biden turned in classified documents to the national archives and the department of justice consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for voluntary interview and then other ways cooperated with the investigation, closed quote. president biden acted responsibly, cooperated completely, and the decision to decline criminal justice -- to decline criminal charges was relatively straightforward. in short to borrow a phrase from the last administration, the hur report represents the complete and total exoneration of president biden. and how does that record contrast with president trump? the documents he retained and the criminal charges pending against him in florida? we know that trump deliberately took large amounts of classified information from the white house. he admitted as much. occasionally pretending he classified this information without telling anyone on his way out the door. we know that he stored that information around mar-a-lago and the craziest of places. spilled across the floor of an unlocked closet, next to the toilet. we know that he showed c

exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the national archives and records administration constitutes a presidents categorization of those records is personal under

biden turned in classified documents to the national archives and the department of justice, consented to the search of his homes. sat for voluntary interview and other ways cooperated with the investigation, close quote. he acted spurns jibly, cooperated completely and the decision to decline criminal charges was relatively straight forward. in short, to borrow a phrase from the last administration, the hur report represents the complete and total exoneration of president biden. how does that record contrast with president trump? documents he retained and the criminal charges pending against him in florida? we know that trump deliberately took large amounts of classified information from the white house. he has admitted as much. occasionally pretending he classified this information without telling anyone on his way out the door. we know that he stored that information around mar-a-lago in the craziest of places, on the bowling stage, spilled in an unlocked closet, next to a toilet. he showed classified military plans to an author interviewing him at bedminster. as president i could h

to the special counsels investigation, quote, mister biden turns in classified documents, the national archives in the department of justice, consented to the search of multiple locations, including his homes, set for voluntary interview, and then other ways cooperated with the investigation as quote, president biden acted responsibly cooperated completely and the decision to decline criminal justice, a decline. criminal charges was relatively straightforward in short, to borrow a phrase in the last administration. the hurry port represents the complete and total exoneration. a president biden. and how does that record contrast with present president trump? documents he retain, and the criminal charges pending against him in florida. we know that trump deliberately took large amounts of classified information from the white house. he is admitted as much occasionally pretending that he classified this information without telling anyone on his way out the door as we know the store, the information around to morrow. lago in the craziest of places on the bowling stage spilled across the floor of an

i'm like president biden. trump did not alert the national archives or d o j of the documents, nor did he turn over all the classified materials in his possession. he did not agree to sit down for a voluntary interview with the special council. he never consented to a search of his home. on the contrary, trumps suggested that his attorney, hyde or destroy evidence requested by the epi i. in the grand jury, trump carefully instructed his aid to move boxes of costs by documents to hide them from the f. b, i trump tried to delete incriminating security tape footage from our logo, and he got his attorney to provide a false certification. the f. b. i saying he had produced all the documents in his possession. he did not given that this report is so damning and the contrast between biden and trumpet. it's hard for me to see why our colleagues think that this hearing advances, their flailing and embarrassing quest to impeach the president of united states. what americans use today's evidence of one president who believes in the rule of law and works to protect it. and one who has nothing but

we know the work of dan blanton from the national archives. she and a wonderful book has documented at least 460 women who dressed as soldiers and went to fight i don't know if any of them were african american do. you know, i think there were a couple of them. i think a book came recently, i believe, that talked about that. but there are also black women who are serving on the union ships. we sometimes that there is a navy and black men had always served in the navy and they continue to serve you know throughout the history of the country. but it was in army that black men were not permitted to serve after a certain time. but black women serving on these naval vessels as nurses and i think we need to remember them. i don't know if they got pensions. they certainly were serving one black woman who received a pension, she was enslaved, norfolk, virginia and was spying essentially for the union, brought word to washington, d.c. her name was mary lou vest and she was giving word to the naval department that the confederates were building an ironc

he refused to turn over the classified documents in his possession to the national archives. he is on tape sharing documents he said he could have declassified when he was president. he wrongly claimed in an interview that the presidential records act allows him to do whatever he wants and he was allowed to do everything he did. he also said on his right wing social media platform "i'm allowed to do all of this." he continues to admit to his possession of these documents on the campaign trail. so this hearing is not a good faith oversight effort. it is just the latest in a long line of dysfunctional and destructive actions taken by this republican majority. they don't care about responsible governance or making people's lives better. they don't have an affirmative agenda. they are throwing whatever they can at the wall and hoping it sticks and they have 0 credibility to talk about mental acuity when they support donald trump. the same donald trump who mixes up joe biden and barack obama and nikki haley and nancy pelosi. the same donald trump who incorrectly pronounced the wor

