this morning the national archives is considering asking all living former presidention and vice presidents to search their records to make sure they don t have any classified materials. so far, we re keeping the tally, classified documents found at the home of former vice president pence, president biden and former president trump. cnn is also learning federal investigators were prepared to seek a warrant if they did not get consent to search president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid is covering. the events are happening almost hourly. you have new reporting on how the fbi search of biden s home materialized. this was unprecedented. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. biden s team stressing they were cooperative. we learned that federal investigators were prepared to get a warrant if they didn t get consent. they never had to raise that
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 cooperate with house republican requests for ongoing investigations, including the probe now underway into president biden s possible mishandling of classified documents. we ll get the latest on friday s fbi search of biden s home from cnn s arlette saenz. reporter: more materials bearing classified markings were found at the personal home of president biden in wilmington, delaware, on friday, marking the latest development in the ongoing classified documents saga. the president s personal attorney, bob bauer, reileased statement detailing how the justice department carried out a nearly 13-hour search at that wilmington home. and sources later said that it was fbi
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
or everything s been done. let the government do that search. and clearly, that s what they were inclined to do and that s what they accomplished yesterday. all right. setting aside the potential legal issues, the bigger problem for president biden may be the self-inflicted political damage this has caused. last hour, i asked professor natasha linstad for her take on it. here she is. with the voting of house speaker kevin mccarthy, where it just looked completely in disarray, and looked like they didn t have any clue about how to govern. now, we re not focused on that topic anymore and we re focused on biden s documents. it is something that is on the news all the time. and americans do think it s important. but you have democrats trying to take the high road. you have house representative adam schiff or democrat senator raphael warnock, both saying that it s fair that the special counsel was appointed and that
of classified documents recently discovered from places connected to the president. a special counsel is investigating the biden documents. we get more details now from cnn s jeremy diamond. reporter: six more classified documents have been found at president biden s wilmington, delaware, residence. this time, they were found by fbi agents who were searching president biden s home with the president s permission, the permission of his legal team, and with the supervision of a personal attorney to the president, as well as a representative of the white house counsel s office. now, all of this was revealed on saturday night by bob bauer, the president s personal attorney, who confirmed that the fbi carried out a nearly 13-hour search of the president s wilmington residence on friday, from 9:45 in the morning until around 10:30 at night. and those six documents being found following an exhaustive search of the president s residence, the entire residence, we re told, they were given