Additional documents marked classified found in Biden's Wilmington garage

Lawyers for President Joe Biden have discovered additional documents with classified markings in a storage space in the garage of his Wilmington, Del., residence, the special counsel to the president announced Thursday.

The lawyers found the Obama-Biden administration records during a search completed Wednesday night of Biden’s residences in both Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Del. All but one of the documents were found in a storage space in Biden’s Wilmington garage, with one other record found in an adjacent room, Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber said in a statement.

It's the second batch of documents marked classified discovered in a space used by Biden since the end of the Obama administration. The previous set, found at a Biden-affiliated think tank on Nov. 2 and publicly disclosed earlier this week, triggered the broader search and a move by the Justice Department to scrutinize the discoveries.

“As we stated previously, we are fully cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in possession of the Archives,” Sauber said in the statement.

Biden's special counsel said the lawyers conducted the review at the president's Delaware residences — where additional documents might have been shipped during the presidential transition in 2017 — following the discovery of the documents at the Penn Biden Center in November, coordinating closely with the Justice Department in the search. DOJ was immediately notified after the discovery of the documents in Wilmington, Sauber said, and Biden's lawyers arranged for the government to take possession of the records. He added that the White House will continue cooperating with DOJ's review.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, who previously appointed special prosecutor Jack Smith to oversee the Justice Department's multiple probes into the conduct of former President Donald Trump, is slated to make a statement at 1:15 p.m. Thursday. Among the lines of investigation led by Smith is the department's examination of the trove of national security records with classified markings found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.