Michael McCaul suggested that Joe Biden's classified documents scandal could be as big as Watergate as he demands the president be prosecuted – and even more Democrats are jumping in to admit it was a misstep.
The Justice Department (DOJ) found six more classified documents this weekend at Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home, leading to questions over whether the FBI will finally search the president's other homes.
It is now known that Biden took at least somewhere between 25 and 30 classified documents out of the White House from his years as vice president and stored them at his home in Delaware and his think tank in Washington, D.C.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said there isn't really a way to 'accidentally' take home classified materials and documents because of the way they are handled.
Rep. Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and panel member on the Homeland Security panel, suggested President Joe Biden's classified documents scandal could be as big as Watergate
'I don't really know the answer to that question,' the Virginia senator said when CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asked how it could be an 'accident'.
'I review classified materials as a senator on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, but whenI do it, it's always in a classified facility where I don't have access to the materials other than to sit there and read them,' he noted.
Kaine reiterated the need for an independent investigation into the latest scandal.
'How many documents are we talking about?' he questioned.
Rep. McCaul, who is chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and sits on the panel for Homeland Security, said Biden's handling of the documents is irresponsible.
Justice Department found six more documents at Biden's Wilmington, Delaware property, leading to questions over whether they should search the president's other properties
'I don't know what these documents pertain to,' McCaul told ABC This Week host Martha Raddatz on Sunday. 'All I know is the documents were there.'
'Just a lot of unanswered questions,' he added. 'This broke a week before the midterm elections and they swept under the rug. Now, we're just find out.'
'You know, Watergate started as a very small burglary and it led to the president of the United States resigning,' McCaul said when asked if there would be political fallout from Biden's actions. 'So, I don't know what's there until we see the documents.'
Watergate was a major political scandal involving President Richard Nixon's administration that led to his resignation. It stemmed from the then-president's efforts to cover up involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of DNC headquarters at the Watergate Office Building.
McCaul lamented that if he or his wife were to take classified documents from work to their home, they would be prosecuted.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said he doesn't know how someone can 'accidentally' take classified documents out of secure locations
'There should be a different standard even if you're – you know, I know he says he declassified them, you know, Biden called it totally irresponsible, but yet he's guilty of the same sin, if you will by taking these documents home,' he said.
'Why are they taking these documents home? I don't understand. I've lived in a classified world for a long time.'
Federal officials are now 'considering whether to seek searches' of additional areas finding more materials at Biden's Wilmington home.
This includes potentially searching the president's vacation home on Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is where Biden went on his weekend away from Washington, D.C. as he avoided going to his residence where the Justice Department searched his files.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Chair Representative James Comer said his investigation into the Biden family was moving into its 'next phase.'
These probes reportedly involve both the classified documents and the president's finances - along with those of his son Hunter Biden.
'We'll be looking at bank statements. We'll be looking at bank violations,' Comer told the Washington Examiner.
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