presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent and pinocchio fan kaitlan collins is here. i know a thing or two about trump, we got a lot to talk about when it comes to that. not making any connections. we begin with the new cnn reporting overnight involving a newly revealed email from the national archives, email that shows just how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents in the archives did not think should be in his position at all. the email indicates records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they had to be, according to a source throughout 2021, there are about a dozen emails and calls including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, 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 no
very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi