WATCH LIVE: Garland issues statement after second Biden document location revealed
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is making a statement Thursday afternoon after the location of the second trove of classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s possession from the Obama-Biden administration was revealed.
While Garland’s statement comes on the heels of that announcement, it has not been confirmed what the attorney general plans to address during his statement.
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Republicans have called upon Garland to appoint a special counsel to handle the investigation into the handling of the classified documents, as the Justice Department did in its inquiry into the papers found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
The classified documents are the second batch that has been found in Biden’s possession. The new set of documents were found by the president’s lawyers after they conducted a search of his Wilmington and Rehoboth, Delaware, residences following the revelation that 10 classified documents, dated from 2013 to 2016, were discovered at Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington last November.
Special counsel Richard Sauber said in a statement that all but one of the documents were found in the garage of the president’s Wilmington home. One document was found in an adjacent room. No documents were found in his home in Rehoboth.
It is not clear when the documents were found, but lawyers for the president finished their review of the documents on Wednesday night, Sauber said.
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Sauber said the Department of Justice was immediately notified, and Biden’s lawyers arranged the documents’ transfer to the department.
Garland released a media advisory shortly after the discovery of the second batch’s location, and he is planning to speak at 1:15 p.m. EST.