largo and carting away boxes. you heard the president say how could you be so careless. you have to be very careful with classified information. everyone knows i take it very seriously and then in this past week you saw this drip drip of embarrassing disclosures from the president and it turns out that, hey, he happened to have a similar situation on his hands where he had classified information that he did not realise was there, stored away in his closet and garage. so joe in his closet and garage. so joe biden himself appears to be playing it down saying it was in a car in a locked garage but how serious could this be for the president? how serious could this be for the president? that remains to be seen. from the president? that remains to be seen. from what the president? that remains to be seen. from what we - the president? that remains to be seen. from what we know. be seen. from what we know right now it seems like we re talking of a universe of 10 20 documents, briefing p
seriously and then in this past week you saw this drip drip of embarrassing disclosures from the president, and it turns out that, hey, he happened to have a similar situation on his hands where he had classified information that he did not realise was there, stored away in his closet and garage. sojoe biden himself appears to be playing it down, saying it was in a car in a locked garage but how serious could this be for the president? that remains to be seen. from what we know right now it seems like we re talking about a universe of 10 20 documents, briefing papers that had may become at the end of his time as vice president and as he is doing a number of foreign trips before he leaves office and some of these things may inadvertently gotten stuffed in carted away.
and that s when he started receiving a lot of intense fire. you can very easily see the same thing from rob hur if the politicians decide that it s advantageous to do so. evan, in our final few seconds, if you could reminding our viewers, what these classified documents per takened to that were found? the importance here is from what we know, from the important reporting that jamie has done, the first ten documents included things that were at the tssci level, things that had to do with briefing papers that were prepared for then vice president biden. by comparison, trump had hundreds of documents that were labelled at the highest classification levels, and that s the reason why there s been such a concern about those documents. the problem for joe biden and for this investigation is that even even though these documents are from the obama/biden years, right, that information may still be
sours say lawyers for president biden finding a second batch of classified documents, this time, at a different location than the first. here s our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. reporter: tonight, sources tell abc news that after lawyers for president biden discovered a batch of classified documents in a former office he used after being vice president, they immediately went digging to see if there were any more. and we are now told that they did end up finding a second set of classified documents at another location. people know i take classified documents, classified information seriously. reporter: sources telling abc news the initial batch of roughly ten classified documents discovered in november were vice presidential briefing papers, some marked top secret with information about a number of other countries. i don t know what s in the documents. i ve my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. i ve turned over the boxes, they ve tu
folder and said, whoops? we shouldn t have this or a university finds papers. those are considered honest mistakes and oversights, they get returned. they have normally not been referred. my sources say that this feels to them like an honest mistake at this point and that if it wasn t for trump and mar-a-lago they would not have but that s the box the attorney general is in. once you cross that bridge and understandable why they needed to make the referral but for the justice department there s some important facts here including the fact that, you know, this one of these briefing papers has a reference to ukraine. what does that mean? we don t know, again, the details of this but that leads to important, you know, questions out there as to whether this has anything to do with the president s son, right? people are going to ask those questions and it s important for the white house, for the