offices. that according to a source familiar with the story. the documents were discovered last fall and turned over to the national archives which referred the matter to the u.s. justice department for further investigation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and we begin our coverage tonight with the breaking news that we re following. classified government documents found inside one of president biden s private offices. the records dating from biden s time as vice president during obama administration. cnn s senior justice correspondent has been working the story for us. he s got the new information. update our viewers on exactly what is going on. this is reporting from our colleague and our team. we re told the president s legal team discovered the classified documents that were discovered in a office that the president had when he was setting up an office with the university of penn
once again, lawyers for president biden finding crlasse documents from serving in the obama administration in one of his private offices. they found the documents last november. the matter is now in the hands of the u.s. justice department which is investigating. joining us now live, republican congressman donaldson of florida. let me get your reaction to the breaking news. you re a member of congress. you deal with classified information. what s your reaction to this? oh, my reaction is pretty simple. i m wondering why the vice president of the united states had classified documents outside of the hands of the intelligence community. listen, it s been pretty clear that presidents do have some classified documented, but the difference between a president and everybody else is the president has the ability to declassify information. the vice president has no