it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. two presidents accused of mishandling classified documents and two special counsel investigations. there were no answers at today s white house briefing about why the biden team delayed for months to tell you why documents were found. we are learning that the documents from biden s team included briefing memos about foreign leaders. the justice department is still questioning if he has any of his files on his properties. the fbi got more than 300 from trump s possession after he resisted requests to return those. we re joined by phil mattingly and cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn pol polantz. phil, did we learn more today? reporter: we learned that if you have any questions, you should refer them to the white house counsel s office and the justice department or the special counsel at this point in time, and i say that somewhat in jest, but i think that s the reality
justice department review run by the attorney general of chicago played out. there are questions about how the documents landed, what they were, and what we know beyond the documentation reported. this is a difficult moment for this white house, and that underscores this point. it depends on what the special counsel brings to the table, in terms of its investigative power and authority, and it puts them in a position where they are not going to discuss something that s currently under way, and they will limit what they talk about and not intervene in a way that they have to set up for a special counsel. katelyn, you have new reporting on the trump documentation. they want to speak with two specific people. who are they, and why? reporter: victor and alisyn, we don t know their names at this point in time. that s closely held secret, but the justice department wants to interview and speak to two people that were hired by donald trump s legal team to go and