i was i did a lot of research in the state department in, the national archives.telegrams. and i read through all of telegrams and i came to the end of. september 1970 folder and the next folder arted in octob hosty october. so i didn't think i'd find in there, but when i opened it, i found something that i remembered quite well, which was a sheaf of papers, literature. our captors had given out for the hostages read spelling out their plight. which something like ladies and, gentlemen, i feel it is my duty. explain why. why we havegñ d saw those wordsi scanned the entire document and it took me two years to go back read it it w just too much because i remembered sitting on the plane it so what you're talking about stacie is is a moment and i will happy to read this passage when i was in what's called the motion research room of the national archives and had a wonderful, wonderful researcher there, helped me find these cia■= tapes and it was it was kind of raw that the press had completely out of order and thena. so here's i say about it. on a summer day, nearly 5

biden turned the documents to the national archives and department of justice, consented to the search of multiple locations, including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation." president biden acted responsibly, cooperated completely, and the decision to decline criminal justice -- to decline criminal charges was relatively straightforward. in short, to borrow a phrase from the last administration, the hur report represents the complete and total exoneration of president biden. how does that record contrast with president trump? the documents he retained and the criminal charges pending against him in florida? we know that trump deliberately took large amounts of classified information from the white house. he has admitted as much, occasionally pretending that he classified this information without telling anyone on his way out the door. we know that ■xhe stored that information around mar-a-lago in the craziest of places. on the ballroom stage. spilled across the floor of an unlocked closet next to the toilet. we know that he show

prepared a thematic exhibition; about 50 documents are on display, including rare copies from the national archivecopies of original documents that will show the history of the development of our constitution, its very first sketches, because for the first time this year. we are exhibiting projects, the first draft is from the year ninety-three and the second draft is from march 10, 1994, we presented all the editions of the constitution, starting with the one that was in 1919, as soon as our republic was created, a copy of the book is also presented, which tells children about the constitution, it has become a good tradition on constitution day to present a passport to a citizen of the republic of belarus. schoolchildren, today in minsk the solemn ceremony will be held in the capital’s shopping center, also a dialogue platform and a concert will take place here. response to lithuania’s unfriendly actions to close two border checkpoints. resolutions of the savmin on march 14 established a ban on the import of certain goods from lithuania, including food, construction products and household applian

a day off here and there and spend it at the national archives.y worked up a sample chapter and a proposal shopping around to agents, and finally i found agent and an editor, harpercollins, who said, hey, you know, willing to take a chance on this story and can i just say, spending your days at the national archives is for a history nerd like myself. a lot of fun spending a day in here at a table reading musty documents. not some people's of tea. but for me, this was the most this is the reading room at the national archives in washington, d.c. your tax dolla wk? i wrote to them. they said, hey, come on over. they hooked me up with the legiate archives to are guy named adam baer and back. and they bring out these documents for you. and that's, you know, part of the service they provide to a taxpayer. i guess we all pay for that. and and so for the next several years here, there i started going through the records of the truman committee, which take up about. 700 linear feet in the there. adam would pull a card for me, all of boxes ready for me. ma

i find myself sitting in that reading at the national archives, holding actual documents in my hand.y cool thing. and the story that i tell is how i begin the book, how all this tied into ■ña strange incident. in january 16th, 1943, in portland, oregon, brand new tanker ship its harbor before. 500 feet long, $3 million ship sitting in calm waters about 1030 on a cold january night. suddenly broken to the sound was heard a mile away. the fbi and the police raced to thecene was wartime. so everybody's thinking sabotage, right here. it is the next this is what it looked like. i filea freedom of information act request from the federal bureau of inveigion. they sent me a thick stack of documents inside informants, all interviews, trying tre out what the heck happened in the ship and essentially the initial fear was sabotage that proved to be a false lead. and for severa the ship and the other tanker and merchant ships that were cracking and getting cracks in them was a giant mystery. a mystery that would be solved one day in a hearing room in 1943. you can read all in the book, but it le

iss the reading room at the national archives in washington, d.c.llars wor i wrote to them. they said, hey, come on over. they hooked me up with the legislativ archives to a great guy named adam baer and back. and they bring out these documents for you. and that's, you know, part of the service they prode to a taxpayer. i guess we all pay for that. and and so for the next several years here, there i started going through the records of the truman committee, which take up about. 700 linear feet in the. adam would pull a card for me, all of boxes ready for me. many of them have nobeen opened or read e 1940s. this is what, about six linear feet? so you can imagine how muc space this stuff takes up in the archives years and years and years. and of course, washington ran on paper those days. everything was in paper with carbon copy in triplicate. and basically i wouldÑ go throuh these in a day that's about a day's worth of work there with my cell phone and take photos. i didn't have time to read documents, mostly like i had a limited time in the archive,

