department. there was no a search warrant to search through the president s home. but still, they opened up the home, the working, the living, and all the storage spaces so the fbi could go in and take a look at how many documents or if they could find more classified documents at the home. the personal attorney revealing that they did identify six items that included materials with classified markings. it s unclear exactly what that entails. but this is all prompting a lot of criticism, new criticism, from some democrats who have are longtime allies of president biden, as you heard right there, from senator dick durbin. there s some frustration about the way that this situation has played out. but certainly, so many more questions regarding this classified document saga, including whether there could be possible fbi searches of other locations tied to president biden. this is certainly an issue that does not seem to be going away. that is for sure. arlette saenz, appreciate it. th
classified documents during their unprecedented search of his delaware home. mr. president, did you know those documents were there, sir? were you irresponsible, mr. president? reporter: the white house insists they offered to let the fbi conduct the search. agents arrived at 9:45 friday morning, and for nearly 13 hours, scoured all working, living, and storage spaces of the home. the white house, tonight, won t say exactly how much classified material was found. just that it was six items consisting of documents with classification markings, some from his time as vice president, others going all the way back to his years in the senate. it comes roughly six months after fbi agents, armed with a warrant, retrieved more than a hundred classified documents from the mar-a-lago home of former president donald trump, after he refused for months to cooperate. the attorney general today pressed on whether trump was treated more harshly than biden. the department has a set of norms and pr
scope of its inquiry, six items asking of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials. the documents date back to the time of biden in the senate and vice president. fbi agents began the search at 9:45 friday morning wrapping it up at 1030 at night. members of president biden s material were there at the search. it is up clear if the biden allowed the search and they ask and he consented to it. agent worked through living, storage spaces in the home. classified materials dating back to biden time as vice president were first discovered at penn biden center last fall a week before the midterm elections. that discovery was only made last week merrick garland appointed a special counsel to review they found documents in delaware a little more than a month later.
biden didn t spend much time there. according to a source familiar with the layout, kathy chung, who was biden s executive assistant at the time, and one other person sat at a desk directly outside biden s office. that is significant because chung who now works at the pentagon, she was actually interviewed in the review of these classified documents found in biden s personal office that she has not responded to our request for comment. but biden s lawyers and the department of justice, they have not disclosed exactly where these documents were found within the office other than that they were in a locked closet. closets, storage spaces, they were scattered throughout this area. let s go now to national political reporter for the new york times along with ryan goodman, co-editor in chief of just security, and the former special counsel at the defense department. so, ryan, obviously we re talking here and what paula s focusing in was the office which
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