A bipartisan group of lawmakers will receive their first briefing on the various classified documents found on the properties of President Biden, former President Trump and former VP Pence, two sources familiar with the matter tell NBCNews.
Those calls were amplified in January after it was revealed that a lawyer for Biden had reported finding Obama-era classified documents in November at a Washington office Biden used after finishing his term as vice president. Other documents were later found in Biden'sThe Gang of Eight is made up of the leaders of the House and Senate — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rubio previously said the initial briefing by administration officials is unlikely to include details about the contents of the classified documents and will instead outline the process by which the Justice Department can share information. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed separate special counsels to investigate the handling of the Trump and Biden documents. He did not appoint a special counsel for the Pence documents. The intelligence community, meanwhile, is doing a threat assessment of how the Trump and Biden documents were handled.Warner and Rubio have repeatedly emphasized their desire for an evaluation on what impact the classified documents might have on national security.
“Maybe they’ll bring in some teasers, maybe they’ll bring in the appetizer, but I mean, I’m just telling you that my understanding of the briefing that we’re doing is one that will outline a process by which they are willing to share information with us as parallel to the investigation that the Justice Department is conducting," Rubio told reporters earlier this month.
“I’m fine with that as long as the process is an adequate one,” he said, before adding that “we should have full access to whatever the documents were that they found.”Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate.
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