The DOJ will brief lawmakers on the classified documents recovered from Trump and Biden

• The DOJ will brief some lawmakers on the nature of the classified records recovered from Trump and Biden.
• Per NYT, DOJ officials will brief members of Congress' "Gang of 8" on the materials later this month.

The Justice Department will brief a group of lawmakers on the classified documents recovered from President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The briefing, which will happen at the end of the month, comes after lawmakers from both sides of the aisle asked to see the classified records that were improperly stored at Trump and Biden's properties.

According to The Times, the briefing will be limited to the Gang of 8, which consists of the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.

The report also said that the Justice Department will not grant lawmakers access to the records themselves because they're critical to ongoing investigations into Trump and Biden, but they will give the Gang of 8 some details about the nature of the documents.

FBI personnel swept Biden's properties at least three times as part of its investigation into his handling of classified documents.

Biden's lawyers first discovered a cache of classified materials dating back to his time as vice president at his old office at the Penn-Biden Center on November 2, and immediately notified the White House counsel's office, which then contacted the National Archives. The documents were turned over to the Archives shortly after, and the FBI also searched the office in mid-November and began assessing whether classified documents had been mishandled.

Attorney General Merrick Garland in December appointed John Lausch, a Trump-era US attorney in Chicago, to handle the preliminary inquiry.

That same month, Biden's legal representatives told Lausch that they had uncovered additional classified materials in the garage at Biden's personal residence in Delaware.

In January, Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Biden's handling of classified information.

On January 21, Bob Bauer, a personal attorney for Biden, announced that the Justice Department had also searched the president's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and discovered half a dozen documents marked classified. And earlier this month, the FBI searched Biden's second home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Bauer announced the search in a statement and said after its conclusion that no additional classified files had been discovered.

Trump, meanwhile, is facing his own criminal investigation after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago property last August and recovered troves of classified documents that Trump had resisted turning over to the government.

Garland also appointed a special counsel to oversee all ongoing investigations involving Trump, including the classified documents probe and the DOJ's sprawling inquiry into the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Last week, Politico reported that Jack Smith, the special counsel handling the Trump investigations, subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence for grand jury testimony. The outlet reported Tuesday that Pence is planning on resisting the subpoena by citing legislative privilege.