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
This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and republican sides, a statement which is sure there would be a future push on ukraine funding in the form of a supplemental.
excellent. a night of serious reflection on a situation that really now needs our attention. absolutely. get to it, my friend. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. katherine tai was born to parents who were born in china, went to yale, and then to harvard law school, became an expert in trade and she served in the bush administration as the general counsel to the united states trade representative, a cabinet level position. general counsel is a very important job. she continued as counsel to the trade representative during the obama administration when the trade representative was an obama appointee. then she became the trade counsel to the house ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over international trade. today, katherine tai made history when she became the first member of the biden cabinet to be confirmed unanimously by the united states senate. the senate has never confirmed a more qualified u.s. trade representative. as united states trade re