FBI searching Biden home in Rehoboth, Delaware, in classified documents probe - CNBC

FBI agents connected Wednesday are searching the Rehoboth, Delaware, formation location of President Joe Biden arsenic portion of an investigation into the erstwhile find of classified documents astatine different locations connected to the president, his idiosyncratic lawyer said.

The agents arrived Wednesday greeting astatine Biden's location successful Rehoboth.

The Department of Justice is investigating the find of classified documents astatine a backstage bureau successful a Washington, D.C., deliberation vessel that Biden had utilized portion a backstage citizen, and astatine his residence successful Wilmington, Delaware.

Wednesday's hunt of the Rehoboth location is the archetypal publically known clip that the FBI conducted a hunt there.

Biden's lawyer, Bob Bauer, has antecedently said that the president's idiosyncratic attorneys connected Jan. 11 conducted a hunt of the Rehoboth location and the Wilmington residence.

While classified records were recovered successful Wilmington by those attorneys, the hunt successful Rehoboth by the lawyers did not find immoderate specified documents, according to Bauer.

The FBI searched the deliberation vessel bureau successful November, aft Biden's idiosyncratic lawyers archetypal recovered classified records determination connected Nov. 2. The FBI searched Biden's Wilmington location connected Jan. 20.

Bauer, successful a connection Wednesday, said, "Today, with the President's afloat enactment and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned hunt of his location successful Rehoboth, Delaware."

"Under DOJ's modular procedures, successful the interests of operational information and integrity, it sought to bash this enactment without beforehand nationalist notice, and we agreed to cooperate," Bauer said.

"The hunt contiguous is simply a further measurement successful a thorough and timely DOJ process we volition proceed to afloat enactment and facilitate. We volition person further accusation astatine the decision of today's search," Bauer said.

White House spokesperson Ian Sams referred CNBC to Bauer's connection erstwhile asked for remark connected the search.

Attorney General Merrick Garland past period appointed a peculiar counsel to oversee the probe into the Biden documents.

Garland past twelvemonth appointed different peculiar counsel to analyse the find of classified records and different authorities documents astatine the residence of erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida.

- Additional reporting by CNBC's Kevin Breuninger

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