out his official responsibilities belong to the public, and they have to be turned over to the national archives when a president leaves hive. trump is making the same tired claim that he declassified the documents that he took when he was still president. so he's arguing that they're personal and that they belong to him. chris, that claim doesn't even pass the basic test. >> most judges would dismiss this without even holding a hearing. >> i thought it was particularly interesting and worthy of a legal response to what donald trump had to say last night in that interview. not only that he took them legally, but he wasn't hiding them. they had other stuff like clothing, and they were moving out of the white house, so in his opinion and his lawyers' opinion, it's legal. >> again, that's not correct. he's charged with 32 counts of willfully retention of documents. prosecutors have to prove that the documents relate to national defense, and that trump was unauthorized to possess them, and that he failed to deliver the records to the appropriate government officials after he left office. that's what

the justice department, the national archives were proactively notified. the classified documents and they were turned over. the president allowed the fbi to search his homes. and he's sat for a voluntary interview for more than five hours on october 8th and october 9th even as he was busy responding to hamas is vicious terrorist attack in israel. the report thus demonstrates president biden's complete devotion to the rule of law and his respect for a fair and independent department of justice. president biden did not assert executive privilege or claim absolute immunity for presidential crimes. he did not hide boxes of documents under his bed or in a bathtub. he did not fight investigators nor did he seek to redact a single word of mr. hur's report. he consented to the search of numerous locations, including in his holmes, and he did everything he could to cooperate, not obstruct. third, special counsel, her repeatedly emphasizes that president biden's conduct contrast sharply with that of former president trump. her observes that unlike president biden,

the justice department and national archives were proactively archived of classified documents and theyer. the president allowed the fbi to search his homes and sat a voluntary interview for more than five hours on october 8th and october 9th even as he was busy responded to hamas's vicious terrorist attack in israel. report thus demonstrates prident biden's complete devotion to the rule of law and his respect for a fair and independent department of justice. president biden did not assert executive privilege or claim absolute immunity for special crimes. he did not hide boxes of documents under his bed or in a bathtub. he did not fight investigators nor did he seek to redact a single word of mr. hur's report. he consented at the root report for numerous locations including his homes and he did everything he could to cooperate, not obstruct. third, special counsel hur repeatedly emphasizes that president biden's conduct contrasts sharply with that of former president trump. hur observed that unlike president biden, "the allegations set forth in the indictment of mr. trump if proven woul

an old black and white photograph, miraculously preserved in national archive of the republic, on itthat very first all-belarusian congress of peasant women, inspired faces, a purposeful look, the image of a new woman, a rural worker of the country of soviets, among them the all-belarusian headman. alexander chervyakov, head of the republic. elya berman, secluded in the darkroom after a tense day. day, i watched with particular trepidation as the images of the delegates of the first congress of peasant women gradually came to life in the developer, so different, but so inspired, special, their images did not at all fit in with those familiar ideas about a rural woman, illiterate, immersed in their household chores, the spirited , uncompromising delegates came to mind, with what persistence they convinced him elya that everything was already changing. and the woman in the village is canceled too, a smile involuntarily appeared on elye’s face. there was no point in objecting. here, everything is written like this, the article is called like that. why are congresses of peasant women con

national archive of the republic of belarus. the diary of the command of combat groups bert and...the participation of latvian police battalions in the punitive operation winter magic for the period from february 16 to march 25. in it, the entry of almost every day begins with one phrase. no bandits were found in the combed area, and below is a list of destroyed villages. dobraniki. papalishchami was ўsya asveshchana, all 163 centuries in the district were znіshchany yes aposhnyaga budynka, from asveyskaya district for 20 thousand of the population came to papalishchi only 6 thousand. only about three adzin are found alive in asvedchanna. on march 31, it was decided to complete it ahead of schedule; it was not possible to defeat the partisans of the rossony-ovseysk zone; successes were reported only in relation to reprisals against defenseless civilians. the figures on human losses are still being clarified today, and the work of the prosecutor general's office continues. at the same time, during operation winter magic, with the participation of punitive forces, 387 settlements wer

