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
we have a ton of outstanding questions. how do these records just all of a sudden become found? joe biden leaving office as a vice president in this miraculous discovery? for days, we ve been hearing about this nameless personal attorney to joe biden who turned over the documents. well, today we found the name. bob. this is a revelation that many might gloss over it significant for a couple of reasons. now number one total white house counsel under barack obama also married to joe biden senior advisor, so isolate housekeeping questions from going to him? given that the side of the personal counsel having made this initial outreach the national archives them into for the justice department so the person who is questions should be directed to? why the white house counsel? whatever my colleague told you in a conversation i need to spoke or connected earlier to today. i would ask them the question and anything related to the review i would refer you to the department of ju
showdown with donald trump over those classified documents that were seized from his club mar-a-lago. the department of justice has given judge alien cannon until tomorrow to decide whether to restore their access to the classified material. if she refuses, doj lawyers say they will go to the 11th circuit court of appeals. judge cannon temporarily blocked the doj s access to the documents until a special master was assigned. on tuesday, the department told a judge any delay in the case will cause quote, irreparable harm to the government and the public. meanwhile, the january 6th congressional committee has been busy gathering new evidence. the committee subpoenaed secret service for records after learning some agency text messages from january 5th and sixth went missing. today, one panel member told our nicole wallace they are now getting a lot of new information. do you have new evidence that was not at your disposal at the time of the last public hearing and it, numerato
number of text messages, radio traffic, that kind of thing. it s thousands of exhibits. tech messages from january 5th and sixth? primarily. but the trenches we ve received have been significantly. we might get a closer look at those messages, because on september 28th, we believe we will be resuming those public hearings. we heard that from the committee earlier today. what that, let s get smarter with the help of tights lead off panel. joins us, nbc news correspondent, moderator of washington week on pbs. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, he has tried hundreds of cases in his 30 year career. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she is now a law professor at the university of alabama. joyce, to you first. what exactly is the justice department looking for in terms of what they want judge cannon to do? well, what doj has asked judge cannon to do is to release the classified documents that were seized at mar-a-lag
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