Cya Memo News Today

the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. im john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. this timeline we just keep getting more data points. >> its like every day you learn that the conversations on getting these documents back goes back further than we thought. >> it was a problem it seems from the beginning. an email from the national archives indicates ...

about what happens next now that the judge has this in hand? >> reporter: it could be some time before we see anything here from this process, this process where the justice department is proposing redactions from this affidavit that would detail the investigation up to the point where they decided they needed to go and search and seize documents out of mar-a-lago. this filing, it did come in under seal. the judge will take a look at it. there could be days or weeks of wagt ahwaiting a...

in on the four israeli hostage just rescued from how long her delete starts right now beaten and malnourished that from a doctor who treated the four israeli hostages, rescued from the terror of paris group hamas by the idf, new video of the operation is just in, as we learned details about the mission and the dozens of palestinians killed in the process and former president donald trump meeting today with a probation officer, what were learning about his virtual hearing coming smack d...

Merrick garland appealed that and just yesterday or a couple days ago the court of appeals said, no, this was a cya memo, this was not actually something bill barr was considering, it was a predetermined conclusion that he would let donald trump walk. garland chose not to try to bring that to the supreme court wisely. now weve seen the memo and it is just that, it is trying to paper over the file after the fact to cover up for the fact that bill barr was wrong on obstruction and i think distorte...

Then he sends this sanitized cya memo, oh, the president wants to be clear theres no cy -- theres no quid pro quo, which is preceded by a phone call we know between him and trump. they somehow think they can do all these things in plain sight and just sprinkle magic dust and say no quid pro quo and, you know, obviously it just wont work at all. >> thank you all, i appreciate it. gasps, groans during todays explosive closed-door testimony on capitol hill. congressman sean patrick maloney was in t...

Essential military equipment, hardware, supplies as well as the trainers that go with it. civil servants are standing up. theyre there to serve the constitution and the american system of government. were seeing two examples right there. lets put the two whistle-blowers on the same line, standing up to power, calling it as it is and saying somethings terribly wrong here. so lets hear it for the civil servants out there that trump has spent most of his career trying to dump. >> you just mentioned...

Whistle-blowers on the same line, standing up to power, calling it as it is and saying somethings terribly wrong here. so lets hear it for the civil servants out there that trump has spent most of his career trying to dump. >> you just mentioned bill taylor. hes the senior diplomat to ukraine. he wrote that text message to ambassador sondland from the eu saying i think it crazy to withhold assistance for help with a political campaign and they there was the five-hour gap and ambassador sondland ...

From. >> bill: the information they took to the fisa court to get their surveillance. >> bill: thats correct. >> byron york is saying now mysterious third scope memo for robert mueller. what do you know about that, sir? >> so what -- i dont know if its the third scope memo but it looked to me as somebody who read it it looked like a cya memo. we know this, the public knows this, you can go into the mueller report, dossier, you can see they talk about this expanded investigation and they list a b...

This was a cya memo, a cover your tushie memo. >> i think he did the right thing by putting it in writing. any time a client wants to do something improper and this would have been improper had the president reportedly instructed. you have an obligation as a error to make sure you put in writing your advice. if its not followed, no one can put the dead cat. he was appropriately put in writing and it was highly improper to suggest that certain people should be investigated because they are oppone...

>> martha: that is why he is fired, for two different instances of leaking things that he should not have leaks from the fbi prayed to the inspector general turned that information over to christopher wray, and he said, you are gone. >> also to the united states attorney for prosecution. the president, we all believe that the men and women of the fbi do an unbelievable job, an admirable job every day. but there were some rotten apples, weather was james comey, andrew mccabe, strauch, page, you n...