#shorts On 1/12/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “the President has said that his lawyers have advised him not to ask what was in these classified documents. I don’t understand the purpose of that. He’s the President of the United States. He has …”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Because we’re trying to do this by the book. We’re trying to do this in the appropriate way. And so that’s what I would say to you. We have — we have — his team has been complying — right? — cooperating with the Department of Justice. And I will leave it there. I’m not going to go beyond.

Reporter: Well, what in the book says that he can’t look at this? What would compel him or push him in that direction? Because you’ve said that repeatedly. What, I guess — as he tries to do this by the book, as he tries to do the right thing — you know, what are his lawyers looking at that says, “Yeah, don’t look at this classified information that was found”?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Again, there’s a process here. The process is that when the lawyers found that these documents existed, they reached out to the Archive …

On 1/12/2023, Reporters grilled Jean-Pierre on ‘GarageGate’ and the cover-up involving the classified documents stored at Biden’s Delaware home. On Monday it was revealed top secret intelligence documents were found in Joe Biden’s private office shortly before the 2022 midterm elections. Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC. Joe Biden’s aides found at least one more batch of classified documents at another location. Government officials discovered more classified documents at Joe Biden’s Delaware home – in the garage. US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Garland tapped Robert Hur as the special counsel.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/qI5q3tX6Vro
Q: what in the book says that he can’t look at this? A: process they reached out to the Archive