CNN's Don Lemon challenged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's assertion that President Biden was being transparent regarding alleged mishandling of classified government documents, putting Schumer on the defensive.
On "CNN This Morning," Schumer stated that it was too soon to determine whether President Biden had broken federal law, and that the president had acted appropriately in handling the situation.
Schumer endorsed Attorney General Merrick Garland's choice to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter, and stated that his statements regarding classified documents had been consistent for both President Biden and former President Trump.
After Schumer called on the public to allow the investigation to proceed, Lemon questioned him on whether he felt that President Biden and his administration had been open and honest about the classified documents.
"I think the Biden folks, as I said, cooperated with the prosecutorial authorities from day one, and Donald Trump didn't," Schumer said.
Lemon then disputed Schumer's position and began to read a CNN report on the classified documents.
"According to one justice's official statement, this week offered an incomplete narrative of documents from Biden's time as vice president and reinforced the need for a special council. It creates the impression that Biden's team has something to hide," Lemon said.
Schumer reaffirmed his stance of permitting the special prosecutors to investigate the matter, and suggested that attention should be directed towards issues that benefit the American public.
"I have to get — I have to say this. You seem much more measured about this than with the Trump documents because you called for transparency with the documents. You wanted lawmakers to have access to the documents seized from the former president's residence in Florida," Lemon said.
"I said that night it was premature to comment. I stand by that," Schumer replied.
In response to Lemon's inquiry on whether he believed his statements on both issues were in agreement, Schumer replied that he did.
On Thursday, Garland appointed a special counsel to examine President Biden's handling of classified documents from the Obama Administration.
The attorney general appointed Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney, to lead the investigation. The Justice Department escalated the investigation to a special counsel investigation from a review on Thursday, after a second set of classified documents was discovered in the garage of President Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware. The first set of documents had been found in the Washington offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank.
You can see the entire exchange here:
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