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Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search.
The search — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers — resulted in the latest in a series of discoveries that has already led to a special counsel investigation.
What miscalculations have Mr. Biden and his team make throughout this ordeal?
On today’s episode
Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading
Inside the decision by Mr. Biden and his top advisers to keep the discovery of classified documents secret from the public and even most of the White House staff for 68 days.
Investigators for the Justice Department recently seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at the president’s residence in Delaware.
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Michael D. Shear contributed reporting.
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