Former Vice President Mike Pence's lawyer reportedly discovered some classified documents at his Indiana home last week.
The FBI and the Justice Department's National Security Division have launched a review of the documents and how they ended up in Pence's house in Indiana.
The lawyer has turned those records over to the FBI, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
It is not yet clear what the documents are related to or their level of sensitivity or classification. Pence's team plans to notify Congress on Tuesday.
Pence asked his lawyer to search his home out of an abundance of caution, and the attorney began going through four boxes stored at Pence's house last week, finding a small number of documents with classified markings, the sources said.
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"Vice President Pence was unaware of the existence of sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence," Pence's representative to the Archives, Greg Jacob, wrote.
Pence's Washington, D.C. office was also searched, Pence's lawyer said, and no classified material or other records covered by the Presidential Records Act was discovered.
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