it s the top of hour on cnn newsroom. first on cnn, another development in the growing discoveries involving classified documents. a lawyer for former vice president mike pence discovered about a dozen classified documents at pence s indiana home last week. several sources tell cnn that attorney turned over those classified records to the fbi. the fbi and the justice department s now national security division has launched an investigation. the discovery comes after the former vp into how classified materials were found in the private homes of president biden and former president trump. cnn s evan perez joins us now. this is getting really, really messy, what more can you tell us about these documents now at the former vice president s home? reporter: this is very messy, especially for the vice president and everyone who s been handling these classified documents. the vice president s team was doing these searches out of an abundance of caution because of what they
vice president s team has turned over four boxes of documents, they arrived here in washington just yesterday. handed over to the national arc archives. again, this is just early in the process, we don t know whether the fbi and the justice department will need to investigate further, whether there are any other places or any other documents that could be missing. evan, we re going to expand the conversation in a moment. but first the white house. we may hear from president biden on this news on this classified documents found at former vice president pence s home. he s meeting right now with democratic congressional leaders. let s bring in phil mattingly. the stories of mishandling doc documents. how has the white house reacted to this. making clear this is an ongoing matter.