Biden: I Was Surprised to Learn About the Classified Documents

Biden: I Was Surprised to Learn About the Classified Documents

Biden: “First, let me get rid of the easy one first.

People know I take classified documents, classified information seriously.

When my lawyers were clearing out my office at the University of Pennsylvania, they set up an office for me, a secure office in the Capitol when I — the four years after being vice president, I was a professor at Penn.

They found some documents in a box, in a locked cabinet, or at least a closet.

And as soon as they did, they realized there were several classified documents in that box.

And they did what they should have done.

They immediately called the archives.

They immediately called the archives, turned them over to the archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office.

But I don’t know what’s in the documents.

My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were.

I have turned over the boxes — they have turned over the boxes to the archives and we’re cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which I hope will be finished soon and there will be more detail at that time.