“He might slip and say something.”

President Joe Biden has said his predecessor should not receive intelligence briefings because he has expressed fears that former President Donald Trump may disclose sensitive information. Biden said “I do not think so” when CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell asked him if Trump would receive information about the information. And it’s not just about the Capitol riot, but rather ‘of his erratic behavior unrelated to the uprising,’ Biden said when asked why.

When asked to elaborate, Biden declined to go into detail about what kind of Trump Trump could touch with sensitive information. “I’d rather not speculate out loud,” Biden said. ‘I just think he does not have to take the intelligence briefings. What value does an intelligence briefing give him? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact that he might slip and say something? ‘

After Biden’s remarks, the White House explained that there is no formal change in policy, and that it should still be up to the intelligence community to decide whether Trump should receive a briefing if he so requests. “The president has expressed concern about former President Trump gaining access to sensitive intelligence, but he also trusts his own intelligence team to make a decision on how to provide information if former President Trump is on.” at some point request an information session, ”said Jen Psaki, press secretary of the White House. So far, according to CNN, Trump has not requested a briefing.

Former presidents have traditionally allowed information to be requested and received. And Biden is not the first to say that tradition should not continue with Trump. Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said last month that Trump could not be trusted with confidential information. “There are no circumstances in which this president should have another briefing – not now, not even in the future,” Schiff said. Susan Gordon, who was the former deputy director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019, wrote a headline before Biden was inaugurated, arguing that it is a national security risk to hand over classified information to the former president. “My recommendation, as a veteran of the intelligence community for over thirty years, is not to notify him on January 20,” Gordon wrote. “With this simple act – which is only the new president’s privilege – Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, a private citizen.”

In another part of the interview, Biden said he considered it unlikely. Federal minimum wage provision of $ 15 will eventually remain in the Covid-19 aid package. “I put it in, but I don’t think it’s going to survive,” Biden said. He promised that future legislation would be an increase in the minimum wage, although he implied that this would be done slowly. “As President of the United States, I am prepared to conduct a separate minimum wage negotiation to work up to what it is now,” Biden said. “No one has to work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage, and if you earn less than $ 15 an hour, you live below the poverty wage.”