we have no reason to believe that one was closed. remember that pence earlier this year announced he had found some limited number of classified documents at his home in indiana and that the fbi then engaged in a search that was voluntary to see what else was there. no charges in that case. biden case still open, and the trump documents case very much appearing to come to a conclusion, chris. so carol, you reported on the classified documents case involving joe biden, and i know carol leonnig, so i know that even though there may have been no public reporting about where that might be, you ve stayed on top of it. have you heard any rumblings that the biden case may beclose to a conclusion or where that investigation might be in general? you know, chris, nice try. if we re going to report something, we ll report it in the washington post, but i will help you out on your question by essentially saying that, you know, it is clear that the biden case is a little more complicated than
closed the investigation into former vice president mike pence and the handling of classified documents. back in january, cnn was the first to report that attorney general found documents marked classified at his home in indiana, and that search was resumed after they found classified documents outside of joe biden and thes why house. we get to the breaking news. katelyn polantz has part of the story, and paula reid with the other part of the story, and tell us what we know about the now investigation being closed? well, as of yesterday, the justice department told mike pence and his lawyers, they will not be bringing any criminal charge, and this is the end of the investigation into classified documents that were found in mike pence s home in ind
moment in time where mike pence decided to send a lawyer to his home in indiana and look to see if he had any federal records in january as well that he needed to get back in the hands of the federal government, and they found some. they found about a doszzen. very soon after the justice department was called, they picked up those documents, recovered them. pence said that mistakes were made. he was taking responsibility. he was being cooperative. they were getting those back into the hands of the federal government and now the justice department, just a few months later, is saying there will be no criminal charges whatsoever. this investigation is over. john? over. katelyn, appreciate that reporting too. very important point you made, the context and how different it is, the size, the scope and how they got there with the former president of the united states. up next, president biden delivers his first oval office address with a blockbuster jobs report and a big debt ceiling deal
neither will anyone else who may have handled those documents. now, the shape of this investigation has looked very different. it started after january, which is the time when mike pence sent someone to his home in indiana, a lawyer, to look and see if there were any government documents there that needed to be returned, all in the shadow of this trump investigation, and also joe biden s own discovery that he had classified documents in his possession that resulted in another investigation. but then they did find about at dozen. they turned them over quickly to the justice department, fbi, mike pence said it was a mistake, mistakes were made, he took respond for it. the fbi came in and did subsequent searching of the home against, to make sure there are no other records. this goes silent as of february, and now we have the finality here.