president pence s indiana home. the wall street journal first reported the news citing people familiar who say the justice department is talking with pence s legal team about scheduling. last month, the former vice president s lawyers admitted they discovered several documents with classified markings at his home and turned them over to authorities. nbc news has reached out to both the fbi and mike pence for comment. haven t yet heard back. joining me now is correspondent julia ainsley and nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. julia, you and i were talking about this very thing 24 hours ago. reporter: i thought about you, because maybe you predicted this. you asked me if we could assume that the fbi had also searched the residences of mike pence because of their searches of, at that point, the president s beach house in rehoboth, and now we understand that they are in talks. this is of course not yet confirmed by nbc news but the fbi plans to search bo
washington office of former vice president pence and also his home in indiana. and it s interesting that they re planning to. usually you don t get a kind of head up on this. i think this paints a picture of how the fbi is conducting at least this particular investigation where they aren t needing to go to a judge and get a search warrant similar to what they did when they went to mar-a-lago to look at trump s handling of classified documents. in this case, it was one of pence s lawyers, very similar to how biden s classified documents were found. the lawyers alerted the fbi that there were some classified documents, most likely because they started a search after the news about biden and trump. one thing i will point out about vice presidents, katy, is they lose secret service protection after they have been out of office for six months. it means unlike trump, they aren t able to keep visitor logs of who might be going in and out of those offices and residences. if they find material