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cnn's arlette saenz is in ra rehoboth beach, delaware. what more are we learning tonight? >> reporter: pamela, president biden's personal attorney, bob bauer, released a statement in the last -- a little over an hour, saying that the justice department conducted a search of the wilmington, delaware, home and found additional materials with classified markings. bauer stresses that this search was done in coordination with the president's personal attorneys, both the personal attorneys and lawyers from the white house counsel's office were on hand for that search. sources also told us ...

What was in these documents so we don't know the classified information that they contained. and we do know there were some with top secret classifications. so, you know, that's part of the hard part, right, trying to make sense of this, and what this all means, that there's so much information we don't know. we shouldn't know what's in those classified documents, they're classified for a reason. they belong to the agencies that developed these materials, right? and it does make you wonder, mark zad, you have the situation at mar-a-lago. all these 300, around 300 classified documents there. yo...

We also have national security attorney mark zad, former federal prosecutor michael zoreden, and arne gidur. mark, i want to start with you. you have a lot of experience dealing with classified documents and so forth. what do you make of this latest development, six more classified documents found at the president's residence? and how could this impact the investigation? >> it's embarrassing, let's put it plain and simple. this has been mishandled from day one. i'm not concerned, even with the discovery of additional possibly classified documents, because just because they're still marked "cla...

In terms of the national security implications, you say, mark, you don't believe that this is going to have serious implications, but what would prosecutors be looking at? they're going to take these classified documents, look at everything that they've gathered through the course of this investigation. walk us through the process what was they're looking for to see if laws have been broken here. >> thank you so much for having me on. so at base, this is deeply embarrassing to the president. and i think a big distinguishing factor that's unfortunate for the president is that he's in the hot se...

>> yeah, i've heard that complaint for years and years, covering national security and doj. i just want to be really transparent with our viewers of just how much we don't know in this case too. while the president's attorneys now seem to be more open and transparent with us about what is being found, there is a lot we don't know. i learned -- you were my national security professor at gw. i've learned a lot about how lawyers, how they write letters and certain words that they use. i'm going through this letter, mark, and i'm looking at the way they say six items consisting of documents with c...