the national archives discovered nine documents totaling 44 pages with classification markings. summarizing urinalysis you could not prove beyond a reasonable bout that retention of the documents was willful? >> correct. >> very good peer i yield back. pennsylvania is recognized. >> thank you. thank you mr. hur for your testimony today. with all the posturing we have heard thus far this morning, i think it's important we refocus and remember the conclusion reached on the first page and in the first sentence of your report which was we conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. every that accurately? >> you did, congresswoman. >> the report says in addition to the shortage of evidence, there are other innocent explanations for the documents we have not been able to refute . did you read that correctly? >> congresswoman, if you give me a page citation. >> page six. >> six. yes. i see that language? >> thank you. in addition to those conclusions your report detail several material distinctions between president biden's actions and former president trump's misha

but yes, there are definitely some letters in the national archives.resting thing to know is that a president is president. anything that's not personal belongs to you. ■aso anything a president produs in the office now since nixon, which is a story you can probably guess a little bit about something about watergate and destroying material since that point. now, those letters belong to you, so it's your right to ask. the only thing that holds it up is processing but there's new things released all the time. so if you want to learn about presidents, i every single president has stories t uncover. so please do i want to turn to we can only probably do two more questions. i see you have one and then we'll get to one other. but i know you'll all be around to ask where you can ask the questions one on one in to sign the book. so what do want to say? one thing? one thing abou that? so we printed at least one letter from every president that presidency. you'll notice that the later presidents we tried over and over to get something from the clintons but could

the national archives has these mails.ese mails so we can finish our investigation. jason: florida congressman bye. ron donalds on "mornings with maria" last friday after house oversight e chairman james comer invited president biden to an in'em people hearing. house republicans want to question bind about his claims that he did not interact with his brother james or his son hunter's business partner ifs immediately after and while he was vice president. another question for president biden, why did former fbi director louis freeh evidently, reportedly, give $100,000 to joe biden's grandchildren? and then speak with and want to speak with the vice president about potential lucrative options with hunter being in the middle? if let's bring in breitbart news political editor emma-jo morris. emma-jo are, thanks so much for joining us. i mean, this story, there's so many elements to it. what really rises to the top of what you think this impeachment inquiry should be pursuing? >> well, obviously there's a lot of moving parts to

the justice department and national archives were proactively archived of classified documents and theyere turned over. the president allowed the fbi to search his homes and sat a voluntary interview for more than five hours on october 8th and october 9th even as he was busy responded to hamas's vicious terrorist attack in israel. report thus demonstrates president biden's complete devotion to the rule of law and his respect for a fair and independent department of justice. president biden did not assert executive privilege or claim absolute immunity for special crimes. he did not hide boxes of documents under his bed or in a bathtub. he did not fight investigators nor did he seek to redact a single word of mr. hur's report. he consented that the root report for numerous locations including his homes and he did everything he could to cooperate, not obstruct. third, special counsel hur repeatedly emphasizes that president biden's conduct contrasts sharply with that of former president trump. hur observed that unlike president biden, "the allegations set forth in the indictment of mr. tru

that letter is buried in the national archives. he didn't keep that one. the mother in law and the the wife were working together to try to get appleton released. even they actually hated one another at this point. eventually the federal government decided to move william seward decided to move appleton to fort warren because they believed it would be to get a conviction in a court than in a new york city court. and appleton, at this point didn't know why he was moved to fort warren on christmas day, 1861. appleton there with a lot of other political prisoners, members of the maryland state legislature, and all these political prisoners just hated william seward and the way they celebrated christmas in 1861 was they made up a doll that looked like seward and they put him on trial for treason against the united states for destroying the constitution. they put him on trial. they had judge and a jury and they found him guilty. then they executed the little doll. and one of the legislators who was there said the guard watching got drunk on eggnog. and so they

he refused to turn over the classified documents in his position to the national archives.s on tape, sharing documents he said he could have declassified when he was president. he wrongly claimed in an interview that the presidential records act allows him to do whatever he wants. and he was allowed to do everything he did. he also said on his right wing social media platform, quote, i'm allowed to do all of this. he continues to admit to his possession of these documents on the campaign trail. so this hearing is not a good faith oversight effort. it is just the latest in a long line of dysfunctional and destructive action taken by his republican majority. they don't care about responsible governance or making people's lives better. huh-uh. they don't have an affirmative agenda. they are throwing whatever they can at the wall and hoping it sticks. and they have zero credibility to talk about mental acuity when they support donald trump. the same donald trump who mixes up joe biden and barack obama and nikki haley and nancy pelosi. the same donald trump who incorrect pronoun

