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head to pittsburgh this afternoon, part of his labor day campaign blitz with just a few months ahead of the november midterms. joining me now for more on the breaking news, ryan riley, kelly o donnell, and joining us david henderson, as well. ryan, first to you. you ve now had an hour you have given him an hour to look through this. let s talk about what you have learned as we ve all been speed reading this report of this judge s order which came out about an hour ago. ryan? that s right. one of the citations here is they mentioned rudy giuliani as a special master and the idea of having someone look over the questions of executive privilege, and that was back in april of 2021. but that was a much more sort of limited circumstance, because that was first of all, giuliani wasn t an attorney, so looking over his materials was much more complex, because he had to protect all the materials of talking with his client, so the fbi search this could be a particularly cu ....
listening to taylor swift. it is called literacy lit rather c and. and if i took that class, i d be a better man. all right. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. so it turns out the national archives has been after donald trump to turn over documents since the waning days of his presidency. good morning, everyone. good morning, kaitlan collins. quite the greeting for everybody waking up. it s been going on a long time. enjoy your coffee. we do begin with new cnn reporting overnight. an email from the national archives reveals how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents that he should not possession. the email indicates that records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our under ....
Mar-a-lago search and ended soon after. it was almost a constant state of being from the end of the trump presidency. andy, back to the redactions on the affidavit for a second. you said you expect or suspect that they will try to present a document that may provide information that s already out there, already know. what do you mean? what are the types of things that they might be okay with people knowing now? sure. so there s all kinds of innocuous facts that are widely known by the public. so facts that would talk about the location to be searched, facts that would discuss, as katelyn just mentioned, the kind of timeline of prior meetings that we now know are not only known by the public but have been revealed by government entities like the national archives in the letters that we ve seen recently. so all of those facts that have been officially acknowledged and are already well-established in the record i would expect that the department would try to show ....
A source says there were a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the national 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 office and have not been transferred to the archives despite a determination by pat cipollone, the white house counsel in the final days of the administration that they need to be. the washington post first reported on this email. and this morning the justice department has about six hours left before a deadline to turn over a redacted version of the affidavit that was behind that fbi search of mar-a-lago. a judge will then decide whether to release that version or just keep it shielded from public view. cnn s katelyn polantz joining us now. we are ....
What are the big questions of what s next? what s next is a filing under seal from the justice department today in court. we might not see anything at all today, but we are waiting to see what the justice department does here, what they want to reveal, if anything, regarding what is in that affidavit, what happened in this investigation up until that search. and we are learning even since this hearing last thursday whenever this plan to redact this affidavit was put in place by the judge in florida, we are learning little by little more about what was happening with the archives. so that is that entity in the executive branch that would have been talking back and forth with the trump lawyers until this became a criminal investigation. and really throughout 2021 there was a message of concern that the archives was communicating over and over again. they were negotiating with the trump team and it ultimately culminated in that return of boxes, 15 boxes in january, that ....