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the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. i m 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. it s 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 that records were not returned by trump despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were about a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in off ....
but watch and i ll get you there. when you start turning around lawyers with the defendants that are defending the clients. we start to live in a fascist state. that is not much of a defense? ? he served as trump s attorney during the election. do you expect that he s going to vote the fifth amendment? or a sequel to argue attorney-client privilege as so many have done? i think is going to invoke any privilege he can pick up. realistically, has been told he s a target, he should. it ll be foolhardy to go in there and answer questions. i think he will try attorney-client privilege, which is, i think dubious. because it does not apply to conversations that are in furtherance of a crime. i think he will take the fifth he has to. look, it is his right to do so, and is he said there are investigations swirling around. there came this moment late last week where we are so deep in mar-a-lago discussion, which remains important, but at one point on thursday night he sai ....
in this case, it is quite jam packed. we re covering what s gown on in saudi arabia, all of that and vladimir putin going to that neck of woods, iran next week. let s talk about what happened this week with the president s trip, wrapped up now in the royal kingdom. peter doocy in jeddah, saudi arabia, with more. peter. reporter: neil, the president is aboard air force one. we expect him to take off for joint base andrews in maryland any minute. he came to the middle east looking for gulf leaders to boost oil production capacity because he thinks that might help lower gas prices back at home. but he just got some bad news from the saki crown prince saudi crown prince who basically said they can t really increase their oil production capacity much more. finish translator: the kingdom will play its role in this era to increase the level of maximum sustainable production capacity to more than 13 million barrels. beyond that, the king.com will not have any kingdom ....
violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be ass ....
probe into january 6th is tying the various strings of evidence about what happened that day into a narrative about a coordinated assault on our democracy. after dual hearings this week, by the house select committee investigating the insurrection, we continue to learn more about the shocking efforts of private minute trump supporters to undermine the 2020 election results. under increasing scrutiny is conservative activist ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, who has signaled that she will testify before the house select committee investigating january 6th. after the committee revealed, it had obtained text messages from that day, between mrs. thomas and former trump lawyer john eastman. who himself is now at the center of the investigation. as further details emerged this week of just how hard he leaned on vice president mike pence to resist certifying the 2020 election, exhausting every option to keep trump in power while requesting a presiden ....