department, but this comes just one week after the white house had revealed that additional documents had been found at the wilmington home just the previous week. there have now been three different times that are known so far where that wilmington home has been searched for documents since they first learned of the classified documents found at the penn biden center. on thursday, president biden responded to questions about this investigation when he was traveling out in california. he ultimately believes there is no there there. he also said he s been following the advice of his attorneys. he was asked if he had any regrets about the way they ve disclosed some of these classified document discoveries. president biden simply said no. it s interesting to note that the white house and personal attorneys are releasing this statement late on a saturday night. of course, there has been a trickling out of revelations regarding these classified documents, something that at times
hand during the search. i want to read you a bit of the statement where bower says the justice department was offered and provided access to all of the living, working and storage areas in the wilmington home. he detailed how this search was conducted, saying, doj had full access to the president s home, including personal handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to do lists, schedules going back decades. doj took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the president s service in senate and some from his tenure as vice president. both the personal attorney and the special counsel at the white house said they are trying to comply with all facets of this investigation from the justice
department. in the past, it had been president biden s personal attorneys who had been on hand for those searches. just to run you through what we know about the various classified documents that have been found, there was that first batch found on november 2nd at the penn biden think tank, that was the private office that president biden used in the years after he left the obama administration. there s also that december 20th search at the wilmington, delaware, home where more documents were turned up. and then just last week, on january 11th, there was a search. and then the following day, january 12th, more materials were also found. i will also note president biden is currently spending the weekend here at his home in rehoboth beach, delaware. that has also previously been searched by the personal attorneys. now, what the personal attorneys are trying to make clear is they were doing this all in cooperation with the justice department. there was a previous statement
we ve all been using the term drip, drip, drip over the past couple of weeks. at a certain point, the drip, drip, drip causes a lot of water damage. we re not sure if they re at the point right now politically speaking, but it s definitely not good. i mean, we re looking at images of the president s home in wilmington, delaware, where the doj, the fbi, i should say, was there. i mean, this is a sitting president. and the fbi is there the fbi is there conducting a search. yes, it was voluntary, meaning they didn t have to have a search warrant, as you just just said, according to the president s counsel. yes, they say they have been cooperating. and the nuance is there, but it is very important, that is a very, very big difference with the trump situation. but we don t know so many more
seeing transparency here to an extent. we don t know what else is out there. but better this way than having a reporter break it, right? bottom line, this was a search at the president s private residence. this is an extraordinary moment in american history. six classified documents were taken from there along with other materials. and there s going to be, most likely, more searches at other properties connected to biden, according to our reporting. dana, thank you so much. we should note, tomorrow dana will have on dic durbin, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, state of the union at 9:00 a.m. eastern. still ahead, more on this breaking news. additional classified documents, as i just said, found at the wilmington home of president biden after an fbi search.