CNN anchor Don Lemon went after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) for indicating the network wanted to “hear” President Joe Biden’s classified documents case. (You can check out Lemon’s response below.)
The heated moment came at the end of a week marked by the discovery of confidential documents at Biden’s home and in an office he uses, in a story that sparked a special counsel investigation.
Lawyers found more documents during another search of his home library, the White House said Saturday. While the White House previously announced that Biden’s personal lawyers found a document there on Wednesday, a White House lawyer said he found additional pages on Thursday, bringing the total to six pages from the library.
Lemon responded to Schumer on “CNN This Morning” Friday, telling her that the president’s handling of classified material is “serious stuff.”
“It’s not just, wait, it’s not just us, you’re the Democratic leader of the Senate,” Lemon said after Schumer noted that all the hosts wanted to do was “smile” about it.
“This is a really important issue. It’s not just a hum. This is serious stuff.”
Schumer said prosecutors would get to the bottom of the matter and suggested that if there was no special counsel, there would be “something else to say” about the situation.
“I think we should have a special prosecutor for everybody,” Schumer said of both the Biden case and former President Donald Trump’s case involving classified material at Mar-a-Lago.
“I am not sorry [that] you ask these questions, but my opinion is that I will not say anything. Let the special prosecutors do their job,” the Senate Democratic leader said.
CNN’s Poppy Harlow later asked the Democrat what he would like the White House to do about the documents originally discovered in November rather than those discovered in December, a finding that was made public after the White House acknowledged.
You can watch Harlow’s question to Schumer and her response around the 0:53 mark in the video below.
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