attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation. for the very latest, let s bring in cnn s arlette saenz at the white house. what more can you tell us about this statement from the biden administration? reporter: fred, getting new details about exactly the number of classified pages that were found at president biden s residence up in wilmington, delaware, and based on cnn s reporting and disclosures made by the white house counsel s office, it appears there were approximately 20 documents of classified markings that were found between the residence in delaware as well as that washington, d.c. office that president biden used when he had left the vice president s office. now, today in a statement from white house counsel, they had previously said that they had found one document amounting to one page in an adjacent room to the garage in vice president or in president biden s home up in delaware, but today the white house counsel
across the country. i m fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for being with me today. jim acosta is next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with new details on president biden s classified documents saga. the president s special counsel confirming that several additional pages with classified material were discovered at biden s wilmington home thursday evening. the documents in addition to ten documents discovered in a biden affiliated think tank. a small closet to the left of biden s desk and storage spaces in the adowning conference room including top-secret material and dealt with matters involving ukraine, iran and the united kingdom. also a memo from biden to then president obama as well as two briefing memos prepared for biden s phone calls with british prime minister and president of the european council. all under investigation. arlette saenz has more. what more can you tell us? reporter: jim, so many twists and turns in th
prime minister and president of the european council. all under investigation. arlette saenz has more. what more can you tell us? reporter: jim, so many twists and turns in this classified documents saga, and the latest came this afternoon when the white house counsel revealed there were an additional five pages bearing classified markings found at president biden s residence up in wilmington, delaware. based on cnn s reporting, also disclosures that have come from the white house, it appears approximately 20 documents that had classified markings found between the residence and that private office that biden used when he left the vice presidency here in washington, d.c. now, on thursday, the white house had revealed that the personal lawyers had found one document consisting of one page in a room that was adjacent to the garage up in wilmington, delaware. now, today the white house
attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation. for the very latest, let s bring in cnn s arlette saenz at the white house. what more can you tell us about this statement from the biden administration? reporter: fred, getting new details about exactly the number of classified pages that were found at president biden s residence up in wilmington, delaware, and based on cnn s reporting and disclosures made by the white house counsel s office, it appears there were approximately 20 documents of classified markings that were found between the residence in delaware as well as that washington, d.c. office that president biden used when he had left the vice president s office. now, today in a statement from white house counsel, they had previously said that they had found one document amounting to one page in an adjacent room to the garage in vice president or in president biden s home up in delaware, but today the white house counsel is saying