about his legal team discovering another batch of classified documents. the white house has yet to address this latest news. republicans certainly have plenty to say. we ll discuss both the legal and political ramifications facing the administration now. plus, in the next hour, the man accused of killing four idaho college students will make his second court appearance. it comes as a neighbor reveals what the suspect allegedly said about the killings just before he was arrested. first though, more on president biden s legal team finding more classified documents at a second location. cnn correspondent evan perez joins us now. what do we know about this latest discovery and i suppose the question is are they looking for more? reporter: the second question is very much an important one for the justice department as to what they do next, right. but what we know, jim, very limited information, which is that there was a second set of documents that were discovered in a s
statement from the one that we saw from the white house special counsel richard saber on these documents. the president was asked how he could be so careless to as leave classified documents in his garage at his home. he said it was a locked garage. that doesn t mean there is an appropriate space for classified documents to be but a point the president wanted to make there. he reiterated wh t news confere week in mexico city after that initial batch of documents was revealed to have been sound and the president said repeatedly, people know i take classified documents and classified terms seriously. and he reiterated that they re cooperating with the department of justice. the second batch of documents dovered in his wilmington, delaware residents, was handed over to the department of justice. notably initially that batch of documents you may recall, erica, they had notified the national
former federal prescription ren ata mary. i want to pick up on something that we just heard. we heard jim jordan railing about this using the word raid. number one, there was no raid at mar-a-lago. when it comes to the question of a special counsel, he s calling for a special counsel here just bring us into the fold here. what would constitute a reason and do you see a reason in the case with what we know about these documents with the president biden, what would be the reason that a special counsel would be needed? what is that threshold? sure. so first of all, a special counsel is necessary when there is, in fact, a criminal investigation and they re at the stage where their determining whether or not there is any reason to open a criminal investigation. i think on the face of it, it
doesn t appear there is. and my colleague is investigating and john was appointed by president trump, that is part of the reason why he was given this responsibility. he s taken an initial look to determine whether or not there should be a criminal investigation. if there is, i do think a special counsel would likely be appointed because there would be a potential conflict of interest. the standard is whether there is a conflict of interest or other circumstances. i don t think there is going to be enough here to open a criminal investigation. let me ask you this. because there are so many things about this case that are usual, dealing with a current president and former president when it comes to trump. legally, when you have cases like this, when officials are found with classified documents, are they more likely to be charged for holding them, right, or resisting giving them back? because you have those two issues with trump. and many months of fighting
in a subsequent search. we heard the white house, they put out a statement this week in which they said that a set of documents that include classified documents had been found in a and turned over after november 2nd. this is the first time they addressed this. this didn t tell us complete story, which is that subsequent to that search they had done additional searches and found another set of documents. it s unclear why they didn t disclose that from the outset. and really what they ve done is created a perception that they re hiding something. which is made it perhaps even more likely that attorney general merrick garland will have to appoint a special council which is something that you re hearing republicans already discussing. listen. where is the raid, where is the pictures, the special counsel, what is a batch and what does that mean. it is more than one. so is this two documents, 2,000 documents, what is the location,