOTH SIDES CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING WITH A PRETTY OPTIMISTIC TONE THAT SPEAKER MCCARTHY SAID THAT HE THOUGHT THE MEETING WITH BETTER THAN HE THOUGHT IT WOULD, THAT THEY HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION. PRESIDENT BIDEN, JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, I HAD A SIMILAR TONE SAYING IT WAS A GOOD MEETING. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO AGREE ON EVERYTHING. BUT RIGHT NOW, IN THESE EARLY

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