this after biden s personal attorneys searched a room near his garage, bringing the total to six pages discovered this week. the president now facing political pressure and criticism over a possible lack of transparency. republican lawmakers in the house now launching their own probes and demanding answers. and the latest discovery coming the same day this week that attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel. to investigate biden s handling of classified do you ied docume his presidency. abc s maryalice parks leading us off from washington. reporter: tonight, the white house disclosing that five more classified pages were found at president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. according to white house lawyer richard saubar, the discovery was made on thursday after biden s personal lawyers searched a room adjacent to his garage. the lawyers coming across a document containing at least one classified page. they suspended their search and notified the doj voluntarily.
either raise the federal debt ceiling or temporarily suspend it, saying failure to do so would cause irreparable harm to the u.s. economy. abc s em nguyen joins us from washington. this could impact millions of americans. reporter: right, exactly, whit. the deadline is in just five days and secretary yellen says raising the debt ceiling does not mean more spending but rather just allows the government to finance existing obligations, including tax refunds, military salaries, social security and medicare payments. if congress doesn t act soon, yellen says the treasury department will have to take, quote, extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on the nation s $30 billion borrowing capacity. if it lead on it could lead to a shutdown. it s likely to trigger a bitter battle in the house who want to leverage negotiations to cut government spending and democrats. lawmakers say they should be able to raise the debt ceiling
statement. while i was transferring it to the doj officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classified markings were discovered among the materials with it, for a total of six pages. the doj officials with me immediately took possession of them. the discovery coming the same day attorney general merrick garland announced a special counsel would look into the president s handling of classified materials after they left the obama administration. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability. reporter: the political firestorm over the documents overshadowing the president s agenda last week. are you confident you did nothing wrong, mr. president? reporter: and raising questions about whether more would be found. the doj was first notified by the biden team of about ten classified documents found in november at the penn biden center in washington, d.c. over a month later, biden s lawyers finding additi
what classification levels are these new pages considered after nbc news learned that this week? one of the documents found the penn biden center was marked as the highest level of classification. also, we are still wondering who pack these documents away during the final days when president biden was then vice president. how did some of these documents and up at the penn biden center others obviously here in wilmington. are there more documents we possibly don t know of? this whole controversy really putting a spotlight on the biden administration and its lack of a complete explanation in response to this whole controversy. president biden ignored questions from reporters as he left the white house yesterday. press secretary has repeatedly been asked about this issue, she has referred reporters to the justice department, to the special counsel s office saying that she doesn t want to risk looking like she is interfering. the white house interfering into the special counsel s
purchasing them so they know what some of the dangers are as it relates to gas stoves. as a proud gassed of user, that would not be one of the things that i would want to put on people. we want to know that one member can call for a motion to vacate and force a move, force a vote on removing mccarthy as speaker. there were reports that democrats could use that power to also reach havoc in the chamber. hakeem jeffries largely shut down that idea, but do you foresee that, would you be in favor of democrats using that? wreaking havoc is not with the people of the 11th congressional district sent me to washington to do. i am not focused on the speaker of the house. i am focused on continuing to deliver results for the people of the 11 congressional district and make sure that we are implementing that amazing legislation that we were able to pass in the 117th congress. it is my hope that we can find some common grounds with the folks on the other side of the aisle so that they will be