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whether former president trump has fully complied with a subpoena issued back in may to hand over all classified documents he took with him when he left office. sources telling cnn federal investigators want to talk to two people hired to search trump s properties back in november for any additional records that have not been turned over. and now president biden faces his own special counsel investigation after his lawyers discovered obama era documents in his garage and a personal office in his wilmington home and also in a washington, d.c. office. mr. biden used it during the trump presidency. there are important distinctions between the two investigations. the trump reviews involve way more classified records and questions of obstruction. once the government demanded their return. team biden says it immediately notified the appropriate agencies when the first documents were found and that it worked with the justice department on the search that turned up additional c ....
plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week ....
Cnn s senior crime and justice report caitlin polen joins us now. reporter: in the trump mar-a-lago documents investigation, this continues on. kaitlan collins and i confirmed the justice department wants to question two people that donald trump s legal team hired in november to go and search, his properties in new jersey, new york city and florida. they found two classified documents this november after the mar-a-lago search and after the trump team sent back many classified documents to the justice department last year. they still were finding records. thousands the justice department wants to talk to them. an indication of an ongoing criminal investigation and know the justice department has considered whether there has been obstruction of justice here. that is something they have been ....
An obligation for federal agencies to retain records. so this is troubling. but they ve said they ve got the texts, and the committee intends to get them all asap. let s get straight to cnn s ind caitlin polen. the committee wants to nail down what the secret service witnessed leading up to and on january 6th, around donald trump. this has come together in a few days. the house didn t even know this was an issue until the 13th. three days ago the story unfurled. the department of homeland security inspector general has long been looking at the secret service under dhs. this is what a lot of inspector generals were doing. and had tried to get documents out of the secret service, realized these text messages had been erased, that s what dhs had ....