The White House shut down any discussion of the ongoing investigation into President Biden's possession of classified documents at a press gaggle Thursday.
deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton, reporters attempted to ask several questions about inquiries from the House Oversight Committee. "Can you guys help us understand whether the White House or Biden or his attorneys notified the intelligence community of these documents?" one reporter asked.
"If you don't view that as your role, did you ask the FBI or the Justice Department to alert them just so that the intelligence community has a sense of classified documents that have been found in his possession?" President Biden listens to a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 19, 2022. An empty Secret Service guard shack located outside the access road leading to President Biden's private residence in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday, April 19, 2019."Does the White House have any problem with the Penn Biden Center sharing information such as visitor logs with the House Oversight Committee?" another reporter asked. "I appreciate the question, and we realize you all have many questions about this. We believe, and we continue to say, they are most appropriately handled by the White House Counsel's Office, so I'd have to refer you to them on this," Dalton responded. "Do you pledge to cooperate with the House Oversight Committee for any requests they may make?" one reporter asked in reply."That's an easy one."Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, from left, Olivia Dalton, White House principal deputy press secretary, and Emilie Simons, White House assistant press secretary, during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2022. The reporter followed up,"You can't even give a simple pledge that 'Of course we're going to cooperate with the Oversight Committee and Congress?'" "White House Counsel's office also engages with Oversight, and I would refer you to my colleagues in Counsel's Office for that," Dalton responded.chairman James Comer is vowing to keep pressing the Biden administration for answers on classified documents found in unsecured locations after the White House confirmed that there are no visitor logs for President Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware. "President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history, but he refuses to be transparent when it matters most," Comer told Fox News Digital exclusively Monday following a statement from the White House Counsel's office that there areTimothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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