classified items were found this week at joe biden s delaware home. a day after discovering a single classified document in a room adjacent to the garage, officials found five additional pages with classification markings alongside it. it happened on thursday, the same day that a special counsel was appointed to investigate mr. biden s handling of sensitive records. so far, cnn estimates that a total of 20 classified documents have been found. both in mr. biden s home and at a think tank office he once used. we get more details now from cnn s evan perez in washington. reporter: lawyers for president biden say they turned up another five pages of classified documents during a search of his home this week. that s the second time in two days that the white house has had to correct what it says was incomplete information about the number of documents that it has found in searches of a number of locations associated with the president.
now both lawyers are crucial in the january 6th criminal investigation. there is a lot to get to tonight. i want to begin with evan perez in washington. so evan, let s talk about this mar-a-lago ruling, the special master that was so crucial to all of this in september, and now a stunning ruling, right, significant ruling about the special master. what does it mean? well, it means that the justice department, erin, that the justice department investigation can continue unfettered, because this the earlier ruling from the lower court judge aileen cannon, that had essentially acted to impede what the justice department was trying to do, which was review these documents, pursue this criminal investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified information. and what the former president was asking was special treatment. that s plain and simple what he was asking for. and the 11th circuit, two judges who were appointed by the former president, and a third one, another republican app
he can probably go to the supreme court. we ll see whether he does that in the case of the ruling against him in his the former lawyers of the white house. he can also appeal to the appeals court here in washington. but he has been losing and losing big in all of these cases. all right. well, evan, thank you very much. so let s go to ryan goodman, just security co-editor in chief. and john dean, former nixon white house counsel. you ve read through the 21 pages here. what is your reaction to the ruling about the special master first? it is a stunning rebuke of the judge cannon opinions, and it s a stunning rebuke of trump s legal teams arguments on which he based those opinions. it s very difficult to think of examples like this in a professional career of any district court judge to be so strongly repudiated by the court of appeals. and they ve done it in such a solid manner terms of saying
he ll have to make under the rubric of the justice department with merrick garland at the top. right. okay. thank you very much, evan. of let s go to christian holmes now. kw you ve been speaking to your sources around the former president. what are they telling you about trump s mind set and what we should expect to hear from him. he s made a decision to respond tonight? we re told the former president was angry before the announcement at the prospect of a special counsel. this of course, having to do with his relationship or his experience with robert mueller and he believed that this would draw out these investigations. that anger has just continued. now, if this statement is anything like what we saw in that fox digital interview, it will be a lot of ranting, talking about how this is political. talking about how he is the
weaponization of the justice system, the fbi, and the doj. well, trump has good reason to be afraid. prosecutors sent out several new subpoenas related to both investigations in recent days, and the deadlines on some of those subpoenas are as early as next week. they re not waiting until after the thanksgiving holiday. they re doing it right away. and we re learning from multiple sources that some of the people in trump s orbit who were subpoenaed in the doj january 6th probe at this point have recently been given dates in the near future to appear before the grand jury. and many had hoped and believed the investigation had slowed or stopped. you thought it had gone away because you had not heard from the doj in weeks. then sort of lying there in wait, all of it comes out. we have all the angles covered on this tonight. i want to start with evan perez in washington. this is a historically significant move, right? a special counsel on criminal investigations into a former president of