with the breaking news of the night. justice department officials searching president biden s delaware home for more than 12 hours. the search concluded with ej finding and removing six additional documents of classification markings. that is according to president biden s personal lawyer. some of the items with those markings were from president biden s time as vice president. others were from his time at the u.s. senate. msnbc news can also report that the search was conducted on the offer of the biden legal team. department of justice did not issue a warrant to search the property. the president special counsel, richard sauber, released a statement earlier this evening that said, in part, quote, i did the president knighted first lady were present during the surge. the statement ended with a commitment that the president s lawyers and the white house counsel s office will continue to cooperate with the doj on this matter. joining me now is my saturday night panel. msnbc da
to cooperate with the doj on this matter. joining me now is my saturday night panel. msnbc daily writer, hayes, brown principle of life for the future action fund. elicit garza, back with me this hour, msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman and lisa rubin. lisa, i ll start with you on the big picture takeaway from what we have learned this evening. a few nuggets that advance, if you will, our understanding of the story. also, a lot of questions coming out after what we ve learned tonight. give me your thinking on tonight s developments. most important, ayman, that i saw the statements was a word, sudden. because that suggests that the documents that happened down in president biden s residence, some of them are as old as 14 years old when joe biden last served in the u.s. senate prior to be president obama s vice president. obviously, prior to his own service as the president. that raises some real questions about, not only how did those documents get there, but where