cnn s arlette saenz is in ra rehoboth beach, delaware. what more are we learning tonight? reporter: pamela, president biden s personal attorney, bob bauer, released a statement in the last a little over an hour, saying that the justice department conducted a search of the wilmington, delaware, home and found additional materials with classified markings. bauer stresses that this search was done in coordination with the president s personal attorneys, both the personal attorneys and lawyers from the white house counsel s office were on hand for that search. sources also told us that it was specifically conducted by the fbi. and what bauer said is that they opened up the home for this search. that included a search of the living, the working, and the storage areas in wilmington, delaware. i want to read a bit of the statement that gets into exactly what types of materials they were looking through. bauer wrote in a statement, doj had full access to the president s home, in
fallout. plus. thousands of demonstrators flooding the streets of tel aviv, protestering netanyahu s w government. we re live in jerusalem. and we are not out here for wages. we are out here because we want patient safety. the covid pandemic left unsafe working conditions for thousands of nurses striking across new york. we ll explore the larger nationwide epidemic of nursing shortages. political problems are rapidly mounting at the biden white house. the president s personal attorney says an fbi search of biden s private home in delaware has turned up even more classified materials. his republican critics in congress are already sharpening their knives. the president and first lady weren t home at the time. the materials taken by the fbi add to a growing list of classified documents recently recovered from places connected to the president. a special counsel is investigating the biden documents. meanwhile, the justice department has signaled it s unlikely to cooperat
declassification. that was unsuccessful for him. president biden is the sitting president of the united states. he is actually the ultimate classification authority independent the executive order that governs the classification of national security information in its definition, essentially. and if he wanted to, although i don t think he ever would it would be politically disastrous he could declassify the very information that is the subject of the investigation, and it would present a huge conundrum, but ultimately one that he would succeed in. but with grave political consequences. but it s also a bit of a shame on you moment. because he is the boss. the buck stops with him right now. and also, from what i gather, there were classification markings on the documents that were found by the bureau. i think that s a big distinguishing point in terms of the arguments over classification that s endemic in the intelligence community, which by the way is totally true.
to glean. and that was unsuccessful for him. now, president biden is the sitting president of the united states. he is actually the ultimately classification authority under the executive order that governs the classification of national security information and its definition, essentially. and if he wanted to, although it s i don t think he ever would, it would be politically disastrous, he could declassify the very information that is the subject of the investigation and it would present a huge conundrum, but ultimately one that he would succeed in, with grave political consequences. but it s also a bit of a shame on you moment, because he is the boss. the buck stops with him right now. and also, from what i gather, there were classification markings on the documents that were found by the bureau. and i think that s a big distinguishing point in terms of the arguments of overclassification that s
it starts on thursday. chris, it s a very big deal. we had $150 billion in tariffs that the united states promised to slap on china. right. of course you always have a little bit of back story about what tariffs actually get paid, but christine s point is well taken. this is brinkmanship to create uncertainty in the markets that hate that. that s one big theme going on. you have these questions from mueller. you have what they re going to do about the wall with the caravan there now and what steps. you have what bb netanyahu just said. there s a lot on the president s plate. we ll talk about the political consequences of all of these things on the president s plate when we come right back. when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage.