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