that belongs to your presidency, all of those records, they are in the legal custody of the national archives even if it takes some time to transfer them to their custody. so cannon is betraying sort of a lack of understanding of how the law works. i think special counsel's office definitely took an opportunity to remind her that that's the way that it works, and also that the national archives were diligent in pursuit of those records. by end of the hearing, according to nbc news colleagues that pra argument is not one that will lead to a dismissal. >> so many classified documents at heart of this, big arguments how donald trump could view them. have those arguments been settled? has he been reviewing evidence, his team doing the work preparing for a trial that may or may not happen? >> that's kind of opaque to us. in part because they have to review the documents in a secure facility. donald trump himself is allowed to review those documents in that secure facility. accompanied by his counsel. he cannot be left in the room alone. with those classified documents, to which he has access. as p

one is that he turned in classified documents to the national archives and the department of justice upon request. is that fair? >> that was a factor that we considered. >> he cooperated with your investigation? >> yes. >> he consented to the search of multiple locations including his house? >> yes. >> he set for a voluntary interview? >> yes. >> that was five hours over two days? >> yes. >> he turned over and allowed investigators to review notebooks he believed to be his personal property? >> correct. >> with respect to the comparison of former president trump and i believe this is on page 11, that is still in your executive summary, and i will just read part of this to you. unlike the evidence from mr. biden the allegations set forth in the indictment of president trump prevent serious aggravating facts. most notably after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, mr. trump did the opposite. he not only refused to return documents but he also -- to destroy evidence and then to lie about it. in contrast, mr. biden turned in information to th

some of the documents in the neck national archives right now are full of documents that all post-state the presidency things go into march of 2021. >> so >> the idea that because there's white-box, is that must be classified documents. yeah. that's a stretch that i don't think the judge would ever allow them to get to a jury i think the part of what he shared with cnn that was significant wasn't necessarily the fact that these were bankers boxes, but the way that >> the trump team approached him about handling them, and whether that revealed something to him about what they might contain i'm curious if you don't see a discrepancy between the way that the trump team tried to approach the handling of these boxes, and the idea that these are just any other records that need to get moved from mar-a-lago to bedminster or elsewhere? >> so what makes it unique is that he asked for a van to move boxes instead of putting it in the back of an suv. >> he's implying either playing something different, he's implying that there was something different in the protocol that that raised a thought in hi

the national archives of the republic of belarus, unique handwritten copies of combat leaflets have beeny contain everything about the operations of the partisans. there is a lot of humor about events at the front, jokes and partisan motto. if you laugh at your enemy, you are not afraid of him. they were passed around the villages from hand to hand, single copies were read to the gills. the germans began to lose in the ideological confrontation. they recognized this themselves, constantly analyzing their work. after another study of the situation, the conclusion was unexpected. the most popular. the first issue of the newspaper zvezda appeared, our little star, as the residents of the republic called it, secretly passing it from hand to hand, it was printed by the minsk underground literally before our eyes the nazis in the press house where german newspapers were published, its circulation is 10 thousand copies, the germans are rewarded with 75 thousand marks, who will tell where it was published, but no one handed over to the underground workers. with the release of the star , a new pe

an old black and white photograph, miraculously preserved in the national archive of the republic, onof that very first all-belarusian congress of peasant women, inspired faces, a purposeful look, the image of a new woman, a rural worker of the country of soviets, among them the all-belarusian old one. elya berman, secluded in the darkroom after a busy day, watched with particular trepidation as the developer the images of the delegates of the first congress of peasant women gradually come to life, so different, but so spiritually special, their images did not at all fit in with those usual ideas about a rural woman. illiterate, immersed in their household chores. the spirited, uncompromising delegates came to mind. and with what insistence they convinced him, elya, that everything was already changing, and the herring woman was changing too. a smile involuntarily appeared on elye's face. there was no point in objecting. here, everything is written like this. that's what the article is called. for what congresses of peasant women-social activists are convened. let's put an end to this

they should have gone to the national archives. people in the white house surrounding donald trump were well aware of that process and in communication with the national archives before he left the white house let alone in a new process that started afterwards when the national archives brought to their attention. hey, we're missing a bunch of stuff. that includes the kim jong-un letter, the letter barack obama left for you, et cetera, and that kicked off a process of the cat and mouse game with the national archives and the department of the fbi were chasing after trump to collect all the things he took, and as you well know, he was not honest with them at any step of this process. he, in fact, diluted his own lawyers, and suckered them into it by having the boxes moved in this bizarre three-card monty that he was playing with his own legal team. i don't think that will hold up. in terms of the unconstitutional vagueness of the statute here, he's talking about the willful retention of national defense to wants. he says among other