Sen. Cotton: There Nothing to Stop Biden from Explaining How the Documents Got into His Home

COTTON: Point out the hypocrisy in Joe Biden and his team’s response saying it is a legal matter. Go talk to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is not supposed to talk to the media. Someone being investigated can talk to the media. Nothing to stop Joe Biden from explaining how the documents got into his home, garage, office, why they weren’t secured, and so forth. Of course, he had no problem talking about Donald Trump’s classified documents last summer. He saddled up his high horse and rode it hard then. This is scandal management and hypocrisy. The second point I would make and probably more important for most Americans is the double standard here at play from the Department of Justice. When they found out that Donald Trump might have had classified information at Mar-a-Lago they sent an FBI team to raid that site. With Joe Biden they allowed his own partisan lawyers to search his home and search his office. This is kind of like you see in other cases in which law enforcement has been weaponized on behalf of partisan friends. Last summer you had FBI raids at the homes of pro-life activists for grave crime of singing hymns in front of abortion clinics. Crisis pregnancy centers have been vandalized and firebombed and no arrests in those cases. More troubling is the unfair and uneven enforcement of the law.

>> PERINO: your military experience makes you think about that as well. The Justice Department said yesterday they are not – they haven’t told the White House not to comment on this. To your point the White House could clear it up. The president says the lawyers won’t let him look at the documents. You would imagine as president he would want to do that.