Panel: W.H. beginning to ‘punch back for the first time’ over classified documents



Mike Memoli, Tia Mitchell, Cornell Belcher and Rick Tyler join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the White House’s response to classified documents found in unsecured setting.

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23 comments

  1. You media people are sometimes senile. Trump boxed the documents himself and ordered the documents to be moved. In Biden’s case, it was packed by the staffers and the vice president wasn’t aware that it was packed.

  2. The number of documents in Biden’s possession is unknown and unknowable because it is only self reported. Biden’s violation is worse because he was not president at the time. Ultimately, the contents of the documents would determine the severity, not the raw numbers. What if it was only one document, but that happened to be the nuclear codes, vs. 300 documents about Venezuela

  3. Biden in September, Trump was totally irresponsible in handling those documents. Biden now, we've turned everything over, but we didn't turn it over until it was leaked to the press. We made sure and did not release the news until after the mid terms because it could have influenced voting, we would rather talk about Trump right up until the mid terms.

  4. 5 commies,National Broadcast for Commies network

  5. It's not like America didn't know who Biden and Harris and Trump were during the debates and campaigns. All the accusations and allegations are coming true in the sense that none of these people can be trusted with anything of importance regarding safeguards information or running the country. This goes for most of D.C. politicians but these three are at the front of the line. D.C. has been fractured for decades, now we're seeing just how bad things are. There's only one person who for 50 yrs has been repeatedly involved in the dysfunctional machine. Guess who?

  6. They're punching back?? Hahahaha… yeah, ok. VP Biden didn't have the authority to declassify docs. President Trump had that Executive Authority. Crime Syndicate Biden needs to go to jail.

  7. No punchback on this
    No spin
    No excuse
    6+ years Top Secret in a garage with corvette
    Lawyers had Top Secret Clearance?
    Waited 6 years…and mysteriously after mid terms.
    That "punchback"= spin/manipulate rethoric

  8. TWO YEARS of waiting for documents to be returned is NOT a "perception" it is a reality. Trump declined to return the documents for YEARS. The Biden administration needs to search all his stuff and make sure there aren't any more "missing" documents. Then they need to insist on the national archives upping their procedures, handling and security surrounding classified documents. The media should get the real details before putting out any stories. Comer is wrong, Trump HAS NOT EVER been investigated by Republicans and he is mistaken about what the American people want. McCarthy is delusional, we are NOT 6 months from hitting the debt ceiling, we hit it Thursday. Problem is they don't want to pay for what we already spent, not what is coming. McCarthy doesn't know how to balance any budget.

  9. He needs impeached. Biden. his lawyers and intel all hid this until after midterm elections. A very close election. With the bias of intel no wonder Trump didn’t want to hand over documents he said was declassified. They could have planted files.

  10. I am not sure Trump took Government Documents with him, cuz he did want Top Secret Documents. I am sure he took Government Documents with him to force Joe Biden to start out with Nothing at all, no stats on how America was doing, Supply chain problems, Covid Problems, Staffers problems. All in all. Trump took Government Documents to give
    Joe Biden as bad a start as possible.
    Trump did kinda steal the Keys to America by stealing Government Documents. And ofc deny to work with his team of public servants did not help either.

    ? Did President Trump really give the Order to pull out from Afghanistan a few days after he lost in 2020?? I did read about it. Did he give the Order to pull out of Afghanistan and Africa on Now. 9 2020?? Americans deserve to know. Did a President throw a Country into Chaos cuz he did lose an Election??. Did he turn Africa and Afghanistan into a Warzone.

  11. Each member of Congress reads and have access to Classified Documents, i guess up to secret Documents. They are behind locked doors. Even locked in safes or cabins.
    We have a need of our public servants in Congress to read and understand Americans needs. Each Document was given to each member of Congress.
    They did not take a stack of Classified Documents, unknown to NARA what they took. That is the difference on Biden and Trump. Biden was given those Documents.
    Trump just took a huge stack of Government Documents, 11000 and those only Presidents are allowed to read. That is why we have to care.
    Those Documents was not those Congress members reads, President is NOT a lawmaker, He is President. He reads about National Security, and intel from other Countries.
    So Trump had the most vital and dangerous Intel to share in his White House. And he did clean it out and moved it to Mar A Largo.
    The White House staffers is really to blame for this thefts of Stolen Documents. Why did NARA not stop the movement of Government Documents from
    taken from the White House. They had 3 full Euro pallets full of Documents standing in the basement. Trump came to the White House with a suitcase.
    He did leave with 7 tons of Documents and anything not welded to the House House. No Alarms was raised. No Security check on shipped out goods.
    Flash drives is more unsafe then this?? That is a vile claim. How can it get more unsafe then 7 tons of goods taken from the White House unchecked by Staffers?.

  12. Biden steeling from his boss, the tax payers? He must resign. Biden with stolen documents for 6 years? Resign.🤔🇺🇸🕵️❤️

  13. Dems don’t lie. They drip drip drip the truth, so it’s OK.

  14. Top on the chopping block, SS and medicare

  15. First bill GQP passed increased the debt, gutting the IRS
    Billion$

  16. Docs planted by MAGAt secret service and or MAGAt FBI.
    D
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  17. They are so full of crap! Since when is it up to the media to make excuses for Biden? Even tho they alway try to wipe his butt!

  18. Justice will show her face on this…..no hiding,or excuses can hide the fact they knew about them right before election,and " now " they trying to brag about turning them right over….this the true embarrassment.Is there no shame anymore???

  19. No. It is NOT the same thing. There is a difference between some handful of documents ending up in a locked cabinet in an office, in a building, dedicated to a fmr VP and a University. As well as locked in a garage. In comparison to a President actively removing US owned Presidential Documents – in BOXES – to his personal residence. To sit in a humid, hot, storage room without a lock! And not just any Presidential Documents, but famous ones, enough that NARA looked for an requested this missing highly publicized documentation. A request that was ignored, denied, and in the end were only retrieved via a court order for a Search and Seizure!

    No one was looking for the documents held by a VP. No one probably knew about these MIA documents, lest of all Joe Biden! And WTH would a personal residence have a visitor log when donnie dumshite didn't have one for the WHITE HOUSE when he was President!

    No. Totally NOT the same thing at all.

  20. Trump And Biden Will Be Out.

  21. The most corrupt Man in politics Captain Corrupt Joe, and the Communist Democrats need to taken down once and for all! They have been working at Destroying America for 50 years!!

  22. I’d simply ignore the republicans and focus on things that matter. Why did the former guy take all those documents and defied a subpoena to hand them over.